I got word from my cousin, who is a longshoreman. On October 1st, longshoremen will be shutting down all East Coast ports from Texas to Maine. Nothing will be offloaded from the ships coming into these ports.
While some goods may trickle in from the West Coast, you can expect prices of those goods to double, possibly triple.
The rising cost of goods will be blamed on the Biden/Harris regime. This could propel Trump even further. My cousin believes that this strike could last a month or more because no one is budging.
Stay safe frens.
Canned food is cheap, dude. Planting tomatoes is cheap, and they grow fairly fast. It may not be luxury food, but you do what you have to do to survive. Do you think I like squash? Hell no, but I have squash growing for a rainy day, too.
The pandemic taught me a lot of things; I was so unprepared when that happened, and I refuse to be unprepared this time around.
What might seem cheap to you is unaffordable for others.
Not everyone has the ability to garden.
I've noticed that when a person feels like they are well prepared to get through hard times, that they have much less empathy for others.
We saw that during the pandemic. Plenty of Anons have been preppers for decades, so they thought that they would get by just fine.
But then they discovered that there were shortages they hadn't planned on. One of the biggest during the pandemic was medication. Know any diabetics or people with high blood pressure? Anyone on dialysis? Asthma?
It's rare that people are able to stockpile maintenance medications. Either their insurance won't cover more than a one month supply at a time, or their doctors won't approve enough refills at one time.
You can grow tomatoes from a tomato you get at a store; it's 50 cents for a tomato. Harvest the seeds and grow your own... I have empathy for children, just not grown-ass liberals who bring this upon themselves.
Everyone can garden, You don't need acres to do it... just a little 1 x 1 square area... heck, if you don't have that, just get some soil, and a pot.
As much as I hate the idea of people needing medicine, perhaps it's time for us to stop purchasing it from overseas and make it ourselves. We have become a lazy country, and globalization has made us weak.
Not everyone lives in a place where they have access to places to garden.
While a 1×1 Square foot of garden space might provide someone with some fresh veggies and herbs in the summer, it doesn't come anywhere close to being able to provide what people would need in order to survive a months or years long supply shutdown. Especially if it's a large family.
Not everyone has the physical ability to garden. I'm not talking about just the know-how or access to gardening space. I'm talking about things like being handicapped or elderly.
I 100% agree that we should be manufacturing our own medications. I just don't think we need to kill off a good percentage of our population to try to get that thought across, though.
I think you have empathy for children in a vague, abstract way. You understand that they would suffer, many dying, if things shut down like it's being described, but that doesn't stop you from having the attitude of "Fuck 'em if they're liberals, or if they haven't stockpiled everything they'll need in order to survive."