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Home Front: Politix
After trashing supply chain, White House official mocks consumers
2021-10-21
[AMERICANTHINKER] After wrecking the supply chain, the White House should be begging for mercy from consumers.After all, it was Democrats, including some in the White House, who created the supply chain mess, leaving mass numbers of ships stranded at ports. Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too...
went on extended family leave without appointing a deputy or telling much of anyone. Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s ruling Democrats put into place laws that prohibit independent truckers or trucks more than three years old from collecting containerized merchandise from port offloads. California Democrat union allies kept port labor at banker's hours, unlike their globally competitive rivals. Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
's Fed printed money to stimulate demand. Joe himself drove up energy and transport prices by halting drilling. All of this, and more, add up to a supply chain breakdown, courtesy of Democrats.

But instead of blaming themselves for their many failures, none of which was seen during the Trump administration, one White House official decided to mock consumers instead.

According to the New York Post:

WASHINGTON — Boiling down the concerns of millions of Americans about shortages of everything from consumer goods to food to holiday gifts from a supply chain crisis to its minimum effect, a White House official insisted Monday that the biggest impact will be a lack of choice.

Concerns have been raised by politicians on both sides of the aisle and businesses about the massive supply chain disruptions as the holiday season quickly approaches, with some experts suggesting consumers start shopping early due delays and lack of inventory.

But during a call with governors' representatives on Monday, Liz Reynolds, special assistant to the president for manufacturing and economic development, told the gubernatorial staffers, "You won't be able to get the jacket in 15 colors, but you will be able to get the jacket," a source on the National Governors Association call told The Post.
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Posted by:Fred

#7  It's been 'spot shortages' for months: want hot links, too bad. Want canned mini-ravioli, too bad and when it returned the canned chili macaroni disappeared... Hoarders my rosy red posterior!
Posted by: magpie   2021-10-21 22:34  

#6  Guess I'm a Karen for noticing half the beverage aisle is blank, or that cargo from China would rather go to Savannah than California.

See, the reason I can't get Tempura is all those Zombie Apocalypse Hoarder Types and their End Of The World Craft Station Bags. Those goddamed redneck orange faced imbeciles with their guns and trucks and finger painting.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-10-21 17:03  

#5  With these effn people, in a month they will be strongly suggesting you turn in your extra jackets for equal distribution.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-10-21 13:18  

#4   "You won't be able to get the jacket in 15 colors, but you will be able to get the jacket,"

That used to be the difference between capitalist counties and communist ones. Except that very quickly countries that went communist couldn’t supply any jackets at all.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-10-21 13:08  

#3  "You won't be able to get the jacket in 15 colors, but you will be able to get the jacket,"

Yeah. It comes in Squid Game Turquoise.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-10-21 11:29  

#2  God these characters are disgusting. Honestly, what normal person contemplating this disaster would say such revoltingly stupid things?

This is an economic Katrina (Latrina"??). An unmitigated disaster. It would qualify under law or insurance policies as an example of force majeur.

As with any such incident, we understand that no individual or individual decision is to blame. No one needs happy talk or spinning. We just need serious, responsible, mature adults to face the situation, roll up their sleeves and start fixing matters.

Which of course is way too much to demand when your nation is ruled by contemptuous, corrupt, depraved morons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-10-21 02:05  

#1  Good Morning Venezuela!
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-10-21 00:20  

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