3mo ago

Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

www.thetimes.com

MAGA sure does love having their faces eaten

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3mo ago

Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

www.thetimes.com /business-money/companies/article/covid-like-shortages-for-us-consumers-within-weeks-2x7fgjpzq

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Explaining his approach to the tariff policy that has triggered weeks of turmoil on global markets, the - president compared the US to the world's department store.
"I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there," he said.
"And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, 'If you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.' "
This sounds like the thinking of a dictator, not of a leader. He doesn’t own the “store”, the people do.
- He seems to have this the wrong way around.
  The world is the store, and he's just some person outside its front door, holding out his hand and asking US customers for 5 bucks for every item they want to go home with.
  
  That’s actually a way more relevant take than my original comment. He’s still acting like tariffs are fees paid by foreign nations, when in fact, they’re paid by the consumers in the nation imposing the tariffs.
  Sadly (for those of us stuck in the US), the only people who will be hurt by these tariffs are the people whose best interests he’s supposed to be responsible for.
- I own the store, and I set prices
  So capitalist that it's gone all the way around and become communism.
  
  I'm just going to point out that while communism has its problems itself, no, this is capitalism alright.
  
  Capitalist Communist, or CapCom. I could imagine him calling himself Mega Man in the mirror.
- Can’t tell if real or not. So, probably real.

I wonder if anyone in the Badminstration, specifically the Department of Agriculture, have thought about all the crops that will go unharvested in the fields starting around August because migrants won't go out to pick them for fear of being deported by ICE.
- I wonder if anyone in the Badminstration, specifically the Department of Agriculture, have thought
  Can stop you right there.
- I feel the global economy won't be too bad off. Likely some collateral damage, but the United States on the other hand...
- They’re already carving out exceptions for farm workers. Whether those migrants will feel safe enough to come back is another story.
  
  As long as there are children and prisoners, the USA should be fine. /s
  
  Exceptions for farm workers only work if they bother to check and verify documents correctly, which they clearly don't.
- It won't matter if they rot if there's no one to buy them
  
  The salmonella and campylobacter laced chicken should reduce demand before the fall harvests.
  RFK is installing his brainworm parasites into the food supply, so there is lots of reason to be optomistic about supply and demand becoming balanced.
- Those cunts only care about lining their pockets. They sold us out to the blyats for the promise of making money.
- I heard it's hard for many Americans to find jobs, so I guess trump fixed two problems with one action: deported a bunch of people whom he doesn't like, and opened up job opportunities for Americans. Win/win, innit?

Are we great again yet?

Just make people panic and you can have covid like shortages as soon as next week :)
- ~~Every society is three meals away from chaos~~
  ~~— Some communist baldie~~
  Edit nvm misremembered and misattributed
  In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”

Yeah, we know :( No one is going to risk buying something when the price could more than double depending solely on what date the ship happens to reach port.

Hah!
Jokes on all of you!
I ...
... learned how to stop pooping.
(In all seriousness, consider getting a bidet kit. You can find fairly decent, farily cheap ones, and they can massively cut down your TP usage to basically just undampening your pooper.)
- Oh interesting, and could you describe the feeling of this? In as much detail as possible, please
  
  Ever taken a shower with a detachable/flexible shower head, and pointed it upward at your bunghole?
  Bidets are sort of comparable to that.
  Difference being... if you get one of the basic bidet kits... they tap into the water line your toilet bowl uses to refill after a flush.
  And they often don't have water heaters or or resevoirs of their own, if its an affordable bidet kit.
  So that means your bidet water can be... quite cold, if your house/building doesn't have great insulation, during the winter, or fairly lukewarm, during the summer.

I already saw it this week. I went to grab an external hard drive on a work trip and there was literally one single drive on the shelf at Best Buy.

Many will cross the borders into Mexico and Canada to buy necessities. Eventually, the borders will need to be closed. 47 will lose his shit over this. What happens next is anyone's guess.
- I have to be honest, I'm a long way from either border, but even then I am not sure I have the bravery to try crossing a border right now — and I am a natural citizen. :/

Oh well. Next.
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