Democrats prey on people's ignorance and want to keep 'em there. They want you to believe that the other side hates you, and they're the ones that'll save you/protect you.
Yes. Those exact words are in the platform. That's what Dictator, Marxist, Kamala Harris has made clear. It's the only way she could combat the effervescent, joyful message, packed full of hope and love for all Americans coming from Trump.
No dictator, populist sure. He's being compared to Julius Caesar by the liberals in the sense that when Julius came to power the democracy in Rome was gone, not taking into the consideration that Julius would be a hardcore/devoted liberal if he ran today. America is not at the point of any dictatorship today. False narrative that has many people scared for no reason.
link will work for everyone https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-...o72lm9ru0hg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Kamala Harris Endorses Nixonomics She wants price controls on groceries, Venezuelan-style. By The Editorial Board Aug. 16, 2024 at 5:56 pm ET We wrote Friday that Kamala Harris was likely to continue President Biden’s unfinished Build Back Better agenda, but it turns out we were far too optimistic. The policy priorities the Vice President laid out Friday are much worse, including a plan to impose national price controls on food and groceries. Ms. Harris’s political problem is that the Biden-Harris economic policies have delivered inflation and declining real incomes. The high price of food is a particular sore point, and the Vice President’s response is to make it worse by resorting to Venezuelan-style left-wing populism. That’s no exaggeration. On Friday she floated a “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries,” including “new authority” for the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to punish companies for charging too much. This sounds like legislation introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren that would ban “grossly excessive prices” as determined by the Federal Trade Commission. Business violations would carry a penalty of up to 5% of annual revenue. This would effectively let the FTC set prices. But what is an excessive price? Is $4 too much for a gallon of milk in Omaha? Is it a different price in Miami? FTC Chair Lina Khan and her army of bureaucrats would presumably decide. There is also no evidence that supermarkets or other food retailers are gouging anyone. Food prices are higher than they were before the Biden Presidency, but that is because of inflation. Retail grocery prices have risen roughly in tandem with wholesale prices. Supermarkets also have narrow margins on sales—roughly 2%, compared to 8% on average for other businesses. Fixing prices is a recipe for shortages, as controls would discourage grocery suppliers. Voilà, empty store shelves. Price controls have led to shortages everywhere they’ve been tried, from Moscow to Caracas. The last American President to impose wage and price controls was Richard Nixon in the early 1970s. He had to stage a humiliating retreat amid shortages and market dislocations, and prices immediately soared when controls were lifted. If Ms. Harris really believes in this price-fixing, she lacks the most basic understanding of economics. If she is merely floating it to be able to get “price gouging” into a speech, her cynicism is also telling. Ms. Harris’s other ideas aren’t much better. She wants an expanded $3,600 child tax credit, with a bonus to $6,000 for newborns, which together would cost more than $1.2 trillion over a decade. These would be essentially a guaranteed income since Ms. Harris wants to make the credits fully refundable—i.e., available for people who don’t work. She also wants to revive the American Rescue Plan’s earned-income tax credit boost for childless households, roughly tripling it to $1,500 from $600. Democrats claim the credit promotes work, but studies show otherwise. It’s also rife with fraud. The Internal Revenue Service estimates the “improper payment rate” is about 25%. The Biden-Harris inflation has made homes unaffordable for most young families, and her brainstorm for that is . . . more subsidies. Ms. Harris wants $25,000 in down-payment assistance for “first-time” home buyers. But this would merely drive home prices higher. States and localities mainly regulate housing, but Ms. Harris wants to federalize it with a bonanza of Washington programs to encourage “affordable” home construction. Ms. Harris has endorsed the Biden plan to condition tax breaks for developers on rent caps, which will discourage new housing investment. No state has spent more on housing than her native California, yet it has the nation’s highest home prices. As a result of sundry regulations, it costs more than $1 million to build an “affordable” housing unit in the Golden State. We could go on about her other ideas, such as her embrace of Mr. Biden’s $5 trillion in tax increases. But the ideas she claimed as her own Friday reveal a candidate whose economic judgment is deeply flawed. Appeared in the August 17, 2024, print edition as 'Kamala Harris Endorses Nixonomics'.
ouch And You Thought She Did a Poor Job as ‘Border Czar’ Instead of eliminating the root causes of illegal migration, Kamala Harris now wants to import them. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/and-you...p4f5rvdzgy8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
There’s nothing popular about his policy positions. Christian Nationalism, and billionaire giveaways. Pollution galore. Turning on our allies to be allies with Kim Jung, Putin, and Saudis (who really were behind 9/11). I guess we are just labeling the brand populist on anyone who just lies like I breathe air. Also it wouldn’t be that hard to turn America into its own version of a dictatorship. You already have the highest court in the land rule that you are above the law. The military has to follow the courts decision on what is legal or not. So a corrupt president could not use the military in any way they want as long as it’s technically happening when they are president. Congress has no power to curb a presidents power other than impeachment which has yet to work in our nations history. Only reason I’m not super concerned about Trump becoming a dictator is because he’s 80 years old, in very poor health, has clearly lost his mind, and just wants to be treated like royalty and the biggest celebrity in the world. He’ll just outsource actually running the country and behind the scenes everyone below him knife fights the country into chaos. But regardless things that will happen under Trump in 2025-28 will have a cascading effect that will forever change how this country operates. And what MAGA idiots don’t get is that every reaction has an opposite reaction. Meaning you go down this road and there will be a more revolutionary figure down the road who throws the Democracy rule book aside. That person will be an actual populist but will plunge the country into violence. If Trump wins and gets what he wants yeah… your life will feel the same in March of 2025. In 2030 though it’s inevitable that our institutions and what politics look like in this country are unrecognizable from any democracy around the world
No. The interstate highway system and other infrastructure investments in the mid-20th century significantly contributed to the U.S. becoming a global leader. These investments, particularly from the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, spurred economic growth, with some studies estimating a return on investment as high as $6 for every $1 spent.
He’s no Caesar. Caesar was shrewd and capable, while this dictator-wannabe has the emotional maturity of a child and isn’t exactly the brightest.
