Good news, if you're at DNC convention you'll be able to get a vasectomy or abortion right on the spot!

If it were satire, it'd be too on the nose.

But we're the weird ones.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Good news, if you're at DNC convention you'll be able to get a vasectomy or abortion right on the spot!

Drive thru vasectomies! What could go wrong?


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They took Tattoo Charlie’s idea one better.

From Robert Sterling on X:

What happens when government controls food prices?

People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Gonna get a half a beef in the freezer and buy up a bunch of fresh produce from the road side guy and start canning for the coming storm!

We shop at the online LDS store for canned goods that will last 30 years. Used to be that 3 months' food supply was prepping. then one year. Now you have to do at least five years and pray for the next election results, assuming there is one.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Gonna get a half a beef in the freezer and buy up a bunch of fresh produce from the road side guy and start canning for the coming storm!

Acquiring seeds is a good idea......might have to make half of the backyard a garden and greenhouse. This is also just the perfect excuse I need to get a crossbow for Archery Deer and Turkey season coming up.

Would have been interesting to see her as Trump's running mate, save for her checkered political past. I do like seeing her on the side of freedom. Hopefully she lands a spot in his administration.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The Harris juggernaut is chugging along, ain't it?

It's only August and CNN is already criticizing her commie shit.

That's the best news I've heard in quite a while! While I hate CNN, I'm thrilled that they are doing this!!!

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Would have been interesting to see her [Tulsi Gabbard] as Trump's running mate, save for her checkered political past

Word has it she is helping out with debate prep.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Would have been interesting to see her [Tulsi Gabbard] as Trump's running mate, save for her checkered political past

Word has it she is helping out with debate prep.

I can't help but like her. I understand her checkered record, Democrat past, but the fact that she understands that the Democrat party has become a radical Communist party where she is no longer welcome... it's refreshing that people can have their eyes opened and can be brave enough to speak about it.

Sometimes the strongest ally and friend is a former enemy whose eyes have been opened.

I just hope she continues to examine all that she once held as sacred, and jettisons that which is opposition of liberty, freedom as she sees it.

Every time I see her I think of Dan Aykroyd's reply to Jane Curtain on the old SNL Weekend update bit.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Sometimes the strongest ally and friend is a former enemy whose eyes have been opened.

True that. Some of the staunchest, most pro-America people I've seen are those who have emigrated (legally) from eastern Europe.

Maybe someone will commit a random act of journalism and ask KH or her minions to cite the area in the Const. which gives the feds the power to set prices.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
Maybe someone will commit a random act of journalism and ask KH or her minions to cite the area in the Const. which gives the feds the power to set prices.

They (Kamala Harris & staff) might cite Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.

By that standard, there is no limit on federal power. The Commerce Clause has been so distorted. Either way, the POTUS has no power here and Congress would never go along with it.