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Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisis
« on: October 19, 2021, 08:18:49 pm »
Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisis

Katherine Hamilton 19 Oct 2021

In what seems like an attempt to distance President Joe Biden from the supply chain crisis ravaging the country and the globe, the Washington Post — which is owned by Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world — published an op-ed on Monday telling American consumers to “try to lower expectations” moving forward.

“Rather than living constantly on the verge of throwing a fit, and risking taking it out on overwhelmed servers, struggling shop owners or late-arriving delivery people, we’d do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations,” Micheline Maynard wrote for the Post.


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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2021, 08:20:29 pm »
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2021, 09:12:12 pm »
C'mon Man! America, embrace mediocrity. The WP can embrace it all they want, not me and not any Americans I know. I refuse to accept the united states of venezuela!
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2021, 09:13:14 pm »
My expectations couldn't be any lower.  Lets go Brandon. 
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2021, 09:19:17 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 19, 2021, 09:13:14 pm
My expectations couldn't be any lower.  Lets go Brandon.

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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2021, 10:38:43 pm »
When will Biden give his malaise speech popularized by Carter?
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2021, 10:49:24 pm »
Interesting. In just eight ten months, we have gone from a land of plenty (even if toilet paper got scarce) to having Soviet style shelves in the stores.

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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2021, 06:23:33 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on October 19, 2021, 10:38:43 pm
When will Biden give his malaise speech popularized by Carter?

I feel sorry for Jimmah "The Peanut" Carter being compared to Biden.  It really isn't fair to compare the brain dead imbecile who currently occupies the whitehouse to Jimmy.  Carter had his faults but the guy was never a mean spirited vindictive ass hole. 
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2021, 07:17:03 am »
Wow.  Talk about regurgitating the Carter Administration.  Shades of the "Crisis of Confidence" speech, telling us to turn down our thermostats, and turn down our expectations.
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2021, 07:41:24 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on October 19, 2021, 08:18:49 pm
Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisis

Sounds like something Goebbels would have said to the German people in 1944.
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2021, 07:44:35 am »
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Interesting. In just eight ten months, we have gone from a land of plenty (even if toilet paper got scarce) to having Soviet style shelves in the stores.

Russia, Russia, Russia...

But it would have worked if we had just had the right people running it.
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2021, 07:46:27 am »
One of the things not being discussed is that these products sitting on these ships are prepaid so a substantial amount of capital is sitting on those ships.
Xmas sales generate a large percentage of annual revenue for retailers so we may see a lot of business cease operations if this does not get fixed soon.
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2021, 02:39:38 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on October 20, 2021, 06:23:33 am
Carter had his faults but the guy was never a mean spirited vindictive ass hole.

Tell that to the Israelis. :whistle:
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2021, 02:48:14 pm »
Open those containers, let the people 'shop the docks'.
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2021, 03:36:30 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on October 20, 2021, 07:44:35 am
But it would have worked if we had just had the right people running it.
Then, obviously, these are not the right people.

As for lowered expectations, this is a WaPo article, so...
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« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2021, 03:37:02 pm »
Quote from: rustynail on October 20, 2021, 02:48:14 pm
Open those containers, let the people 'shop the docks'.
They would have to swim out to most of them...
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« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2021, 04:26:47 pm »
The rats are ruling like they don’t expect to be held accountable at the polls.

I wonder why that is.
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The rats are ruling like they don’t expect to be held accountable at the polls.

I wonder why that is.

Exactly.
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« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2021, 08:22:09 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on October 20, 2021, 04:26:47 pm
The rats are ruling like they don’t expect to be held accountable at the polls.

I wonder why that is.

I said after Biden was elected the press are going to get more absurd in their defense of him. This is an attempt to guilt the public into being grateful. It'll fail, of course. But expect this theme ramp up in the coming years. It's already beginning. This article, the "high class problems" remake, Psaki's treadmill comment........

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« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2021, 08:33:11 pm »
Even the WP is now admitting the Biden administration are a pack of fools.
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2021, 11:58:37 pm »
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Even the WP is now admitting the Biden administration are a pack of fools.

The thing is, WaPo is really happy about it.
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #25 on: October 21, 2021, 06:05:24 am »
Has anyone checked the lead levels of the water on The Hill?
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #26 on: October 21, 2021, 07:19:11 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 20, 2021, 11:58:37 pm
The thing is, WaPo is really happy about it.

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Of course. Their reporters are young commies who became reporters because they want to help change the world.
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« Reply #27 on: October 21, 2021, 10:06:17 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 20, 2021, 11:58:37 pm
The thing is, WaPo is really happy about it.
I haven't heard anything from "Worse than watergate" Woodword on the matter.   Must be busy selling books.
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« Reply #28 on: October 21, 2021, 04:36:16 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on October 20, 2021, 08:33:11 pm
Even the WP is now admitting the Biden administration are a pack of fools.

@sneakypete

Maybe that’s what this article is trying to say. Maybe the writer meant  because the Biden administration is so incompetent, Americans need to lower their expectations
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Re: Washington Post: Americans Should ‘Try to Lower Expectations,’ Accept Biden’s Supply Chain Crisi
« Reply #29 on: October 21, 2021, 09:18:43 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on October 20, 2021, 11:58:37 pm
The thing is, WaPo is really happy about it.
Which is peculiar, to a point, because Jeff Bezos has profited to obscene levels the past year and a half thanks to all these shutdowns. Guess who wasn't locked down? Amazon facilities. They were "essential."

So perhaps this is Bezos trying to discourage people from abandoning Amazon (which relies extensively on the global supply chain) and looking for local alternatives. There is always an ulterior motive. "Well, yeah, Amazon's failing, but guess what? You're not going to find it better anywhere else. Trust us. Things are tough all over. So get used to it!"

I have to laugh at how much of a clown show Bezos has made the Washington Post. I know the Post was left-wing before, but not quite New York Times left. Now it's just become a caricature.
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« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2021, 10:40:01 am »
Bare Shelves Will Make This A Merry Nothing-mas
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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. ...
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« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2021, 06:08:54 pm »
I have no idea how I would go about lowering my expectations any lower than they are already.
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