{"id":36891,"date":"2026-04-17T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=36891"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:48:04","slug":"mayor-mamdani-taps-biden-as-advisor-for-city-run-grocery-store-due-to-his-experience-with-empty-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/mayor-mamdani-taps-biden-as-advisor-for-city-run-grocery-store-due-to-his-experience-with-empty-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani Taps Biden As Advisor For City-Run Grocery Store Due To His Experience With Empty Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"503\">NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK\u2014Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he has hired former President Joe Biden as senior advisor for New York City\u2019s first government-owned socialist grocery store, citing Biden\u2019s historic, unparalleled success in clearing out American supermarket aisles.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">During a press conference outside the 40,000-square-foot facility where the new grocery store was set to be built, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/mayor-mamdani-goes-door-to-door-checking-under-floorboards-for-hidden-dogs\/\">Mamdani<\/a> praised the former president\u2019s unparalleled track record of turning fully stocked capitalist grocery stores into desolate wastelands of bare metal shelving.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">&#8220;Our vision for this public market is to free the working-class from the oppressive burden of having consumer choices,&#8221; Mayor Mamdani said, gesturing toward Biden. &#8220;If we&#8217;re going to do democratic socialism right, we need to guarantee that every single New Yorker has equal, equitable access to absolutely nothing. President <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\">Biden didn\u2019t just flirt with shortages, he made them a lifestyle. Nobody empties a shelf quite like Joe.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">According to Mamdani, Biden has already instituted specialized training for store employees, running rigorous drills on how to blame empty grocery store shelves on Vladimir Putin and the Russians.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">At press time, local Republicans were reportedly already creating thousands of &#8220;I Did That&#8221; stickers, having simply swapped out the former president\u2019s face for Mamdani\u2019s in preparation for the upcoming empty grocery store shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK\u2014Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he has hired former President Joe Biden as senior advisor for New York City\u2019s first government-owned socialist grocery store, citing Biden\u2019s historic, unparalleled success in clearing out American supermarket aisles. During a press conference outside the 40,000-square-foot facility where the new grocery store was set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,557,1113],"class_list":["post-36891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-food","tag-joe-biden","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}