In a rare act of journalism, NBC actually followed up on the October 13th grand proclamation of Joe Biden to speed up California ports. What they found is exactly what everyone suspected, the grand prose from the White House was a political pantomime – absolutely nothing has changed. WATCH:
As noted, and as previously outlined, the issues with the backlog of the California ports have absolutely nothing to do with rapid unloading of ships and container vessels. The issue is the inability of California truckers to move those containers. 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. More people are now starting to understand the internal issue that has been created by recent California laws, rules and regulations.
Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine has a solid outline of the emission compliance issues and the problem of independent truckers not being able to work in California:
Front Page Magazine – […] Over the summer, the California Trucking Association actually went to the Supreme Court to fight AB5 and allow owners and operators to use independent contractors. The CTA listed 70,000 owner operators. In the years since AB5, Ubers have become scarcer and more expensive, which is what the law was actually designed to do, but the consequences to the trucking industry have been far worse albeit invisible to most people until now. While truckers are still protected from AB5, many in the industry are not willing to bet their future on SCOTUS.
AB5 was not only the assault on the trucking industry by California Democrats who were aggressively trying to unionize the industry and to impose environmental regulations on it.
Last year, the California Air Resources Board issued a press release boasting that it had taken a “bold step to reduce truck pollution”. The bold step required switching to electric trucks.
“We are showing the world that we can move goods, grow our economy and finally dump dirty diesel,” Jared Blumenfeld, California’s Secretary for Environmental Protection, sneered.
[…] Last year, California’s DMV began refusing to register thousands of trucks with an estimated 100,000 trucks under threat. With “green” trucks costing $70,000 more, this was a non-starter for already troubled independent owner-operators and even larger companies.
[…] Biden called for ports to operate around the clock, but that’s not going to magically bring back thousands of trucks or truckers. California Democrats still haven’t changed their regulations and without that, there’s no incentive or even legal structure that would allow trucks to operate. (read more)
It may be government ineptitude, same with the jabs. Listened to the podcast with Joe Rogan and Alex Berenson. Alex was a former NY Times journalist in the same spirit as Glenn Greenwald and even Bari Wiess. All 3 have been red pilled to some degree. Rogan admits that he is a liberal on most things and ditto for Berenson. Alex is one of the best factual reporters left in news. He was permanently banned from Twitter for saying (paraphrasing) “these are not vaccines at all they are therapeutics” and he was gone. Rogan insisted (towards the end) that Jack Dorsey was actually a good dude. It’s just that he lacks control of the woke execs and board that surround him. I find it plausible as the woke type do not tolerate dissent so if you are making money best to keep your mouth shut in some people’s eyes I guess.
Berenson nor Rogan dared go into the conspiratorial weeds (Population control and depopulation) with the vaccines. Instead Berenson attributed it to govt incompetence. He mentioned the govt and Pfizer were totally caught off guard about the fact people would need booster shots so frequently. For argument’s sake let’s roll with it. If the Govt and Pfizer/Moderna/FDA/CDC/Fauci were actually so incorrect about this I ask you this question. If they don’t understand the ramifications of the vaccines waning and destroying immune systems after 6 months that pretty much proves they have no clue as to the long term affect of these jabs.
Sorry to get off topic but the point of my statement is this; is this ineptitude or evil? I suspect the latter but hey I guess that’s up for debate. Same iwth this shipping fiasco. Here is the link to the podcast if you would like to listen. You will find no better person than Alex to bring you facts and statistics without bias. In the UK month of September 7 out of 10 hospitalized with Covid were fully vax’d.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-rogan-conversation-is-up/comments
“[I]s this ineptitude or evil?”
Embrace the power of “and”. They mean it for evil but the goodness of God frustrates their efforts. Consequently, they look to be merely inept.
If ineptitude had anything to do with it, there wouldn’t be such a thorough mess. This is pure evil and NOTHING BUT pure evil at work.
What we are experiencing is undoubtedly Hardcore, distilled and condensed to 100% maxevil. We are living through a communist coup that is fully intent on culling the population.
Right. I can picture Bill Gates rubbing his hands and smiling with glee: “My little plan is working!”
The white population. FIFY
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Yes because the law of averages would make them right at least some of the time.
Bera in mind, these people all made a deal with Satan,…and Satan ALWAYS screws anyone who signs a contract with him….in the end.
A Faustian deal…’in the end, you are,exactly, what you are…’
Saying Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is a “good dude” who has fallen in with some bad people is no reason to excuse his behavior.
A lot of good Germans fell in with bad Nazi’s and they were ultimately hanged.
A classic line of Gus, from “Lonesome Dove” is: “You ride with outlaws. You die with outlaws.”
Yes, that is totally ridiculous and lame.
The outcome is equally cruel, either way.
Especially as that which might charitably be ascribed to ineptitude is compounded by a sneering arrogance.
I agree, it’s funny because I say to myself that I feel like I could sleep better at night if I only knew this was all about money. Taking a step back that’s terrible and anyone who killed people so they could get their drugs approved or to win an election deserves the gallows. But like I said it would actually bring me some solace. However, I suspect this has much more to do with money. In today’s environment it’s easy to blame money. Shuts the brain down from thinking of what other ulterior motives might be in play.
Clarification…..I do not think this is all about money. In fact I don’t think money is really all that important. There’s something even darker.
Power and control.
I think we should ask #WheresHunter if it is all about the money. Let’s don’t ever forget he pays the Chairman a %.
It is a well thought out and organized effort to bring America to it’s knees and destroy our free society. Communist organizers try to bring chaos and despair to the countries they target for a Communist takeover. Their step by step strategies are all spelled out in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. Hillary did her thesis on this and Obama was groomed & well schooled in this also.
Obama made significant progress on the objective to destroy America when he was in office and Hillary was supposed to finish us off by signing the TPP treaty. They didn’t count on Trump getting in & turning decades of undoing America around so fast and they had to get rid of him. We have been in a Coup D’Etat since 2016 when the FBI, CIA, DOJ, MSM et al were weaponized to take Trump down and this treasonous Cabal came up with the phony Russia story & the phony Mueller inquisition . Although exposed and debunked, no one has been charged for their crimes, even though Gitmo should have been filled with them by now, and they are all still in action. The 2020 election was completely rigged, designed to bring the half-wit puppet Biden into office while the shadow government completes the destruction of America. It is questionable whether we will ever have a free election in America again. You can’t vote your way out of Communism. IMHO it’s foolish to think our well bought-off Congressmen will do anything to change this. States may become empowered enough to block the Feds from completing the destruction of America & enslaving her people. That is what our US Constitution was designed for. We need more governors like DeSantis who aren’t afraid to stand up to the Cabal and patriots to stand with them.
Money is necessary to pay off the corporate enablers, but money is only a tool used to protect them from the consequences from their depravity.
I think some critics early on expressed concerns that the jabs wouldn’t work as sold. I really, really doubt the researchers at the respective pharmas didn’t also understand this too.
There was talk of boosters way before any real acknowledgment break through that they played off on Delta and the jab noncompliant.
I am thinking that the jabs are working exactly as intended. I just don’t know what their intent is/was. If the intent was to prevent the spread of covid, they are not working. The jab neither prevents infection nor transmission. A total failure. However, if the intent was to kill and maim people, the jab is a resounding success. If the intent is to magnetically mark people, the jab with its’ metal component or graphene oxide is succeeding. We still don’t know the intent. Time will tell.
I am with you all the way. You must understand both Berenson and Rogan are hesitant to wade into that world. Please don’t get upset with either because they are both fighting the good fight. Even the liberal Russell Brand is coming around. They reach people we cannot. And yes, it’s extremely important.
I believe Americans still armed to the teeth presented a unique challenge to TPTB. Thank God we kept our guns. Makes things a lot harder for sure. However TPTB probably anticipated such and will resort to alternative methods. Things like cutting the grid, supplies, communications, etc. Of course they will blame non vaxers.
Look I don’t know anything is certain but understand we are in the fight of our lives. Better yet we are FIGHTING for OUR VERY SOULS.
When they cut the grid, their power bases in the cities will literally die in weeks, faster if it’s freezing. Cutting the power will have very diminished effects on rural and exurb communities.
No, you’re not following that process through. When they cut power they will also toss up roadblocks for a time in order to trap any remaining patriots inside the cesspits. Then the ferals will do what they do, and in a few days after the patriots in the urban core have been decimated, then the PTB open the roadblocks and allow their hordes of savages to flood into the surrounding countryside. Think that’s a stretch? Go back and review the mostly peaceful protests and take note of the active assistance of the PTB in those activities.
Sure, take solace in the weaponry those country folk have, but can they hold off a marauding mob of hundreds of savages who are also armed to the teeth descending on isolated homes or even small towns? Can lone farmsteads stop that? Being in the country is not a pass from the coming evils. At best that buys a person more time to ally with neighbors, set up recon patrols and guard rotations, etc. but most farmsteads will have to be abandoned because the only way to survive will be to station sufficient firepower and personnel in strongholds to allow for 24/7 operations. Picture the lone cabin in the wilderness when the natives were on a rampage. Only the natives had some sense of civilization whereas the savages to be released from the urban sewers have nothing but bestial selfishness with no regard to the next day.
Very astute, you will survive.
You think Patriots will be trapped in the core? I completely disagree.
With respect, that description of ‘the ferals’ defies human survival instincts and what we know to 100% true of them: they are cowards, devoid of any sense of love of country.
When (if) this goes hot, and the first rounds are dropping ‘the ferals’ – for real – they will scatter and cower like the little Marxist bitches they are.
I heard them described as effete somewhere yesterday, and I have to say that fits them so well. I had an immediate affinity to the term.
I think it may have even been on FRONTPAGE MAG, which I found to be quite interesting. Did you see their series on the Most Racist Mayors? My birthplace and former home town is on there. ;(
The lefties have done gone mad and stupid.
Found it! Comments section of Daniel’s article in FPM, just as I tho’t.
“Jeff Bargholz
42 hours ago
And we don’t have the open spaces necessary for them even if they could work. The greenies who want all of the land in America to go unused are too F’ng stupid to think of that. As if any of those effete weaklings with their Birkenstocks, Starbucks and cell phones could live off the land anyway.“
So agree Luke. We need these old school Libs, they are opening their eyes, and eyes of Citizens that are not too far gone. We are presented with the extremists views and people as the normal libs and they are not. Free Speech, 4th Amendment, civil liberties have long been held by old school. We can agree on this evil is out for all of us sans the elites, and uni party. Alex and Greenwald see they are as vulnerable as we.
Rogan, Berenson and Brand are all honest brokers. I have observed many a young person, raised in a far left environment, become increasingly more aligned with conservative values because of their commitment to the truth.
It’s all lies. Break through infections, delta variant. It’s not even a coronavirus. It’s a genetically modified glue. That’s why it causes flu-like symptoms, and not cold-like symptoms, which is what coronaviruses cause.
The motive could be money for some, depopulation or other intentional killing for others. Michael Yeadon, former VP and Chief Scientist at Pfizer has said he knew the vaccines wouldn’t work, weren’t needed for anyone except the most vulnerable, and would weaken the immune system. He said the scientists at Pfizer would have known that too. But if someone (for whatever unknown purpose) was hell bent on paying a pharma company to bring a vaccine to market fast, many of those companies were happy to offer up what we have in use right now for the billions that was up for grabs.
Nothing unusual about that. Epidemiologists know full well that viruses mutate.
Boosters = MO Money
Reducing and faking the efficacy was the only sure route to MO Money vs the subscription model. They had to make you believe they were safe and effective. SELL THE LIES. It also gave the Fake President the fake powers that he and his minions currently wield over us unconstitutionally.
I think they did know that the jab set off the “breakthrough” cases and I think that is why they purposefully spoiled their “control group”. Most likely their control group was the first to experience the “breakthrough” cases, but they didn’t want anyone to know it so they spoiled the group. OOPS.
I actually heard a line at the end of a vaxx commercial the other day, “This message paid for by the citizens of Philadelphia”. Made me want to puke how much $$$ is being thrown around for ads and for all of the RIDICULOUS giveaways.
But I guess when you STEAL TRILLION$$$ and you can print up more anytime you like….
a. do you think biden got 80 million votes?
b. do you think 80 million voters dont recognize that biden is mentally slower than most 95 year olds and cannot possibly do his job?
yet here we are staring at 3 more years with no wavering from his ‘base’, whoever they are.
Are you asking me? No I know he didn’t get 81 million votes. But he probably got around 70 (guessing not sure). Whatever the number he obtained was enough for them to fake it. Grant it there was never anything like this before. It should have been obvious.
However rather JB got 60 mil or 70 doesn’t matter now. That ship has sailed. The fact is if he ONLY got 30 or 40 million (wherever that line is) it would have made it impossible to cheat. Again, I don’t know where that line is.
Listen to the crowds at stadiums. They all seem to love this guy named Brandon. It’s a good sign. But as SD mentions regularly FJB is expendable. If he ran again in a few years he would be toast. The Left/Elite/Deep St count on American’s being dumbed down. They are not wrong to expect it. In fact they have caused it. We must hope they (sheep) come out of their slumber if there is ever going to be a somewhat peaceful way out of this mess. Unfortunately I no longer believe that there is.
30 percent were Nazis. Same with Bolshevics…
50 percent are sheep,…we all know the type.
They would meekly get on the cattlecars, and go into the “showers”, and would encourage others to do the same.
So, 20 percent is what your left with, and even then, for most of them its only when THEIR ox is gored, that they stand up.
The father, whose daughter was raped by the trans,…would he have even BEEN at that school board meeting, protesting those trans policies, if his daughter hadn’t been raped?
Maybe,…but maybe not. Those policies were enacted during Obama admin, remember?
How many parents protested them, then?
So, even with “the 20”, standing up is mostly conditional, and based on perception of a direct threat to the individual.
IIRC, the American colonists had similar #’s.
Hi Dutch hope you are well sir. Can’t help but think we are on some sort of crazy clown world countdown.
….crazy world countdown….AND God is assisting by moving it along quite rapidly.
The world is burning by God’s fire one way or another. Earthquakes, floods, mudslides, electrical storms, fires, volcanos, hurricanes, the encroaching oceans (Yes, I think that is God’s work and it will not leave evil doers standing on dry land. SMDH.)
not to mention the subject of this thread which is the way FJB is helping Satan by destroying our economy and our country with his democrat minions’ oppressive rules and regulations and money printing habits.
JMHO.
Might the End be near?
Did you see the article that they’d found a village that might be Sodom and they thought was hit by a meteor? No word on whether there was a big pool of salt there.
Yes and no on that assessment of motivations. To a large extent you are correct, inertia can be relied on to prevent most of the people from resisting, however there is an additional fair and not-selfish aspect that you are missing. The simple reality is that most people are busy with their own existence, taking care of their family, business, career, dealing with illness or loss, and all the other parts of living their life. They simply are not aware of what is happening because it’s not in their world, it’s over the horizon somewhere.
I’ve fought more than a normal share of minor crusades in my years and I’ll admit that each and every time I became involved because of a personal connection to the issue. I’ve faced the question in my own conscience as to whether the fight was one that was noble and just or if I was simply pursuing a selfish agenda. Not so much whether what I was fighting against was a wrong that needed righting, that was always clear, but whether my part in the fight was less worthy because I was only there as a result of personal harm to me or mine.
I’ve answered that question. No. However we each become aware of the issue, what we do thereafter is the measure. And to that I add another observation: each of us must fight the battles we are constituted to fight. Some are not cut out to be on the front line grappling with the enemy, but for those on that front line the support of many back home is essential, without them the effort will fail. Another way of viewing this is that not everyone is suited to teach Sunday school, be a scoutmaster, or chaperone a sockhop, but resenting those parents who “don’t step up to help ever” is often a failure to recognize that those are the parents who are putting together the funeral luncheons at the church, or are providing the honor guard for the military funeral, they are volunteering at the food shelf or helping the injured neighbor get in the hay.
We really are at war. We need every ally we can muster, but we don’t need them all on the front line. We need them aware and pulling for the team though. Resenting the folks over the mountain for not helping fight the forest fire while it was on our side misses the fact that they didn’t know. Had they been made aware perhaps help was available. Victory gardens and scrap metal drives were for more than the food and metal.
Our Revolution was sparked with 5%
I feel like we might have to fight this one differently. If our own military turns against us, even a much larger percentage would be quickly defeated and killed. I’m no expert but perhaps a larger number participating in civil disobedience?
Yesterday Austin TX hosted the largest crowd ever for a Formula 1 race in the Americas. 100 bus drivers cancelled at the last minute and left tourists from all over the country and world stranded. Local news reporting it as “unexpected cancellations and labor shortages. I’m assuming it was civil disobedience. We need A LOT more
I watched a number of good shows yesterday on Newsmax. One was there were two men getting out of the military because of the jab mandate.
One of them shared that during a week long course, I can’t remember the acronym which I believe was a to transition them out of the military, said that 1/3 of the course was there because they would not take the jab.
The make up of the remaining 2/3 was not shared.
My thoughts would be that few want to re-up under this administration and they way Afghanistan went down.
That doesn’t bode well for keeping our military in a state of readiness. It does bode well for Americans looking to bolster the ranks of the freedom loving people in this country.
In fact, a clip of the Xiden town hall where he disparaged freedom was played and the same young man said something like it was disturbing that a president of America would say that about freedom.
Also, Tom Basile (sp?) is a host at Newsmax and has one of the Saturday shows. He shared that his wife is a doctor would worked tirelessly through the pandemic. They made a decision, as a family, that she would no longer be working for her employer because they are mandating the jab.
Small things but important things, IMO.
Here’s a link to Basile’s show. Go to 2 minute mark to see about his family’s stand on mandates:
https://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/America-Right-Now
He also had Pierre Kory on about Ivermectin and therapeutics at 29:45.
An article in TGP said the father in Louden VA had previously (before the rape) argued against the policy. My guess is(based on the Superintendent’s letter notifying the school board about the incident that was full of “allegedly attacked”) is that the father was vocal, then the rape was reported and the Superintendent believed the girl faked the story to defeat the all gender bathrooms policy. (Because .., “believe all women”? ) The board plowed forward with approving the new policy and then they were all surprised when the rape kit confirmed the attack and the Sheriff filed charges against the rapist.
It’s the latter. No doubt in my mind.
Agreed FF
Never assume incompetency when evil could be the problem.
If it was incompetence, the California government would have fixed the law by now.
This is evil and nothing else.
Again I agree
Arrantly disagree.
Evil is a nice term to toss around – but it essentially isn’t distinguishable from, say, “it’s unfair”. Normative standards are important – i.e., axiomatic assumptions lying at the foundation of any science or moral philosophy are the starting point. But explaining existing behavioral patterns is another matter.
Folks need to look at the system; work inside the system. I know dozens of very intelligent people/married couples, people who are “influencers”, people who are all riding the progressive train to nowhere. Why? Because it’s in their interest to do so financially or politically (i.e., power – which correlates strongly to wealth/style-of-life). We know the same conditions apply to “government dependency”.
The resistance vectors need to be aimed at both the system and the people (including their families) tied into it. The decision calculus for these people needs to incorporate….errrrr……..”external diseconomies”considerations. And we can create those working internally (voting) and externally (let your imagination decide).
Change the decision calculus.
“Evil is a nice term to toss around – but it essentially isn’t distinguishable from, say, ‘it’s unfair’”.
The Bible never conflates evil and unfair, as you seem to do here.
Evil is active resistance to and rejection of God as the source of righteousness, i.e., the standard of holiness.
Author of the epistle to the Hebrews: “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God .” Heb. 3:22.
Unfairness, as witness the Parable of the Prodigal Son, is an appeal to that standard.
“But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ Luke 11:28-30
In this one case at least, the appeal to fairness is at odds with the Father’s mercy and love, which is meant to illustrate God’s forgiveness of repentant sinners.
I go with ineptitude, groupthink leading to mass insanity, as I commented earlier.
Back on this shipping fiasco,, which is totally f’ing up the multinationals “just in time” supply system,…even if “we” were able to sort out this container problem, there is a major problem, at the other end of the Supply chain;
China, the “manufacturer to the World” is having a major energy crises, with factories down to 1-2 days a week, in order to keep homes lit and heated.
AND, simultaneously having a housing bubble pop, many times larger than 2008.
So, all those multinationals are screwed, on BOTH ends of the supply chain.
PDJT TOLD them to move out of CCP-China, Abe offered to pay the moving costs,..now they are “paying the price” for a raft of bad decisions, from JIT supply chains, moving to China, and financing the installation of an incompetent, “woke” administration.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of,…people.
“Multinationals… and a raft of bad decisions to stay in the CCP/China.” President Trump was right!
PDJT had excellent advisors and the sense to listen to them.
This could be fixed rather quickly. All China Joe has to do is tell California to lift the ban on truck emissions for like 6 months to alleviate this backup. But they won’t. Wouldn’t you think these multinationals would be hammering China Joe to fix this mess. You can’t keep producing things if they aren’t selling.
There still needs to be a long term solution for the empty shipping containers! The idiots ruining Commifornia still haven’t figured out that China is dumping them since it’s more expensive to ship them back than to build a new one! Should be easy to fix for anyone with a brain, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone in Sacramento or DC that has a clue!
Agree, it’s the latter (evil), in which case we can only hope that their ineptitude will thwart this evil.
Christian Warren said it better above:
“They mean it for evil but the goodness of God frustrates their efforts…”
Amen to that!
It could take awhile, but the blessing in all of this would be if more manufacturing gets started up in the US, diminishing the need for the container ships. The multinationals would be moving in this direction if money is the issue, but not if evil intent is the true motive.
Fair points, counter would be the interview with Stew Peters who has Bill Gates in front of some board explaining that the jabs would run monthly like software – I wish I had link, but it’s out there.
The break down in immunity is ADE , rapidly getting worse as we go + 6 months
But personal experiences are confusing us all – if you go to the hospital with covid – you’re out on the WHO and NIH’s death protocol, vaxxed or unvaxxed and it kills you. It’s confusing the masses as people conclude it has something to do with the jab. What put you into the hospital – if you’re jabbed? If you’re unjabbed?
Seek alternatives to hospital. Are the evil or intentional? Mention ivermectin to an ER doctor and find out.
Stew Peters is the best interviewer and his show is gaining in popularity
I’m still open to the idea the back up is because they’re checking every container for bio weapons. I have no evidence of that, but given China claiming that we released Covid at their military games, it makes sense to me we would be on the lookout for retaliation.
To answer your question?
This ineptitude of which you speak is in no way innocent. It is a by product of wickedness and evil intentions. Which would certainly make it purposeful.
Selfishness and self – centerness naturally takes advantage of others.
Those in charge of our nation have a convoluted ideology which is inherently anti – God, anti everything that is basically good and wholesome.
They are all liars with devious intentions I call that evil.
It’s not hard for me to see this entire pandemic scheme as a deliberate effort to destroy a nation.
I have no trouble calling it out as plain diabolical.
Right straight out of Satan’s playbook.
Evil.
Covid vaccines with non-human messenger RNA have the potential to destroy human DNA bonds. The dangers associated with them are many and serious.
https://pomegranatesandchains.com/2021/05/05/divine-image-destroyed-christine-beadsworth-s-africa-may-5-2021/
If you believe as I do that none of this is by accident, then it is by definition evil. It took me a while to come to that conclusion, but I’m there. It’s the only explanation that makes sense across all of the myriad of challenges that we face. For quite a while, I believed Sundance to be somewhat alarmist in his views, but time and again, he’s been proven correct, although I wish that he weren’t.
Interestingly, the broader view of “evil” — when applied to COVID-19 vaccines — creates the broadest possible opportunity for religious exemptions. If it’s one’s duty as a religious person to combat evil and immorality, then you can identify a litany of fact- and data-based reasons (not limited to just fetal cells) why they’re evil. They don’t prevent community spread, they can cause severe short- and long-term side effects, they cause ADE, thousands have to be jabbed to save even 1 life (by their math), the spike proteins are prionic, and so on. No need to hang anyone’s hat on just one.
It is both. President TRUMP has said many times it must be ineptitude, but only because he likes to keep his options open and I think tends to give these
slugsthugs the benefit of the doubt WAY TOO MUCH.I can see the evil and the ineptitude. I saw it with the Clintons, with the The Kenyans, and now Delusional Joe & his maladministration.
Thanks for the attempt to get us to watch these idiots, but no thanks. I’ll get my news elsewhere, not from progressive liberal hacks.
Evil hides under the cover of ineptitude, incompetence, Biden’s what ever the heck he is really up to. Evil uses these smoke screens, yet eventually we must open eyes, this is on purpose, its evil and it must not only be exposed, but we must cut it out of our government/society.
There is a word for this type of human killing. DEMOCIDE has been the focus of serious scholarship and has been comprehensively studied, but here we find more evidence of long running censorship.
They define Democide as murder of citizens by their government. But in truth, this is the selective murder of citizens by people employed by government. The infiltration and perversion of government by corrupt and murderous people.
In our governmental instance. Who are the enablers? Who are the actors? What are their names? Show us their faces. Let them be confronted for their role in creating, funding and operating a predatory Mortocracy that harvests its citizens, rendering life and death into wealth and political power and political hegemony. The names, please. Let us speak their names.
Does anyone else suspect the fanatical government CV19 vaccine push is all about mail in voting? That without the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) the pandemic narrative would collapse and the ruse of emergency mail in voting would also lose justification? Would Machine Democrats sit by doing nothing, watching people die, become vaccine injured, families fractured by untimely death, family businesses destroyed, transgenerational wealth destroyed?
Would Machine Democrats do this this? Would they do it if it meant gaining control of the federal government? Would they be willing to harvest the lives of their fellow citizens for more personal wealth and political power?
Well, Machine Democrats sure did that in Baltimore. They sure did that in Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Would they do it to an entire nation if it meant controlling the federal government for the next 100 years?
Mortacracy and Democide are Big Money; big wealth for those willing to destroy the lives of their fellow citizens for personal financial gain and security. The Cluster B, the psychopaths, the sociopaths and the True Believers have absolutely no problem doing so.
That is the lesson history teaches us. That is the greatest running problem in the history of our nation. It increasingly looks like we are now facing a final exam whose time has come in Our America.
Just look at the history of the prior 20th Century: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Once again, Sundance cuts through the fog and correctly identifies the root problem.
Union Pacific Railroad President and CEO Lance Fritz: “If we could snap our fingers on the back end, we would love to see more dray and warehouse distribution capacity. That’s the first thing that we would love to see. I think that would fundamentally change the street time for chassis and boxes.”
h/t Zerohedge
(Drayage is the transport of containerized cargo by specialized trucking companies between ocean ports or rail ramps and shipping docks.)
In short, the problem is not the inability of ports to off-load container cargo. The stumbling block is inadequate drayage.
Well that problem goes further. Since you can’t bring a truck into state if it hasn’t been made in the last 3 years, and if you’re a O/O you can’t enter the port even if you’ve got clearance.
Feds could fix problem with stroke of a pen. An actual case where Commerce Clause is applicable.
The problem has nothing to do with the ships or terminals or unloading and moving containers within the terminals. All the big shipping companies have their own terminals and know how to run them efficiently. Key personnel are paid above union wage through side deals.
Trump would have solved this already. The Biden administration can’t blame CA green laws because that is just not PC.
The problem with CA is the green laws destroy your investment before standard shelf life.
Long term, shipping companies are going to look for other solutions which will bypass CA altogether
Unless the race to make all states “like CA” is lost to the Left.
Isn’t it the case that the Environmental Regulations designed to SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT have led to a backlog of container ships off the coast of California that has in turn led to AN OIL SPILL OF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA!
So in order to save the Environment they are creating OIL SPILLS OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST!
Good one!
Collateral damage punctuated by an oops
Not only that but all those ships sitting at anchor,all have their engines idling whilst they are waiting,some times for weeks on end and paying wages too I might add.
The worst words in the shipping industry is “delay of vessel” which amounts to thousands per hour. At anchor the main engine is shut down with the generators running. They are probably running the gen sets on #2 diesel. The ships are not that far off the coast.
It is going to be interesting to see what happens when winter storm season comes. Going to be hard to hide 60 ships.
Plus, you can bet those ships are just outside the zone, which means they are using the DIRTIEST diesel fuel.
And all that exhaust is carried right into shore.
As you say,..”good one!”
Wait till the bilge tanks are pumped out in the middle of the night.
Those beaches won’t smell so good.
I think all the bilge discharges have oil/water separators and oil in the bilge is pumped to a slop tank. I worked on one years ago where the chief engineer bypassed the separator and dumped oil into the ocean. The Coast Guard and EPA was all over that one.
This is generally true of all modern environmental regulations.. “solving” one problem creates a larger and worse enviro problem
Listening to creepy Joe speak reminds me of a manure spreader in a wind storm bull shit flying everywhere and it all stinks.
Now they have liquid spreaders that pump out lagoons. “Honey wagons”on the farm.
KInda like verbal diarrhea.
F J B !!!!
Only one of those has value.
There is a HUGE talking point here for PT where he could say something like this.
Biden and his administration would rather see Americans suffer with huge shortages of everyday essential living items than allow a truck that doesn’t meet their green emission standard to help move these products.
They would rather cause pain and suffering to the American people than move off their crazy green energy policies.
The world needs to see how stupid and flat out incompetent these people truly are. They couldn’t manage an outhouse let alone a country.
To the American people, you have been snookered and cheated.
Lower your expectations as it’s what they are bringing, not for them of course.
Here’s my new lower expectations: The big one will finally hit the commie state of California and the new deep water ports will be in Arizona
It has to happen eventually according to plate tectonics but why wait another half million years when it could happen sooner. There will have to be a lot more really big ones before they officially become separated by what would at first be a small canal so wouldn’t put much hope in that anyway. It’s gonna take something much bigger and much shorter in time frame.
The Rockies are going to sink 15000 feet?
That would not surprise me.
“Vengeance is mine saith the Lord”
Indeed. But their crazy green energy policies make them some crazy amounts of greenbacks. That’s what they are for. If course they don’t work. That calls for even more ???. This Scam went on in the 90’s too and Obama….billions for boondoggle. Rinse and repeat
Good point!
But I’d steal a page from the Dem playbook and just say, “Democrats are playing politics with the price of food!”
Dems have always loved that turn-of-phrase, and it’s highly successful in making Repubs back off whatever sensible policy they are advocating. Remember, Dems are statesmen, Repubs are politicians.
The foregoing notwithstanding, the Biden administration announced a couple of months ago that there would be large increases to food stamp subsidies taking effect this month. Therefore, the most dependent slice of the electorate won’t feel, or even know about the mismanagement in the production and transport of goods. But those that have to use their own money to put food on the table will not be so oblivious.
Nonetheless, unhappy voters are usually placated by Dem promises of relief, so the latter are not so worried at this stage. Quite the contrary, they’re licking their chops, because a hungry, desperate populace is what they want come election time. Dems always know that their bid on an economic relief package will come in, much much higher than the Republican bid.
Our founders foresaw all of this, and feared that a majority could become the tyrants of a minority.
Can there be any doubt our politics have now brought us to this end stage that was easily foreseen almost 250 years ago?
They are managing to turn a country into an outhouse, so they’ve got that going for them!
this is not incompetence.
This is part of the plan.
From their point of view they are successfully and fundamentally destroying the systems that run the country and replacing it with the global Agenda 21.
And the means justifies the end.
All is going to plan.
The Machine Democrat goal is permanent political hegemony; a 100 year Democrat Party Reich over the federal government. Crisis and chaos are the object of the exercise. They need to justify the installation of the Mortocracy to compress the premature death of the opposition in inverse relationship to the onboarding of a foreign replacement population.
This is the British model. Not the Nazi or the Soviet; the British. This is rooted in the greatest traditions of the East India Company, the Hudson Bay Company, The Rhodes and other royal franchise hegemonies of the grand imperial era.
The Machine Democrats have already done this to the major American cities. They have substantially done this to significant number of American states. They intend to fully infiltrate and operate the municipal, county/parish and state governments as if they are the exclusive property of the Democrat Party.
Machine Democrats apparently have a plan to take over the federal government and its agencies by fiat of federal agency infiltration to selectively delimit government action and to support the needed electioneering and election fraud, to hold it harmless and protected by fiat exemption from otherwise lawful prosecution.
Meritt Garland’s recent congressional testimony really brought this home to me. It seems apparent they have NO INTENTION of enforcing any law that will weaken the evident conspiracy to steal the American government from the American People and make it the private property and captive corporate interest of the Democrat Party and the foreign interests that control it.
Certainly this plays into a global hegemonic scheme, but we must focus on the domestic dynamic and the domestic conflicts that confront us. This is our domicile nation. We must focus on the preservation of our mutual home and the future of the republic that has made our liberty possible.
If we lose that, there will be no distinctions remaining to make a difference.
First things first. America First.
Xiden Huffs and Puffs and blows his own house down.
Keep trying Joey, you’ll get 1 thing right in the next 3 years.
Biden has no house. He is the squatter in a tent inside the WH. Trump won and we are the ones paying the price for the Left’s cheating in the 2020 election. It all goes back to that. Imagine where we would now be if President Trump were still in office. So much spoilage coming from the ones that enabled the worst criminal event in American history!
NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE!
VA Governor Update – Lifelong Democrats come out in support of Glenn Youngkin
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2021/10/va-governor-update-lifelong-democrats.html
Briana was special, snowflake turned, it is a miracle. McAwful is sweating, and all the Dems are very pissy, more so than usual. I am concerned about the voter cheating, it we had honest elections Youngkin would win by a landslide. I would love to see Glenn and barry play hoops. Glenn would beat him hands down.
https://www.facebook.com/GlennYoungkin/videos/3071476006473365
Mama bears — can be fierce when aroused to protect their cubs!!!
There is one other issue, outlined in the twitter thread here. The yards that hold the empty shipping containers are only allowed to go 2 high. There is a shortage of chassis (the trailer that the shipping containers sit on with wheels).
If they were allowed to stack the containers higher, they would free up more chassis.
This guy would do a much better job than the new mother still on leave, it’s shameful no one in govt has even realized this.
A very good idea but, I would want to know first why they only stack them two high. Have they gone higher and had problems before? Or is just a custom with no known reason?
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Stacking them higher impedes someone’s view?
Stacking them higher requires more sophisticated machinery than the yards can afford?
Stacking them higher is a dangerous situation as the stacks could blow over – these are empty containers after all . . .
The problem isn’t stacking! They could stack containers up to the moon. The problem is there isn’t the trucking capable of hauling the containers out of the port to their destination because California has banned older trucks from the port. It gets worse because California will eventually only permit electric trucks to enter the port. Electric trucks are the unicorn of the environmental Nazis because they would take huge banks to batteries taking 12 hours if not days to charge!
Bridges? Clearance? Duh!
“They could stack containers up to the moon.”
Those lofty stacks would would come tumbling down with the next earthquake.
Someone decided to maintain the look and feel of the community. Implementation via Local zoning laws.
Know that one of the companies that I worked for, they wanted to expand. They needed to have a three story building. Local zoning laws only allowed all buildings in this municipality two stories high.
Got around that, by making a lower level, main level and an upper level. Could NOT have an auditorium, built a multipurpose room.
Bridge clearance.
City, County regulations. Look again at the picture at the head of this thread; they CAN be safely stacked higher than 2.
And like any such problem, the fix is a long way off. Getting permission to stack higher will not make the lulls or stackers lift higher. Given that the yards were not allowed to go higher those yards will be unlikely to have equipment that will go higher.
Zoning Laws, if you read the whole thread.
A thought, Sundance:
China’s economy is literally about to implode. The Eerrgrande situation has thrown chaos into their ‘property’ market, which is now shedding value at a toxic pace. It’s not just Evergrande, either: there are MANY more doing JUST what they did and the Yuan is POURING in to try and save them. It’s not working. (Remember the “ghost cities”, folks?)
Now will come the next phase: the American banks (and Euros, too. MANY) are gonna have to admit to our own people that THEY sold us out and will beg for government help, due to their entrenched buy-in to these Chinese sham companies.
Any thoughts on whether this ‘goods may not be here by Christmas’ is being pushed hard from behind to try and hide what’s going on there, for a while? Just curious on your view.
If you don’t know Evergrande, friends- LOOK THEM UP. It may end up making ’08 here look like child’s play for the CCP and they know it. We’ll see.
China is in very bad shape. They and their minions here have been putting lipstick on that pig for far too long. It’s a commie country, go figure. Gonna give communism a black eye if they aren’t careful. Meanwhile here at home, everything bad is blamed on capitalism a word invented by a communist to disparage freedom and private property.
“Capitalism” was coined by Karl Marx to disparage the private property order.
Capitalism historically meant: “to operate or otherwise pursue a monopoly on the ACCESS to capital.”
This is not free enterprise or a market economy. It is somewhat like mercantilism. Stalin’s cold war rhetoricians did a good job conflating the definitions.
There is no greater oxymoron than “free market capitalism.”
The modern Trusts, Foundations, NGOs and SEC regulated corporations are giving free lessons on what monopolies are and how capitalism facilitates monopoly and incents the systematic destruction of individual liberty.
Capitalism has no greater enemy than individual liberty. That is why Capitalism and Socialism are the greatest of friends.
This is also why socialism is always embodied in a corporate form. That is why the first step of any socialist or communist takeover is to seize and immediately establish an absolute monopoly over the banks, the capital assets and the financial system.
That is why both Socialism and Capitalism are dominated and operated by Authoritarians.
Individual liberty is their biggest fear, their greatest enemy.
Wait a minute… communists lie?
American residential property values represent 1x GDP. Chinese property values = 12x GDP.
The Chinese have 60% of their net worth tied to real estate.
Even a small deleveraging of the Chinese real estate bubble will bring results to the global economy not seen since 2008.
here is the latest on Ever-grande that I’ve found:
China Evergrande Group appeared to have averted default with a last-minute bond coupon payment, a source said on Friday, buying it another week to wrestle with a debt crisis looming over the world’s second-biggest economy. Facing a deadline on Saturday to pay interest on a US dollar bond, Evergande sent $83.5 million to a Citibank trustee account on Thursday, Reuters reported. Still, the world’s most indebted property firm — with more than $300 billion in liabilities — needs to make payments on a string of other bonds, with the next major deadline to avoid default on Oct. 29. The property developer also announced plans to give future priority to its electric vehicles business over real estate.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/market-talk/market-talk-october-22-2021/
”Now will come the next phase: the American banks (and Euros, too. MANY) are gonna have to admit to our own people that THEY sold us out and will beg for government help, due to their entrenched buy-in to these Chinese sham companies.”
About a decade ago,American (((bankers))) and their co-religionists held a conference at the Wye plantation, planning on jumping from the U.S. to China, and sent money there by the boatload. Then the Chinese told them to piss off, they don’t want their country built up and then destroyed by the Rothschild clan like they did to France, Russia, Germany, the U.K. and now the U.S.
Yes, they would much rather destroy it themselves. “President” (for life) Xi said so.
In the words of the great philosopher, Gary Larson, “It’s time to go home, Eddie.”
Enter local zoning issues: Trucking companies can’t event free up their trailers for use because 1) they can’t return empties to the over-flowing docks and 2) local zoning ordinance keeps them from stacking containers more then two-high on their lots. The zoning ordinance was just lifted for a whopping 90 days. Either way, just more ways government rule-makers are screwing up everything!
https://ajansev.com/2021/10/23/the-ceo-of-a-logistics-startup-took-a-boat-tour-of-the-port-of-long-beach-and-found-a-lot-of-things-wrong-including-terminals-simply-overflowing-with-containers/
https://lbbusinessjournal.com/supply-chain-crisis-prompts-city-officials-to-suspend-shipping-container-stacking-limits
I understand what you are saying, but the political people do understand also. But they cannot do it openly. Newsom just issued his imperial decree, that all state agencies help in the effort. Noncompliant trucks will be allowed, be sure of it, just like Germany, the perfect, burning all that terrible coal.
So why has not one of the affected states filed in US District Court an injunction that the CA truck emission rules prevent interstate commerce?
Haha, a court rule on anything?
You’re living in fantasy land my friend, this is a nation of men not laws!
It seems to me that the main reason to cheat, lie, and steal the recent recall election in kookafornia was to keep Grusome in office to insure the further destruction of the American economy and create shortages to put more pressure on America. Getting tired of this real fast.
Beware the do gooder bureaucrat.
In an effort to improve air quality via emission standards for diesel trucks, the brilliant law makers in California have slowed trucking and crippled the country.
Probably not intended as happens with so many good intentioned laws.
To the contrary, it was INTENDED to strike a blow against the free operation of commerce.
Most feared phrase in English language;
“I am from the Government, and I’m here to help!” Reagan said it.
Here on the East coast, ports of NY and NJ, we don’t seem to have those problems for some reason.
If anyone has more info, let us know.
Western Democrats are much more obsessed with environmentalism than those in the East. They’re also more radical overall — Obama/Trump voters were common in the East but quite rare out West.
Basically, the Westerners are like Easterners on meth. Podesta wargaming specifically the Left Coast seceding if Trump got a second term (and not, say, the Northeast) is not just throwaway speculation.
New York has a different power base. More old money industry as opposed to flakey environmentalists!
Embarrassing of power,
Everyone knows things aren’t going well right? Tyranny ain’t giving up it’s strangle hold for ANY election. I hope everyone understands that.
This is a 959 page lawsuit for grant of stay filed in 2017 and to date the Courts as far as I know hav3 still not scheduled an oral hearing.
I know it’s long people but it will bring you up to date on (CARB) and the EPA to help those get a real good understanding of the mess these truckers are in.
https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/ttma-stay-motion-09252017pm.pdf
If it gets a lot worse, the one upside would be angry mobs driving Biden from office and Democrats from DC…
Stock up, if you haven’t.
This nonsense of California, which, like the rest of the Pacific Coast states, has ALWAYS had the cleanest air in the country, setting up their own, internal pollution standards which are stricter than the rest of the nation needs to be halted immediately, and once and for all.
Dealing with the CARB regulations is just a pen stroke away, IF the Gov-na’ wanted to. Fat chance anything is going to happen. Especially if the lever pullers in Washington consider this mess a feature, not a bug. The more complex issue in this bottleneck is all the problems introduced with California’s AB5 legislation, the one that deals with employment status. It’s ulterior motive is to generate more tax revenue by reclassifying the independently employed as employees. Great for the Uber driver trying to make more than $9/hr, but this has created a mass exodus of independent drivers willing to risk the bureaucratic red tape the bill creates, all for the privilege of doing business in California. These drivers often have complex relationships with the shippers. Some drivers own their trucks, some lease them. Whatever they chose, they have made their own financial arrangements that meet their own specific needs.
This perfect storm of government incompetence has been brewing unnoticed for a while now. Slowing the economy with the Covid crisis hid the problems. Now that people have been going back to work we see the results. Add to this the lopsided purchasing habits of this country, where most people spend only for necessities during most of the year, then go on a spending spree for the year end holidays, the container ships filled with those potential year end purchases started arriving at the ports a few months ago.
No quick solution to this mess, as the only way to navigate AB5 is through the courts, and as we all know, the judicial system is exceedingly slow.
the judicial system is
exceedingly slowbroken.The full truth about this deliberate clogging of California ports is still not being disseminated in most Conservative news sites. Why?
Oh well, as the Supply Chains of the USA are being purposefully and negatively impacted by the policies of Newsom and Biden’s Marxist handlers, one major Chain of importation and change is showing no sign of being restricted in any way. (Notwithstanding Abbott’s belated and slow border fence construction.)
A steady steam of cheap labor is a priority for woke and globalist corporations and Dem strategists during this hideous JoeBama term. Food shortages don’t seem to be a problem for the caravans.
Well, now we’re beginning to see chip shortages hitting the trucking manufacturers (class 8).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chip-shortage-curtails-heavy-duty-truck-production-11630661401
https://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/computer_chip_shortage_stalls_class_8_production_further_dampening_trucking
Second article is from 6 months ago. Compounding the truck shortage is driver shortage (some reports say 80K more drivers are needed).
It may be a while before Long Beach can clear out their port.
FUBAR
I remember Mark Steyn, guest hosting for our dear Rush, being exasperated by a caller who said “We’re rich enough to be stupid”.
Everywhere I look I see waste and folly. If only we burned oil and gas, and used nuclear energy, we would all be so much richer and happier. We would have so much surplus wealth to share with others, and to take care of the poor, and the problems of the world. But our enemies want us poor, for their own protection. And leftists want us poor in order to control us. America’s poor are perpetually poor, and perpetually resentful, and they perpetually vote Left. And they never make the connection.
Americans used to understand this simple, basic truth – prosperity is not greed. Prosperity means health and happiness.
I recall a Russian swim coach who emigrated to America to work, and he was shocked that the young American swimmers rarely missed practice due to illness. Poor people in poor countries are poor because they cannot work, because they are sick. Poor people in Africa are plagued by parasites and chronic illness. They are not lazy, they are sick. Poor countries have dirty water and dirty air, rich countries have a clean environment. The environmental zealots will create more pollution, not less. And the health of Americans will suffer.
Cargo ship on fire off of Victoria, B.C., which is , of course, just off of NW Washington state.
Cargo ship w/ toxic load on fire off of Victoria, B.C. – close to WA.
tweet w/ info is “awaiting approval”.
Vid at article and description of what’s on board. B.C./WA. State
https://www.cheknews.ca/fire-breaks-out-on-cargo-vessel-that-lost-shipping-containers-near-vancouver-island-903057/
The country will not take another sham election and china will not take an honest one.
We’ve lived through several generations of leftists who truly believed in socialism.
The ridiculous failure of Venezuela, combined with the ongoing debacle of Cuba, has slain their god.
Anarchism is the new lifeline of leftists. Antifa is the holy crusade of middle-class leftists.
Anarchism is now mainstream leftism. Mainstream. All roads lead to anarchism.
The Democrats will not relent until this madness is demonstrated to be just that.
Zuckerberg is now dedicated to creating something he calls the Metaverse on Facebook. An alternative reality.
Bezos and Musk and Branson are obsessed with travelling to outer space. Another world?
This is the fantasy land the richest among us are now creating for themselves.
Post-modernism. A world of total subjectivity and fantasy. The point of becoming wealthy is now to achieve an isolation from reality.
Scientific facts and evidence are in bad taste. No more god means the rich and powerful can buy and select ultimate truth. Transgenderism is the ultimate expression of this madness, and therefore the humoring of this fantasy is crucial.
Josh Caplan
@joshdcaplan
FBN: Biden policies dramatically impacted supply chain crisis, inflation, former McDonald’s USA CEO says
1:28 PM · Oct 22, 2021
Is Strange , and I Do Realize the Extra Expense , but had those containers been delivered to a More Congenial Port , the items contained would Already Be on the Road Right Now !
And a Big Thank You
to the Hardworking
Truckers of America !!!
If not for You ..
Whatever the actual cause of the stoppages at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach one thing is for certain – THIS IS BEING DONE ON PURPOSE!
Just like the “crisis” at the southern border this is all being done on purpose.
Governor DeSantis has said that all the ports in Florida are available to offload these ships without any delay. There is no reason for container ships to be anchored for weeks off of LA when they can take the four day cruise through the Panama cannel and get offloaded in Florida. What is the cost of diverting to Florida compared to sitting at anchor for weeks? In some cases with perishable cargo?
Why is the Biden regime doing this on purpose?
Well, look at who Biden has picked (or more correctly had picked for him) to run the American government. But for one exception (Secretary of Defense) they are all Bolsheviks who know how to profit out of chaos. They are all just like George Soros who made his massive fortune from fomenting chaos. Soros’ first success was tanking of the British pound – now Soros is trying to “tank” the United States of America and he has a lot of help from fellow travelers within the Biden regime.
I really hope Americans will wake up to who the REAL enemy is of the USA. It is NOT Russia – It is NOT China (even though China is a fierce economic competitor with hypersonic nuclear low-orbit glide missiles the U.S. it has no defense against).
It is the Bolsheviks in position of power. People – like Merrick Garland – who are targeting concerned white parents by labeling them “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists” . It is people like the so-called “Hispanic” Secretary of Homeland Security – Alejandro Mayorkas – who has opened the floodgates to third world illegals as part of a planned “replacement strategy” (I’ll let you guess who “Alejandro” wants to replace). People who are all part of Biden’s “diverse” cabinet!
De Santis has volunteers the ports in Florida, to help with this situation. So, what would take longer…..California getting its act together to offload, or ships traveling to the Panama Canal, through the Gulf of Mexico, to ports in. Florida?? Personally, I think the latter…..
Companies like Amazon are already chartering flexible cargo vessels to transit the Canal and offload at ports on the Gulf and East coasts. The vessels are self-contained so don’t rely on dock cranes to offload their containers.
Also, they can take on empties heading back to Asia closer to the sources in those regions, rather than those empties crossing the country by rail, generally. IME, water and rail are the most economical methods, with trucks being more flexible and precise and expensive.
We’ve got a major weather event impacting the west coast today and tomorrow, I’m already in it up in Oregon, and shipping may take a further hit from it as it slides down the coast. As a CA native from the 50’s, given what’s going on there and here in OR recently, I’d avoid the area. I did a few thousand miles up and down a couple weeks ago hauling and saw very little intermodal truck traffic, though a lot of other truck traffic. Most common were those Amazon Prime dry van trailers.
Having worked in the freight business for years, I would assume that many containers/ships waiting offshore are loaded with goods for various retailers, rather than a container/ship that only has merchandise for one retailer such as Amazon. I have to assume that there is no way that a ship whose designation is not for one retailer, will be able to charter vessels in the way that you’re describing, although perhaps the actual shipping company is able to do this. Either way, it appears that this becomes another way where mammoth global retailers such as Amazon are able to succeed, while smaller retailers continue to suffer.
You can find pictures and video of Amazon chartered ships in various ports, I found some in Houston, and sporting brand new blue 53′ Amazon logo intermodal containers. The ships have their own cranes. Apparently other companies are doing the same thing, whether for their own cargo or as brokers for multiple customers. Amazon is just easier to spot because of their unique logo and colors.
One area to investigate is Amazon as a logistics company, not just as a retailer, using their technology expertise, reach and resources to service other industries. If I had widgets in the shop that needed to get somewhere and Amazon was offering get it there services like freight companies, FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc, I’d look at them.
As things are in CA, IMO it would take a ramrod mobilizing the military and Guard transportation resources and pushing the bureaucrats out of the way to break the logjam. Create container storage facilities, move the ‘port’ inland to other locations, flood the port with chassis and flatcars and military personnel on the prime movers. Operate it like a war zone. Doubt it’ll happen so Merry Christmas.
I understand that ships are being offloaded in Oakland……
The golf ball comparison is great. If people starve because food cannot be unloaded, emissions will be irrelevant because no one will be breathing. I have never seen such asinine thought processes like those of liberals.
Government regulation is the cause.
Very easy fix.
Deregulate!
gov’t regulation is the GOAL.
2021-10-24 07:00 by Karl Denninger
Here It Comes: Supply Dislocation
Gee, where’s my sign again?
Plenty of water….. but no parts for the pumps.
What did I predict would happen? What happens when the parts are sitting in a container somewhere offshore that can’t be unloaded? You can’t get to them until and unless the ship docks and the container is loaded onto a vehicle (train or truck.)
I predicted exactly this sort of disruption would happen.
Now it has.
How long before it is natural gas, electricity, or a total lockout of the ability to deliver fresh water or sewer?
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244005
The ironic thing, as an old time who owned a machine shop servicing, in part, such industries, is we can do all that domestically, and did for decades. Customers made the choice to go to China; I first saw it in the 80’s. Those pump parts can easily be made or repaired right here. Of course, when corporate customers run vendors out of business by their choices, oh, well, I have no sympathy for them. They can die after horrible suffering for all I care. Enjoy the just desserts of greed.
These people in DC would bankrupt a free lemonade stand! Totally useless.
When you don’t jail the criminals…this is what you get…
You always suppress a fire at the source…
“We are showing the world that we can move goods, grow our economy and finally dump dirty diesel,” Jared Blumenfeld, California’s Secretary for Environmental Protection, sneered.
Blumenfeld has certainly shown the world how well dumping dirty diesel trucks work! LOL!
Wokeism is a disease and a design to destroy our nation.
Outsource American jobs that support American families and you get despair, drugs, crime.
And plugged supply lines from your enemy, China.
How hard is that to figure out?
Yep, according to Joey Perv Xiden the dock workers/truck drivers all needed to snort some speed to get them to work faster…not withstanding the totally Stupid Law that prevents normal trucks from driving on the Californication roads…
Ship pronouns are problematic. Film at 11.
All by design!
The DemoNazi Party is at war with the American people, America and reality.
There is no “man made” global warming or climate change. It is a fraud perpetrated by international communists to steal money from the American people and redistribute that money to the undeserving of the world.
Global warming alarmists are the alchemists of our time turning lies into gold to line their own bulging pockets.
A place in the inferno awaits them all. Obviously, they will not face any retribution in this world for their callous perfidy and crimes against humanity.
California is a despicable place which is run by despicable fools who keep getting re-elected by microcephallic idiots. The seas can’t rise fast enough to wash away the whole California coastline. But then, like a bunch of panicked rats, they will bring their stupidity to the higher elevation States nearby, thereby reducing the voting intelligence of those unlucky places. Collectivist clap trap on the march, as it were.
I started to leave a comment, but it got too long, so I made it a post:
https://sailorcurt.com/2021/10/supply-chain-issues.html/
California’s attempt to destroy their container ports means the rest of the nation has to go without until those carriers do the math and figure out they’re losing more money waiting for their containers to be moved inland than it cost to land their cargo at other container ports.
The current rendition of LGBTQ Survivor has a challenge this past week, or one of the weeks, that is also the perfect metaphor.
You throw a soccer-sized ball onto a track above you that has a downward slope. The ball will quickly gather speed and the ball will quickly drop off the other end where you must catch it or start all over again.
Immediately after you throw the ball ever so delicately and pray it goes into the narrow track way above your head, you have to run your way under the ball track through a minefield of physical challenges to reach the other end before the ball drops off hopefully into your waiting arms and hands.
No easy task even for the young, agile and nimble.