Over the weekend, yet another would be assassin tried to kill Donald Trump.  Barely a month after a gunman in Pennsylvania shot Trump in the ear, killed a man and wounded two others, a second crazed leftist set up a sniper’s nest on the outskirts of Trump’s Palm Beach golf course and lay in wait for the former president, who was approaching the sniper’s location.  An alert Secret Service agent saw the rifle barrel, and fired at the gunman.  The gunman fled and was apprehended by Florida police.

The armed kook, whose name I will not repeat (but suffice to say he’s yet another three name assassin), turned out to be a Democrat activist, who had a Harris-Walz bumper sticker on his truck, and who is or was a recruiter of foreign fighters for Ukraine.  He has expressed his hatred for Donald Trump on social media, but as his son explains, his father is not violent, but simply hates Trump, “just as every reasonable person does.”  Whew!  That apple didn’t fall far from the tree did it?

Sadly, the son’s reaction is not an outlier, for in today’s polarized political atmosphere, it represents the Democrat Party line.  In a sane world, repeated assassination attempts on any political figure would result in calls for unity.  However, we don’t live in a sane world any longer.  As a result, it took the mentally ill Leftist slobs mere minutes to decide who was to blame for the repeated attempts to kill Donald Trump – the answer:  Donald Trump.

That’s right, Trump is only getting what he deserves.  CNN said that Trump’s rhetoric made the attempts to kill him inevitable.  RINO Republican former Congressman, and traitorous scum Adam Kinzinger said that MAGA lit the flame.  MSNBC was upset by the incident – only because they feared it might help Trump politically.  Never Trumper David Frum fumed that Trump and Vance “want to present themselves as near victims of violence.”  I’d have thought already having been shot in the head would have met that standard.

Then it got worse.  Remember former Army officer Alexander Vindman, the Ukranian immigrant who helped get Trump impeached (the first time) because of a phone call to the Ukranian president?  His brother is now running for Congress in Virginia.  He tweeted that Trump is inciting violence.  His wife, Rachel, then posted this message on social media, “No ears were harmed.  Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”  Very sympathetic, huh?

Let’s see, the assassin was working to keep the Ukraine war going.  Vindman is a Ukranian who attempted to depose his Commander in Chief because Trump was trying to uncover corruption in Ukraine.  In Tuesday’s debate, Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine.  And a few days later, one Ukrainian activist tries to shoot him, and another one says Trump had it coming.  You think maybe the opposition to Trump (the Cheney’s come to mind) and the attempts to kill him might be motivated by people who have an interest in continued warfare in Ukraine, and everywhere else around the globe?

Democrat Congressman Goldman of New York is on record stating that “Trump must be eliminated.”  Last, and decidedly least, we have one Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader.  Two hours after the shooting in West Palm Beach, Jeffries posted a denunciation of “Extreme MAGA,” concluding, “We must stop them.”

No matter what they do to Donald Trump, no matter how many times they try to kill him, the message of the Left remains unchanged – “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy, who must never be permitted to win election.”

This is not a new phenomenon.  Beginning in 2016, Democrats have treated Donald Trump shamelessly.  They spied on his campaign.  The FBI treated the newly elected President as a criminal target from day one.  They used Hillary’s phony Russian dossier, which they knew to be false, to perform illegal wiretapping on Trump and company.  They impeached him twice.  They perverted our justice system to indict him four times.  They disparage and lie about him 24 hours a day.  Now they’ve tried to kill him twice, and we’re told by these vicious pricks that its all Trump’s fault.

This meme – “Trump’s rhetoric is inciting violence” is a function of Trump’s populist appeal.  Democrats hate Trump, and are constantly urging others to hate him, because he’s a different kind of Republican.  Democrats much prefer more orthodox “good loser” Republicans like McCain and Romney.  Weaklings, who almost apologized for their positions, and who could be counted on to keep smiling, no matter how badly they were abused by Democrats.

Trump doesn’t play that game.  He fights back.  And that’s what Democrats object to.  Never forget that Leftists are brain damaged, suffering from delusions of rectitude, which cause them to believe they’re always right and in the mainstream, no matter how nutty they get.

Democrat complaints about Trump’s “rhetoric” come not from truly extreme and inciting comments, but rather from their own aversion to hearing the truth.  The very people who tell Trump to tone down his rhetoric are employing rhetoric which is designed to cast Trump as a villain who must be destroyed.  They call him Hitler, Nazi, fascist, and a threat to democracy.  They falsely accuse him of planning to destroy the Constitution, to jail opponents, and to resort to violence if he doesn’t get his way.  At the same time, they blatantly ignore the Constitution to go after Trump, and are trying to imprison him for life, while at the same time, two homegrown kooks, plus the government of Iran are trying to kill him.

The real threat to democracy comes from Leftists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome who fail to grasp that, when you convince enough people to believe Trump is Hitler, then anything you do to him, including murder, is justified.  Trump mentioned this at the debate last week.  “I probably took a bullet because of overheated Democrat rhetoric.”

The real threat comes from the unhinged ravings of the Left, which are aided and abetted by elected Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi, who in addition to trying to impeach, jail, and kill Trump, who have pledged to “never permit him to become President again.”  If they can’t defeat him at the polls, all that’s left is violence.  But they’re playing with fire.  If they keep it up and one of the demented army of the Left succeeds in killing Trump before the election, it may spark a fire that will be hard to put out.  I don’t want to see that happen.  If Democrats were the sane protectors of democracy that they pretend to be they would be well advised to curb their pie holes.  Don’t hold your breath.

The long awaited debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took place Tuesday night.  On the whole, I thought that Kamala succeeded in  distracting Trump with her incessant attacks.  She succeeded in avoiding word salads, and she successfully parroted canned attack lines, most of which were false.  On his part, a distracted Trump missed a number of opportunities to go after Kamala.  In the end, the debate turned out to be full of sound and fury, which I believe will do nothing to move the polls one way or the other.

For its part, by all accounts, ABC News shamelessly weighed in, time and time again, on Kamala’s behalf.  They falsely fact-checked Trump, while not once pointing out blatant Kamala falsehoods.  In the first debate (Trump-Biden), CNN was largely neutral.  Since the media’s just an arm of the Democrat Party, I’ve concluded that the CNN moderators were fair because they were in on the plan to expose and purge Biden.  The ABC moderators were simply doing their jobs – to damage Trump.

Sure, Trump was off his game, he was a bit ham-handed, as he often is, and he took Kamala’s bait a few times, but after the debate smoke has cleared, some fundamental truths remain – Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer America; Kamala can’t sell herself as an agent of change, who will turn the page on Biden policies; and Kamala, although good at spewing memorized attack lines, can’t make a convincing attack based on actual facts.

I’ll get to Kamala’s long list of lies in a moment, but first here’s what I consider the most important takeaway from the debate.  It happened in the first five minutes.  It was the first question, and to my mind, the only relevant question in this election.  Kamala was asked, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”  She never answered the question, because even she couldn’t lie herself out of that one.  Instead, she went off on a story about how she was raised, and she said her “plan” is more government spending (“I’ll give you $6000 to buy a new crib”), which is what caused the inflation that’s killing Americans.

Kamala’s performance was a recitation of every lie and hoax that Democrats have been spreading about Donald Trump for 8 years; lies which the moderators never once challenged.  Don’t take my word for it.  This from Megyn Kelly, no Trump lover she – “All she does is lie.”  When MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted, “ABC moderators doing an excellent job,” Ben Shapiro retorted, “This is how you know they’re complete shit.”  Ron DeSantis’ Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern gave this description of the questioning:   To Trump, “Why are you bad?”  To Kamala, “Why is he bad?”

The relevant question for voters is, “If Kamala Harris can’t offer policies that change course from Biden’s disasters, and must resort to bald faced lies to smear her opponent, why should she be promoted to President?”

Let’s revisit the many lies of Kamala Harris.  She began by resorting to the usual Saul Alinsky tactic – accuse your opponent of what you’re about to do.  Kamala, “You’re going to hear a bunch of lies.”  We did.  From her.

1) Trump will implement Project 2025, a list of policy recommendations from the Heritage Foundation.  Trump has denied that repeatedly.

2) Trump is responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. Biden and Harris refused to listen to the military, pulled out, killed 13 servicemen, handed the Taliban $85 billion in equipment, and gave China the Bagram airbase.

3) Kamala won’t ban fracking.  There is video of her saying “I absolutely will ban fracking.”

The “Trump is a threat to democracy” meme sported multiple lies.

4) Police officers were killed on January 6, 2021.  False.  One person was killed.  Ashley Babbitt, and unarmed Air Force veteran was murdered by a Capitol Hill Police Lieutenant.  He was never even investigated for the crime.

5) Trump instigated an assault on the Capitol.  False.  Fearing unrest, he offered Nancy Pelosi and the D.C. Mayor 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol.  They repeatedly refused them.  At the time Trump, at the White House, was telling people to act “peacefully and patriotically,” protestors had already entered the Capitol, two miles away.  His speech had nothing to do with what happened.

6) Trump promised “a bloodbath” if he’s not elected.  False.  In Detroit, speaking to auto workers, Trump said a Biden reelection would result in a bloodbath for the auto industry due to lost jobs.

7) The Charlottesville “fine people on both sides” hoax.  This has been debunked even by liberal outlets.

8) He’ll be “a dictator on day one.”  False.  He said he’ll restart oil drilling and close the border on day one.

9) Kamala accused Trump of supporting anti-Semites.  Really?  Half his family are Jewish.

10) Trump sent “love letters” to North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un.  The fact – Obama told Trump North Korea was the most dangerous problem.  Trump met with Un and kept him under control.

11) Kamala supports Israel.  Give me a break.  She refused to go to Netanyahu’s speech and later told him to curb his attack on Hamas.  She called for a ceasefire, despite the fact that Hamas has refused to attend talks.

12) Kamala denied that she supports abortion up to the time of birth.  She voted for it.

13) Trump will sign a national abortion ban.  He’s repeatedly denied this, and he explained to Kamala that after the Supreme Court case, the federal government has no authority to do this.

14) Trump will ban invitro fertilization.  False.  Last week he promised federal subsidies for IVF.

15) Trump had the highest unemployment since the Great Depression.  This ignores the fact that the Wuhan plague caused Democrats to shutdown the entire economy.

16) Trump “gave us” Covid.  No.  The Chinese gave us Covid, a fact Kamala and company denied, and denounced as racist.

17) Trump sold out to China.  Huh?  Trump imposed crippling tariffs on China, which Biden maintained.  Trump even convinced China to stop buying Iranian oil.  It was Biden and family who were paid millions by China, and it’s Kamala’s running mate who “loves” China.

18) There are no American troops in a war zone.  False. American troops were injured in recent Hamas and Hezbollah attacks.

19) Trump’s tax cuts benefited only billionaires.  False.  Lower and middle income Americans got the most benefit.

20) Trump will impose a 20% sales tax.  Pure fantasy.

21) Crime is down.  False.  Cities are hellscapes.  Kamala’s San Francisco is an unlivable nightmare.

The foregoing are just the lies that immediately came to mind in the wake of the debate.  I’m sure I missed some.  The question I have for American voters is quite simple.  If, after being presented with no more than a tissue of lies from a woman who is partly responsible for destroying our economy and perverting our culture, you still think Kamala Harris is a better choice than Donald Trump, “Are you stupid?”

Instant analysis after the debate seems to support the proposition that Kamala’s lie fest did little to move the needle.  A post-debate poll showed Kamala’s rating for trust on the economy slipped from 37% to 35%.

A Pennsylvania focus group concluded that, while Trump spoke facts, Kamala only repeated what Biden has been saying, motivating a black focus group member to ask, “How is that a new way forward?”  6 of 10 members of a Reuters focus group favored Trump.  The New York Times no less (and there is no less), surveyed undecided voters, most of whom said Trump was more convincing, “His facts were better than her vision.”

Democrat pollster Doug Schoen was unimpressed.  He said that, despite Kamala’s rhetoric, the country’s still on the wrong track, and he noted that Trump’s closing statement recounting Kamala’s failures was true.

Kamala Harris offered America no more than empty platitudes sprinkled with lies.  So, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”  If you do, “Are you stupid?”

Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus used to be called The Greatest Show on Earth.  The title of this week’s edition comes to us via the great New York Post columnist, Miranda Devine.  Commenting on the Democrat Convention, Ms. Devine noted that the Democrats put on the fakest show on Earth at the DNC, with Kamala Harris shamelessly impersonating a tough-on-crime moderate.

Ms. Devine wrote, “A funny thing happened at the Democratic National Convention last week.  Not only has Kamala Harris stolen Donald Trump’s no-tax-on-tips policy but her party shape-shifted into MAGA Republicans in front of our eyes.”  She’s right.

Things got so bad that I fully expected the Democrat candidate to announce she’s changing her name from Kamala to KaMaga.  Of course, if she did make the change, we still would need to endure the endless lessons on proper pronunciation.  “It’s not KaMa’ga, It’s Ka’Maga.”  As far as I’m concerned, it should be pronounced Scamala, or is that Sca’mala?

In order to understand the mindset of the leftist denizens of the Democrat Party, it’s necessary to grasp the concept that Democrats know full well that the whacky policies they support aren’t supported by the majority of the voters.  For that reason, every four years, it’s necessary for Democrats to pretend to be moderates.

Every four years, we’re told it’s time for the Democrat to “run to the middle.”  The example always given is that of Bill Clinton in 1996.  The difference is that, while Clinton actually did support moderate policies in his second term, today’s Democrats have no intention of changing course.  They simply understand that they must lie to the voters in order to win, and they’re happy to do it.

It’s an indication of the Left’s reliance on Soviet tactics.  They’ve taken to heart the words of Russian-born writer Elena Gorokhova, who described life in 1970’s Russia in her book, A Mountain of Crumbs, “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”

In 2024, Democrats are hoping that voters will believe them one more time, no matter how hard their lies may be to believe.  And they have been telling some whoppers.

The woman who wanted to defund the police, who refused to prosecute priests who molested thousands of young men, and who raised money to bail out violent criminals, is suddenly “a tough on crime prosecutor.”

The Party that formerly prized flag burners over flag wavers, suddenly turned patriotic.  Delegates inside the Hall chanted “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”  Meanwhile, the terrorist-loving left wing protestors outside in the street were chanting “Death to …” in between every “U.S.A.,” but we won’t dwell on that.

The Party that continually lectures us about “toxic masculinity,”whatever that is, transformed itself into a Party of hearty backwoodsmen, simply by donning camouflage pattern hats.  That should help them carry the Midwest.  John Kerry tried it in 2004.

He borrowed a shotgun, put on an outfit that made him look like Elmer Fudd, and strolled into a store in Ohio asking, “Hey, can I get me a hunting license here?”

Then in November … well, maybe that’s a bad example.

Worst of all, the campaign of the candidate who, as the Border Czarina, is responsible for the admission of more than 10 million illegal aliens into the United States announced that Kamala is tougher than Trump on the border, and will, get this, build a border wall.  Meanwhile, her pick for Vice-President is on record promising that, if the wall is 25 feet high, he’ll invest in a 30 foot ladder company.  I guess that’s what they call “diversity.”

All the Democrat delegates were in on the lies, and they’re perfectly willing to attempt to perpetrate one more fraud on the electorate.  Armed with a media they know will repeat their lies, the Democrat strategy is to promise to deliver Trump’s policies without the evil and hated Trump, get elected, and then switch back to Socialist.  Witness a speaker at a DNC “Black Caucus” meeting letting the cat out of the bag, “We got 70 days to act right . . .  After 70 days, we can go back to acting crazy.”  You’re being played America.

No Democrat ever has made such a blatant admission of that Party’s disregard for the truth and the voters as the foregoing.  I hate to dwell on the similarities of today’s Democrat Party to the Soviet system of government, but they’re inescapable.

Ever notice that every nation that has “Democratic” or “People’s” Republic in its name is a stone cold totalitarian dictatorship?  Like the U.S. Democrat Party, they all talk about “democracy.”  Most even have elections.  They go by the motto, “One man, one vote,” with one addition.  It’s “One man, one vote, one time.”

And like the 2024 Democrat Party, they don’t bother with troublesome things like primary elections.  When the reigning dictator has outlived his usefulness, they just stage a purge, remove him, and then the new dictator appears on the stage.  The Soviets operated that way for years.

They had Stalin.

When he died, they plugged in Malenkov –

When Malenkov proved himself weak, Khruschev appeared on the balcony –After the Cuban Missile Crisis, he had to go, so he disappeared, and Leonid Brezhnev appeared –

And so it went until the Soviet Union finally collapsed.

The selection of Komrade Kamala in July was right out of the Soviet playbook.  The millions who voted for Joe Biden were shoved aside.  No one voted for Kamala.  When a new candidate had to be chosen, as in the U.S.S.R., there was only one name on the ballot, Kamala.

The Supreme Soviet, pardon me, the DNC, annointed Kamala in a private vote of the Party faithful.  The old dictator was made to disappear, exiled to his Delaware Dacha, and the new Party leaders were revealed –

There followed a series of speeches that would have done any Soviet Communist Party Congress proud.  Progressiveism was praised, although inflation is rampant and some store shelves are bare.  Opponents were denounced as “angry,” and “reactionary,” while Progressive comrades were assured they were experiencing “joy.”

Unfortunately for Democrats, all this pomp amounts to nothing more than a giant soap bubble, which is bound to pop when it encounters a solid object.  That solid object may turn out to be one John Donald Trump at the debate scheduled for September 10.

Anyone with an email account has experienced attempted or successful attacks by hackers, seeking to steal confidential information.  Whether they’re carried out by a Nigerian Prince or by some home grown thief, the object is to get into and empty your bank accounts.  These hackers usually represent no more than minor annoyances.

Hacking carried out by nation States is something else again.  And it’s not a new phenomenon.  This website is named for a book I wrote in 2009.  In researching for the book, I came across a Time magazine article about Chinese “black hat hackers,” employed by the People’s Liberation Army, to hack into foreign governments and businesses.

This hacking is no less than a cyber-invasion; an act of war, designed to probe for weakness and vulnerability.  The work of Chinese hackers was the suspected cause of an August 2003 blackout in the U.S. and Canada.  More recently, in 2020, after a border incident, the Chinese blacked out Mumbai.  As this is written, another Chinese group, known as Volt Typhoon, is busily attacking internet servers.

Nations also use hacking to interfere in foreign elections.  The object is to destabilize other governments, including our own.  Whether the foreign hacking is real or imagined, it has the potential to disrupt the electoral process by sowing seeds of suspicion, resulting in a loss of faith in the election’s outcome.

The so-called “journalists” who populate our media are greatly offended by these foreign attempts to “destroy our democracy.”  Well, let’s say they’re offended some of the time. As with all things political in the Age of Trump, it depends who’s ox is being hacked, or more precisely, it depends upon whether they approve of the result of the election.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost to Trump.  That year, as both The New York Times and The Washington Post reported it has done for decades, the Russians spread misinformation designed to disrupt the U.S.  I wrote about Russian disinformation at length in these pages in May and July of 2017.

In July 2016, the Hillary campaign claimed that DNC emails were leaked by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.  Whether they actually were hacked or by whom has never been proven, principally because Hillary denied the FBI access to her server.  In any event, the notion that the Russians were trying to help Trump is absurd.  A Russian energy firm gave $35 million to the Clinton Foundation, after which Secretary of State Clinton sold 20% of our uranium to Russia.  Having proven the Clintons could be bought, the Russians were not about to support loose cannon Trump.

The more likely reason for the claim of Russian hacking in July 2016, is that, in June 2016, Hillary paid $1 million for a false Russian dossier alleging that Trump was colluding with Russia.  As you may recall, this lie led to illegal wiretapping of Trump, and a Special Counsel investigation.  The FBI knew it was false, but used it anyway.  And the media was righteously indignant about a phony claim of foreign interference with an election.

Fast forward to 2024.  Iranian hackers have cracked into emails of the Trump campaign, and are trying to influence the presidential election.  This is a fact verified by the FBI.  Of course, to keep things “fair,” the FBI says that Iran also “attempted” to breach Kamala’s emails.  This is a red herring, however, as there is no chance that Iran is seeking to damage the Democrat campaign.

Donald Trump imposed economic sanctions on Iran that nearly bankrupted the country.  He even convinced China to stop buying Iranian oil.  Iran was broke, and incapable of funding terrorism.  Then Trump killed the Iran nuclear deal, and then he killed Iran’s surrogate, terrorist chief Soleimani.   Biden and Harris removed the sanctions on Iran, gave Iran $6 billion, as well as more than $60 billion in oil revenue, and are trying to revive the nuclear deal.

In addition to not wanting Trump to be reelected, the Iranians are also trying to kill him.  They issued a fatwa in 2020, for the deaths of Trump, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton.  That’s a fact.  They’ve been hacking into government websites.  That’s a fact, as the Feds indicted Iranians for that last year.  They sent an agent to the U.S. to recruit hitmen to kill Trump.  That’s a fact, as the agent was arrested in April.

The point of all this is that our media, which was so incensed by fake hacking in 2016, has said next to nothing about real hacking, and a foreign conspiracy to commit three murders in 2024.

The assassination attempt on Trump in July did nothing to peak the media’s interest in foreign actions designed to influence the result of a presidential election.  Had it reminded the media of the responsibilities of true journalists, perhaps they would be taking more than a passing interest in the botched Secret Service protection of Trump, and the disturbing facts regarding the investigation of, or more precisely, the lack of an investigation into the alleged gunman who wounded Trump and two others, and who murdered another man.

They might wonder, for instance why a 20 year old loner, with no social media presence at all in the U.S., had three encrypted accounts in Belgium, Germany and New Zealand,  how the nursing home food server developed the skills to construct sophisticated explosive devices, and why his body was quickly cremated.

I’m not a journalist, but in about 10 minutes I learned that Belgium is a hotbed of Islamist terrorist activity.  The Atlantic reported in 2015 that more Jihadis come from Belgium than from anyplace else in Europe.  German Islamic terrorists committed the Solingen knife rampage last week, and the Russian theater attack that killed 123 people.  New Zealand Muslims are being recruited as foreign fighters, and New Zealand is a haven for terrorist money laundering.

The Kamala loving media apparently is uninterested in foreign hacking this year.  That being the case, you’d think it would at least pay attention to attempts to influence the election by U.S. government agencies.  But so long as these attempts are geared toward electing Democrats, they’re not interested.

In 2020, the FBI and the CIA attempted to “fix” the election by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation.”  We now know that many of the 51 Intelligence sources who signed the letter claiming the laptop was fake were still on the CIA payroll, with access to classified information.  The CIA Director knew the claim was false, and the FBI knew, in 2019, that the Hunter laptop was genuine.

Despite knowing the truth, the FBI went to internet platforms and advised them to censor reports of Biden criminal activity in October 2020, in order to influence the outcome of the election.  Mark Zuckerberg admitted this just this week.  For some reason, however, the lapdog media has neglected to mention any of this.

The bottom line is, we should be concerned about hacking and interference that is intended to undermine our elections, no matter what its origin.  The problem is that our Media Hacks are willing to aid and abet hackers who they think will advance their left wing ends.

Welcome to week 5 of the fabulous Kamala Harris show, brought to you by the Democrat Party and its lapdog media partners.  This week, Kamala is hosting a game show entitled The Price Is Wrong.  Yes, the Kamala Harris traveling love fest has released the Harris/Walz economic plan.  Kamala announced, “When I am President, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices.  I’ll take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging and corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families.”  Simply put, the Kamala “plan” may be summarized in three words, “government price controls.”

It’s really not surprising that Kamala’s plan relies on government price fixing, as she learned economics from her Marxist economics professor father.  Government price fixing has been a hallmark of such regimes as those in Cuba, the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and North Korea.  In every case, price control plans have failed miserably, and in every case, the Marxist nations that have tried them have wound up as economic basket cases.

Government price fixing is always touted as a means to help the consumer in inflationary times, or in times of economic crisis, but it inevitably leads to even higher inflation and shortages of products and commodities.  Kamala’s “plan,” however, has a different focus.

Try to follow the bouncing lies.  First, Kamala maintains that the Bidenomics economy is not in peril, but is strong and thriving.  She concedes that the prices of everything are up (she could hardly do otherwise), but she attributes the inflation to corporate greed, a/k/a/, price gouging.

Kamala knows a lot about inflation, because she cast the deciding vote that passed the nearly $2 trillion, fraudulently named Inflation Reduction Act.  Now, after making her contribution to the reckless spending that caused the worst inflation in 40 years, Kamala is promising to fix it, by punishing producers and retailers for nonexistent price gouging.

The fact is that the average 20% increase in retail prices mirrors the 20% increase in producer prices.  In other words, your local grocer isn’t gouging you for 20% more, he’s paying 20% more to put the goods on the shelf.

Inflation doesn’t come from price gouging.  In a market economy, price gouging doesn’t even work.  If Acme charges $6 for an item Shoprite sells for $4, you just don’t shop at Acme.  That’s why Lehigh University Business Professor Phillip Coles calls the Kamala price gouging argument “high-priced baloney.”

Milton Friedman taught that inflation can only be caused by excess government spending that increases the money supply. John Maynard Keynes, an economist that Democrats normally like to quote, said that inflation is how government steals wealth from the citizens, deflecting blame, then taking credit for price caps and subsidies that help citizens buy products they no longer can afford.

And depending on what day it is (Kamala keeps changing her mind), she’s planning to make things worse, because she has not yet begun to spend.  She wants to spend an additional $2 trillion on increased health subsidies (migrants get sick too you know), the earned-income credit, and then give new home buyers $25,000 each.  This would add $25,000 to the price of every house, thus aiding sellers and real estate agents, while landing the buyers an additional $25,000 in debt, subject to high Biden/Harris interest rates.

Then the Kamala Medicare For All plan will cost another $4.4 trillion a year.  Oh, and then she wants to have the government build homes.  Well, not homes in the sense of single family cottages by the side of the road, but high rise public housing.  No one will say what that would cost, and have you ever seen a decent public housing project?

Kamala’s Green New Deal fever dream plan would add another $3 trillion a year (for 25 years), to continue to piss money down the climate change rat hole.  They could use that money to build the 50,000 electric car charging stations they promised.  So far, they’ve spent $7.5 billion to build 8 chargers, so let’s see, carry the two, $3 trillion would build another 3,200 stations, then they’d only be about 47,000 stations short.  But then again, maybe we won’t need them, because electric cars aren’t selling well.

The bottom line is that the proposed Kamala spending spree will double the already historic national debt, requiring a tax rate of 70% to keep us afloat.  Even without the new spending, Kamala’s in favor of a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains.  That’s a sure way to usher in the second Great Depression.

Oh, and one more thing.  If I haven’t mentioned this, government price fixing doesn’t work.  President Nixon tried it in 1971.  And there’s a second part to the scheme that Kamala failed to mention.  It’s price and wage controls.  She failed to mention wages, but you really can’t cap one without capping the other.  If you’re expecting a raise next year, or are a union worker, or know someone who is, you might want to mention this to them.

Faced with 6% inflation, Nixon imposed a freeze on all prices, wages and rents throughout the United States.  In the short term (long enough to get Nixon reelected) it suppressed pent up inflation.  In the end Milton Friedman pronounced it “an utter failure.”

Price controls create shortages, of just about everything.  In 1973, new inflation and shortages appeared.  Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to the market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets.  The price controls on gasoline were the last straw.  When the Saudis doubled the price of oil, the price controls created a severe shortage of fuel.  If you’re not old enough to remember sitting in gas lines at the crack of dawn, hoping to get your allotted $3 worth of gasoline, ask someone who is.  It was not pleasant.

By the time Nixon departed, the stock market had crashed, and inflation had ballooned to 12%, leaving poor Gerald Ford holding the bag.  His plan was Whip Inflation Now, complete with red and white WIN buttons –

I still have one somewhere.  It was another utter failure.  Ford tried to convince consumers to spend less, and to conserve energy, but no one was listening.  In the end, we wound up with another utter failure, Jimmy Carter.

Much like Ford, nobody voted for Kamala Harris before she emerged as a potential Chief Executive.  Like Nixon’s and Ford’s, Kamala’s price fixing scheme is also doomed to failure.  But there are differences.  Nixon based his scheme on a law passed by Congress that permitted price controls.  Kamala is planning to simply impose controls without authority, like any good totalitarian dictator.  And then, while Ford blamed foreign oil-producing nations for the high prices, Biden and Harris  blame oil companies, gas stations, and your local grocer.  The danger, however, is that, much like Nixon’s plan, Kamala’s price gouging bullshit story could prop her up long enough to get her elected.

Should that happen, we’re screwed.  Do yourselves a favor, reject the Kamala pricing plan, and reject Kamala.  Tell her –