
Media demand you stop shopping to shield Biden from blame for supply-chain nightmare
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/25/med...nightmare/
INTRO: As the holiday season draws nearer, corporate media outlets are demanding that Americans stop shopping in an effort to absolve President Joe Biden and his administration of blame for the supply chain crisis plaguing the country. The Atlantic published a story this week claiming that the nation’s “supply-chain problems could be solved more quickly if affluent Americans would stop buying things they don’t need and often don’t really want.”
Instead of questioning why the Biden administration is delaying answers to key questions about the backup of cargo ships, author Amanda Mull says the burden to fix the crisis should rest on consumers, particularly wealthy ones, to stop consuming things in an economy still reeling from government-mandated shutdowns.
“You can take a bit of pressure, however tiny, off a system so overburdened that it threatens to grind everyone in it to dust. American shopping is a runaway train, gliding smooth and frictionless down the tracks toward God knows what over the horizon. Your brakes are small, but you can throw them whenever you want,” Mull wrote.
Vox similarly begged “affluent consumers” to abandon their Christmas gift orders and “thoughtless buying” to prioritize saving the environment. The outlet also defended the Biden administration’s small attention to a large and widespread panic as “heartening for consumers.”
“Experts predict that these problems, set off by the pandemic, won’t let up until 2022 or 2023...” Vox wrote... (MORE)
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Bryson Gray - the song "Let's go Brandon" based on the meme
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https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/25/med...nightmare/
INTRO: As the holiday season draws nearer, corporate media outlets are demanding that Americans stop shopping in an effort to absolve President Joe Biden and his administration of blame for the supply chain crisis plaguing the country. The Atlantic published a story this week claiming that the nation’s “supply-chain problems could be solved more quickly if affluent Americans would stop buying things they don’t need and often don’t really want.”
Instead of questioning why the Biden administration is delaying answers to key questions about the backup of cargo ships, author Amanda Mull says the burden to fix the crisis should rest on consumers, particularly wealthy ones, to stop consuming things in an economy still reeling from government-mandated shutdowns.
“You can take a bit of pressure, however tiny, off a system so overburdened that it threatens to grind everyone in it to dust. American shopping is a runaway train, gliding smooth and frictionless down the tracks toward God knows what over the horizon. Your brakes are small, but you can throw them whenever you want,” Mull wrote.
Vox similarly begged “affluent consumers” to abandon their Christmas gift orders and “thoughtless buying” to prioritize saving the environment. The outlet also defended the Biden administration’s small attention to a large and widespread panic as “heartening for consumers.”
“Experts predict that these problems, set off by the pandemic, won’t let up until 2022 or 2023...” Vox wrote... (MORE)
Let's go Brandon (origin of the meme that means "F_ Joe Biden")
Bryson Gray - the song "Let's go Brandon" based on the meme
https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/statu...5493719050
https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/statu...8692592640