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Rhet­o­ric ver­sus re­al­ism at the pump, and in the for­mula aisle
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 22 May 2022 | Salena Zito

Posted on 05/22/2022 9:53:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Imagine being a parent on a budget, down to your last container of formula: You drive to four different grocery stores, two Wal-Marts, a Target and a Rite-Aid, racking up more than 60 miles in pursuit of nourishment for your child. You not only have zero luck finding anything to feed your baby; you have also used up a lot of gas.

Along that drive you likely also saw significant evidence of a drug problem — either in the gaunt, vacant faces on people walking along Main Street or the batch of new treatment centers that have popped up where they’d never been before — and you might begin to wonder: ‘When was the last time anyone in power has seen what’s going on in our communities?’

Meanwhile, it was recently reported the Biden White House spent six months coming up with the nickname “Ultra MAGA” to go after Republican candidates.

The people who run strategy for the White House seem to have forgotten how to place themselves in voters’ shoes and experience everyday problems that impact families and communities. For them it is nothing but political calculation: They went to strategy school, not governing school.

Youngstown State University professor Paul Sracic says Biden has become a sort of anti-Harry Truman: “Where Truman insisted ‘The buck stops here,’ Biden is constantly trying to shift blame onto others; from Putin to ‘ultra-MAGA’ Republicans, Biden is hoping that Americans don’t hold him and his party responsible for things like inflation, the baby milk shortage, or the border crisis.”

Mr. Biden’s calculation, Mr. Sracic says, will not work.

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1 posted on 05/22/2022 9:53:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Somebody voted for the stupid SOB.


2 posted on 05/22/2022 9:59:28 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Rummyfan
Rhet­o­ric ver­sus re­al­ism at the pump!

Please read my tagline. It came about this past week after a 1 on 1 discussion with another senior citizen.

He had just filled his gas tank before shopping, where I was shopping. It cost him just under $100 to fill up his vehicle.

I brought up how earlier that week while I was getting gas, a customer at the gas station was losing control verbally.

Then, he brought up his observation and now my tagline:

Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at a gas station!

3 posted on 05/22/2022 10:06:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at a gas station!)
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To: Rummyfan

Who drives from store to store?

Let your fingers do the walking.


4 posted on 05/22/2022 10:07:03 AM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: Born in 1950

“Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at a gas station! “


I’ve seen Biden stickers at gas stations, but the attendants keep scraping them off of the pumps.


5 posted on 05/22/2022 10:14:25 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Born in 1950

I’d agree with that, but Walmart (among others) has notoriously inaccurate online inventories.


6 posted on 05/22/2022 10:15:46 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Rummyfan

BTTT


7 posted on 05/22/2022 10:17:57 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Rummyfan

I know a couple of them. They are busy watching The View and nursing numerous injuries from three or four fake vaxes.

They think Joy Behar tells it like it is. LOL


8 posted on 05/22/2022 10:17:59 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: hanamizu
On vehicles? No. On gas pumps? All the time.

I live in the liberal craphole of NY and in Westchester country- full of self loathing liberals. I have not seen a biden stick on a car in a year when they were all over cars until June 2021. People here though see my bumper sticker which reads

"F*CK BIDEN!! AND F*CK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM!!"
9 posted on 05/22/2022 10:19:19 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: blueunicorn6

Nope. They voted for the same democrat collective that ran things from behind the scenes during obama’s two terms. This is obama 3.0


10 posted on 05/22/2022 10:29:18 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Rummyfan

Baby formula is not that hard to make at home.

Same with various consistencies of baby food.


11 posted on 05/22/2022 10:30:58 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Pollard

Bingo! And, for Pete’s sake, it’s not incompetence, it’s deliberate, on purpose and by design. Amazing folk still think it is because of morons. Nope!


12 posted on 05/22/2022 10:41:40 AM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: God luvs America

Great bumper sticker!


13 posted on 05/22/2022 11:45:24 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: God luvs America
People here though see my bumper sticker which reads "F*CK BIDEN!! AND F*CK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM!!"

You are one brave person since you know liberals are irrational, nuts and violent...

14 posted on 05/22/2022 11:52:21 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: GOPJ

Yes- but i am crazier and even more violent if the situation calls for it.


15 posted on 05/22/2022 12:03:38 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

Am I the only old enough to know that babies can eat things other than “baby formula”?


16 posted on 05/22/2022 12:26:53 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Rummyfan

>Ms. Sutton said if things don’t start to improve, she won’t have any problem looking outside the Democratic Party to cast her vote.

“My vote isn’t about a party affiliation, it is about my pocketbook, my family’s pocketbook, my community and what is best for all of them,” she said.<

I see the ‘victim’s problem. There is help other than voting dimwads in.


17 posted on 05/22/2022 1:20:05 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Rummyfan

Snort, I drive that just to get to town where there’s 2 grocery stores so let me get my teeny tiny violin. Maybe these parents should have thought about the cost of a newborn in these troubled times. If there are shortages in the toilet tissue aisle, there will be shortages in other aisles like, uh, maybe, just maybe the baby formula aisle as well.

This is what you get for voting demonrat and allowing elections to be stolen. Isn’t it interesting it’s baby formula (and today it’s good ol’ reliable Jif peanut butter) instead of kool-aid. Thank goodness there isn’t a shortage of Nancy’s $$$ ice cream.


18 posted on 05/22/2022 1:35:59 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: TomGuy

Yes, but “they” are blasting homemade formula the same as horse paste for covid.


19 posted on 05/22/2022 1:38:35 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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