by Kurt Schlichter
This holiday season, we all have to look forward to the faces of sad kids gathered around the Christmas tree, or Hanukkah menorah, or the Kwanzaa hammer and sickle as we must tell them that their favorite holiday is a bust because America can’t get the stuff it needs from China. Even leftists’ kids, to the extent the leftists managed the mechanics of breeding, will be disappointed that Santa Marx will not be coming down the chimney, redistributing presents on what our beloved Veep Kamala Harris explained was her favorite childhood holiday.
The problem is not the inevitable end result of outsourcing the manufacturing of pretty much everything to the Chi Coms across the ocean. The plan decades ago was to help make a backward, poverty-stricken enemy into a peer competitor by having its sweat shops do all the actual building and making for America, while we retained important industries like diversity consulting, inclusion consulting, and equity consulting, but that is not the problem. Nor is the foreign ownership of port facilities, nor the union rules and air quality rules and rules for the sake of rules that prevent the expeditious unloading of cargo, the problem.
No, the problem is you.
Your expectations are simply too high.
Like Jimmy Carter before him, our visionary president understands that making America function is hard, and therefore he needs an excuse for his inability to perform adequately at this basic presidential task. The excuse is that you have simply expected too much, like him performing adequately at this basic presidential task.
If only you weren’t so picky about bare grocery shelves and the lack of auto parts to fix your car – which you shouldn’t have, by the way, because of the weather – and not being able to get things at all that you used to get overnight, everything would be great. And by “great,” they mean, “We are not being held accountable for our failure to do our jobs.”
Now, Americans are the worst people on earth because they somehow got it into their heads that because of their hard work, innovation, and more hard work, they would be the most prosperous nation on earth. If only they would accept less, if only they would tolerate ineptitude, if only they would channel those happy people queuing up for their beet ration in Moscow in 1974, everything would be just peachy.
Well, peachy for President *.
Now, it’s hard to believe that a president with the kind of priorities this desiccated old dustsack emphasizes might preside over a radical decline in American living standards. When he took office, he promised a competent, stable administration of professionals selected based on only the highest standards – where their great-grandfathers came from, who they want to have sex with, and whether they stand or sit to pee.
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A differently-abled Maori lesbian Hindu whose pronouns are zip/zap for Secretary of Not Screwing Up the Supply Chain? Bring zap on! So many boxes checked! By the way, has zip ever, you know, worked with logistics, or is even asking racist?
Of course it is.
And then, naturally, zip will need to be AWOL for zapternity leave. Zap’s adopting a kid and it’s too much to expect zip to do zap’s job like zip was, you know, a non-member of the ruling elite.
By the way, my inconsistent use of “zip” and “zap” is literal actual violence.
And there may be literal actual violence, but like the real kind, if things get bad. Want to hear a riddle? What’s the difference between Los Angeles and Mogadishu?
About a week.
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A week without getting the food it needs to feed the millions of people who live there transported in. It’s not like much grows in our big cities besides bad ideas despite the sidewalks being strewn with piles of fertilizer.
Now, it’s not merely that our rapidly deteriorating logistical system is failing from gross incompetence within the government that artificially disrupts the processes. It’s that these systems – you know, the ones that feed us here in the concrete jungles – are hugely vulnerable to enemy cyber-attacks. Now China is not our friend – well, China is the friend of the ruling class in the way that Dracula was the friend of Renfield – and why should it waste good money showering us with the hypersonic missiles it’s building as we debate how to give more free money to deadbeats? It can just turn us off with the flip of a switch.
And then the fun starts, and by “fun” I mean bloodcurdling violence as people struggle to survive. The only upside is that I always wanted to become the Warlord of the Wasteland, so there’s that.
If this is true the fun has only begun.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shippers-fear-catastrophic-fallout-from-crazy-california-port-fees
“The plan decades ago was to help make a backward, poverty-stricken enemy into a peer competitor by having its sweat shops do all the actual building and making for America, while we retained important industries like diversity consulting, inclusion consulting, and equity consulting, but that is not the problem. ” But, we do still make hamburgers here and to make that a mainstay, the left feels it is a manufacturing job that deserves $15-20 an hour. The wage has to be inflated to ridiculous levels because those are the only jobs Democrats are capable of creating.
It’s amazing I don’t hear more about this, but while not being able to get gifts to exchange is bad enough, what about the jobs that are not going to be there over the holidays? Many part time jobs are generated by the Winter Holiday Spending Period (aka “Christmas”) and without things to peddle, there will be no seasonal jobs. It also seems to me that there also will be fewer FULL TIME jobs, as many businesses make their year over the holidays.
We just got the news of 2% growth last quarter. For reference, I think the “Completely Destroy Everything” bill is “paid for” based on something like 4% growth. Not off to a good start. Liberals aren’t aware of it, but taxes come from revenue and revenue comes from business. When there is no business, there is no revenue and when there is no revenue, that $7 trillion in fresh debt the Democrats are trying to stack up just this year is going to start getting ripe real quick.
You can’t destroy the economy while relying on the economy to pay for your wasteful agenda.
35% of registered voters want the election overturned. 27% of independents and 60% of republicans.
biden is toast.
And just look how important infrastructure actually is to Democrats. Just like with desperately needed COVID aid, Democrats hold it hostage to get their wasteful socialist spending in place first. Over and over, they prove they don’t give one damn about the American people; all they want is LOTS of spending where they can steal LOTS of money for themselves.
Apparently collective disaster would be just fine, if it could somehow bring Donald Trump back. This is abnormal psychology on a mass scale.
It’s not “just fine”, but due to idiot Biden, it’s here. Disaster, failure and misery is all Democrats bring.
Abnormal? You posted the results of the Wisconsin election fake audit with much glee, in spite of the report advising of dozens of abnormalities. Did you hear the latest? The Dems preying on dementia patients?
Preying on? Hell, they ELECT them.
Glad mine are all grown up.
Has America Gone Mad? Biden’s Presidency Now Being Met With Incredulity in Europe
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/has-america-gone-mad-bidens-presidency-now-being/91703/
They think America has gone mad, not Joe Biden. One possible diagnosis would be multiple personality disorder.
They think having idiot Biden as “leader” is a sign of madness. Of course, it’s not like he was actually elected; more of a coup of fraud, but it still reflects poorly on the nation as a whole. Totally embarrassing.
The government, like any supposed team, moves at the speed of the leader and not only do we have no leader, the puppet advertised as the leader stumbles and meanders at the speed of a drunken, dazed sloth.
It’s no coincidence that word “idiocracy” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/oxford-adds-1400-new-words-to-the-dictionary-idiocracy-makes-it-too/articleshow/66121097.cms
Oh, no coincidence at all. The left was in a PANIC because Trump was showing how easy success was; all you had to do is put the nation and citizens FIRST and not worry about getting richer and richer. So, they had to invent words, crimes, accusations and failures to try and make their own disastrous ideology appear better by comparison.
As one eminent elected British government official put it, “They are not back in any conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason.”
The original source of that “quote” was most likely Conrad Black, the Canadian fraudster who was serving a 6 1/2 year sentence in a federal prison in Florida until he published a flattering editorial letter about Donald Trump. Trump thanked him by giving him a full presidential pardon.
The “quote” appeared in an October 26, 2021 article Black authored for Victor David Hanson’s website, American Greatness. The quote was immediately repeated by multiple conservative websites and newspapers, none of which bothered to question who the “eminent elected British government official” might be, or revealed that it had simply been copied and pasted from Conrad Black’s article.
When you just make things up, you’re not really reporting news or doing journalism. You’re doing propaganda.
There is NO DOUBT that the entire world sees the weakness and incompetency of this bumbling regime. In fact, they don’t even appear to try to hide the fact.
The world pitied us when Donald Trump was in the White House.
“The world pitied us when Donald Trump was in the White House.”
The world RESPECTED us. Now they laugh at us and await their turn to take advantage of the idiot Biden.
I’m guessing you didn’t read many articles from overseas news outlets.
I saw enough to know they preferred having someone in office that didn’t care about the country to someone that put the United States and her citizens first.
Well he didnt pardon a person guilty of bombing the Senate , like Billy. Trade terrorists for deserters and entertain his Parents at the White House. We know that all Liberal news outlets do extensive research like with Russian collusion hoax and Hunters laptop. “Bombshell”, “the walls are closing in”montages of IDENTICAL language across every liberal network were quite entertaining.
Gosh Darn Greggie poo you were much sharper before your Clot Shot, I thought it was mostly women over 60 were troubled by that side effect.
You are really really slipping.
n 2010 he was granted bail while he appealed, and later that year two of his fraud convictions were overturned. In 2011 his sentence was reduced to three and a half years, and Black returned to prison in September. He was released in May 2012.
More time than Alex will serve for killing a woman.
Rutgers Professor: “White People Are Committed to Being Villains – We Gotta Take These Motherf**kers Out”
Two things:
1. The best, most memorable Christmas my husband and I recall are the one he had as a child in Missouri when they were so poor they split two scrambled eggs for Christmas dinner and got home made gifts. Mine was the one after we married during Carter’s worst inflation of my life (before this one under Biden) when we had a scraggly two-foot tall tree and I got fuzzy slippers. Our grand dinner was broccoli rolled up in those cheap veal cutlets they used to sell in 4 packs for $2, drizzled with canned cream of chicken soup (undiluted).
So, lacking goodies for Christmas might hurt blm, Dems, agnostics, etc., but it won’t hurt Christians.
2. Utah has aplied to become a more active “inland port.” TRAINS from the backed up Ports in So Cal can deliver there quickly then trucks – that might not be allowed inside CA (not “green” enough) – can then ferry the goods to the rest of America.
Of course it’s a great idea, so expect Joe to find a way to kill it.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/10/28/22751044/utah-inland-port-covid-supply-chains-logjams-california-goods-commerce
Well, Buttface was able to tear himself from his fledgling family long enough to travel (by a private jet, no doubt) to Glasgow for the “climate conference” because, you know, all those solar powered ships, trains, truck and planes used in the crippled supply chain.