It ALWAYS Starts With Toilet Paper

[mallorys_camera]

Yesterday was the second-most beautiful day in the history of the universe.

The most beautiful day?

Why today, of course.

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In this country, we are all kinda sitting on the edge of a precipice. Grocery store shelves are still full, but the great China-facing ports like Long Beach & Oakland are empty, the giant gantry cranes (after which George Lucas modeled the Imperial Walkers in Star Wars) sit motionless.

I am guessing we are about 10 days away from panic-inducing shortages.

It'll start with toilet paper.

Because for some reason, it always starts with toilet paper!

Not sure how this is gonna affect moi. I can survive very nicely on beans & rice, except if there isn't any rice (because we import it all from China) & there aren't any beans (those come from China, too. And Africa), I'm not sure what my imaginary Sustenance in Times of Privitation diet should be.

Plus, there's the added absurdity that one must continue on with one's life as though none of this is happening. Business as usual! Because it hasn't happened yet.

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I note one beneficial effect of Trump's total assholery: Carney & the Liberals won in Canada.

I quite like Carney! The whispers on the street is that it was Carney who was behind the great American T-bill sell-off. He did it in closed-door sessions with Japanese & European leaders. Really, really smart move.

Meanwhile, fuckin' Trump is so obviously in the mid-stages of dementia that I wonder how any of his keepers underlings can keep a straight face.

Yesterday, he issued an executive order that henceforth, Columbus Day... is Columbus Day!

Today he decreed that truck drivers may only speak English!

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Meanwhile, I'm gonna hammer out 1,500 words or so of Remunerative prose & then toddle out to weed the other half of the garden.

(I just blew my topsoil budget on a GoFundMe donation for croneitude, who has been diagnosed with a singularly awful-sounding autoimmune disease. But I gotta figure that those Reichstag wheelbarrels filled with paper money are a renewable resource, right?)

Comments

[smokingboot]

Those are truly beautiful blooms XX

[mallorys_camera]

Yeah. All the ornamental & working fruit trees are in bloom right now. They're very beautiful.

[suzannareads]

Did you ever read the children’s book Island of the Blue Dolphins? I used to think about living on sea life because of that book. Out on the plains, I suppose it would be bison and corn, squash and beans.

[mallorys_camera]

I did not read The Island of the Blue Dolphins. 😥

[suzannareads]

I read it somewhat obsessively around age 10 or so. It’s based on the true story of an indigenous woman who lived much of her life alone on a small island, so there are lots of details about her struggle to survive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins

Rice

[bb_lurks_here_too]

On the Carolina (Brand) website:

"We purchase our rice from farmers in Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Texas. Our jasmine rice is imported from Thailand. Our basmati rice is imported from India and Pakistan."

Not China. I assume we have stupid tariffs on Thailand and Pakistan and India, but there's plenty of US rice, unfortunately some of it grown in arid California.

Re: Rice

[mallorys_camera]

Thank GAWD. Whew! 😀

[adoptedwriter]

I’m happy for Canada.

[mallorys_camera]

Me too.

[asakiyume]

I think you're probably okay with your rice and beans. An earlier commenter commented on the rice--we're a rice exporter (we export 40+ percent of what we produce). And beans too. Goya says of its dried beans that 70 percent are produced in the USA. Your broader point is definitely valid, though. But you can remind yourself that you're someone who survived being trapped in snow. losing a business, and being stuck in upstate New York w/out heat in the winter. You're a survivor, and you have a lot of friends.

[mallorys_camera]

You're a survivor

I guess. But I'm getting kind of tired (and bored) with surviving.

[asakiyume]

I hear you on that. You're for more than survival. You're for flourishing, thriving. Which, yeah. It needs stuff which is sorely lacking these days.

[halfmoon_mollie1]

and my friend in Newfoundland is quaking in her boots. She says Well, our Trump 2.0 won, but it looks like a minority government. I feel sick. His fiscal plan will bankrupt our country.

I have no opinion, the whole thing makes me sad.

[mallorys_camera]

::SNORT::

Your friend thinks Carney is the Canadian equivalent of Trump? Wow. 😀

Yeah, they will have to form a minority govt. Although they fell only three seats short of a minority, so it was close.

Carney's going to use deficits to fund infrastructure (& tax cuts), but that's how practically every government in the world funds infrastructure.

[halfmoon_mollie1]

well, she's a very nice woman but maybe not so savvy politically. She is (apparently) very conservative and a member of the LDS church. Because yeah, what I read about Carney sounds pretty darn good.