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2022-07-25 Economy

Shocking photos show supply chain slowdown in real time as line of freighters carrying coffee, wine and electronics wait outside Port of Oakland due to trucker strike - which is entering its SECOND week

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-25 06:26|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

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Remember the Gov of Califorina ticked them off to serve the LSD political agenda.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-25 10:25|| 2022-07-25 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this beginning to feel like the strikes in the UK in the early 1970s that brought down the Edward Heath government and (dare we hope?) paved the way for? Margaret Thatcher

Posted by Tom 2022-07-25 10:40|| 2022-07-25 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Union Whore Lorena Gonzalez's AB5 is to blame.

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-25 11:19|| 2022-07-25 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 strikes in the UK

Britain grinds to a halt AGAIN: Maps reveal full extent of rail misery as militant union prepares to shut country down with UK-wide walkouts on Wednesday and Saturday that will leave just 20% of services running

Summer of discontent continues: Striking binmen refuse to collect rubbish from affluent Surrey streets for 20 DAYS next month in strike over pay

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-25 11:37|| 2022-07-25 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Based on the Baby Formula crisis, Buttigieg will be all over this in October.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-07-25 12:20|| 2022-07-25 12:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember the Perfect Storm movie and how devastating the consequences were. It feels like this is yet another component that is bringing aspects of a New Great Depression to the US with a far greater urban/unskilled population that is far more violent and armed that the 1930's.

The high cost/low net profit of inner-city retail will lead to large scale closures of many supermarkets if this continues, as will the insane energy starvation the Puppet Show zealots are driving in the most energy rich nation on earth.

IF food deserts form in the deeply feral-youth infested blue cities it will produce very nasty predation in our suburbs I fear, tragically but predictably visible as apparent racial conflict.

Exactly the kind of manufactured predicate to garner support from the woke left for tyrannical responses by the federal government.

This feels almost like a tabletop exercise held somewhere near Smoke Bomb Hill, but with real enactors, in real time. Why is that?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-25 12:30|| 2022-07-25 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Upside: The military will be too busy trying to keep the blue cities fed to do much of anything about the rest of the populace.

They will get to experience firsthand how docile, cooperative and grateful the inner-city dwellers are. Think Soylent Green.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-25 13:50|| 2022-07-25 13:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, Cannibalism Can Be Good

Posted by Sheba Splat3352 2022-07-25 14:03|| 2022-07-25 14:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Never let a good crisis go to waste

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-07-25 16:17|| 2022-07-25 16:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Not a lot about the strike in the mainstream media. For example, searching CNN for "oakland truckers strike" returns zip. OK, not exactly zip, but the 2 results are Day 3 of the Republican National Convention in 2020 and an article on the Occupy movement from 2011.

As Frank said, this is all about AB5 that essentially bans independent contractors.

Posted by SteveS 2022-07-25 20:39|| 2022-07-25 20:39|| Front Page Top

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