'There will be things that people can't get,' at Christmas, White House warns
www.reuters.com
White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn that Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.

Not just the UK anymore, the strategic treat supply in the US is now under threat from the slow collapse of global supply chains.

  • btbt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lmao remember when they were bragging about ketchup prices in july

  • CurlyHair [any]
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    3 years ago

    How am I supposed to celebrate White Jesus’ birthday without a mountain of cheap plastic crap??

  • Blottergrass [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Democrats losing a congressional majority, that they did nothing with, because Americans couldn't buy cart-fulls of plastic shit at Christmas time is perfect writing for this chapter of the decline of the United States.

  • StalinistApologist [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Remember, if you can’t get it at the store, you can get it directly at the White House.

  • Kanna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I thought communism was the one with empty shelves :thonk:

    • guppyman [any]
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      3 years ago

      Well duh Bidens doin a big fat socialism haven't you heard

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Nothing is going to happen. There will be a bunch of concern articles about "how to make do with less this Christmas". There will be a lot of hack Boomer cartoons and late night jokes about Santa having an empty sleigh. There will be some psychopaths who try to blame this on the dastardly Chinese.

      And then by February, there will be a new 🚨 BREAKING ALERT 🚨 that will distract everyone and we'll move on.

        • Blottergrass [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "Nothing ever happens" is the single safest bet you can make in the casino of politics.

        • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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          3 years ago

          This ain't my first rodeo. Everyone's still a little on edge from Covid, but much like the post-9/11 era, we're slowly entering an exciting new reality that's just like the old one, but worse.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        There will be a lot of hack Boomer cartoons and late night jokes about Santa having an empty sleigh.

        :sicko-yes: I can already picture the Kelly comics

    • supersaiyan [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There might be old people volunteering to do some of these jobs for free. It did happen once already https://scoop.upworthy.com/seniors-slammed-for-volunteering-to-replace-low-wage-workers-for-free-this-is-horrendous

    • meme_monster [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      You won't go to the store because they won't have anything you need so the worker shortage won't appear because they won't need workers to service nonexistent customers.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Now it is focused on getting ports and other transportation hubs to operate on a 24-hour schedule

    Truly only a plan the BOTTLENECK CZAR could come up with: just make the slaves valued employees work longer, worse hours, and for less pay. I mean what could go wrong trying to load/unload ships in the middle of the night, or for that matter all of the sleep deprived truck drivers who are obliged to operate entirely in darkness

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's a good thing there's absolutely no history of dock workers or drivers going on strike due to terrible working conditions!

    • ancom20 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      They could actually do that with the truckers, truckers already get special exemptions to hours of service (work hours) for things like oil production. Also another exemption was granted during covid. https://www.truckingtruth.com/wiki/topic-89/hours-of-service-exceptions-for-truck-drivers https://trucking.org/COVID19/federal-declarations

  • Sushi_Desires
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    3 years ago

    Treat Nation goes to Contradictionville

  • Snackuleata [any]
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    3 years ago

    Well darn this is the first year I really have an income to buy people gifts. Oh well, they already consider me a cheapskate.