What Do People Actually Want?

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THG

Friday, May 2, 2025 12:57 AM

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My sis lives in a settled neighborhood, which has been fortunate not to have experienced either a housing boom or bust, so never had people moving in, trading up, moving out. There is one die-hard MAGA family in a sea of moderate Dems. Originally they were hostile to the whole neighborhood,
An entire neighborhood overflowing with Anti-America, Freedom Hating Libtards? And the one reasonable family was the ostracized one?
That's what happens when you're a raisin in a bowl of oatmeal.

Spooked By Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!'

Donald Trump's trade wars with China and other nations are widely expected to cause sharp economic pain, but some experts have warned consumers not to hoard supplies and goods before prices skyrocket, arguing that mass stockpiling could backfire spectacularly.

Well, many Americans aren't listening to that advice, according to survey data this year, instead preparing for the possibility of store shelves being bare amid a Trump-inflicted recession. Funnily enough, this includes a number of government officials and staffers working directly for the man who launched these massive new trade wars, all on the grounds of bad tariff math and the flimsy premise that he would bring economic "liberation" to America and make the country "wealthy again."

Two Trump administration officials and a Trump aide tell Rolling Stone that they have done some stockpiling of their own in recent weeks or months, and that they know others working in Republican politics - inside and outside of the administration - who are doing the same. One of the Trump officials says they have already run to Target to bulk-buy toilet paper, some types of food, and other household supplies.

When asked why they're doing this, the Trump aide - who says they and their partner have done similar household-supply hoarding lately, and are also "stashing cash" reserves in their D.C.-area home - simply replies: "Because it would be stupid not to!" The aide adds that they still believe in Trump's tariffs regime, though, citing the supposed advantage of "short-term pain" in exchange for long-term "prosperity."

The trend is symptomatic of a larger panic taking place within the Trump-dominated Republican elite. A significant share of the GOP luminaries on Capitol Hill, members of the Republican donor class, and some top-ranking officials in the Trump administration are privately (and sometimes publicly) extremely fearful that Trump's trade warfare is going to throttle the U.S. economy and further drive down his and the party's approval ratings ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/spooked-by-trade-wars-trump-of
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Do you think you'll ever stop making shit up comrade?

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 2, 2025 1:23 AM

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Do you think you'll ever stop making shit up comrade?

He asks unironically while posting an article from the Rolling Stone.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, May 2, 2025 11:09 PM

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Do you think you'll ever stop making shit up comrade?
He asks unironically while posting an article from the Rolling Stone.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Don't be silly.
It is very important for imaginary Trump aides who chat with RS stoners to stockpile their toilet paper.
In case the supply chain from China gets disrupted.
Then the toilet paper from China won't get to your store shelf.
Or the tariffs jack up the price of TP.
Even tho your toilet paper is made in Green Bay, or Appleton, Wisconsin.

Didn't Obama ship all our jobs overseas? Probably requires companies to ship rolls of toilet paper to China so they can get wrapped, and then shipped back to us to purchase - or to get hijacked in Atlanta.

So, let's see. Either some imaginary person worked at The White House really thinks toilet paper from China must be stockpiled... or some pothead at Trusted News Source Rolling Stone imagines this.
Whichever could it be?

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