Friday, November 1, 2024

The Stealth Candidate



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The police said the suspect is 17 years old and has a previous arrest record.

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Ford Motor is temporarily stopping production of its all-electric
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The Stealth Candidate

Kamala Harris has a deceptive persona. She seems to be a total ditz. She is inarticulate, overwhelmed, evasive, and vague.

But she has an undeniable history. Harris favors reparations. She plans some strange program that would financially support Black startups with forgivable loans. I saw her in an interview support the banning of meat. There is no Constitutional justification for any of this stuff. She also wants to pack the Supreme Court to bypass the judicial review system, malice disguised as righteousness.

She wants to expand the entitlement state beyond even what Biden has—for elder and child care, housing, a larger Affordable Care Act, and more. Her proposed tax increases are nearly as extensive as Biden’s, running past $4 trillion over 10 years. She shows every sign of wanting to expand and accelerate the climate corporate welfare and mandates that distort investment at enormous taxpayer cost but no benefit to global temperatures. And she wants to ban fracking.

She is certainly of the modern left, with its regulatory coercion, cultural imperialism, economic statism, and desire to strip judicial independence. She is vague about Israel and Ukraine. 

On the other hand, she has no opinion on the military, the decline of military recruitment or spending, the debt, AI, illegal immigration, cartels, drugs (although she wants a carveout for Black male marijuana distributors), or inflation.

Yet 1 billion dollars have gone into her campaign, presumably for abortion.

It's hard to imagine with this history she is flying under the radar.

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