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Sri Lanka's Ruling Family Is in Hiding Due to... Hikes in Fuel Prices and Food Costs

Oh really.


Nearly a year later, Sri Lanka lies in economic ruin, with basic food items scarce, hospitals out of medicine and lines for fuel stretching for blocks as the country's foreign reserves all but run out. The wave of anger now gripping the country is as much about the family dynasty ruling Sri Lanka as it is about the economic disaster. Once empowered by a triumphant Buddhist Sinhalese nationalism after a brutal civil war, the Rajapaksas have been undone by what their own allies call incompetence and denial.

Now, that dynasty, which has dominated the country for the greater part of two decades, is on the verge of an end, with most of the family in hiding at a military base and only the president clinging to power. The latest to go: Mahinda Rajapaksa, the patriarch and prime minister, who was evacuated from his home this week after setting off clashes that left eight people dead across the country.

...

Over a period of decades, the small island nation of 22 million people had built a ,bloated state sector, robust social welfare programs that exceeded the country's means, a large military and an elaborate series of postwar construction projects. As economic growth slowed, it kept borrowing to pay.

Whew! At least America has done nothing like that.

The economic stress increased as pandemic travel restrictions dried up tourism dollars. Then came a disastrous ban on chemical fertilizers, as the Rajapaksa government pushed organic farming at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security.



Just after the Russian invasion, Kyle Shideler, I think, noted that the Ukraine and Russia together were responsible for 25% of the world's wheat exports. He said something like "10% hikes in the price of wheat will cause economic crises, but 20% will cause governments to fall."

Sri Lanka was already headed towards crisis before Ukraine. Their calamity was largely self-engineered.

But Sri Lanka may be a preview of what's coming after Ukraine.

A friend sent me this: Sri Lanka's neighbor, India, has just outlawed all wheat exports, trying to hoard its wheat for its own consumption.

And India is the second largest wheat producer.

India, second-largest wheat producer, bans exports amid food supply concerns
Global wheat prices have increased by more than 40% since the beginning of the year

India, the second-largest producer of wheat, has banned exports of the commodity, due to a risk to its food security.


A Friday notice in the government gazette signed by Santosh Kumar Sarangi, the Director General of Foreign Trade, said that a "sudden spike" in the global prices of wheat was putting India, neighboring and other vulnerable countries at risk.


The export of wheat will be allowed in case of shipments where an Irrevocable Letter of Credit (ICLC) had been issued on or before the date of the notice and "on the basis of permission granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their governments."

...

Even though it is the world's second-largest producer of wheat, India consumes most of the wheat it produces.

I don't think India will be the last to cut off all wheat exports. This will be a chain reaction.

Posted by: Ace at 12:39 PM




Comments

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1 Meep

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2022 12:38 PM (HO4gs)

2 Sponge!!

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at May 16, 2022 12:38 PM (WhsXQ)

3 That's what you get when you depend on "organic" farming.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2022 12:39 PM (63Dwl)

4 I'm not sure I want the adults in charge, anymore.

Posted by: Sodom & Gomorrah at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (QYPq3)

5 also,

HELLOOOO Nurse....
*waves*

/Wacko & Yacko

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (WhsXQ)

6 Soon.

Posted by: flounder at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (SH2Zi)

7 Put the video of Biden laughing at the inflation jokes below that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (AdO+z)

8 Get woke, Go Hungry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

9 If only.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (CwtvX)

10 Revolutions are made by hungry people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

11 good times

Posted by: doug at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (8/lc0)

12 And good for the people of Sri Lanka.

They are an excellent example of how to treat corrupt politicians.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (HO4gs)

13 Maybe the locals could sacrifice them to a volcano.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (b2nrj)

14 Shit, why can't we have justice like the Sri Lankans?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (D8mow)

15 Preview of coming Summer blockbuster to play around thevworld.

But the Tweets aren't as mean.

Posted by: Bete at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (F9322)

16 3 That's what you get when you depend on "organic" farming.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2022 12:39 PM (63Dwl)

Well, more than a few people said of the 'Organic' movement 20 years ago: 'Let's take everything we have learned in 6000 years of agriculture and throw it out the window.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (dNqv+)

17 Don't worry, we'll send them our wheat and a few billion dollars to tide them over.

Posted by: huerfano at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (MzKgG)

18 >>>3 That's what you get when you depend on "organic" farming.


oh, this is the country that converted to "organic" farming?

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (0G13K)

19 Guess I picked the right time to go gluten free

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (SRRAx)

20 A hopeful precursor to events in the US?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (b2nrj)

21 I can't wait for Biden to announce that we're sending troops to put down the insurrection in Sri Lanka.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (LvTSG)

22 Obviously this is the work of Ultra Maga. Only unlimited abortion can solve it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (ZsR3z)

23 18 >>>3 That's what you get when you depend on "organic" farming.


oh, this is the country that converted to "organic" farming?
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (0G13K)

========

Yes.

Things went well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (LvTSG)

24 oh, this is the country that converted to "organic" farming?
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (0G13K)

Wait, or was that Thailand?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (dNqv+)

25 So how much corporate/CIA money was shoveled into Sri Lanka to get this result?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (D8mow)

26 What's "interesting" is why Sri Lanka fell into anarchy.

Against the express wishes and desires of Sri Lankans, it's my understanding that their government outlawed synthetic fertilizers. They wanted to go "green". Honest Injun', that's what they did.

And broke their economy. Crop yields collapsed.(Nobody could see this coming, I'm sure)

Revenues fell, exports, currency under pressure, yadda yadda.

Beware "experts".

Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (h/kqk)

27 Sri Lanka got here because they mandated "organic" farming and banned chemical fertilizers. A Great Reset test, I reckon.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (a/cEo)

28 Remember, this is also the country that allowed Arthur C. Clarke free reign to do whatever he wanted for decades.

That definitely included kiddie diddling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

29 Once empowered by a triumphant Buddhist Sinhalese nationalism after a brutal civil war, the Rajapaksas have been undone by what their own allies call incompetence and denial.
++++
Seems to be a lot of that going around.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (DU+/6)

30 I don't like the characterization of India's grain policy as "hoarding". It's the smart thing to do. It's looking after your own first. MIGA!

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (ZsR3z)

31 It's weird, but none of those cars were electric.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (AdO+z)

32 That's what you get when you depend on "organic" farming.


oh, this is the country that converted to "organic" farming?
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (0G13K)

yeah, iirc. that's why they banned fertilizer imports. it had to be all natural...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (WhsXQ)

33 Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:42 PM (dNqv+)



It was this country, not Thailand.

Posted by: Ed at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (uYPP+)

34 Your weekly termite ration has been increased from 200 to 100.

Posted by: flounder at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (SH2Zi)

35 And instead of helping our farmers ramp up (granted its too late to start on somethings) what does our leadership do? Make things worse.

Posted by: Iblis at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (g6c4t)

36 All of this because Trump didn't have a plan for dealing with Covid, and FJB had to spend the first year of his administration cleaning up the mess.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (bg3iC)

37 Does Sri Lanka have people on Facebook explaining why none of this is the Leader's fault, or is that just an American cult thing?

Posted by: Wally at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (FJYfm)

38 Sri Lanka may be a great place to look for waterfront property.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (D8mow)

39 Super glad we grow all kinds of corn, to burn in cars.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (qH6FZ)

40 A lot of white supremacy going on there.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (mxtfS)

41 30 I don't like the characterization of India's grain policy as "hoarding". It's the smart thing to do. It's looking after your own first. MIGA!
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (ZsR3z)

It is what governments are SUPPOSED TO DO!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (dNqv+)

42 yeah, iirc. that's why they banned fertilizer imports. it had to be all natural...

What's the big deal? Just tell the people to go crap in the fields.

Posted by: Mike Bloomberg at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (ZsR3z)

43 This brings to mind that book by Sinclair Lewis. What was it called? Oh yeah, 'It Can't Happen Here'.

Posted by: DaveD at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (WrzlM)

44 We need more WEF politicians.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (bg3iC)

45
oh, this is the country that converted to "organic" farming?
Posted by: ace

It is my understanding that they banned inorganic fertilizer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (63Dwl)

46 I'm so torn.

on one hand, yay people of Sri Lanka!

on the other, those were pretty nice cars

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (w0NJk)

47 I don't like the characterization of India's grain policy as "hoarding". It's the smart thing to do. It's looking after your own first. MIGA!
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (ZsR3z)

IIRC, Russia went there first, as a prelude to Ukraine invasion.

Posted by: flounder at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (SH2Zi)

48 Hello

Posted by: Sassy at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (xSICi)

49 And good for the people of Sri Lanka.

They are an excellent example of how to treat corrupt politicians.

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We need to revisit the "...when a gov't fears the people..." Clearly, Sri Lanka is there. I dare say it needs to spread worldwide. These corrupt "leaders," the ones who have destroyed everything in their path, ours included, must feel the anger and must pay for what they've done.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (sVtYq)

50 Sri Lanka may be a great place to look for waterfront property.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (D8mow)
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The Chinese think so.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (aaGzp)

51 Is this really that unusual for fourth-world shitholes like Sri Lanka? There's always riots and unrest and often civil wars in these kinds of places.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

52 Politicians being hunted. That's a darn shame.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (ppBhU)

53 -
That's what you get when you depend on "organic" farming.
- ----

Ah. It was bad luck.

Posted by: Heinlein at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (SchQD)

54 I'll admit to scrolling past most of the videos.

But watching the Lambo burn was fun.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (cTCuP)

55 The ruling elite plunging the world into poverty.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (cMXNt)

56 41 30 I don't like the characterization of India's grain policy as "hoarding". It's the smart thing to do. It's looking after your own first. MIGA!
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:43 PM (ZsR3z)

It is what governments are SUPPOSED TO DO!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (dNqv+)

Yes, storing large amounts of food in case of rare but devastating famine or sieges was one of the traditional roles of government.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (b2nrj)

57 Shit, why can't we have justice like the Sri Lankans?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (D8mow)

Because LEOs listen to the orders of their paymasters and will kill you.

The military listens to the orders of their Democrat masters and will kill you.

The GOP is too corrupt and scared to support a populist agenda and will order the LEOs and military to kill you.

And because over 50% of this country will do nothing unless their EBT cards and gimme bucks are shut off, at which time they will kill you, whitey.

Any other questions?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (2JVJo)

58 plant some food y'all. keep enough dry goods on hand to survive a full season.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at May 16, 2022 12:46 PM (4TZI4)

59 I'm guessing Sri Lanka has some very strict gun control laws.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 12:46 PM (AdO+z)

60 Central Planning at its best! Next they will build a High Speed Train!

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:46 PM (D8mow)

61 51 Is this really that unusual for fourth-world shitholes like Sri Lanka? There's always riots and unrest and often civil wars in these kinds of places.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

It's gdp per capita was apparently comparable to Ukraine. Was.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:46 PM (b2nrj)

62 The Chinese think so.

It is my understanding that the corrupt port deal and its subsequent loss to the Chinese is one of the big motivators behind these riots.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:47 PM (ZsR3z)

63 59 I'm guessing Sri Lanka has some very strict gun control laws.
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They've been in a civil war Hindus v Muzzies for 30 to 40 years. Imma guessing there is quite a lot of weapons and ammo available.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:47 PM (D8mow)

64 Well, at least with economic collapse, Sri Lanka
isn't contributing to global warming so the starving citizens wont have to worry about rising sea levels. Although burning politicians might be a concern.

Posted by: Ripley at May 16, 2022 12:47 PM (MxEKc)

65 It's almost the Summer of Love, Detroit-style.

Posted by: Roy at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (Ti+Tv)

66 The export of wheat will be allowed in case of shipments where an Irrevocable Letter of Credit (ICLC) had been issued on or before the date of the notice and "on the basis of permission granted by the Government of India to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on the request of their governments."
++++
This is not really a cut-off, then. This is a "no more from this point forward unless we say so." That bolded bit it key. They will still allow wheat exports when the government deems it acceptable, as a form of pseudo-aid. But it isn't really aid, of course. They will get top dollar for it and wield the wheat supply as a weapon to achieve other policy goals. If you want Indian wheat, you can be damn sure they'll give it to you - so long as you support Indian objectives in the region. Maybe make some other compromises, too, like military bases or airspace and seaway rights or Indian sovereign control over the affairs of Indian businesses in your country.

Indians aren't stupid, and they've been watching China play these games for decades. India will play, too, and this new policy is laying the groundwork for precisely that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (DU+/6)

67 Scary stuff.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (WIJiR)

68 Yes, storing large amounts of food in case of rare but devastating famine or sieges was one of the traditional roles of government.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (b2nrj)


It's like none of you have heard of me! Don't you people read Genesis anymore?

Posted by: Joseph at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (FJYfm)

69 Please! Not the artwork!

Posted by: H. Biden at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (W7Wi6)

70 "We are all Sri Lankans today."

*flies Sri Lankan flag on Twitter profile*

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (T0jQj)

71 Hunting politicians.

The most dangerous game 98% of the time, but always the most cathartic.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (bhRsz)

72 Sri Lanka's Ruling Family Is in Hiding Due to... Hikes in Fuel Prices and Food Costs This, too, may be the story of Biden's America:

Our Electricity rate is going way up. We are hitting a really bad tipping point for people on fixed income. My gas doubled. My electricity will double.This is really getting serious and a whole lot of people are having a really hard time. Will DU have useful advice, and properly assign blame?

I learned how to live without A/C a few years ago, but it is only because I live in a nonhumid environment. And a sweater in the winter, I bet. Should have known Carter was a DU poster.

The electricity spokesman said they need more money to upgrade and to put in EV charging stations. So my friend's new Tesla is going to raise my electricity bill.

This underscores the process of "renewable" energy Yes, it needs to be done. No, corporations are not going to do this out of the goodness of their hearts...Remember, inflation is a greed/fear response. There is no price fairy that raises prices as demand increases.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (7qa4X)

73 They've been in a civil war Hindus v Muzzies for 30 to 40 years. Imma guessing there is quite a lot of weapons and ammo available.

Lotta canoes around here. And storms.

Posted by: Tamil Tigers at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (ZsR3z)

74 We need to revisit the "...when a gov't fears the people..." Clearly, Sri Lanka is there. I dare say it needs to spread worldwide. These corrupt "leaders," the ones who have destroyed everything in their path, ours included, must feel the anger and must pay for what they've done.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (sVtYq)
***

Once the rubber band snaps, it will be amusing to see how many of the lefty politicians will get in front of a camera and say shit like, "Well yes, perhaps we have gone to far..." etc.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (anj39)

75 Remember, this is also the country that allowed Arthur C. Clarke free reign to do whatever he wanted for decades.

That definitely included kiddie diddling

Has that been proved, more or less? (I've heard the story, but am out of touch enough to not know whether it had been confirmed.)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (ppBhU)

76 My brother does organic gardening and it works out okay for him in his container garden. I wouldn't want to try to use chicken shit on the vast wheat, maize and corn fields we have up here in the Panhandle of Texas, though.

Posted by: huerfano at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (MzKgG)

77 A politician's Lamborghini?

Always amazed at how clueless and stupid the managerial class is.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (Dinhn)

78 By the way, can we send the Sri Lankan people $40 billion in military aid?

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (T0jQj)

79 "Once empowered by a triumphant Buddhist Sinhalese nationalism after a brutal civil war, the Rajapaksas have been undone by what their own allies call incompetence and denial."

I'm not sure the "empowered" comment is true. You can google what actually happened. The "brutal civil war" part is certainly correct, though.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

80 I sure hope those protesters have had all their Covid shots and boosters. You don't want these protests to be super spreader events.

Posted by: Narrative 3 Months Ago before Ukraine and Abortion at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (NQrvS)

81 Egypt and China are the biggest importers (and it looks like Italy isn't far behind).

Regime change? Only if they can't get a war started to get their population even more jingoistic.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (CwtvX)

82
I go to my job and I bring home the money. From time to time I wonder what is the point of doing that, anymore.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (aUkIJ)

83 So... Is "India First" super racist and xenophobic, or nah?
Just curious given the demonization of Trump and his supporters.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 16, 2022 12:49 PM (/izzV)

84 I will be sincerely impressed if the US does not cut off grain exports this year, and even more amazed if we do and it's actually enough.

This year gonna be lit, yo.

Posted by: Catherine at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (ZSsrh)

85 ITS FUNNY CAUSE THE DEMS IN POWER ENCOURAGE THEIR BROWN SHIRTS TO RIOT NOT EVER THINKING OF THE PRECEDENT THEY ARE SETTING WHEN THE FOOD SHORTAGE THEY CAUSE HITS THEIR BROWN SHIRTS CLOSE TO HOME!

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (h9Rmt)

86 Yes, storing large amounts of food in case of rare but devastating famine or sieges was one of the traditional roles of government.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (b2nrj)

Not just that but in a broader sense of: preparing for catastrophe as you say, but also looking out for their own interests and that of it's people first and foremost.

I was just thinking of how to characterize modern thought and I keep coming up with: we are all being treated like China as far as the bad days of Opium or the worst exploitation of Africa. Dark parts of colonialism except that we are not being exploited by a government (except in some cases) but rather by an ideology.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (dNqv+)

87 Shit, why can't we have justice like the Sri Lankans?
Posted by: Puddin Head
___

People aren't starving.

Yet.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (lbaVV)

88 Sri Lanka's Ruling Family Is in Hiding Due to... Hikes in Fuel Prices and Food Costs



What a coincidence.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (5kI0z)

89 "pushed organic farming at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security."

GAH.

They just lie and lie and lie with their climaphobic "narrative."

Corrected version:

"pushed organic farming, threatening harvests and food security, due to climate change hysteria."

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (MkuC5)

90 Indians aren't stupid, and they've been watching China play these games for decades. India will play, too, and this new policy is laying the groundwork for precisely that.

I've been predicting this sort of thing for awhile. The Chinese and their BRI can get stuffed. It's just a takeover of other people's countries, and for some reason, that's unpopular.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (ZsR3z)

91 What would be different if Captain Dementia went into hiding?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (eGTCV)

92 I wonder if ethanol production will stop, since we'll need to eat that corn.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (p+1gI)

93 {{{nurse}}}

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (lbaVV)

94 I blame this on the hippies. A bunch of them moved to Sri Lanka to smoke dope and be real. Fuck the hippies.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (D8mow)

95 ... and so it begins.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (MESP6)

96 I'm guessing Sri Lanka has some very strict gun control laws.
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They've been in a civil war Hindus v Muzzies for 30 to 40 years. Imma guessing there is quite a lot of weapons and ammo available.
Posted by: Puddin Head

**

Looking at web resources they are extremely restrictive and you get in big trouble if you don't have the proper connections. Sorry, license.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (KJy0L)

97 This hits very close to home for me. Out Sri Lankan "son" was just here visiting from UGA. His family are close friends of ours, as well, and visited us for three weeks three years ago.

The dad was a major general in the Sri Lankan army, and helped to defeat the Tamil Tigers.

Once out of the military, the government confiscated any and all weapons. So they have that going for them.

Between their own corrupt government and China taking over the country, they're doomed. Our friends are running low on food and necessities, and our "son" has been unable to access his money. We have loaned him funds to get by until he has access.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (ptqGC)

98 I don't think India will be the last to cut off all wheat exports. This will be a chain reaction.
++++
The great dream of economic globalization and just-in-time supply chains for, well, everything was predicated at its core on three assumptions:
1. Large-scale war is a thing of the past
2. Free trade is ascendant and the use of trade as a policy or war weapon is a thing of the past
3. There are no negative domestic externalities

The third assumption was wrecked and obviously wrong by the late 90s. The first two have held up until now. The second one is now gone, and - as Ace points out - will get worse. And not just wheat, but likely everything. The WTO is dead now, even though it doesn't know it. The first assumption is the only one that remains, and it was the stupidest assumption of all. Russia/Ukraine is just a warning shot across the bow on that once.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (DU+/6)

99 87 Shit, why can't we have justice like the Sri Lankans?
Posted by: Puddin Head
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People aren't starving.

Yet.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (lbaVV)

Wait until the babies start. Won't be long now.

Posted by: Roy at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (Ti+Tv)

100 Incompetence and denial. The biden junta in a nutshell.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (dr4Q1)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

102 76 My brother does organic gardening and it works out okay for him in his container garden. I wouldn't want to try to use chicken shit on the vast wheat, maize and corn fields we have up here in the Panhandle of Texas, though.
Posted by: huerfano at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (MzKgG)

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (h9Rmt)

103 Hey, Sassy.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (cTCuP)

104 Iran: Protests Over Soaring Food Prices Hit Several Cities

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Boy, I'm glad nothing like that could happen here!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (CYcx0)

105 Good. Beat all they asses.

More please.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (UkqCM)

106 42. What's the big deal? Just tell the people to go crap in the fields. Posted by: Mike Bloomberg at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (ZsR3z)

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Exactly.

And we can learn from them - which could be helpful if/when we have no more disposable diapers.

Posted by: Lola at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (NIYa7)

107 Of course they had to throw climate change in there instead of pointing out that a lack of energy (for tractors etc) and a ban on using fertilizers was largely responsible for the food crisis.

Funny how climate change is always blamed for piss poor planning and resource management. (eg. Cailf. utilities not clearing brush under their overhead power lines)

Posted by: PaleRider, Simple Irredeemable at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (3cGpq)

108 72 Our Electricity rate is going way up. We are hitting a really bad tipping point for people on fixed income. My gas doubled. My electricity will double.This is really getting serious and a whole lot of people are having a really hard time. Will DU have useful advice, and properly assign blame?

I learned how to live without A/C a few years ago, but it is only because I live in a nonhumid environment. And a sweater in the winter, I bet. Should have known Carter was a DU poster.

The electricity spokesman said they need more money to upgrade and to put in EV charging stations. So my friend's new Tesla is going to raise my electricity bill.

This underscores the process of "renewable" energy Yes, it needs to be done. No, corporations are not going to do this out of the goodness of their hearts...Remember, inflation is a greed/fear response. There is no price fairy that raises prices as demand increases.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (7qa4X)

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I thought they liked high gas prices because it made people use less.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

109 Ukraine and Russia together responsible for about 12% of global calorie exports is the way I heard it. When expressed in those terms, suddenly it becomes a lot clearer than different numbers on Wheat or Corn or cooking oil.

And then a huge percentage of natural gas, and crop fertilizer - derived from natural gas.

Throw in currency devaluation from phony baloney confetti buck issuance, and it gets pretty crazy real quick.

Chiefly, there won't be near enough Dorm rooms for millions and millions of In-State Tuition Eligible Illegal Aliens pouring across our southern border.

I'm sure the writers at the Atlantic will know what to do. And NPR, natch

Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (h/kqk)

110 87 Shit, why can't we have justice like the Sri Lankans?
Posted by: Puddin Head
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People aren't starving.

Yet.
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Well fed warriors are always better than starving warriors.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (D8mow)

111 Sri Lankans vote "no" on WEF 2035 goals of owning nothing and being happy. Or conversly, they voted "yes" on thir would-be elite owning nothing and being, uh, happy in another place.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (/izzV)

112 Our Electricity rate is going way up. We are hitting a really bad tipping point for people on fixed income. My gas doubled. My electricity will double.This is really getting serious and a whole lot of people are having a really hard time.

Big Electric. Big Oil. Greedy rich not paying their fair share. Trumpkins. White nationalists. Racists.

Anybody who voted for Biden is not going to blame him or themselves.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (2JVJo)

113 Breaking and related: No more Mr. Nice Guy!

Conversation

Jonathan Lemire

@JonLemire

The fever didn't break. And for the White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat To the frustration of some of his closest aides, Biden had insisted on trying to work with GOP But it's now time to change course - and attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (CYcx0)

114 Hungry and desperate protesters in Sri Lanka set a politician's Lamborghini on fire.




There is something really wrong with that statement, and I am not talking about fire, but the word Lamborghini.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (5kI0z)

115 76 My brother does organic gardening and it works out okay for him in his container garden. I wouldn't want to try to use chicken shit on the vast wheat, maize and corn fields we have up here in the Panhandle of Texas, though.
Posted by: huerfano at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (MzKgG

ITS FUNNY CAUSE WHEN WE ALL GO VEGAN AND PLANT BASED THEIR WILL BE NO CHICKEN SHIT WITH WHICH TO FERTILIZE!

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (h9Rmt)

116 Organic farming is exactly like solar panels. It's great so long as there is real farming or energy generation happening somewhere to support the make believe silliness.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (KJy0L)

117 It would be interesting to read what the members of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and other radical environmentalists have to say about this.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 16, 2022 12:53 PM (xxG/v)

118 113 The fever didn't break. And for the White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat To the frustration of some of his closest aides, Biden had insisted on trying to work with GOP But it's now time to change course - and attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (CYcx0)

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They let his unqualified, child predator friendly, diversity hire onto SCOTUS. I mean...that's working with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:53 PM (LvTSG)

119 I'll give the family credit for grinding the Tamil Tigers into dust. That civil war had been going on for decades, so long that I remember reading about it when I was a kid. After the Sri Lankan government declared victory, the usual suspects came out of the woodwork with bleatings about war crimes. Of course they never said a word about the crimes of the Tamil insurgency, who often targeted civilians in their attacks.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 16, 2022 12:53 PM (QRdjz)

120
Global warming is coming! Let's fight it by spraying our crops with shit from our toilets!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (n+4am)

121 I will be sincerely impressed if the US does not cut off grain exports this year, and even more amazed if we do and it's actually enough.

This year gonna be lit, yo.
Posted by: Catherine at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (ZSsrh)
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There is a zero percent chance we do anything of the sort. If anything, this government will intervene and seize grain cargoes - at the initial rail sidings in the midwest if necessary - to send them abroad. We can fuck off because Uncle Sugar needs to keep the WORLD fed. Don't be greedy. That's just your white privilege talking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (DU+/6)

122 ... at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security.

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Is there NOTHING "climate change" cannot do?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (MESP6)

123 But watching the Lambo burn was fun.
Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 12:45 PM (cTCuP)

Some people just want to see the Lambo burn.

Posted by: Alfred Pennyworth at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (h5TKJ)

124 Traditional casus belli 1. Access to water.
Traditional casus belli 1A. Access to food.

Funny how global internationalism ends right when we will all be hanged, literally, if we don't feed our own people first begins.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (kLBn6)

125 As for us...don't drill for oil...let's burn food (corn) instead. Makes sense to me.

Posted by: BignJames at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (AwYPR)

126 They were better off as Ceylon, even with the 04 tsunami.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (0OP+5)

127 Well fed warriors are always better than starving warriors.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (D8mow)

Starving dogs are more aggressive.

Just sayin'

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (MkuC5)

128 124 Traditional casus belli 1. Access to water.
Traditional casus belli 1A. Access to food.

Funny how global internationalism ends right when we will all be hanged, literally, if we don't feed our own people first begins.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (kLBn6)

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I'm gonna need your detailed analysis on the SEC case that hasn't even reach the oral arguments phase at SCOTUS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

129 They used to call it Ceylon, but too many people thought that was a brand of synthetic fabric, so they had to change it.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (qpX6U)

130 @JonLemire
The fever didn't break. And for the White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat To the frustration of some of his closest aides, Biden had insisted on trying to work with GOP But it's now time to change course - and attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (CYcx0)
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They weren't attacking before this? Coulda fooled the shit outta me. What the hell would "attacking" look like, then?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (DU+/6)

131 The fever didn't break. And for the White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat To the frustration of some of his closest aides, Biden had insisted on trying to work with GOP But it's now time to change course - and attack


That'll work out well for them.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 12:55 PM (ZsR3z)

132 -------

Is there NOTHING "climate change" cannot do?
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (MESP6)


End white supremacy in America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

133 I wonder if ethanol production will stop, since we'll need to eat that corn.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm


Yeah, you noticed that too?

I have been watching the fields around me in "Central Ohio", and it doesn't look like a lot of people are prepping for planting, either soy beans or corn.
Maybe cause they can't count on getting fertilizer.

High yield corn hybrids need fertilizer to be productive and grow to maturity. Without fertilizer, modern hybrids don't do very well.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (vcOmj)

134 Coming to America.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (aSPkM)

135 Sri Lanka's Ruling Family Is in Hiding Due to... Hikes in Fuel Prices and Food Costs
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They should construct a fake residence, for press interviews. Ours is called The Play Room.

Posted by: Joey at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (c8iAR)

136 I'm a little surprised a third world country would go green.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (eGTCV)

137 Is there NOTHING "climate change" cannot do?
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (MESP6)


Well, it can't change the climate. But other than that, it can change about everything else.

Posted by: Wally at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (FJYfm)

138 Next time they have those breakfast bisquits, with the sausage and egg on sale for $1, I better stock up.


Guy driving a Prius.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (lz5hY)

139 Things will get worse before better, unfortunately.

However, Covid, supply chain, Russia/Ukraine war and other actions/events has shown that it is vital to be self reliant. ESPECIALLY ENERGY

This is what scares certain politicians. Call it nationalist. Populist. Whatever.

Certain people are worried. And that is good.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (ZZAlD)

140 So, what happens here? Should things get this crazy in the USA do our politicians hole up in DC and call in the guard? Or do they board jets and try an escape? Are they wanting events like these to happen believing they will rule the ruins after all the yucky people are gone?

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (DB16e)

141 @41

>>It is what governments are SUPPOSED TO DO!

I would love to see the regime impotently shake their tiny fists at India, threaten sanctions if India doesn't give us their wheat.

Let's really put the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae and cover it all in shit sauce.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (/sKyG)

142
By the way, can we send the Sri Lankan people $40 billion in military aid?
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult

I don't see why not. We have infinite money to spend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (63Dwl)

143 Well fed warriors are always better than starving warriors.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (D8mow)

Right!?

Posted by: Meal Team Six at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (ZsR3z)

144 Those videos look like...insurrection.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (c8iAR)

145 47
Right. How exactly does India owe its own grain grown on its own land to anyone?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (2OL6m)

146 Bridge Over the River Kwai was filmed in Sri Lanka. I've always wanted to go there cuz of the scenery in that movie. Maybe I will wait a bit more.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (D8mow)

147 When do we send $100 billion to sri lanka to help the government fight the right wing separatists?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (bg3iC)

148 I thought they liked high gas prices because it made people use less.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

They do, once you freeze to death in your house next winter your energy usage will drop to zero.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (WaGX0)

149 Slowly at first, then all at once.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (4I/2K)

150 oh, this is the country that converted to "organic" farming?
Posted by: ace at 


Then came a disastrous ban on chemical fertilizers, as the Rajapaksa government pushed organic farming

...

Gotta read the content, ace.

Posted by: Heh at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (vcbvD)

151 I'm a little surprised a third world country would go green.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (eGTCV)


We're about one more Biden term away from people saying that about America.

Posted by: Wally at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (FJYfm)

152 Funny how global internationalism ends right when we will all be hanged, literally, if we don't feed our own people first begins.
Posted by: alexthechick at May 16, 2022 12:54 PM (kLBn6)
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It was a core, root assumption of globalization: that national leaders would subordinate national competitive interests to international cooperative interests and so not use trade a policy tool or weapon.

That assumption failed this year. It showed some weaknesses before, but it has now failed. They're down to just one assumption holding up so far.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (DU+/6)

153 Jan 6 was still worse.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (bg3iC)

154 Because LEOs listen to the orders of their paymasters and will kill you.
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FFS... There is some reason they don't in Sri Lanka?

LEOs have to eat too.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (Dinhn)

155 Those videos look like...insurrection.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (c8iAR)


Can't be. That would be illegal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Good thing the US committed to increasing ethanol production this year instead of swapping those cornfields to corn that's edible by people. That's probably going to look like a great idea in 2050's history texts (assuming there are any by then).

Posted by: Octochicken at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (oCS0o)

157 Somebody almost keyed Nancy Pelosi's Ferrari.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (bg3iC)

158 Ah, this weekends shooter with his copy/paste manifesto cribbed from the New Zealand shooting that got guns banned there is making more sense now.

The don't want the angry normie US mob to be armed should things devolve to that point here.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (/izzV)

159 Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (DB16e)

160
Bruce Jenner says, 'Eat your Wheaties'.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (xhPWW)

161 Print and hand out all the money and EBT/SNAP cards the Feds/States can and it still will not help if there isn't anything on the shelves.

(This is not an Ace shelf joke, really!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (CwtvX)

162 India produces rice by the mega shipload. Northern Chinese eat noodles as staple diet, southern eat rice.

Posted by: 13times at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (hLlnK)

163 44 We need more WEF politicians publicly disemboweled.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (bg3iC)

Fixed.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (DTX3h)

164 37
I'm getting pretty tired of that cult.
It seems they stand between us and a lot of good things (energy self sufficiency, rule of law, a modicum of national pride,...)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (2OL6m)

165 I don't think India will be the last to cut off all wheat exports. This will be a chain reaction.

Posted by: Ace at 12:39 PM

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The Biden Junta has a number of chain reactions planned IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (MESP6)

166 #twoweeks has arrived in Sri Lanka, it appears.

Posted by: micky at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (3byMq)

167 @JonLemire

The fever didn't break. And for the White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat To the frustration of some of his closest aides, Biden had insisted on trying to work with GOP But it's now time to change course - and attack

The GOP has only given us 75% of what we want, so we'll break them until they give us 85% of what we want!

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (BCSAN)

168 My dad was an organic gardener. His little patch produced bushels and bushels of veggies.

But I don't think it was the organic fertilizer that did it. I think it was the gallons of his own sweat that he poured into it.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (cTCuP)

169 133 Yep. Remember going down a township road and there were signs telling what the crop was, like Dekalb Chix.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (lz5hY)

170 @145

>>Right. How exactly does India owe its own grain grown on its own land to anyone?

Emanations and Penumbras of Wickard v Filburn?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 16, 2022 12:59 PM (/sKyG)

171 I'm a little surprised a third world country would go green.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (eGTCV)
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It was either in the interests of the ruling clique for some reason - maybe even as simple a reason as "we like partying with rich westerners" - or China ordered them to do it. Sri Lanka made the great mistake of allowing China to come in and "improve the infrastructure" - with all the strings that comes with.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (DU+/6)

172 Bruce Jenner says, 'Eat your Wheaties'.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (xhPWW)


Then cut off your weenie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

173 It won't stop there. How long until Americans start rioting from inflation, food shortages, etc?

I mean, unless no mean tweets are keeping their bellies full.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (bkUtD)

174 Off topic, but I hadn't heard Clarence Thomas' laugh before. Enjoy

https://tinyurl.com/3bm4jz88

Posted by: 496 at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (U1eOr)

175 Bridge Over the River Kwai was filmed in Sri Lanka. I've always wanted to go there cuz of the scenery in that movie. Maybe I will wait a bit more.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (D8mow)

We were looking forward to going to our Sri Lankan son's wedding in October, but he's getting married here instead. It's too dangerous for him to go home. I'm worried sick about his parents and younger brother.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

176 As I've mentioned before, I'm stockpiling pasta to feed Pookette when the wheat shortage hits. We live in cow, pig and chicken country, so meat and dairy won't be as scarce (provided we don't have another bird/swine flu outbreak).

Posted by: pookysgirl, mac n cheese mom at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (XKZwp)

177 As we all know Sri Lankan's have rich traditions of being Sri Lankan's and we are monitoring the situation hoping we can work together to ease the strife by working together in the Sri Lankan tradition of working together in Sri Lanka.

Posted by: VP Kamala at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (qH6FZ)

178 Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6

I predict most of them will be John Kerryed.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (ZsR3z)

179 DC will have the Pentagram make special deliveries of food to the area. Philly will be cut back.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2022 01:00 PM (xhPWW)

180 How did FJB manage to fuck up Sri Lanka? Guy's got reach.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM (qpX6U)

181 Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (DB16e)

I'm sure Cruz and Paul approve.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM (2JVJo)

182 It's weird to think that we've reached the point where families are genuinely thinking "Should I spend this last $100 on my budget on canned goods or on more ammo?"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM (KJy0L)

183 The Fourth Turning proceeds.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM (a3Q+t)

184 core, root assumption of globalization
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As always Mannix, your insight is excellent.

Globalism assumed that things like starvation in Sri Lanka would never happen. Globalist policies would prevent them.

We are finding out what a pipe dream that crap is.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM (Dinhn)

185 168 My dad was an organic gardener. His little patch produced bushels and bushels of veggies.

But I don't think it was the organic fertilizer that did it. I think it was the gallons of his own sweat that he poured into it.
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Pssst - it was Miracle Grow.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM (D8mow)

186 "...undone by what their own allies call incompetence and denial."

Add malice and you've got us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (H8QX8)

187 As we all know Sri Lankan's have rich traditions of being Sri Lankan's and we are monitoring the situation hoping we can work together to ease the strife by working together in the Sri Lankan tradition of working together in Sri Lanka.

You're short one Sri Lanka. Be better.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (ZsR3z)

188 @JonLemire
The fever didn't break. And for the White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat To the frustration of some of his closest aides, Biden had insisted on trying to work with GOP But it's now time to change course - and attack

--

What the hell does that even mean? Imperial rule??? Bypass Congress???

Instead, it would behoove Grandpa Oatmeal Brains to take a look around at his very poor job approval and work at fixing that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (sVtYq)

189 Third world countries will crumble. Expect more migrants. And expect harsher restrictions come about after citizens push back on the open-door policies.

Posted by: Coki at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (Z8V5e)

190 Print and hand out all the money and EBT/SNAP cards the Feds/States can and it still will not help if there isn't anything on the shelves.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (CwtvX)
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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selective 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: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (DU+/6)

191 >>> Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6



Congratulations for getting a ribbon for stifling freedom. (No offense to your brother.)

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (bkUtD)

192 Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6

**

Pleasepleaseplease let that Hogg guy be the one pinning them on everyone.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (KJy0L)

193
Well fed warriors are always better than starving warriors.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 12:52 PM (D8mow)



Starving warriors only happen once the country has completely collapsed, if for no other reason than Maxim 21:

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (n+4am)

194 I don't think India will be the last to cut off all wheat exports.

No, US will be last.

Because no government on Earth hates its people more than DC does.

Posted by: Methos at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (kOpft)

195 I traveled to Saigon not long ago. Unbelievably dirt-poor country. But in a city with people literally sleeping in the gutters, guess what was on a corner downtown? Yes, a Ferrari dealership. Some are more equal than others and all that.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

196 12 And good for the people of Sri Lanka.

They are an excellent example of how to treat corrupt politicians.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (HO4gs)

It's a waste of good cars.

Posted by: m at May 16, 2022 01:03 PM (nIvvp)

197 FFS... There is some reason they don't in Sri Lanka?

LEOs have to eat too.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (Dinhn)

So long as the ruling junta keep their armed goons fed and paid, the goons will kill whomever they are ordered to. I suspect the Dems are looking at Sri Lanka and taking that lesson to heart.

It matters not how large a howling, starving mob of Americans is so long as they are facing a well-fed, well-paid troop of government gunslingers.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:03 PM (2JVJo)

198 So when the Republicans take the house this fall, I assume that Eric Swalwell will be stripped of committee assignments like MTG, right?

Posted by: mr tmz at May 16, 2022 01:03 PM (rJ48h)

199 I still can't believe the sports writers are ranking Philly as number 2 in the NFC East. What about Jalen Hurts do they think is gonna work?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (D8mow)

200 Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6
Posted by: Fool Otto
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Surprises me not at all. For 'Valor In The Face of....what?

ARCOMS are handed out like candy these days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (pPheI)

201 Love Clarence Thomas' laugh. It comes from deep within and echoes in the room.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (cTCuP)

202 my @166 and scanning did not see yours which is also in my lexicon. All of the above.

149 Slowly at first, then all at once.

bravo.

Posted by: micky at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (3byMq)

203 Climate change???
Who wrote this dreck?

Posted by: Idahonian at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (GET9u)

204 I noticed in one of the tweets above it's it says they were hunting politicians . It doesn't say this party or that party.
Just politicians

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (UfRqQ)

205 Interesting... I wonder where our Ruling Class will hide. People in Flyover Country hate them, and the Feral Urban Zones will be a no go them as well.
Lets see how this plays out...

Posted by: Heavy Squats at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (23jrc)

206
Anyone remember when biden's junta gathered all their Fake News allies and "briefed" them on how great the economy was?

Remember that? It was almost a year ago.

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (Ss8Md)

207 Fear not, we shall give away our own wheat to feed the world.....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (kNlWC)

208 I've got the rice, beans, pasta, and other dried goodies all stashed away, along with my brothers' stashes.

I just wish I had one of those geothermal passively-heated greenhouses, of at least a quarter-acre in size. If I had this, I'd feel good about the upcoming shortages that our "betters" are delivering to us.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (xxG/v)

209 >>>I still can't believe the sports writers are ranking Philly as number 2 in the NFC East. What about Jalen Hurts do they think is gonna work?
Posted by: Puddin Head


because they have the easiest schedule in the league. Last year's schedule was also a joke. For some reason the NFL loves this shite team.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (bkUtD)

210 What the hell does that even mean? Imperial rule??? Bypass Congress???

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM (sVtYq)

Hide and watch, ma'am.

If we get to akshually vote in November I will consider it to be divine intervention.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (MkuC5)

211 Well, I interpret these events to mean: leftism is truly a mental disease. They stick to their stupidity and ride it screaming off the cliff, completely clueless as their ideas could NEVER be wrong. Left is not a political philosophy it is a religion.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (eJn7u)

212 >>>Because no government on Earth hates its people more than DC does.
Posted by: Methos


Fact check: Ultra MAGA correct.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:06 PM (bkUtD)

213 If they have the 10% fee, they can bunk with Joey in the basement.

Posted by: James Moore at May 16, 2022 01:06 PM (Ipvql)

214 How can the National Guard get ribbons for J6 when Trump's request for them was denied?

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 16, 2022 01:06 PM (/izzV)

215 No, the US will be the last; we'll feed non-citizens while citizens starve. See baby formula.

Posted by: SDN at May 16, 2022 01:06 PM (o6RxL)

216
The years 1920 - 1932, during none of which was the budget balanced, were characterized by an outflow of public funds on a scale as ruinous as it was unprecedented, fostered by a continuous stream of willing lenders. A new era of industrial expansion, easy money, and profitable contact with the American continent was looked for and was deemed in part to having arrived. In the prevailing optimism, the resources of the Exchequer were believed to be limitless. The public debt of the island, accumulated over a century, was in twelve years more than doubled; its assets dissipated by improvident administration; the people misled into the acceptance of false standards, and the country sunk in waste and extravagance. The onset of the world depression found the island with no reserves, its primary industry neglected and its credit exhausted. At the first wind of adversity, its elaborate pretensions collapsed like a house of cards. The glowing visions of a new Utopia were dispelled with cruel suddenness by the cold realities of national insolvency, and today a disillusioned and bewildered people... are haunted by the grim specters of pauperism and starvation.

- Amulree Report, 1933

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2022 01:06 PM (/U27+)

217 Congratulations for getting a ribbon for stifling freedom. (No offense to your brother.)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:02 PM

None taken. Bro is retired LEO. Some dude in his bike club has a son in the NG. Anecdotally they think its gay and retarded.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 16, 2022 01:06 PM (DB16e)

218 Was China engaging in organic farming when they fertilized with the shit generated by slave laborers and spread by slave labor?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (eGTCV)

219 How come all the important people haven't been flying in to Colombo for photo ops and giving way our money and buggering young boys.

What? To early.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (NQrvS)

220 The global warming scammers, globalists, ESG investors, and WEF are leading the entire world down the identical path.

It is just that a country like Sri Lanka is closer to the edge than others, so it collapsed first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (5kI0z)

221 167
What do you have to smoke to get this world view?

This level of gaslighting would probably make your brain turn doo-doo colored on an MRI.

Biden literally demonizes the GOP and its voters every chance he gets.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (2OL6m)

222 For valor in sleeping in parking garages and enduring the adversity of mediocre chow.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (ppBhU)

223 Climate change???
Who wrote this dreck?
Posted by: Idahonian at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (GET9u)
++++
Mujib Mashal is The New York Times Bureau Chief for South Asia. In his role based out of New Delhi, he covers India and the broad and diverse region around it that includes Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the island nations of Sri Lanka and Maldives. Previously, he was the paper's senior correspondent in Afghanistan.

He's a professional propagandist for the NYT. It's amazing that he didn't channel his inner Duranty and blame the Sri Lanka agricultural collapse on hoarders and wreckers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (DU+/6)

224 44 We need more WEF politicians.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 12:44 PM (bg3iC)
___________
So we have something for our defenestration hobby?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (fs1hN)

225 Philly #2 in the east only means they expect the Cowboys to win and somebody has to be second.

In other words Philly socks less than the other two

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (UfRqQ)

226 "...city with people literally sleeping in the gutters, guess what was on a corner downtown? Yes, a Ferrari dealership."

hey, now!

Posted by: Beverly Hills at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (jTmQV)

227 Out of idle curiosity, does anyone know if the Sri Lankans went organic out of sheer stupidity or because they were too broke to buy fertilizer?

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (PjnYB)

228 In Sri Lanka they have lit the Minister of Media’s house on fire for creating fake news

So if this spreads here, Tater is going to be baked?

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (ZGrMX)

229 Is it wrong of me to laugh at politicians facing the anger of the people they harmed? Because if so, I don't want to be right.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (KRE4Q)

230 >>>None taken. Bro is retired LEO. Some dude in his bike club has a son in the NG. Anecdotally they think its gay and retarded.
Posted by: Fool Otto


Philly gives out ribbons for extremely stupid shite. We worked when the Pope was in town. Ribbon. We worked at the DNC. Ribbon.

When I was in patrol, I had one decoration on my shirt. The Sharpshooting badge. Only one I was proud of.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (bkUtD)

231
Gotta read the content, ace.
Posted by: Heh at May 16, 2022 12:57 PM (vcbvD)


Since when did Teh Ewok start reading his own blog?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (n+4am)

232
The Amulree Report was written by the Royal Newfoundland Commission, investigating the collapse of the Newfoundland economy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (/U27+)

233 Out of idle curiosity, does anyone know if the Sri Lankans went organic out of sheer stupidity or because they were too broke to buy fertilizer?

Government ban to save Gaia.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (ZGrMX)

234 Is it wrong of me to laugh at politicians facing the anger of the people they harmed? Because if so, I don't want to be right.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (KRE4Q)


I am in this camp.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

235 209 >>>I still can't believe the sports writers are ranking Philly as number 2 in the NFC East. What about Jalen Hurts do they think is gonna work?
Posted by: Puddin Head


because they have the easiest schedule in the league. Last year's schedule was also a joke. For some reason the NFL loves this shite team.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
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Kind of like the NFL liked LA Rams in the Super Bowl. I don't see them finishing third, much less, second in the division.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:09 PM (D8mow)

236 It's a waste of good cars.
Posted by: m at May 16, 2022 01:03 PM (nIvvp)

It's also a clear message. I'm down with that.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 01:09 PM (cTCuP)

237 Biden gave our baby formula to the criminal illegals. He will send our wheat and corn too.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 16, 2022 01:09 PM (eJn7u)

238

Since when did Teh Ewok start reading his own blog?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (n+4am)


It's all about the comments.

Posted by: Zombie Andrew Breitbart at May 16, 2022 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

239 "Ukrainians remind us that well-trained, motivated, and courageous small teams of combatants ... can nullify vast military investment and manpower."

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2022 01:09 PM (xhPWW)

240 >>>Kind of like the NFL liked LA Rams in the Super Bowl. I don't see them finishing third, much less, second in the division.
Posted by: Puddin Head


They cannot win a Super Bowl until 2024. I refuse to work a parade for these a-holes.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:09 PM (bkUtD)

241 suddenly I'm worried about the Amish. somebody might have to protect them.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (w0NJk)

242 Interesting... I wonder where our Ruling Class will hide.
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Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (gMoVp)

243 at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security.

-------

So let's destroy them with our policies instead.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (Q0DJJ)

244 Unpopular take: Wheat is poison, and if this crisis forces people to find other sources of food, so much the better.

The real crime here is that people have become so complacent that they have developed an existential dependence on a food that is objectively terrible for their bodies. But wheat is very profitable and it's addictive like sugar, so it's been foisted on us through propaganda like the food pyramid.

Doubt that wheat is addictive? Ever wonder why you can't stop eating that huge bag of pretzels? Enjoy your insulin roller coaster, sucker.

There is a desperate need for a return to traditional diets everywhere on this planet.

Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (1dzqn)

245 When your country's welfare is beyond its means, the programs aren't "robust", they're just fat.

Posted by: CayleyGraph at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (1i0gs)

246 When I was in patrol, I had one decoration on my shirt. The Sharpshooting badge. Only one I was proud of.
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Wyatt, why didn't you have an Expert Badge?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (D8mow)

247 I don't think India will be the last to cut off all wheat exports. This will be a chain reaction.

Except in Biden Land because of "our values" which Nancy Pelosi is always crowing about, sobor or drunk. Before this period is over, we may come to love dogs in ways unimaginable a few months ago. Just don't plan on slapping the woof between two pieces of bread.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (2mSQi)

248 How did the starvation riots happen?

Gradually and then suddenly.

Posted by: ptleahy at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (6wB8G)

249 Oh good. I read this morning that Joey is sending our troops to Somalia for some reason.

Black Hawk Down 2, Electric Boogaloo.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (ptqGC)

250 Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka major industries: clothing and tea.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (qpX6U)

251 The lesson from all this, and I represent a big Ag state, is to up the ethanol mandate to 99%!

Posted by: Joni Ernst at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (PIlQh)

252 Interesting... I wonder where our Ruling Class will hide. People in Flyover Country hate them, and the Feral Urban Zones will be a no go them as well.
Lets see how this plays out...
Posted by: Heavy Squats at May 16, 2022 01:04 PM (23jrc)
++++
The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (DU+/6)

253 I've got an idea.

How about we have the US government buy all the wheat produced in the US and give it to Ukraine.

Then we buy i back from them and the big guy gets 10%. Everyone wins right?

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (ESjRY)

254
Nobody used to read Ann Althouse for her posts, they read it for the comments.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (/U27+)

255 @Joe Mannix

Oh, he's a professional alright...the oldest profession.

Posted by: Idahonian at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (GET9u)

256 By Sira

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (MW9MO)

257 They cannot win a Super Bowl until 2024. I refuse to work a parade for these a-holes.
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Look on the bright side, they aren't named after Joe Biden's dog.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (D8mow)

258 229
That's how I felt on Jan.6.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (2OL6m)

259 What do you have to smoke to get this world view?

This level of gaslighting would probably make your brain turn doo-doo colored on an MRI.

Biden literally demonizes the GOP and its voters every chance he gets.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2022 01:07 PM (2OL6m)

People like Lemire say things like that because they work. The MFM has much more power over peoples' minds than the Horde likes to give them credit for.

Here in MA, gas could be $10/gal, babies could be starving in the streets and homes without electricity for weeks on end, but if the MFM told them it was the GOPs fault, they would believe it without question.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (2JVJo)

260 Ah, it's a conspiracy by Big Carbs, got it.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (a/cEo)

261 We needed to spend all this billions and send billions more to Ukraine. You losers aren't our priorities. Now try the pate and porterhouse. They are magnificent.

Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (T0jQj)

262 227 Out of idle curiosity, does anyone know if the Sri Lankans went organic out of sheer stupidity or because they were too broke to buy fertilizer?
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (PjnYB)

Or were the politicians paid to go organic by the international green market, who will NOT have their Lambos burned to cinders?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (dNqv+)

263 Oh good. I read this morning that Joey is sending our troops to Somalia for some reason.

Black Hawk Down 2, Electric Boogaloo.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (ptqGC)


Have a friend that was in the Marine Corps. Straight out of boot camp he went to Somalia. It was during the BHD time.

Says he never fired more rounds in the rest of his career (24 years) in the Corps combined as he did in Somalia. And there was no war there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

264 LEOs have to eat too.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (Dinhn)


When the music stops, guess who represents the largest, most well-trained, most heavily armed gang?

You know, the ones who also have families to feed and their own backs to watch?

Be sure to comply with their demands for food donation for the public good.

Posted by: Oldstoke at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (sb+Cg)

265 242 Interesting... I wonder where our Ruling Class will hide.

From what?

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (H8QX8)

266 Oh, he's a professional alright...the oldest profession.
Posted by: Idahonian at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (GET9u)
++++
Nah, worse. The whore lies to you, too, but you at least get sex as a part of the transaction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (DU+/6)

267
The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (DU+/6)

__________

The National Redoubt is vacant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (/U27+)

268 The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.

I thought it was interesting that all of the rich and famous were looking at buying places in New Zealand during the pandemic. Likely because PM Active Bitchface has the tightest control over the population there of any of the WEF-controlled leaders.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:13 PM (ZGrMX)

269 241 suddenly I'm worried about the Amish. somebody might have to protect them.
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (w0NJk)

Given the number of Amish I've seen at gun shows, I'd wager they're able to protect themselves.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 01:13 PM (cTCuP)

270 211 Well, I interpret these events to mean: leftism is truly a mental disease. They stick to their stupidity and ride it screaming off the cliff, completely clueless as their ideas could NEVER be wrong. Left is not a political philosophy it is a religion.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (eJn7u)

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Literal. Death. Cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:13 PM (MESP6)

271 Fighting phone screen jumping around

By Sri Lanka you mean Washington White House, right?

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 16, 2022 01:13 PM (MW9MO)

272 Illegal immigration is the lifeblood of out country, and my retirement plan. China too. So be quiet and shut up, peasant.

Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:13 PM (T0jQj)

273 There is a desperate need for a return to traditional diets everywhere on this planet.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus

The Sri Lankan's are showing exactly how that works out.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (CwtvX)

274 I've read that a lot of tech billionaires have bunkers in New Zealand, so I would imagine our wealthy politicians have likewise secured bug out bunkers/island hideaways outside of the US. Or giant yachts like Bezos and Geffen.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (/izzV)

275 Nobody used to read Ann Althouse for her posts, they read it for the comments.

Here at the HQ, it's "who can out-snark the others?"

At Althouse's, it's "who can out-stupid the others?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (2JVJo)

276 (eg. Cailf. utilities not clearing brush under their overhead power lines)
Posted by: PaleRider, Simple Irredeemable at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (3cGpq)

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My understanding of that is that the environmentalists got legislation to stop that practice because "won't someone think of the spotted owl, the snail darter, the Barton Creek Salamander..."

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (aSPkM)

277 Wyatt, why didn't you have an expert badge?---

Because he knew it would disqualify him from being a cop😄

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (UfRqQ)

278 "...Rajapaksa government pushed organic farming at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security."

***

In a long list of many, one of the most irritating things about Present Day is this asinine idea that every year is going to be a wonderful year for crop harvests and that the weather will always be perfect.



Posted by: Azathoth at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (wb1YC)

279 at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security.

Now there's a flat-out lie. Food production is up because, get this, plants do better with a little more CO2.

Posted by: spindrift at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (h5TKJ)

280 261 We needed to spend all this billions and send billions more to Ukraine. You losers aren't our priorities. Now try the pate and porterhouse. They are magnificent.
Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (T0jQj)

Actually, this makes a certain sort of sense. They are still playing by the old rules and mind sets. Crisis are usually not realized (one of the reason they turn from crisis to catastrophe) until it is too late.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (dNqv+)

281 "Ukrainians remind us that well-trained, motivated, and courageous small teams of combatants ... can nullify vast military investment and manpower."

(unspoken) "with under the table help from most of western Europe and the US."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (nfrXX)

282 The Uniparty must survive. After all it's about Congresses priorities, not the people. We know what's best for you.

Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (T0jQj)

283 If I were on Twitter, I would love to see what Nicholas Nassim Taleb was tweeting about this situation.

We're definitely not living in an Antifragile world.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (+HDd8)

284 It's not that organics don't work. It's the scale. They got higher crop yields with inorganics, which supported more people. And they were able to export (mostly tea, I think). Lower yields means less food and fewer exports. It should be a cautionary tale about the new green deal.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (5HBd1)

285 Angry and hungry mob in Sri Lanka hunting politicians
........

Whoulda thunk Sri Lankans are smarter than Americans?

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

286 One suggestion, we stop talking about the government spending dollars - and instead talk about the price per taxpayer

Old: The government gave $11B to the Ukraine today

New: The government took $100 from each of you and gave it to Ukraine today.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (ESjRY)

287 Banning fertilizer imports from Russia was a genius move!

Genius!

Top. Men.

Posted by: The West! at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (I2/tG)

288 This is how you do it.

Posted by: Montell Jordan at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (wBpKf)

289 Go long on Spam.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

290 How did FJB manage to fuck up Sri Lanka? Guy's got reach.
Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:01 PM

Ahem. It's not like I'm not still around.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (a3Q+t)

291 We look forward to this coming Time of Plenty.

Posted by: Worms and Buzzards at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (PE0d1)

292 When the music stops, guess who represents the largest, most well-trained, most heavily armed gang?

You know, the ones who also have families to feed and their own backs to watch?

Be sure to comply with their demands for food donation for the public good.
Posted by: Oldstoke at May 16, 2022 01:12 PM (sb+Cg)

Instead of "Toys for Tots," it'll be "Bread or Bullets."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (2JVJo)

293 Didn't someone say politicians should be afraid of the people? I think I read that.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (eGTCV)

294 275 Nobody used to read Ann Althouse for her posts, they read it for the comments.

Here at the HQ, it's "who can out-snark the others?"

At Althouse's, it's "who can out-stupid the others?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (2JVJo)

I find that The New Neo has a wonderful combination of smart proprietress, and smart commenters. For my money, second only to AoSHQ.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (+HDd8)

295 Don't worry. Republicans will tell you what their plan is once you elect them. Now, pull my finger.

Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (T0jQj)

296 >Go long on Spam.
Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

Go long on long pig

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (a/cEo)

297 >>Ever wonder why you can't stop eating that huge bag of pretzels?

Look, Snyder's of Hanover makes a good stick, all right?

Actually, serious talk for a minute. If I did want to try to establish a good diet that is healthy for my brain and body, what do I read to figure out what that diet is? Gary Taubes? (Note I have the opposite problem of most - I need to be able to keep weight *on*. I currently do that by eating cheeseburgers and ice cream.)

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (KRE4Q)

298 I hope our current junta "leaders" (Bidens, Pelosis, Schumers, Warrens, etc.) are paying attention to this.

This is what the future holds for you, if you're lucky. (Drawing and quartering and heads on pikes, if you're not so lucky).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (k4dH2)

299 got here late...

what happened, Minister of Truth's house was set aflame?

must be those Mega-MAGAs again.

Posted by: kallisto at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (DJFLF)

300 The Uniparty must survive. After all it's about Congresses priorities, not the people. We know what's best for you.
Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (T0jQj)
.........

Just wait till we go all Sri Lankan on your ass.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

301 What- you don't trust that octogenarian gimp, McConnell and his Number One Chinese Chicken Comfort wife?

Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (T0jQj)

302 The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.

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Had dinner once with a local home builder -- extreme survivalist & prepper who has his own stocked underground hideout -- and claims to have built a number of these for extremely wealthy celebrities like Tom Cruise out in the middle of nowhere on land purchased in flyover country.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (MESP6)

303 She had a red bikini awhile
Navigating a Lamborghini
She was not skinny
Because the bitch drank your milkshake.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (J8LnB)

304 Doubt that wheat is addictive? Ever wonder why you can't stop eating that huge bag of pretzels? Enjoy your insulin roller coaster, sucker.

There is a desperate need for a return to traditional diets everywhere on this planet.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (1dzqn)

except that bread has been a staple of the human diet since civilization began.

now, if you want to argue that wheat now is different and causes this, you might have an argument, but to simply say wheat causes all our problems? not going to buy it.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (WhsXQ)

305 This is terrible news. Where can we go for supple young boys now?!?

Posted by: Athur C Clarke at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (ESjRY)

306 Sri Lanka pronunciation key sounds like keev-lanka.

Posted by: 13times at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (hLlnK)

307 Left is not a political philosophy it is a religion.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (eJn7u)

I always wanted to posit that to Christopher Hitchens.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (H8QX8)

308 I am doing chores but visions of pelosi, graham, schumer, et al running from mobs has me giggling like a school kid.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (anj39)

309 My understanding of that is that the environmentalists got legislation to stop that practice because "won't someone think of the spotted owl, the snail darter, the Barton Creek Salamander..."
Posted by: Darth Randall at May 16, 2022 01:14 PM (aSPkM)

Save the Galloway Belted Cow...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (BgMrQ)

310 The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:11 PM (DU+/6)

Is all good.

Sanctions and deportations.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (MkuC5)

311 What- you don't trust that octogenarian gimp, McConnell and his Number One Chinese Chicken Comfort wife?
Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (T0jQj)

He has a wife$? A female?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (eGTCV)

312 269 241 suddenly I'm worried about the Amish. somebody might have to protect them.
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 16, 2022 01:10 PM (w0NJk)

Given the number of Amish I've seen at gun shows, I'd wager they're able to protect themselves.
Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 01:13 PM (cTCuP)

I just got back from a weekend at Tampa. As I left my hotel, folks were just checking in for the SOFIC conference taking place starting today.

I reckon that my hotel is now the safest place in the USA right now. Lots of large, corn-fed warriors roaming the corridors.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (+HDd8)

313 I need to be able to keep weight *on*. I currently do that by eating cheeseburgers and ice cream.)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (KRE4Q)

Same problem. I solved it with fudge bars.

Posted by: creeper at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (cTCuP)

314 Do you think McCarthy is the bottom guy or is that Luntz? Disgusting I know, but I just want to know whose calling the holes.

Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (T0jQj)

315 Government ban to save Gaia.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM (ZGrMX)
______

Silly Sri Lanka govt officials bought the rising sea levels due to climate change lie. That and the sweet, sweet lucre from the globalist to run the experiment.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (fs1hN)

316 Maybe the locals could sacrifice them to a volcano.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 12:41 PM (b2nrj)

They're hungry, not out of orange soda.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (uvymP)

317 It's not that organics don't work. It's the scale. They got higher crop yields with inorganics, which supported more people. And they were able to export (mostly tea, I think). Lower yields means less food and fewer exports. It should be a cautionary tale about the new green deal.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (5HBd1)

This 110%.

gains in corp yield using modern farming practices and inorganics is a triumph of Capitalism.

Posted by: Archer at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (gmo/4)

318 "Ukrainians remind us that well-trained, motivated, and courageous small teams of combatants ... can nullify vast military investment and manpower."

(unspoken) "with under the table help from most of western Europe and the US."

So? We're in the process of destroying the military of our main adversary over the last 75 years, for the very small sum of $40B. I can live with that.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (ZsR3z)

319 Don't worry. Republicans will tell you what their plan is once you elect them. Now, pull my finger.
Posted by: Typical Congress Shitbag at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (T0jQj)
.........

Don't you want me to Send Money?

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (v0R5T)

320 136 I'm a little surprised a third world country would go green.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 12:56 PM (eGTCV)

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Imagine the millions they got for "going Green" from around the world. Where do you think the politicians get the money to afford Lamborghini's?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (DcKNO)

321 I think their will be a chain reaction, but the one country that will not halt wheat exports, the USA because we are dumb like that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (lgeFv)

322 Old: The government gave $11B to the Ukraine today

New: The government took $100 from each of you and gave it to Ukraine today.
Posted by: 18-1

$100 plus interest of your future earnings given away while prices are rising and grocery shelves are empty of essentials.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 01:20 PM (CwtvX)

323 284 It's not that organics don't work. It's the scale. They got higher crop yields with inorganics, which supported more people. And they were able to export (mostly tea, I think). Lower yields means less food and fewer exports. It should be a cautionary tale about the new green deal.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:15 PM (5HBd1)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Zombie Norman Borlaug at May 16, 2022 01:20 PM (+HDd8)

324 Hide and watch, ma'am.

If we get to akshually vote in November I will consider it to be divine intervention.
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (MkuC5)

Applications for 'Permanent Mail-In Vote' status were mailed to my 18+ household members last week from the State of Illinois. One member is registered in another state now. Not that it would matter. Conveniently, they can all be filled out on-line or mailed in or hell- both - why not?

But we'll get em in 2022/2024 guys!

Posted by: DaisyB at May 16, 2022 01:20 PM (Hswbs)

325 They got higher crop yields with inorganics, which supported more people. And they were able to export (mostly tea, I think). Lower yields means less food and fewer exports.

It should be a cautionary tale about the new green deal.

Posted by: Notsothoreau




I can guarantee you that that is one lesson that will NOT be learned.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2022 01:20 PM (5kI0z)

326 As someone who grew up on a farm, the idea that a country would switch to total organic farming is absolutely hilarious.


Posted by: Azathoth at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (wb1YC)

327
Unpopular take: Wheat is poison, and if this crisis forces people to find other sources of food, so much the better.

The real crime here is that people have become so complacent that they have developed an existential dependence on a food that is objectively terrible for their bodies. But wheat is very profitable and it's addictive like sugar, so it's been foisted on us through propaganda like the food pyramid.

Doubt that wheat is addictive? Ever wonder why you can't stop eating that huge bag of pretzels? Enjoy your insulin roller coaster, sucker.

There is a desperate need for a return to traditional diets everywhere on this planet.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus

I've heard you on Coast to Coast AM!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (63Dwl)

328 298 I hope our current junta "leaders" (Bidens, Pelosis, Schumers, Warrens, etc.) are paying attention to this.

This is what the future holds for you, if you're lucky. (Drawing and quartering and heads on pikes, if you're not so lucky).
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (k4dH2)

Actually, and this is something I have thought about watching liberals for 30 years, they WANT this. They want to have americans rioting in the streets and going hungry. They think it is a crime against humanity that americans (through the blood sweat and tears of generations) have so much and want for so little.

Sure, they want the choas so they can finally have their commie dreams, but just as much they want to hurt americans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (dNqv+)

329 " they were able to export (mostly tea, I think)"

I guess if you go organic, it cuts your yield. But if you can print "Organic" on the fancy colorful box of tea, you can jack up the price more than enough to make up for the yield loss.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (qpX6U)

330 So? We're in the process of destroying the military of our main adversary over the last 75 years, for the very small sum of $40B. I can live with that.
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So what do you do when China takes out Russias Far East?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (D8mow)

331 I am doing chores but visions of pelosi, graham, schumer, et al running from mobs has me giggling like a school kid.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2022 01:18 PM (anj39)

They've looted the congressional liquor store! Run!

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (wBpKf)

332 I find that The New Neo has a wonderful combination of smart proprietress, and smart commenters. For my money, second only to AoSHQ.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (+HDd

I met Neo several years ago. She is a lovely, witty lady.

I find her commenters to be rather full of themselves. I also know a number of them think the HQ is witlessly juvenile.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (2JVJo)

333 I guess if you go organic, it cuts your yield. But if you can print "Organic" on the fancy colorful box of tea, you can jack up the price more than enough to make up for the yield loss.
Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (qpX6U)
++++
Except they clearly couldn't, or they wouldn't be out of Forex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (DU+/6)

334 Silly Sri Lanka govt officials bought the rising sea levels due to climate change lie. That and the sweet, sweet lucre from the globalist to run the experiment.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (fs1hN)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (dNqv+)

335 Since when did Teh Ewok start reading his own blog?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 16, 2022 01:08 PM

It ain't easy being the Ghost of Endor.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (a3Q+t)

336 So? We're in the process of destroying the military of our main adversary over the last 75 years, for the very small sum of $40B. I can live with that.

Thanks, boss!

Posted by: China, Hungrily Coveting Siberia! at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (I2/tG)

337 Imagine the millions they got for "going Green" from around the world. Where do you think the politicians get the money to afford Lamborghini's?

Posted by: Seems Legit



That is the key takeaway.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (5kI0z)

338 surely not the first:

"Unexpectedly !"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez -gaslighted?, more like napalmed at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (xgWxi)

339 when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security.

"cut this line, its speculative and predictive rather than reporting. Keep your religious zealotry out of my newspaper"
--Grizzled old news editor

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

340 >>>Wyatt, why didn't you have an expert badge?---

Because he knew it would disqualify him from being a cop😄
Posted by: OneEyedJack


For cripes sake, I'm senile. I have the Expert, but missed Distinguished by one round. The instructor behind me laughed and said, "Ah, so close."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (VWp7G)

341 Wheat IS a traditional diet. What do you think Jacob stockpiled for Pharoah? They ate wheat and barley. And just a reminder, the reason grains are important is because you can store them to get through hard times. You will not make it trying to stay on a Paleo diet.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (5HBd1)

342 329 " they were able to export (mostly tea, I think)"
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Hopefully they don't supply Luzianne Tea. That would cause a yuge world war.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (D8mow)

343 >>> 10 Revolutions are made by hungry people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

Unpossible!

We are SMAAAHHHHRRT.

Posted by: Great Resetters at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (llON8)

344 So what do you do when China takes out Russias Far East?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (D8mow)
++++
Celebrate another victory of international economic cooperation. China won't invade eastern Russia. They won't need to. Russia needs to realign and needs a partner. China will be that partner - for a price.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (DU+/6)

345 291 We look forward to this coming Time of Plenty.

Posted by: Worms and Buzzards at May 16, 2022 01:16 PM (PE0d1)

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Heh. Also, your hash reads like one from the North American Man+Boy Lincoln Association.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (MESP6)

346 "What do you think Jacob stockpiled for Pharoah?"

Cubits?

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (qpX6U)

347 273 There is a desperate need for a return to traditional diets everywhere on this planet.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus

The Sri Lankan's are showing exactly how that works out.

_________

I didn't say a return to stone-age agriculture, which is a Luddite green fascist fantasy.

Modern farming techniques are a miracle. The actual foods that are being grown, OTOH, are abominations. Wheat as we know it today doesn't remotely resemble the grains our ancestors ate. But factory wheat farming is immensely profitable for Monsanto et. al. and their patented seeds, so you don't find modern farms growing heirloom grains.

Like so many other aspects of modern life, we've been swindled.

Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (1dzqn)

348 So Somalia is where we are sending troops????

Posted by: MAC V SOG at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (P4Pk9)

349 China, Hungrily Coveting Siberia!

Hey, who do you think benefited most from the US overthrow of Saddam Hussein?

Posted by: Your Buddies In Iran! at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (I2/tG)

350 Had dinner once with a local home builder -- extreme survivalist & prepper who has his own stocked underground hideout -- and claims to have built a number of these for extremely wealthy celebrities like Tom Cruise out in the middle of nowhere on land purchased in flyover country.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:17 PM (MESP6)

Hmm, hopefully these shelters cannot be reached easily. It's one thing to try to ride out an apocalypse in an underground shelter, but then add the stress of dozens, hundreds, thousands(?) of people looking for it and threatening to blow it asunder.

As with everything in life, it's wise for preppers/survivalists to not show their power level ie announce to everyone exactly what they have.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (Rl7KJ)

351 "cut this line, its speculative and predictive rather than reporting. Keep your religious zealotry out of my newspaper"
--Grizzled old news editor
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (KZzsI)
++++
That guy never stepped foot through the door at the NYT. He's never even had a cup of coffee in their cafe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (DU+/6)

352 So what do you do when China takes out Russias Far East?

Interesting thought, but why would I have to do anything. How do you suppose Russia would respond? Nuclear-armed Russia. Humiliated nuclear-armed Russia. My guess is that the Chinese wouldn't be so stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (ZsR3z)

353 They've looted the congressional liquor store! Run!

Ever since Pelosi's liquor store was announced I've had visions of a repeat of Jan. 6th, except everyone just walks into the liquor store, takes everything, and leaves. The media claims of it being the end of Our Democracy would be hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (ZGrMX)

354 "Sri Lanka's Ruling Family Is in Hiding Due to... Hikes in Fuel Prices and Food Costs"

Can't happen here! The US economy is BOOMING under the capable leadership of President Biden! For example, the US produced more cotter pins in President Biden's first 15 months in office than were made in the first 16 months of his predecessor's term!

Posted by: Ron Klain at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (PgcHQ)

355 The instructor behind me laughed and said, "Ah, so close."
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (VWp7G)

Sometimes I hate those guys...

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (MkuC5)

356 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 16, 2022 12:48 PM (7qa4X)

Thanks for doing that dirty work for us!

Posted by: m at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (nIvvp)

357 You will not make it trying to stay on a Paleo diet.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (5HBd1)

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Cannibal Bob will outlive us all ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (MESP6)

358 (unspoken) "with under the table help from most of western Europe and the US."

So? We're in the process of destroying the military of our main adversary over the last 75 years, for the very small sum of $40B. I can live with that.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (ZsR3z)

I think that the point was that it was not just a bunch of pluck upstart former colonials with their personal arms handing Russia their asses. Modern weaponry and intel will not be distributed here.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (SH2Zi)

359 Revolutions are made by hungry people. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

Mobs are made of hungry people, revolutionaries use mobs.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (xhaym)

360 Was it an electric Lamborghini? Because it would just set itself on fire.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

361 For cripes sake, I'm senile. I have the Expert, but missed Distinguished by one round. The instructor behind me laughed and said, "Ah, so close."
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In the Marines your rifle badge was determined on which relay you were on. Early morning - everyone's an Expert. Midmorning - everyone's a Sharpshooter. Afternoon - everyone's a Marksman. The winds affect 5.56mm heavily.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (D8mow)

362 I find her commenters to be rather full of themselves. I also know a number of them think the HQ is witlessly juvenile.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (2JVJo)

Hah! He said wit which rhymes with tit!

Boob thread!

https://tinyurl.com/2p8prvzc

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (dNqv+)

363 I can guarantee you that that is one lesson that will NOT be learned.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2022 01:20 PM

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (a3Q+t)

364 So Somalia is where we are sending troops????

Ilhan Omar insisted!

Guess which Somali clan will get the contracts to supply the American troops?

Posted by: The Swamp! at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (I2/tG)

365 It's not that organics don't work. It's the scale. They got higher crop yields with inorganics, which supported more people. And they were able to export (mostly tea, I think). Lower yields means less food and fewer exports. It should be a cautionary tale about the new green deal.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward

Sri Lanka is on the equator, virtually. There is about 20 minutes difference in the length of the day between the Winter solstice and the Summer solstice.
Every day is like a hot, humid day in July, except rainy season, where it rains so hard for two hours you can't see your hand in front of your face. Then the sun comes out and it gets hot again
I could actually not imagine an effect from "global warming" having on Sri Lanka. It's hot there all the time.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (vcOmj)

366 Incompetence and in denial is what apologists like to call corruption.

Posted by: davidt at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (sReZj)

367 The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

***

"Everything's gone to shit but we're locked in our safe secure hideout with plenty of food, medicines, and anything else we need! Yep, that's right. Just all of us rich guys and gals and our big weightlifting fully armed bodyguards!"


Posted by: Azathoth at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (wb1YC)

368 "That guy never stepped foot through the door at the NYT. He's never even had a cup of coffee in their cafe."

That kind of journalist never existed. It's a myth created by journalists.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:26 PM (qpX6U)

369 >>>Sometimes I hate those guys...
Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida


Took the badge course as a recruit. I couldn't tell him to F off at that point. He is the guy who started calling my Wyatt, though, because when I was young I was a pretty good shooter.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:26 PM (VWp7G)

370 Like so many other aspects of modern life, we've been swindled.

Posted by: Glutenus Maximus

No, people voluntarily take the lower food prices that go with GMOs and modern farming. If they didn't, the whole organic farming thing would be much more popular. Everyone isn't a victim.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:26 PM (ZsR3z)

371 China will be that partner - for a price.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

All your wheat belong to us.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 01:26 PM (CwtvX)

372 Hah! He said wit which rhymes with tit!

Boob thread!

https://tinyurl.com/2p8prvzc
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (dNqv+)
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That is a paper-thin excuse. Nicely done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:26 PM (DU+/6)

373 For traditional diets? https://www.westonaprice.org/

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:26 PM (5HBd1)

374 Shame about that fleet of sports cars, but at least we know where they spent our aid money.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (vN+oL)

375 362 I find her commenters to be rather full of themselves. I also know a number of them think the HQ is witlessly juvenile.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (2JVJo)

Hah! He said wit which rhymes with tit!

Boob thread!

https://tinyurl.com/2p8prvzc
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (dNqv+)

Q.E.D., folks.

Posted by: A New Neo Commenter at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (+HDd8)

376 Nuclear-armed Russia. Humiliated nuclear-armed Russia.

That logic wouldn't apply to what we're doing in Ukraine, of course.

Posted by: The Swamp! at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (I2/tG)

377 >>>In the Marines your rifle badge was determined on which relay you were on. Early morning - everyone's an Expert. Midmorning - everyone's a Sharpshooter. Afternoon - everyone's a Marksman. The winds affect 5.56mm heavily.
Posted by: Puddin Head


Makes sense.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (VWp7G)

378 So? We're in the process of destroying the military of our main adversary over the last 75 years, for the very small sum of $40B. I can live with that.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (ZsR3z)
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I think China has been our main adversary for the last 20 years, and a destroyed Russian military benefits China way more than it benefits the USA.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (fs1hN)

379 Old hotness: We are all Ukrainians. New hotness: We are all Sri Lankans.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 16, 2022 01:28 PM (2mSQi)

380 Today, Sports Illustrated announced that Kim Kardashian, as well as Elon Musk's mother Maye Musk, have been chosen for this year's swimsuit issue.

https://tinyurl.com/38h3yuex

Posted by: redridinghood at May 16, 2022 01:28 PM (NpAcC)

381 I didn't think they had roads in Sri Lanka, just elephant trails.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:28 PM (v0R5T)

382 I didn't know that Dan Crenshaw commented here.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 16, 2022 01:28 PM (a/cEo)

383 Ever since Pelosi's liquor store was announced I've had visions of a repeat of Jan. 6th, except everyone just walks into the liquor store, takes everything, and leaves. The media claims of it being the end of Our Democracy would be hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (ZGrMX)

No, the Congressional liquor store will wind up like the Congressional Bank. Insolvent and needing to be subsidized, with a scandal about under age staffers getting liquor

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2022 01:28 PM (xhaym)

384 I will be sincerely impressed if the US does not cut off grain exports this year, and even more amazed if we do and it's actually enough.

This year gonna be lit, yo.
Posted by: Catherine at May 16, 2022 12:50 PM (ZSsrh)

Like we did with natural gas….

Posted by: 7man at May 16, 2022 01:29 PM (qwO6y)

385 Russia will never be partnered with China - it'll be its bitch. CCP remember Stalin stiff-arming Mao. Twice.

Posted by: 13times at May 16, 2022 01:29 PM (hLlnK)

386 But factory wheat farming is immensely profitable for Monsanto et. al. and their patented seeds, so you don't find modern farms growing heirloom grains.

Like so many other aspects of modern life, we've been swindled.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus

Not just Monsanto: the individual farms are profiting by planting these high yield crops or the farmers would go out of business.
They use those Monsanto strains because they get more crops to sell.

Have you any data to back up your claim that the current *wheat* is in any way inferior or are you just railing against "the man"?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 01:29 PM (CwtvX)

387 Celebrate another victory of international economic cooperation. China won't invade eastern Russia. They won't need to. Russia needs to realign and needs a partner. China will be that partner - for a price.
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You forget, China does what best suits China. My guess is we're hoping Putin nukes China to keep his head on his shoulders.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (D8mow)

388 built a bloated state sector, robust social welfare programs that exceeded the country's means, a large military and an elaborate series of postwar construction projects. As economic growth slowed, it kept borrowing to pay.

Was that wrong? No one told me that was wrong.

Posted by: Clinton J. McVain-Bush, McConnell Professor Of Government at Yale Law School and Unipaarty Junta Sup at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (MWUIQ)

389 ||Yes, storing large amounts of food in case of rare but devastating famine or sieges was one of the traditional roles of government.||

As seen in the classic computer game "Hamurabi"...

Posted by: moviegique at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (asXVI)

390 I find her commenters to be rather full of themselves. I also know a number of them think the HQ is witlessly juvenile.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 16, 2022 01:22 PM (2JVJo)

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Posted by: pookysgirl, protecting her lunch from a cat at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (XKZwp)

391 327

Yadiyadida the paleo diet! Let me guess... you're a gluten free person.

Posted by: Ziba at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (S1hrL)

392 Philippine Islands produces no wheat and hosts bakeries on every corner.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (3Or4S)

393 gains in corp yield using modern farming practices and inorganics is a triumph of Capitalism.
Posted by: Archer at May 16, 2022 01:19 PM (gmo/4)

That's exactly why we so desperately need to return to the old ways of primitive labor intensive local farming!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (hOUT3)

394 People take the lower prices and get obesity and health issues in return.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (5HBd1)

395 Hah! He said wit which rhymes with tit!

Boob thread!

https://tinyurl.com/2p8prvzc
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2022 01:25 PM (dNqv+)
..........

There's a baby formula joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (v0R5T)

396 If you keep eating dangerous wheat and its byproducts you will never starve. Come on people get with the program, its for your health.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (lgeFv)

397 Nuclear-armed Russia. Humiliated nuclear-armed Russia.

That logic wouldn't apply to what we're doing in Ukraine, of course.

Oh, it does, but there's not much Russia can do about it at this point. They started it, and their military is grossly underperforming because their own soldiers see no reason to die for this mistake. China grabbing a piece of Russia proper is a very different proposition. That would be nuke-worthy.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (ZsR3z)

398 Is it a congressional liquor store, or just expedited delivery?

Posted by: davidt at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (sReZj)

399 Second look at Tamil Tigers?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

400 To be fair, it was all bread and circuses for the people, that is until we ran out of bread and circuses.

You don't get the government you deserve. You get the government you vote for, or steal.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (+Odgf)

401 >As with everything in life, it's wise for preppers/survivalists to not show their power level ie announce to everyone exactly what they have.
Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (Rl7KJ)

It cracked me up a few weeks ago when a fellow Moron mentioned a YouTube prepper announcing that he would buy himself security during the Burning Times with his large store of wheat. I mean, how fucking gullible do you have to be to believe in that plan?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (a/cEo)

402 I like NewNeo

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (MW9MO)

403 354 "Sri Lanka's Ruling Family Is in Hiding Due to... Hikes in Fuel Prices and Food Costs"

Can't happen here! The US economy is BOOMING under the capable leadership of President Biden! For example, the US produced more cotter pins in President Biden's first 15 months in office than were made in the first 16 months of his predecessor's term!

Posted by: Ron Klain at May 16, 2022 01:24 PM (PgcHQ)

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The child & adult sex slave, trafficking, and drug importation (especially fentanyl deaths) is BOOMING, and The Cartels & Biden Crime Family have never been more profitable!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (iSdJW)

404 Which is worse--Joe's stupidity plus senility, or Nazi Pelosi's dementia plus alcoholism?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (eGTCV)

405 Bipartisanship: When the right does what we want them to.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (bg3iC)

406 374 Shame about that fleet of sports cars, but at least we know where they spent our aid money.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (vN+oL)

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Wait until you see what the Ukrainian political scum are driving, the level of whores (hot) and the vacation homes.

40 billion.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (DcKNO)

407 You forget, China does what best suits China. My guess is we're hoping Putin nukes China to keep his head on his shoulders.
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (D8mow)
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There is no chance of that being the real goal of this. For one thing, our ruling class loves China and is owned by China. For another, our ruling class isn't smart or clever enough to try to pursue a plan that complex. They are stupid enough to try something like that, but I don't think they're clever enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (DU+/6)

408 Sri Lankans should try growing vanilla. Everybody loves vanilla. One bean fetches $1.50.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (qpX6U)

409 That ain't a Porch -- it's a Lamborghini!

Posted by: just the punchline at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (Jtln5)

410 Today, Sports Illustrated announced that Kim Kardashian, as well as Elon Musk's mother Maye Musk, have been chosen for this year's swimsuit issue.

https://tinyurl.com/38h3yuex
Posted by: redridinghood at May 16, 2022 01:28 PM (NpAcC)


I can't wait to not buy that issue again this year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

411 Republican definition of bipartisanship:

When we do what the left wants us to do.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (bg3iC)

412 Is it a congressional liquor store, or just expedited delivery?

Posted by: davidt at May 16, 2022 01:30 PM (sReZj)


It's Drizly's biggest account!

Posted by: Archer at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (gmo/4)

413 Celebrate another victory of international economic cooperation. China won't invade eastern Russia. They won't need to. Russia needs to realign and needs a partner. China will be that partner - for a price.
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This sounds like the statements of support a team owner issues right before firing the manager.

Posted by: Billy Martin at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (MWUIQ)

414 The other doom for Sri Lanka is that they are borrowing from the IMF. And the IMF wants them to dump their currency and go with something else. That sounds like fun when you are having food riots.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (5HBd1)

415 341 Wheat IS a traditional diet. What do you think Jacob stockpiled for Pharoah?

What the ancients called "wheat" bears little resemblance to what is sold to us as wheat today, and the physiological effects of eating it were very different. Less gluten, less sugar, more fiber.

It's just like every other agricultural product we see today. Think of wild turkeys vs. Butterballs. Nominally, they're both turkeys, but they're not remotely the same.

Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (1dzqn)

416 There's an old survivalist saying from the '70s and '80s:

"People who turn their swords into plow shares will plow for the people who didn't."

Posted by: Azathoth at May 16, 2022 01:33 PM (wb1YC)

417 Carter Years: Even/Odd days for gasoline. FJB Years: Even/Odd Weeks for lunch.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 16, 2022 01:33 PM (2mSQi)

418 405 Bipartisanship: When the right does what we want them to.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM (bg3iC)

Where the Democrats get to be 'partisan', and the Republicans get to be 'bi'.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 16, 2022 01:33 PM (+HDd8)

419 411 Republican definition of bipartisanship:

When we do what the left wants us to do.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 16, 2022 01:32 PM (bg3iC)

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Truer words have never been spoken.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 16, 2022 01:33 PM (DcKNO)

420 So Soylent Green will be penciled in for December 1st?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2022 01:33 PM (MILwR)

421 You know who will be the last to cut wheat exports? The US, because we don't deserve the food we grow.

Posted by: Inogame at May 16, 2022 01:33 PM (53oGX)

422 Posted by: Zombie Norman Borlaug

According to my theology, no one earns his way into Heaven. But if anyone could...

Posted by: Oddbob at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (nfrXX)

423 Which is worse--Joe's stupidity plus senility, or Nazi Pelosi's dementia plus alcoholism?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 01:31 PM

Embrace the power, the magic, the magnificence of and.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (a3Q+t)

424 Have you any data to back up your claim that the current *wheat* is in any way inferior or are you just railing against "the man"?

Almost all of contemporary wisdom about diet is pseudo-scientific bullshit. May as well start wearing crystals, getting your chakras aligned etc.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (ppBhU)

425 Wait until the grain producing states in the US start banning out-of-state shipments of wheat and corn in order to make sure it's citizens are fed.

Same for cattle.

AND oil.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (Qhnrt)

426 "Think of wild turkeys vs. Butterballs."

Teosinte vs corn.

Posted by: /dev/ttygp at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (qpX6U)

427 174 Off topic, but I hadn't heard Clarence Thomas' laugh before. Enjoy

https://tinyurl.com/3bm4jz88

oh ty for this
what a wonderful laugh
i love that guy

Posted by: Isolden at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (dB99g)

428 398 Is it a congressional liquor store, or just expedited delivery?
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Up until 'home rule' DC liquor stores charged no taxes. It was the center of liquor and wine on the East Coast.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (D8mow)

429 It's just like every other agricultural product we see today. Think of wild turkeys vs. Butterballs. Nominally, they're both turkeys, but they're not remotely the same.

Right!?

Posted by: Arthur Carlson at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (ZsR3z)

430 "Nuclear-armed Russia. Humiliated nuclear-armed Russia. "

Believe it or not there are a lot of Russians in their leadership who still have pride in the country. Not only are they distressed at what Putin is doing to their army in Ukraine, they are very uneasy about what looks like a sellout to the Chinese. Hence you are hearing rumors of a soft coup, not just from the Ukrainians but from other intelligence services. The problem is we are not giving them a way out. Brandon and friends don't want peace. They need a distraction. Disaster if that's what it takes.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (+Odgf)

431 There are other blogs?

Posted by: spindrift at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (h5TKJ)

432 Wait until the grain producing states in the US start banning out-of-state shipments of wheat and corn in order to make sure it's citizens are fed.

Same for cattle.

AND oil.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM (Qhnrt)
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With the amounts of federal money involved, the states don't have a leg to stand on. They might ban exports anyway and force a show down with the federales, but ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (DU+/6)

433 Let them eat bananas.

Posted by: Sri Lankan politician at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (v0R5T)

434 The actual foods that are being grown, OTOH, are abominations. Wheat as we know it today doesn't remotely resemble the grains our ancestors ate.

I think you can take this too far, but yeah on the whole, I agree. Part of the reason we have high yield farms is the genetic tinkering over the centuries to produce what we get, but I don't think that always has been best for flavor and quality.

For example: tomatoes. What we get now is low acid, high durability, and nice looking but virtually without flavor. Great for taking to market, not so great for your table.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

435 Agenda 2030: Lowering the world's population by 90%, eight years ahead of schedule!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (a4JaY)

436 It's times like this I wonder if the media/gov message on J6 backfired internationally. Think about it: you're a Sri Lankan, on the cusp of truly rising up against your corrupt, incompetent government. You hear that the Americans - the AMERICANS - are so fed up they stormed their own capitol in a violent uprising (eye roll, I know).

So that pushes you over the edge, gives you that last little boost. And ironically you begin a possible chain reaction of uprisings that may one day culminate in similar right here at home...

Posted by: Bruno at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (X1xq4)

437 Almost all of contemporary wisdom about diet is pseudo-scientific bullshit. May as well start wearing crystals, getting your chakras aligned etc.

There's a significant undercurrent of anti-capitalism in all of that stuff. They're angry that capitalist science actually works and created record food harvests while the Soviets mostly invented famines and gulags, so clearly something is wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (ZGrMX)

438 According to the sidebar:

John Durham is real.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (LvTSG)

439 433 Let them eat bananas.
Posted by: Sri Lankan politician at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (v0R5T)

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hahahahaha

Coconuts would have been good too.

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (DcKNO)

440 386 Have you any data to back up your claim that the current *wheat* is in any way inferior or are you just railing against "the man"?

Why, yes. Yes I do.

https://amzn.to/3lgQ5q0

Also, please explain the benefit of greater crop yields if the crop itself is not healthy.

Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (1dzqn)

441 What does Nazi pay for her daily jug of Grey Goose?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (eGTCV)

442 There is speculation that some of the gluten intolerance is actually intolerance to Roundup used on the wheat. Some report that they can eat wheat products from Europe, where Roundup has been banned. (This is gluten intolerance, not celiac disease.) Since it's really profitable to use Monsanto's products, do you think anyone will ever do an honest study of it?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (5HBd1)

443 Is bacon an agricultural product. Asking for a friend who draws the line at bacon.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (+Odgf)

444 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair

Corollary; also when their religion requires them not understanding it. See: Global warming, Wokism, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

445 ... Hence you are hearing rumors of a soft coup, not just from the Ukrainians but from other intelligence services. The problem is we are not giving them a way out. ...
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 16, 2022 01:35 PM (+Odgf)
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They never read Sun Tzu.
"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (DU+/6)

446 There are other blogs?

Hi there!

Posted by: Little Green Footballs, Amazingly Still Alive! at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (I2/tG)

447 The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe. The government types, though? Who knows.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I like post-apocalypse sci-fi

some have those people who dug in to hide out emerge into a world where they are unimportant, have nothing to offer and have no way to compete

Others they are exterminated because they have nothing to offer but competition and are unable to protect themselves

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (xhaym)

448 getting your chakras aligned etc.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 16, 2022 01:34 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Al Gore at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (a3Q+t)

449 I like NewNeo too.

But a have a cruel streak so I come here too.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (mxtfS)

450 NOOD. Lum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

451 The WTO is dead now, even though it doesn't know it. The first assumption is the only one that remains, and it was the stupidest assumption of all. Russia/Ukraine is just a warning shot across the bow on that once.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 12:51 PM (DU+/6)

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As the "free traders" are now all in on sanctions and breaking trade with Russia or any other country on the outs. It better be game over for the globalists.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (eMEkg)

452 Is it a congressional liquor store, or just expedited delivery?

The blurb I heard on Fox is that it's a physical liquor store in the Capital building, and members of Congress can buy things at taxpayer expense. I wasn't clear on if it was "free" to Congress or just discounted, but either way we're paying for Pelosi to day drink.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (ZGrMX)

453 Nood - Liz Cheney goes "woke", still a bitch.

Posted by: Thrawn at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (Rl7KJ)

454 They never read Sun Tzu.
"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."

They've read Sun Tzu.

However, they want World War Three.

Posted by: The Swamp! at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (I2/tG)

455 Almost all of contemporary wisdom about diet is pseudo-scientific bullshit.

Very much so. So many fad diets, alleged food allergies, and superfood nonsense out there. Yes, some people are genuinely allergic (or sensitive) to foods, but not nearly as many as claimed. Yes, there are some good diets out there, but 99% are crap. Yes, some foods are superior to others, but the superfood thing is just trendy faddish crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (KZzsI)

456 440 386 Have you any data to back up your claim that the current *wheat* is in any way inferior or are you just railing against "the man"?

Why, yes. Yes I do.

https://amzn.to/3lgQ5q0

Also, please explain the benefit of greater crop yields if the crop itself is not healthy.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (1dzqn)

You can get fat off rice too (sumo wrestlers do this intentionally and have for a long time). It's just excess eating of carbs, not that carbs are qualitatively different. People within the last century were eating lower sugar, lower carb diets and weren't as fat.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (b2nrj)

457 From the currently running anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These.

"People can survive without a nation. A nation can not survive without people."
- Admiral Yang Wen Li.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (MILwR)

458 Also, please explain the benefit of greater crop yields if the crop itself is not healthy.

Well, for one, we aren't all dead of starvation.

Posted by: Formerly starving Indian and Chinese peasants at May 16, 2022 01:38 PM (ZsR3z)

459 159 Brother informs me the NG are getting ribbons for J6
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 16, 2022 12:58 PM (DB16e)
I would not accept that one.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2022 01:39 PM (0OP+5)

460 You know what grain ought to be banned "Golden Rice" because it isn't as good as all the heirloom rice types!...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 01:39 PM (CwtvX)

461 No, it's not all pseudo scientific nonsense. Do you seriously think you can throw a few specific chemicals on the ground, year after year, and not deplete the existing bank of minerals in the ground?

Also, I'd suggest you pick up Dr Weston Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. You can see photos showing you the difference diet makes. And he did his studies in the 1930s.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:39 PM (5HBd1)

462 398 Is it a congressional liquor store, or just expedited delivery?
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Apparently the House has a new caterer that now delivers liquor to individual members' offices.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 16, 2022 01:39 PM (sWM8x)

463 392 Philippine Islands produces no wheat and hosts bakeries on every corner.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom
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Make Filipinas skinny again.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2022 01:39 PM (xhPWW)

464 It can't happen here. Probably.

https://tinyurl.com/yckzacma

Posted by: blaster at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (9otr5)

465 We're in the process of destroying the military of our main adversary over the last 75 years,

Russia asshoe. You and he should fight to last man.

Save women though, we need those.

Posted by: China at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (ESjRY)

466 Another ag problem is the bizarrely gigantic chicken breasts being produced now. They're the size of ordinary chickens, the kind of thing only turkeys used to produce. And they taste like sawdust.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (KZzsI)

467 Seems like serious socialism always comes with a side of its own Lysenkoism.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (krQz2)

468 "The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe."


Getting there might be challenging.

Posted by: davidt at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (sReZj)

469 The great dream of economic globalization and just-in-time supply chains for, well, everything was predicated at its core on three assumptions:
1. Large-scale war is a thing of the past
2. Free trade is ascendant and the use of trade as a policy or war weapon is a thing of the past
3. There are no negative domestic externalities

The third assumption was wrecked and obviously wrong by the late 90s. The first two have held up until now. The second one is now gone, and - as Ace points out - will get worse. And not just wheat, but likely everything. The WTO is dead now, even though it doesn't know it. The first assumption is the only one that remains, and it was the stupidest assumption of all. Russia/Ukraine is just a warning shot across the bow on that once.
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We've been heading in this direction on the first two by 2010 - it was obvious. Once the US tired of being global policeman, we were the only thing allowing secure trade routes. We aren't anymore, and won't start anytime soon. This probably also begins the end of DC as we knew it over the last 30 years.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (LyTO1)

470 So are we to surmise that with Congress securing getting bottle service to their offices, that we are soon to face a liquor shortage? You think that the baby formula shortage pissed people off, take away their hooch!

Posted by: Cheri at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (oiNtH)

471 Why, yes. Yes I do.

https://amzn.to/3lgQ5q0

Also, please explain the benefit of greater crop yields if the crop itself is not healthy.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus

An endorsement of a diet isn't proof; but, go with your beliefs and I'll go with mine.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (CwtvX)

472 Also, please explain the benefit of greater crop yields if the crop itself is not healthy.
Posted by: Glutenus Maximus at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (1dzqn)

Are you all in on the vax ?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (oc1LF)

473 Even though it is the world's second-largest producer of wheat, India consumes most of the wheat it produces.
.........

Well, if you're not going to eat cows.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (v0R5T)

474 Save women though, we need those.
Posted by: China at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (ESjRY)

China = Mars?

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (ZGrMX)

475 Goes woke?
That bitch has been woke forever

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (MW9MO)

476 And then the communists rise up from the mob and take over?

Posted by: wodun at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (lFga6)

477 Russia asshoe. You and he should fight to last man.

What part of Ukraine is doing the fighting did you miss?

Posted by: McCarthy and McConnell at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (ZsR3z)

478 because they have the easiest schedule in the league. Last year's schedule was also a joke. For some reason the NFL loves this shite team.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM

Not really. You play your division foes 2x and then rotate two other division foes. Rinse and repeat for other teams. Depends on what those other two divisions are record wise. Plus 1 extra game.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 16, 2022 01:41 PM (ZZAlD)

479 nood

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at May 16, 2022 01:42 PM (SH2Zi)

480 They never read Sun Tzu.
"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:37 PM (DU+/6)
____________________

The dems used up all the gold to build bridges for us to retreat across. Now they are using, ahem, organic fertilizer to build 'em. We might just stop retreating if that's all they are gonna do for us.

Naaah, almost had ya there!

Posted by: GOP at May 16, 2022 01:42 PM (fs1hN)

481 >>> 209 >>>I still can't believe the sports writers are ranking Philly as number 2 in the NFC East. What about Jalen Hurts do they think is gonna work?
Posted by: Puddin Head

because they have the easiest schedule in the league. Last year's schedule was also a joke. For some reason the NFL loves this shite team.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 16, 2022 01:05 PM (bkUtD)

This is a pet peeve of mine (and I should hate "your" team but I've stopped watching sportsball). The schedules are entirely based on a rotation. 1 home and 1 away game vs all 3 division rivals, 2 home and 2 away vs all 4 in another division same conference, 2 home and 2 away vs all 4 in another division other conference, and finally, 1 home and 1 away vs the two teams who finished same rank in their divisions as you in yours, vs the other 2 divisions in your conference. It's possible to fck around with the *order* of those games I'm sure, but that's it, and I think the calls during each game are where the BS can happen.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2022 01:42 PM (llON8)

482 There is speculation that some of the gluten intolerance is actually intolerance to Roundup used on the wheat. Some report that they can eat wheat products from Europe, where Roundup has been banned. (This is gluten intolerance, not celiac disease.) Since it's really profitable to use Monsanto's products, do you think anyone will ever do an honest study of it?
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at May 16, 2022 01:36 PM (5HBd1)

Maybe it's also time for a Darwinian clean out of food nazis.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at May 16, 2022 01:42 PM (Qhnrt)

483 To switch to a plant-based diet, we'll have to farm organic. Using all that manure from the cows we got rid of to decrease carbon emissions.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2022 01:42 PM (krQz2)

484 I wonder which is the greatest number in the US, Butterball turkeys or wild turkeys.

Yeah, I don't think this is the time in history to worry about where your calories are gonna come from.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 16, 2022 01:44 PM (lgeFv)

485 468 "The industrialists have bug-out complexes in New Zealand or Switzerland or other parts of Europe."

Getting there might be challenging.

Posted by: davidt at May 16, 2022 01:40 PM (sReZj)

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Amazon Drone Delivery and The U.S. Space Force FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun and games at May 16, 2022 01:44 PM (iSdJW)

486 For food allegedly becoming less nutritional, humans continue to get taller and live longer.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 16, 2022 01:44 PM (oc1LF)

487 "Think of wild turkeys vs. Butterballs."


Wild Turkey 101 vs. Valu-Rite

Posted by: Miklos, concept grasped at May 16, 2022 01:44 PM (TGZQB)

488 376 Nuclear-armed Russia. Humiliated nuclear-armed Russia.

That logic wouldn't apply to what we're doing in Ukraine, of course.
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Quickly pens a letter to Putin, expressing non-aggression intentions and includes map coordinates:
Dear Mister Putin,
La mia casa é la tua casa .....

Posted by: Ciampino at May 16, 2022 01:45 PM (qfLjt)

489 going to willow each thread today with

#FJB

for posterity and, well, something 'interesting' happened to me this am at the local non-ethanol source QT.

Posted by: micky at May 16, 2022 01:48 PM (3byMq)

490 So what do you do when China takes out Russias Far East?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 16, 2022 01:21 PM (D8mow)
++++
Celebrate another victory of international economic cooperation. China won't invade eastern Russia. They won't need to. Russia needs to realign and needs a partner. China will be that partner - for a price.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2022 01:23 PM (DU+/6)
==
Russia already told China if they make a move there, they'll nuke everything. So China isn't moving.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 16, 2022 01:50 PM (LyTO1)

491 IDK but has anyone checked? Looks like Minneapolis to me -

Posted by: Isolden at May 16, 2022 01:50 PM (dB99g)

492 to all politicians: heads up if you want to keep yours

Posted by: gov't here to help at May 16, 2022 01:50 PM (dhA95)

493 I think China has been our main adversary for the last 20 years, and a destroyed Russian military benefits China way more than it benefits the USA.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 16, 2022 01:27 PM (fs1hN)
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China's military is worse than Russia's - I'll be interested how much of the Chinese crap equipment holds up under stress - plus if we are going to have a global food shortage, China is absolutely fucked. Terrible agricultural infrastructure, reliant on huge amounts of imports - most of which are going to become scarce. Before the food shortage, demographers were saying China will shrink by half its population by 2050. That might be optimistic.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 16, 2022 01:56 PM (LyTO1)

494 I'd bet if the Amish decide they need to self protect they won't fuck around about it.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 16, 2022 01:57 PM (KATBx)

495 482 There is speculation that ......

Speculation ....
Let's get back to this when actual Science takes a non-biased look at it.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 16, 2022 03:03 PM (qfLjt)

496 Then came a disastrous ban on chemical fertilizers, as the Rajapaksa government pushed organic farming at a time when climate change was already threatening harvests and food security.
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Climate change? Really?

Posted by: Ciampino at May 16, 2022 03:12 PM (qfLjt)

497 sock off

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 16, 2022 03:30 PM (Jtln5)

498 WION (India's answer to FOX News) is covering Sri Lanka extensively. In addition to ESG and genocidal farming practices, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative plays a big part in the economic chaos there. The Chicoms offered big loans to Sri Lanka for major projects that all went bust. When the Sri Lankan government came begging for relief the Chinese essentially said "Fuck you, pay me!"

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at May 16, 2022 03:50 PM (gpGlO)

499 Is "Sri Lanka" the next thing we won't be allowed to say?

Posted by: Miley the duchess at May 16, 2022 04:17 PM (Mzdiz)

500 Maybe Biden will let them use his Basement then he can hide with them for the very same reason

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 16, 2022 06:13 PM (wGqjj)

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