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There will be no drama, as it happened with eggs some weeks ago. I don't mean it will not be a problem for someone, but media will inflate how people will be affected or not be affected

Been practicing cooking lentils, Bean's and rice since middle of last year.

Prepare? I'm poor lol

I have read testimonies from other people who have gone through economic/political instability and hardship. What i got out of it is that prepping will help for a week to a month maybe. But after that preppers just feel dumb after that as all that work didn't mean much long term.

The only thing that universally matters is having community ties. Unfortunately.... USA aren't very community friendly or even have the opportunity to create strong local bonds. As all community events are during work hours so only retired people part take in those.

Honestly I have a lot of ethical distress over my decision. I'm using savings to power through a couple months hardship here then moving to Sweden to see if my second attempt at college can stick this time. I'm going to buy some essentials like toilet paper, flour, canned tomato goods, while they're still readily available. Not too much though since I just need enough to make it work while I'm here and I want to limit my panic buying impact

I'm an American citizen self deporting.

I was looking at a reolink camera last night.

About $80 on Amazon.

On aliexpress (where the reolink website itself directs you for check out), the same camera is over $200.

As a chronic procrastinator, I ain’t doing shit.

Not shortages yet, but steep price increases.

I have dropped some items from my normal grocery list because of ramping prices. Eggs and avocados were first, but it's expanding to other things now.

I have some hobby projects I want to do that would require buying new hardware; those prices are going up so that is on hold until further notice.

I work from home 95% of the time and do much of my evening/weekend socializing and hobbies within walking distance of my home, so I could drop my driving and fuel consumption very low.

I bought a $30 renter-friendly bidet kit so I am way less exposed to another toilet paper shortage.

I was going to buy a new car, probably a RAV4 internal hybrid, within the next 1-2 years but that is completely up in the air now. My current car is functional, just old, and I would continue driving it rather than swap to an inferior and dangerous American car like Tesla.

Buy less, budget conscientiously, wait to see what happens. Exactly what Trump doesn't want but which anyone with half a brain cell knew would happen.

I have installed a bidet in case toilet paper gets panic bought again

I got a passport, and am wrapping up a degree in nursing.

It's not necessarily my intention to jump ship as soon as I graduate, but knowing that it's an option will be a great comfort.

Other than that, I stopped eating eggs.

I got a hefty stockpile of food. Probably gonna grab some extras of random consumables in the next couple days. Maybe an extra kilo of 3D printer filament mostly just for fun but also in case I need some random plastic whosywhatsit that can't be found any more.

I feel awful for the genuinely good people living there. But to all of the people that either voted for this or sat back and did nothing to prevent this: I genuinely, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart hope that you fucking suffer like never before.

Regardless of whether you think something catastrophic will happen tomorrow, next month, next year or never, it's a smart plan to have an emergency stash of shelf-stable food and drinking water to last 72 hours per person in your household for whatever natural or manmade disaster.