MAGA’s gonna party like it’s 2020!
“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.’ ” - Trump
What a god damn clown. I can’t tell if he’s to stupid to realize what he’s doing… or knows exactly what he’s doing, and giving the most moronic responses to his actions. Basically, I can’t tell where on the IQ range he is, from “can’t wipe his own ass” or “actual genius”
He’s exploiting exactly the same weakness that llms exploit to appear so smart: he just sounds confident all the time, and since people use confidence as a shortcut to evaluate accuracy, anyone who isn’t paying attention to the actual substance is going to just nod and smile at the confidence and assume everything is perfect.
“Can’t wipe his own ass” except he knows how to game the US system to benefit himself better than possibly anyone else.
I think they’re just trying to get us to panic buy stuff again
Buy them return if it does not happen.
This rhetoric is just trying to butter us up for the impending next round of price gouging.
If something seems too expensive, don’t buy it and opt for goods with less headway for markup. Start cooking scratch meals and cut out the prefab stuff; you’ll take more time for food prep, but it will save you thousands in medical bills later on.
Yup. Your new best friends are rice, beans, white sugar, molasses, (did you know that brown sugar is just white sugar plus molasses?), salt, all purpose flour, oatmeal, and lentils. Bought in bulk. And use your local ethnic markets for spices and bouillons; They’re often 3-5 times cheaper than your local grocery store.
You can just buy one or two things per paycheck, if you can’t afford all of them at the same time. Or hell, get some friends together and split a bulk bag. I have a 10 pound bucket of rice (split from a larger 25 pound bag) that I have been working on for literal months. A 20 pound bag of rice can keep you full for so fucking long, as long as you store it properly.
Then you just add extra things when you can. Maybe you have potatoes, an onion, a clove of garlic, and some pork this week. So you make a loaded baked potato soup. Also, learn to dress up instant ramen. A scoop out of a giant bag of diced frozen veggies will do a lot. If you can afford it, add a soft boiled egg too.
“Nobody has time for flour, cuz you need to wait for it to rise!” Use baking powder recipes, or flatbreads instead. Learn to make biscuits and scones, if you want to bake. Tortillas are stupid easy to make; They’re literally just flour and water, pressed flat (fucking use an empty wine or beer bottle if you don’t have a rolling pin) and cooked on a flat hot surface like a skillet. I could literally fit the entire tortilla cooking process, from raw flour to finished tortillas, into an uncut 5 minute TikTok tutorial if I wanted to. Congrats, now you have tortillas for 2¢ each, instead of a 10 pack for $5. And they’ll fucking taste better than the store-bought ones, because they’re fresh and hot.
“I don’t have a rice cooker so I can’t make rice!” Do you think people have been using electric rice cookers for thousands of years? My brother in Christ, people have been cooking rice using the “just put a fucking vessel over fire” method for over nine millennia now. Will you likely fuck it up the first time, and accidentally make porridge? Yeah. But that’s a learning opportunity, and you only spent like 5¢ making that mistake because the rice is so fucking cheap.
“I can’t afford fancy cookware!” Go hit your local thrift store. I guarantee they have an entire shelf full of cast iron cookware and baking sheets for like $1 each, that you’ll be able to hand down to your grandchildren.
How I make rice - it turns out quite nice every time -
1 cup of rice, 2 cups of water. If we plan on eating a lot of rice, 2 cups of rice, 4 cups of water.
Boil water. Add a pinch of salt, depending on my mood. Once water is boiling, turn heat down to lowest possible setting, put in rice, and put on lid. Set timer for 18 minutes. Do not open lid. When timer goes off, turn off heat, take off lid, fluff rice.
We could surely find a rice cooker, and probably a very fancy one, but I don’t really see much use for it and it’s just another appliance we have to find a place to put…
Also - it’s weird you bring up the molasses thing - my wife just told me about this in the past year when she mixed up a batch of brown sugar. I’ve lived for decades and had no idea.
Great. When do they start calling me essential then require me to work while everyone else is on lockdown?
Being called a hero want enough reward for you? /s
I see what you’re saying about this whole hero thing but how about instead like a few months just feeling like I belong in this world and enjoy existence?
Ok let’s not go over bored here buddy.
You can have an hour of free time at best
Fine but I’m eating cheese, then.
Pizza lunches for moral!
There are actually quite a few things at WalMart made in the USA. That was big news in the 90s? early 00s? Do stock up on medical supplies like diabetic test strips and maybe get that new glucose tester today. I bet business in Thailand and Cambodia booms this year.
If you deposed your dictator this wouldn’t be happening.
Nah, just roll over and yell “FREEDOM”.
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!
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”.
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.
I have the worst timing …. I’ve been trying to eat my way down to an empty freezer. I bought a chest freezer in covid and kept it full ever since, but it really needs to be defrosted. I still have more stuff in there than can fit in all my coolers and in the fridge.
But maybe I should restock while I can and try again to defrost in four years
Everyone ready to start intermittent fasting without choice?
It’s one way to lower the obesity rate.
Food is one of the few things we export more to China than we import.
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.
Faster than you think. I’ve lived off zero a few long stretches, it get really irritating when you realize you’re out of fat to lose.
I’m gonna combine it with intermittent non-pooping.
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)
Bidets are good, decreases your TP expenses long term. Just a bit to pat dry.
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.
Dude, trust me… that booty will love you. I never liked it, until my wife got me in to it. I feel fresher than ever.
Alpha bidet is where it’s at
just get one that fits under your toilet seat they’re like 40 bucks and take 5 mins to install
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.
They’re very easy to install. It’s almost as easy as installing a shower head.
There are also compact battery powered portable handheld bidets that work about as well as the real thing. I have one I take with me on trips.
I have a portable one too and it’s not exactly what I’d call discreet but sure gets the job done. Honestly can’t recommend it for travel though because in spite of the “portable” label, it’s terribly bulky and causes me no end of grief when trying to take it on an airplane. Your experience may be different, here’s the one I’ve got.
How many pumps would you recommend for taco night?
This is what I use at work:
It’s just a cap that you can put on almost any soda bottle or water bottle.
I keep an old 20 oz soda bottle in my office to use with it.
Great for travel and very discreet.
I travel with one of these. It’s much better than not having one, but the one bolted to my toilet works much better
Thanks for the recommendation, not sure it’s exactly what I’m looking for but I appreciate it all the same. Looks to be missing some key features (such as the carrying strap) that I’ve grown accustomed to.
Assuming your financial decision making for a purchase of that magnitude isn’t at the “we need to make this decision together” threshold: do it.
He doesn’t HAVE to use it just because you bought/installed it.
Yeah, I can get one on Amazon right now for less than $50, so I can definitely afford it with my own spending money. I really should just do it.
Get one with a heated seat and he’ll forgive you even if he doesn’t come around to the butt spray. Heated seats are something I never knew I needed and now that I have it I can never go back. I cringe whenever I’m at a friend’s house and I need to sit on their cold toilet seat.
Weirdo here: I hate warm toilet seats. When I sit on a warm seat all I can think about is the hairy, pimpled 400lb ass of the Iowa-bred long haul trucker named Rooster who just finished up his hour-long battle with the consequences of eating a 32 oz bag of beef jerky in one sitting, and is about to go troll for some lot lizard tail.
Doesn’t matter if it’s in my own home, warm seat = Rooster’s ass.
I like my toilet seat like I like my pillowcase - Ice fucking cold.
I gotta say especially if you live in a warm area…there’s no going back…bidet for life
What is his objection?
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?
Shit tickets and mountain money come in many denominations.
I did. I live alone, so a single bulk pack will set me up for another year - and I was down to one inner-pack left from last year’s purchase. So, fuck it, I’mma lock in my next year’s worth of shitter paper at today’s prices.
Went ahead and grabbed bottled & jugged water too - Not because I think I’ll need it in the next 4 weeks of market downturn, but because if anything DOES go wrong (spring tornado, cyberattack on utilities, etc.) at least I have some on hand.
Doubled my canned good stash as well - Usually I keep 2 cans each of “my usuals” on hand and replace them as I use them, so I made room and stuffed the cabinet full for this spring/summer.
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 was just adding to what you said
My bad if it came off as aggressive.
No worries
I invested in a bidet shortly after the pandemic mania. I laugh in the face of toilet paper.
Buy a fucking bidet
Just wipe your arse on the curtains.
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.
Anything that hurts americans is a good thing.
WTF, this bullshit again.
Well… look who’s president again. Just saying
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.
Yes, USD. I bought some fresh food (and do so regularly), but also a ton of non-perishables: lots of canned food, various kinds of rice, cereals, oatmeal, lots of water, etc. Protein and carbs. 48 rolls of toilet paper (I have a bidet so this will last me about two years), and so on.
I’m building up my reserves. I have a large pantry and several large cupboards to keep it all in, and could probably buy another $700 worth and have a place to keep it. I also cook at home for most meals and so I rotate through these food stuffs faster than you’d expect. There’s no canned food older than two years, and most items are newer than six months. I generally buy more than I need, but not usually this much.
I’m not a “prepper” in an “underground bunker” sense, but I do prepare for emergencies and instability, whatever form it may take: political, yes, but I also live on several fault lines, so “the big one” might happen at some point. In the winter, ice and snow occasionally confine me to my home for a week or two at a time. They’re all the same to me from a planning perspective.
The original price was $850, but I clip coupons and maximize sales and brought it down by over $150.
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Could actually be a lot of canned goods. The top shelf stuff is like $5 per can 😳
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+
Wild. Our house has six and I’d feed us all for the week for about 180 euro / 200 USD. We cook all our meals though, with some exceptions like occasional frozen pizza or chicken nuggets for convenience.
I spent a summer in the US in the late 90s and I remember basically everything being cheaper there at the time but we have lots of discount supermarkets here now that we didn’t then.
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.
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Glad I’ve lived poor. Can easily weather the tide
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!
Don’t forget the foraged ramps , dandelion greens and other foraged delectables…
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