Left-wing news outlet Axios was nuked by the Community Notes feature on X for lying about Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposed price controls in a desperate attempt to defend her from backlash over the Soviet-style policy.
PICTURED: Communists who proposed radical price controls. pic.twitter.com/GrGB2lnI7G
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 16, 2024
Last week, Harris released one of her first policy proposals, price controls — which came after refusing to list a single policy on her website for the more than three weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her.
Harris was almost immediately ridiculed on social media over the policy, with many pointing out that it has failed everywhere it has been tried — leading to famine and scarcity. Even far-left outlets like the Washington Post called her out.
Even WaPo knows price controls are wack pic.twitter.com/wGLQP05jAz
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) August 16, 2024
However, Harris did have some defenders in the media, including ones like Axios that will lie while doing so. The far-left outlet’s propaganda piece was titled, “Don’t call it price controls: How price gouging bans really work.”
Axios is playing semantic games with "price controls" to distract you from being concerned about inflation, and to ignore the fact that Kamala Harris is going to ruin the economy by implementing them. pic.twitter.com/rZUtoe4tT4
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 21, 2024
“If banning price gouging is communist, then the U.S. went Marxist long ago,” writes Axios. “Most of us live in states that already have bans in place.”
Of course, the article cites the same old tired argument from the left about times of emergency, writing: “38 states, including the most populous like Texas, California and New York, prohibit companies from jacking up prices during emergencies.”
The example given in the article is: “Think bans on selling $10 bottles of water after a major hurricane.”
Despite their best efforts, this is still price control, regardless of whether it is a temporary emergency or not.
As Breitbart News’ John Nolte noted, in their desperate efforts to defend Harris, Axios’ only solution was to jump “to the extreme of a temporary national emergency and yell, See! See! We already do it! And it’s not price controls!”
“Except. It is price controls. Even during an emergency, it is unquestionably still the government engaging in price controls. Oh, and isn’t an emergency a ‘time of crisis?’ So why is it ‘price controls’ when Russia does it during a time of crisis but not when America does it?” Nolte asked.
“Most importantly, Kamala is not proposing price controls during an emergency,” he added. “She’s proposing price controls all the time, especially when it’s politically convenient for some bureaucrat in Washington, DC, to force a Winn-Dixie in a swing district to lower its price of eggs.
After sharing the article in a post on X, Axios was immediately called out by the Community Notes feature, which allows users to fact-check a post and provide additional context.
The Community Notes author pointed out that the very same Axios writer behind the piece, Emily Peck, had literally used the phrase “price controls” to refer to the exact same types of policies in other countries.
“The same author called it ‘price controls’ when the UK proposed voluntary caps on grocery store profits,” the note read, linking to the other article. Here is a link to the piece in its original form via the archive, as Axios has a history of silently editing articles to protect itself and its Democrat allies.
The Community Notes author also pointed to a second example, writing: “Axios called it ‘price controls’ when it was proposed to limit how much Russia could profit off oil in a time of crisis.” Here is the link to that article from the archive.
guys they arent price controls theyre just trying to control prices https://t.co/fjKpiPYimP
— Seamus (FreedomToons) (@seamus_coughlin) August 20, 2024
