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Americans Who Hoard Toilet Paper are Probably not Ready for Wars With Iran and Russia
Just think of the cheerleaders who won’t be joining the forces at the front.
A couple days ago, my wife told me that a Costco store in Downtown Salt Lake had run out of toilet paper. OK, I thought. That’s just one Costco.
Two nights later, my wife asked me to get some toilet paper while running some errands. I went to the local Costco and found a large empty place on the floor where the toilet paper can usually be found. There was none to be had.
I asked a worker on the floor at Costco. “There’s plenty of toilet paper. People are hoarding it due to the dockworkers strike. We’ll have more tomorrow.” Thank God I have a bidet.
Back in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal announced that bidet makers were having their moment. “In the midst of a global pandemic, relatively inexpensive add-on bidets — widespread in many parts of the world but never popular in the U.S. — are experiencing a hyperaccelerated transition through the life cycle of a new direct-to-consumer fad.”
But there is something else.
Since 2022, I’ve been watching one war, then last year, two wars. One in Ukraine, and the other in Israel. I’ve seen the cheerleaders talk smack about “the bad guys” and how we’d “whoop their asses” if American troops landed in Israel or Ukraine.
We’re talking about a country populated with a large contingent of people who hoard toilet paper at the first sign of instability in the economy. First the pandemic, then a dockworkers strike.
The same people who could hoard resources at the first sign of war are the last people willing to go to the front to fight a war. They are really the last people I want to see on the front because they’re not fit for war.
Israel and Ukraine are both doing their very best to drag American troops into their wars. Israel is killing adversary leadership in foreign countries. Ukraine is invading Russia like they can afford to do it. The more insane either of them get, the more desperate they appear to be.
