This is a follow-up to the original explanation of the epicenter of the supply chain backlog issue, ie “The Clog“. {GO DEEP} You need to review the years-long and building background issue to understand the fubar that Joe Biden has just made worse.
From the White House perspective, the problem at the California ports, specifically the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), was visible due to hundreds of container ships sitting in a queue off the coast of Los Angeles awaiting their opportunity to offload their cargo. The media was reporting on the backlog of ships and Joe Biden was under fire.
The team behind Joe Biden wanted the optics removed asap. Hence, the White House meeting with the heads of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Gene Seroka and Mario Cordero, respectively.
The continuing supply chain crisis of empty store shelves, missing parts and component goods that are backlogged at the California ports may be politically represented by the optic of those floating vessels. However, that’s not the problem.
The problem is a shortage of CA emission compliant internal transportation trucks to move the containers out of the port and into the U.S. mainland.
As a result… the politically expedient goal to get rid of the optical problem (the ships) by offloading containers into a California port system, that is already overwhelmed with tens-of-thousands of containers, is only making the original issue exponentially worse.
With hundreds more containers being offloaded hourly, the port infrastructure needed to load trucks long-sitting in the queue to pick up containers that arrived weeks ago is collapsing.
Truckers are waiting for over 8 hours to pick up their freight because the yards are swamped with containers. As each hour passes, more containers are offloaded into the port that can no longer deal with the scale of the problem. Each individual container is now buried in an avalanche of more containers, and that is making the limited compliant trucking resources even more problematic….. “containergeddon“.
Long before the ships started lining up offshore, many massive multinational corporations could foresee what was happening. They diverted their contracted freight into alternative ports (outside California) and began setting up new transportation arrangements. Two things happened:
(1) The alternative ports started getting backed up due to the redirected cargo arriving; and
(2) The shifted Trucking and Railroad system priority now meant resources were pulled from California.
With trucking companies redirecting resources away from California, this exacerbates the California backlog. Suppliers and retailers then enter a bidding war for priority distribution to get their stuff and avoid the clogs. This is a perfect storm of disruption in the supply chain aptly called “containergeddon.” However, not all ports can offload ships with thousands of containers. Not all ports have massive gantry cranes that can efficiently offload the cargo.
Back in California (where POLA and POLB do have the gantry cranes), now you have Los Angeles port workers saying we are offloading ships at maximum productivity, and truck drivers saying they’ve been sitting around for hours, some even days, waiting to pick up their containers. Meanwhile, other ports outside California are under pressure from the rerouted backlog of container vessels, and a limited amount of resources, trucks and railroad shipments to clear their arrivals.
Port workers are saying it’s not their lack of offloading that creates the problem, and the truckers are saying it ain’t us… “we’re sitting here waiting”.
♦ Few people are paying attention to what actually created the crisis in the first place.
The backlog all comes from California West Coast ports. It’s the issues with the new California emission regulations {Go Deep} that created the regional bottleneck in the distribution pipeline. The growing issue started becoming visible several months/years ago when the California Air Resource Board (CARB) announced the new environmental regulations.
As a direct result, several massive multinational corporations, with specifically concerned supply chain and logical operations specialists, immediately recognized the issue they would face if 50+ percent of the diesel fleet (writ large) would be blocked from entering California ports. That’s why months ago massive corporations began exclusive shipping contracts to avoid the California created crisis:
REUTERS – […] “The dry bulk cargo ship has been drafted into the service of retail giant Walmart, which is chartering its own vessels in an effort to beat the global supply chain disruptions that threaten to torpedo the retail industry’s make-or-break holiday season.
[…] Other big retail players, such as Target, Home Depot , Costco and Dollar Tree, have said they are chartering ships to deal with the … slowdown of sea networks that handle 90% of the world’s trade.” (link)
It costs more money, a lot more money, to move an entire supply chain for billions of tons of goods coming. The increases in shipping costs are passed along to the consumer.
Hence, we see prices climbing as a result of increased transportation costs being factored in to the new logistics. Did you hear about massive increases in container shipment prices? Well, THAT’S WHY.
The entire supply chain from Asia to the United States was being modified from the closest port (California), which was cost effective, to the ports where internal transportation would not be an issue.
Ships from China and SE Asia were being diverted away from California, some through the Gulf of Mexico into Texas, Louisiana, Alabama ports or inland waterways. Some even headed to the East Coast. However, any shipment diverting from the West Coast has to go through the Panama Canal into the Gulf of Mexico. It takes twice as long and costs twice as much, if not more. Hence, massive shipping price increases per container.
Back in Washington DC, Joe Biden’s solution was to get rid of the ships floating off the coast of California by piling their cargo into Los Angeles ports that are already overwhelmed with cargo they are trying to organize. The emission compliant truck drivers are now charging the ports for their time sitting around waiting for the dock workers to locate their freight.
The more containers they pile into the port, the longer it takes a limited number of trucks to move them.
The California ports are running out of places to store containers full of goods that are getting off-loaded. Hundreds of thousands of them are piling up. The central issue is the inability of emission compliant heavy transportation in California to move those containers full of goods to manufacturing, warehouses and distribution points.
This California bottleneck has been building, and building and building for years, until now it has reached a crisis point.
FUBAR.
The level of incompetence in our federal and California state government is profound and shocking. People best stop complaining about the millennials being incompetent. The baby boomers have just showed the world what a bunch of idiots we are.
Biden and Newsom aren’t boomers.
FJB
They both work for China.
That meme, plus when he told another man he didn’t need his vote (a couple of months before the coup election) were the moments I KNEW we were in deep trouble. And deep inside I KNEW they were playing with a stacked deck.
Woman’s intuition I’m sorry to say was spot on.
What is the likelihood that a terror attack occurs at the port?
Man intuition.
I don’t believe they would attack something that is destroying itself. Everything else is on the table, except DC because terrorists consider people there to be allies.
MOABs don’t discriminate
Edit: add
Collateral damage is the least of their concerns. Solemn eyes looking up from kissing their boots.
Why me?
Yup.
They’ve called it in.
It’s getting out of hand…out of control.
I report to that “clean black fellow who can talk good.”
But he didn’t build that.
Punchable.
Biden is too old and Newsom is too young to be a “Boomer”. Why don’t we just call them what they are: Idiots. Definition of idiot – 1: a foolish or stupid person. Or if you prefer, fool – noun [Heb.] 1. One who is destitute of reason, or the common powers of understanding; an idiot.
No, but most of the powerful people throughout government is predominantly baby boomers.
Wish I could think of a few good counter examples beyond President Trump.
I used to think it was incompetence.
Apparently various leaders in government and industry are being intentional in this type of wickedness.
Me too, but I have finally realized that all the disasters are Part of the Plan. The Environmental Whackos WANT the price of Gasoline to rise to $6.00 a gallon (it’s So European!). They want to reduce consumer consumption, it’s called Austerity, but it’s Good for the Environment – Stop that Nasty Manmade Global Warming, Don’t Ya Know?
Sorry, Germany 2 euros per liter, so approximately $8.78 per gallon. Believe it just got raised this week.
So they have already passed that point.
Hard to find, but there is video of some Euro socialist claiming that the environmentalist and socialist agendas were in sync and environmentalism was the path forward.
Gov Dixie Lee Ray (D- old school) would point this out when she was governor of Washington.
Consider the possibility that this has nothing to do with incompetence and everything to do with deliberate treason and sedition against our Country and it people.
Exactly ? !!
Without a doubt. Another knife in the heart of the small and medium retailers, who cannot charter their own cargo ships.
No, its incompetence, born of an elite that, for their whole lives, have been insulated from the negative consequences of their actions.
If, as a child, every time you touched the hot stove, YOU didn’t get burned, but some kid across town, or on the other side of the World got burned, with blisters, etc.
Would you learn to NOT touch a hot stove?
The old question
“how do you stop a bully? ”
Punch him in the nose.
You’re assuming they care. They KNOW, but they don’t CARE. They see the VAST majority of you and me and those people on the other side of the world as DESIRABLY EXPENDABLE. They see us as THE problem to get rid of.
Georgia Guidestones spells their IDEAL GLOBAL POPULATION of us unwashed masses as at NO MORE THAN 500,000,000 people — TOTAL.
Even counting their handful of thousands? Dunno. But that’s the number. And now’s their time. And we’re still stumbling around in the dark of “Giving Them The Benefit of the Doubt,” because no human beings could possibly be THAT evil, right?
By the way, they’re also trying to do away with stoves for us to touch. And fireplaces in new homes, and prohibiting camp fires and cabin fire places, etc. Did you know?
This is not some aberration. It’s been being planned since at least the mid-1800s, and they’ve not even been shy about publishing their plans — look up the CFR, the Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, you know DAVOS, right? Those are barely the tip of the conspiracy.
We’ve just been programmed to laugh it all off as “conspiracy theories” — term first coined in the 1960s by the CIA to discredit objections to and exposes of government and wealthy foundations’ (think Rockefeller, Morgan, etc.) projects and programs we’ve found out about.
These people are not just insulated spoiled brats. They are very much involved in deliberately annihilating you and me “for the good of the planet” — and of course, themselves.
Let the scales fall from your eyes, please!
Naw. Stay with incompetence. It takes brains to make a plan.
The world is going to end’, says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Quote: “We’re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change”.
We’re, like, the world is going to end in less than 12 years because we ARE addressing climate change! How about those electric trucks that the Socialists are always praising? Why don’t they have them lined up in Cali-port-land? Just think of the energy being wasted by unloading the cargo ships, moving the cargo into the ports, stacking it willy-nilly, truck comes into the port for pick-up, they have to run around looking everywhere for the container since they didn’t have time to put a system in place for Uncle Joe, Cackling Kammie and Gavin Gruesome. Talk about a fuster cluck! Compliments of the Biden/Harris/Obama administration with assistance from Gruesome Newsom!
Carbon dioxide budget to ‘run out’ in 8 years, says Greta Thunberg® (17 year old activist).
From CNBC, quote: “Speaking during a panel session entitled ‘Forging a Sustainable Path Towards a Common Future,’ the 17-year-old cited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from 2018 as she delivered remarks to a packed audience.
The IPCC report states the remaining carbon budget would need to fall below 570 gigatons of carbon dioxide in the coming years if the world is to have a 67% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
‘With today’s emissions levels, the remaining budget is gone in less than eight years,
‘ Thunberg said. ‘These aren’t anyone’s views. This is the science.'”.
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Someone please explain to me how and why a know-nothing teenager gets major media publicity for her opinions. What in hell could she possibly have to offer.
Gloom and doom.
Greta Thunberg has attracted international attention since her lone demonstration outside the Swedish Parliament in August 2018
. Her “school strike for the climate” has now grown into a global movement
that has brought more than 10 million people onto streets worldwide to demand action on climate change.Feb 8, 2021
Major cities going underwater, ‘increased drought’, & ‘millions of climate refugees’, says Sen. Bernie Sanders
Democratic presidential primary debate of November 2019, quote:
“We don’t have decades. What the scientists are telling us, if we don’t get our act together within the next eight or nine years, we’re talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater.
January, 2020: Greta Thunberg® wants to trademark her name.
Yeah, but 2PedStupid was already trademarked!
There’s absolutely zero incompetence happening right now. This is a planned economy failure that’s been decades in the making. It’s seen as incompetence to the thinking person, because it’s not logical to want this to happen. It’s a completely sick mindset that we’re up against, and playing nice so as to not stoop to their level is about to come to an end.
I remember SD writing about cold anger when I first started reading him in 2015. Cold anger has come and gone. I met a really nice guy today in a gun store buying his first gun. We all know what’s going to happen, it’s just a matter of being prepared for it or not.
But being prepared is a bear, impossible for many. Just guns are not going to do it. If you don’t have land and resources to grow your food and a way to keep a roof over your head and not die of hypothermia, what’s coming may not be survivable.
Exactly
Incompetence all by design.
Government workers and politicians are always low IQ and morals. Newsome is an abject moron who can’t write a single sentence and barely graduated HS and then college. We know how stupid Biden has always even – last in class plagiarizer. They couldn’t organized a two car funeral. Hayek (1960) and Schumpeter (1943) warned us.
Yet they rule our lives.
Pssstt!!! You’re looking at the wrong people. The people you’re looking at are only the puppets!
Speak for yourself.
I am surprised Biden just did not make the ships anchor off San Nicholas and San Clemente Islands and hide them all there.
He and his “advisors” would have to know about them first.
And then there’s global satellite coverage.
What is really surprising is that this has been building up for YEARS, and some people have noticed, but no one listened to them.
So now, when it’s beginning to pinch, we’ve been focused on San Pedro and Long Beach. And hardly anyone’s mentioning this is ALSO going on all along our coasts, and the UK, and . . .
Not “incompetence.” Not up to Biden. He’s just the distraction to make the ignorant think he and “the administration” are DOING SOMETHING about it.
It’s not incompetence.
It’s corruption.
Damn, that’s funny!!!
Or sad/infuriating, depending how you look at it.
Either way, funny, sad, infuriating – it’s true.
Love it.
? Let’s Go Brandon!
When are you guys gonna quit kowtowing to Jack and get off Twatter? You really need to try GETTR. It’s great and getting even better. No worries about having your account suspended at the whim of a madman!
Biden clots are spreading rapidly (or maybe rabidly) now.
We should consider this an illegal work stoppage, just like an illegal strike. I am looking at the CA Government and the Feds, of whom many are represented by unions, and they are responsible for this.
Send the National guard with trucks, institute emergency measures to allow any truck and driver licensed in any state to drive in CA for 90 days.
While we are at it, send National Guard to those “chip factories”, get them running until we have a 12 month surplus, in the U.S.
There. Will. Be. Turkey. For. Thanksgiving.
The National Guard (government employees) would likely just get in the way and clog things up even more.
Nanzi Piglosi will still be in charge of “the Guard”.
I think the National Guard is all busy with their hospital assignments.
.. when they’re not busing the school children around town.
Or guarding Congress
Nope. That would make too much sense.
Allowing trained truck drivers in would be a positive change.
The NG isn’t the answer since most of their drivers won’t be big rig qualified.
I have an idea so crazy it just might work:
Build factories inside America (this specifically excludes California and New England) and ship your products from within the United States to other parts of the country.
Careful where you go talkin’ like that–Somebody’s gonna call somebody to come shut you up.
When they have absolutely wrecked everything, the ones who will build it back up and make it work will be the people the elites despise and have always despised.
It’ll be the people with dirty fingernails who know how to do stuff…..and I hope they demand top dollar for their time and their sweat.
I take great pride in including myself with the dirty fingernail crowd in the basket of deplorables.
Me ‘n mine, too!
My hardworking Navy vet son includes himself in your club. I’m a proud mom.
Me three! I do dirty jobs and get paid a lot for it. Bring on the dirty collar crowd, I wanna hang with y’all.
I did before I retired. I would go back to work doing something less strenuous than pulling on pipe wrenches but NFW I’m going to wear a hajib to suit Lesko Brandon.
Fallacy of your point is regardless of what type of government is placed, still need trucks to off load ships.
What a novel idea. (Sacr)
I love it.
VSG P DJT
do i hear an echo?
Not without first deleting NAFTA and its relatives, and deleting taxes on the manufacturing and distribution companies. These were the things that drove OUR companies into the arms of “our enemies” in China and other Asian countries.
Stupid. Deliberately destructive of OURSELVES.
Have we learned yet?
Doesn’t look like it.
Nope. Labor and regulations drove manufacturing to China.
What do you think NAFTA was all about?!
And why would labor since they were seeking higher wages, which were struggling because of TAXES?
And why the regulations except for fat cats wanting “their cut” of profits and TAXES?!
What are taxes but “regulations”?
If it weren’t for NAFTA, et al., labor and regulations, why would China look so good to U.S. manufacturers?
“Low” wages, often free prison workers, “no” regulations, “no” taxes, funding partnerships with the Chinese government, perks can’t get in the U.S., etc.
Any way you look at it, taxes are at the bottom.
End taxation, END THE FED, get rid of “government,” and we’d have much more productivity and prosperity right here, where American people could make more than a decent living (with only one breadwinner, even!) and American companies belong.
Did the replacement for NAFTA eliminate those taxes?
No.
Taxes are never eliminated. “Cut” is an illusion. Everything government touches increases taxes and decreases the value of our labor and time, our wages.
Sorry Norm,
We can’t allow that…
June 2, 2009
6 years before passing ‘point of no return’.
From the ABC TV special, Earth 2100, quote:
“2015 is only six years away,
but many experts say that if the world has not reached an agreement to massively reduce greenhouse gases by then,
we could pass a point of no return”.
There you go, thinking again. TPTB will not like it! (But Patriots will!)
Love it! More jobs for Americans and screw the overbred losers in California and New England out of any of the benefits. This is not crazy at all!
To have a Dem. Admin. and a Dem Gov. of CA. “deal” with this problem is a recipe for disaster.
Biden and Newsom *both* have shown us many times that there intentions are to eff stuff up as much as humanly possible and they are *both* very practised and expert at doing so.
A typical Democrat voter in California…
The thing about congestion within a network is that –
At a certain point, throughput collapses.
This imbecile could #%^* up a one man rock fight! Yet he’s in the Oval Office!!
80 million votes.
More votes than BHO.
And I am not convinced that BHO got as many votes as were claimed. Pardon my suspicious mind.
And making a LOTTA money, as he announced yesterday at his unhinged appearance.
Obama Tried to Warn Us: ‘Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F— Things Up’
Dems ALWAYS tell us the truth.
Dems alway use weasel words. Translation in Dem language.
Joes abilities are a FEATURE not a mistake.
🙂
Washington Ports Reject Biden’s Supply Chain Fix
Seattle and Tacoma port authorities said Wednesday it’s “all hands on deck” as they work to address cargo ship congestion in Puget Sound.
“We are seeing unprecedented times in the global supply chain,” said John Wolfe, CEO of The Northwest Seaport Alliance, which oversees container traffic for both the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma.
Wolfe said there were currently about 15 cargo vessels still awaiting berth at the ports. In ordinary times, a port spokesperson said, there typically aren’t any cargo vessels at anchor in Puget Sound, and they can go directly to dock at the container terminals.
But the local ports are not turning to the kind of round-the-clock, all-week operation that President Joe Biden announced the Port of Los Angeles would move to. Wolfe said NWSA was “looking at” expanded gate hours at the ports’ container terminals, but “that alone is not going to fix this problem.”
While terminal hours are one part of the equation, Wolfe said trucks moving containers from terminals to warehouses are also in short supply, and warehouses are already full, leaving little room to store new incoming containers.
https://www.gopusa.com/washington-ports-reject-bidens-supply-chain-fix/
Couldn’t they just sail the ships north? Sure, it might be costlier in terms of miles traveled by truck to get the stuff and drive it to Arizona, Texas, or wherever else in the southern part of the country some of it was meant for, but still….
Florida says…come here.
Buttigeeg whatever are youuuuuu??
He’s still on paternity leave… SMH
I thought it was “Maternity Leave”…
Kinda sad that every time he screws up, all his people seem to disappear
Kevin Hassett was on Journal Editorial Report to talk about the Biden follies (containers & policies) and predicted double digit inflation. The look on Paul Gigot’s face was priceless. (Gigot believes that the Fed & the Resident are competent.) I looked for a video but JER didn’t post this one.
Yes….Trump was not sophisticated enough for Gigot. Funny….he was the competent one and only the Deplorables knew it.
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said “Hang all the Democrat devils you know”.
The silver lining … Maybe we should start making more things in America, and selling more things made in America. It will cost more, but the money stays in America. Trump was trying to do it the easy way, now we are going to have to do it the hard way with massive inflation.
It’s THE TAXES, people! NAFTA and its “friends” and “relatives” and TAXES that drove OUR companies overseas in the first place!!!
What is WRONG with people who DON’T SEE THAT?!
It’s NOT really the “wages,” but the TAXES that are strangling OUR businesses and commerce. (And in California — the whole West Coast and New England seaboard! — it’s the STUPID “environmentalists” and “greenies.”)
It’s the FED, people! It’s our STUPID ARROGANT POLITICIANS, people!
You cannot tax and print fiat currency out of this mess.
Can we learn this lesson and finally END THE FED and END the GOVERNMENT PIG that it feeds?!
Please?
This ends when 535 are perp walked to the Potomac
Perhaps a pleasant pipe dream, but who needs that?
Do YOU have to be “governed” by someone else?
If so, why?
We just need to sanely, soberly, peacefully turn our backs on “government” and withdraw our “consent” from that illusory “social contract” — which no one I know, including me, EVER signed.
You might enjoy the works of Lysander Spooner. He was a U.S. Senator at one time, tried to start up a going-business competition to the USPS, and was a contemporary thorn in the side to good ol’ Honest Abe. He has some very truthful, factual, well-reasoned, hence, RADICAL, things to say about “government” and our rulers.
“Maybe we should start making more things in America,”
If we had cheap energy we could make things and create jobs,again.
There is something wrong about these high prices. I looked up retail sales for gasoline. Take a look. SALES ARE DOWN dramatically according to this chart. Link to site below. and when I say DOWN I MEAN DOWN.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=A103600001&f=M
look at the historic chart, THEN look at this year. It only goes up till this July. LOOK. they are telling us people are driving more. NO NO NO they are not. Unbelievabale drop off.
Look at June July
Chart is in thousands, so add three zeros to the numbers. and it shows gallons sold.
2021 18,090.5 18,488.8. 20,058.9. 20,827.2. 12,225.7. 4,943.8. 4,856.9
Who would want to invest money in American manufacturing when the EPA, for example, could turn around in a heartbeat and change all the rules making any manufacturing completely unprofitable?
Liberals don’t want any manufacturing or mining because, you know, it makes everything dirty. These activities lead to dirty trucks, planes, trains and ships making noise and they’re all eyesores anyways.
Exactly so. Thank you.
And so here we are, and it’s only going to get much worse. How much will it take to open enough peoples’ eyes to separate ourselves from the irrational evil people?
White House Press Secretary Psaki says Biden Inflation Is a “Good Thing” because “People are Buying Things”
Amazing, isn’t it, the level of deception government is capable of and without an ounce of conscience or embarrassment smears all over the people?
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So, for the weeks the Bribem administration has known this festering was going to pop, while the Sec. of Transportation played house with his playmate, while Newsom spent millions making sure he was not recalled . . .
…not a one of these genius’ floated the idea of relaxing the EPA standards — even for just a few months — to get these containers’ cargo into the interior and avoid this bottleneck?
Now, even if they did any such relaxation, the trucking resources have relocated to where — surprise, surprise — those ‘in the know’ as to the probability of this bottleneck have hired them off-site of the CA ports.
So, it’s the little guys, once again, who have no recourse in trying to continue to stay in business by purchasing their own cargo ship — and the port to unload it — that gets the shaft, once again . . .
Always.
It’s the way the Game is played.
The House always wins.
Relaxing the EPA standards would kill the planet according to the Democrats;
10 year window before climate change is a threat to national security, says Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass).
quote: “Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window – if even that – before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible.
The threat is real, and time is not on our side.
Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.
Not in 2050, but four years from now.
Make no mistake:
catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and – yes – even to American national security”.
Don’t forget, or leave out, what AB5 did to the owner operators – i.e. independent contractors.
so the cost of these goods will go up
who will have $$ to pay for them when they finally arrive at stores?
With runaway inflation we only buy what we must have
this is (IMHO) a problem for those who chose to manufacture outside the US
Nah; Big Gov will bail them out. It always does.
Our TAXES at work!!! SAVING our businesses and their bankers!!! WOOHOO!!!
Gonna be a wunnerful Christmas, right? (Thanksgiving? What Thanksgiving?)
Unless it helps me tell Potato Joe to get bent, I ain’t buyin nuthin!
Containergeddon barely qualifies as Green New Deal Lite, and it’s a massive Charlie Foxtrot. Let’s hope there’s a greater awakening than there is now – before the damn GND gets shoved down our throats. Oh, and FJB too.
Administration is Charlie Mike destroying US economy
The Woke Left will be the first to suffer and they will suffer the hardest.
– because they are the ones who are least self-sufficient.
Joey can’t figure out what went wrong in the first place—slowly at first, and then all at once
So he comes up with a quick fix to pretend nothing went wrong—and there was no one in the room who understood enough to be able to say, “Well, that won’t work. And here’s why….”
So now all the outermost ring of all the people who completely lacked understanding, but issued orders nevertheless, will gather to try to decide—- “OK. Who’s gonna tell ButtGigg’s gatekeeper that things are not getting better but are getting worse?”
And then ButtGeek will have to find someone to help him tell Joey it’s not working…..and that none of them understand why it’s not working. And neither ButtGeek or Joey will have any idea what they are talking about.
And then they will call a meeting and make an announcement about how they are going to fix it.
And Joey will yell, “My patience is wearing thin!!!!!!”
Oh, to be a fly on the wall….or one of the flies that tend to follow these guys around.
“And then ButtGeek will have to find someone to help him tell Joey it’s not working.“
Cause buttboy mayor from Gary ID doesn’t know shite about transportation nor logistics. And that jackass wanted to be President.
Also disagree with Grindell state he was hire because he was gay. Butter Butt was hired because he was gay. Look at all the 2020 Dem candidates, they were either in Congress or millionaires exception Tulsi and butter butt. They floated the Transportation job to keep Butt boy employed and trashed Tulsi cause she wouldn’t tow the dem narrative.
We all know where flies tend to land
Actually, the Game is Appearances.
TPTB don’t show themselves. But they make sure the unwashed masses see their puppets “DOING” something. It’s a step-by-step process; TPTB go only as far as the ignorant masses can follow at each distraction.
The object is to keep them distracted, always. Ignorance and fear are the dice that moves the game along. There is no “Win!” at the end.
But hey, it’s a fun game, right?
Interesting point about Wal-Mart realizing a while back that the know nothing Maladministration of both Newsome and Biden was going to obliterate their all important bottom line at Christmas, and therefore their stock price.
I wonder, laterally, if that’s why I have heard nothing, nada, zip from WM at the corporate level about this fascist imposition of the vax mandate. Everytime a big conglomerate announces it’ll comply with the nonexistent mandate, the MSM are all over it. Delta, Southwest, NY hospitals, Boeing…all the big employers. And yet nothing from WM.
Further I have become quite friendly with most of the staff at my neighborhood WM. They have heard not a peep frm corporate on any mandate. Not a syllable. I find that, plus this about WM taking care of business shipping-wise, raises most instructive.
Have they got Biden’s measure; and have they, in getting it, decided not to let him compromise their business with his gross incompetence? I have no idea, but this shipping story plus the lack of an announcement regarding the mandate very interesting.
Wal-Mart sells mostly products manufactured in China or assembled from parts manufactured in China. WM likely can do or not do whatever they wish while a China puppet is occupying the White House. It’s up to China.
All IMO.
I believe most people know the origin of most of WM’s products, although I appreciate you’re pointing it out. BUT that doesn’t address the nonexistent WM mandate.
Which surprises me because they are all in on all things Democrat. It’s the coincidence of the two…shipping and their nonexistent issuance of the mandate that other corporations are so keen to issue… that I found interesting.
My thought after I posted was that perhaps WM is waiting till after the holiday season to issue it, as they’ll need massive numbers of employees to see them through the season. After? Not so much.
At the moment my nearest WM super center is woefully under staffed. One person working there told me they can’t get people to work for them, which is no surprise. It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
In reality, what products and parts and most assembly is not done in China for ANY U.S. company?
We take a cocktail of supplements, which in the main I buy from WM. The other day I was looking at the country of origin on them all. Most had China only or China listed first, followed by US. The price is right on them all, but I must admit I’d rather source them from elsewhere. Price is all important for a couple of geezers on a fixed and diminishing income (thank you so much Federal Reserve), so it might be that the cost from anywhere else may be prohibitive. Checking it out is on my “to do” list.
Until things change in OUR favor for taxes and regulations, I think your quest will be frustratingly ongoing. It is prohibitively expensive to produce much of anything here in America. Thanks to government in bed with big corporations — or the other way around. Doesn’t really make much difference. The result is the same.
I’d buy ahead as much as I can right now, if I were you. I DO know about “a couple of geezers” without much leeway. It’s going to get much worse. There is no White Knight coming to our rescue. (Besides which, he’d be tripped up by his “racism,” anyway, right? LOL!!! :-D)
Yes, we REALLY need to secede, make our own little “parallel economies” and communities, and be completely independent from these evil people. For all their fine words, they do NOT have your or my best interests at heart . . . they don’t have hearts to have anything at to begin with.
Anyway, hang in there, and my prayers are with you.
True, but WM used to (maybe still do?) have their own in-house consultants who helped vendors try to offshore the vendors’ operations. WM has performed on a whole different level for China.
I think Betsy brings up a very good point about WM possibly waiting until after the holiday season for imposing their own corporate vaccine mandate. That makes a lot of sense.
Yes. Certainly would be no surprise.
Betsy Jones: Gotta keep all those Walmart shelves fully stocked with Chinese products.
And stocked by whom? My local big one can’t find staff. As in no checkers nor tills…all self serve…and at Christmas? It’ll be a nightmare for them.
Another big box store story for you, Betsy–
A week ago Friday, the yard guys came to redo my flowerbeds. As soon as they started, I jumped into my pickup and made the run to Lowe’s garden center to start getting loads of soil and plants.
The front gates to the garden center were locked because there was not a cashier available to run a register and man that part of the store. There were only two (2) employees working in the entire department. Customers had to pay a cashier in the poorly staffed main store. I sat in line for approx 15-20 minutes to have bags of soil loaded onto my truck. The flowering plant selection was almost nonexistent except for darker colored mums, many of which needed to be watered.
On a subsequent visit, I asked the lady who was working if Lowe’s had imposed a vaccine mandate. She told me that there was no mandate.
In my four visits, the only flowering plants I purchased were two potted snapdragons instead of the truck bed of flats of flowers I usually buy for such projects.
Mistake of this magnitude aren’t mistakes.
Federal government only knows how to tax cargo. They know nothing about off loading snd transporting containers.
Incompetence doesn’t explain all of this.
Government and industry leadership has become wicked and intentional in their globalists applications.
Tax and regulate, yes.
I would say USTRANSCOM might know a thing or two.
Who’s bonehead move was this any way? Is this one all on FucJokeBiden or was Ears in on this one whispering sweet nothings in Joke’s earpiece?
What parts of this industry are not regulated by both state and fed government?
Agreed: without taxation, this debacle couldn’t have happened in the first place. But it’s NOT government “incompetence” and benevolent “hands-off” policies.
Agreed ?!
Best tweet evah!!!
Yup, the quality of mail order brides is not what it use to be, eh?
Cue Dark Winter, per Biden.
sundance.
There is another element here contributing the the colossal and unmitigated cluster-fark that this is, and that is the role that the ‘US Customs’ (a Federal agency) plays in all of this.
Even on a ‘good day’ the efficiencies of this agency are anything but that.
And then throw in all of the shipping & and freight forwarders, brokers and expediters into the mix with everyone with their hand out for a cut for their ‘big guy’ and the problem becomes exponentially more and cluster-farked up.
Folks outside of our informed circles here have not a fudging clue as to just how bad things ARE going to get.
Btw, now may be a very good time to start shopping for an emergency back-up or whole house generator for the coming DARK (and cold) Winter,
I suspect many of those generators are on backorder……………..probably on those shipping containers.
Plus, California has just implemented a (greenie) law banning all gas generators and lawn mowers, and . . .
Yeah.
Comin’ ‘n’ goin’ . . .
WHole house generators are going to run on diesel. and they are not cheap, and then you have to pay for a electrician to tie them into your service box. Can’t just hook them in. Have to install a switch that prevents back flow down the wires from the genny. Don’t ever do this without that switch even a gas, Workers come out to fix down lines and you could electrocute them. Better get a permit too or lawsuit city.
Sorry, but Customs does not factor in. Importers can and do prefile their entries and receive clearance days before the vessel arrival. Almost all transactions are paperless these days, with a few exceptions for antidumping entries, goods for which a license must be presented, etc. Not many.
And there will be a few exams. But many of the big players (the list is secret) joined the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT), which means their shipments are virtually exempt from inspection (would someone take advantage of this and load fentanyl? What a silly idea!)
So, nope. This is a creation of California government.
But in the last five months, we’ve had some of our stuff held up in Customs, even though they were not unusual, we’d ordered them before in the past and no problems, and we had never been delayed before. One we had to pay over $300 to Customs to let it come to us. Others were just irritating delays.
What’s up with that?
To hazard a guess, would need to know what the “stuff” is, who you paid $300 to, what notice you received, etc. In short, what actually happened.
The Occupant spits the truth about himself and his Admin.
Excellent explanation. But I still don’t understand why the UK is backlogged too.
Bingo!
Intentional ruination of the economy via supply chain sabotage and subterfuge.
Exactly ?
Gee, what is the problem ?????
if you unload 10,000 containers a day and only truck out 100 a day …………………………….
New MATH – how many days until they run out of space ???????????
But to solve the problem we need to UNLOAD even more every day, 24/7 !
Awesome the problem solving ability of this administration !!!!
Gotta love Common Core math!
Whoa now Lew. Haven’t you been paying attention? Didn’t you get the memo? Math is rayyyycccciiiiissssss!
CA government is not incompetent – They are straight up evil. This is all part of the Green New Deal B.S. They knew the supply chain would break if they did this. They do not care. Everyone knows that SoCal is a major distribution hub for the world!
It’s exactly the same strategy that put clean nuclear power and coal out of business and the very same strategy that has resulted in huge energy bills for families in exchange for very limited energy, brown outs, and black outs.
It’s the exact same strategy they used when they robbed the Central Valley of their water and diverted the snow runoff from the Sierra Nevadas into the Pacific Ocean, that essentially turned most of CA into a tinder box and why they have continuous out of control fires.
So many examples, so little time… These people making these ridiculous decisions want to break America’s back. And surprise!!! It has nothing to do with saving the planet and everything to do with control. I loathe and despise these people (Newsom, Pelosi, Feinstein and all the rest).
Agreed ?!
These globalists are that wicked
Born Free: CA pols have zero practical understanding of anything to do with the private sector economy. Taxing and regulating is the only thing they know.
Not to mention that the wildfires are by design since any average moron knows that if you have underbrush in dry areas, you are begging for wildfires!! Cali-logo for years has been Save a bug, burn out families!
Bear in mind, the fundamental thing THEY are trying to sell us, is CENTRAL planning, not ‘just’ National, but GLOBAL is ‘the way to go’,…and, Technocracy, with anonymous groups of “experts” making major policy decisions, is again ‘the way to go’.
One would THINK, if thats what you were selling, you would go out of your way to DEMONSTRATE how much better your system, of Global Technocracy IS, whereas they seem to be demonstrating how/why it is a TERRIBLE system.
Also, the belief is that thisvis all intentional, part of the Globalist plan,…HOW are the Multinational Corporations benefiting from this Containeragion?
Their supply chain system is based on “Just in Time”, where the whole system is set up to avoid product, from raw material to finished goods,…SITTING STILL!
NO, they are NOT making $, with their product sitting offshore or onshore, they make $ by MOVING PRODUCT, and inflation will not make up for the lost revenue, or increased fuel for all those cargo ships.
Funnily enough, those ships are sitting just outside”the zone”, so they can use the much dirtier and cheaper diesel fuel, and all the pollution is blowing right into California. Way to lower the smog, Gruesome!
Oh, and with the rolling blackouts, citisens can no longer use generators, cause you know, pollution.
Yup, what a great demonstration of the Superiority of Global Technocracy in action!
GOD I miss PDJT!
Some of that energy independence and America First would be awfully nice.
We all miss the real POTUS.
President Donald J Trump!
thank you dutchman
i have been wondering how the multi nationals are going to survive this.
But then, they caused the problem, didn’t they, by looking around the world for manufacturing anywhere but in the US
To my mind, the ship stuck in the suez canal was evidence of the problems for them
Maybe Joe can just mandate that all of the cargo move to the store shelves.
That sounds more like something Jen would say!!
The California regulation strikes me as an unconstitutional restriction on interstate commerce. The California environmental regulation should not be permitted to apply to any truck loading a container bound for a destination OUTSIDE California. Biden’s Justice Department should be in court NOW seeking a TRO to prohibit this application of California regulations until a federal court hears the case on its merits.
THAT is what Old Joe should do. Eliminate the regulatory roadblock. He won’t.
I remember SCOTUS ruling not to hear how other states fraudulent elections affect the rest of our country.
They’re not interested in a fair, free, Constitutional Republic.
Only in what power they conjure for themselves.
Don’t think they’ll be much help.
Maybe SCOTUS will throw us a “bone” of free and fair and Constitutional for once.
The MIA Transportation Sec. explains the wonders and joy of Family Leave:
It’s ridiculous. Is he recovering from birth? Is he breastfeeding?
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He looks like a gerbil. https://assets.petco.com/petco/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/gerbil-1
I live on the beach in the OC. They are lying. They are paying the dockworkers not to unload the ships. And if you listened to the McKinsey lunatic who is a national embarrassment (Pete B), who is in charge of the the ports, this supply issue will take decades to clear up and will require nationalizing them. Just more collectivists takeover. Oh by the way he has been off two months on maternity leave.
The government created this situation and they make it even worse when they attempt to fix it. JoeBama is a white Barry. FJB & FBHO.
Turkeys will be in short supply ( whether real or not ) good excuse to raise prices. Also might be a good time to speculate on a couple of thousand Christmas trees. Not wishing any of this but these profit motivations will happen . Pray. Think I will look to donate some time at a soup kitchen.
SMH – all I can say is FJB!
This is all deliberate and part of the overwhelming the system
Emti Chelv Jo
After having those two children sitting in that hospital bed, I’m sure the “Secretary of Transportation” thinks he is really the “Secretary of Labor”. /s
fake president doing everything wrong.
Here’s the next explanation the Biden-Newsom leadership will be giving for the problem. Wildfires caused by climate change are keeping sufficient numbers of trucks from entering and leaving Southern California.
Forget FJB hes disposable he doesnt matter. Get Alfred E Buttegeigs name on this get his 2 month vacation on this Then get Kammy on record. Get Newsom s name on this. You HAVE TO make this a Democrat created pain for Americans not Covid. Pin their names to this get them talking. Damage the party FJB is already damaged.
Welp. As California goes so goes the nation. Let’s go Brandon
Check this out. The Panama Canal is basically owned and controlled by who? It was built by the USA and controlled by us. Then I think we gave control of it to Panama, and if I’m not mistaken, Panama sold control of it to CHINA… So, tell me they didn’t see this coming. The octopus needs it’s tentacles chopped off! Talk about FUBAR. Absolutely!! Rant over
Long the message of conservatism – Don’t break something if you don’t know how it works, or how to fix it.
The left: BREAK THINGS!!!!
Also california and federal government regulation killed off truckers.
There has to be a lot of spoilage happening in these containers. Guess who pays for this, just look in the mirror.
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Where’s the Secy of Transportation. California emissions standards are a violation of the commerce clause.
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Their mentality is that of a child, don’t sort out a problem just hide it and mummy will go away along with the problem. Pathetic, but leftists do adhere to childish ideas so we cannot be that surprised when they act like children, spoilt ones at that.
Leftists are giving our children mental blocks for Christmas.