I’ve been cautioning the Eeyores in my circle of right-leaning friends — and there are many of them, which isn’t a great surprise given the reduced state of realities facing the American people in the late summer of 2024 — that eventually this Kamala Harris sugar-high would necessarily peter itself out once Team Harris was forced to actually enter the playing field of policy.
Team Harris conspired with the legacy corporate propaganda press to morph the candidate from a laughingstock of an empty skirt into some sort of idiocratic cultural phenomenon virtually overnight, something that doesn’t appear to have impressed anything like a consensus of people but has without question given partisan Democrat voters at least a thin reed of joyful exuberance to cling to. But the problem with all of this is that it’s based on nothing.
It’s just emotion.
It’s a release of all the dread they felt from having to pretend that Joe Biden was anything other than a demented husk of a man incapable of carrying on an average office job, much less the presidency of these United States. Now they can pretend Kamala Harris, who is no more competent than Biden but at least looks the part of an active-duty politician, can run the country. And it’s easier for them to live with themselves, because after all, Who Are You To Question Her, White Boy?
All this is fine as far as it goes, but political sugar highs will last no more than a week or two, three weeks at the maximum, before they begin to crash. And when they do, you’d better have some protein in the diet to keep things going.
That means policy. And for Harris, it means problems.
Which leads us to…
1. Behold, the Price Controls
Late Wednesday, we found out that Harris was set to take America into the weekend with news that her first announced policy proposal is… something straight out of Iron Curtain fiasco economics:
Soviet-style centrally administered price controls on food and grocery prices will form part of the federal economic proposals U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil Friday when she finally delivers an insight into her 2024 policies.
Her address will mark the first time Harris offers a policy focused speech since she was anointed as the Democratic candidate in July and been roundly accused by critics since as being a policy-free zone, as Breitbart News reported.
The Democratic nominee is promising to institute a first-ever national ban on price gouging and price-fixing within her first 100 days in office in an effort to deflect many voters’ low marks for President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy.
Time magazine reports Harris plans to direct the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies to investigate and penalize “big corporations” that violate government rules in a mirror of Soviet command economy diktats.
Other ways of tackling price fixing and selective anti-competitive practices in the food and grocery industries will also come under scrutiny, her campaign said by way of previewing her full set of economic proposals.
Harris will also reportedly detail plans to cut prescription drug and housing costs in the economic address during her visit to Raleigh, North Carolina.
One wonders whether we’re going to see another run on toilet paper and other dry goods starting this weekend.
What’s almost certain is there will be a run on seeds, because now is an absolutely perfect time to start planning for a Kamala garden just in case she manages to win.
Price controls inevitably lead to shortages. Everyone with a working brain not poisoned by the communist mind virus knows this. If you happen not to know it, here’s Thomas Sowell to explain it to you:
The thing to recognize about Harris — or Team Harris, if you prefer, because let’s face it, Kamala Harris isn’t making any decisions here — is we’re not talking about intelligent people at the helm of this cabal.
Oh, they’re pretty savvy demagogues. You have to give them that. They’re fair to middling at stirring up stupid people over the short term. But the problem with price controls and the shortages they produce is that in a very short time what you get is two things. First, a black market develops in the goods you’ve tried to control, and the people who run the black market very often are a whole lot meaner than you are — which causes all kinds of unforeseen trouble. And second, the people who used to have access to those goods and now don’t will rightly blame you for their loss.
Will it help you to win an election to promise price controls? That’s possible, I suppose. But once you’ve won and you then have to govern after imposing that reality, you find yourself resorting to nastier and nastier means of controlling an unruly public.
Just ask Nicolás Maduro, who had to put on one of the most laughably fraudulently elections in human history in order to stay in power after price-controlling his way into an 80 percent economic contraction and jettisoning some eight million of his citizens in a peacetime mass outmigration never before seen on this planet.
It isn’t hyperbole to say that Kamala Harris being elected would signal the end of America as we’ve known it. Heretofore that statement has been based on the cultural Marxism she embodies and purveys. But with the signal she’s giving, now we know we’re facing the economic version of Marxism as well.
You’re going to want to live in a red state pretty soon if she does win this thing, because red state governors and legislatures will be the only protectors of freedom — economic and otherwise — left in America.
Or you can make sure everybody you’ve ever met and some that you haven’t gets off the couch and votes this idiotic woman down in November. That’ll at least buy the American experiment a little more time.
2. How Much of This Will We See in Chicago Next Week?
You shouldn’t be happy about this. Shame on you:
A hastily organized rally supporting Vice President Kamala Harris descended into chaos after anti-Israel protesters infiltrated the Big Apple event — and later barged into an afterparty venue, causing several thousand dollars’ worth of damage to its outdoor space.
Several demonstrators against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza were booted from the Democratic gathering in Harlem, where Mayor Eric Adams gave an impassioned speech.
“Make sure you vote,” Hizzoner chanted as the disrupters were dragged from the tiny venue in Upper Manhattan.
Adams stood with other prominent elected state Democrats, including City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (who is not related to the mayor) and Gov. Kathy Hochul, as he endorsed the party’s presidential ticket.
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While protesters were escorted out of the main rally, which sources said wasn’t attended by Harris or her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the demonstration took an ugly turn in front of a restaurant where up to 25 attendees stopped afterward.
The angry mob of around 50 protesters even stormed into the restaurant Bird in Hand at Broadway and West 146th Street as stunned patrons looked on, according to footage from the scene.
Other videos showed cops taking rabble-rousers into custody as a crowd circled the police. Whistles and horns sounded, and smoke bombs were also set off during the brouhaha.
No. Stop that snickering. At least until there’s a lot more of it at the convention.
3. Tim Walz Doesn’t Love China, He Loves the Chinese Communist Party
The defense of Harris’ horrendous vice presidential pick on the issue of his lifelong over-friendly relations with China, which includes a few long visits there working as a teacher to the children of Chinese Communist Party fatcats and some close ties with CCP-funded nongovernmental organizations, is that Walz is a big fan of the Chinese people.
But he isn’t, as it turns out. As Peter Schweizer notes, Walz has allowed Chinese residents of Minnesota to be terrorized by that country’s regime through one of seven secret police stations the ChiComs have set up here in America. It’s in Minneapolis, and it’s an ugly thing:
While speaking on several of the Minnesota governor’s unsavory links to the Chinese government, Schweizer mentioned the “secret police stations that the Chinese have here in the United States,” which are unofficial but “so-called united front groups that exist in the West.”
Schweizer, who also serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute, said these stations “cooperate with Chinese intelligence” in order to “intimidate Chinese that are living in the United States that don’t like the CCP or [are] critical of the CCP.”
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Schweizer said the stations are known to kidnap detractors:
What happens is they will literally go around and visit people and say, ‘Hey, you know you need to shut up. You need to stop talking about this. You need to stop being so critical of the government.’
And there actually have been at least half a dozen documented cases where these networks have actually been involved in abducting people, that is, Chinese that are living in the United States, abducting them and sending them back to mainland China.
Going on to refer to one alleged CCP police outpost in the Twin Cities, Schweizer said it is “tied to a group called Minnesota Global, which is a Tim Walz organization.”
“Now Tim Walz in 2020 and since 2020 has talked ad nauseam about the abuse by the police, the Twin Cities police, the local Minneapolis Police, about their terrible behavior with regards to how they arrest people,” the author continued.
“I have not found one criticism that Tim Walz has had of this Chinese secret police station that’s operating in the Twin Cities. So again, you have to wonder, why is there this disconnect?” he posed. “Why are you so critical and brutal on your own country, but you won’t do a scintilla of the same thing as it regards to China?”
So much for a love of the Chinese people. No honorable American leader would put up with such a presence within his jurisdiction, but of course Tim Walz is anything but honorable.
As Nate Hochman, Tony Kinnett ,and I talked about in one of our Spectacle Podcast episodes this week, Walz is the gift that keeps on giving to the Trump campaign. And while this election is about Kamala Harris and not Walz, let’s remember — Walz and the Soviet price controls are pretty much the only two decisions Kamala Harris can be held to account for at this point, and they’re both unmitigated disasters.
4. Think They’re Going to Put Trump in Jail?
We’ll find out on Sept. 18, though Trump’s lawyers are busy trying to delay Judge Juan Merchan’s sentencing decision in that kangaroo court Stormy Daniels hush-money case until after the election.
If you’re Merchan, that has to be a little bit tempting, don’t you think? After all, if he tries to put Trump in jail and Trump wins the election, Merchan might as well hop a flight back to Bogota and forget about ever coming back — Trump will almost certainly exact all the revenge he can, and he’ll be the president in doing so.
Meanwhile, it’s only a matter of time before an appellate court throws that whole case in the trash, either because of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling or a host of other reversible-error items.
And actually putting Trump in prison in the middle of the campaign would carry such terrifying ramifications not just for the country — Merchan doesn’t seem to give a fig for the country — but for his own personal well-being that it’s hard to imagine anybody doing it.
On the other hand, we should be well-trained by now never to underestimate the depths of depravity and aggression the Left in this country will plumb.
So I’m not predicting it one way or another. You guys are welcome to take a stab at it in the comments.
5. Disney Dumped Out a Snow White Trailer, and the Critical Drinker Just Dumped All Over It
This is perhaps an all-time best, and it’s as long-awaited as the inevitable bomb that is Disney’s ruination of the timeless Snow White franchise.
You just knew that the Drinker was going to Tsar Bomba the thing, and he does not disappoint. Particularly given the material Disney just supplied him with.
Is it even possible this won’t be one of the worst movies ever made?
Nah. It’s going to aggressively suck, and audiences will aggressively hate it. I personally can’t wait to see the blowback.
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