"It's Like a Soviet Store During 1981:" As America Confronts the Reality of Empty Shelves, Team Biden -- Including the National Media -- Assures Them the Empty Shelves Are All a Right-Wing Hallucination

It takes a British tabloid to accurately report on the shortages in the US, because the US media is criminal.

'It's like a Soviet store during 1981': Empty shelves appear at grocery stores across US as supply chain crisis and COVID convene to make basics like milk, bread, meat, canned soups and cleaning products hard to find

They brought evidence: Pictures.

This started an #BareShelvesBiden meme:

My own shelves are bare.

That's not because of Brandon.

It's a safety thing.

Jim Geraghty noted that while Brandon was bragging about supposedly fixing the supply chain problems, the shelves are understocked or even bare.

The national media is suppressing this fact by not reporting on it -- part of their secret agreement with the Brandon Administration to put a positive spin on economic news or, if that is impossible, suppress the news altogether.

But he notes that the local news frequently features bare-shelves stories.

All the national news broadcasts have to do to is reach out to their local affiliates and they'd have plenty of video and reportage to do bare-shelve stories -- but they don't want to.

The official word is that The Shelves Are Full and they are good little repeaters of Official State Propaganda.

Empty Shelves Disprove Biden's Supply-Chain Boasts https://t.co/9fxUQGQOww
A bit before Christmas, President Biden boasted that he had averted the supply-chain crisis: "The much-predicted crisis didn't occur. Packages are moving. Gifts are being delivered. Shelves are not empty."https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
Back on December 22, White House chief of staff Ron Klain shared a New York Times article and declared that supply-chain problems were "an over-hyped narrative."https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
And yet, you may have also noticed that your local store shelves still aren't restocked to their usual levels, or you may well be finding empty shelves.https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
You know where you'll find a lot of coverage of empty shelves and supply chain problems? Local TV news affiliates.https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE pic.twitter.com/vlfXRa3dgS
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
And it's not just one region beset by particular labor shortages or bad weather -- Richmond, Atlanta, Portland, Daytona Beach, Houston, Dallas, Honolulu, Cape Cod...https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
And it's not just groceries. Auto parts, housing supplies, cold medicines...https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE pic.twitter.com/dejRuMNeOc
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
No doubt, bad weather can slow shipments and block roads, exacerbating the supply-chain crisis. But in some places, there's something of a vicious cycle, in that supply-chain problems are exacerbating the ability to respond to bad weather.https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE pic.twitter.com/xoiVyshASj
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
When you add up all of these reports, it seems like a lot of genuine and glaring problems for the White House chief of staff to dismiss as just "an overhyped narrative"!https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
You can find Biden defenders who insisting the Twitter hashtag "#BareShelvesBiden" is "artificially amplified by far-right users to manipulate the trending section." Fine, maybe they are, but consumers and local news aren't _hallucinating_ empty shelves.https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
Businesses aren't _imagining_ this inability to get the supplies and parts they need. Supply chain complaints are not a national mass hysteria driven by a hashtag.https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
The Biden team's reflex is that reports of problems are just right-wing propaganda. As with the border, inflation, Afghanistan, Covid-19, and the shortage of tests, we have to waste time convincing the Biden administration that the country's problems are actually real problems.
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022
Or perhaps someone like Klain will tell us to be appreciative because we have "high class problems."https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE pic.twitter.com/zir8eLn4OA
-- Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 11, 2022

Do better, Supply Chain.

Do better.

Posted by: Ace at 06:15 PM

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1 Who really needs 10 kinds of toilet paper?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:15 PM (yQpMk)

2 First!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:15 PM (llXky)

3 Just missed it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:15 PM (llXky)

4 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:16 PM (XvPQV)

5 It's the weather and covid don't you know...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (TdaKq)

6 Best economy this year.

Posted by: f'd at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (vrz2I)

7 Told ya this would happen eventually.

signed,

Preppers Everywhere

Posted by: Bert G (new podcast episode) at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (aCgRi)

8 The shelves aren't empty, but if they are, we need to cut back anyway and it's all for the greater good!

Posted by: Mainstream Media at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (llXky)

9 Anyone who has studied the USSR knows that this is exactly the way it was. Everyone had money, or scrip or ration cards, whatever.
But there was nothing to buy.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (jTmQV)

10 But hey, the cost of holiday turkey is down 0.3%.

If there were any turkeys to buy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (bW8dp)

11 Seems like old times.

Posted by: Nikita Kruschev at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (WmGrA)

12 I have to tell you that the U.S. media reports things like a Brezhnev-era apparatchki giving the party line.

Posted by: Lord Hannan at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (CdZ4i)

13 Does it really matter if the alphabet news mentions it? We all see it at the store. It might be better for us if the lying disconnect becomes more obvious.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (yQpMk)

14 I nooded below. Always wanted to do that,
box status - checked.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (fs1hN)

15 The irony here is that because the people in "new media" literally know nothing of history, they are repeating the exact same stupid lies that destroyed Soviet credibility.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (llXky)

16 Turkey has disappeared but Squab is plentiful.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (yQpMk)

17 Yeah totally. Saw it today. And I am in the land of plenty when it comes to stuff.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (V13WU)

18 Next July 4th I want some reports on the cost of hot dogs. If they are even available.

Posted by: f'd at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (vrz2I)

19 They got plenty of $55 OSB.

Posted by: torabora at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (TYS2T)

20 Told ya this would happen eventually.

signed,

Preppers Everywhere
Posted by: Bert G (new podcast episode) at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (aCgRi)

I got a stockpile, but at this rate I'm hoping I can get a backyard garden started before things really kick off.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (XvPQV)

21 9 Anyone who has studied the USSR knows that this is exactly the way it was. Everyone had money, or scrip or ration cards, whatever.
But there was nothing to buy.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (jTmQV)

And what do you call a situation where you have too much money chasing too few goods? (drum roll please)

Posted by: Snake Spirit at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (CdZ4i)

22 I was on Maternity Leave!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (zDEs6)

23 Didn't Booty Gig just say yesterday he was going to address the supply problem? Where the hell was this moron months ago when it started?

Oh yeah, he was recovering from his pregnancy.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (VWp7G)

24
It's people like Jim Geraghty that made this possible.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (/U27+)

25 Speaking of turkey, I heard of bank runs a week ago, now, nothing?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (fs1hN)

26 I heard he's blaming snowstorms now. In the era of global warming.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (GYllL)

27 >>>14 I nooded below. Always wanted to do that,
box status - checked.

thanks man

it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (0G13K)

28 Did Ace hang those empty shelves?

Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (88xKn)

29 Gas is next.

It's okay, though, because we're moving to electric cars.

Except electricity is also next.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - lin-duh, sorry it took so long, look in the comments for the liquid at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (FL2DL)

30 Everything is wonderful.

Biden is a genius.

The world is safer and all of the people are happy.

Repeat after me.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (haWye)

31 I heard he's blaming snowstorms now. In the era of global warming.

Because we've never had winter before

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (TdaKq)

32 >>it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

That's only because you know we aren't busy reading the Content.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (zDEs6)

33

Well, those old Dems like Asshole Biden, Teddy and the rest are basically agents of the Soviet Union going way back.

The USSR picked these guys because they were the biggest scumbags on the block and would do anything they wanted.

And here we are. I think this going ignored.

Commies are running things...real ones.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (XnbJC)

34 Do better, Supply Chain.

Do better.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (0G13K)

35 I see it all the time, stocking shelves at night. The media can say what they want. It doesn't do a damn thing to alter the reality I confront every night.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (CdZ4i)

36 We are just not seeing shortages where I live. Just anecdotal but I have no explanation.

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (6Je/Q)

37 The shelves around here don't look like that but the fronting is really shallow; that is, they shelves look reasonably full but that's made up of a very thin front layer of products, and fewer selections.

But for decades, the left has been humiliated and embarassed by the wealth of options, selection, and quality we have in even the smallest stores in the USA. The way their Euro friends would come over and gush at the 17 types of toothpaste and 18 types of shaving cream in the US made them feel low and sad.

This is their dream scenario: Now we're just like Soviet Russia and French stores!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (KZzsI)

38 Went grocery shopping today. Found most of what I needed. Didn't see too many empty shelves. A smallish Safeway nearby. I'm in the burbs of Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (sAmhv)

39 15 The irony here is that because the people in "new media" literally know nothing of history, they are repeating the exact same stupid lies that destroyed Soviet credibility.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (llXky)

They figure people never leave their homes to see the stores (b/c of all the store pick ups and Amazon orders), so they can try to make a narrative of "everything's fine - this is a lie" out of "thin social media air"...especially with the tech people as part of the Uniparty media/political complex...

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (exHjb)

40 You fatasses are going on a diet! Thank you, Joe Biden!!

Posted by: Jen Psaki at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (pQItU)

41 More people dead from COVID than before the vaccine, less food on the shelves than in the middle of the pandemic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - lin-duh, sorry it took so long, look in the comments for the liquid at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (FL2DL)

42 There's plenty of rat and opossum in Sacramento. So far.

Posted by: torabora at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (TYS2T)

43 29 Did Ace hang those empty shelves?

Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (88xKn)
---
Ace's shelves are fully stocked with all the necessities of ewok survival.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (llXky)

44 Ha, that is funny because that is what I told my wife the other day at the grocery store, that it was like we were living in the soviet union.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (coYBh)

45 Cake anyone?

Posted by: Joe Robinette at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (WmGrA)

46 it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:19 PM (0G13K)

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (yQpMk)

47 Oooo, you might not get your Peloton right at Christmas, boo hoo!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (rF64X)

48 >>>Ace's shelves are fully stocked with all the necessities of ewok survival.

oh i meant to make that joke

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (0G13K)

49 I thought hotdogs were down 16 cents.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (+ya+t)

50 39 Went grocery shopping today. Found most of what I needed. Didn't see too many empty shelves. A smallish Safeway nearby. I'm in the burbs of Babylon DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (sAmhv)

That's b/c we're District 1...

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (exHjb)

51 I got a stockpile, but at this rate I'm hoping I can get a backyard garden started before things really kick off.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (XvPQV)

But do you have shelves?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (SH2Zi)

52 And now this from our ace shelving reporter...

Posted by: National News Organization at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (tMeC9)

53 Biden pays truckers not to work and, when they want to, he requires they be vaxxed and boosted before being allowed to drive. No wonder nothing gets delivered.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (g4S+4)

54 District One zampolits don't care, they have their special stores.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:21 PM (ldAZg)

55 >>it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

That's only because you know we aren't busy reading the Content.
Posted by: garrett

ow. my balls

- totally not socking ace for this

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (IJES/)

56 it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

Posted by: ace
___

I just got an image of an Ewok crying, and my heart hurts now.

Sorry, Ace.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (/i32d)

57 If the networks don't report it, that means it didn't happen.

C'mon, get with the program! Let's Go Brandon!

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (geLO8)

58 Like I said earlier, 1/3 of the shelves at the local Wally World are bare here.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (zDEs6)

59 $200. Same as in town.

Posted by: Suzy Creamcheese at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (vrz2I)

60 >>>28 Did Ace hang those empty shelves?

i added the empty shelf joke i had meant to add earlier.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (0G13K)

61 Tomorrow is Thursday and Thursday is Soylent Green day!

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (gmo/4)

62 Posted by: Bert G (new podcast episode) at January 12, 2022 06:17 PM (aCgRi)

You have a podcast?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (Ez6QX)

63 >> it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

Posted by: ace

Tissue?

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (geLO8)

64 We're waiting to run 600 feet of 3in Sched 40 electrical conduit. it is currently $65 for a 10ft stick.

FJB

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM (GYllL)

65 Do Ewoks frequent IKEA?

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (6Je/Q)

66 >>> Gas is next.

It's okay, though, because we're moving to electric cars.

Except electricity is also next.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

$4 for regular outside of Philly on Monday. Thanks Joe Biden!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (VWp7G)

67
Lower your shelf filling expectations, peasants!

This is what equity looks like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (Mzdiz)

68 It's weird how there's all the stories about how Trayvon and La'teesha can't buy an apple at the gas station near their Section 8 housing, but there's crickets about this in regards to the same couple in the same neighborhood.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - lin-duh, sorry it took so long, look in the comments for the liquid at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (FL2DL)

69 35 Do better, Supply Chain.

Do better.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (0G13K)
---
Fun news from Michigan: we are a liquor control state, which means the State of Michigan is the wholesaler for all liquor purchased here (through the Michigan Liquor Control Commission).

Welp, they just put out a notice last week that due to staffing problems and...supply chain issues...the State of Michigan could not guarantee that it would be able to fill orders.

Yep, statewide booze shortage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (llXky)

70 >>>It's people like Jim Geraghty that made this possible.

well they have their Norms, and their True Conservative Ideals. This causes them to support incompetent and corrupt socialist Democrats every four years.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (0G13K)

71 This is really just a problem of too much shelf space. American stores are much bigger than their European counterparts. And shelves in Europe are not bare. So, really the only people affected are fat out of shape flyovers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (F4b8f)

72 Look! Asshole on a shelf!

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (gmo/4)

73
I think we're overdue for another fake hate crime that receives national attention.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (/U27+)

74 I just got an image of an Ewok crying, and my heart hurts now.

Wicket crying after the AT-ST fries his friends?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (ldAZg)

75 >>Do Ewoks frequent IKEA?

They aren't fond of their cordless drills, I can tell you that.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (zDEs6)

76 >>>
Yep, statewide booze shortage.

that should be a pip.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (0G13K)

77
The Conservative Case for Empty Shelves.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (Mzdiz)

78 >> 1 Who really needs 10 kinds of toilet paper?

Toilet paper? Luxury

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (GYllL)

79 What did we use before mules, Dad?

Trucks, Son. Trucks.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (yQpMk)

80 I'm a self-starter, so here's Turkey economic news -

Under pressure from Erdogan and despite high inflation, the central bank has slashed interest rates by 500 basis points since September, triggering a currency crisis that saw the lira plunge last month to 18.4 to the dollar, its weakest level ever.

Inflation has jumped to a 19-year high of 36%, seriously eroding earnings, especially of working and lower middle class Turks who form the electoral base of the Islamist-rooted AKP.

The government has introduced fiscal measures to ease the currency volatility, but the lira is still 46% weaker than a year ago and Erdogan, who wants to boost exports and credit, has refused to change course despite growing public discontent.

Seems like they are a few months ahead of us.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (fs1hN)

81 Sharing that DM article on FB

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (lCui1)

82 >>>Lower your shelf filling expectations, peasants!

This is what equity looks like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

The good news is the elites are having food issues as well.

BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (VWp7G)

83 32 I heard he's blaming snowstorms now. In the era of global warming.

Because we've never had winter before
Posted by: It's me donna

No, he blamed kLImaTe CHanGe. Actually, the 'Climate Change' tag is brilliant propaganda. It means nothing and can be used for anything. Too hot, climate change. Too cold, climate change. Too much rain, climate change. To little rain, climate change.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (sAmhv)

84 Try buying cream cheese. The bagel eaters must suffer!

Posted by: Regular joe at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (L9P9s)

85 >Yep, statewide booze shortage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

sounds like trouble
right there in River City

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (geLO8)

86 When is the last time this happened in the US? We had ration cards during the war for everything, but I don't think food supply has been an issue in the history of the country.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (vN+oL)

87 My store just said fuck it and is closing at 9 now.

Posted by: nckate at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (z5Nun)

88 >>>My own shelves are bare.

>>>That's not because of Brandon.

>>>It's a safety thing.

lol This must be hard to write.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (SH2Zi)

89 Have Twitter and Facebook started deplatforming people yet for posting pictures they took of actual empty shelves? If our ruling class has decreed that reporting on empty shelves is prohibited, Monster Tech will gladly ban any proof of empty shelves as "misinformation."

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (d9Cw3)

90 The empty shelves must be a regional issue because the last time I was in Krogers I didn't notice any shortages. I take that back. They were totally out of all rye bread.

Posted by: Tuna at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (gLRfa)

91 Why do we have all of these shelves?

We don't need 14 kinds of shelving.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (zDEs6)

92 The New Abnormal

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (geLO8)

93 A Michigan winter sans alcohol. Heh.

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (6Je/Q)

94 I made the District 1 joke for Nova, but it's also true if you make Metro NYC and Metro DC not have shortages, they don't exist anywhere else in the minds of all the media and politicians b/c there is no other reality...

That said, our local CBS news outlet did have a buried story on this on their webpage...very buried, but there...since Giant is a big food chain for MD/DC/VA and they were one of the clobbered...

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (exHjb)

95 My local stores are well stocked. Can't afford to buy anything but it's there.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (4thlk)

96 Willowed-
236 Slinging shade at DeSantis is just dumb. He's not one of the RINO dwarves. He's the most popular and statesmanlike Republican in the country.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2022 05:29 PM (H8QX
*********
Obviously Trump wasn't talking about the Dems because they are pretty vocal about getting the booster.
I don't know who else it could be, but DeSantis.
I like Trump, but I don't like Trump going down this road.

I posted this from Twitchy a couple of threads ago.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9em75k

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (NpAcC)

97 There was actually no chicken in the store.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (coYBh)

98 I was even having problems getting kitty food for the new kitten.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (ynpvh)

99 Posted by: Bernie Sanders at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (zDEs6)

But Bernie needs several houses.

Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (88xKn)

100 Biden's America:
- Inflation
- Gas up 40% and rising
- no food on the shelves
- Mail all fucked up. Irregular delivery and no mail
- Angry people
- Censorship
- Segregation now, Segregation tomorrow, Segregation forever
- Race war
- Elder abuse

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (Irn0L)

101 > I'm hoping I can get a backyard garden started before things really kick off.

I tried my hand at growing hot peppers. They were gorgeous until they got root bound in their starter cups. I tried to fix it, but they never really got over it.

If I had to grow my own food, I'd probably die.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (x980n)

102

Many many many cases of inverted pork rectum are available. Thank you, and please come again!

Posted by: Apu's Asian Bodega at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (lbmxT)

103

Sweden announced Wednesday it had earmarked some 6 billion kronor ($661 million) for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households across the Scandinavian country to cope with high electricity bills this winter.

Households consuming more than 2,000 kilowatt hours per month can get compensation worth about 2,000 kronor ($220) per month for the three months December-February. Some 1.8 million households are affected, the government said.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (63Dwl)

104 Yeltsin wept...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (QYPq3)

105 >>There was actually no chicken in the store.

Blame inflation. I was out back, trying to make up the margins.

Posted by: The Chicken at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (zDEs6)

106 My local stores are well stocked. Can't afford to buy anything but it's there.

**

A lot of it is fake. The grocery stores are putting boxes where they don't belong to make the shelves not appear empty.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - lin-duh, sorry it took so long, look in the comments for the liquid at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (FL2DL)

107 Commissary Shelves are also pretty empty of many items

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (Irn0L)

108
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (Irn0L)

_________

Hey, no mean tweets!

(How's the grandpup?)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (/U27+)

109 >> 98 I was even having problems getting kitty food for the new kitten.

I had to fight off an overweight cat lady for the last bag of Dr. Elsy's at Petco. It was brutal.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (GYllL)

110 And prices at take out food joints is soaring

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (Irn0L)

111 What's the thing about big cities only having a five day supply of food on hand, in normal times? Don't know if true, but all of this would seem toexacerbate that.

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (6Je/Q)

112 There's plenty of rat and opossum in Sacramento. So far.
Posted by: torabora

We've got a bounty of squirrels here.

I just have to figuer out which ones don't have hanta virus or the plague.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (zWpOF)

113
This is just going to accelerate. Inflation is just getting started, and is nowhere close to high gear yet. There's a lag between the PPI and the CPI, and the PPI is ripping. Come spring to summer, you ain't seen nothing yet:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=4cia_v4vxfE

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (Mzdiz)

114 Prog: "Well, empty shelves just prove we need to break up the Big Meat Monopolists. And probably raid the pantries of Kulak hoarders."

Lib: "Just proves we need voting rights legislation, vaccine mandates, and more funding for public school teachers."

NeoLib: "Just proves Big Meat needs to hire more diversity officers. Did I mention my daughter just graduated Princeton and is looking for a job?"

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (dYe5S)

115 Where's my pal runner at? He can tell everyone how this is drumpf's fault!

Posted by: Willard Romney at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (ItDAh)

116 Geraghty is late to the party as a NRO staffer. Good for him to chronicle the sorry mess that NR worked so hard to oust because of "mean tweets" and "civility".

Done with these people.

Posted by: groovy girl at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (ybC9u)

117 I'm not having a supply problem around here for pretty much any products at the moment. What I am having is an insane pricing problem for just about everything.

Ground chuck is $7 a pound. A gallon of unleaded is $3.65. Propane is $3.70/gallon.

And it just keeps going up.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (ZLI7S)

118 >>>They were totally out of all rye bread.
Posted by: Tuna

YOU BASTAAAAAARDS!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (VWp7G)

119 I tried my hand at growing hot peppers. They were gorgeous until they got root bound in their starter cups. I tried to fix it, but they never really got over it.

If I had to grow my own food, I'd probably die.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (x980n)

I'm starting with potatoes and onions, I can do that pretty well in my backyard....he said, crossing his fingers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (XvPQV)

120 We need the full Soviet three-line stores: you need to stand in one line to select an item, then you need to stand in a second line to pay for the item, and then you need stand in a third line to get the item.

Reduces consumer demand, and increases employment too!

Posted by: The Democratic Base! at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (I2/tG)

121 Shelves are looking like hurricane status shelves.

Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (88xKn)

122 (How's the grandpup?)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (/U27+)

Met him in person an hour ago.
He seemed unimpressed? Go figure

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (Irn0L)

123 A gallon of unleaded is $3.65

Try $4.65

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (TdaKq)

124 Sweden announced Wednesday it had earmarked some 6 billion kronor ($661 million) for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households across the Scandinavian country to cope with high electricity bills this winter.

Households consuming more than 2,000 kilowatt hours per month can get compensation worth about 2,000 kronor ($220) per month for the three months December-February. Some 1.8 million households are affected, the government said.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (63Dwl)

So leave your lights on all day and get some extra cash?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (Ez6QX)

125 45 Cake anyone?

the cake is a lie

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (v3pYe)

126 Sunday saw some holes on store shelves, not terrible

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (2JoB8)

127 that should be a pip.

Posted by: ace at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (0G13K)
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I'm thinking of setting up a bootlegging operation.

Detroit River's due to freeze over soon. Set up some speakeasies and party like it's 1922!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (llXky)

128 Sorry hit post too soon...Should say "the sorry mess BECAUSE NR worked to hard to oust TRUMP because of "mean tweets" and "civility.

Posted by: groovy girl at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (ybC9u)

129 Posted by: Willard Romney at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (ItDAh)

Be better.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (yQpMk)

130 You have a podcast?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 12, 2022 06:22 PM

I do! Again. I took a year off from doing it.

Posted by: Bert G (new podcast episode) at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (aCgRi)

131 112 There's plenty of rat and opossum in Sacramento. So far.
Posted by: torabora

We've got a bounty of squirrels here.
I just have to figuer out which ones don't have hanta virus or the plague.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 12, 2022 06:27 PM (zWpOF)

Possums and some rabbits, but I'd have to compete with the coyotes. The furry ones, not the border-trasporting ones.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (ynpvh)

132 >>.We had ration cards during the war for everything, but I don't think food supply has been an issue in the history of the country.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson

yeah well, we never had Joe Biden before
it's a whole new kind of misery

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (geLO8)

133 I went to the grocery store on Monday afternoon and had a difficult time finding bread.

Bread of all things!

Fuck you Brandon.

Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (79p/O)

134 It's not just the empty shelves. Try ordering furniture, appliances or a car. The wait can be 6 mos. to a year

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (NpAcC)

135 No rye bread?

So much for making a Reuben

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (ldAZg)

136
A gallon of unleaded is $3.65

Try $4.65
Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (TdaKq)

________

$2.65 here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (/U27+)

137 Forgot to attribute the Turkey economics quote - US News & World Report - apologies (don't know rules on pulling quotes)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (fs1hN)

138 Biden's America:
- Inflation
- Gas up 40% and rising
- no food on the shelves
- Mail all fucked up. Irregular delivery and no mail

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:26 PM (Irn0L)
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HE'S TAMPERING WITH THE VOTE!!! (2020 revisited)

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (XHhHI)

139 Biden's America:
...
-rampant, unpunished child rape

The grocery stores are putting boxes where they don't belong to make the shelves not appear empty.

There are a lot of tricks. You stock the shelves with stuff you usually keep in back for replacement, so the shelves appear full but its really 8 rows of the same product. You face everything so its a thin row up front of product with almost nothing actually on the shelf.

And yeah, you move product around so it looks full up front where people first see, from wherever in the store you need.

But there's a lot of stuff just not there that used to be always available.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (KZzsI)

140 117 I'm not having a supply problem around here for pretty much any products at the moment. What I am having is an insane pricing problem for just about everything.

Ground chuck is $7 a pound. A gallon of unleaded is $3.65. Propane is $3.70/gallon.

And it just keeps going up.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (ZLI7S)

Gas was $4.30 at Costco here in Sunny Sandy Eggo a couple of days ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (ynpvh)

141 $2.65 here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (/U27+)

Damn... Where do you live ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (TdaKq)

142 When is the last time this happened in the US? We had ration cards during the war for everything, but I don't think food supply has been an issue in the history of the country.
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We had ration cards in Germany in the early 70s for booze, cigs, coffee and whatever else I can't remember. Lived off post and paid rent with Chesterfields and Jim Beam.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (+ya+t)

143 No rye bread?

So much for making a Reuben
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (ldAZg)

It's open season on "Reubens" in NYC

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (Irn0L)

144 >>So much for making a Reuben

*Sobs*

Posted by: Cherise at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (zDEs6)

145 Give or take $3.55 here in se Pa

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (2JoB8)

146 When is the last time this happened in the US? We had ration cards during the war for everything, but I don't think food supply has been an issue in the history of the country.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (vN+oL)

The Great Depression was the last time we had real food problems.

My grandparents lived through it, I heard stories and my parents sorta absorbed some of that mindset.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (XvPQV)

147 I went to two stores today looking for Gatorade for our son who may or may not have some form of Covid. Shelves bare.

And then I searched for the Natures Bounty Elderberry/zinc my husband and I have been taking for 21/2 years. Zero.

My girlfriend was looking in two large stores in Savannah for cream cheese to make sandwiches for a funeral reception I'm hosting on Saturday. Again, zero.

Thanks, Brandon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (ptqGC)

148 $2.65 here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (/U27+)

That's it. I'm moving back to Texas.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (Ez6QX)

149 I was even having problems getting kitty food for the new kitten.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:25 PM (ynpvh)

Chewy's is pretty good and will ship it to you.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (eoQWY)

150 121 Shelves are looking like hurricane status shelves.

Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:28 PM (88xKn)

Category 5 Hurricane Joey

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (ynpvh)

151 Detroit River's due to freeze over soon. Set up some speakeasies and party like it's 1922!

Drive booze over from Canada!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (KZzsI)

152 I haven't had to start opening tins of chicken chunks yet, so I have that going for me.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (yQpMk)

153
200 gallons of propane. $900.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (/U27+)

154 Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 12, 2022 06:30 PM (ptqGC)

How's the boy doing ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (TdaKq)

155 Went to Kroger this morning. Quite a few empty spots on the meat counter. I haven't seen it like that since the initial covid lock down madness. Plenty of Spam thank goodness but some other shelves in the store were bare.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (bVYXr)

156 Furniture delivery 6 mo delay is due to Covid, was about the same a year ago when I went shopping.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (fs1hN)

157 Regular is 2.99 here.

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (6Je/Q)

158 >>And it just keeps going up.

Posted by: JackStraw

Not to worry! Joe's Handlers have top men working on it right now.

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (geLO8)

159 >>My girlfriend was looking in two large stores in Savannah for cream cheese to make sandwiches for a funeral reception I'm hosting on Saturday. Again, zero.

Wyatt is in Philadelphia. Maybe he can send you some?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (zDEs6)

160 >>Try $4.65

ouch

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (ZLI7S)

161 >>>I'm thinking of setting up a bootlegging operation.

Detroit River's due to freeze over soon. Set up some speakeasies and party like it's 1922!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Bootlegging? What is bootlegging? On a boat it's bootlegging, on Lakeshore Drive it's hospitality.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (VWp7G)

162 Don't look now...

China conducting massive Wuhan Flu tests in major port city of Tianjin. And they might have a tiny problem with hemorrhagic fever.

Legal Insurrection

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (ldAZg)

163 135 No rye bread?

So much for making a Reuben

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (ldAZg)

Put in in tortillas and call it a Rodolfo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (ynpvh)

164 The latest hot demand among the Karens in Portland is that Oregon's permanent mask requirement be altered to require N95 masks.

When something fails, you double down!

Posted by: The Democratic Base! at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (I2/tG)

165 Supply China

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (UHVv4)

166 I'm still pissed that Welchs bought out Bama Jelly and shut them down.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (yQpMk)

167 And it's not just groceries. Auto parts, housing supplies, cold medicines...https://t.co/StBaYkGVsE pic.twitter.com/dejRuMNeOc

-- Jim Geraghty (@j___eraghty) January 11, 2022
---
Let them eat treadmills.

Posted by: Jenn Hacki at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (XHhHI)

168 43 Ace's shelves are fully stocked with all the necessities of ewok survival.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:20 PM (llXky)

I'm not sure how one would "stock" items within a pile of particle board on the floor. Must be an Endorian secret.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (DTX3h)

169
Seems like they are a few months ahead of us.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (fs1hN)

Erdogan is an honors graduate from the Robert Mugabe School of Economics.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (CdZ4i)

170 I haven't had to start opening tins of chicken chunks yet, so I have that going for me.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (yQpMk)

Which is nice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (XvPQV)

171
it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

Posted by: ace

LOL! As if there aren't loyal readers hitting their refresh keys on the homepage all day!

We're hear for you Ace!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (JnCLp)

172 Those damn supply chains aren't propping up President Biden/Harris for success!

Posted by: Thrawn at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (hR5xa)

173 I overheard a woman in a Colorado grocery store who I suspect is Facebook-educated. She said gaps on shelves were due to truckers refusing to deliver to Colorado in retaliation for the harsh sentence given to the negligent-homicidal trucker. I have no idea how she would explain bare shelves in other states.

Posted by: Emmie at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (6RgRK)

174 China conducting massive Wuhan Flu tests in major port city of Tianjin. And they might have a tiny problem with hemorrhagic fever.

Legal Insurrection
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (ldAZg)

I saw that. Hope they have good time at the Olympics

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (Irn0L)

175
Yeah, canned cat food is hit and miss. Also, saltine crackers are getting sparse around here. Nothing but a few shit brands.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (Mzdiz)

176 >>>Wyatt is in Philadelphia. Maybe he can send you some?
Posted by: garrett

Shipping, handling, inflation. That'll be $424.99

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (VWp7G)

177 Interesting that you are all experiencing this. They told us our bare shelves were because of the snowstorm we had late last week. That's starting to sound like bullshit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (Ez6QX)

178 We had shortages at the beginning of the pandemic, with rumor of shutdowns and quarantines, but that was demand driven. This is supply driven.

Posted by: davidt at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (tMeC9)

179 A machine pol Mick from Scranton is in the White House. What'd we expect, really?

Posted by: occam's brassiere at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (V8JPv)

180 Part of the booze shortage I understand is they can't get the bottles.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (coYBh)

181 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (x8kT3)

182 cbs Tv nooz is reporting bsreshelves and CPI up 7% (highest since 1982)

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (lCui1)

183 Did my weekly shopping this morning at our local Shoprite here in central Jersey. Most shelves are fully stocked. Meat, (ground beef, pork chops, etc) counters are fully stocked as is the chicken area. Same with dairy products. Got everything I needed. The only exception I could find is cat food. Some kinds are either low not there. Bread, rolls, etc, fill the shelves. Was able to buy two loaves and a package of burger rolls. Fully stocked as usual. ShopRite is part of a large co-op in NJ so that might be the secret, plus, NJ is a large transportation and distribution hub, with huge warehouses and distribution centers alongside the NJ Turnpike (part of I95) down around the South Brunswick and Hightstown area. So, for the time being, life is fairly normal here as far as grocery shopping is concerned. Three Stop and Shop supermarkets in town and three ShopRites within 15 minutes of each other, and people I have spoken to haven't noticed any issues at any of those. Maybe Fen can chime in on the ShopRite near her area.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (Zvtjl)

184 No rye bread?

So much for making a Reuben
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (ldAZg)

Let them eat brioche!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (rF64X)

185 Olympics??

Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (88xKn)

186 Part of the booze shortage I understand is they can't get the bottles.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (coYBh)

So I hear...if I could just bring my empties to Buffalo Trace for a cheap refill, I would.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (XvPQV)

187 159 >>My girlfriend was looking in two large stores in Savannah for cream cheese to make sandwiches for a funeral reception I'm hosting on Saturday. Again, zero.

Wyatt is in Philadelphia. Maybe he can send you some?
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (zDEs6)

Cream cheese has been short nationwide for over a month now.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (CdZ4i)

188 Was weird before Christmas for month and a half no soy milk, assumed the Soy Cows in China were being blocked

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (2JoB8)

189 And it just keeps going up.

Posted by: JackStraw

Not to worry! Joe's Handlers have top men working on it right now.
Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (geLO

---
Some Boardroom Somewhere, America
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"So our slogan is: It's a good thing prices are going up!"

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (XHhHI)

190 We're expecting a shipment of insects any day now.

Posted by: Walmart.com at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (KfC1e)

191 And the mysterious shortage of half-and-half continues...

Posted by: Surburban Portland! at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (I2/tG)

192 I like bare shelves and I can't deny!
You other brothers wanna why?
With a empty space and nothing to taste
I still get to print a lie!

- DJ Hash Brown

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (4fSQf)

193 it upsets me when I put up a post and no one comments for like five minutes

Posted by: ace

LOL! As if there aren't loyal readers hitting their refresh keys on the homepage all day!

We're hear for you Ace!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (JnCLp)

I'm picturing Ace hitting F5 over and over waiting for a comment...

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (Ez6QX)

194 *kneels*

Posted by: The Tumor at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (yQpMk)

195 Part of the booze shortage I understand is they can't get the bottles.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (coYBh)

put them in canning jars and boost the price 10 percent

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (eoQWY)

196 188 Was weird before Christmas for month and a half no soy milk, assumed the Soy Cows in China were being blocked

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (2JoB

Thats...Not...Milk.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (ynpvh)

197 No rye bread?
So much for making a Reuben
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (ldAZg)

I was thinking about you and Reuben's when I was in our stores. Two stores not one bottle of Russian dressing, must be a regional thing, every other kind but no Russian.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (4thlk)

198 Zod is here!

Now the party/bloodshed can begin

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (XvPQV)

199 It's not just the empty shelves. Try ordering furniture, appliances or a car. The wait can be 6 mos. to a year

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (NpAcC)
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I ordered new windows in June. Supposed to be installed in September. Still waiting.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (llXky)

200 Canned Fancy Feast is getting scarce in every store I've been in here.

Things will get interesting when the 18 lb. house tiger and his feisty little ginger bro start looking hungrily at our ear lobes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (ptqGC)

201 Yeah, canned cat food is hit and miss. Also, saltine crackers are getting sparse around here.

Its weird and unpredictable. Grated mozzarella cheese, Chicken Pot Pies, kitchen matches. You can't really figure out the pattern or what is going to be missing in the store.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (KZzsI)

202 >>I'm picturing Ace hitting F5 over and over waiting for a comment...

You Have * 0 * Friends.

Man. That is a brutal episode of South Park.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (zDEs6)

203 190 We're expecting a shipment of insects any day now.

Posted by: Walmart.com at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (KfC1e)

Can't have a locust plague without the locusts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (ynpvh)

204 In the USSR, if you even saw a line, you just got in it regardless, because if there was a line, there was a possibility it had something you needed.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (jTmQV)

205 "Actually, the 'Climate Change' tag is brilliant propaganda. It means nothing and can be used for anything. Too hot, climate change. Too cold, climate change. Too much rain, climate change. To little rain, climate change.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 06:24 PM (sAmhv) "

and the solution is always the same !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (9CuDT)

206 This is a famine of the unvaccinated. If you wreckers and saboteurs would just let the government make all your medical decisions, you could have food.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (pQItU)

207 I miss my saltines and cat food snacks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (rF64X)

208
I expect we're going to see Brandon try price controls this year. They're going to follow the 3rd world shithole banana republic playbook to the letter.

We may even see rationing. OK, all peasants with last names beginning with A - F can go to the grocery store today. All others say at home and shelter in place. Eat bugs until it's your turn.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (Mzdiz)

209 173 I overheard a woman in a Colorado grocery store who I suspect is Facebook-educated. She said gaps on shelves were due to truckers refusing to deliver to Colorado in retaliation for the harsh sentence given to the negligent-homicidal trucker. I have no idea how she would explain bare shelves in other states.
Posted by: Emmie at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (6RgRK)

Probably hasn't heard of "other states".

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (CdZ4i)

210 Olympics??
Posted by: dantesed at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (88xKn)

still right on track, hopefully the players don't start bleeding out the eyes too fast for he video editors to fix it up.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (eoQWY)

211 >>.She said gaps on shelves were due to truckers refusing to deliver to Colorado in retaliation for the harsh sentence given to the negligent-homicidal trucker.

Side note: CO Gov Jared Penis commuted the sentence to 10 years

he explained his decision by saying he wanted to end the the controversy surrounding the entire episode

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (geLO8)

212 "My grandparents lived through it, I heard stories and my parents sorta absorbed some of that mindset."

My parents were Depression era babies. I think as a result my mother's pantry was always full to bursting. My friends say they experienced the same thing with their parents.

Posted by: Tuna at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (gLRfa)

213 Giy Mohawk maybe we ought to send our empty bottles back to get a refill?

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (2JoB8)

214 156 Furniture delivery 6 mo delay is due to Covid, was about the same a year ago when I went shopping.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (fs1hN)
**********
Yeah and Joe was suppose to fix all this once he was elected including Covid.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (NpAcC)

215 Do better.

Posted by: Ace at 06:15 PM

1 Who really needs 10 kinds of toilet paper?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:15 PM (yQpMk)

I feel like a nonentity now.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (yQpMk)

216 199 It's not just the empty shelves. Try ordering furniture, appliances or a car. The wait can be 6 mos. to a year

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (NpAcC)
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I ordered new windows in June. Supposed to be installed in September. Still waiting.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (llXky)

Microsoft sucks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (ynpvh)

217 >>Two stores not one bottle of Russian dressing

If only someone could crack the Code to the Russian Dressing Recipe...

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (zDEs6)

218 Wide variety of steaks at only $15+ a pound. Also cuts I have never heard before for somewhat less.

I expect a shortage in all beef hotdogs soon. All the "ring meat" is being sold never to the T-bones.

Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (Olnjm)

219 191 And the mysterious shortage of half-and-half continues...
Posted by: Surburban Portland

BJs can't get heavy cream - other stores can though
So weird

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (lCui1)

220 161 Bootlegging? What is bootlegging? On a boat it's bootlegging, on Lakeshore Drive it's hospitality.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (VWp7G)

*shakes fist*

Curse you, Al! Curse you to Hades!

Posted by: Elliot N. at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (DTX3h)

221 174 China conducting massive Wuhan Flu tests in major port city of Tianjin. And they might have a tiny problem with hemorrhagic fever.

Legal Insurrection
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (ldAZg)

I saw that. Hope they have good time at the Olympics
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Vegas odds on who contracts leprosy? How many die of the plague?

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (sAmhv)

222 And it's not just groceries. Auto parts, housing supplies, cold medicines.

Try pricing materials for commercial building construction.

Posted by: Surburban Portland! at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (I2/tG)

223 Folks, we're beating inflation by not being able to buy anything! Good job, team.

Posted by: Brandon at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (UMXod)

224 Lots of empty shelves around where I live, they had chicken at the store, but it was 15 freaking dollars for two large chicken breasts. Also, no mini saltines to be found for over a year, what's up with that? If they run out of wine, their might actually be an uprising.

Posted by: spypeach at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (wAxm0)

225
F. Joe can just sign a few executive orders and set things right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (/U27+)

226 Went shopping today and everything was well stocked. I even found cans of whole green chiles. Prices are up on a lot of things. Dog and cat food has taken a big jump.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (A5KzP)

227 In the USSR, if you even saw a line, you just got in it regardless, because if there was a line, there was a possibility it had something you needed.

Sure, maybe you get shoes too big for you. You can trade them for a sweater or shoes that fit from someone else.

Don't be surprised if we see that future. Soon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (KZzsI)

228 I see prices going up, I see bare shelves and it's not because the market lacks supply or demand.

The administration by fools who think logistics is about food deserts and labor shortages is about racism is what is keeping the iceberg lettuce from reaching the produce department.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (r0ADi)

229 Think of this not as a food shortage, but more like a mandatory diet!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (4fSQf)

230 I miss my saltines and cat food snacks.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (rF64X)

I did notice the other day that the strange several month drought of starbursts has been alleviated with a few lonely bags.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (eoQWY)

231 72 Look! Asshole on a shelf!

Posted by: Archer at January 12, 2022 06:23 PM (gmo/4)

Inverted. For your pleasure

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (ynpvh)

232 Bare Shelves Better.

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (oY5A0)

233 Fun news from Michigan: we are a liquor control state, which means the State of Michigan is the wholesaler for all liquor purchased here (through the Michigan Liquor Control Commission).

Welp, they just put out a notice last week that due to staffing problems and...supply chain issues...the State of Michigan could not guarantee that it would be able to fill orders.

Yep, statewide booze shortage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hah! Pennsylvania has had this problem for over 6 months. My husband works for the state store and people are pissed.

Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (79p/O)

234 Not to worry. Price controls, rations, and federal take over of the supply chain is juuuuuuust around the corner.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (iyVGU)

235 Two stores not one bottle of Russian dressing

Russian colloidals!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (rF64X)

236 Jimmy Carter would love this because no one will ever judge his awful presidency after Biden is done with the White House.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (VWp7G)

237 >>190 We're expecting a shipment of insects any day now.Posted by: Walmart.com at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (KfC1e)

...says Klaatu, Martian importer, using the trade vernacular for Earth shipments.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (x8kT3)

238 No wonder Kayleigh McEnany was missing from Outnumbered today.
Evidently she was appearing virtually before the J6 Committee.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (NpAcC)

239 Maybe FJB can make an oval office speech where he suggests we turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (F4b8f)

240 Bare Shelves Better.
Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (oY5A0)
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Build Back Bare

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (XHhHI)

241 Who makes dressing?

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (4thlk)

242 >>Two stores not one bottle of Russian dressing

PUTIN!!!!

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (eoQWY)

243 207 I miss my saltines and cat food snacks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (rF64X)

If hamburger helper were available, would help. Maybe the'll have cicada helper.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (ynpvh)

244 Black Market Matters.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (x8kT3)

245 I expect we're going to see Brandon try price controls this year.

All eminent economists support this!

Posted by: The Nobel Prize Winners Who Said Passing BBB Would Reduce Inflation! at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (I2/tG)

246 Jimmy Carter was George Washington compared to this pants-pooper president. And friggin Cicero too.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (Q3oNv)

247 Prices going up on utilities, property taxes and insurance too. USAA just jacked me up for the car/house.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:37 PM (+ya+t)

248 >>Jimmy Carter would love this because no one will ever judge his awful presidency after Biden is done with the White House.

No shit.

Who could have imagined that President Peanut would live long enough to see his Presidency eclipse that of several other Presidents?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (zDEs6)

249 I have a friend who literally won't believe this because it isn't reported in the "mainstream" news. It's hard sharing a country with people who can't even agree on the same reality as you.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (5kpOR)

250 This is nothing. I lived throught the Dark Days of '20, when there was only single ply toilet paper. Hard times, hard times!

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (6Je/Q)

251 My parents were Depression era babies. I think as a result my mother's pantry was always full to bursting. My friends say they experienced the same thing with their parents.

Posted by: Tuna at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (gLRfa)
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We're living that way now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (llXky)

252 Try ordering furniture, appliances or a car. The wait can be 6 mos. to a year

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (NpAcC)

And then they cancel the Order or hike the price

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (Irn0L)

253 96 188 Was weird before Christmas for month and a half no soy milk, assumed the Soy Cows in China were being blocked

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (2JoB

Thats...Not...Milk.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (ynpvh)

It is for the milk allergic - I went 6 weeks in Nov/Dec unable to get Silk vanilla oat milk...it's back now, but I was annoyed.

I have to make food for the homeless shelter next week and already told my spouse that we need to shop Friday (for a Sunday cook) b/c I need to know that I can make what I planned or the backup plans for Sun/Mon. I'll probably shop again Wed for the Fri/Sat cooking at the end of the week, to give myself a day to change plans or shop again...

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (exHjb)

254 Ms. Eff and myself are fine. We've got at least 3 years of food in deep storage. The trick is not to look so well fed when the distraught are out in the yard eating the bark off of trees. Be like them until they leaf.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (GYllL)

255 221 174 China conducting massive Wuhan Flu tests in major port city of Tianjin. And they might have a tiny problem with hemorrhagic fever.

Legal Insurrection
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:31 PM (ldAZg)

I saw that. Hope they have good time at the Olympics
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Vegas odds on who contracts leprosy? How many die of the plague?
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (sAmhv)

Hey, it's called Hansen's disease now. What those kids had to do with it, I don't know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (ynpvh)

256 >>>Who makes dressing?
Posted by: lowandslow

Dressmakers?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (VWp7G)

257 Those shelves aren't empty. They're full of air.

- Dimocrat spinmeister

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (KbGpP)

258 In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (yQpMk)

259 Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (NpAcC)

True, true. Just curious, is there anything better since Trump left office?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (fs1hN)

260 Who makes dressing?

*raises hand*

I make croutons, too but that's ridiculously easy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (KZzsI)

261 >>No wonder Kayleigh McEnany was missing from Outnumbered today.
Evidently she was appearing virtually before the J6 Committee.

Chaturbate?

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (zDEs6)

262 Is Jen Psaki thr Zbigniew Brzinski of our time?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (9KXDf)

263 Look here JACK - I was talking to my wife's friend the other day and I was having three scoops of vanilla ice cream. After Jill removed Brian Stelter from humping my leg, with it's g-glorious blond leg hairs, the friend or girl or whoever said

"Meat is costing so much, I don't know what we'll do. We may have to close down our 8th garage the next time we serve filet mignon at the mansion."

And I looked her right in the eyes and said:

C'MON YOU DOG FACED PONY SOLIDER. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT CAKE IS LIKE $5 A BOX?

Posted by: pResident Depends at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (FPuSC)

264 Yeah, canned cat food is hit and miss. Also, saltine crackers are getting sparse around here. Nothing but a few shit brands.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:32 PM (Mzdiz)

The food threads are going to be interesting.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (SH2Zi)

265 Hah! Pennsylvania has had this problem for over 6 months. My husband works for the state store and people are pissed.
Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (79p/O)

Even in the good times I was amazed how Ohio's state stores could make getting liquor boring. In other states there was lots of traffic in the zillion stores, the State Store was like the DMV.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (eoQWY)

266 David French and Steve Hayes are all outraged, outraged I tell you, that Biden called them Bull Connor and George Wallace.

Let me tell them a little secret: they wish they would rise to Connor/Wallace levels.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (Q3oNv)

267 They threatened Kaylee to be imprisoned yet for Insurrection?

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (2JoB8)

268 Hey, it's called Hansen's disease now. What those kids had to do with it, I don't know.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (ynpvh)

Mmmbop doo wop bah doo wop

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (rF64X)

269 *do I now have my own personal troll ? is that...a good thing ??

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (V13WU)

270 In other liquor news: Jim Beam will use plastic but Jack Daniels is staying with glass.

Jack Daniels drinkers stock up.

Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (79p/O)

271 >>Who makes dressing?

The Russians.

The Italians.

The French.

...

Ranchers.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (zDEs6)

272 Wait till President Hellbeast.

We'll look fondly back on the Dementia Joe/Willie's Ho years.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (ptqGC)

273 Just curious, is there anything better since Trump left office?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (fs1hN)

Nothing I can think of except cnn's rating keep going down

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (Irn0L)

274 Dressmakers?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (VWp7G)

It's not meant to be taken literally. I'm sure he is referencing all textile workers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (yQpMk)

275
Remember the story of young Boris Yeltsin, on some tour around Houston (he may have been visiting the space center) in the '80s?

He went into a grocery store and was gobsmacked. Supposedly he first thought it was some sort of trick and they were faking it. So they took him to a random one.

They said he broke down and cried. Through an interpreter, he started asking questions of random shoppers about what they were buying, what they were going to do with it, etc.

The irony here is just at Jedi Master levels.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (Mzdiz)

276 Reagan had the best joke about this:

A Soviet man finally saved up enough money to buy a car. So, he goes to the state dealer, orders the car, pays for it in advance. The dealer says "OK, come pick it up in 6 years". The buyer didn't skip a beat, he asked "Morning or afternoon?". The dealer said "What difference does it make? It's 6 years...". The man responded "Well, the plumber is coming in the morning."

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (jTmQV)

277 I am not upset that the Biden administration and the Dems have to deal with this.

Isn't often that the sowers get to be the reapers.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Naughty or Nice? Slay Ride 2 - Santa's Back!- at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (s+u6b)

278 Carpool, combine trips.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (F4b8f)

279
The weather is so horrific in my part of Pennsylvania that I've decided not to put the plow on my tractor this winter. I have to hand it to the Amazon drivers who brave my bare driveway to deliver goods in these mild winter temperatures.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (dQvv7)

280 I found a mother lode of Philadelphia cream cheese at our local Fresh Thymes.

Posted by: Tuna at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (gLRfa)

281 I was in St. Augustine FL two weeks ago and the Publix I shopped at during that trip was STUFFED to the rafters with goods.

So whatever is ailing the rest of the country, especially So Cal where I suffer now, it wasn't a problem in DeathSantisLand.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (8gxrg)

282 I mean, what do you with a troll ? Do you feed it ? What does it eat ?? I am not spending hard earned money on that thing !

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (V13WU)

283 Just curious, is there anything better since Trump left office?

I am thinking... give me a moment...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (KZzsI)

284 That is about the only thing making me smile, Beijing itself is living in interesting times.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (ldAZg)

285 My own shelves are bare.

That's not because of Brandon.

It's a safety thing.

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (RkC6l)

286 253 96 188 Was weird before Christmas for month and a half no soy milk, assumed the Soy Cows in China were being blocked
Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 06:33 PM (2JoB

Thats...Not...Milk.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM (ynpvh)

It is for the milk allergic - I went 6 weeks in Nov/Dec unable to get Silk vanilla oat milk...it's back now, but I was annoyed.
I have to make food for the homeless shelter next week and already told my spouse that we need to shop Friday (for a Sunday cook) b/c I need to know that I can make what I planned or the backup plans for Sun/Mon. I'll probably shop again Wed for the Fri/Sat cooking at the end of the week, to give myself a day to change plans or shop again...
Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (exHjb)

Lactaid

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (ynpvh)

287 Ranchers.

Heh.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (4thlk)

288 Craft brewers are NOT gonna like a reduction in trade with Ca ada. Canukistan grows 1/5 of the worlds barley. Most craft brewers get ALL thier mash bill from Canada. Empty shelves at the grocery? Get ready for the signs that read 'no beer today'.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom Kid. We got the meat at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (n/szn)

289 That Jim Beam ever came in glass is a marvel. That nasty shit should come in a gas can and be served in those little paper cups that dentists use.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (pQItU)

290 You didn't build those shelves, Ace!

Posted by: Barry Obama at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (hBIFh)

291 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE IN TIMES OF PLENTY THE SLOGAN "Black Lives Matter" REFERS TO BLACK PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT BEING SHOT FOR CRIMING TOO MUCH, BUT IN A TIME OF SHORTAGE, "Black Lives Matter" MIGHT BE A SLOGAN COMPLAINING THAT BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE TURNED INTO FOOD BY MARTIANS AND THE FUNNY THING IS MARTIANS ARE NOT RACIST, THEY WILL TURN ALL HUMANS INTO FOOD, SO THE SLOGAN MAKES THEM LAUGH AS THEY HERD ALL LIVES ONTO THE FOOD-SHIP.

Posted by: ZOD ROTHLISBURGER at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (x8kT3)

292 'Chain chain chain, chain of fools.'

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (0OP+5)

293 Use Thousand Island for your Reuben

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (geLO8)

294 271 >>Who makes dressing?

The Russians.

The Italians.

The French.
Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (zDEs6)

Green goddesses

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (rF64X)

295 I have a friend who literally won't believe this because it isn't reported in the "mainstream" news. It's hard sharing a country with people who can't even agree on the same reality as you.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (5kpOR)

That's fair, I don't believe in anything the mainstream news says.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (eoQWY)

296 Let them eat cake!
Uh, sir? They are out of cake.

Brownies?
No. Out too.
Pie?
Nope.
Little Debbies?
Uh no.

Eh. I'm going to Nancy's for ice cream.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (4fSQf)

297 249 I have a friend who literally won't believe this because it isn't reported in the "mainstream" news. It's hard sharing a country with people who can't even agree on the same reality as you.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (5kpOR)

Yep, two different realities. We are in the matrix so to speak.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (fs1hN)

298 Nova local, is that all milk or can you do goats milk?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (A5KzP)

299 Gee, remember back in early August when the big story was who would be invited to Ron Klain"s birthday party? Glad nothing important was boding.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (9KXDf)

300 Is there any reasonably reliable metric, based on surveys and actual data, of grocery store inventory adequacy, or condition +/- with respect to average? Not aware of one. There a zillion econometric data series, but possibly not one for this. Just curious. Don't know if we have any econometrics geeks or analysts out there (there used to be one, but she long since hasn't commented here).

Anecdata - just spot "empty shelves" sightings here in SoCal, the last few months, nothing general or all that noticeable. It must vary tremendously by location. That DC store looks like none I've personally seen all the way back to March 2020, unless one is talking about t.p. etc in the first idiotic months.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (OTzUX)

301 I mean, what do you with a troll ? Do you feed it ? What does it eat ?? I am not spending hard earned money on that thing !
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM

Keep it commenting until the sun comes up. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Gandalf at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (RkC6l)

302 Sure, maybe you get shoes too big for you. You can trade them for a sweater or shoes that fit from someone else.

They had food rationing in Russia in 1991. Since it was Russia, that included a vodka ration. Someone I know was working in a Russian business enterprise then, and one of the new workers said that she wouldn't take the vodka ration, because she didn't drink vodka.

"I don't think that you have figured out how this all works."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (I2/tG)

303 Who makes dressing?

The Russians.
The Italians.
The French.
...
Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (zDEs6)
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1000 Islanders.
A Green Goddess

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (XHhHI)

304 Who makes dressing?
The Russians.
The Italians.
The French.
Ranchers.
Green goddesses
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (rF64X)

A thousand islands.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (eoQWY)

305 263 Look here JACK - I was talking to my wife's friend the other day and I was having three scoops of vanilla ice cream. After Jill removed Brian Stelter from humping my leg, with it's g-glorious blond leg hairs, the friend or girl or whoever said

"Meat is costing so much, I don't know what we'll do. We may have to close down our 8th garage the next time we serve filet mignon at the mansion."

And I looked her right in the eyes and said:
C'MON YOU DOG FACED PONY SOLIDER. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT CAKE IS LIKE $5 A BOX?
Posted by: pResident Depends at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (FPuSC)

Before there was dog food, they used to make dog bread. Then again, you can't make it if you can't find the raw ingredients.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (ynpvh)

306 I was in Yugoslavia in 1980 when Tito died. The communist economy was in tatters. I'll never forget going to a "grocery store". There was literally nothing on the shelves save for some local peaches and a small meat supply, also local. Nothing processed could be had. No sugar, no flour and especially no cooking oil.

When I flew home I kissed the ground and from then on was quite fearful of communism and what it does to an economy. Looks like it finally came here. So sad. So sad.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (k0WjC)

307 I was in St. Augustine FL two weeks ago and the Publix I shopped at during that trip was STUFFED to the rafters with goods.

So whatever is ailing the rest of the country, especially So Cal where I suffer now, it wasn't a problem in DeathSantisLand.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (8gxrg)

Their ports are open.
I suspect the CA fuckery is responsible for half the supply bottleneck problems here.

Wuhan panic is the other half.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (XvPQV)

308 "Dude, long as I get my internet and can Call of Duty with my buds and get edibles at the local store, I'm all right!"
--Too many voters

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (KZzsI)

309 Use Thousand Island for your Reuben

Yeah. It's actually better with 1000 Island.

Russian dressing is for losers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (7F9te)

310 There is Austrian dressing. True story.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (V13WU)

311 Black Olives Matter!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (yQpMk)

312
309 Use Thousand Island for your Reuben

Yeah. It's actually better with 1000 Island.

Russian dressing is for losers.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (7F9te)

Stingy bastards pick all the relish out of it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (rF64X)

313 When the Canadian border is closed next week we wont be getting any more poutine for a while.

Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (Olnjm)

314 BJs can't get heavy cream - other stores can though
So weird
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 06:35 PM (lCui1)

Uhh.....oh, never mind.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (Zvtjl)

315 Oh yeah, he was recovering from his pregnancy.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:18 PM (VWp7G)

To be fair, passing a 7 lb, 8 oz. baby out one's asshole must be pretty stressful.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (P3gRi)

316 271 >>Who makes dressing?

The Russians.
The Italians.
The French.
...
Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM (zDEs6)
1000 Islanders?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (ynpvh)

317 Craft brewers are NOT gonna like a reduction in trade with Ca ada. Canukistan grows 1/5 of the worlds barley. Most craft brewers get ALL thier mash bill from Canada. Empty shelves at the grocery? Get ready for the signs that read 'no beer today'.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom Kid. We got the meat at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (n/szn)

Just invade and strip the crop and take it away at harvest time.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (eoQWY)

318 The inflation will continue until morale improves!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Eyebrows at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (FPuSC)

319 I guess I better pull out the still again and get to making some whiskey.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (coYBh)

320 What we need is a PLAN! A Five Year Plan!

Posted by: kraken at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (6Je/Q)

321 FJB, straight up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (okGHj)

322 A thousand islands.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (eoQWY)
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Sad cheese.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (XHhHI)

323 So, everyone understands that cheating to steal the election and get rid of the Don was specifically to inflict pain on us as they are doing, right?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (QYPq3)

324 This is nothing. I lived throught the Dark Days of '20, when there was only single ply toilet paper. Hard times, hard times!
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Lol, my godfather, who grew up in the depression, taught us kids to use single ply, one square. You can always wash your hands.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (+ya+t)

325 To be fair, passing a 7 lb, 8 oz. baby out one's asshole must be pretty stressful.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (P3gRi)

Nobody shit a baby. But pulling that kid through his pee pee took some doing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (okGHj)

326 My nose keeps telling me, "Don't cut me off just because you're mad at your face." But still, I chuckle, it is fun to see Biden's world collapsing.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (Q3oNv)

327 It is for the milk allergic - I went 6 weeks in Nov/Dec unable to get Silk vanilla oat milk...it's back now, but I was annoyed.
I have to make food for the homeless shelter next week and already told my spouse that we need to shop Friday (for a Sunday cook) b/c I need to know that I can make what I planned or the backup plans for Sun/Mon. I'll probably shop again Wed for the Fri/Sat cooking at the end of the week, to give myself a day to change plans or shop again...
Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:38 PM (exHjb)

Lactaid
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (ynpvh)

Milk allergic, not intolerant...lactaid is what you take when your digestive system doesn't have the enzymes to break down milk. Oat milk is what you take when your immune system has the desire to kill you when you intake any type of real milk or its elements.

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (exHjb)

328 Can't wait for the summer of famine recovery.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (GYllL)

329
I am pretty unhappy. I see disaster progressing and there's nothing I can do about it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (a99MC)

330 Black Olives Matter!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (yQpMk)
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Not as much as green ones do.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (XHhHI)

331 Finally get to use all those cans of tuna and spam I've been hoarding for twenty years!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (4fSQf)

332 I think the Dems are like the dog chasing the car and finally catches it, but now doesn't know what to do.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (jTmQV)

333 Lol, my godfather, who grew up in the depression, taught us kids to use single ply, one square. You can always wash your hands.

Look you may as well just not bother with the paper at that point and wash your hands in the stream

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (KZzsI)

334 Remember the Loudon County school rapist? When his victim's father complained to the school board (after they protected the criminal rapist), the board had him arrested and labeled a terrorist. The District Attorney, a Soros electee, personally prosecuted the FATHER. The event became "Exhibit A" for the DOJ attack on parents.

Now we find out there was a previously unknown thrid victim. They hid that fact until now. And, we find out his psych eval was the "worst" the judge had ever seen. Loudon County narrowly averted true tragedy in this case.

But Loudoun County Schools and the head administrator did every single thing they could to help this violent criminal.

https://tinyurl.com/45cyxswh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (g4S+4)

335 One shelf that is bare: lots and lots of major appliance pipelines. Sort of in that market lately, and it's pretty bad. Not even any guesstimates on when certain lines will be shipping again. In making my rounds, made sure to ask the oldest salesperson I dealt with if he'd ever seen anything like this, he laughed and said "no, of course not!".

Others here seem to have a handle on other things, like the chip shortage which affects vehicles and other durable goods production. And then there's labor.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (OTzUX)

336 >>David French and Steve Hayes are all outraged, outraged I tell you, that Biden called them Bull Connor and George Wallace.

This is always my favorite part. When traitors realize the people they left to suck up to hate them as much as those they left behind.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (ZLI7S)

337 Who makes dressing?

The Russians.
The Italians.
The French.
...
Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM
1000 Islanders?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM

Caesar

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (DUIap)

338 310 There is Austrian dressing. True story.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (V13WU)

But you have to speak Austrian to order it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (okGHj)

339 The shortages I'm seeing here is mostly in the Wally Worlds. Looks like the kids running that chain are more interested in being woke.

The Crest stores don't look like they're having any problems.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (Fs5vw)

340 I think the Dems are like the dog chasing the car and finally catches it, but now doesn't know what to do.

It's not real socialism, again.

Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (kOpft)

341 I'm not seeing that much of (Brandon's) bare shelves where I'm at in a small corner of Louisiana, but then again I'm good as long as there's frozen pizza. Although I'm having trouble finding saltines and some kinds of broths, like chicken broth. I'll count my blessings though.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (hR5xa)

342 >>Lol, my godfather, who grew up in the depression, taught us kids to use single ply

Oh we used to dream of having a single ply

would've been a palace to us

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (geLO8)

343 Anyone here remember using the old Sears catalog for toilet paper in a pinch? Or sewing patterns? Cause we did.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (Q3oNv)

344 (A well-laid Martian table)

"...and now, to whet your appetites, black caviar."
(Murmurs of approval, but one scoffing diner)
"Grblk, you scoff?"
"White caviar is preferred. Eating black is rustic. Provincial. It's fine, mind you, but haute cuisine is eating white. They are less productive and harder to harvest. The humans distinguish between a cremini and a truffle. I do, too."
"Trend follower."
"Too precious."
(Grblk) "I'm sorry. I've simply acquired a taste for the more elusive human."

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (x8kT3)

345 How did Philadelphia cream cheese win out over other brands? Was the Scranton cream cheese too chewy and the Atlantic City cream cheese too briny?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (fs1hN)

346
The Russians.
The Italians.
The French.
...
Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM
1000 Islanders?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM
Caesar
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (DUIap)
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Honey Mustard, the Colonel's wife.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (XHhHI)

347 298 Nova local, is that all milk or can you do goats milk?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (A5KzP)

For me, all of it...so I read the labels...

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (exHjb)

348 This is always my favorite part. When traitors realize the people they left to suck up to hate them as much as those they left behind.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (ZLI7S)
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They actually hate them *more* because of their treason.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:47 PM (llXky)

349 >>>Lol, my godfather, who grew up in the depression, taught us kids to use single ply, one square. You can always wash your hands.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:44 PM (+ya+t)

I keep seeing stuff about TP, but you guys know you can wash your ass instead, right? TP is for losers.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (QYPq3)

350 I'd like to see all democrats sent to dig canals in Siberia. One way ticket.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (CEVra)

351

Seems like a good time to bring my Long Pig Helper recipe mixes to the market...

Posted by: Apu's Asian Bodega at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (lbmxT)

352 I was in Yugoslavia in 1980 when Tito died. The communist economy was in tatters. I'll never forget going to a "grocery store". There was literally nothing on the shelves save for some local peaches and a small meat supply, also local. Nothing processed could be had. No sugar, no flour and especially no cooking oil.
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There's an old Russian Joke about an old guy who waits in line for the store, but when he gets there there is nothing to buy. He starts complaining and cursing a blue streak, until he is taken aside by a man in a trench coat who says "Comrade, calm down, you know in the old days this sort of talk would get you this, in the head, making a hand guesture for a shot."

The old man fell silent, goes home to his wife. She asks him where the food is, and he says 'Its worse than you can imagine. Theyve run out of BULLETS!!"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (eoQWY)

353 Keep an eye out for fertilizer prices because they are going through the roof, I think I saw a farmer post how his prices tripled

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (dKiJG)

354 Wyatt,
How's it going in cesspool city?

Going to retire soon?

Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (79p/O)

355 Report: White House to attack Trump for leaving Iran deal

But of course. Blame the Boggie man

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (Irn0L)

356 330 Black Olives Matter!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (yQpMk)
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Not as much as green ones do.
Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:45 PM (XHhHI)

Some olives are more equal than others.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (okGHj)

357 Didn't see this coming

Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital With COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated

https://bityl.co/ATaj

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (yQpMk)

358 If you don't eat food, you don't have to worry about toilet paper.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (4fSQf)

359 It's not just the empty shelves. Try ordering furniture, appliances or a car. The wait can be 6 mos. to a year

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:29 PM (NpAcC)
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I ordered new windows in June. Supposed to be installed in September. Still waiting.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:34 PM

The wife ordered a new Ipad six months ago from the Verizon store and we were assured it would be received in a month or two. They won't return her phone calls. Good thing we did not pay for it when we ordered it.

Best buy wouldn't even let us order one. They said, nope, not going to get it so we won't order it for you.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (bVYXr)

360 309 Use Thousand Island for your Reuben

Yeah. It's actually better with 1000 Island.

Russian dressing is for losers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (7F9te)

Mayo mixed with catsup will suffice. Did in the Army.

Posted by: Javems at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (AmoqO)

361 How can this regime last even another year?

You attack the kids, and the people get angry.
Hungry people get even more angry.

Posted by: pj at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (G1dq6)

362 335 One shelf that is bare: lots and lots of major appliance pipelines. Sort of in that market lately, and it's pretty bad.

Great.

We're waiting to place a huge Miele and SubZero appliance order for a kitchen renovation that we want to get done this year. Supposedly wait times are ... 8... months.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (MGXHe)

363 I heard those thousand islanders in Canada shutdown operations because Trudeau promised COVID rape them if they showed any signs of productivity.

Out: waterboarding
In: COVID rape

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (r0ADi)

364 All goods will be rationed. Show your current vaccine card for a 100% boost in your weekly food allotment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (F4b8f)

365 Russian dressing is for losers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 12, 2022 06:42 PM (7F9te)

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Haste makes waste.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (XHhHI)

366 "This is always my favorite part. When traitors realize the people they left to suck up to hate them as much as those they left behind.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:46 PM (ZLI7S) "

LOL, absolutely spot-on ! the joy of having both sides regard you as a contemptible bumwad !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (9CuDT)

367 >>>Black Olives Matter!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (yQpMk)

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I'd say Olives Matter, but I would probably be labeled an oleacist.

Posted by: Turn Two at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (w4999)

368 >>>Who makes dressing?

*snickers*

Posted by: The Blues at January 12, 2022 06:50 PM (SH2Zi)

369 Who makes dressing?

The Russians.
The Italians.
The French.
...
Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM
1000 Islanders?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM
Caesar
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Paul Newman

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:50 PM (+ya+t)

370 Saw one today about Soviet editors discussing how to caption a picture of Khrushchev at a pig farm. Every mention of pigs sullied him. They settled on "Khrushchev is third one from right."

Posted by: MaxMBJ at January 12, 2022 06:50 PM (Q3oNv)

371 When ace is criticizing you about your shelves you know you've got a problem.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2022 06:50 PM (BcER1)

372 All goods will be rationed. Show your current vaccine card for a 100% boost in your weekly food allotment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 06:49 PM (F4b8f)
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You will eat bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and look forward to your semi-weekly beatings for entertainment.

Posted by: Adam Kinsinger, Democratic Gimp at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (XHhHI)

373 The Hill
@thehill

Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (NpAcC)

374 The masked girl gripping the bread loaf is fucking sexy

Posted by: observer at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (yFWDo)

375 Like others, I'd enjoy seeing these socialist a-holes get what's coming to them if I wasn't sitting in the seat next to them.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (NV7nl)

376 >>You will eat bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and look forward to your semi-weekly beatings for entertainment. Posted by: Adam Kinsinger, Democratic Gimp at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (XHhHI)

The Canal Will Not Dig Itself.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (x8kT3)

377 355 Report: White House to attack Trump for leaving Iran deal

But of course. Blame the Boggie man

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (Irn0L)

Blame?

Posted by: Javems at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (AmoqO)

378 Was in Soviet stores just prior to 1981, it wasn't so much that the shelves were empty, there weren't just that many shelves, the selection was always/normally skimpy. Made a point of going into every kind of store I came across.

One time jumped in a line that turned out to be for American citrus, felt a bit guilty but not that much, so bought a bag-full of oranges for the other yanks in the program.

Hard currency stores ("beriozka", or little birch tree) of course had full shelves, but more like a duty-free shop, not staples. Silver fox fur hats were gorgeous but pricey, I opted to get a muskrat one at the big department store instead.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (OTzUX)

379 Ranchers.
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:39 PM
1000 Islanders?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM
Caesar
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Paul Newman
Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:50 PM (+ya+t)
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Fresh out of the mausoleum.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (XHhHI)

380 Keep an eye out for fertilizer prices because they are going through the roof, I think I saw a farmer post how his prices tripled
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No shit??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (UHVv4)

381 Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR
Posted by: redridinghood

Are they gonna make cloth masks illegal?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (lCui1)

382 Mix the ranch dressing with the house dressing.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (0OP+5)

383 >That's fair, I don't believe in anything the mainstream news says.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 06:41 PM (eoQWY)

It is a pretty good heuristic to disbelieve anything reported in the MSM, by default.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (5kpOR)

384 The Hill
@thehill

Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR
Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (NpAcC)

I can't think of a greater waste of money

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (Irn0L)

385 373 The Hill
@thehill

Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR
Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (NpAcC

Send toilet paper instead.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (4fSQf)

386 I love how they say it's an issue of demand, like all of a sudden there's a run on pretzels, hot mustard and black olives. ZOMG! NEW RECIPE TO DIE FOR!!!

Being in the SF Bay Area, I'd imagine we've got it better than most, and it's still whacky. I never recall going to a market and coming up short 2-5 items. It's looking almost like it did during the original lockdown, but the stores have gotten much better at facing. There's still gaping holes on many shelves. I'm lucky that my local has its own bakery and there's many local businesses. Add to that the CA pork mandate, and suddenly there's like 3 brands of bacon, and one of them maple flavored bacon (yech). Or hey! Plant bacon! Not vegetable, but fucking "plant". Or as we call them, weeds. Somebody needs to suffer for this, and it's not me.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (wAnMi)

387 This shit is going off the shelves!

Wait!!

There's no shit...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (BFigT)

388 OK, I think I figure this out. Very simple, really. Uncovidjaabbed are tested more often. So if they test positive - stay home. Vaxxed, who still get the bug, but are not tested go around infecting other people - more likely jabbed coworkers or partygoers like themselves. Ergo- more vaxxed in hospitals.

Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (V13WU)

389 >>I can't think of a greater waste of money

Education Funding

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (zDEs6)

390 >I can't think of a greater waste of money

Posted by: Nevergiveup

give 'em time

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (geLO8)

391 Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital With COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated
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In Ontario too. [Although with Ontarians / hosers and not Aussies.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (UHVv4)

392 >>I can't think of a greater waste of money

Education Funding
Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (zDEs6)

Obama Phones

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (yQpMk)

393 It is a pretty good heuristic to disbelieve anything reported in the MSM, by default.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (5kpOR)
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Pay just enough attention to file it away for taunting later.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (XHhHI)

394
I keep seeing stuff about TP, but you guys know you can wash your ass instead, right? TP is for losers.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM

My house came with a bidet (for washin' yur backside, right?) which we never used. It's still an option I guess for the full Venezuela days to come.

But Joe will never go full Venezuela, right?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 12, 2022 06:53 PM (dQvv7)

395 OK, so the store shelves are bare or are shallow fronted or otherwise strongly showing a lack of resupply.

Lets pretend that we can focus all of our contempt and blame on one drooling retard who doesn't even know what day of the week it is.

Do we seriously believe that by swapping out porridge brain for some other puppet that things will get better? Are we all supposed to ignore the 40% increase in the money supply that is backing even less than before the dump? Are we supposed to just think that the myriad of regulations, medical apartheid, No Jab No Job, the complete inability of schools to generate anyone with marketable skills, the profoundly strong sense of entitlement and laziness, the millions of upon millions of third worlders with their crime, filth, marxist ideology, laziness, and diseases are all going to just go away?

Even if we did snap out of this Mass Formation Delusional Psychosis, is the hundreds of billions thrown at unreliable and horribly expensive vanity energy going to magically turn into reliable coal and nuclear? Factories will sprout like mushrooms after the rain, with competent engineers, technicians, workers, clerks and administrators ?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (+LCoQ)

396 >>>Send toilet paper instead.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

And apparently, cream cheese.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (bkUtD)

397 This supply chain thing effed us in the a. We contracted to get new windows in May of last year and the order wasn't completed until November. All of the windows that were installed have a manufacturing defect - gashes in the vinyl, miscolored hardware, and incompletely sealed panes. Contractor said the manufacturer had issues with labor shortage and getting supplies. The contractor is coming back tomorrow to determine next steps.

Posted by: Mishdog at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (/VWLE)

398 "Two stores not one bottle of Russian dressing"

Now this is something I am sure is Donald's fault.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (ItDAh)

399 This shit is going off the shelves!

Wait!!

There's no shit...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (BFigT)
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San Francisco doesn't know that problem.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (XHhHI)

400 Joe shooting for approval in the teens. Build back better!
Fukkin A. Only problem is that the only thing these imbeciles can build is fucking problems.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (o2MD2)

401 TempTee is so much better than shitty Philadelphia.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (BcER1)

402 All goods will be rationed. Show your current vaccine card for ~~a 100% boost in~~ your weekly food allotment.

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: Methos at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (kOpft)

403 313 When the Canadian border is closed next week we wont be getting any more poutine for a while.

ah. canadian dressing.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (v3pYe)

404 Hey! The shelves will be full again. Full of

- bug bread
- bug butter
- canned bugs
- cup 'o' bugs
- bug chips
- piss juice (from concentrate )
- piss beer

And you'll learn to love it!

Posted by: Bill Gates at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (786Ro)

405 >>>Obama Phones
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Obama NFTs

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (bkUtD)

406 Yep, statewide booze shortage.
Posted by:�Ace-Endorsed Author A.H.

Virginia too. Bourbon shelves are damn near empty, all out of my fave. Plenty of vodka tho.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (CEVra)

407 LOL, absolutely spot-on ! the joy of having both sides regard you as a contemptible bumwad !

Still talking about Jim Gerheraty?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (ySQBZ)

408 I can't think of a greater waste of money
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (Irn0L)

Fucking idiots. They're widely available now, your choice of colors for a quarter each. If they come from the government, they'll be $43 each, and the elastic will break after 2 uses.

I've got an idea! How about just letting us keep our goddamn money and spend it how we see fit, you commie parasites?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (wAnMi)

409 I will say - my HMart literally took their produce section and removed an entire aisle (it was a huge section) and then spaced everything out. You could say they did it for "social distancing", but they didn't space or de-aisle the rest of the store...they just didn't want to have gaps in produce areas they couldn't gets stock in for, so now they just have fewer aisles and will leave certain produce in boxes at the front for customers to grab out of if they actually get normal stocking for the week...

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (exHjb)

410 Local news is saying 'Stock up'

Guaranteed to start a rush on what little remains.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (PTO9s)

411 >>>Report: White House to attack Trump for leaving Iran deal

Boy, the White House sure has a finger on the pulse of what Americans are most concerned about, right?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (HmZuC)

412 Get yourself a bidet. It is a game changer.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (L9P9s)

413 Had to go to ghetto ABC to get bullet bourbon.

Thought that was funny.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (ySQBZ)

414 The economy is just so strong that supply cannot keep up with consumer demand.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (pQItU)

415 No offense Ace. But if we had to rely on you for shelves, at a minimum we'd be shopping off the floor.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (kbvR/)

416 You can wash all your bug cuisine down with somma Gates reclaimed shitwater. Yum!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (o2MD2)

417 400 Joe shooting for approval in the teens.

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I'm always shooting for approval from the teens, especially if they are related, c'mon man!

Posted by: Sloppy Joe at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (fs1hN)

418 "Just invade and strip the crop and take it away at harvest time."

They kicked us in the jimmy pretty hard last time we tried that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (YFAIE)

419 >>Send toilet paper instead.

If they send me one that will be what I use it for.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (ZLI7S)

420 No offense Ace. But if we had to rely on you for shelves, at a minimum we'd be shopping off the floor.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (kbvR/)
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Just periodically, though.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (XHhHI)

421 Guessing all the congresspeople buy stock in 3M right before passing a bill where they buy 500 million n95 masks.

See? Altruism.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (4fSQf)

422 Report: White House to attack Trump for leaving Iran deal

Boy, the White House sure has a finger on the pulse of what Americans are most concerned about, right?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (HmZuC)
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Is Iran announcing it has The Bomb?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (llXky)

423 Obama NFTs
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 12, 2022 06:54 PM (bkUtD)

Don't be giving them ideas. Oh look! Obama in a cowboy hat! Oh look! Obama in an astronaut helmet! Oh look! Obama in a beanie!

We go from bonds to NFT's, and the fucking jpeg that 2 million people own might actually be worth more than the bond in 5 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (wAnMi)

424 FJB is just trying to deal with the disaster of an economy Trump handed him. Snarky, yes. Truthful, yes. Trump bought into the lockdowns and insane unemployment boost. Killed the economy he spent 3 years building.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (F4b8f)

425 Defenestratus, sorry about your timing. Would almost think SubZero would be different - they're mostly made-in-USA (if not completely, not sure). Good choices on brands. I'm slowly replacing 30 year old appliances - all but one of which worked fine up until physical factors (e.g. shelves in a dishwasher literally rusting out) doomed them. Somehow I doubt the stuff I'm getting will work perfectly, as this stuff did, for decades.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (OTzUX)

426 Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital With COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated

....

Not surprising. 92% of the population is vaxxed.

When the vaxxed in hospital outnumber the unvaxxed 13:1, it will be significant.

I'm unvaxxed and will remain so until the vaccines are fully completed in trials, but I do believe anecdotal and statistical data indicate they do offer some protection against hospitalization.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (7F9te)

427 I don't know what's up with all the uncured bacon in stores. Will not last in the fridge.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 06:57 PM (+ya+t)

428 >>Had to go to ghetto ABC to get bullet bourbon.

Last bottle of Blanton's I found on a shelf was in a seedy Chinese liquor store in South South Tucson.

Posted by: garrett at January 12, 2022 06:57 PM (zDEs6)

429 313 When the Canadian border is closed next week we wont be getting any more poutine for a while.
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 12, 2022 06:43 PM (Olnjm)

Or maple syrup or Rush CDs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 06:57 PM (CdZ4i)

430 "Had to go to ghetto ABC to get bullet bourbon.

Thought that was funny.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (ySQBZ)"

Did you get a free liter of Cherry Coke with that purchase?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2022 06:57 PM (kbvR/)

431 Goodbye Canadian Bacon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:57 PM (yQpMk)

432 Guessing all the congresspeople buy stock in 3M right before passing a bill where they buy 500 million n95 masks.

See? Altruism.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (4fSQf)

You just know it won't be 3M, but some Chinese company. And in 2 years somebody will discover the asbestos fibers.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (wAnMi)

433 Is Iran announcing it has The Bomb?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (llXky)

They funded North Korea's bomb, so i am sure they have a handful hidden in some basement in Tehran

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (Irn0L)

434 Quote of the Day I just read at Eugyppius' Substack:

It's been nearly two years now and my confidence in publicly funded science is completely destroyed. I don't believe anyone reasonably intelligent can read the COVID literature and come out the other side without concluding that universities and governments cannot tell the difference between science and scientism.

Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (Mzdiz)

435 Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital With COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated
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In Ontario too. [Although with Ontarians / hosers and not Aussies.]

Posted by: andycanuck

Wow, I'm surprised the Aussie fascists (Auzi's?) are allowing the unvaxxed to receive medical help.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (CEVra)

436 The wife ordered a new Ipad six months ago from the Verizon store and we were assured it would be received in a month or two. They won't return her phone calls. Good thing we did not pay for it when we ordered it.

Best buy wouldn't even let us order one. They said, nope, not going to get it so we won't order it for you.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (bVYXr)
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You might try ordering it from Apple.com

They usually deliver promptly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (g4S+4)

437 Tuna and spam casserole forever?

Think a revolution would be preferable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (f4mjo)

438
The British couldn't beat us.
The Japs, the Germans, even the cold war commies couldn't beat us.

It took the Democrat Party to bring America to her knees.

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (geLO8)

439 Or maple syrup or Rush CDs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 06:57 PM (CdZ4i)

So, not all bad. CBD won't be able to bitch, and our ears won't bleed. Win/win.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (wAnMi)

440
Virginia too. Bourbon shelves are damn near empty, all out of my fave. Plenty of vodka tho.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 12, 2022 06:55 PM (CEVra)

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How Soviet.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (a99MC)

441 Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR
Posted by: redridinghood
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Are they going to set up fitting stations around the country as well?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (0TVNF)

442 When you see all the Democrats and Cheney disappear, they have very likely gone to Samuel L. Jackson's grotto in Kingsman.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (XHhHI)

443 "Goodbye Canadian Bacon."

And that shitty stuff they call beer.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (kbvR/)

444 Shop smart, shop at S-Mart.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (0OP+5)

445 >>>Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2022 06:51 PM (NpAcC)

All lot numbers begin 666...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (QYPq3)

446 The dems couldn't do it without ChiCom cash.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (F4b8f)

447 >>>Wow, I'm surprised the Aussie fascists (Auzi's?) are allowing the unvaxxed to receive medical help.

We're way ahead of them.

Posted by: Ronald McDonald House at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (HmZuC)

448 Too bad there are not many good recipes for masks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (f4mjo)

449 I'll miss Celine Dion though.

But my heart will go on

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (4fSQf)

450 You might try ordering it from Apple.com

They usually deliver promptly.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (g4S+4)

Also check BH Photo Video and Adorama, they just had a sale and they were in stock. Sale is probably over though.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (wAnMi)

451 I wanna see Bernie wear an N95 mask for 10 hours with out pulling it down.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (A5KzP)

452 My stepmom just texted me and told me Fauci the Malignant Elf said today that "everybody is going to get covid." Kind of negates the whole mandate thing, eh?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (sVtYq)

453 *Knocks on fridge door*
"Why are you doing that, grampa?"
"Might be a salad dressing."

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (NV7nl)

454 You are supposed to use an N95 once and dispose of it. They aren't meant to wear for weeks at a time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (F4b8f)

455 A store scanner for 1992 stocked store shelves!

Joe Brain Dead

Posted by: Rex B at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (2l8ne)

456 My stepmom just texted me and told me Fauci the Malignant Elf said today that "everybody is going to get covid." Kind of negates the whole mandate thing, eh?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (sVtYq)
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Covid is a plague of the everybody.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (XHhHI)

457
Wore an N95 mask once. I was gasping for air. Never again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (/U27+)

458 Yeah, huge gaps in the shelves at my local Fred Meyer, a bigger store in the chain. Located in a suburb of Seattle. It's been owned by Kroger for 20 or more years.
I noticed it a couple of days ago during my recent visit.

It's actually worse, though.
There were 6 or 7 end caps all faced with Progresso soup and Tide detergent.
Never seen anything like this in my *mumbly mumbly* years.
Ever.
Ok, maybe before one of our area's snowstorms hit, or during the early days of the CCP flu.

VOTE for COMMUNISM!

VOTE DEMOCRAT!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (qlUBr)

459 >>>And that shitty stuff they call beer.

Take off, you hoser.

Posted by: Bob and Doug McKenzie at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (HmZuC)

460 What was the gas used for fit tests for respirators? Some sort of nasty irritant (this was not military use.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (f4mjo)

461 andycanuck, last I saw was 75%/25%, ratio of vaxxed/un-v in Ontario hospitals for the virus. Again, checked out of it over a year ago, but also saw a while back that mortality in the UK, maybe just Scotland, was an even more lopsided proportion in the vaxxed category.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (OTzUX)

462 >>>My stepmom just texted me and told me Fauci the Malignant Elf said today that "everybody is going to get covid." Kind of negates the whole mandate thing, eh?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (sVtYq)

Ha, jokes on you! You are now MANDATED to get Coof.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (QYPq3)

463 18 Next July 4th I want some reports on the cost of hot dogs. If they are even available.
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They may not tell you then, that they are made with insect protein.

Posted by: Ciampino at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (qfLjt)

464 All hail, the Green Goddess!

Posted by: Salad Worship at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (n/szn)

465 I posted this in te previous thread

213 In this afternoon's White House Psaki-Follies Press Conference, Slow Joe's top economic advisor said retail store, including grocery store, inventories are higher now than pre-pandemic.

You be the judge.

Posted by: Gref at January 12, 2022 05:26 PM (AMIL/)

Posted by: Gref at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (AMIL/)

466
Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR
Posted by: redridinghood
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Comments there are inspiring.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (63Dwl)

467 What senator is invested in a chinese company that makes N95 masks and will profit nicely on a sale of 350 million? I am guessing $100/ each when you factor in distribution and graft?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (F4b8f)

468 And you'll learn to love it!

My favorite is Cup o' bugs, now with Olestra!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (KZzsI)

469 I'll bet Cannibal Bob isn't worried about the bare shelves.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (4fSQf)

470 Just remember if you're vaxxed and get Covid and die. It could have been worse if you hadn't have been vaxxed.

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM (XHhHI)

471 I have a good stock of Spam, so I'm good.

Posted by: Javems at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM (AmoqO)

472 So whatever is ailing the rest of the country, especially So Cal where I suffer now, it wasn't a problem in DeathSantisLand.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2022 06:40 PM (8gxrg)

Apparently the port of LA is still f'ed up. They did move the ships off the coast, so you can't see them, which is the kind of crack problem-solving I've come to expect from our broken-brained "elite".

https://tinyurl.com/y8v3ur7s

Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM (coyP+)

473 Bare Shelves Better.
Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2022 06:36 PM (oY5A0)
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Build Back Bare
Posted by: Axeman

Build Brie's Backside

Posted by: Captain America at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM (786Ro)

474 And you'll learn to love it!

My favorite is Cup o' bugs, now with Olestra!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 12, 2022 07:02 PM (KZzsI)
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"You'll run for it!"

Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM (XHhHI)

475 >>>Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans http://hill.cm/wt12eFR
*

Respirators.

Serious, 100% air-restricting respirators requiring pulmonary testing and annual monitoring per OSHA. Because wearing them can kill people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM (DATil)

476 It is those wrecker capitalist store owners who are leaving their shelves empty to undermine out fine president.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM (F4b8f)

477 It is time to nationalize grocery stores!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM (F4b8f)

478 The wife ordered a new Ipad six months ago from the Verizon store and we were assured it would be received in a month or two. They won't return her phone calls. Good thing we did not pay for it when we ordered it.

Best buy wouldn't even let us order one. They said, nope, not going to get it so we won't order it for you.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (bVYXr)

This is just whacky. Consider my experience: I ordered an iPad recently and was told, a month ago when I ordered it, that it would arrive between this Friday and the Friday after. So, 14-21 January was the arrival window.

To my surprise, about three days later I walked out to my truck and found the iPad (that I can barely use to post to AoS; thanks Pixy) right by the front driver's side tire.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM (CdZ4i)

479 When you see all the Democrats and Cheney disappear, they have very likely gone to Samuel L. Jackson's grotto in Kingsman.
Posted by: Axeman at January 12, 2022 06:59 PM (XHhHI)
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Hah! Just reminded me that I watched Kingsman on a flight from somewhere and the older lady sitting next to me nearly had a heart attack watching the final scene on my screen. I had a big grin on and happened to glance over at her--she was horrified and spent the rest of the flight scrunched up as far away from me as she could get.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (0TVNF)

480 It is those wrecker capitalist store owners who are leaving their shelves empty to undermine out fine president.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM (F4b8f)
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We have to fight against Big Delay!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (XHhHI)

481 You are supposed to use an N95 once and dispose of it. They aren't meant to wear for weeks at a time.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (F4b8f)

LOL, shoosh there on a roll.
And most of the so called N95 masks going around are cheap chicom knockoffs that are as worthless as tits on a bull

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (Irn0L)

482 If they can prioritize tests and vaccines according to race, why not food?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (4fSQf)

483 old and busted, parents are domestic terroristts

new and shiny, shoppers are domestic terrorists

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (ZZK0E)

484 Guy on Bannons show today was talking about the ridiculousness of wearing masks unless its like a 3M, one of the model 7000s. In which case it only protects the wearer. But any mask below that standard is complete theater

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (DB16e)

485 444 Shop smart, shop at S-Mart.
Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 07:00 PM (0OP+5)

They got some sweet shotguns.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (CdZ4i)

486 Sen. Tom Cotton apparently just gave a stem-winder of a speech in the Senate in favor of the filibuster.

The speech consisted entirely of Sen. Chuck U. Schumer's previous statements in favor of the filibuster.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (8gxrg)

487 Botch Bungle Blunder

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (BcER1)

488 "You know where you'll find a lot of coverage of empty shelves and supply chain problems? Local TV news affiliates."

I just go and see for myself. Don't need TV for this one. For me, the worrisome stocked-out item is canned cat food. Everytime and everywhere I look, there's big shelf gaps.

Posted by: gp's Over-The-Horizon Dick Projection Capability at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (qpX6U)

489 It is time to nationalize grocery stores!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM (F4b8f)
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To deny the unvaxxed!

Posted by: CAT's Hype Man at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (XHhHI)

490 A young woman with military service & a B.A. degree under her belt said it's believed 'by many' COVID-19 is for population control because there's no more money for pensions and social security thanks to the policies of billionaires and rich Republicans.

The old must understand the young want their stuff up front - education, permanent child care credit, portability in good jobs and benefits, etc. - no waiting until after working for 40 or more years. And Medicare for all is also popular. And so being a large front of essential workers, they'll be working more when they get more of what they want.

Posted by: Was Lola at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (VQp1G)

491 I'm trying to forecast future barter rates for .223 and 9mm. Also whiskey and cigarettes.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (GYllL)

492 462 >>>My stepmom just texted me and told me Fauci the Malignant Elf said today that "everybody is going to get covid." Kind of negates the whole mandate thing, eh?

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fauci now agrees with my feb 2020 assessment

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (ZZK0E)

493 Wore an N95 mask once. I was gasping for air. Never again.
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I have troubles with those things too and I have a beard.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (+ya+t)

494 Bark soup with crickets.

Posted by: Laugh today cry tomorrow at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (CYkNI)

495 The wife ordered a new Ipad six months ago from the Verizon store and we were assured it would be received in a month or two. They won't return her phone calls. Good thing we did not pay for it when we ordered it.

Best buy wouldn't even let us order one. They said, nope, not going to get it so we won't order it for you.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (bVYXr)
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You might try ordering it from Apple.com

They usually deliver promptly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM

They told us to go away and come back in six months, shmaybe.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 07:07 PM (bVYXr)

496 Wow, I'm surprised the Aussie fascists (Auzi's?) are allowing the unvaxxed to receive medical help.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (CEVra)

That we know of. Do YOU trust media reports from the Union of Australian Socialist Republics (UASR)?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:07 PM (CdZ4i)

497 So this year has seen many assistants to the VP resign, likely because Kamala is a bitch to work for, she is being set-up to take the blame for anything bad that happens and she has no shot at advancing to the Oval Office as long as Joe has a pulse.

In the event the Democrats crater in the mid-terms (Please, please, pretty please!), I am thinking most of Joe's staff will be doing the same thing as Bill Murray's character in Caddy Shack, after caddying for the Arch-Bishop in the rain storm. What I wonder about is will we finally learn who is the Master of Puppets? And who is the next MATT DAMON! for the democrats?

Posted by: JB1000 at January 12, 2022 07:08 PM (Lnkex)

498 "You know where you'll find a lot of coverage of empty shelves and supply chain problems? Local TV news affiliates."

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it's funny, the local affilitates will read the script about "1/6 being worse than 9-11" and "we need to come together to stop [X]"...but they still need to do "if it bleeds, it leads" and, brother, them shelves are a bleedin'

next step for Brandon, limiting local news to one news station because domestic terror.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 12, 2022 07:08 PM (ZZK0E)

499 It's imperative to stop the unvaxxed from buying our scarce resources.

Posted by: Totally Not In League with The Beast at January 12, 2022 07:08 PM (XHhHI)

500 Bareback's Better.

The local store is out of instant butterscotch pudding.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 07:08 PM (x8kT3)

501 Apparently the port of LA is still f'ed up. They did move the ships off the coast, so you can't see them, which is the kind of crack problem-solving I've come to expect from our broken-brained "elite".

https://tinyurl.com/y8v3ur7s

Posted by: spindrift at January 12, 2022 07:03 PM

Here's a live look: https://is.gd/fQ3jft

Notice all the dots off the coast of Baja, ships that aren't moving. All with a destination of Long Beach or LAX noted.

Posted by: Bert G (new podcast episode) at January 12, 2022 07:08 PM (aCgRi)

502 The People's Republic of Canada declines the loan of a million gallons of syrup to the United States.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (yQpMk)

503 fauci now agrees with my feb 2020 assessment
Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 12, 2022 07:06 PM (ZZK0E)

It's like that old saying:

If Fauci doesn't agree with you about something, just wait a few minutes.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (BcER1)

504 Wow, it's now where near that bad where I live But there is definitely less.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (7cRTM)

505 482 If they can prioritize tests and vaccines according to race, why not food?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM
(4fSQf)
Bingo! And when the current supplies is all et up who's
gonna farm some more? Hmmm?

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (0OP+5)

506 which is the kind of crack problem-solving

*

Moving something so you can't see it? Crackhead problem solving.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (DATil)

507 502 The People's Republic of Canada declines the loan of a million gallons of syrup to the United States.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (yQpMk

Doesn't matter. France also declined the toast loan.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM (4fSQf)

508 (Examines fresh underarm "food-tattoo")

This had better work out for our side...

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM (x8kT3)

509 the problem is...this isn't a california thing...these are domestic food products from the heartland. what's up with that?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM (ZZK0E)

510 Questioning my supply chain fix is a threat to democracy.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM (DB16e)

511 RIP Ronnie Spector

Be my, be my baby...

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM (geLO8)

512 Good.

More please.

People need to reap what they have sown.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM (R/m4+)

513 >>>My stepmom just texted me and told me Fauci the Malignant Elf said today that "everybody is going to get covid." Kind of negates the whole mandate thing, eh?

>At this point, Dr. Fauci is just another oozing carbuncle spreading his infectious pus in fitness center of modern life.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (r0ADi)

514 Hah! Just reminded me that I watched Kingsman on a flight from somewhere and the older lady sitting next to me nearly had a heart attack watching the final scene on my screen. I had a big grin on and happened to glance over at her--she was horrified and spent the rest of the flight scrunched up as far away from me as she could get.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2022 07:05 PM (0TVNF)

Hell, I sneezed in a bar a few days ago - never mind where - and some old hag Karen couldn't wait to get the hell away from me. My body dispensed with allergens, a Karen gave me plenty of space. Win Win. (I need to see the Kingsman movies.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (CdZ4i)

515 That's a great point.

Drawing attention to the empty shelves = domestic terrorism

Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (DATil)

516 Today the flour section of the store was maybe 3ft wide. Got 20 lbs of all purpose for $6.00.
Thirty cents a loaf for home made bread. Soon it will be all we will be eating.

Until then I have enough dough for 20 pizzas.

Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (Olnjm)

517 This is just whacky. Consider my experience: I ordered an iPad recently and was told, a month ago when I ordered it, that it would arrive between this Friday and the Friday after. So, 14-21 January was the arrival window.

To my surprise, about three days later I walked out to my truck and found the iPad (that I can barely use to post to AoS; thanks Pixy) right by the front driver's side tire.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM

Where did you get it from? We ordered a cellular one and have been told by multiple places that we can't get it. We can get a Wifi one but we need a cellular one because of our lifestyle.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (bVYXr)

518 I never really expected to reach the Hoarders and Wreckers part of The Revolution so quickly.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (yQpMk)

519 357 Didn't see this coming
Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital With COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated
https://bityl.co/ATaj
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 06:48 PM (yQpMk)

Hmm.

It's like the vaccine doesn't seem to be working like they claim.
Biden's lackies will just blame math for being racist.

And so it goes.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (qlUBr)

520 Quote of the Day I just read at Eugyppius' Substack:

It's been nearly two years now and my confidence in publicly funded science is completely destroyed. I don't believe anyone reasonably intelligent can read the COVID literature and come out the other side without concluding that universities and governments cannot tell the difference between science and scientism.

Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 12, 2022 06:58 PM (Mzdiz)

You could tell that when about three months into the Covid business, there were 25-30 papers retracted by their authors. Never mind!

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (eoQWY)

521 Geraghty just guaranteed that national nets will now contact local affiliates and tell them to put photogs on scene at grocery stores around 2-3am, when they're at maximum inventory.

I know that's what I'd do if I were a wealthy and cloistered Party media executive/goon, anyway. PERCEPTION IS REALITY AND MY FIRE IS ON COCAINE!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (hQ23g)

522 @491- Build Barter Buddies

Posted by: Rex B at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (2l8ne)

523 There are a few sparse areas in my local supermarket, but nothing as bad as the photos above. Mostly just certain varieties might be missing or in short supply.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (0TVNF)

524 And WTF is this I'm hearing about Bama jelly?!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (DATil)

525 I placed a large appliance order with a regional appliance retailer of good repute over a month ago.
Ordered, bought and paid for in order to lock in 2021 pricing.

Now I find out that three quarters of the order are 4 months out, some 6 months and freezers are simply unavailable until they don't know when.

I don't need them yet, but my concern is the financial viability of the retailer. What happens when the inputs skyrocket and the producers can't deliver at the prices promised? Who goes down? The retailer or the producer?

With all the home builders vying for product, seems the one time customer is last to get product, if ever.

I get the feeling I am about to get hosed.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (k0WjC)

526 I went to the store Sunday. No chicken, hardly any beef. No pasta. I bought the last 5lb. bag of potatoes, and they had two left of the 10lb. bags. Soup was scarce. The produce dept. had either empty shelves or the vegetables looked old and limp. T/P and paper towels look like they are low in inventory again. Very bleak.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (2Ssjx)

527
RIP Ronnie Spector

Be my, be my baby...

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (DUIap)

528 I'm going to start my vegetable seeds soon.

I like to garden so I'll just expand the cropp. I've also gone back to making bread.

I'm sad my parents aren't around but I wouldn't have wanted them to go through the past 2 years.

Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (79p/O)

529 Alright! How It's Made is doing grappa!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (UHVv4)

530 Brandon Barebacking Better

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (rF64X)

531 Where did you get it from? We ordered a cellular one and have been told by multiple places that we can't get it. We can get a Wifi one but we need a cellular one because of our lifestyle.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (bVYXr)

American Telephone & Telegraph

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (CdZ4i)

532 Karen gave me plenty of space. Win Win. (I need to see the Kingsman movies.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (CdZ4i)
~~~~~

Always a silver lining!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (0TVNF)

533
If the pasta is gone, I'm gonna have a serious fuckin' problem.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (hQ23g)

534 I have enough put away for a couple months, maybe more. The problem is, how long is this going to go on? And will there be power outages?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (Dc2NZ)

535 And WTF is this I'm hearing about Bama jelly?!!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (DATil)

Toast.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 07:14 PM (yQpMk)

536 Geraghty just guaranteed that national nets will now contact local affiliates and tell them to put photogs on scene at grocery stores around 2-3am, when they're at maximum inventory.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Who you gonna believe? Posed pictures or your lying eyes?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2022 07:14 PM (mD/uy)

537 I don't think any of you are ready....

Wait for it...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (4fSQf)

538 Right before Christmas, I went to the local grocery store to order a 50-piece fried chicken for a party. Price quoted was $50. That was on Wednesday.

Saturday rolls around, and I go to pick up the order. It's $60. I had zero interest in fighting the difference, as I know they're fighting costs as well.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (Dqgwb)

539 YD, you can make your own. It's not hard.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (A5KzP)

540 Today the flour section of the store was maybe 3ft wide. Got 20 lbs of all purpose for $6.00.
-------
Freeze it in portions or those eggs in it will hatch. Freaked me out first time.

Posted by: dartist at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (+ya+t)

541 Vaxxed, who still get the bug, but are not tested go around infecting other people - more likely jabbed coworkers or partygoers like themselves. Ergo- more vaxxed in hospitals.
Posted by: runner at January 12, 2022 06:52 PM (V13WU)

It's also pretty much certain at this point that the vaxx hasnegative efficacy against the Moronic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (P3gRi)

542 525 I placed a large appliance order with a regional appliance retailer of good repute over a month ago.
Ordered, bought and paid for in order to lock in 2021 pricing.

Now I find out that three quarters of the order are 4 months out, some 6 months and freezers are simply unavailable until they don't know when.

I don't need them yet, but my concern is the financial viability of the retailer. What happens when the inputs skyrocket and the producers can't deliver at the prices promised? Who goes down? The retailer or the producer?

I get the feeling I am about to get hosed.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (k0WjC)

When my dishwasher broke after Thanksgiving, I only wanted to buy what was in stock at the store deliverable the next week...I didn't have many options, but lucked into a Bosch...and have it. Full price purchase, but I haven't wanted to see if 2022 already brought a price increase. Before Covid, I'd have shopped sales or any discounts. Now, if I need something important, I just try to pay the original retail price.

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (exHjb)

543 477 It is time to nationalize grocery stores!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 12, 2022 07:04 PM (F4b8f)

I'd bet a monthly retirement check that there are already DC apparatchiks that are gaming it out as I type this.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2022 07:16 PM (Fs5vw)

544 I think I have enough food to last until my neighbors are weak from the hunger and become easy meat.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 07:16 PM (yQpMk)

545 518 I never really expected to reach the Hoarders and Wreckers part of The Revolution so quickly.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (yQpMk)

SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!!

Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1966 at January 12, 2022 07:16 PM (CdZ4i)

546 Where did you get it from? We ordered a cellular one and have been told by multiple places that we can't get it. We can get a Wifi one but we need a cellular one because of our lifestyle.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 12, 2022 07:11 PM (bVYXr)

For Apple Products, I just order on line. If they do not have it in stock, they let you know

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 12, 2022 07:16 PM (Irn0L)

547 Posted by: rhomboid at January 12, 2022 06:56 PM (OTzUX)

Eh it is what it is, We probably won't be able to find a contractor that can start on such short notice either. The architect said he'd start working on our project after Thanksgiving - he's only now coming out to the house on Tuesday to take measurements for drawings.

It's a real bad time to be someone who has no patience. What bugs me is that I'll be plopping down $30k on new appliances and not having anything to show for it for a year maybe. That $30k could be working for me instead... oh well.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 12, 2022 07:16 PM (B9bb5)

548 >>will there be power outages?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 12, 2022 07:13 PM (Dc2NZ)

(Tents fingers, surveys thousands of bath-salt gorilla cavalrymen in courtyard assembly)

Yes. There will be a "power outage."

But it will be very, very temporary.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 07:17 PM (x8kT3)

549 Do we seriously believe that by swapping out porridge brain for some other puppet that things will get better?

==

All Dem pols are Brandon

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 07:18 PM (lCui1)

550 511 RIP Ronnie Spector

Be my, be my baby...
Posted by: DB

https://youtu.be/3aJvIFK9-xk

She made a memorable appearance in this video.
RIP RS

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 12, 2022 07:18 PM (sAmhv)

551 With all the home builders vying for product, seems the one time customer is last to get product, if ever.

I get the feeling I am about to get hosed.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:12 PM (k0WjC)

I was going to wait until spring to replace my appliances (all are 20+ years old and dying), but now that I've located in stock, I'm going to move. I really don't want to spend almost $6k, but it's not going to improve price-wise, and I might not even see any in a few months. The cooktop - had I replaced it when I first moved in almost 2 years ago would be 1/3 less. It's gone from $1k and change to 1600ish. On sale at the moment - and IN STOCK! My GE has one dead burner control, and another about to go out - they don't make replacement parts (fuck you GE). Same w/ovens.

And for some reason I have yet to figure out - real estate is fucking nuts right now in the SF bay area. So nuts, that my business shooting virtual tours is super-slow, because it's such a seller's market. Home is sold with multiples in 48 hours. New homes going in like mad. Who? Seriously, WHY?!?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 12, 2022 07:18 PM (wAnMi)

552 Biden at 33% and he hasn't even begun to flail because, now this is worrying...he's too fucking stupid and isolated to even know or care.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 12, 2022 07:18 PM (ZZK0E)

553 Ronnie had a great voice

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 07:18 PM (2JoB8)

554 An N95 in every pot.

Posted by: Sanders at January 12, 2022 07:19 PM (CYkNI)

555 457
Wore an N95 mask once. I was gasping for air. Never again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 07:01 PM (/U27+)

Same here.

Posted by: Javems at January 12, 2022 07:19 PM (AmoqO)

556 I doubt they even tell him because he has a loose tongue

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2022 07:19 PM (2JoB8)

557 Oh look! My face colander just arrived!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 12, 2022 07:19 PM (4fSQf)

558 >>>RIP Ronnie Spector

Be my, be my baby...

Posted by: DB at January 12, 2022 07:10 PM

======

Reminds me of this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/yOh4IxFQbRk?feature=share

Posted by: Turn Two at January 12, 2022 07:19 PM (w4999)

559 I don't know about you, Comrades, but I am looking forward to seeing Trotskyite saboteur and recidivist hair sniffer Joe Biden airbrushed from all official photos in the near future.

Posted by: Paco at January 12, 2022 07:19 PM (njExo)

560 Solvent Green, Solvent Red, ect...

Getting Hungry?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (fzBgN)

561 All Dem pols are Brandon

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 12, 2022 07:18 PM (lCui1)

.....

I don't hear too many GOPers offering anything up other than "Brandon's messed it up, so vote for me."

I have no idea what Republicans will do to rectify anything or even if they want to.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (7F9te)

562 Bingo! And when the current supplies is all et up who's
gonna farm some more? Hmmm?
Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM

Not you, citizen. Your garden affects interstate commerce and must be regulated into nonexistence.

Posted by: Wickard v. Filburn at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (RkC6l)

563 Smash-and-Grab Robbers Steal $2 Million in Classic Watches from Chicago Business Owner -- After He Complains on TV Mayor Lightfoot Sends in City Inspectors to Fine Him

It moved. Suck on it elite assholes.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (GYllL)

564 Appliances. So they spend thirty fookin years fine tuning their eco friendly low, energy and water usage.
Then they make them all rely on computerized motherboards.

Which blow up in about 3 years if you are lucky.
And the waste stream to the land fill rises exponentially. Not to mention the incredible waste of materials and labor for a product that obsoletes at warp speed.

Criminal.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (k0WjC)

565 Bought a fridge while I can still get them. It's in garage while I squeeze the 30 year old one.

Posted by: torabora at January 12, 2022 07:21 PM (fbHXO)

566 You fugged around and found out.

Posted by: 2022 at January 12, 2022 07:21 PM (CYkNI)

567 And when the current supplies is all et up who's
gonna farm some more? Hmmm?
Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2022 07:09 PM (0OP+5)

Second look at victory gardens?

But only if you have a permit comrade!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 12, 2022 07:21 PM (hOUT3)

568 Shoes: The Other, Other, Other, Other White Meat.

Posted by: ZOD at January 12, 2022 07:21 PM (x8kT3)

569 Sanders, 50 Democrats unveil bill to send N95 masks to all Americans

Sigh. We were scooped.

Posted by: The Bee at January 12, 2022 07:21 PM (Xrfse)

570 Lest we forget:

US News Jan. 27, 2010

A Hillary Clinton Primary Challenge to Obama in 2012?
Would the secretary of State challenge Obama in the primaries?

By Peter Roff

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2022 07:21 PM (BcER1)

571 350 million N95 masks, lol ?
they're gonna send everyone one mask ?
O rly ?

can't even remember the last time I wore one of those crap joke things; you want to not breathe things that are harmful, a good 3M half-mask (I use a 7503) with P100 filters, or an appropriate chemical cartridge (organic vapor/acid gas w/ P100 prefilters).
anything else is PPE theater.
actually, take that back; for many years I carried a 3M 8233 N100 in its bag in the top of my hardhat for immediate use when caught without my main mask.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 12, 2022 07:22 PM (9CuDT)

572 More crap from Quebec...

A Quebec Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended a father's right to see his child based on evidence that the man is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and appears to oppose government anti-pandemic health measures.

In a decision published Dec. 23, Justice J. Sebastien Vaillancourt wrote that continued visitation was not in the interest of the 12-year-old child or the child's two younger half-siblings, given the state of the pandemic.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 12, 2022 07:22 PM (UHVv4)

573 People with COPD have trouble with cloth masks, an N95 will do them in.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 12, 2022 07:22 PM (0TVNF)

574 Shoes: The Other, Other, Other, Other White Meat.

Hey-oh!

Posted by: Ed McMahon at January 12, 2022 07:22 PM (yQpMk)

575
YD, you can make your own. It's not hard.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2022 07:15 PM (A5KzP)

------

Yeah.

"First Brandon came for the linguine, but I wasn't linguine.

Then Brandon came for the San Marzanos, but I wasn't a San Marzano.

Then Brandon came for the anchovies, garlic, and asiago, but..."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2022 07:22 PM (hQ23g)

576 Smash-and-Grab Robbers Steal $2 Million in Classic Watches from Chicago Business Owner -- After He Complains on TV Mayor Lightfoot Sends in City Inspectors to Fine Him

It moved. Suck on it elite assholes.

You're ... happy a business owner got robbed and then had jackboots come fine him for speaking out against government?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2022 07:23 PM (x980n)

577 Which blow up in about 3 years if you are lucky.
And the waste stream to the land fill rises exponentially. Not to mention the incredible waste of materials and labor for a product that obsoletes at warp speed.

Criminal.
Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (k0WjC)

The flow of graft is greatly enhanced by built-in obsolescence...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 12, 2022 07:23 PM (hOUT3)

578 Appliances. So they spend thirty fookin years fine tuning their eco friendly low, energy and water usage.
Then they make them all rely on computerized motherboards.

Which blow up in about 3 years if you are lucky.
And the waste stream to the land fill rises exponentially. Not to mention the incredible waste of materials and labor for a product that obsoletes at warp speed.

Criminal.
Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (k0WjC)

I had a touchscreen washer and dryer when I moved to a house out in CA around 2000, seemed reasonable since they were out in a garage. The dryer pad broke almost at once, never making that mistake again bought an old style one.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 12, 2022 07:23 PM (eoQWY)

579 564 Appliances. So they spend thirty fookin years fine tuning their eco friendly low, energy and water usage.
Then they make them all rely on computerized motherboards.

Which blow up in about 3 years if you are lucky.
And the waste stream to the land fill rises exponentially. Not to mention the incredible waste of materials and labor for a product that obsoletes at warp speed.

Criminal.
Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (k0WjC)

Preach!

Posted by: Nova local at January 12, 2022 07:23 PM (exHjb)

580 NOooood, videos!

Posted by: Sloppy Joe at January 12, 2022 07:23 PM (fs1hN)

581 Here's a live look: https://is.gd/fQ3jft

Notice all the dots off the coast of Baja, ships that aren't moving. All with a destination of Long Beach or LAX noted.

Started expanding to Baha around the first week of November. Even more crowded on Dec 1, then empty for three weeks, then on the 22nd was packed again and remains that way even right now.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 12, 2022 07:23 PM (+LCoQ)

582 NOOD, you hapless laggards

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 12, 2022 07:24 PM (pQItU)

583
You're ... happy a business owner got robbed and then had jackboots come fine him for speaking out against government?

I'm happy it was in downtown Chicago and a Rolls Royce dealer. I wonder who they voted for and donated to?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 12, 2022 07:24 PM (GYllL)

584 >>> Second look at victory gardens?

Anyone remember Crockett's Victory Garden from PBS in the 70s?

I want better music.

Posted by: fluffy at January 12, 2022 07:24 PM (UnQlg)

585 How many masks are we going to get, one? You wear them only one time. Are we going to have weekly deliveries? Nothing like bogging down the already crippled truck service.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 12, 2022 07:25 PM (2Ssjx)

586 Which blow up in about 3 years if you are lucky.
And the waste stream to the land fill rises exponentially. Not to mention the incredible waste of materials and labor for a product that obsoletes at warp speed.

Criminal.
Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:20 PM (k0WjC)

And unrepairable obsolescence is the best kind!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 12, 2022 07:25 PM (hOUT3)

587 They all want to be victims...

||A Rhodes Scholar who won a coveted scholarship at Oxford after claiming she overcame childhood abuse and grew up in foster care has been accused of lying to officials and is in fact the daughter of a radiologist who went to private school.

Mackenzie Fierceton, 24, describes herself as a 'queer, first generation, low income' student at The University of Pennsylvania. In 2020, she was given a scholarship to go to Oxford after dazzling the Rhodes Trust with her story of how she overcame welfare, an abusive mother and the foster care system.||

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 12, 2022 07:25 PM (UHVv4)

588
We have been making some improvements at Schloss Hadrian. We bought a new refrigerator (delivered two days later), a new dishwasher (delivered a week later) and two new armchairs (delivered 10 days later). So we didn't have much delay.

Now, trying to get someone to do some work on the house has been well-nigh impossible. We have fencing we need replaced and either 1) they don't call us back, 2) come out and look but never give us a quote, or 3) give us an idiotically high quote to say, "Go to hell."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 07:26 PM (/U27+)

589 Someone needs to make a YouTube video on converting a "smart refrigerator" into a normal one by directly wiring the freon pump motor with a timer or thermostat on it.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2022 07:26 PM (4thlk)

590 Then they make them all rely on computerized motherboards.

Which blow up in about 3 years if you are lucky.
And the waste stream to the land fill rises exponentially. Not to mention the incredible waste of materials and labor for a product that obsoletes at warp speed.

Criminal.
Posted by: Derak

Yep - that's why the range I bought has no electronics (other than the spark ignitors). No digital clock, no digital temp, nothing. I have had to replace the broiler ignitor - $17 from Robertshaw. Not the marked up one from the manufacturer.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 12, 2022 07:26 PM (mD/uy)

591 > YD, you can make your own. It's not hard.

What? Unless you have someone show you the ins and outs or you spend a lot of time trying and failing, it's pretty hard to make great pasta.

Also, a lot of the stupid pasta making machines are waaaay overpriced for what they are.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2022 07:27 PM (x980n)

592
The store shelves are full!

Full of emptiness!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2022 07:27 PM (5NkmN)

593 Razorfist: "The Mood Has Shifted - A Rant":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZAR64rMGzY

Of Rand's bitch-slapping of Fauci: "The last time I saw raw-doggin' like that, CM Punk got a UFC payday out of it."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at January 12, 2022 07:27 PM (Dc2NZ)

594 "589 Someone needs to make a YouTube video on converting a "smart refrigerator" into a normal one by directly wiring the freon pump motor with a timer or thermostat on it.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 12, 2022 07:26 PM (4thlk) "

I have done that. made the thermostat out of an Arduino.
universal replacement mechanical thermostats are probably $200 by now.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 12, 2022 07:29 PM (9CuDT)

595
So, will everyone have to get fit tested? And of course if you have a beard you have to shave it off. And will these 350 million masks be treated as biohazardous waste?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 12, 2022 07:29 PM (/U27+)

596 Preach!

Ha! I'm looking at Lehmans, you know, the Amish store. They have this laundry system that is basically a 30 gallon trash can with a bucket that inserts with a handle. You just slosh it up and down, rinse repeat.

And those umbrella like clothes lines. I'm afraid to put in my shopping cart for fear all those are on back order too.

My 1 and a half year old washer went down and they have nothing in stock and it needs a motherboard. Ha! I'm going insane with rage.

Posted by: Derak at January 12, 2022 07:30 PM (k0WjC)

597 Our leaders have a bunkers, stocked well. So well.

You too need a bunker.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 12, 2022 07:32 PM (fzBgN)

598 Dreak,

Have you tried Speed Queen? Made in America and guaranteed. My sister bought one and it washes cleaner and faster than the front loader. They were a piece of shit.

Posted by: mpfs at January 12, 2022 07:34 PM (79p/O)

599 Did I ever tell you O's OSHA Labor people have been known to give divine guidance to the House S&H committees? (Help us all.) Anyway, the N95 thing could be a trap though it would also a huge money maker for some. (Another follow-the-money item for sure.)

N95s used in the workplace means there's specific guidance and enforcement standards that must be followed. (Example: Understanding compliance with osha's respiratory protection standard during the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.)

For the general public, who will be taking the liability for all of the improperly used N95s? (And they will be!) What about usage by children? How about distribution being undertaken by people who've f'd up chicken getting into grocery stores?

Nah, another game in the making; just tossing good money over bad, IMO.

Posted by: Was Lola at January 12, 2022 07:37 PM (VQp1G)

600 Also, a lot of the stupid pasta making machines are waaaay overpriced for what they are.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 12, 2022 07:27 PM (x980n)

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 12, 2022 08:05 PM (CdZ4i)

601 I went to the supermarket last weekend and the most obvious bare shelves were in the cracker isle

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2022 09:08 PM (X5CsJ)

602 Russian Dressing recipe (the GOOD kind, not the thousand island looking stuff)

https://www.food.com/recipe/russian-salad-dressing-87710

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - says FU at January 12, 2022 09:22 PM (hlxe7)

603 I have been driving through western PA a bunch lately. And before that, down 81S from the NY border to Adams Co, PA pretty regular for about three months. I noticed that the big trucks seemed to be driving a bit slower. As in, around 65mph, instead of the 75-80mph I've come to be terrified of while on the highway. You see, I don't embrace that 70mph speed limit so much - seems like you have next to no reaction time at that speed. ANywho - I just can't help but notice how much more moderately these big trucks are driving. I mean, I'm passing these bastards at 65mph in a 70mph zone on a flat road for fucks sake! Lots and lots of them. For at least the last six months, and it seems even more so for the past month. Truth.

Posted by: GrandeMe at January 12, 2022 10:12 PM (ytutJ)

604 "My 1 and a half year old washer went down and they have nothing in stock and it needs a motherboard. Ha! I'm going insane with rage." Derak at January 12, 2022 07:30 PM

Buy a new, good quality, toilet plunger.

Fill your bathtub (or kitchen sink) with water. Put the appropriate amount of laundry soap in, put your sorted laundry in, let soak for 15 minutes. Then plunge it moderately for 8-10 minutes, let soak for a bit, plunge again for a couple of minutes. Empty water. Fill with clear water, soak, plunge, soak, empty. Fill once more, soak - swish, drain. Wring, then dry. You will work out your rage, and have very clean clothes. But the wringing will fuck up your hands. There is a way to wring using dry towels. Yes, I know all the tricks.

Posted by: GrandeMe at January 12, 2022 10:21 PM (ytutJ)

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