WATCH: Gwen Walz Says Making Tampons Available in Boy’s Restrooms at Schools “Makes Sense” but Says She Wants to “Move On” From the ‘Tampon Tim’ Nickname

 This is kind of a Trashy Woman that just showed how much of an IDIOT she is

Tampon Tim fits him well

Gwen Walz appears on the Maggie Daun Show

Gwen Walz, the wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, recently defended Tim Walz’s policy of supplying boys’ restrooms in schools with female menstrual products, saying the policy “makes sense.”

It can be recalled that Tim Walz signed a bill as Governor requiring schools to provide tampons in all restrooms, including the boy’s restroom, earning him the nickname “Tampon Tim.”

The bill that Tampon Tim signed into law states, “The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12.”

In August, Hillary Clinton celebrated the Tampon Tim nickname, calling on the country to “do this everywhere” and provide free tampons to boys in schools.

Radio host Maggie Daun also celebrated the policy, asking Gwen Walz about it and saying, “One of the lines that I’ve heard about your husband, Gwen, is Tampon Tim. And I know that the MAGA cult thinks that that’s some sort of dig on your husband, but when I went and did my own research to find out why are they calling him tampon Tim; I actually found that he likely wears that as a badge of honor.”

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Gwen Walz, calling it a “remarkable” move to mandate tampons in boy’s restrooms, said it just “makes sense.”

What they both conveniently omitted, however, was that Walz made tampons available to boys in schools. Still, the legislation “makes sense” because “we’re interested in students learning and not being distracted by other things,” according to Gwen Walz.

 

What about learning biology and human anatomy?

WATCH:

Walz: As we listened, people were having trouble accessing feminine products. And so, Tim made those available in schools. I think that makes sense. I’m focused on learning, so is Tim, so is our legislature, and so we said, if this is something that distracts from learning, well, then we’re going to take care of that. Why wouldn’t we? Because we’re interested in students learning and not being distracted by other things.

 

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“And again, I think it’s an absolute badge of honor, and I congratulate you for putting the needs of students above politics,” said Maggie Daun, of the nickname “Tampon Tim,” after Gwen’s bizarre take on tampons in boy’s restrooms.

The discussion continued on the topic of abortion, where Walz said, Tim Walz and Kamala Harris “trust women to make their own health care decisions,” though it’s unclear at this point whether she means women or men who say they’re a woman.

Next, when asked for a surprising tidbit about her husband, Walz responded, “I would say that he likes vegetables. That might be surprising. He likes vegetables. You know, he doesn’t look like a vegetable eater, but he’s really like he will have radishes and carrots and that sort of thing for a snack.”

This woman is obviously crazy.

Watch the full interview below via the Maggie Daun Show on Civic Media:

-https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/watch-gwen-walz-says-making-tampons-available-boys/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/trump-continues-gain-ground-black-voters-this-could/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/bret-baier-reveals-chaos-behind-kamalas-trainwreck-interview/

JUST IN: RNC Files Lawsuit Against Detroit For Deleting Ballot Box Surveillance Footage

 Trying to cheat already?

Individuals in Michigan drop several ballots in an unguarded Detroit drop box in 2020

The RNC filed a lawsuit against the City of Detroit Department of Elections for deleting ballot drop box surveillance footage.

The lawsuit accuses Detroit elections officials of violating the Freedom of Information Act by deleting the footage more than two weeks after they requested it from the city.

“Deleting footage that is the subject of a pending FOIA request—submitted more than two weeks before the footage was deleted—is a clear violation of FOIA,” the RNC said, according to CBS News. “Detroit had a clear legal obligation to preserve and provide the footage, which they violated.”

The RNC requested drop box footage from the August primary election.

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RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said the GOP will hold Detroit accountable and make sure the surveillance footage for the 2024 election is preserved.

“Deleting drop box surveillance footage while there is a pending FOIA request for it is an assault on transparency. This breach of trust is exactly what reduces confidence in our elections. We will hold Detroit accountable, as this secrecy has no place in a fair and secure election — Michiganders deserve far better.” – RNC Chair Whatley

Excerpt from CBS News:

The Republican National Committee has filed another lawsuit against Detroit, alleging the city deleted drop box surveillance footage and violated the Freedom of Information Act.

Jonathan Koch and the RNC filed the lawsuit against the City of Detroit Department of Elections on Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that they had requested drop box surveillance footage from the city earlier this year, but it was deleted, and the RNC never received it.

On Aug. 20, the Koch allegedly submitted a FOIA request for the surveillance footage on behalf of the RNC. The request was submitted for footage in connection to the “Absent Voter Ballot Drop Box” on the Northwest Campus of Wayne County Community College at 8200 W. Outer Drive, according to the lawsuit.

The city acknowledged receiving the request on Aug. 21, and on Aug. 24, it sent a letter asking for an extension of their response deadline by 10 more business days under MCL 15.235(2)(d).

On Sept. 16, Koch received an electronic response from the city, in which they said, “The video is no longer available after 30 days and is recorded over,” according to the lawsuit.

As a reminder, in 2022, The Gateway Pundit purchased video footage from 13 drop boxes in the Detroit area from the 2020 election. What we found was astonishing.

In early September 2022, The Gateway Pundit released a shocking video compilation of individuals and sometimes teams of people depositing stacks of ballots into absentee ballot drop boxes at Detroit’s satellite voting centers before the November 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up worked with a team of investigators at MC4EI to uncover potential voter-related crimes and “irregularities” found on hundreds of hours of Detroit satellite office surveillance footage.

Thank you MC4EI for their investigative work on this.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/just-rnc-files-lawsuit-against-detroit-deleting-ballot/

The 2024 Election Will Be Very Different From The Election In 2020

 It must be nice being a Democrat because there are so many things you don’t have to worry about, things that once would get you arrested or just ridiculed. These include:

• Getting arrested for stealing.
• Having to pay damages for destroying businesses during BLM or pro-Hamas riots.
• Repaying your college loan after earning a degree in sitcom theme songs.
• Celebrating your 45th birthday in your parent’s basement.

If you’re a Democrat, you’re probably also not worried about the presidential election. You believe that the George Soros-loving Deep State will duplicate its 2020 success and steal the White House from Donald Trump for a second consecutive time. Not so fast!

Image by AI.

Taken individually, the following events might not mean much. However, when they’re taken cumulatively, they explain why the United States of America should make history (rather than become history) on November 5, 2024.

COVID is no longer a weapon in the election.

Multiple lawfare cases are backfiring.

Many traditional Democrat constituents (and there’s overlap) have had enough of being taken for granted: Blacks, Hispanics, Catholics, Jews, Asians, and non-government union workers.

Recognizing that its membership supports Trump, many union leaders have chosen not to endorse Harris. This includes the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the International Association of Fire Fighters. This means union infrastructure will not assist with Democrat “get out the vote” efforts.

Scott Sauritch, former president of United Steelworkers Local 2227, knows his union leadership has endorsed Harris, but that the rank-and-file do not.

“I don’t care what you see on TV,” he said. “The grunts in the lunchroom love Trump.”

Trump is beginning to get key endorsements:

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed Trump. Kennedy understands the horrors of Democrat-embraced censorship as he campaigns to “Make America Healthy Again.”
• Former Democrat and now independent Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Trump. A veteran, Gabbard is horrified by the Biden-Harris administration’s international failures which has led to numerous global conflicts.
• Elon Musk endorsed Trump following the first assassination attempt. Musk appeared with Trump during the inspiring October 5 Butler, Pennsylvania rally.
• Hamtramck, Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib of the nation’s only all-Muslim city council, endorsed Trump as “being the right choice.”
• Billionaire hedge fund manager Democrat Bill Ackman endorsed Trump following the first assassination attempt. Ackman, who has been disgusted by the pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish protests, shared, “I assure you that I have made this decision carefully, rationally, and by relying on as much empirical data as possible.”

Elon Musk (net worth $1 trillion) purchased Twitter in 2022 and immediately halted the giant social media’s anti-conservative/anti-Republican bias. As of September 2024, X/Twitter has nearly 336 million monthly active users. Writing about Musk’s purchase, Brian Cates, explained that, “the full control of their Censorship State has been shattered; and their Fake News Media Matrix has been broken.”

Musk interviewed Trump for two hours on August 12 and reported that 200 million people heard part or all of their conversation.

Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $200 billion) admitted at a House Judiciary hearing that the Biden administration relentlessly pushed Meta to censor COVID content. Zuckerberg apologized for the damage he caused by not having the spine to say no to the Biden-Harris administration.

Zuckerberg announced he will not endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.

As Hurricane Helene was decimating cities in seven states, President (in name only) Joe Biden and his personal physician, Jill, were relaxing on a Delaware beach. DEI Vice President Kamala Harris was busy fundraising in San Francisco, a city she helped to destroy as its district attorney.

Two (maybe more) assassination attempts were made against President Trump.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) didn’t have enough funding to get through the hurricane season. Meanwhile, the government funneled $1.4 billion through FEMA to spend on illegal aliens. The conservative non-profit America First Legal reports:

Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA — the agency responsible for responding to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene — into an illegal alien resettlement agency that emphasizes DEI over public safety. The FEMA Shelter and Services Program is designed to exclusively provide shelter and services to illegal aliens.

David Axelrod, who guided Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, was obscenely giddy that those most affected by the hurricane’s destruction were Trump supporters who might have difficulty voting.

Donald Trump showed staunch support for Israel, America’s closest ally. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Tim Walz would rather accommodate Iran/Hamas to pursue American Muslim and Arab votes.

The September 10 presidential debate on ABC was overwhelmingly viewed as a three-on-one pile-on (two biased ABC moderators and Kamala Harris against Donald Trump). It was manifestly unfair, and Americans dislike that. Harris’s failure to answer questions has become an endless meme: “I was born into a middle-class family…”

The October 1 vice-presidential debate was a phenomenal success for J.D. Vance. Even liberal websites and news networks reluctantly admitted that Vance was a powerful debater who showed confidence, knowledge, and grace, while Democrat Tim Walz looked like the knucklehead he said he can be.

As Minnesota governor, Walz signed legislation to have tampon dispensers put in boys bathrooms. He and his wife enjoyed the “peaceful” George Floyd Riots that destroyed Minneapolis so much that Gwen kept the windows open so she could smell Minneapolis burning.

Harris offers incoherent word salads even in softball interviews.

Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal left the vicious Taliban with $85 billion in in military equipment while the U.S. was left with 13 dead soldiers. The soldiers’ family invited Trump to the memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that 425,000 CRIMINAL ALIENS are not being held in detention. They are in our communities, walking by you in the parking lot, watching your house to burglarize it, looking at your children playing in the park, following your teenagers riding their bikes, standing next to you at the bus stop, looting following a devastating hurricane… These are the “future Democrats” that Biden and Harris have let into our country:

• 62,231 convicted of assault
• 56,533 convicted of drug offenses
• 15,811 convicted of sexual assault
• 14,301 convicted of burglary
• 13,099 convicted of homicide.

The Harris-Biden administration has been giving millions and billions to Ukraine and Lebanon while Americans feel abandoned after disasters at home:

• Train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
• Fires on Maui, Hawaii.
• Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Inflation is suffocating and destroying the middle class. The seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) shows that prices are up 20 percent since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took over the White House. Remember that CPI never includes food and energy, so it’s probably much higher.

While numerous blue states believe “election integrity” is a dirty word, there has been immense improvement since the last presidential election, especially in red states. Local, state, and national Republican parties have focused on poll watching and other election integrity issues.

President Trump is planning to be interviewed on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

“Fight! Fight! Fight!”

This list of important events could go on. Even a partial list is a powerful testament that 2024 is not 2020.

If cheating were such a sure thing in this election, Democrats wouldn’t bring out faded folks like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. They would keep Kamala “word salad” Harris away from the media. Tim Walz would be off giving tours of China.

It’s up to each of us to do our part—everyone can do something—to make the 2024 election too big too rig! Let’s dominate early voting to reelect Donald Trump, keep the House, and gain the Senate. Patriots can Make America Great Again!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/the_2024_election_will_be_very_different_from_the_election_in_2020.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/spacex_just_changed_everything_for_space_launch_and_recovery.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/the_dems_vs_free_speech.html

‘You’ve got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration’

 You’ve got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration.”

Oops!  The above quote may be Kamala Harris’s most devastating, grievous error in her sit-down with Bret Baier last night.

We can be sure that those words escaped her mouth before she realized what she was saying.  She was referring to the transgender surgeries that may have taken place during the Trump administration even though the former president opposes such mutilations for what is clearly a mental disorder.  With that quote, she admitted that she and Biden are indeed responsible for

(1) The horrific withdrawal from Afghanistan.

(2) The mind-numbing, tragic consequences of their open border.  At least ten million migrants have entered the country unvetted, thousands of criminals among them.  Sex- and human-trafficking has exploded as a result.  So has crime across the board.

(3) The war in Ukraine — millions lives lost there.

(4) The Hamas attack on Israel, due to their obvious anti-Israel bias.

(5) The irresponsible spending that gave us the highest inflation in decades.

(6) The evisceration of our military with DIE and transgenderism.

(7) The gift of billions of dollars to Iran that has funded the subsequent terrorism against Israel.

(8) The lawfare unleashed on Trump, all of it manufactured out of whole cloth to take him off the board.

(9) The weaponization of the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, etc. that has led to peaceful protesters being imprisoned for exercising their First Amendment rights.

(10) The fact that Joe Biden is owned by the Chinese Communist Party — he owes his wealth to them.

(11) The administration’s disastrous response to the hurricanes.

By her standard, Harris must “take responsibility” for all of the above.

Harris was pathetically unprepared for this interview, even though it was she who wanted it.  She probably does not ever watch Fox News and has avoided that outlet based on hearsay.  She likely knows that it is owned by the Murdochs and assumed that Baier would be appropriately submissive and agreeable.  He could have been, as he is not a Trump-supporter.  Many of us blame him for calling Arizona for Biden at 9:00 on Election Night 2020.  That was a very anti-Trump thing to have done.  Many Trump-supporters stopped watching Fox News after that.

But Baier rose to the occasion last night and asked the questions millions of us have wanted Harris to answer since she was announced, without a single vote, as the Democrat candidate for president.  That she has been such a terrible candidate has got to be the best example of karma ever visited upon Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Harris herself.

She was an absent V.P., no matter what Joe says now.  She was the least popular V.P. ever!  The few roles she was assigned — the border and connecting rural regions to the internet — have been utter failures.  Since she became Biden’s DIE choice, she has accomplished exactly nothing, yet thinks she is qualified to be president.

People like this get diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder — not to mention palilalia, the constant repetition of certain words or phrases.  But even that does not explain Harris’s indecipherable word salads.  She also often appears to be under the influence of alcohol or a drug.  Despite the release of her physical medical report, she is not a mentally healthy person.  She’s got a lot of nerve suggesting that Trump is “unstable.”

Perhaps Kamala believes that her interview marathon – Call her Daddy; Charlamagne tha God; The View, on which she said she would do nothing different from the Biden administration; with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson and 60 Minutes (all guaranteed friendly Democrats) — has sealed her election win.  But she’s never held a press conference or answered the kind of questions Baier asked.  She was rude in showing up late.  She was rude in filibustering him with run-on answers.  She appeared angry and clearly wanted to focus on the lies she likes to tell about Trump.  Even The Hill has called her out for her “Trump will send the army after you” lie.  She still seems to think we are all incredibly gullible and will believe her many prevarications, all of which are easily debunked.

Harris claims Trump is “unfit” to hold the office, yet he shows up at several rallies and interviews from day to day, full of vim and vigor and the willingness to answer the questions he is asked.  He can give a master class on the economy while she seems to never to have taken Econ 101.  People know what he stands for; she is determined to keep what she stands for a secret, which only makes voters suspicious.  What we do know is that she was the most radical member of the Senate and that she harbors Marxist views — mandated equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. 

While Harris supporters are whining that Baier “ambushed” her, wiser minds realize that the Fox interview should be the end of her campaign.  Indeed, it should be.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/you_ve_got_to_take_responsibility_for_what_happened_in_your_administration.html

Kamala Harris’s disaster interview: Doesn’t answer a single question, instructs voters to read her website instead

 Last night, Kamala Harris spoke to Fox News’s Bret Baier, and the interview was a catastrophe. Not only did she completely avoid taking responsibility for all the disaster and chaos she and Joe Biden are directly responsible for—see also Patricia McCarthy’s item on that here—but she unequivocally and forcefully refused to answer a single query from Baier, despite his very straightforward style in which he basically asked her yes or no questions.

Image: YouTube video screen grab.

Instead of explaining herself to Baier and any viewers, she instructed any potential undecideds to refer to eighty pages of text on her website. Harris’s performance was the loathsome government runaround personified, on top of red herring after red herring.

Within the first few minutes Baier asked, “Looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate ‘Remain-in-Mexico’ at the beginning of your administration?” to which Harris responded with this: “At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill that we offered Congress….”

When speaking about the deaths of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray—names which Harris still refused to acknowledge, instead using the plural “victims” to refer to these individual souls—Baier wondered if Harris believed she “owe[d] these families an apology” since the killers were only in the U.S. because they’d been released into our interior by Biden-Harris directives. Harris admitted these were “tragic cases” of unfortunate circumstances—people Kamala, Laken, Rachel, and Jocelyn were people, with one being only a child—before she quickly circled back to the fact that the Democrat border bill was not passed, insinuating that’s where the failure was, because more agents is the “solution.” But the problem is, these deaths weren’t caused by a lack of staffing and resources—these killers were apprehended, they were just turned loose to rape and murder by executive order from the Biden-Harris White House.

Baier then referenced Harris’s stances on giving illegals driver’s licenses, tuition, and healthcare, and asked if she “still supports those things.” Does she? Well if she does, we’d never know! She will “follow the law.” Lady, that wasn’t the question.

Also, from Baier: “Are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?”

Harris: “I will follow the law.”

Again, that wasn’t the question.

Honestly, I’m a cynic and try to be hyper-senstive to the “bread and circuses” dynamics that most of the media perpetuates, but I couldn’t help but cheer when Baier craftily maneuvered Harris into the pile of her own dung.

Baier: They’re wrapping me very hard here, I hope you got to say what you wanted to say about Donald Trump, there are a lot of things—

Harris: There is more to say, I have much more to say [about Trump], actually. 

Baier: There are a lot of things that people want to learn about you, and your policies, and that’s why we invited you here.

Harris: I invited everyone to go to kamalaharris.com, and you will see that I have 80, uh, pages of policies, that are quite comprehensive and should be accessible to anyone who would like to read them….

Baier: And that’s why we invited you here….

(The “wrapping” refers to the off-camera Harris staffers reportedly wildly “waving arms” and “pleading” Baier to end the interview as it was obviously going so poorly.)

Who’s going to go read eighty pages when Harris just conveyed exactly what her priorities and ideas are, none of which are real prosperity or security for the American people. It was glorious, and humiliating for her.

The interview in its entirety can be found below:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/kamala_harris_s_disaster_interview_doesn_t_answer_a_single_question_instructs_voters_to_read_her_website_instead.html

Who is out of step?

 In her own words they did no wrong.  What a  lying  IDIOT!

A long time ago, when I was in the Coast Guard OCS, I had some difficulty learning how to march in step with my classmates. With practice, however, I improved and felt more comfortable with the demands of marching in formation. As I watched Bret Baier’s interview with Kamala Harris last night, I was reminded of those awkward times when I struggled to march in step.

Bret Baier, as the interviewer, tried valiantly to call the moves and get the Vice President to answer questions she has so far avoided answering in this election season. For her part, VP Harris seemed just as determined not to answer his questions but instead chose to remind us that she and her supporters are convinced that former President Trump is a loud-mouthed lunatic.

During the 23-minute interview, the two never got in synch. It was like listening to a bagpipe player playing polka music trying to drown out an accordion player playing country western music. It hurts my ears just recalling the spectacle.

Image: Kamala Harris and Bret Baier. X screen grab.

I think it was a missed opportunity for the candidate of Joy™. The Fox News audience is full of the 79% of Americans who think that the USA is on the wrong track. Many, if not most, of the people watching Fox plan to vote for the candidate whom Harris calls a loud-mouthed lunatic. Her audience had a pretty good idea of what she thinks of Trump but very little idea of what her “turn the page” policies might be. She may think it was helpful to direct us to her policy positions on her website, but doing that was another dodge of saying anything specific about her plans.

Harris’s tone was belligerent at times. She seemed angry that MAGA people do not want to march to her future unburdened by the past. She loves to tell her rallies that she will not go back. In her interview with Baier, however, she was talking to people wanting to Make America Great Again and people who reject former President Obama’s vision to transform America. I did not notice any attempts to connect with conservatives.

During the interview, Baier actually brought up those 79% of Americans who feel that America is on the wrong track. VP Harris used her time to emphatically tell us that we are wrong and, also, that she can’t think of anything that she or Joe Biden did in the last three and a half years was wrong. The sum total of her comments during the debate is that the 79% are wrong. Her conduct during the interview begs the question: Who is out of step?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/who_is_out_of_step.html

The Kamala Harris (So-Called) Plan

 Her ads are flat out lies and she is full of Shit when it comes down to "elect me and we will turn the page".  According to her thats absolute bullshit, getting away from Trump dividing us.  Sorry Trump is not dividing us and that again was the biggest line of Crap answer. She is clueless or as they say "the empty suit"

Kamala Harris runs commercials that identify her plans for the economy.  The United States has experienced high inflation caused by the government printing press during the Biden-Harris years.  Her solutions include a mix of scapegoating and even more federal spending.

(1) These plans include “going after price-gougers.”  Harris and her handlers do not acknowledge the government printing press as the cause of inflation. They scapegoat unnamed “price-gougers” the same way that the Soviet Union used to scapegoat “black marketeers.”  One of Ayn Rand’s fictional enforcers in We the Living (depicting life in 1920s Soviet Russia) finally raised the obvious question — “It will be important to explain how a penniless aristocrat [one black marketeer] managed to lay his hands on the very heart of our economic life.”  The Harris campaign has not even attempted to explain how a few “price-gougers” managed to create serious inflation throughout the entire U.S. economy.  They have not indicated why the “price-gougers” did not create this inflation during the Trump years.

Harris has not explained what she would do to these “price-gougers.”  If she provided such a detailed explanation, the obvious question would be why the administration has not already done this in the past four years.

(2) Kamala Harris has promised to crack down on landlords who charge “too much” for rent.  The obvious question would be how much is too much.  There are thousands of real estate markets in the United States.  Each one is subject to the law of supply and demand.  The market price for rent is different in each location.  How would the Harris administration determine the proper rent amount in each market?

Before, during, and after World War II, the Office of Price Administration (including its related agencies and volunteers across the country) employed hundreds of thousands of people to set prices and monitor compliance.  The OPA issued many directives and published many volumes detailing its programs and permitted prices.  Shortages resulted.  Black markets emerged.  The government resorted to printing posters that would shame people away from buying goods on the black market.  The nation’s consumers were asked to take a pledge that they would not pay more than “legal” prices and would not use the black market.  Ration books and tokens were issued.

Whether all of this tyranny was necessary to support the war effort is an open question at best.  But it began months before Pearl Harbor and continued for almost two years after the war ended.  The OPA ended despite serious opposition and only when enough Republicans were elected to override President Truman’s veto and overcome Democrat efforts to continue the program indefinitely.  Some of the OPA’s functions continued in other agencies for years afterward.

The end of controls brought sudden spikes in prices for which the consumers were unprepared. The evidence tends to show that the Executive Branch and their supporters clung to this program just for the joy of dictatorship instead of fighting a war.

Kamala Harris proposes to bring this chaos back despite having less of a pretext than existed in the 1940s.  At least the New Dealers could point to a war during two thirds of the time that the OPA existed.  Kamala Harris would reinstate this nightmare solely because her administration printed money and caused inflation.  Of course, she cannot acknowledge the printing press and its reign of terror.  Such an acknowledgment would be an indictment of her own administration, her party, and the entire mindset that looks to the federal government for more money to solve every problem.  Such an acknowledgment would hinder her own efforts to spend money even more recklessly if she somehow is elected president.  Instead, she scapegoats landlords and “price-gougers.”  Unnamed landlords and price-gougers pale in comparison to World War II as a justification for an expanded bureaucracy and massive crackdowns on both producers and consumers.

We can hope that Harris is simply groping for excuses and things to say related to the inflation problem that her administration created.  These ads run much less frequently than her attack ads and vague “fair share” ads.  Is it naïve to think no one would actually plunge us into a wartime bureaucratic mess as a cover-up for prior bad policy?  These ideas begin to sound like something she might actually do when one considers the third proposal:

(3) Harris promises to solve the problem of skyrocketing housing prices by causing the federal government to build more homes.  It appears as if Harris finally recognizes the law of supply and demand by offering greater supply to bring down prices.  This proposal does bring a certain superficial appeal for that reason.

But causing the federal government to build houses to fight inflation would be a losing effort.  The government would be entering a race to build houses before the government printing press could raise prices yet again by flooding the economy with dollars.  The printing press will always win that race, because the printing press will pay for the houses that Kamala proposes to build.  It makes no sense for the government to ratchet up inflation on the one hand while providing a few houses with the other.  The purchasing power of the middle class will decline further while the price of housing increases.

Even worse, any such new housing will have to be green, thus making it more expensive.  The housing will also come with the requirement that it be built with either union labor (another expense) or illegal aliens.  (It would at least be entertaining to watch the conflict between unions and the open border advocates on this issue.)  The construction would also be characterized by cost overruns, graft, kickbacks, and bribery — all paid for by the printing press, and none of it resulting in prosecution unless the minor officials involved stepped out of line as the next election approached.

Harris’s proposals are nothing new.  They promise the same nightmares, corruption, inflation, and business as usual that brought us to our current situation.  That she would announce them in an expensive ad indicates that the Democrats have learned nothing from the past four years or the more remote history of their own governance.  They believe that their base has learned nothing, either.  But this election might indicate to what extent their base has absorbed the lessons of the Biden-Harris administration.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/the_kamala_harris_so_called_plan.html