https://www.axios.com/2024/09/04/kamala-harris-campaign-ev-mandate
By Alex Thompson, & Ben Geman
Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign won’t say whether she supports requiring automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035 — a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president.
Why it matters: Since taking over President Biden’s campaign in July, Harris has been light on policy details.
- Harris’ campaign has said she no longer supports many of her past progressive positions and has embraced more centrist stances on health care, immigration, gun control and fracking.
- Even so, Donald Trump‘s campaign has focused on footage from Harris’ 2020 campaign to attack her as “dangerously liberal.”
Driving the news: Harris’ campaign has sent contradictory signals about her position on a mandate for automakers — a key issue in pivotal Midwestern states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where many autoworkers are based.
- In a lengthy “fact-check” email last week that covered several issues, a campaign spokesperson included a line saying that Harris “does not support an electric vehicle mandate” — suggesting she changed her previous position, without elaborating.
- On Aug. 28 Axios asked the Harris campaign to clarify her position, and whether she would sign or veto a bill she co-sponsored in 2019 that included such a mandate for manufacturers.
- On Tuesday afternoon, Harris’ campaign ultimately declined to comment.
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(Don’t mention the war)
Which war? The war on prosperity? The war on American energy? The war on political opponents? The war on sovereignty?
Kamala no longer supports herself.
Kamala Harris’ principle supporter is her bra. And note: there is no transparency.
I’d wager 50-1 that, if asked if she were Gay or Straight, you couldn’t get a Straight answer out of her
The Kammunist was unable to komment?
“”‘Harris’ campaign ultimately declined to comment””
Or more accurately, wouldn’t...
I can only surmise that the EV mandates etc in the US are not that dissimilar to ours in Milibandland.
“”No invention has done more to liberate society than the mass-produced car. It has become as democratised as such a complex piece of machinery can be. Today, just £1,000 gets you a Vauxhall Corsa from the early 2010s. While it won’t be fast, exciting or luxurious, it will get you as far as your petrol money and dreams will take you. Or, more likely, to work and back.
Electric cars upend much of this, bringing greater expense and requiring a host of well-documented sacrifices from drivers. Unsurprisingly, most are unwilling to make the switch. This issue has become so pronounced that manufacturers are now restricting sales of petrol and diesel models to avoid the gargantuan government fines (£15,000 per car over quota) that will be imposed on brands if they don’t shift enough EVs.
…
All this pro-EV legislation has been drawn up by people who tend to be isolated from the population at large. For starters, MPs’ salaries stand at £91,000.
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EV advocates often blame poor sales of electric cars on ‘misinformation’.
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Charging is so stacked against the poor as to be an ideal subject for fans of class analysis. If your home has a driveway (a feature that makes a house more valuable), then an EV can make a great deal of sense. Each morning, you come down to a car conveniently filled with cheap overnight electricity, priced at as little as seven pence per unit and taxed at a liberal five per cent VAT.
Not so the individual who has to park on the street. He must not only pay a commercial rate of perhaps 85 pence per unit of electricity, but is also hit with 20 per cent VAT. This means that while filling an EV at home can be as cheap as £3.50, the same amount of electricity going into the same car can easily cost £42.50 on the open road. Drivers of the world, unite – you have nothing to lose but your cables.””
The elitism of electric cars
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/05/the-elitism-of-electric-cars/
Does that kind of set up sound familiar?
The cabal that is behind Harris will take any stance to win in November, even though such stances are opposite of the stances it held a few days, or a few weeks ago.
That left wing, socialist cabal of Obama/Clinton holdovers tries to take over the US under a false flag, like a Trojan horse.
Once in place, their true colors will show, and you will get the worst screwing you have ever had, even worse than under Biden/Harris during the past 4 years.
Harris claiming to be a Centrist, it like the fox claiming to be little red riding hood
Oh, BTW, stolen valor, serial liar, embroiderer Walz, likely will not be able to get a top secret security clearance, because of his mostly unreported 30 trips to China, his teaching there, his receiving many gifts, his receiving many perks, his extolling about China to his US students. The list is long.
He is a lover of China and profited from it, and should not be anywhere near the While House, or in government.
If he had to report all of that crap on his security form, to get a secret clearance, he knew he could not be promoted from E-8 to E-9, which is the reason he resigned from the National Guard, years before his enlistment term was up.
Then he ran for a seat in the US House.
If the trend set by Nunu Labour in Britain is anything to go by then it’s full on Orwell.
We’ve always been at war with Oceania
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia
No truth will come ever out of their mouth. But that’s a problem with most politicians.
Plain and simple
SHE CAN’T BE TRUSTED
Most politicians can’t be trusted.
I’m not sure that’s true. You need to show me one politician who can be trusted before I’ll accept your statement.
I don’t consider Trump a politician. He’s a businessman who saw the Swamp in D.C. and thought something needed to be done about it.
She’s running on vibes, and these degenerate, power lusting, and craven democrats aspire to recreate the “Hope and Change” feels of the Obama years. She’s a dangerous Maoist clown beholden to the Anglo-American deep state.
Morris Albert had a number for that
“”Feelings, nothing more than feelings…””
etc
Unburdened by what was
What was…
America the Strong
America the Beautiful
America the respected
America the land of opportunity
+1
She’s trying to turn Anglo America into Franco America so she can rule forever.
“Hope and Change”
Probably my poor hearing, I heard “Hoke and Chains”.
Through eight years I had no reason to change my thinking.
Looks to me as if the camel is trying to show a centrist stance to the public before the election…
… but will almost certainly do a hard-left-turn after the election.
Every far-left piece of marxist/socialist garbage they are telling us that she no longer supports…
… will be implemented, IN FULL, and beyond.
LIES, LIES and DECEIT.. the leftist way.
Trouble is that many Americans will be SUCKED IN by this façade.
Our shiny new Labour government obfuscated and lied all through the election campaign.
Once the votes are in, nothing can be done until 2029 and that’s the way it is…
“”Starmer Vows No Tax Surprises in Labour’s Election Offer””https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-08/starmer-vows-no-tax-surprises-in-labour-s-final-election-offer
Followed by a bit of gaslighting. Despite the public finances being entirely visible, through the ‘Office of Budget Regulation’, no less…
“”Ahead of the election, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) had said that a new government would likely see a shortfall of £10-£20 billion by 2028/29. After the chancellor’s statement, IFS Director Paul Johnson said many of the challenges Labour outlined in July were “entirely predictable”””
https://fullfact.org/live/2024/aug/keir-starmer-ellie-reeves-22-bn/
“”UK Labour government discovers £22 billion ‘hole’ in public finances””
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/07/31/british-labour-discovers-22-billion-hole-in-public-finances_6705693_19.html
Green austerity
“””I think we will have to increase taxes in the Budget,” Rachel Reeves told the News Agents podcast.
She was responding to a question about raising money following her claim on Monday that the previous government left a £22bn “hole” in the public finances.
Labour said repeatedly during the election campaign there would be no tax rises on “working people”, but the Conservatives have insisted Labour will increase them.””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7290yxw8q4o
And they will.
Those who promise you Utopia and Free stuff will give you Hell on Earth. And it is never their fault that they can’t comply. It is always you.
100%. – Harris is a radical marxist.
100% puppet.
I think Harris is a radical nothing. She does what her puppet masters tell her to do, and she does whatever is “popular” at the moment, on the left because she wants to be admired. That’s it. And empty vessel.
Look at her entire career, it becomes clear that she is nothing, not a real person, not a radical anything except for radically in love with herself. The worst kind of stupid, who doesn’t know they are stupid but think, rather, that they are the smartest person in the toom.
Sort of like Biden, eh?
She was trained by Biden. So why expect anything different.
Biden couldn’t train a tomato plant.
The Democrat machine’s subterfuge teams however are inexhaustibly funded, and are omnipresent.
The same handlers who helmed the Obama regime have stayed on their posts ever since, and have gotten more skilled at their pernicious craft with easier putty to work with in the forms of Biden & Harris.
Sort of like Biden promising only 1 term or Biden promising to reunite the country?
Harris is a fraud. Simply the spokesperson – though of course a puppet cannot speak, and so she does not — of the ‘Democratic’ globalist elites.
Putin supported Biden
Biden was “voluntarily” ousted by Pelosi (it had to be done, she said),
Biden took revenge by supporting Harris
Putin now supports Harris, per Biden’s example, and also because she has that hilarious laugh, which must mean she is doing well.
Spox Kirby, a super duper a.. h…, took offense, said Putin was interfering with the US Election, and that more sanctions on Russia are mulled.
Yeah sort of.. I agree. Biden was set up, but it still makes no sense to me that the Clooney’s, Obama’s, Pelosi’s, et al, knew that it MUST be Harris if we punt the old man Biden? — It was so late in the election cycle.
Harris is worse than a demented Biden.
Blackish-Indian Harris is indeed laughingly worse than demented, sniffing, Biden, burdened by his pervert sex, drug, gun toting, tax evasion son, former member of the Board of a major Ukrainian gas company, the highlight of his non-career.
But Biden could not manage a teleprompter and that turned out to be a fatal shortcoming, plus he had that impromptu visit to the Hospital in Denver, which revealed incoherent babbling after a mini stroke, and a very temporary stunt double, which was about 4” taller than Biden.
Oh Man, give me a break!
Steve, the ousting of Biden was planned months in advance (if not years).
No, Harris was not supposed to get in. Something went very wrong with the “deal” at the last moment. I suspect Hillary muddled and pushed Harris. Obama was againstHarriss and so was Pelosi(although she was mostly against Biden staying and losing selections, due to the steal being extremely hard to pull of he stays).
We are dealing with 3 factions that are infighting: Obama, Clintons and Pelosis. There are more, smaller factions, but these are the biggest ones.
Obama’s people left the WH about 1.5 years ago, Clinton’s people moved in.
Basically there was a deal and the deal fell through at the last moment and Harris, supported by Clintons got the nomination.
We aren’t dealing, like some people tend to think, with a unified bloc. Far from it.
Perhaps they simply did the math, and worked out that they would lose more votes by not selecting the current VP and a ‘woman of colour’?
Harris is a laughing, low-IQ blank, frozen like a deer in headlights, will spout whatever ism is in vogue or on a teleprompter, is afraid to do a stand-up, give and take, with the free press, because she lacks confidence in her non-existing beliefs.
Puppets can speak a few words, but cannot form a coherent sentence, which is true for almost 90% of the ordinary people
But people who run for President, should, by definition, be extraordinary people, who can stand on their feet, and give and take, on any issue, in a coherent manner, such as Kennedy and Nixon, both high IQ people and extremely gifted
Harris’s tactic is to state whatever she believes is the current “acceptable woke truth” just like most of the other punters who stand for public office. We are a long way from where we once were with politicians when, like a clock, they told the truth twice a day. There isn’t such a thing as truth in a woke world and there never will be.
“”whatever she believes is the current “acceptable woke truth” “”
Is she following Starmer, or is it the other way around??
I can’t tell.
The US Education Department, which is entirely unconstitutional and should not exist, tells the teachers to brainwash children with the woke culture.
When “acceptable woke truth” is spouted, it is indeed the truth these children, now voters, have heard many times before.
WE ARE SO BEING SCREWED BY THEIR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
The Climate Jugend and Green Shirts.
There will be once woke redefines truth.
Now the South of Detroit is the greenest part of town,
And if you go down there you ought to be aware of a man named Leroy Brown,
He has a custom Prius hybrid,
And a plug in hybrid too,
He has solar panels up on the roof,
And he wears eco friendly shoes!
If you had a politician who was once a David Duke supporter, the issues are why they had such bad judgement in the first place, and if they actually changed.
But surely a vote for Harris is a vote for change!
Yes, change – nickels and dimes.
Harris is being sold as the first black female president.
First of all, I do not care what her sex is.
Second, her skin tone is irrelevant to me. I am color blind.
But to elect a person based on sex or skin tone or religion or ethnicity is not going to result in a capable, competent administrator. The President is supposed to be the governments chief administrator, executing laws pass by Congress.
So, once again it is a trophy and that is not good for us.
Perhaps she would be up to the job if elected, but from what is known today, that is unproven and perhaps more than a little unlikely.
Harris’ father was black. Harris’ mother was Indian. Neither were US citizens.
Harris’ father abandoned her and her mother when Harris was a child. She and her mother then moved to Canada where she grew up. She did not return to America until attending college.
Therefore, in order to be accurate, she should run as America’s first Canadian Indian female President.
KH tie breaking vote on the $780 Billion dollar “Inflation Reduction Act”
say everything needed to know about this woman. From this bill
the EPA granted $50 million dollars to the Climate Justice Alliance. No
strings attached…
Goldman Sachs estimated the IRA cost at $1.2 BILLION, IF ALL MEASURED WERE IMPLEMENTED.
But, offshore wind, after 2 years, is already 5 years behind their ridiculous schedule of 30,000 MW by 2030
I meant $1.2 TRILLION
Only Kamala Harris would think that spending more fiat money would reduce inflation.
Reducing inflation is the congressionally mandated responsibility of the Federal Reserve System.
It is nonsensical to believe otherwise. Yet there she is, casting the only vote that matters for nonsense.
The key determinant on the Harris policy position on virtually anything is dependant on what day it is.
If it is a Monday well that is the day to talk about banning fracking.
On Tuesday that is the day to talk about boosting fracking.
Wednesday is condemn open communication rights on social media
Thursday champion open communication rights on social media.
Friday well that is Trans Gender inclusivity day or TGI Friday.
Saturday, open borders are great, policy announcements on border controls.
Sunday a day of prayer seeking forgiveness for the past week’s policy confusions.
She will get the questions from ABC ahead of the debate, so she can give cogent, memorized responses.
Then she just ignores Trump while he talks, and makes no response, and asks for the next question.
20 of so cogent responses seals the deal.
This is how the Democrats/Globalists/Marxists operate. Ignore questions with answers they know the people won’t like. Add this to ‘losing’ damaging data/information, refusing to prosecute or even investigate cronies, limiting access to people, and controlling what is put in print or on the air. All propaganda 101.
Why did you alter your policy positions?
My values are unchanged!
Huh?
The first US presidential debate showed that it is possible to destroy your bid in several 10s of minutes / a few hours.
I am waiting for Wednesday morning / midday (Central European Time) to boot up my computer and see which of the following options actually happened :
1) Neither candidate “imploded”
2) Only Kamala Harris “imploded”
3) Only Donald Trump “imploded”
4) Both candidates “imploded”
Today (Friday) it is “100% speculation and projections” … now where have I heard that sort of language before ?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d rather wait for the actual data to come in, next Wednesday morning / midday.
Or, you can skip watching the “debate”, otherwise known as “Policy Free ABC Clown Show” entirely as I choose to do.
It’s not as if you’re going to learn anything new by watching.
You appear to have misread my post.
The debate will occur at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning local time.
I will be asleep in my bed at that time.
About 9 or 10 hours later the breakfast caffeine will have kicked in and I will start perusing the various “Highlights” articles on the Internet.
Translating this to “US TV networks and newspapers” equivalents the expected “conclusions” are :
CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, … : Kamala Harris won conclusively, Orange Man Bad.
Fox, OAN, NY Post, WSJ … : Donald Trump won conclusively, Kamala is a communist.
The notable result after the Trump-Biden debate was that you had CNN and MSNBC talking heads saying “Well that was a disaster, ‘we’ will have to ‘persuade’ Joe Biden to withdraw”.
The current Harris (and other Dem’s) campaign strategy.
https://y.yarn.co/65e3b8af-cdf9-4230-91fb-96226317d3ec.mp4
MOD alert!
Sorry about that link.
I meant to post a YouTube link from the Harry Potter movies (Prisoner of Azkaban) where “Wormtail” is nailed for what he’s done and, just to save his life, says, “I didn’t mean to”.
Couldn’t find one But I did find that.
I just clicked on it again to see it and it downloaded something instead.
(I’ll be running my protection stuff. A quick scan before putting up this comment didn’t find a problem. But, since it didn’t act as I expected, I thought a warning was in order.)
Politicians should not be hiding behind comments from the ‘campaign’.
I would rather hear it direct from the prospective ‘leader’ to reduce the wiggle room when they do the opposite of the ‘campaign’ comment
It is literally possible to nail Jell-O to a wall given enough nails. Kamala Harris’s position on any number of topics of the day are substantially less possible to nail down.
This says it all https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ufG0WC2Osuo