{"id":87922,"date":"2024-07-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87922"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T02:47:40","slug":"flailing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87922","title":{"rendered":"Flailing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is it just me, or is Joe Biden throwing everything he can find at the wall to see what buys votes?<\/p>\n<p>First, its &#8220;national rent control&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden is ready to propose a 5% cap on annual rent increases for tenants of major landlords as he tries to show he\u2019s doing something about the high cost of housing, according to a person familiar with the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, to be announced while the president visits Nevada on Tuesday, is being championed by Biden in the middle of a tense presidential campaign and a time when housing costs have been a major driver of overall inflation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Because that did <em>so much <\/em>good for &#8220;affordable housing&#8221; in New York, San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87272\">Minneapolis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83309\">Saint Paul<\/a>.. <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just retail Democrat pettifoggery.\u00a0 Next, he goes big:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden is reportedly planning to endorse major changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VD474v8YPx\">https:\/\/t.co\/VD474v8YPx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 9 (@FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX9\/status\/1813351688364789988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This is a play for the &#8220;ignorant low-information emotion-driven&#8221; voter bloc, which elections since 2000 show is between 48-52% of the electorate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;rent control&#8221;, like his &#8220;student loan forgiveness&#8221;, is a violation of the Takings clause.\u00a0 Expanding the court without a <em>very <\/em>solid congressional majority, merely a delusion. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or is Joe Biden throwing everything he can find at the wall to see what buys votes? First, its &#8220;national rent control&#8221;: President Joe Biden is ready to propose a 5% cap on annual rent increases for tenants of major landlords as he tries to show he\u2019s doing something about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87924,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87922\/revisions\/87924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}