Posted on 01/04/2015 6:37:55 PM PST by Kartographer
Social media is awash with striking images of #EmptyShelvesInVenezuela (#AnaquelesVaciosEnVenezuela) as the evaporation of basic human staples such as toilet paper has now been hyperinflated to total chaos at warehouses and supermarkets. As President Maduro decries the loss of $100 oil "stability", vowing to return oil prices to their rightful places (and heads to China for help), lines reach for miles for milk and soap... and the people defy governmental bans on photographing empty market shelves... "We couldn't find shampoo, so we washed our hair with soap. Now there's not even soap."
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Empty store shelves are a recipe for revolution. I think Maduro knows that, which is why he’s high tailed it to China. This thing is about to bust wide open.
When we went to Mexico a few years ago, some of the tourist area toilets required you to purchase toilet paper on site. The seller was backed up with an ARMED GUARD!
Everyone bought.
Marie Antoinette, is that you, lol? But of course one should use one's bidet if there is no papier du toilette, how silly of these little people.
Make your own soap like we had to do durring WW-2!!
So the US has blockaded VZ?
More of the joys of Socialism on display in Venezuela.
BO BUMP
A true “pay toilet”!
Dictators who leave home often return to find they aren’t in power anymore. He may have to move in with the Castro brothers.
Us little people will have to settle for the garden hose on the front lawn.
When he gets to China he's going to find the money shelves bare because we have been using up their money for the last six years. The clown Soetoro has effectively created a one man run on the Bank of China.
COULDN’T_HAPPEN_TO_A_NICER_GUY_PING!
They were bad but at least something was on the shelves. I have a friend from Bulgaria who left after Russia collapsed. He tells some pretty bad stories. Waiting 4 to 5 years to buy a tv. The lines for food.
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How can you tell the peasants-we’re all covered in s***!
Hmmm... This sounds familiar.
Ask him about commie TV. I caught a bit of it while I was in Poland just after the wall came down. Mid-day TV consisted of watching Vietnamese peasants harvesting rice.
Yeah he said it was pretty boring.
In the “Last Policeman” book series, the cops work for dibs on the supply deliveries they protect when money becomes worthless. I can imagine store employees keeping it clean all day to keep an eye out for the deliveries to get first choice on the items as payment for staying in the store and protecting it from damage.
Two yeas left.
Don’t rule it out.
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