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2023-02-21 Britain
It's here: let's implement WWII-style rationing to fight climate change
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-21 04:36|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 They'll tell us what we "need." Man appearing before the local Ration Board by Norman Rockwell.

Rockwell was a genius. Notice the man standing has his 'hat in hand.' Next person looks on, very concerned. At the far end of he table in a swivel chair, with cigar looking askance at the man standing, ignoring the dutiful civil servant. He's probably the local board chairman. Last member to arrive that morning wears a vest and is seated in a small folding church chair furthest from the chairman. A wet cold, nasty day.

One end of the room flooded with light. The other end, dark. View of the flag somewhat obscured. Rockwell catches it all.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-21 04:46||   2023-02-21 04:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Is the US facing a retail apocalypse? More than 800 big box retail stores are set to close across the nation this year - including Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart, Gap and Party City
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-21 06:32||   2023-02-21 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 [UK]Supermarkets ration fruit and veg as shelves empty in supply shortage: Asda limits shoppers to three items each as UK farmers switch off greenhouses amid soaring energy costs and Europe is hit by 'perfect storm' of growing issues
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-21 07:08||   2023-02-21 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I saw an exchange in the check-out line the other day — a young man, neatly dressed, with some canisters of powdered baby formula listening to the cashier explain that he could only have X number, and had to put the rest back. So for some things rationing is still going on here.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-21 10:00||   2023-02-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 I read story after story in selected media about lapses and failures of fundamental things always taken for granted in times past. Now, pervasive inflation, shrink-flation, declining quality, shortages in food and basic commodities, unpunished law-breaking, harmful public policy decisions at every level, DEI and ESG, dishonest or deceitful government explanations, horrible economic forecasts, foolish foreign entanglements and clandestine military ops in crazy places like Somalia and Yemen, and supine favoritism towards China despite endless bleating from Foggy Bottom Sheep like Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland. Behind it all the spectre of Obama 3.0 and the faces of Jarret, Rice and their minions still infesting the White House.

I have begun to wonder if this is what the beginning of collapse looks and feels like. Slowly and now, suddenly, everywhere?

The total absence of seeing visuals and hearing strident voices of masses of Americans marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in protest of all this frightens me the most. Has our national character really been this diluted and culled?

On Presidents Day, the Puppet appears not in Ohio, but Kyiv, buying a political theater moment with staged air-raid sirens, to utter gibberish, not encouragement to the people he purports to lead!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-02-21 12:17||   2023-02-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 back in summer of 2000 bath tissue was rationed, then it was plywood, then eggs, now baby powder
Posted by lord garth 2023-02-21 12:18||   2023-02-21 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 As Ayn Rand coined,

Return of the Primitive.
Posted by mossomo 2023-02-21 12:43||   2023-02-21 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 The current USA "democracy" is more evil than overt autocracy.
Because the United States "democracy" is dictatorship plus a large machine of deception and psychological manipulations, messing with people's brains by the entrenched bureaucrats in order to legitimize their actions , no matter how stupid and irrational. The elected representatives including the president are impotent and afraid, to even discuss or take actions (Trump)
It's very easy for the civil servants ruling class to create the image that what they do is approved of and cheered for by the public. You pay money to some, deceive others by fake news and blocking alternative sources, create social media bots, cancel and purge dissent. Only a brutal patriotic civil war will save that country
Posted by ACA JOE 2023-02-21 21:53||   2023-02-21 21:53|| Front Page Top

#9 And the man on the far left seated is Norman himself
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2023-02-21 21:59||   2023-02-21 21:59|| Front Page Top

#10  Only a brutal patriotic civil war will save that country

That is certainly one perspective. There are lots of steps before that, though. Especially given that this story is set in England, not America.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-21 22:00||   2023-02-21 22:00|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ Brother SPOD, thanks for your number 9. I had not noticed.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-21 22:06||   2023-02-21 22:06|| Front Page Top

#12 ^^^ Yeah, big kudos on that one!
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-21 23:17||   2023-02-21 23:17|| Front Page Top

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