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Tovarishch Gospozha was a very common honorific in the old Soviet Union.  Comrade madam would be a reasonable translation.  After a close examination of Kamala Harris’ campaign proposals, those few that have trickled out, I believe it would be quite appropriate to use that particular honorific when referring to her.  They are very much like the disastrous economic proposals that were all too common in the standard Soviet five year plan.

Price controls are one of the main pillars of Marxism.  It is no surprise that Kamala is planning on using them to fight the inflation caused by her and the rest of the Biden Regime. Trump: Kamala Harris Has Gone ‘Full Communist’ (townhall.com)

“In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist…she wants to destroy our country. After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls,” Trump said in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 

“Never worked before. Never ever worked. This is the Maduro Plan, Venezuela…Maduro Plan of like, the old Soviet Union. They tried it. How did the Soviet Union work out?… It will cause rationing, hunger, and skyrocketing prices,” he added.

Price controls have failed spectacularly wherever they have been implemented, including here in the United States. Kamala Wants Price Controls, and It’s Not Because She Has “Good Intentions” | Mises Institute

A freeze on prices meant it was no longer profitable for many producers to bring products to markets. The supply of goods and services fell while prices rose. Prices accelerated into 1972 when the CPI rose 3.8 percent, followed by a CPI increase of 8.8 percent in 1973 and 12.2 percent in 1974. 

Price controls on food led to predictably disastrous results. Under Nixon’s price controls, farmers couldn’t sell chicken products at prices high enough to justify the cost of feeding the chickens. In the early 1970s, farmers killed over a million baby chicks. Similar problems occurred in the beef and pork industries with farmers sending pregnant sows to the slaughterhouse while dairy cows were butchered. 

With prices already being forced upward by the inflationary pressure of Nixon’s runaway government spending and abandonment of the dollar’s last link to gold, price controls pushed prices even higher. Price controls were a key factor in the 1970s economy, now notable for stagflation and crippling cost-of-living increases. 

This next proposal by Kamala Harris has destroyed the medical system in every country where it has been tried. Kamala Harris Wants To Impose A Soviet-Style Medical System (thefederalist.com)

Medicare for All would abolish all public and private insurance plans, except Indian Health Service and Tricare, replacing them with a single federal plan. A national health budget would dictate payments for both services and goods. Patients would pay nothing directly but a massive amount indirectly, as Medicare for All would be funded by taxes. Given the cost of Medicare for All, the tax burden could easily double for Americans. In Sweden, a cradle-to-grave socialist economy, the top tax rate is 52.2 percent.

The 2023 Medicare for All plan would cover most Americans. Harris intends to add approximately 11 million illegal entrants, at least initially. The Medicare for All bureaucracy would determine what care individuals get, when, by whom, where, and even if. Medical autonomy, the freedom to choose one’s care, would be nullified, just as in the United Kingdom’s single-payer system. 

Harris’ Medicare for All plan amounts to a centrally controlled economy — a market with no free-market forces. Without proper economic incentives, costs and spending rise without limit while service suffers, quality declines, and innovation ceases. Recall the wait lines in the U.S.S.R.’s centrally controlled economy.  

Only a true Marxist is economically challenged enough to beleive that raising taxes on businesses would lead to prosperity. Kamala Harris Targets American Businesses With Massive Tax Hike (breitbart.com)

Vice President Kamala Harris is gunning for businesses with a plan to hike taxes.

As part of her presidential campaign, Harris is pushing to hike the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, a move that critics say could hit the economy hard just as the country tries to steady itself.

Harris campaign spokesman James Singer confirmed the plan to NBC News, claiming—without evidence— that the tax increase is “a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”

The hike could significantly weigh on economic growth and discourage investment inside the U.S. By raising the statutory rate higher than those of many other major economies, the tax could drive businesses abroad.

As a result of her tax increase the corporate tax rate in the United States would be the second highest in the developed would.  Her tax proposal would destroy the economy of the United States.

At last count, I’ve been sentenced to the Facebook gulag 28 times.  The only crime I have ever committed is that of posting articles and memes that reflect my Libertarian beliefs. My posts constantly contradict established progressive orthodoxy, which is the official religion of the political left. 

Those on the political left firmly believe that any form of communication that contradicts progressive beliefs is hate speech.  They mistakenly maintain that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.

It has been painfully obvious since Facebook first went live that that social media platform is extremely hostile to communications made by those of us on the political right.  That is because Mark Zuckerberg is a rabid leftist. 

Until recently Facebook would slap articles that contradict progressive orthodoxy with a phony fact check and hide them behind several clicks.  After offenders accumulate a couple of these bogus fact checks, they were sent to the gulag for 90 days.  During that time hardly anyone sees your posts because they are reduced to the lowest possible priority.

Just this past month Facebook began removing posts entirely.  When they do a scary looking message like this one, which I received today, flashes across your screen

As you can see from the title of the actual article they removed, it is in no way spam: Texas Mom Reads Anal Sex Passage From School Book — Mic Gets Cut (taphaps.com). Imagine a book distributed in school that is so pornographic the reading it at a schoolboard meeting gets your mic cut off and posts mentioning it removed from Facebook.

After the screen informing you that they removed your post Facebook warns you that you will be in trouble if you continue posting stuff that they do not like. It is a blatant form of intimidation.

The most pathetic and most dangerous aspect of this censorship nonsense is this screen equating sharing articles that contradict progressive orthodoxy with physical harm.

Kamala Harris proved that she is no strategic genius.  The right choice of running mate could have aided her campaign, making it easier for the Democrats to steal the upcoming presidential election. 

Josh Shapiro is the candidate she should have chosen.  This satirical  headline perfectly captures the reason why Shapiro was not selected by Kamala: Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote | Babylon Bee

The running mate Kamala Harris actually selected, Tim Walz, is just as much a radical leftist as she is.  This Town Hall article documents some of Governor Walz’s most extreme left wing positions.

Tim Walz absolutely loves transgenderism.

In April 2023, Walz signed a law that turned Minnesota into a “transgender sanctuary state.” House File 146 “prevents state courts or officials from complying with child removal requests, extraditions, arrests, or subpoenas related to gender-affirming health care that a person receives in Minnesota.” This gave state courts the power to take kids away if parents don’t sign off on so-called “gender-affirming” surgical procedures, allowing the state to have temporary emergency jurisdiction over the child.

Governor Walz is an avid Marxist.

Walz, who was the choice of democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), sees socialism as akin to “neighborliness.”

“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” the Bernie-backed candidate said on an on-camera “White Dudes for Harris” fundraiser call last week. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Tim Walz is a such a rabid supporter of Black Lives Matter that he let Minneapolis burn.

When radical Black Lives Matter militants rioted over George Floyd’s death, Walz waited days to call in the National Guard. Walz’s soft-on-crime response to the George Floyd riots allowed anti-police extremists to burn down a police station in Minneapolis and inflict $500 million in property damage. Walz himself even admitted the “abject failure” of his handling of the BLM uprising.

He made Minnesota a virtual gulag during the COVID pandemic.

Walz was a COVID-19 militant. As governor, he issued a memorandum mandating indoor masking and set up a hotline to report residents who violated COVID-19 mandates. Walz refused to take the hotline down when asked to do so.

As of April 1, 2020, the state received approximately 500 reports of “suspected violations” of Walz’s stay-at-home executive order. The number one report was of businesses that remained open when they “should [have been] closed.” Bars and restaurants that violated Walz’s guidelines ordering their closure faced criminal and civil penalties for continuing on-site sale operations. Businesses that didn’t cooperate were reported to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Alcohol Gambling Enforcement Division, and law enforcement was dispatched to investigate complaints.

Like all Democrats, Tim Walz loves illegal immigrants more than citizens.

In 2023, Walz signed the “North Star Promise,” a scholarship program that gives low-income applicants, including illegal aliens, a full tuition-free ride to public Minnesota colleges and universities, as he hiked taxes on residents despite the state’s $17.5 billion surplus. Illegal aliens can also enroll in MinnesotaCare, the state’s publicly subsidized insurance program. An estimated 40,000 illegal aliens residing unlawfully in Minnesota meet the program’s requirements.

Last year, Walz signed a bill into law allowing anyone in Minnesota, regardless of immigration status, to obtain a driver’s license, including illegal aliens. This meant proof of citizenship or lawful presence in the United States was no longer required to receive one in the state. At the time, approximately 81,000 illegals were living in Minnesota. 

When It comes to abortion, Tim Walz is just as extreme as Kamala.

At the beginning of 2023, Walz enshrined the “right” to abortion without limits into Minnesota statute through the “Protect Reproductive Options Act,” an abortion-up-to-birth bill designed to shield the state’s existing statutes from future Supreme Court decisions.

He is also a climate change alarmist.

In 2022, Walz announced Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework, a 69-page plan that calls for the state to transition to “100% carbon-free electricity” by 2040. To accelerate the transition, the state will “Provide financial incentives to BIPOC and low-income community organizers to educate about EVs.”

If elected, Tim Walz will aid Kamala Harris in her crusade against the Second Amendment, VP Pick Tim Walz Supports Biden-Harris’s Big 3 Gun Control Policies (breitbart.com)

Democrat Vice Presidential pick Tim Walz wants the three central gun controls that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have spent years pushing in Washington, DC.

Those controls–an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws–have been pushed time and again by Biden and/or Harris at every opportunity, including those in which the gun controls had absolutely nothing to do with the events that led to their mention.

Democrats absolutely love the Supreme Court when that august body issues opinions that conform to progressive orthodoxy.  When the Supreme Court issues opinions that actually reflect the original meaning of the Constitution and founding principles of the United States, Democrats behave like small children. This is exactly what took place this past Monday when the Biden Regime issued the following proposal: FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law | The White House

From his first day in office—and every day since then—President Biden has taken action to strengthen American democracy and protect the rule of law.

In recent years, the Supreme Court has overturned long-established legal precedents protecting fundamental rights. This Court has gutted civil rights protections, taken away a woman’s right to choose, and now granted Presidents broad immunity from prosecution for crimes they commit in office.

At the same time, recent ethics scandals involving some Justices have caused the public to question the fairness and independence that are essential for the Court to faithfully carry out its mission to deliver justice for all Americans.

The opening paragraphs of this fact sheet prove that the political left lives in an alternate universe, with a vastly different reality.

As you can see from this next paragraph, the Biden Regime is hoping to cram this farce through before the election.

President Biden and Vice President Harris look forward to working with Congress and empowering the American people to prevent the abuse of Presidential power, restore faith in the Supreme Court, and strengthen the guardrails of democracy. President Biden thanks the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States for its insightful analysis of Supreme Court reform proposals. The Administration will continue its work to ensure that no one is above the law – and in America, the people rule.

The only positive thing you can say about the first proposed reform is that it does not violate the Constitution because it calls for a Constitutional Amendment.

No Immunity for Crimes a Former President Committed in Office: President Biden shares the Founders’ belief that the President’s power is limited—not absolute—and must ultimately reside with the people. He is calling for a constitutional amendment that makes clear no President is above the law or immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office. 

This next proposal completely shreds Article 3 of the Constitution, which does not include an actual term limit.

Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices: Congress approved term limits for the Presidency over 75 years ago, and President Biden believes they should do the same for the Supreme Court. The United States is the only major constitutional democracy that gives lifetime seats to its high court Justices. Term limits would help ensure that the Court’s membership changes with some regularity; make timing for Court nominations more predictable and less arbitrary; and reduce the chance that any single Presidency imposes undue influence for generations to come. President Biden supports a system in which the President would appoint a Justice every two years to spend eighteen years in active service on the Supreme Court.

The third and final proposal also shreds Article 3 of the Constitution because neither the Executive Branch or the Legislative Branch are granted the authority to impose a code of conduct on the Supreme Court.

Binding Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court: President Biden believes that Congress should pass binding, enforceable conduct and ethics rules that require Justices to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest. Supreme Court Justices should not be exempt from the enforceable code of conduct that applies to every other federal judge.

Here is the actual text of Article 3 Section 1 of the Constitution.

Section 1- Judicial powers. Tenure. Compensation.

The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.