Kamala Has Democrats in Real Trouble

[mystery-ak]

August 17, 2024
Kamala Has Democrats in Real Trouble
By William Sullivan

Every now and then, politicians allow the truth to seep into their carefully crafted talking points.  That’s exactly what happened when Nancy Pelosi went on the record to confirm that Kamala Harris was not the Democrats’ original choice to be their presidential nominee in 2024 when Joe Biden was ousted in an orchestrated coup back in July.

This is what Pelosi told Ezra Klein of The New York Times, as it appears in the interview transcript:

    Yeah, well, I think here’s the thing.  The thought was that if this were to happen, but it happened fast, we ... none of us had any idea he would do it that Sunday.  Well, I didn’t have any idea.  Most people didn’t.  So when he did that and endorsed [Kamala Harris], then the thought was everybody wanted an open process.  Let’s see the talent, let’s see the bench of the Democrats and let them come.  And see what they can attract.  But when he endorsed her, then it was, “Are you with me or not?”  And she moved quickly.

This was a bombshell confession.  On the one hand, we all know that Pelosi had been conspiring with Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama to get rid of Joe Biden on the ticket after recognizing the polling damage that his obvious senility and terrible performance as president had caused.  On the other hand, she admits to being blindsided by the timing of Biden’s withdrawal and also admits to have been blindsided by his simultaneous endorsement of Kamala Harris, suggesting that “everybody wanted an open process” to identify the party’s candidate.

...everybody, that is, except Joe Biden.  Biden’s endorsement of Harris effectively bound the DNC’s hands, as the exhilarating prospect of having an ethnically diverse female president quickly spread through the party ranks and social media on that Sunday afternoon.  There was simply no time to consider the entirely practical idea to initiate an open and democratic process to identify the Democrats’ best and most electable candidate.

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[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1824613097652314265

[Smokin Joe]

What Kamala doesn't know, apparently, is that grocery stores routinely donate unsold items approaching their use by date to food banks. Those items will be used before the use by date, and the stores can take a deduction. It's a win-win system that gets food in the hands of those who need it and cuts waste. Otherwise, the food would 'time out' on the shelf and get discarded, and the store would have to eat the loss as spoilage instead of get a deduction for the donation.
While that may seem an odd balance, it also allows more variety in products to be present in the store with less risk to the store/chain. Otherwise, the store might not be as likely to have new products/brands on the shelf and just stick to known sellers.

[Hoodat]

Kamala also doesn't realize that capping prices reduces the incentive to produce.   One farmer supplies eggs at $2/dz.  Another farmer supplies them at $3/dz.  A store purchases from both to satisfy the demand generated at the equilibrium store price of $3.50/dz.

Now government comes along and tells the store they can no longer sell eggs at $3.50, but now can only sell at the new ceiling (controlled) price of $2.50/dz.  At this point, Farmer 2 now exits the market.  With less competition, Farmer 1 now increases his price to $2.15/dz.  And the store runs out of eggs to sell.

Anyone taking a jr. high school economics class can understand this.  But not Democrats.  They don't understand because they don't care.  They'll get their eggs one way or another from special Party stores that never run out.

[catfish1957]

Vegas money has had Trump on the slide since July 14th.  And from my POV, people placing their hard earned money on wagers, is better than any poll.   Half of it, is he has lost the daily narrative.  Second, Mo (Momentum) perceived or not can't be under-estimated.

And last, never underestimate MSM...  in the past week,

Kamel-uh has pronounced her economoic initiiatves at a 3rd grade reading level. 
Walz' Stolen Valor proof
Walz DUI that he claims never exists

And still the needle moves in Harris' direction. 

[massadvj]

I never understood what the big deal is about whether someone is the first choice, second choice, etc. I have been the second choice, and worse, of many women over the years, and it never bothered me a bit.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I never understood what the big deal is about whether someone is the first choice, second choice, etc. I have been the second choice, and worse, of many women over the years, and it never bothered me a bit.

Don't think I would relay that sentiment to the wife, you know.

[massadvj]

Don't think I would relay that sentiment to the wife, you know.

I am widowed, but before she died, I was her second choice. I met her ex-husband, and I'd say she made a better choice the second time.

[Smokin Joe]

I am widowed, but before she dies, I was her second choice. I met her ex-husband, and I'd say she made a better choice the second time.

Small town, my wife and I knew each others' exes. I may not have been the first choice, but I was the last, and we had 23 good years together.

[The_Reader_David]

Kamala also doesn't realize that capping prices reduces the incentive to produce.   

Kamala is a Leftist.  Leftists (with, so far as I can tell, the sole exception of Yanis Varoufakis, one time Greek Finance Minister whose analysis of the "Greek bailout" -- actually a bailout of German and French investors exposed to Greek debt that left Greece worse off -- was spot on) are completely clueless about how developed economies actually work. 

I wonder whether the original American Left, which was anarcho-syndicalist, rather than socialist, would have been any better had they not been crushed by Woodrow Wilson's Bureau of Investigation (predecessor of the FBI) and infiltrated by Marxists.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I am widowed, but before she died, I was her second choice. I met her ex-husband, and I'd say she made a better choice the second time.

My condolences for you and your family for the loss.

And I see where you are coming from.

With me, there is only one choice and I made it right the first time.

[Hoodat]

It's not really a choice.  I didn't have the opportunity to 'choose' between my first wife and my second wife.  The current (second) wife is clearly the forever spouse in every possible way.  But I didn't know her existence when I was 21.  In fact, I didn't know the possibility that such a woman could even exist.