"Joyful." That's the way the newly minted Kamala Harris-Tim Walz presidential ticket is attempting to sell itself to the American people. Their allies in the leftist media have also endorsed the descriptor as their favorite presidential candidate continues to hide from their cameras, microphones and questions.
"Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign," The New York Times shamelessly published. "Democrats are smiling again, and so is a vice president who once weighed the political risks of cheerfulness. The high spirits are also providing air cover for scathing attacks on Republicans."
"Bringing back the joy, one selfie at a time," the Harris-Walz campaign touts on social media.
But a quick look at the records of Harris and Walz shows their past positions and plans for the future of America won’t induce elation or economic relief.
During his time as Minnesota's governor, Tim Walz issued some of the most tyrannical and restrictive COVID-19 lockdown measures in the country. He enforced harsh penalties on everyday Americans, especially those who defied lockdown orders in hopes of paying their employees and savings their livelihoods from demise.
"Lisa Hanson, a former wine and coffee bistro owner thrown into jail for violating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s lockdown orders, told Fox News Digital that the now-Democrat vice presidential candidate essentially 'shut down and destroyed' her small business," Fox Digital reports.
Hanson was charged with a misdemeanor and sent to jail for 60 days. She also paid a hefty fine for opening her business while Walz allowed strip clubs and liquor stores to remain open.
"This is the story that America needs to hear, that Tim Walz is not some cuddly, joyful coach, like all the things that the MSMs are calling him," Hanson told Fox. "That is not who this man is. This man would like to take your rights away. He will take your rights away. Because what happened to me could have happened to anybody. What happened to me will happen to you."
While Walz purposely allowed rioters to burn down entire blocks of businesses in Minneapolis and a police precinct during the summer of 2020, causing longterm damage to the local community and law enforcement, he was more than happy to punish people like Hanson for questioning his power and defying arbitrary government orders.
Does this kind of punishment spark joy? It should spark fear and say a lot about Vice President Harris' decision to put him on the ticket.
Speaking of Harris, do her plans "spark joy"?
"Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will unveil a proposed ban on ‘price gouging’ in the grocery and food industries, embracing a strikingly populist proposal in her most significant economic policy announcement since becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee," the Washington Post reported this week. "In a statement released late Wednesday night, the Harris campaign said that if elected, she would push for the 'first-ever federal ban' on food price hikes, with sweeping new powers for federal authorities. Harris on Friday will also announce plans to lower prescription drug and housing costs."
"When I am President, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices," Harris posted on X. "I'll take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging and corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families."
Last year, grocery stores squeaked out a 1.2 percent average profit margin. That isn't price gouging, it's barely surviving under Bidenomics and Harris-induced inflation.
These are communist price controls, the very same policies that resulted in the killing of 100 million people over the past century through executions and starvation. Price controls sound like a good solution until you do a quick review of history and quickly realize what happened when past governments around the world implemented them for the sake of "joy." The results were catastrophic and will be for America if Harris has her way.
Government control of private industry and meddling in the economy doesn't bring joy. Instead, it induces misery. Americans should be wary of the Democratic ticket's flowery language and blame shifting away from the spending in Washington – which caused inflation – to the private business sector. This is a play for government control, not to make the lives of Americans easier.