Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

WTF, this bullshit again.

Let's see how long they can survive on thoughts and prayers.

Everyone ready to start intermittent fasting without choice?
- Grateful at this moment for my wife who grew up food insecure who stocked up several months of food. That will run out though eventually.
  
  I've been seeing a lot of tiktoks about raising meat rabbits lately
- I'm gonna combine it with intermittent non-pooping.

Any society is three meals from revolution

As someone who doesn't live in the US, I'm looking forward to watching this unfold.
It's going to hurt Trump. I'm sorry a lot of Dem voters will be collateral damage but honestly, an economic shit storm of biblical magnitude is pretty much the only thing that can save you IMO.
- Lmao hurt Trump? His cultists will be eating rat soup to survive and insist that the economy is great and America is on its way to being Great Again™, and that rat soup is just a necessary sacrifice on that path.
  
  After the great divide and maga has central USA, you guys can get back to work, but unfortunately the civil war is gonna suck
  
  The cultists, yes... but they're not the ones keeping him on his throne. If enough rich people lose enough money he will be impeached.
- It's unclear if it's going to save america, considering it's 1:1 out of hitler's playbook. He crashed the economy with tarrifs before going all in.
- As an American I agree, though I have to point out something those of us living this shit nightmare know...
  This won't hurt him. At all. His supporters by and large are what you'd expect from full on Stockholm syndrome victims.
  They excuse, Sanewash, and pretend it's part of some plan to make them great.
  His supporters? They can soak in their own bloodbaths and say it was Obama's fault or some Hillary conspiracy.
  The one issue voters who sat out last time, the middle of the ground twats who thought their vote didn't matter, the Palestinians who thought Kamala's stance on Israel wasn't strong enough... Those are the people who have to suffer enough to motivate them to not be so fucking indifferent to things they don't fully understand.
  
  There's a lot of folks who are either.:
  Vote republican by default, but a shock could change them.
  People who vote for our against the status quo based on how the feel things are going. Trump lost in 2020 in part due to people voting against whoever was in office. Hilary Clinton probably would have lost in 2020 had she won in 2016. Trump won in 2024 in part due to similar sentiment to vote out the current party after the inflation that was likely unavoidable consequence of not collapsing from COVID.
  Yes the MAGA cult is unwavering, and they are a huge factor in the GOP primaries and certainly an asset in the general election, but they are not enough to assure an election.
  
  IMO it's not really the MAGA idiots you need to worry about. It's the influential people in the republican party who are supporting Trump.
  You're right that the stereotypical trump supporter can't be dissuaded by economic hardship.
  However, the people that thought Trump was going to deliver them never before seen profits through de-regulation can very easily be dissuaded be economic hardship.
  An economic hole is forming, and if it's deep enough and wide enough Trump will be unseated.
  
  Agreed. After watching videos of people literally dying in the ICU being told they are passing away soon specifically because they got COVID and didn’t take the vaccine or wear masks and drank horse dewormer or whatever else, and when asked they said they were regretful, they all say “no,” I knew we were screwed.
  Hell, I had that same thought happen again when I watched parents whose little children died from Measles were asked “do you regret not vaccinating your now dead children?” And they immediately without hesitation said “no.”
  It is a cult, and they are locked in until they are all burned away like a literal fever.

They really want to pick up where they left off huh

i blame carter

I'm living the dream with individually wrapped quilted 3-ply tp rolls and $1.75/doz eggs. Current version of the us sucks balls.

The article is behind a paywall. Do you have other sources?

Let me put it this way. Today I spent over $700 on a massive amount of groceries and various toiletries.
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?
  Like I know you said groceries and various toiletries but the curiosity is tickling me.
  
  As an individual I spend about 100 a week on groceries. My guess is stocking up for weeks of food which I've been slowly stockpiling myself. Or a large family 4-5+
  
  Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?
  Eggs.
  
  A few dozen eggs?
  
  Could actually be a lot of canned goods. The top shelf stuff is like $5 per can 😳
  
  Probably a lot of non-perishables, or like those camping meals with a 10-year life span.
  
  Stockpiling
  
  Last time I was in the states I figured it worked out to about 100 per bag of grocerys.
  So they bought 7 bags. Or maybe 5 now.
  Easy to do.

- I'm going to make another sticker that instead says "You voted for this."
  
  I think the "too much winning" is the best
  
  Tbf, a lot of Dem voters sat it out, allowing him in. Don't forget that special class of virtue signalling moron.

Who CARES? I'm a Jesus Loving Church Going American and I FULLY Support this AS LONG as I still get to Bully GAY KIDS!
-LITERALLY Everyone who Voted for Trump since he LITERALLY CAMPAIGNED ON THIS!
- And brown people!
  
  For heavens sake Johnson, didnt your mother teach you that its a wink and a nudge. You dont just say that stuff out loud.
- A really stunning amount of people, when confronted with evidence during the campaign (i.e. project 2025 or tariffs or what have you) simply chose to swallow whatever one sentence dismissal Trump issued; "Oh, he said he's never heard of P2025", "oh, no, we don't pay tariffs, the company does", etc. I know a fair amount of them now that are quietly eating crow and upset with the way things are going. The hot new thing I've noticed with the more normal half of MAGA right now is trying to come up with reasons why Trump is "acting so weird".
  
  I could give them a few reasons if they're struggling to come up with their own.

https://archive.is/VUtGt
rump proves he still has no idea what a tarriff is:
“I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there,” he said. “And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I’ll say, ‘If you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.’ ”
- And then he makes the surprized picachu face when people shop elsewhere.
- Thanks for sharing the archive link!
- It's hysterical how he compares the US to a department store, a kind of store that is all but dead in 2025.

Y'all are gonna roast the shit out of me, but I really have a strong urge to buy toilet paper before all the weirdos start clearing the shelves (which I am fully aware makes me one of the weirdos)
- I mean this is the reason there are shortages. People fear shortages, so they buy extra so they wouldn't be hit with the shortages, actually causing the shortage.
  The whole toilet paper thing was hilarious
  
  Which is why I didn't say I was going to do it. I just said I had the urge to do it, and admitted it was silly and weird, we're saying the same thing.
- I invested in a bidet shortly after the pandemic mania. I laugh in the face of toilet paper.
- Just wipe your arse on the curtains.
- Bidets are good, decreases your TP expenses long term. Just a bit to pat dry.
  
  I wonder where most bidets are manufactured
  
  Having just spent 2 weeks in japan, I'm not looking forward to my first poop at home. Am going to be looking at cost of upgrading.
  
  I want one so bad, but I can't get the husband on board. I have considered just buying it and installing it myself via the "do it anyways and ask for forgiveness" method, but dunno if butt spray is a battle I'm willing to choose yet. I just want to convince him it's a good idea.
- Buy a fucking bidet
- Still have my emergency supplies from covid. During the really scarce time, I ended up buying some of those massive rolls that go in public toilets, totalled 2.4km of tissue paper in the box.
  
  Is that the stuff that needs 3ft per tear before it resembles some sort of protection against stinky finger?
  
  I also have a box of sandpaper
- Just take a shower of you're out of tp, you twat.
  
  You're so aggressive for no reason. I didn't even remotely suggest I actually bought the TP I was just commenting on my silly thoughts. Lighten up. It has to be miserable being so miserable.
- We chose to do a little bit of "buying ahead." Where I would buy one pack of TP, I bought a second one, and when we use the first I'll get another. Nothing we're not going to use within a few months anyway, not looking to build a TP throne but just a bit of cushion. We were already mostly doing this anyway since covid because it seems like there's random shortages here and there that didn't happen prior, or at least not enough to notice.
  Really, nothing beyond what I'd want to have for a natural disaster where we're on our own for a few days. Trying to be prudent without being a weirdo.

Glad I've lived poor. Can easily weather the tide
- I've always thought this shit was pretty funny. Like, oh, we're going to have spaghettio's again? I guess it's fucking Wednesday.
- It's kind of a sad superpower, isn't it? Especially when you see people who have always been coddled living in luxury, start complaining.
  
  I grew up poor as hell. I broke the cycle in my family just in time to have to deal with this shit. My garden is looking like it's going to do well this year and if meat starts getting scarce I can go hunting from time to time or get some yard birds from the friends I get my eggs from, but god damn (or maybe I'll go vegetarian, wouldn't be the first time), I just wanted a little more time not having to live hand to mouth.
  But I'll make it as long as flour doesn't get to be the price of beef. And I'll complain the whole fucking time.
- Have slowly cultivated my family's love of potatoes, carrots, and pasta for just such occasions
  
  Rice and Sriracha for dinner again!
- When there is a shortage of choice, with the same amount of people buying from a smaller supply, do you expect prices to stay the same?
- https://youtu.be/vSpn8HesfBE

- It’s all the drinking of liberal tears. And the drinking of conservative tears. And the drinking of the tears of the middle class. And drinking of the tears of poor people. And just eating fucking crow all the time cause he’s a goddamn moron. I’m sure there’s a lot of otherreasons. Those are just a few.

Why is he being allowed out of his room?
- _sad _richmond _noises
- They even let him back on twitter.