He just forgot we haven’t gotten to the part where they announce we will put NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine. It’s forward-thinking leadership.
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And just like that, a solution emerges.
We can eat them! The ballots! We don’t need food from china, or even those pesky “flyover” states. We can just take all of those ballots that would otherwise be wasted on elections of greedy stupid shitbags and come up with ways to make them palatable. Vegan ballots, keto ballots, ballots with shallots! Kentucky fried ballots.
It will be great.
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Cruelty free, fair trade, ethically harvested soy ballots
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Schadenfreude … Great word. I use it to describe a co-worker
Thats a damn good ballot!
We can use soy boys as compost
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Ballots are high in fiber and the adhesive on the mail-in envelope has some protein in it too.
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You vegan by chance…?
I suppose I am, for a few hours at a time every once in a while.
There are so many holes on the shelves at the grocery stores around here, I don’t know how you can say there isn’t a food shortage already. Sure there is plenty of SOME things, but there are a lot of things you can’t get right now.
2021 chicken wing shortage. #NeverForget
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Today I went grocery shopping and couldn’t find many Foster Farms chicken products on the freezer shelves. Tyson products were pretty sparse too.
I know of a truck driver who delivered 45,000lbs of chicken to the Oakland port this past weekend to be delivered to China. It came from the central valley so I will presume it originated at Foster Farms. I guess they’re paying more for it?
I do know that there are predetermined contracts (vis-a-vis trade agreements) that need to be filled, but it sure stinks when home grown food that you can’t get at home gets shipped to the other side of the world. Food shortage indeed.
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Shhh, your not supposed to believe what you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears. You gotta take the spun narrative and believe that, don’t you know?
He meant food shortages for them, um, you know. And, and we’re not going to have food shortages, that’s a right wing conspiracy, just like all the other conspiracies that mgically turned into fact a couple months later. You know, like the “inflation myth” or the “Biden Laptop conspiracy”, or other hundreds of conspiracies that turn out to be true. It’s all russian disinformation. Russia cobbled that video together to confuse you.
Those aren’t empty shelves, they are opportunities.
I couldn’t find broccoli the other day, it wasn’t hidden, they didn’t have it… broccoli.
Maybe a little bit of a sidetrack, but I was actually surprised to read from some of you guys that you’re CURRENTLY seeing empty shelves and missing products at grocery stores. I shop at a handful of different ones in Dallas (Target, Central Market, Tom Thumb, Kroger, Natural Grocer), and I haven’t been seeing this at all in the past year. Just an observation, I’m wondering how fortunate I am here, haha. Sounds like this isn’t the case everywhere.
Are restaurants having issues getting food in as well?
I live in the SF Bay Area and there are lots of empty shelves in the stores I shop (mostly Safeway, CVS and Whole Foods). It got better for a while, but recently seems to be getting worse again.
A lot of the empty shelves I’ve seen are in the middle of the store with packaged goods that I don’t often buy, but there have been at least a few times this year where the eggs are gone, many cuts of chicken are gone and certain vegetables and fruits you expect to be there aren’t.
Last week was full shelves, so it hasn’t been a constant thing in my area.
I think a lot of the packaged goods shortages might be tied to other material shortages. We’re both in manufacturing and keenly aware of metals shortages, but there are also shortages of things like resin and corrugate, which go into a lot of food packaging. So the actual peaches in the little plastic fruit cups I wanted to buy for the kiddos visiting the other month might have been available, but the lack of resin might have been constraining the supply of little plastic cups. Or maybe it was the peaches in short supply, because there were no canned peaches that day either. Or maybe the people looking for peaches in a plastic cup got all of the canned peaches before I got there.
Either way, the kiddos had to make do with fruit cocktail instead.
The old dive bar that I used to bounce at is, but nothing widespread. Particular items are just unavailable at times, usually the “bar food” type of fried food that they don’t make from scratch but goes right from the freezer to the fryer and then down some drunk chick’s gullet.
A few weeks ago my co-worker told me that the McDonalds in town had no breakfast sandwiches for sale that day. None at all. Maybe that was some equipment failure or some other explanation, maybe McDonalds is having supply chain problems. McDonalds!
Edit: I was going off of memory when I answered the question earlier, but my good friend and old “boss” who owns the bar explained it as thus…
“All kinds of shortages.”
Purely anecdotal, but small business owner verified as of right now.
Ive had the same experience with the grocery store. It’s pretty frequent for there to be a lack of chicken breast or wings, where a year+ ago no shortages existed.
I know the manufacturing world is struggling as well, and my experience is with a major defense contractor - meaning that these shortages are all IS generated (contractual US made products only).
I’m ready for Shits and Giggles to exit all political offices now
I reckon it depends on where you live. And the further you live from main transportation hub, the worse it is. I have been seeing empty shelves since at least February of last year. It was really pretty scary looking around spring and early summer and then it began to fill up a little better. After people started waking up from there lockdown comas, restaurants would be out of certain things, not enough to go under or anything like that, but certain items weren’t available for a while.
It’s a little scary, that my parents escaped, by pain of death, from communism so they didn’t see empty shelves in stores and 45 years later, viola! It followed them.
It’s a constant rolling ‘empty shelves’ deal. One week, they will be out of one thing, the next week, out of something else. I am not suffering, but I am pissed off at the principle and knowing it was policy, not disease that caused the problem makes me hot.
My condolences. I had a customer who lives there. She told me that when you park, you have to unlock your doors and leave your trunk open or criminals will smash your windows out of spite, for not giving them the opportunity to rob you.
You might as well steal your food to combat rising prices, since it’s legal there, just roll that shopping cart to your car, filler up and go home. Why not?
You may be too good a person to do that, but think of it this way, if everybody just takes anything under $950 bucks, the sooner that idiot law allowing people to steal, will end. It will definitely end if regular people start doing it. Since your not a criminal, they aren’t interested in protecting you.
Thankfully this is not the part of the Bay Area I live in. Why people want to live in SF itself and commute an hour+ each way to jobs on the peninsula is beyond me, but that’s another topic.
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