That's not a cackle, nor is it the sound of air rushing in one ear and out the other, unimpeded, it’s “a full-throated explosion of mirth”. Whew!

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WaPo flak does his best “Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom call” impression.

Harris … laughs a lot. It’s a full-throated, heaving explosion of mirth that, to be honest, can sound excessive, even a little strange. But it is not phony. Her eyes sparkle, her smile stretches wide, and she puts her whole body into it. Stopping the outburst sometimes seems authentically hard for her.

“I have my mother’s laugh,” she has explained. “And I grew up around a bunch of women in particular who laugh from the belly.” A two-minute compilation of her laughing jags that has been going around the internet was undoubtedly devised as an attack video. In reality, it’s kind of charming.

Do you, too want release a full-hearted explosion of mirth or, as it was known until two weeks ago, cackle? Lesson here:

Harris's answer to the 30% rise in food prices during this administration: blame it on greedy corporate price gougers

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And her audience of know-nothings cheers.

And that group very much includes the clueless “journalists” and academics who’ve rushed to follow their masters’ orders

The Media Has Hit Peak 'Kamala-Love,' and It's Reached Surreal Proportions

RICK MORAN | 12:36 PM ON AUGUST 08, 2024

For a failed presidential candidate who was forced to drop out of the 2020 race two months before the first primary, Kamala Harris is undergoing a rehabilitation that any drug-addled Hollywood celebrity would kill for.

She has been transformed. Gone is the bumbling, stumbling vice president who spouts nonsense and cackles like the wicked witch of the West. Now, we have Kamala the Brave girding her loins, joining forth to do battle with The Evil One.

Then, there's outright lying,

"Trump has never had to face someone with Kamala Harris’s raw talent," said John White, a professor emeritus at Catholic University.

Exactly so

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this is the woman who is designing your future

Real estate activity has slowed to almost nothing as the August doldrum descends, so why not talk of politics, which hasn’t paused since 2015? EV cars, for instance.

The EV Scam: A Likely Reason for So Epic a Folly

After several paragraphs detailing some of the (many) defects of battery cars, Canadian David Solway gets tp the heart of the matter

The obvious question has to do with the reason governments have invested so heavily and at such expense in forcing so radical and risky a policy as the complete transformation of the auto sector and the introduction of EVs known to be unreliable, dangerous, and inefficient. After all, the automotive industry is a key element in national prosperity. According to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the standard vehicle manufacturing automotive ecosystem “drives $1 trillion into the U.S. economy each year—nearly 5 percent of GDP— and creates 9.6 million jobs coast to coast and $105 billion in exports. Every direct job in vehicle manufacturing supports 10.5 additional American jobs. More than $220 billion in federal and state revenue is generated annually by the manufacturing, sale, and maintenance of automobiles in the U.S.” 

Why tinker with the golden goose, the cash cow, or any other theriomorphic image one might wish to use? Why sell one’s birthright for a mess of pottage, which is what the EV industry actually is? Todd Lewis, a commenter on my previous article on PJ Media, put it succinctly. “It is a way for governments to advance totalitarian control of the populace, wreck the economy, and disempower the middle class.” His thesis is backed up in Joel Kotkin’s masterpiece "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism." Kotkin chronicles how the once-numerous and thriving middle class is relentlessly being phased out of existence by a power elite intent on re-medievalizing society while advancing their own social, political, and economic supremacy. Like the serf who lacked freedom of movement and was bound to the lord’s estate, the enfiefed EV owner for various reasons is tethered to a sort of manorial orbit. 

The fact is that EV obsession has nothing to do with “saving the earth,” replacing fossil energy with presumably “clean” alternatives, or reducing across-the-board costs involving transportation and maintenance — all of which reasons are contra-indicated by the facts. They are delusions, mere fetishes, or outright lies that a modicum of sober research would render null and void. The real issue has to do with the ongoing battle between a market economy and a command economy, between a business-oriented system and a centripetal Marxist political organization, and between an individualistic political economy and oligarchic socialism. 

The EV project is a major strategy in a political program that envisages replacing not simply fossil fuel propulsion with electrical power, which is neither feasible nor even conceivable, but swapping a free market economy, in which the law of supply and demand determines output and prices, for a centralized government authority that dictates production, prices, and distribution. Top-down control supersedes private enterprise. 

In a command economy, the managerial class and state officials control the means of production, set prices, determine production goals, and limit or prohibit competition — as opposed to private individuals and joint-stock companies freely transacting business for personal profit or in the interest of stockholders, their decisions based on consumer demand. 

You buy the car you want to drive, not the car the central planners have forced you to drive. You live the life you want to live within the structure of an ordered society governed by the ballot — that is, the unperverted ballot — not the life pre-determined for you by the administrative state. For, as Aristotle writes in Book I of Politics, “that man who would be a citizen in a republic would very often not be one in an oligarchy.”

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EVs see to it that your power source is limited, your time and expense prohibitively exploited, your safety insecure, and your automotive range severely curtailed. It should be obvious that if your freedom is restricted in one dimension, you can be sure it will be limited in others. 

Valor isn't the only thing these people will steal: our constitutional freedoms are on their “to-grab list” as well

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Mind you, as avowed socialists, they also intend to steal our purses, but that’s just part of the game.

UPDATE: Seth Dillon makes an excellent point

So there I was in the rice paddies, standing shoulder-to shoulder with Dick Blumenthal and Hillary, gooks firing rockets and auto-rifles at us, when ....

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stolen valor

Hell, even CNN — CNN! — can’t let this fraud go unchecked.

‘No Evidence’: CNN Reporter Delivers Devastating Fact-Check On Walz’s Claims About Military Service

“No evidence” meaning, in CNN speak, “the guy’s a flat-out liar”.

Well, this is fine

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Harris Releases a Video of a 'Phone Call' With Tim Walz That Is So Bad, People Thought It Was Parody

This is one of those instances where transcribing the video is pointless. I could type out what is said, but anyone who can't hit play isn't going to see what makes it so incredible. The cackling? It's there. The weird tone that Harris often falls into as if she's addressing a child? It's there. The dead giveaway that she's reading a script about halfway through the video? That's there too. Walz's performance isn't much better, with him sitting on a porch in a camouflage hat, clearly way too hard to signal he's "working class."

Maybe it's Trump who should retreat into the basement, and just run ads using Kampalla's and Tim's own statements

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Kamala Harris Wants a Reparations Commission Like California's, Which Called To Decriminalize Public Urination

The reparations bill supported by Vice President Kamala Harris would set up an independent commission similar to the one in California that called for sweeping changes to the criminal code in addition to monetary payouts to black Americans.

The Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, which was reintroduced in April 2019 and cosponsored by then-senator Harris, would create a 13-member commission to "study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans." The commission would then offer their recommendations for "remedies" to Congress.

Current laws that "continue to disproportionately and negatively affect African-Americans as a group, and those that perpetuate the lingering effects, materially and psycho-social," could be on the chopping block as well, the bill reads. That provision is left vague. Specifics, the bill states, would be hashed out by individuals from "civil society and reparations organizations that have historically championed the cause of reparatory justice."

Although the bill does not specify which federal laws could be slashed, a reparations task force in California may offer some clues. That task force concluded last year that longtime black residents were entitled to $1.2 million each, as well as recommended sweeping changes to the criminal code.

Among the changes recommended were decriminalizing public urination and letting those arrested for public indecency sue the state for damages. Fathers who are delinquent on their child support would see their debt wiped, and police would no longer be allowed to pull over cars with expired registration, tinted windows, or broken tail lights.

Police and probation officers should also be barred from public school property, the committee said. Those same schools, however, would be required to teach high school students about reparations and the "opportunity gap between African American students and their peers," the task force wrote.

Support for the reparations bill is consistent with other far-left positions that Harris staked out that year. Her failed 2020 presidential campaign's criminal justice reform plan called for the end of cash bail as well as "an end [to] mandatory minimums."

Harris also applauded cities that slashed their police budgets and called for voting rights to be restored to convicted murderers and rapists. Steps such as those, Harris said in 2019, are part of her vision to "fundamentally transform how we approach public safety."

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Harris's support for reparations goes beyond attaching her name to a bill in 2019. During her first presidential run, which started that year, Harris said, "I think there has to be some form of reparations."

"We could discuss what that is, but look, we're looking at more than 200 years of slavery," she continued. "We're looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow."

Harris in a March 2019 interview with NPR offered a somewhat different take from the congressional proposal she went on to cosponsor. Rather than explicitly endorse monetary compensation or repealing any federal laws, Harris said, "I think reparations—yeah. I think that the word, the term 'reparations,' it means different things to different people."

Uh huh.

A former Republican who voted for Biden in 2020 loves, just loves Kampallawalla's VP pick

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Charles Djou and FELLOW TDS SUFFERER, Adam kinzinger

I served with Tim Walz as a Republican in the House. He'll be a good vice president

“I’m excited Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Tim as her running mate.”

America needs a gracious and kind individual who talks as a friendly neighbor, understands your community like a local high school football coach, knows the commitment of military service as a veteran and advocates policies for all Americans -- not just for Republicans or Democrats. 

Charles Djou, (R-Hawaii) served in Congress for six months in 2010 after a special election to fill out the term of departed Congressman, lost in that year’s general election, and failed to regain his seat in 2012 and 2014.

Perhaps Mr. Djou holds a grudge against his former party for not sufficiently supporting him during those three failed elections — who knows? Regardless, his good friend Walz declaiming on the meaning of neighborliness: