Harris Called Out For Being A Communist

[Shadow Wolf]

Seem's like even the liberals are looking at Harris in a differnt light. In a article in the Washington Post, columnist Catherine Rampell criticized Vice President Harris' proposal to implement federal price controls in order to stop "price gouging" on groceries.
She wrote:
"At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat," Rampell wrote. "(There’s a reason narrower ‘price gouging’ laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices."

"But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a ‘communist,’ maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be labeled as federal price controls," she wrote. "We already have plenty of economic gibberish coming from the Republican presidential ticket. Do we really need more from the other side, too?"

Harris' price control proposal risks validating 'communist' label, says liberal Washington Post columnist

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell criticized Vice President Harris' proposal to implement federal price controls in order to stop “price gouging."

www.foxnews.com

Maybe the holiday is coming to an end for Harris when people start looking at her and remembering her failed attempt to run for President.

Labeled a communist by people who scream every shadow and democrat is a socialist?
Don't forget Trump mentioned the same exact thing, and it was a Congressional Rep who wanted to end the practice of selling less volume per unit for the same price as tge old units with a few more ounces per unit.

 

[F1fan]

When CNN and the Washington Post both blast her for this idea, you know it has to be bad. It will definitely lead to shortages if implemented.

They were critical of the mechanisms and consequences of trying this on the economy. Namely the concern is there being supply probklems as a result, and prices rising regardless due to market pressure.

Remember, it's republicans who always want the free market to do what it wants, and after the pandemic it was massive inflation. Global. Biden used the power of the government to help slow and limit inflation and today it's been successful, and helped the economy grow, and stabilize the planet.

Several days ago Trump said he would order every agency in the US government to do whatever they could do to lower prices for consumers. Of course he didn't explain what any agency could do. Empty promises made, empty promises kept.

 

[Stevicus]

But Nixon had price controls, and he was definitely a Communist.

Well, he hobnobbed and partied with Communists like Mao and Brezhnev, even if he may not have been a Communist himself. As the song goes, "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow." I'll bet Nixon had pictures of Chairman Mao. Nixon liked to talk to pictures.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

He claimed "I am much better looking than her" and "I'm a better looking person than Kamala"

Just the thought of Trump makes me wonder if Stormy drugged herself to get through it.

 

[sun rise]

Well, he hobnobbed and partied with Communists like Mao and Brezhnev, even if he may not have been a Communist himself. As the song goes, "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow." I'll bet Nixon had pictures of Chairman Mao. Nixon liked to talk to pictures.

MAGA are communists. Communists restrict what people can read. Maga does that. Communists put politics ahead of science. Maga does that. Communists are authoritarians. Maga loves authoritarians. Communists control businesses (in modern times). Maga is all in on telling businesses what they can do and not do. Communists have friendly relations with each other. Trump, chief Maga, had a very friendly relationship with Kim. Finally and this is the real tell, communists use the color red and guess what color Maga uses - red, of course. What more proof is needed?

 

[oldbadger]

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"But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a ‘communist,’ maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be labeled as federal price controls," she wrote. "We already have plenty of economic gibberish coming from the Republican presidential ticket. Do we really need more from the other side, too?"
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Ms Harris's opponent happens to be a liar, so any claims of his are thinner than Scotch Mist.

 

[Yerda]

If you want to get a quick and dirty handle on whether someone is a communist, ask a communist what they think. I'm sure they would laugh in this case.

 

[RestlessSoul]

FDR had price controls. He wasn't a communist.

By US standards, he practically was.

 

[McBell]

Eh, Just looks like more of Trump and Company throwing as much bovine feces as they can against the wall hoping and praying enough sticks to let him lose the popular vote for a third time....

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

The thread title is dishonest.

 

[oldbadger]

The thread title is dishonest.

I get what you mean, but on a short film on Beeb news Trumpy called her a communist twice in the same sentence, and then said that she would destroy (our or the) country.
But the most enjoyable lie recently told by him was that he was 'more pretty'.... He really does suffer from a most untreatable narcissus complex.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I get what you mean, but on a short film on Beeb news Trumpy called her a communist twice in the same sentence, and then said that she would destroy (our or the) country.

NEWSFLASH:

MAGA redbaits and the base echoes.

 

[Father Heathen]

Seem's like even the liberals are looking at Harris in a differnt light. In a article in the Washington Post, columnist Catherine Rampell criticized Vice President Harris' proposal to implement federal price controls in order to stop "price gouging" on groceries.
She wrote:
"At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat," Rampell wrote. "(There’s a reason narrower ‘price gouging’ laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices."

"But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a ‘communist,’ maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be labeled as federal price controls," she wrote. "We already have plenty of economic gibberish coming from the Republican presidential ticket. Do we really need more from the other side, too?"

Harris' price control proposal risks validating 'communist' label, says liberal Washington Post columnist

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell criticized Vice President Harris' proposal to implement federal price controls in order to stop “price gouging."

www.foxnews.com

Maybe the holiday is coming to an end for Harris when people start looking at her and remembering her failed attempt to run for President.

Conservatives never deserve to be taken seriously whenever they squeal about "communism", "socialism", "marxism", etc. because whatever they happen to gibbering about never falls close to the actual dictionary definitions of those terms. It's another boogeyman they use to scare and manipulate their own base.

Besides, trying to stop predatory, price gouging rackets from fleecing people and holding their health/lives for ransom is way better than being a treasonous, felonious, adulterous rapist.

 

[Father Heathen]

Wow. People are presumably seriously calling Kamala a "communist".

Wow.

Communism/socialism/marxism, etc., much like "woke", are used as lazy pejoratives by conservatives to refer to things they don't like or understand, in total disregard to the actual dictionary definitions. If there were any truth to their babbling and bellowing, the EU and USSR would be indistinguishable from one another.

 

[Father Heathen]

Then there's this picture

 

[Revoltingest]

But Nixon had price controls, and he was definitely a Communist.

Nixon used conscripted men to fight "godless commies".
This godless capitalist was classified 1A with a draft lottery
number of 34. Yeah...ironic it was that Nixon had such strong
communist leanings.

 

[Argentbear]

When CNN and the Washington Post both blast her for this idea, you know it has to be bad. It will definitely lead to shortages if implemented.

It was an op-ed piece which carries the disclaimer that as such does not reflect the opinions of the paper or it's staff

 

[Stevicus]

By US standards, he practically was.

Yes, I've heard some sharp criticisms of FDR along those lines.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Then there's this picture

One problem. She's not wearing a east bloc military uniform with an oversized cap.

 

[Clizby Wampuscat]

Read the post above yours. It was posted roughly a half hour before you asked to see the details. One thing to take away is that Harris's "plan" isn't a legislative proposal and is intentionally vague--like Trump's economic "plan". Neither candidate is going to propose detailed legislation, but the public still wants to know what their priorities will be. How do they plan to affect the daily lives of citizens, especially when it comes to family and individual economics?

One thing should be clear about Donald Trump. He does not have an economic plan. What he has is the traditional Republican strategy of trickle down economics--making rich people and corporations richer by cutting taxes on them, transferring the burden to lower income brackets, and doing away with government regulation of businesses. The effect is supposed to be that the increased wealth of individuals and corporations will trickle down to enrich ordinary citizens. This strategy has never worked, but it has led to a growing discrepancy in wealth between the rich and the poor. The lower and middle classes have suffered greatly under that approach

Agenda 47 is more of a plan than Harris has. No real details but a written platform of priorities. Where is that for Harris?

Harris is following the Democratic playbook of taxing wealthy individuals and corporations to grow the economic well-being of ordinary people. That means lowering costs for essentials such as health care, food, other consumer goods, and housing. Her intention to ban price gouging, especially in the food sector, lacks detail on how it will be implemented, but it tells us where she intends to attack the problem--targeting the large grocery chains whose profits have risen dramatically while people have struggled the most to find food products at affordable prices. The danger that many economists see there is that it could succeed in bringing about shortages, depending on how it is implemented. I think that Harris and her advisors will keep that danger in mind as they develop their proposals. If they don't, then she will probably end up being a one-term president. If the price of eggs is going up because of bird flu, then there is little she can do about that. If it is going up because a small number of producers and distributors can charge the maximum that the market will bear, then there are a variety of methods the government can use to combat that problem. Price controls aren't the only method.

But price controls is what she is proposing. Do you agree with government controlling prices and confiscating patents?