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A Permanent Shortage of Everything
Israel National News ^ | June 19, 2022 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/19/2022 7:47:26 AM PDT by silent majority rising

(JNS) First it was baby formula, now there’s a tampon shortage. Tampon prices are up 10% due to the rising price of oil affecting the cost of plastic and higher cotton prices due to mask manufacturing and the war in Ukraine. A whole lot of fertilizer comes out of Ukraine and Russia. So does neon, which is used to make semiconductor chips. The chip shortage is shutting down car plants.

This is the thoroughly interconnected world celebrated in prose by journalists like Thomas Friedman, who marveled at how Big Data and globalization brought everything together.

“No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other,” Friedman once claimed. In his greatest paean to globalization, “The World Is Flat,” he argued that, “No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell’s, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain.”

McDonald’s in Russia has closed and the ones in Ukraine might be blown up any time. Russia restricted its neon exports while Ukraine’s neon exports have fallen sharply. Dell CEO Michael Dell has warned that the global chip shortage could last for years.

So much for the Golden Arches and Dell theory of globalist conflict prevention.

The world isn’t flat, but all too round. Much like history, which isn’t an ascending trend line to the right, but circular. That’s why Islam is once again at war with Europe, Russia is invading Ukraine, China is relaunching its empire and the “flatland” is experiencing a dimensional shift.

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Globalists were wrong. The world isn’t flat.And after selling off US economic sovereignty, globalists proved unable to maintain global stability. Op-ed.
1 posted on 06/19/2022 7:47:26 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: silent majority rising

They should think twice before stocking MEN’S restrooms with such nonsense. If not at least we can resell them.


2 posted on 06/19/2022 7:49:18 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: silent majority rising

As Mark Levine joked “’Big Tampon’ is responsible for the shortage of Tampons. Just as “Big Oil”, ‘Big Pharma’, ‘Big Baby Food’, and ‘Big Whatever’, are responsible for their shortages. Perhaps Big Tampon is trying to make obscene profits off of Women’s woo woos. The shortages are created by government mismanagement and interference.


3 posted on 06/19/2022 7:50:53 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: dfwgator

(Golden Arches)

See, now that’s why I like McDowell’s on Queens Boulevard.

They have a salad 🥗 bar.


4 posted on 06/19/2022 7:52:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: silent majority rising

In a somewhat amusing aside…the Biden Administration was considering “gas rebate” cards for Americans to offset the fuel prices. The thing that stopped the plan was not the lunacy of more free money….it was the fact that they wouldn’t get the chips for the disposable cards.


5 posted on 06/19/2022 7:52:59 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: silent majority rising

6 posted on 06/19/2022 7:57:50 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: silent majority rising

The globalists who sold out their native sheeple in the name of “diversity” can’t even imagine cultures that treat their citizens as real people with rights and national aspirations.

Note:

China does not discriminate against and demonize ethnic Chinese.

Russia does not discriminate against and demonize ethnic Russians.

India does not discriminate against and demonize ethnic Indians.

Japan does not discriminate against and demonize ethnic Japanese.

Middle Eastern countries do not discriminate against and demonize their people.

It is only the decadent Western oligarchs with their war on white people who pursue this strategy.

They are going to lose—because they should lose.


7 posted on 06/19/2022 7:57:51 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: silent majority rising

Saw a meme that said the reason there’s a tampon shortage is because we have more pussies in the America than ever before.


8 posted on 06/19/2022 7:58:57 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: silent majority rising
“No two countries that are both part of a major global supply chain, like Dell’s, will ever fight a war against each other as long as they are both part of the same global supply chain.”

That idea isn't new. In the years leading up to WWI, Norman Angell was arguing that the economic integration of Europe made war obsolete.

9 posted on 06/19/2022 8:03:20 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: maddog55
America has its 'Big Pussy'

PRC (Politically Repressive Canada) has its 'big pussy'

10 posted on 06/19/2022 8:17:10 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: silent majority rising

You’re so right. I think that knowledge is finally smacking the globalists in their vacant noggins that their plans are a detriment to a free society.

Anyone over 60 has lived through the problems of “globalization” and now everyone else is experiencing the mess too. Not to mention, it’s a National Security issue that we haven’t experienced previously.

We need to make ending this nightmare a policy issue starting yesterday.


11 posted on 06/19/2022 8:23:38 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Vermont Lt

... that they wouldn’t get the chips for the disposable cards....
________________________

Have they again played themselves?

Is the chip shortage + time to build new fabs + sanctions impacting rare earths gonna put a crimp in the proposed Digital Panopticon?

Asking for a friend.


12 posted on 06/19/2022 8:23:57 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: silent majority rising
Hmmm, we have "operation fly formula"...

Might Bare-Shelves Biden announce a similar emergency importation of tampons?

13 posted on 06/19/2022 8:24:47 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: silent majority rising; SunkenCiv; poconopundit; Liz; caww; bray; butlerweave; Oldeconomybuyer; ...
We’re in a wartime economy because our system has become too vast and too inflexible to adjust to chaos. Biden keeps trotting out the Defense Production Act for everything until, given time, the entire economy has been Sovietized. The more the government tries to impose stability on the chaos, the less responsive and productive the dominant players become.

Behind all the brands on shelves is a creaky Soviet system in which a handful of massive enterprises interconnected with the state lazily crank out low-quality products from vast supply chains that they no longer control and feel little competitive pressure to perform better.

ping

14 posted on 06/19/2022 8:30:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Lady Justice a drunken whore, blindfold dropped democrats putting their fat thumbs on her scales.)
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To: silent majority rising

Baby formula purchased is for mothers who are ignorant and lazy

Recipe:
13 ounces of evaporated milk, 20 ounces of water, and 2 level teaspoons of Karo syrup to be heated together and divided into 6 bottles.


15 posted on 06/19/2022 8:31:16 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro-Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: cgbg

Well put.


16 posted on 06/19/2022 8:45:53 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: silent majority rising

We are MOST SHORT on MORALS since we kicked GOD out of our country!


17 posted on 06/19/2022 9:33:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.h)
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To: silent majority rising

“now there’s a tampon shortage”

Men and women are OUTRAGED! /s


18 posted on 06/19/2022 9:36:54 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: silent majority rising

I’m glad I got my new hot rod there are shortages and constraints on different functions and even line shutdowns 🤪


19 posted on 06/19/2022 10:17:41 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: bert

That is the way my Mom did it back in the early 50’s.


20 posted on 06/19/2022 10:44:15 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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