We've been treated to 25 days of regime media giving Kamala Harris the Hollywood treatment. If the election were held today, according to Real Clear Politics' Red State-Blue State map, with the average of polls in swing states thrown in for whichever candidate is marginally ahead, Donald Trump would win the presidency with 287 Electoral Votes, sweeping the Sun Belt states of Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, and picking up Pennsylvania.
The margins are razor thin, to be certain, but all the polling available was taken before Kamala Harris opened her mouth and opined on policy, her record, or her vision for the future. Unless total calamity happens at the DNC commune this week in Chicago, she'll continue to ride a bit of a bump.
Something changed in the dynamics of the race, however, and it will be very interesting to see what future polling picks up. The 'something' is that Kamala Harris has put into words, her words, what that policy and vision for the future might resemble. And it's a trainwreck.
Let's begin with her 'economic' speech Friday in North Carolina. Price controls and housing subsidies for illegal aliens is not a winning message with the center of the country, but it was how she framed the issue what was so fun to watch. Here's a quick ad the Trump campaign threw together.
How poorly received was Kamala's economic blueprint? Here's just a sample of some recent regime media headlines.
🚨 SPOILER ALERT: What Communist Kamala's price controls would do to America... pic.twitter.com/p2UiltWgp9
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) August 16, 2024
Here's more.
Just a little taste of the headlines on @KamalaHarris disastrous rollout of her "economic" plan. pic.twitter.com/hxlZuNh6IH
— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) August 17, 2024
And yet even more.
Even the left-wing media couldn’t defend Kamala’s Venezuelan style price control proposal
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 17, 2024
Wow. pic.twitter.com/n3ZaVsWqvj
Michigan Governor and Harris surrogate Gretchen Whitmer appeared on Meet the Press Sunday with Kristen Welker. Welker summarized pretty fairly all the negative reactions to Harris' disastrous and inane economic prescription for the country, and here's how Whitmer responded.
Don't read too much into it? What in the world is that supposed to mean? The person on whose behalf she's appearing isn't totally set on this, so don't take it too seriously?
Milton Friedman, the legendary economist and Nobel Prize winner, once was asked a question about price and wage controls. He dismissed out of hand the seriousness of the theory, but was deadly serious about what would happen if we ever did adopt such a strategy.
In Pennsylvania this weekend, Harris spoke to a much more sparsely-attended rally than the one Donald Trump held in Wilkes-Barre. Before going into the building to address the crowd of under a hundred, Harris was cornered by a member of the press as she got off the bus. "How are you going to pay for these two proposals", she was asked. This is what followed.
Someone who drops the economic term 'return on investment' four times in a freshly-tossed word salad is someone who is signaling to you that they have no idea what return on investment is or how it's used as a barometer of whether to spend money in the first place. She also takes almost a full minute to come back to the question that was asked - how are you going to pay for it. Her answer is, "It pays for itself." We currently have over $34 trillion dollars' worth of ideas that haven't quite paid for themselves. What's a few trillion more, she seems to believe.
Comrade Kamala also addressed the Aliquippa High School football team just outside of Pittsburgh. Her message? Hot Chocolate.
You know, using this logic, Donald Trump is undefeated in running for president. Yet I don't believe many people around the MSNBC water cooler would subscribe to that selective application of Kamala doctrine.
Lost in the water rippling after Comrade Kamala's cannonball Friday is a clip dating back to November 22, 2019, when she was campaigning the first time for president in Muscatine, Iowa. In case you had any questions about the communist side of Kamala Harris manifesting itself were she ever to sit behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, this should remove them.
Dictator Kamala Harris discussing government takeover of companies' patents:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) August 17, 2024
"I will snatch their patent, so that we [the American government] will take over.
Yes we can do that!
The question is: 'Do you have the will to do it'!?
I have the will to do it."
The party… pic.twitter.com/fLTZE1pagq
Who's up for the federal government taking over patents? And listen to her words. She's got the will to do so. There's no private sector in Kamala Harris' vision for the future. If it looks like something important that can help her politically, she'll just take it. Seize the patent. The years, money, and manpower you put into developing something you think has a place in the marketplace of ideas, it's no longer yours. Kamala Harris will just steal it for the collective good. Government ownership of private property, including intellectual property. That's straight up communism.
Still in Pennsylvania, Comrade Kamala lapsed back into one of her Die Hard moments - the study in duality.
Every time I hear her try to showcase what she believes to be her political philosopher chops, I flash back to the Gail Wallens, the media anchor in Die Hard (a Christmas movie, by the way), when the news broke that terrorists had indeed taken over the Nakatomi Building in Los Angeles. She turned to her expert guest, Dr. Hasseldorf, author of Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage: A Study In Duality.
Donald Trump, right on cue, spent a good chunk of his time in Wilkes-Barre unveiling the Comrade Kamala angle of attack. Our friend, Jazz, has a pretty good recap on it, with the requisite cautions. I think it's a well-deserved line of attack, and Trump is going to make good use of it. Here's just a sample from his rally.
Online, the left, and the Never Trumpers, will probably get the vapors over this, but it's still pretty funny.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2024
The New York Post on Saturday morning had quite the front page.
Oof. pic.twitter.com/eOAMXxAQvu
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 17, 2024
But the sharpest criticism of the Harris plan came from Catherine Rampell, the economics-minded columnist for the Washington Post. Here's the headline of her latest column.
bravo @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/PVIIfDVlnD
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) August 15, 2024
Rampell followed up that column with an appearance on CNN to explain why Harris' proposals are so bad.
🚨🚨 Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell says the Harris-Casey price controls "might actually INCREASE prices"
— McCormick War Room (@TeamMcCormickPA) August 16, 2024
"We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before. Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etc. It leads to shortages. It leads to black markets" pic.twitter.com/tGQHIpdBxo
Comrade Kamala will undoubtedly get propaganda help from regime media for the next four days. But the underlying damage in the form of losing independents in seven swing states that have been kicking the Harris tires. They may already be done with her after Friday. To those independents, this economic theory is totally wackadoodle.
And this is before she actually has to go off script in two scheduled debates with Donald Trump. I can see it in my head. Harris will take a question challenging her record as part of an administration responsible for the inflation she's now claiming she'll fix, and she'll lapse into a narrative about return on investment and dualities. When it's Trump's turn, he'll say, "I have no idea what she's talking about. That was a total word salad." And then, he'll explain the bad results of bad economic policy, and what he'll do to fix it.
The polling might take time to catch up with reality, but the reality right now is that the more people hear from Kamala Harris, the more they realize she's not up to doing this job. Rambling at the debates in an attempt to sound smart is only going to cement in that opinion.
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