House Democrats Tell Their Media Allies to Put Out the Word: Don't Worry About Kamala's Communist Grocery-Price-Fixing Scheme, We'll Never Go Full Communist

We should take Communists at their word on this.

Why should anyone ever have to commit to a position publicly? Just leak your (alleged) position to your media allies to propagate.

Under pressure to defend Kamala Harris' grocery price gouging plan, some Democratic lawmakers are delivering a quiet message to anxious allies: Don't worry about the details. It's never going to pass Congress.

The Harris campaign's proposal, unveiled as part of her first big economic policy speech, has become a focal point for her presidential rival, Donald Trump, and fellow Republicans, who claim she's pushing "communist price controls." It has also alarmed food industry officials and even some left-of-center economists, who've warned such policies can hurt more than they help.

While much in Harris' price gouging plan remains vague, a central piece is simply a call for Congress to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gouging in the food and grocery sectors, which largely mirrors legislation reintroduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) earlier this year.

But such a bill has no chance of passing Congress anytime soon, even if Democrats win the White House and Congress this November, according to six Democratic lawmakers and five Democratic aides who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter candidly. These people said Democrats in Congress have privately been telling critics that this part of the Harris plan is not viable.

Rather, they've argued it's a messaging tactic -- a way to show that she understands food prices remain an economic burden for many Americans and to redirect voters' anger about inflation to corporations, in a way that progressives in particular have cheered.

In other words, it's a hustle and a lie and everyone understands this. But if you don't, then Politico is here to spread the news to the insiders.

"It's clear to me these are very general, very lofty goals," said one of the Democratic lawmakers, who was granted anonymity to candidly discuss the proposal.

They're also reassuring their tech bro billionaire donors: Don't worry, her proposal to put more money into antitrust actions won't pass either.

And Politico is here to tell the insiders not to worry while Kamala and the Democrats lie to the outsiders. Or vice versa -- who knows what their actual policies are.

It's all Yasser Arafat politics now, speaking in one language to the base and another language -- with different rhetoric -- for the outside world media.

We are all Palestinians now. #FreePalestine. I mean, we're metaphorically Palestinians and need to be freed.

Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz This might be why http://KamalaHarris.com doesn't have a single page of policy on it -- she can't even get Democratic lawmakers to support her proposals.

Oh, they support them -- they just want to lie people into communism.

Remember "you can keep your plan"? Remember Baracky Obammy telling you he was in favor of male-female marriage only?

They lie until they get enough power to do what they want, which they keep hidden from the public until it's time to strike.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:47 PM

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