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Mayor Won't Allow Private Grocery Stores To Close [semi-satire]
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 16 November 2025 | John Semmens

Posted on 11/18/2025 9:42:56 AM PST by John Semmens

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1 posted on 11/18/2025 9:42:56 AM PST by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

I’m not a lawyer, but I play one on FR.

What possible standing does she have to force a private enterprise to operate at a loss?


2 posted on 11/18/2025 9:45:21 AM PST by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: John Semmens

The result of such policies will inevitably be government-run grocery stores. Then you’ll be in big trouble.


3 posted on 11/18/2025 9:46:49 AM PST by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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To: Blueflag

No market is worth this. I close shop in 30 days.


4 posted on 11/18/2025 9:48:18 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Blueflag

She can’t stop ‘em.

She has no mechanism or leverage for that.

100% pure D bullsh!t.


5 posted on 11/18/2025 9:49:46 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: John Semmens

How very Atlas Shrugged of them.................


6 posted on 11/18/2025 9:50:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: LeonardFMason

” I close shop in 30 days.”

Stop all incoming inventory. Sell what’s on the shelf, and close shop.


7 posted on 11/18/2025 9:52:26 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: John Semmens
"the citizens who elected me will support the woke agenda I am prepared to carry out. Otherwise, they would've voted for my opponent."

Or

"Elections have consequences." -- Barack Obama

That's the thing -- when Democrats win, they get carte blanche and can do anything they want. They won. Deal with it. But it's different when Republicans win. Because no one likes those guys and so you don't have to do what they say, right?

8 posted on 11/18/2025 9:53:43 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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they might if the city owns the building, but if a chain comes in, buys the property and builds it’s building, then you have no standing.


9 posted on 11/18/2025 10:03:26 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (107 Days of Kamal's BS.)
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Thought Communism meant everything was free?


10 posted on 11/18/2025 10:03:53 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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“Food deserts are not natural, supermarkets create them when they abandon our communities.”

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Wrong.

Food deserts are created when communities create an environment where businesses can no longer operate profitably and safely, resulting from criminals who don’t pay for goods and intimidate workers and patrons, and their governments who refuse to properly apprehend and punish those criminals.


11 posted on 11/18/2025 10:06:27 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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massive government debt showered upon woke cities at least two generations has eventually corrupted peoples’ morals, and logic.


12 posted on 11/18/2025 10:08:10 AM PST by PGR88
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To: John Semmens

From her acceptance speech, “Property should be owned by the community not the corporations”

That’s why she says a corporation needs to ask for the mayor’s permission to operate or close.


13 posted on 11/18/2025 10:09:59 AM PST by llevrok (Voter apathy wins elections for liberals.)
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She can probably steal the property how does she mean to force people to work there? I seem to recall a term for forcing people to work as directed without compensation.


14 posted on 11/18/2025 10:19:01 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Mariner

Stop all incoming inventory. Sell what’s on the shelf, and close shop.

DO it without remorse. Layoff EVERYONE. If you own the property, suitable for CITY owned grocery store, put a massive price tag on it.

If PRIVATE business doesn’t ensure ALL of these SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST Mayor’s fail this cancer will spread.


15 posted on 11/18/2025 10:28:49 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: John Semmens

Can the mayor stop them from doubling the price on every item in the store?


16 posted on 11/18/2025 10:32:32 AM PST by Stosh
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To: John Semmens

” a sanctuary city where the tired, poor, and work-averse foreigners can live”
My favorite line, nice going John!


17 posted on 11/18/2025 10:34:30 AM PST by Fireone (1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Eccl 10:2

In addition to the losses due to shoplifting, these stores have an increasingly difficult time finding employees willing to risk their lives working there.


18 posted on 11/18/2025 11:15:03 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: John Semmens

What is it called when government owns businesses?

Cuba


19 posted on 11/18/2025 11:22:12 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: John Semmens

Boy is she in for a surprise!


20 posted on 11/18/2025 11:29:52 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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