We have been tracking the issue of U.S. port congestion, supply chain crises and the White House supply chain initiatives since they first surfaced last fall. We finally have full data to review, and what we see is very disturbing. Not only was the White House supply chain effort a fraud, but they also manipulated the port system to give a false impression of the U.S. economy.
Let’s start with the latest issue.
For several weeks, we have been trying to figure out why the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), our nation’s busiest and most valuable port, had delayed their reporting for December.
Normally they update their container statistics and port efficiency/productivity results between the 10th and 15th of the month. However, this month the data was delayed by several weeks.
When we finally grew frustrated and asked the POLA about this ridiculous delay, they responded January 25th, saying: “Good morning. Data from one vessel has delayed final numbers. We plan on releasing numbers today or tomorrow.”
The POLA justification and timing seemed odd, and their explanation seemed fishy. One container ship manages to delay the entire POLA result? However, this morning after checking and seeing still no result we realized what was going on.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the U.S. 4th Quarter GDP result (link). The value of imported goods is a deduction to the U.S. GDP. If the biggest port in the U.S. holds back their import cargo data, the resulting information cannot be deducted from the GDP. Missing data gives an artificial outlook for the GDP. Put another way, the 4th quarter GDP is inflated by the missing deduction.
From the position of the Biden administration, there is a perverse economic motive to keep all those import cargo ships from arriving.
Would the Port of Los Angeles intentionally hold back data in order to help the White House give a false and more optimistic impression of the U.S. economy? At first blush it might seem a stretch, but then – as if on cue – a few hours after the BEA made the public release, suddenly the Port of Los Angeles released their December data. In politics timing is never coincidental.
Yes, it is entirely possible, I would actually say likely, the BEA fourth quarter outlook is skewed by a bunch of factors, one of them being the missing December import data from Los Angeles.
This suspicion increases when we realize the ideological outlook behind the people running the Port of Los Angeles, the politics of California and the influence of White House supply chain taskforce member John Porcari as Ports Envoy.
Additionally, right about the time POLA would normally generate their data in January, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to the Port of Los Angeles for a supply chain initiative briefing and press conference.
Given the political issues and importance at stake for Joe Biden – yes, it is entirely likely the White House influenced a December port reporting delay for two reasons. First, to help the illusion of better economic picture; and second, because the White House port supply chain initiative was a fraud.
The second point takes us back to the reason why we were tracking this issue to begin with.
In October and November, the Biden administration was touting its port supply chain initiative as a fix to the backlog at the ports. {October Initiative Here} and {November Update Here}. Calling it, “a series of public and private commitments to move more goods faster, and strengthen the resiliency of our supply chains, by moving towards 24/7 operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.”
Despite these claims from the White House, the ports never moved forward to 24/7 operations. Factually, the operational productivity at both the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach dropped.
The ports handled less cargo, off-loaded less cargo and did absolutely nothing to remove the port congestion that was created by the local and state environmental ordinances.
On January 19th, the Port of Long Beach (POLB) released its data {LINK}. What the statistics show, is that less cargo is being handled now than it was when the 24/7 port operation announcement was made:
As noted earlier today, the Port of Los Angeles finally released their data {LINK} and the same is true (see below).
The White House claimed hours of operation expanded to increase capacity, yet fewer containers are being handled at both ports.
The outcomes speak for themselves. Both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach handled less cargo and fewer containers in the two months after the “new expanded operations” were announced, than in October when the expanded supply chain operations were announced. There is no improvement at all. Less cargo is being handled.
Perhaps the administration did not expect anyone to check when they claimed on November 29th:
“The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which handle 40 percent of the country’s containerized imports—continue to show improvement in moving containers out of the docks and into warehouses.” [White House link]
Despite what the White House Supply Chain Disruption Taskforce is claiming, the actual records from the ports do not concur. Someone is clearly lying, and/or not expecting anyone to check. Now, here’s where it gets really Machiavellian.
There’s a strong possibility the White House did not expect anyone to notice, because part of their logistical scheme involved telling the ship operators to wait further offshore so that it would give the illusion of less congestion near port:
CALIFORNIA – […] “Starting Nov. 16, ships waiting to anchor at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will have to wait for a green light about 150 miles from the coast, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn., the Pacific Maritime Assn. and the Marine Exchange of Southern California said in a statement Thursday. That compares with 20 nautical miles (23 miles) now. North- and southbound vessels must remain more than 50 miles from the state’s coastline.” (read more)
That announcement was followed up by Oakland port officials when Pete Buttigieg made his trip earlier this month.
OAKLAND – […] Following its success in Southern California, the new system is being expanded to the Bay Area. Ships will wait 50 miles off the coast in a safety and air quality zone until their scheduled arrival time at the Port.
The new system became effective Monday. Ships will get an arrival time based on when they left their last port of call. Before Monday, ships were given an arrival time when they were fewer than 80 nautical miles from the coast.
The new system will allow ships to take their time getting to Oakland, reducing emissions while at sea. It will also allow more space between vessels at sea, making shipping safer especially in the winter when storms are brewing.
“The resounding success of the new container vessel queuing system in Southern California has set the stage for this expansion to the Bay Area,” said Jim McKenna, president and CEO of the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents maritime companies that do business on the West Coast, in a statement. “This updated system has reduced the number of vessels at anchor near our ports.” (read more)
We call this “Operation Hide the Ships.”
What the White House supply chain taskforce did was move the line of awaiting cargo ships further offshore to make them less visible. Then the White House just started making up talking points about productivity at the ports increasing and capacities expanding; neither claim is based on facts that surface in the actual operations of the ports.
The purpose of telling the ships to await their port time in a queue farther offshore is transparent. The Biden administration wants to give the illusion they eliminated the bottleneck of container ships. Out of sight is out of mind.
Operation ‘Hide the Ships’ allows the administration to make claims about port efficiencies and increased productivity that are abjectly false. The data from the two months after the October announcement shows less container offloading and onloading happened in November and December than happened in the prior month of October when the new initiatives were announced.
To sum this all up. What we have here is an obvious situation where not only did the Biden administration manipulate a false impression of a port supply chain improvement, they also leveraged the import product reporting delay to inflate U.S. economic statistics.
Knowing that, what else are they lying about?
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They are lying that they won the 2020 election in the first place so there’s that! They are such LOSERS!
“They are such LOSERS!“
Salient point is the LOSERS are in charge, destroying the economy, and hurting Main Street citizens.
Only when 535 are marched to the Potomac and told to swim across will tyranny end.
535 is a good start, but unless the bureaucrats are flushed out of the system there will be no winning strategy.
This ship of state is so overloaded with useless protoplasm, it is destined to overturn and disappear beneath the waves of the ocean into the deep trenches of time, never to be seen or heard from again.
Can you imagine the damage that the State of Washington D.C. could do to this country?
And yet, that is where this careening government is headed.
and the moneyed elite that control them.
Agreed.
Hopefully, that trucker deal in Canada ends up totally imploding the globalist commies who are involved in the destruction of both Canada and the US. Personally would like to see Justeen and his boyfriend the Criminally Corrupt Kenyan dragged out into a public location and hung for the damage they’ve done to both nations
535? Made me think of that old joke, what do you call 2000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. 🙂 (Hey, my grandad was a lawyer so don’t come after me for that one!)
Re “Made me think of that old joke, what do you call 2000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.”
Interestingly, when I first heard that joke fifty years ago, the number of lawyers mentioned was 100. Back then, 100 WOULD have been a good start. TODAY, that small a number would hardly be missed; so, it would indeed take 2000 to be a good start NOW!
It isn’t just the ones that are elected either. . . it is those who have decided to stay on the payroll until they are retired also. Too many people have found a “good place to retire from” and they are gonna keep taking as long as the “people” give.
wearing cement booties
When, how much are we going to take from this regime? Better get going before most of us are too old to fight.
Swim across wearing lead boots!
You’re much too kind, traitors comes to mind.
And I guess they figure if they can get away with lying about who won the 2020 election, they can get away with lying about anything they want. That is why I don’t believe a word from the government or from their propaganda media.
Consider all of the people involved. All the bureaucracies, all the levels of government and all the corporations.
Not one leak. No whistleblower. No media interest.
A huge story with massive political implications. IF it weren’t the left doing it.
And through it all, the GOP stays silent.
Fascism. Nothing against the State.
The motivations of all come a distant second.
Indeed! Truth tellers don’t get these jobs.
I’m not sure there aren’t leaks… just very carefully so people don’t lose their jobs.
We are talking California.
Cui bono?
And through it all, the GOP stays
silentquietly involved.fixed it for you…………
And through it all, the
GOPUniparty stayssilentquietly involved.How’s that look ?
Sadly it seems no Republican senator has followed in the footsteps of Tom Coburn who went after wasteful spending.
Yes, the admirable Senator Coburn produced a list of the hideous amounts of wasteful, ridiculous and probably,in many cases, fraudulent spending…every year.
And the result? Nothing. No pullbacks, only more, more, exponentially more. Hasn’t Rand Paul fallen heir to that completely useless exercise now?
The taxpayers’ piggy banks built on hard work, sweat and toil continue to be raided for more of the same, while the Big Spenders in DC live off the fat of our labour.
Well, that is because the Uniparty/McConnell made sure the passive beta-boy James Lankford took Coburn’s spot.
So did Bernie Sanders when large amounts of money were missing from the Federal Reserve with no account
back in his good old days.
Great data, analysis, and insights you will not find anywhere else.
Thank you Sundance
FJB
Exports add to GDP, imports subtract to GDP.
Last three full months of Trump administration (October, November, December), there were 395,116 TEU loaded exports.
Comparable Biden timeframe was 251,865 TEU. Trump did 143,251 TEU more exports or about 56% more.
We already knew the results would be bad. Mid December the Director of the Port said they were going to do 10.7 million TEU for the year. In the January 20th State of the Port address, that was changed to “about” 10.7 TEU. The change in language signified they did not make 10.7 and if they did not make 10.7 then December # would be less than the prior month of November.
It was just waiting to see what the final print would be.
Great, thorough research. It goes beyond cynicism to see how evil and corrupt this administration and it’s extensions are. Every action is always manipulated for political purposes. And every bit of data is finessed to support their narrative.
Yes… absolutely. And if some reporter gets up the courage to ask about this, it will be explained away as an unavoidable delay in receiving necessary data so the GDP numbers had to be published “as-is”… you know… nothing to see here.
“Knowing that, what else are they lying about?”
It’s liberal democrats dealing with repercussions from their failed financial foibles.
They are lying about anything and everything they can to save their agenda.
It’s what they do.
What else are they lying about? (SOFT BALL QUESTION)
That is a real easy question – EVERYTHING!
Harder question is what are they not lying about – NOTHING.
But you already knew that. 🙂
Nice pic of the Three Stooges. So who are the real people behind these schemes such as “Hide the Ships”. It’s not the Three Stooges. Who is mapping out the logistics for transporting all the illegals across the country?
most likely
Friends of the criminals.
and Democrats have a lot of “friends” that are criminals
Fairy, HO, and squirrely Joe.
Try it this way: 1) US sends foreign aid to country X. 2) Country X, after a suitable rakeoff for its own officialdom, returns funding to the US in the form of corporate purchasing. 3) The said corporations make contributions to the campaign funds of candidates from both parties.
Now, apply this model to the cartels and their human trafficking operations. 1) NGO’s make cash payments to individual migrants. 2) The migrants pay the cartels to get them across the US border. 3) The US government gives the migrants still more cash en route to whatever city they are going to be dumped in. 4) Demand for services through public assistance programs yields massive cash transfers from DC to affected local communities. At this point, you should be asking about the administrative charge = rakeoff at the local level.
5) And where, oh where, do the NGO’s get their funding? Can you complete the circle?
Where’s our prestigious economic journalists, the Wall Street Journal and other publications should be all over this. Why aren’t they reporting the large chunk of missing data from the GDP figure or attempting to estimate the number with the newly released data. I suppose this lands up being a rhetorical question.
There’s no money from advertising, so they have to depend on handouts from the billionaire globalist class, which is why they portray the interests of the billionaire globalist class. Biting the hand that feeds you ain’t a career enhancing move.
That’s why we live in a world of fake news. Fake is kind, a world of lies.
It sure looks the hell like the 3rd World.
Import the turd world long enough, and you become the turd world.
Actually, the truth is that in many of the “third world” countries today the problems emerging in the USA are not evident yet. Maybe, soon, but shortages and inflationary pricing is not so obvious or noticed. These countries have no shortage of corrupt officials. Perhaps more professionally adept at corruption than the gang of fools in D.C.
So does that mean that russia and china are the first world?
All they do is lie.
Starting there usually works…
“Knowing that, what else are they lying about?” > They lie about everything.
And should they ever tell the truth about anything, it is done so only to obfuscate a bigger lie. In effect, IF they ever tell the truth, it is a lie.
Don’t know for sure if the reporting is correct, but I heard that they sent the ships down to Baja California to hide them. Anyone here know if that is true?
There are ships at anchor last I looked off Ensenada area. There is no incentive to hurry up and wait. It saves fuel to just steam slower rather than race to get in line.
Yes, it is true. You can readily see it by checking the marinetraffic website. It shows the locations of merchant ships, and there are many sitting off the coast of Baja. If you select a ship, it tells you details including where it is going and when it is expected to arrive. This location is less than a day away from LA or LB ports, but there are many ships that are showing as not being expected to arrive in port for another 7+ days.
I checked the website out earlier. You can even track barge traffic on the Mississippi and Columbia River. These ships are really not out of site, when you can find them with a couple of clicks.
AIS – Automatic Identification System (transponder, maritime).
This is HOW I first realized there was something happening BIG AND SIGNIFICANT BEFORE it was announced that COVID-19 virus had happened in China.
I am a curious person, former Coast Guard. I look at maritime traffic around the world. It gives you a sense of what is happening. It’s like an early warning system if you know how to use the data to look at patterns.
In Mid Dec 2019 there was a huge number of ships at anchor, not moving in or out of ports across china’s deep water ports. I had never seen that before.
Then I noticed there were these huge number of recruiting advertisers across all adjacent nation states, calling for mostly factory and manufacturing workers. A huge uptick.
At first my thinking was, some kind of protest or even perhaps civil war/crisis. Or some major catastrophic disaster, like flooding or earthquake. None of that checked out. Then it hit me, where did I see this before?
SARS-Cov-1 (2003) ! A hotzone.
I reported this independently to people I know in the military that I still know. The response was eerily silent. No reply.
It would be about two weeks before the first mention of some kind of crisis was even mentioned. And meanwhile the ships just stacked up even more.
it wasn’t that the ships could not operate, but entire regions and workers in the ports were locked down “shelter in place, and isolated, mandated under orders not to go to work”…It would not be obvious for some time that the cccp had taken extreme measures to avert a major catastrophe to their sole economic power base: the ability the factories and manufacturing facilities AND MAJOR SHIPPING PORTS AND VESSELS operate. preserving them out of harm was done to avert such a disaster. Ultimately, cccp would start the engines of the economy back up in the face of the risks, but the consequences for prolonging these mitigation efforts was obvious: if cccp was to remain the super power of export, it would have to do so at the risk of killing lots of people. And they did…all in the sake for money and power.
So when we think of cccp and also the actions of this USG there are some striking differences in how they handled the crisis but the results were nearly identical:
the ccp intentionally threw their people back into the fire, to save the power and control.
the USG (and mostly the rest of the world) did the opposite: they collapsed the entire US economy, starched the people and denied them financial and economic security …there was no balance. It was lockdowns and no questions asked.
So really is no mystery about how the USG has suffered excessively from cccp19 and china, not nearly as much. CCP also did not deny their own people working and safe therapeutic drugs. And while they did prop up their own brand of “warp speed” it would not be until about 11 months after the pandemic happened before they had done any vaccines at scale. Most of the drugs made available in china during those early moments ARE NOT FDA APPROVED, but the action mechanism is very similar to Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine as well some attempts at infusion therapy with synthesized antibody drugs. China did not advertise these successes (or failures) of these treatments. But if we are to believe the numbers they reported, its remarkable they claim so few deaths. Either they are lying OR they were using some very good drugs to save lives.
both possibilities are terrifying.
Not true. We fish out of Ensenada a lot. Container ships are what we normally see.
BattleBots is on right now. Discovery channel.
I’d much rather watch that rapid destruction of $5,000 machines than the purposeful slow moving stuff that is done by the worthless *.fed.gov.co. and *.blu.shithole.govs.
Shouldn’t that be “fed.gov.ccp”?
As their fellow leftist Goebbels would put it – It is vitally important for the Left to use all of its powers to repress inconvenient truths, for such truths are the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension the greatest enemy of the Left.
I’d be more inclined to know what they were telling the truth about,.. much shorter list.
that would be a blank piece of paper
geofence researcher interview.
RBC: The backlog at ports is not an issue of labor shortages, but rather of consumer demand (cnbc.com)
Would be curious if the data could be found for the spoilage of perishable or time sensitive cargo over those respective time frames. Produce, chemicals, etc.
for as smart as that guy appears… he didn’t even mention the Cal regulatory constraints contributing to the doubling of ship turnaround time.
Pretending to not know certain things.
When the actual data for imports is reported, the GDP will be revised downward. It will still make the Biden Administration look bad, and it will alert the citizens that the books are being cooked.
many people who live in america cannot balance a checkbook…numbers and facts are ignored.
for those millions who actually did vote for biden, I can assure you they have zero interest or understanding to know what “cooking the books” even means.
that’s part of the problem..a totally ignorant citizenry.
the other part is the deliberate obfuscation of the USG to give false definitions and narratives over such a prolong period, people have accepted these as credible truth.
the answer is to avoid attempting to educate people who are not helpful and cannot be helpful.
as with all major revolutions they begin and end with focused smart people who notice things and take actions.
We cannot entertain the fantasy that many americans will some day come around and find a reason to be responsible.
That’s the ugly truth. Blasted through a fundamentally broken and false education system, compounded by a nanny state, enhanced by distractions of leisure time and pleasure. The very people who have so much to lose by ignoring and being engaged will never break free of the prison they have locked themselves into.
But the revolution WILL HAPPEN> the unbearable pain will invite many of these people to withdrawal consent ..because they no longer have any options left. All that free money is drying up…and there just isn’t any serious jobs anymore due to these deadly mandates and lockdowns across the economy, amplified by a world supply chain collapse.
Most of these people will join in the revolution, even if they do not understand the details. They will generally act out of pure self interest and notice the joe malarkey embecile is responsible..anyone can see he has zero credibility. But the details, the orchestrated conspiracy and the strategies deployed to destroy their lives by attacking the US economy will be unknown to them.
That is NOT OUR PROBLEM. These people are NOT responsible for the actions of this fraudulent, corrupt, inept state. They enable it, but there isn’t any significant amount of power and influence these people will ever have to create these disasters.
the alert to informed citizens who have an understanding was initiated the moment when the defiled impaired one was installed.
The signals of President Trump treatment at the hands of scoundrels signaled to many that very hard times were coming soon.
For the most part the citizens are unhelpful to themselves. They do not excercise caution and risk management and view politics and real world economics as some kind of infotainment. They read the news cuts, and assume it is reliable …and since it smacks of a bias they can enjoy, reinforces them to never ask questions.
orange man bad syndrome….never WANTING TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
that’s a big problem in America and also around the world.
Trust no one that wears a mask outside.
Joey and Hunter are holding back delivery to extort mo’ money from the Chinese.
It would not take much for someone to hop in to a Cessna and photograph those ships.
Thanks This is NOT being reported anywhere else as far as I know.
In the real world, we are not going in right direction.
Unfortunately true! Half the country is still being fed the BS and they are eating it up. CTH, Revolver, National Pulse, The Federalist, Mark Levin, and War Room, represent the few places where the truth is being told. The media and the Left, of course, cite it as misinformation and half the country is buying it. In times like this, we’re really missing Rush!
technofog…okeefe project veritas…catherine herridge…”sometime” tucker…joe rogan..
and many others…many others. I can’t do the whole list, but it is very very large NOW.
there is a growing awareness in stage 3 revolution…people in a position to comment nationally, are speaking up and telling truths.
and WE ARE SEEING THIS.
it is important to discuss oppresion, harm from the corrupt central state, and lay the grievances on the table for everyone to see and debate about it.
stage 3 is like a debate…but it contains truth verus bullcorn. So it’s not really like a legitimate debate where there are two potentially (or more) points of view. But it does require a certain amount of debate and discussion to help people understand we are in a very bad spot. and the blame for it is squarely to be placed ON SPECIFIC PEOPLE WHOM HOLD OFFICE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION. A corrupt manipulation of our representative form of democracy.
it is good these people are helping to expose the tyranny.
spoiler: right BEFORE stage 3 ends and shift to stage 4, one very important things happens: ACTUAL PEOPLE ARE NAMED RESPONSIBLE. Specific people by name. with the allegations made clear about their role in corruption and other lawless activities. it’s not the only signal that takes place that helps to trigger stage 3 into stage 4, but it plays a big role.
We will be releasing THE LIST.
You will be familiar with most of the names if you have been dutifully focused with the material that CTH produces. Some of the names ..not so much.
THE LIST will produce a response in stage 3. This will be first that the media will attack/defend these indivuals…opinons will vary. In stage 4, clear evidence of crimes will end the debate.
So when I say “y0u will know what to do with this list” it literally means, go after these people, full court press (pun intended) and charge them with crimes.
They will not back down and accept this however. This is predictable. In stage 4, a redress of grievances will require a NEW COURT, a NEW VENUE…Where accountability, and actual investigations can happen.
God Bless America
Then we should see a downward revision. It’s like the O-blah-blah years again!
It is still the o-blah-blah years.
Great analysis, it gets more infuriating every day. The issue us, how do we get this information to the people who need it? I can and do share it with my contacts, however, there are many who will never know any of this. Any ideas out there on how to get these truths into the information bloodstream of those who are less informed? I don’t mean the willfully ignorant but those who are simply less in tune with the reality of our situation.
Wondering what the repercussions of the shippers will be for having their ships anchored for long periods waiting to unload. Maybe they are in on a stall because of lockdown in China and no more products ready for shipment.
Ships get 5 years in water before mandatory haul out for inspection. If they make fewer round trips on their trade routes, then they will naturally have to charge more for shipping which is already the case. Your fixed cost remains but you have to divide that between fewer trips.
A ship makes for expensive container storage.
Thank you for sharing that information.
Had no idea about the 5 year haul go for inspection.
It is actually 2.5 year for inspection. They can get an extension to 5 years on the underside of the vessel by performing an underwater survey. Since the underwater survey is way cheaper than taking the ship out of service, everybody takes the underwater survey. Passenger vessels have different rules.
When any vessel sits, the carrier loses money. If you observe a busy working waterfront, the idea is a quick turnaround. This is even more critical for a petroleum vessel, which departs empty. It must discharge its petroleum then hurry to its next destination to lade more product.
Follow the money, Sundance, always follow the money. Who profits financially from supply chain disruptions at sea? Who profits financially from the ransacking of trains in metro Los Angeles? Who profits financially from the ongoing multiple assaults on the trucking industry? Who profits financially from the ubiquitous labor shortage at distribution centers nationwide? Who profits financially from reduced hours at the retail level, and shrunken work forces?
And while we are at it: how does the CCP profit strategically from a reduction in supply to a US market still demanding its factory output?
I think you buried the lede, John. The CCP is into year 26 or so of its long term plan to displace the US as the undisputed global super-power.
Everything the Left has advocated for during this time directly translates into more manufacturing being off-shored to China and elsewhere (destruction of our middle class, replacement by a “services economy”), more immigration, greater cultural “diversity” (in hopes of racial division and lower wages), greater divide between the 1% and both the middle and lower classes (in hopes of class warfare), greater debt, teeing up of financial crises during which the country suffers while the 1% get richer, discrediting of American greatness. It’s all about turmoil taking out the CCP’s last competitor, and ushering in the Great Reset. They want to destroy the country and entice us to fight with each other over everything that is wrong.
This need to be on national news. It makes me soooooooooooo angry that Biden is claiming a GDP that is false to begin with considering inflation, made even more false when this information is added to it.
But they’d never do this to an election!!!
The administration didn’t think that anyone would think to look into the data?
It is foolish to think that anyone from the leftist media is oblivious to this charade.
The job of the leftist legacy media and their minions is to run cover for the DC Mafia and their mob boss Sniffy Joe. It’s all they are good for.
Thank you Sundance! The GDP number seemed too high, but it did not occur to me that they were gaming the import numbers to get there. So does this mean we will be getting a very delayed and VERY QUIET downward revision to the GDP numbers next month?
Thanks Sundance! I did not for one minute believe this number when it came out this morning. I am sure there is more “fudging” baked in this cake.
Unfortunately, the only way to right the wrongs , caused by the illegitimate administration, is to wait until everyone is in dc. Then perform a precision surgical strike, eliminating each and every rancid, corrupt, country hating politician. Terminate them with extreme prejudice. Extreme, absolutely, but you have to start somewhere.
Despicable every one from the Potato in Chief & all in his administration. Bunch of lying conniving thieves. And the sheeple believe the false economic numbers. There is no jail big enough to hold them all. I want my true President Donald Trump back!
Agreed. They should stick to a more accurate name: Dumbas$.
Assuming this magnificent analysis is going to the right folks?? Viral??
Clearly they serve “the father of lies.”
They can say whatever they want, they can manipulate the numbers any way they want. I’m an avg American, yesterday I paid $200 more then last year for my load of heating oil, yesterday, when I gassed up my car it cost me $22 more then last year. At the supermarket today, there were empty aisles everywhere, signs limiting purchases everywhere and I paid $2.00 more for a four pack tuna and $4.00 more for 2 pds of ground meat… I paid $18 more on a $42 bill… The avg American could give a crap about GDP, what we know is what we pay out vs. budget. I’d also point out what Charles Payne said today on Fox Business, the average savings per American family is plummeting, we are struggling to make ends meet… The clown in the WH and his crew of lefty imbeciles are dead people walking in November. People are smarter and won’t fall for their lies any longer… Hold the line on electoral legislation, keep fighting on the ground and do whatever we have to to win as much market share as we can in November… All of us should be volunteering at the polls, for our Candidates, etc…
Just got my January bill today. $242 for what, a year ago, cost $154. Same number of days in residence (18), same thermostat settings. Ah, but the bill begins by explaining that demand for natural gas has exploded “globally.”
Yeah, right. There are people on my block who are really going to be hard pressed to come up with the additional money. Unfortunately, none of them are Democrats.
But isn’t this analogous to how our entire inept, corrupt, unaccountable government runs just about everything? The State run leftist corrupt msm runs cover for the White House and Congress when Democrats are in control so there is no need for truth telling? Does anyone here think 60 Minutes will run an exposé on the California ports skullduggery Sundance has explained above? Of course not! The falsehoods told everyday by the White House Press Secretary are so astonishing to be laughable! We The People have a government worthy of absolutely nothing costing us billions/trillions now emptying our shelves of food like a communist country from the 1950s! All of it is being self inflicted upon WTP by our own government! Venezuela North is becoming a reality! God help us! Hosanna!
There is a big difference between simply hiding bad economic results–and actively working to wreck the American economy for the benefit of China.
This actually seems like both.
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What else are they lying about?
Who can write that much.
An easier question to answer would be what are they NOT lying about by word and deed.
Lies, lies, and more lies. Barack Hussein 3.0, nothing is factual, nothing as it appears to be, and everything is getting worse.
Don’t think it is accidental, it is all by design.
They get away with it because a large number of American people can be fooled easily by repeating lies like Russia, Russia, Russia or insurrection, insurrection, insurection, or Jim Crow 2.0, white supremist and down the line.
You can only be fooled by lies if you want to believe those lies or if you don’t have time or energy to check back on everything we’re being told. It is such a blessing that Sundance and a lot of alternative media do the work that I wouldn’t know how to do.
There’s liars, damn liars, and demOCrats….
Explains their good numbers in your other article….and how they got them when prices are rising 25/50/100 % on our energy, fuel, fuel, and replacement goods….
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the Fourth Quarter GDP (Q4) data today [DATA HERE], and the White House will likely spin a victory message. However, the real economic picture is covered by the continued storm of inflation.
When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king , the palace becomes a circus – unknown
a very haunting part of a movie starring Mira Sorvino back in the 2000’s – a mini-series, I think – “ICE: Human Trafficking” perhaps –
Mira Sorvino is an agent for ICE, in the “Human Trafficking” section – as I recall, the movie had several stories within the main story – one girl was whisked away from Russia and her father tracked her down and ultimately rescued her – there was also a story of a very young girl, an American girl on vacation with her family, perhaps 8 or 10, who was grabbed off a street in Thailand . . .
it was that little girl who wound up in a storage container with other children shipped across the ocean – the little American girl kept her cool and watched over the other children and they survived, were found in time – but it is very haunting to think that this DOES happen and what of all those shipping containers that were stopped offshore during this “supply chain crisis” brought on in part by the State of California’s rules re the ports here in California –
when Pete Buttigieg did recently speak of the “supply chain crisis” he also mentioned human trafficking – what if it has been a horrible discovery kept quiet of many people that were being brought in this way and they were not found in time?
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meant to type, “shipping container” (not “storage container”)
What haven’t they rigged? We’ve seen it beginning with the election through Covid infection rates, inoculation adverse events, evidence about early treatment protocols known to help people, Biden’s cognitive impairments, etc. etc. and now import data. No sane person would be expecting any glimmer of truth from this administration.
The Port #’s, the GDP #’s, Saber rattling with Russia, all a big Potemkin Village.
I must respectfully disagree with Sundance, which is damn rare. Container numbers from the port do not equal import value.
The entered value on containers will be with Customs, on import value data.
Most consumption entries (type 01) are pre-filed long before the vessel arrives and unlades. The importer receives an electronic release (if not designated for exam) then has 10 days to file their summary and pay duty.
I agree there is something going on that invites investigation, but I do not agree that the container stats are necessarily involved.
Customs and Border Authority stats are connected to the same system in the port authority cargo stats.
This administration is just like the CCP inflating their GDP to their citizens and the world. But their own citizens know the reality that they feel so no own really believes it! The same as Obama with unemployment rate under his tenure. But citizens knew it was off because they experienced it!
What are they telling the truth about, ever?
This craven manipulation has happened before in a previous election cycle to manipulate the BLS employment numbers:
5 Oct 2012, GE CEO Jack Welsh said, “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers.”
Note the moral asymmetry: They don’t care if we check the numbers, but we factcheck nonetheless. We bury ourselves in research while they do as they please.