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   On 2025-12-28 20:03:02 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:   
   > On 12/28/2025 8:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:55:16 -0600, Lynn McGuire   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On 12/27/2025 10:35 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:30:07 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> But I am not reading articles stating "95% of MAGA rejects Trump's   
   >>>>>> tariffs because they raise the price they have to pay at the store".   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> No percentages but some MAGA are waking up to the price of beef at   
   >>>>> the supermarket as well as other frequently purchased products.  This   
   >>>>> was one of the candidate's main talking points during the campaign.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I've read those as well, and, while it is heartening to think that the   
   >>>> one or two that are identified are the tip of iceberg, at least one of   
   >>>> these disgruntled MAGAs did not blame D Trump -- but G Soros.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Speaking of sheeple ...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> I am seeing availablity problems reminiscent of the supply chain   
   >>>>>> problems during the pandemic. Perhaps ICE is arresting/deporting truck   
   >>>>>> drivers who "look like a Mexican" and so producing supply-chain   
   >>>>>> issues.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes and the price of some fruit has moved out of my price range.   
   >>>>> I suspect part of that is tariff and part is the unwillingness of   
   >>>>> drivers to risk ICE idiocy.  I know from news reports including the   
   >>>>> testimony of growers that they are not getting the workers that they   
   >>>>> need for harvest because the workers are fearful of ICE which does not   
   >>>>> apparently give a damn if the people whom they are arresting are   
   >>>>> American Citizens or non-citizens with green cards.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Right now we are still running, I suspect, mostly on the harvests of   
   >>>> years past. So food is available, but the market is raising the   
   >>>> prices. But that won't last forever if ICE deports the workers..   
   >>>   
   >>> If the prices rise then the owners can afford picking machines.   
   >>   
   >> If the banks will loan them enough.   
   >>   
   >> And the manufacturers have enough on hand.   
   >>   
   >> Could be two or three seasons before that solution works.   
   >>   
   >> Of course, the population will be rather ... thin ... by then. In at   
   >> least two meanings: "they disappear when they turn sideways" and   
   >> "there aren't nearly as many as there used to be".   
   >>   
   >> And not everything (AFAIK) can be harvested that way.   
   >>   
   >> Which is why some innovative thinkers are trying to produce -- cubical   
   >> oranges. So a machine can pick them easily.   
   >   
   > Wouldn't that require a human to place the box around the wannabe orange?   
      
   Probably easier to simply put a "padded box" around the fools coming up   
   with such silly ideas.  ;-)   
      
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