good grief.
Steve
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We should expect an increase in the online searches for bidets.
One catastrophe after another, some real, some not, all meant to keep us scared, fighting each other, and distracted from the crime that’s really going on.
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Tariffs up the wazoo
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and enough laughter to make 20 characters
When headlines are not just clickbait but outright lies:
10 Countries Warning their Citizens not to Visit the United States
These 10 Countries are giving their citizens money and time saving advice, a most laudable service. They are informing their citizens that the US is enforcing their border-crossing laws and should visitors not comply with these laws they will not be allowed to enter the country even when they have the proper visa. We talked about this in another thread.
Heed these warnings, save time and money, don’t be turned back:
Intentional or just a poor communicator?
The Captain
Interesting. Canada imports about the same amount of toilet paper as it exports. I’m sure there is a reason for that somewhere.
By far the largest amount of TP is imported from the United States (95%).
DB2
@10 am I will be in the Costco parking lot. The doors of the great store will swing wide open and I shall enter. Only to exit with toilet paper. We all have needs.
I need plastic trash bags from the aisle just before the toilet paper. To kill two birds with one stone is an honor.
On a Saturday? Boy, you are brave. Taking your life in your hands.
Thanks for the reminder that it is Saturday. The store opens at 930 am.
I need to run.
STEVE203: Why do you assign blame to “the media” for "stoking “hysteria”? And I read that as “inventing” a shortage that does not and will not exist?
Now, if you don’t mean to imply The Media is making it up you are admitting The Government is causing an actual shortage. (Their policies seem to lean that way to say the least.) Who is the actual originator or any TP shortage? If there is one wouldn’t people want to be tipped off? And if this story was buried and The People respond find no TP at the store, should we then say blame The Media and say: “Where as the media on this?!”
Just what are you trying to stoke here? HINT: Your answer will not be a good one. It will be a bent one. We all see that one coming. (Unless you’re just trying to be a wiseguy)
Toilet tot in the White House. Send all your USED toilet paper to him as NATIONAL SECURITY DOCUMENTS.
Stoking hysteria is what the media does. Remember when the “news” did not have a “severe weather” segment, every day?
Remember how the Bush #43 regime stoked hysteria by announcing the “terror threat level” had been increased, then, quietly, backing down the “threat level”, then announcing the “threat level” had been increased again? The mob was bombarded with repeated waves of “be afraid…Be Afraid…BE AFRAID”, which gave them cover for their police state tactics in the US, and made up wars abroad.
The media learned: keep people scared, and they will pay more attention to the hype and hysteria that the media feeds them.
A week before COVID came to Michigan, I was walking through the grocery store. I had noticed I was getting low on TP, so I went down the fully stocked TP aisle, and picked up a package. A couple weeks later, the media started screaming “TP SHORTAGE!!!”, and the TP aisle, that had been fully stocked, was quickly stripped clean, and stayed empty for months.
I don’t understand why you would style a simple recitation of facts as “bent”.
Steve
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the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
- H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women (1918)
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The key here is just to roll with the punches and not get bogged down in the details. No need to be flush with anxiety, we haven’t hit bottom yet.
There might be runs on toilet paper, so plan ahead to keep your backside covered in case the shelves are wiped clean.
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