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US Dockworkers Set to Strike Tomorrow; Biden Refuses to Intervene

If you think food is expensive now, wait until the cities experience shortages.

Dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen's Association are set to strike at midnight Tuesday, demanding a 77% wage increase after stalled negotiations with port employers. The strike threatens to disrupt U.S. trade, with major retailers like Walmart and Target warning of price increases and supply shortages.

Key Details:

The strike is set to begin Tuesday night into Wednesday, with dockworkers halting trade at ports from Maine to Texas.

Workers, represented by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), are demanding a 77% wage increase over six years, frustrated by the skyrocketing profits of ocean carriers during the pandemic.

President Biden has stated he will not intervene using the Taft-Hartley Act, despite concerns from major retailers about the economic fallout.

Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years.

Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Raimondo, last seen calling for the "elimination" of Trump, says she has no f***s to give about the impending disruption of supply lines.

Bonus: CNBC host demolishes Raimondo, who claimed that Trump had a bad economy, and we have no idea what kind of "wildcard" he would be as president.

The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.

Posted by: Ace at 02:38 PM




Comments

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1 My prediction? PAIN

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 02:38 PM (N1DT3)

2 Foist

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 30, 2024 02:38 PM (4WBZX)

3 Foist
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 30, 2024 02:38 PM (4WBZX)

/points
/laughs

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 02:38 PM (N1DT3)

4 I was promised an escalating series of October surprises that would end up with the election be___ cancelled.....

Just saying...

Posted by: Stateless at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (jvJvP)

5 That Commerce secretary should be at the top of Elon's hit list. Totally incompetent.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (MpVUb)

6 Our "elites". Is it French Revolution time yet?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (C26rB)

7 being cancelled...

Posted by: Stateless at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (jvJvP)

8 At least one Commie cares:

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
NEW - Kim Jong Un visits flood-hit areas of North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited flood-damaged areas in the country and ordered swift action to rebuild homes, state media reported on Monday.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (CEzQx)

9 Unions are pure evil.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 02:40 PM (lKYo+)

10 Our "elites". Is it French Revolution time yet?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (C26rB)
------------
A la lanterne!

Posted by: Ce gars qui pense toujours que ça commence. at September 30, 2024 02:40 PM (VdhcA)

11 President Biden has stated he will not intervene using the Taft-Hartley Act, despite concerns from major retailers about the economic fallout.

Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years.


Biden knifing Kamala in the back over being pushed out.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (sDO9P)

12 I guess there'll be another run on toilet paper.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (g8Ew8)

13 Our "elites". Is it French Revolution time yet?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (C26rB)

20 years ago, I could not imagine what would drive people to be so murderous as the French Revolution was.


I don't have the same rage, but I've started to understand it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (N1DT3)

14 Biden Refuses to Intervene

I wonder if this is Biden sabotaging Kamala again - invoking the Taft-Hartley act would push any potential strike past the election.

You'd think this would be a disaster for the party in power.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (uxCna)

15 Seth Rich gave his life so that elections no longer depend on who we run or how bad a job we do.

Posted by: Hillary at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (M3rqN)

16 Someone should tell Kamala and Joe "Gilligans Island" was not something we, as a nation, should aspire to.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (tT6L1)

17 Joey is orchestrating Gotterdamurung for Trump to deal with.

What a petty vile cabal of neobarbarians.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (HUco/)

18 That's Rhode Island's finest Gina Raimondo.

Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (LkLld)

19 /points
/laughs
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

It's... fine. I'm fine.

*sniffles quietly*

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (4WBZX)

20 I was promised an escalating series of October surprises that would end up with the election be___ cancelled.....

Just saying...
Posted by: Stateless


There's still four hurricanes sitting out in the Gulf/Caribbean.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (sDO9P)

21 CNBC: What are you hearing will happen if dockworkers strike and it goes longer than a week?

Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."

++++
This is a bad answer, but I have an honest and legitimate question: is it technically appropriate? Where do ports and docks usually fall, in terms of the cabinet? Is this properly a Commerce concern, or is it a Transportation concern? Is it possibly (though I doubt it) an Interior concern?

Raimondo is no good and this was a bafflingly bad answer, but is it her jurisdiction? Even if it isn't, a better answer would have been along the lines of, "Commerce is preparing to assist the Department of Transportation in any way necessary to ensure supply chain integrity for the United States during this labor dispute."

These people are singularly bad at speaking to the public.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (HnUIn)

22 What would you say you DO here?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (1bNHn)

23 Is Gina Raimondo our Raimondo troll?

She seems dumb enough.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (Odg76)

24 Raimondo lives up to the moniker. Another mindless gaslighting spokestool for the left. Her voice is a bit Kamala-y too.

Posted by: But she has a gash so SLAY KWEEN at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (OClqp)

25 That woman is useless. The whole administration is too. They're either throwing in the towel or are sure they've got the steal sewn up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (Q4IgG)

26 Commerce Secretary not very focused on complete trade stoppage at docks from Texas to Maine. Sounds about right.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (bNf8H)

27 I don't have the same rage, but I've started to understand it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (N1DT3)

I didn't either. Now. I guess living in the DC metro changed me.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (C26rB)

28 Biden Refuses to Intervene

I wonder if this is Biden sabotaging Kamala again - invoking the Taft-Hartley act would push any potential strike past the election.

You'd think this would be a disaster for the party in power.
Posted by: The ARC of History!


It's a disaster for Kumswalla now.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (sDO9P)

29 So where is our intrepid Transporation Secretary this week?

Gay Maternal Leave again?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (QAkQ3)

30 I'm surprised she didn't launch into a diatribe about the word "longshoreMAN" being problematic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (VoAdT)

31 GIRRRRLLLL POWERRRRRRRRR!/Gina Raimondo, getting her nails gilded and buffed with babyhide chamois for that special glow

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (Ft5W9)

32 Jimmy Carter has to be so relieved Joe Biden was raised to the heights of political greatness.

Then again, tell me Biden's not campaigning against The Ho.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (B0mGw)

33 Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Raimondo, last seen calling for the "elimination" of Trump, says she has no f***s to give about the impending disruption of supply lines.

In fairness, Mr. O'Spades I have none to give, because the supply chain has been disrupted by the capitalist fat pigs and their obscene profits.

Once we complete our revolution, everyone will f***-all.

Posted by: Gina Raimondo at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (a3Q+t)

34 To be fair Joe can't pronounce intervene.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (7fbyv)

35
Mend and Make Do, peons.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (BkEzK)

36 All Raimondos share the same brain cell.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (HUco/)

37 Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.

Posted by: jhawk90 at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (ggOdn)

38 Wild card bitches! Yeehaw!! -- Mad Dog Riamondo

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (wBaIH)

39 I didn't either. Now.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:43 PM (C26rB)

2016.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (i24o9)

40 PDT should offer to negotiate. Then, step back as the media screams about PDT not being qualified to get involved...thereby amplifying the fact the administration is ignoring the looming strike which will impact millions.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

41 Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (5p7su)

42 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

43 East Coast ports shutting down... do those include Southern Ports, like the ones Hurricane aid will have to come through?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (QAkQ3)

44 Don't worry - Petey B. would be focusing on the imminent strike, but he's too busy playing the part of JD Vance in Walz's marathon debate prep sessions.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (uxCna)

45 77% FUCK THEM

Posted by: DOYLE at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (Z8Yh2)

46 Note that this clueless twat is part of the class Tom Nichols thinks should be in charge because she's just so smart.

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (i7Q7S)

47
Put your man tits back inside the nursing bra, Secretary Buttgiggity, and get your ass back to work.

Review your binders of pathetic bleatings for some top notch excuses for why the supply chain is going to shit ... again ... on your watch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (xG4kz)

48 East Coast ports shutting down... do those include Southern Ports, like the ones Hurricane aid will have to come through?

Yes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (uxCna)

49 If this election is lost, we are well and truly screwed and not in The Paolo way.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (Aoykm)

50 Isn't there a troll Raimondo?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (7fbyv)

51 The ILA is coming off a six year contract.

Shipping companies have made more profit in 2021, 2022, and 2023 than in the previous decade combined. The ILA wants a piece of that.

The ILA also wants to stifle/prevent automation, because less jobs.

The union president is pretty militant, and wants a 72% raise.

Buckle up, gonna be lit.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (ufFY8)

52 17 Joey is orchestrating Gotterdamurung for Trump to deal with.

What a petty vile cabal of neobarbarians.
Posted by: Anna Puma
=========
Joe always was a malicious and evil bastard. Kamel Toe is all of that plus even dumber than Joe. Walz is a commie pedo nut gone flake.

Basically the Democrat party is now little more than a Mafia organization relying on looting the treasury and freeing the criminals rather than governance.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (SI97o)

53 CNBC destroys Harris campaign surrogate.

�We know what kind of a president he would be, real wages up, lower inflation pic.twitter.com
/rnbOldJ5kd

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 30, 2024


Further showing that elections have consequences.

Big. Hairy. Consequences.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

54 CNBC: What are you hearing will happen if dockworkers strike and it goes longer than a week?

Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."
++++
This is a bad answer, but I have an honest and legitimate question: is it technically appropriate? Where do ports and docks usually fall, in terms of the cabinet? Is this properly a Commerce concern, or is it a Transportation concern? Is it possibly (though I doubt it) an Interior concern?


Commerce. Without commerce, there's no need for transportation. And it's not transportation until the ships are unloaded.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (sDO9P)

55 Again, the Rs could be making a boatload of commercials from the storms and the strike and pound the Ds. Will they? Why do I think the answer is "no?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (0eaVi)

56


What if it was the Gaza Dock?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM (x0n13)

57 "Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history."

Not possible with Dr. Jill Biden sitting at the head of the table.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (B0mGw)

58 Unions are pure evil.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 02:40 PM (lKYo+)
++++
Eh, depends on when we're talking about. Unions came about due to fairly real problems with the dislocation between labor value and conditions as compared to productivity.

The primary problem with unions is that they are victims of their own success. Working conditions? Handled, as of about the 1940s (a bit later, into the mid-50s in some industries like mining). Pay? Handled.

But no organization that accomplishes its goal can simply close up shop. Organizations *must* expand, and eventually they become corrosive and destructive when the original ambitions have been achieved. We see the same thing in a bunch of government agencies. The CDC, for example, more or less achieved its mission fairly early. After that, it had to keep growing until it completely lost sight of the original goal and did nothing well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (HnUIn)

59 So where is our intrepid Transporation Secretary this week?

Gay Maternal Leave again?


Walz debate prep. He's playing JD Vance.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (uxCna)

60 what Anna said @ 17, endorsed!

they may well understand from the true data that only the highest higher-ups see that PDT is a sure bet to win yugely, and be setting up every disaster they can ... though how that differs from their ordinary work of destruction is hard to see, really ... just a matter of degree maybe.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (UWgy2)

61 East Coast ports shutting down... do those include Southern Ports, like the ones Hurricane aid will have to come through?

Yes.
Posted by: The ARC of History!


Maine to Houston.
California is a different union.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (sDO9P)

62 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best
............
No Ace. They are sending their best. That's it. Now bathe in all that competence and brilliance.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (/Djer)

63 59 So where is our intrepid Transporation Secretary this week?

Gay Maternal Leave again?

Walz debate prep. He's playing JD Vance.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:46 PM (uxCna)



Chasten has sensitive nipples.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM (x0n13)

64 Mentioned previously that I'm in the container business. While prices have peeling back to near pre-covid numbers the logistics have still not normalized. What took 3 to 4 months in the past to move across the water is taking 5 to 10 months. Inconsistency in 20's vs 40HC, 40ST, and new one trip vs used boxes in secondary markets. There are almost always enough containers in the world. However, they are rarely in the right place(s). This will not help issues. Likely screws up some retail inventory for the holiday season. Most freight coming from China will land in Long Beach but with the covid Charlie Foxtrot some were spread around (Amazon for example started pushing freight into Houston) and others began pushing more to New Jersey.

Posted by: scampydog at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM (2bFN5)

65 14 Biden Refuses to Intervene

I wonder if this is Biden sabotaging Kamala again - invoking the Taft-Hartley act would push any potential strike past the election.

You'd think this would be a disaster for the party in power.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (uxCna)

Yes. Even deep into dementia, it always was a hazard to kick Biden to the curb. He may not remember what year it is, but being a nasty bastard is indestructible. Add to all this incompetence throughout the Administration along with a mentally retarded Veep aiming for the top slot, and you have a recipe for disaster. Also bear in mind that East-West I40 is closed and likely to remain so. There will be shortages if the strike is not averted, perhaps very severe ones.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM (KSNKu)

66 Let's be honest, the "Commerce" this dunce has been focused on is the kickbacks from Ukraine.

She couldn't tell you what a Longshoremen is or does.

Also, Longshoremen is racist/ableist/hate speech.

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM (i7Q7S)

67 Somebody posited that Biden is not negotiating in response to Kamala and others kicking him off the ticket.

I do not know who said it, but it does sound plausible.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM (4q/mG)

68
Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.
Posted by: jhawk90 at September 30, 2024 02:44 PM (ggOdn)

________

They're so bad you remember their names. I can probably name more members of FDR's cabinet than Bush 43's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM (BkEzK)

69 --BREAKING--FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--NEW POLLING DATA--

Newly released polling data further bolsters our lord and savior, slay-brat kween kamala's unwavering concrete solid lead heading into october! Poll question;

Does this poll further bolster our lord and savior, slay-brat kween kamala's unwavering concrete solid lead heading into october!??11/?

Yes: 199998909765 buhrillionzilliontrillion%

No: 0.000

Posted by: SEriOus poLlinG grOuP InC! at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (5hfjS)

70 what on earth has that dimwit been focused on?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (s3qiR)

71 "The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.
Posted by: Ace at 02:38 PM"

what if they are? is that a scary thought or what?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (UWgy2)

72 Unions are pure evil.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 02:40 PM (lKYo+)

Fuck the unions. They're just part of the corrupt oligarchic system. They have nothing to do with protecting workers and everything to do with lining the bosses' pockets and laundering money for the Democrats.

Posted by: They don't fight The Man they are The Man at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (OClqp)

73 Oy Vey!

Posted by: Adriane Wot Sez Oy Vey Way Too Much These Days Critic . . . at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (TX4bP)

74 I'm not going to react too strongly to this "77%" figure, purely because i've learned in a Pavlovian sense that labor disputes in the current era almost never involve a Good Guy.

Sure, fuck the union. But probably also fuck whatever disgusting public-private glob of a corporation they have to deal with. Is there really only one counterparty here? Is there really only one company or conglomerate handling all shipping on the eastern coast of north america? Really? Too much here I don't know to really weigh in. Obviously, fuck the union, but, you know, i'm willing to keep my powder dry before I say exactly why.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (VoAdT)

75 This the same idiot who thought the massive revisions to employment data -of which she wasn’t even aware - were some kind of partisan Drumpf disinfo.

Actually ace they *are* sending their best. From Clinton years on, with quality plummeting especially starting with Bambi era. Clinton people were largely unfit disasters, though it wasn’t as obvious to casual observers at the time.

And much, possibly most, of America is so variously ignorant, dumbed down, racist, unserious, tribal or selfish that these idiots are elected and re-elected.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (lRO1C)

76 "what on earth has that dimwit been focused on?!?!"

Dragonflies?

Posted by: Random Movie Quotes at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (B0mGw)

77 A major port shutdown with early voting due to start in a couple of weeks?

Nah, bruh.

It'll get resolved, and the media will crow about how it's all Kamala's doing in order to win a news cycle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

78 Are the stevedores striking too?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (CIS44)

79 "Workers, represented by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), are demanding a 77% wage increase over six years, frustrated by the skyrocketing profits of ocean carriers during the pandemic."

Wtf are they talking about? What "ocean carriers" had skyrocketing profits during the pandemic? And how profitable are they now that goat-fucking feral Muslim savages control some major trade routes?

Fuck all these people. Fuck them all. Go head, strike. I hope you get raided in the night by hungry bears and they snack on your gonads and then decide they want a piece of your ass.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

80 59 So where is our intrepid Transporation Secretary this week?

he's doing a personal inspection of the floors in the men's room handicapped stalls for the interstate rest areas

Posted by: brak at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (25k9m)

81 Please keep sending this Rainmondo imbecile out to do press because she is well an imbecile.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (17s+e)

82 There will be shortages if the strike is not averted, perhaps very severe ones.

yeah I'll admit to stocking up a bit today

and I sure wasn't alone

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (s3qiR)

83 Our troll Raimondo>>>Commerce Secretary Raimondo


Unless, of course, they are the same person.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (iziaj)

84 what on earth has that dimwit been focused on?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (s3qiR)

-----------------

How the transportation industry creates a disparate impact on the trans community.

That's a joke but it's also probably true.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (tT6L1)

85 Big. Hairy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 02:45 PM


This is about my pet, isn't it?

Posted by: Winona Ryder at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (a3Q+t)

86 Is Our sec of transportation meating with any longshoreman?

Posted by: Inogame at September 30, 2024 02:49 PM (53oGX)

87 Ummm Ace, maybe the DNC and their media wing ARE sending their best. It figures that incompetents like Biden picked other incompetents for Veep and cabinet positions.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024 02:50 PM (UKUm3)

88
Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."


There was another B-H nullity in the Cabinet some weeks back who answered much the same way. I forget who and the context, but the flavor of that person's response was eerily similar.

SCRIPT

Harris-Biden [ insert department name ] Secretary [ insert "Bumblefuck, Stumbling" ]: "I have not been very focused on that."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2024 02:50 PM (xG4kz)

89 77 A major port shutdown with early voting due to start in a couple of weeks?


early voting in PA starts today

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:50 PM (s3qiR)

90 @54 the ports are Transportation so Buttgiggle should be involved. The strike is Labor so Sec Chu should be doing more. They both impact Commerce so Raimondo should be involved. They are all leftist assholes so they're doing nothing. May they all rot in hell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 02:50 PM (RTfY1)

91 He may not remember what year it is, but being a nasty bastard is indestructible.

Dementia exacerbates all of your nasty bastard tendencies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:51 PM (uxCna)

92 Is Our sec of transportation meating with any longshoreman?

Posted by: Inogame
---

ISWYDT.

Yes but he takes the meating.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 30, 2024 02:51 PM (17s+e)

93 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.

I mean...do they even have a "best"?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 02:51 PM (xCA6C)

94 Joe Mannix @ 58; kind of a Peter Principle of larger organizations .

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 30, 2024 02:51 PM (UWgy2)

95 Somebody posited that Biden is not negotiating in response to Kamala and others kicking him off the ticket.

I do not know who said it, but it does sound plausible.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude


*raises hand.
Do I know for sure? No.
Is Joe that petty? Yes.
And it may not even be Joe. It may be Jill putting those words in his mouf.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:51 PM (sDO9P)

96 the ports are Transportation so Buttgiggle should be involved. The strike is Labor so Sec Chu should be doing more. They both impact Commerce so Raimondo should be involved. They are all leftist assholes so they're doing nothing. May they all rot in hell
Posted by: Smell the Glove

We're on our own. No one is coming to help.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 02:51 PM (iziaj)

97 90 @54 the ports are Transportation so Buttgiggle should be involved. The strike is Labor so Sec Chu should be doing more. They both impact Commerce so Raimondo should be involved. They are all leftist assholes so they're doing nothing. May they all rot in hell


they're also all completely incompetent

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (s3qiR)

98 "I have not been very focused on that."

Hi, Bob. Bob.

Posted by: Random Movie Quotes at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (B0mGw)

99 Ummm Ace, maybe the DNC and their media wing ARE sending their best.

They gave up on competence a long while ago.

Now it's just credentialism and who you know.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (uxCna)

100 So secretary Raimondo what would you say you do here?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (17s+e)

101 We're on our own. No one is coming to help.


the purpose of a system is what it does

FedGov exists to rob the populace

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (s3qiR)

102 Can you hear the drums, Raimondo?

Posted by: Anni-Frid Lyngstad at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (OguvZ)

103 Chasten has sensitive nipples.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM


I'm *not* going to ask how you know this. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (a3Q+t)

104 President Biden has stated he will not intervene using the Taft-Hartley Act, despite concerns from major retailers about the economic fallout.

Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years.


Biden knifing Kamala in the back over being pushed out.


I agree. He's pulling down the temple.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (xCA6C)

105 "Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years.
Posted by: rickb223"


Because the both unions and port employers know she is blithering idiot that would only make things worse.They just aren't allowed to say that.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (GUOwU)

106 So secretary Raimondo what would you say you do here?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Cl

Well, I was governor of a fake state.
-Gina Raimondo

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (CIS44)

107 55 Again, the Rs could be making a boatload of commercials from the storms and the strike and pound the Ds. Will they? Why do I think the answer is "no?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Most political advertising is a waste of money compared with creating GOTV organizations. Campaign consultants love ads because they get a piece of all ad spending which is a lot more than they get from managing a bunch of stinky demanding volunteers. That is GOPe campaigns strategy in a nutshell.

Lot of the ads are appearing on much cheaper streaming channels because the Boomer and Silent TV generation is already set in their voting ways and relatively impervious to changing their voting patterns. Gen X is more GOP leaning anyway so the voter outreach are being targeted at Millennials and Gen Z.

Trump is adding minority outreach to great success as well compared with the typical dumbass GOPe campaign consultants that just want to get paid.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (SI97o)

108 Fuck the unions. They're just part of the corrupt oligarchic system. They have nothing to do with protecting workers and everything to do with lining the bosses' pockets and laundering money for the Democrats.
Posted by: They don't fight The Man they are The Man at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (OClqp)

I suppose.

But that's true of any large American institution. All of them do only that. It's a faked up scam country.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (awTae)

109 The union strikes at worst time possible, for America, that is. For democrats it couldn't be a better time, like the hurricane. See, the union will get increased wages, the democrats will get a kickback on those wages, and union bosses will get fat. This, while Americans will suffer want as a result, all to keep these godless in power.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (LHPAg)

110 the ports are Transportation so Buttgiggle should be involved. The strike is Labor so Sec Chu should be doing more. They both impact Commerce so Raimondo should be involved. They are all leftist assholes so they're doing nothing. May they all rot in hell
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 02:50 PM (RTfY1)
++++
Hard to believe I forgot about DoL. My immediate gut-check is that would be USDOT rather than Commerce, but that Commerce would have a firm support role in trying to untangle it and deal with the problem.

For Raimondo to say, essentially, "nah, bro. whatever" is amazing. She is extremely bad at her job, at least the public part of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)

111 So...what kinds of shortages specifically?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (LxER7)

112 scampydog, good info, thanks.

Hadrian, some wag said years back that Buttigieg is such a bad Transportation Sec. that we know his name. Perfectly stated.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (lRO1C)

113 My prediction? PAIN
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

That's my line, fool.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

114 For those inquiring about Mike Hammer, NurseR posted on the Art thread ...

206 And I did hear from Mike Hammer yesterday. He's ok. No power or water, phone or internet. Says things are a mess.

I'm praying for him and his neighbors.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 30, 2024 10:30 AM

Posted by: old chick at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (F3Dlr)

115 I warned BiBi today that if he does not end this war now, I will send Harris to Cackle him to death !@

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (qpLSv)

116 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.

Posted by: Ace at 02:38 PM

---------------

Top. Clowns. And. Traitors. But. Mostly. Traitors.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (eB9N9)

117 Ummm Ace, maybe the DNC and their media wing ARE sending their best.

They gave up on competence a long while ago.

Now it's just credentialism and who you know.


They aspire to dismal.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (xCA6C)

118 The group representing the Ports are a consortium of ports and shipping companies, which run 80% of all trade. About half the biard are ports, the other half shipping companies (Hapag-lloyd, Maersk, COSCO, etc )

The What's Going On With Shipping? Guy details it.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (ufFY8)

119 103 Chasten has sensitive nipples.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:47 PM

I'm *not* going to ask how you know this. Wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (a3Q+t)


Saw a press release.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (x0n13)

120 The CBS News: Those tens of thousands of illegal alien murderers and rapists? Yeah, no big deal. Small price to pay.

https://is.gd/VuEsKx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (L/fGl)

121
A key demand of the union is to reduce automation.

Good luck, Luddites.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (j4U/Z)

122 0 what on earth has that dimwit been focused on?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:48 PM (s3qiR)

Equity and her next bottle of booze. But mostly on her next bottle of booze.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (g8Ew8)

123 Is Our sec of transportation meating with any longshoreman?
Posted by: Inogame
______

Mayo Pete meating longshoreman.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (Dm8we)

124 Dockworkers strike - secretary of the labor "I'm not focused on that".

Say, what is it you say you do around here anyway?

Posted by: El Mariachi at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (nLFEI)

125 These people are singularly bad at speaking to the public.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (HnUIn)

With an acquiescent media that don't ask serious questions, they have had no practice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (d9fT1)

126 93 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.

I mean...do they even have a "best"?
Posted by: Archimedes
.....................
Yes.

Try not to dwell on it much. The Pit of Despair is hard to get out of.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (/Djer)

127 Now it's just credentialism and who you know.

BTW, the new editor at Stanford's conservative newspaper noted that the average Stanford graduate reads an average of four books while they are at Stanford.

Reading is hard - it's all networking now.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (uxCna)

128 Oh G-d we humbly beseech Thee that all the vile and wicked plans of this administration be thwarted and they be suitably chastised.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (HUco/)

129 thanks for the update nurse!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (s3qiR)

130 They aspire to dismal.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (xCA6C)

------------------

You take that back!

Posted by: Dismal at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (tT6L1)

131 Why has the price of dog food doubled over the past 24 hours. How will feed my family ???

Posted by: Franklin Stein at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (rcLES)

132 115 I warned BiBi today that if he does not end this war now, I will send Harris to Cackle him to death !@
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (qpLSv)


Bibi knows Jewish moters-in-law!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (x0n13)

133 97 90 @54 the ports are Transportation so Buttgiggle should be involved. The strike is Labor so Sec Chu should be doing more. They both impact Commerce so Raimondo should be involved. They are all leftist assholes so they're doing nothing. May they all rot in hell


they're also all completely incompetent
Posted by: BlackOrchid

They are there to make Biden's Cabinet look like Murica. Not for any designated competence in their jobs. Real decisions in the Biden junta are made behind the scenes with people you never hear mentioned.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (SI97o)

134 116 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.
Posted by: Ace at 02:38 PM

The sad part - they are. This is the result.

Posted by: El Mariachi at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (nLFEI)

135 Dockworkers striking tomorrow?

Oh thank God, my Chinese penis enlargement cream is already on shore, and winding its way through the Fedex delivery service.

Which means it's probably in Ashville, NC by now...

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (dGCAG)

136 FedGov exists to rob the populace

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:52 PM (s3qiR)

Had a long conversation with youngest about government, taxes, public assistance leeches, politicians, etc. on the way to a campout.

He is probably on a watchlist now.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (i24o9)

137 "So secretary Raimondo what would you say you do here?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable"


If Trump manages to pull out a win and actually take office she and whole lot of others like her are going to have to find somewhere else to pretend to work.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (GUOwU)

138 With an acquiescent media that don't ask serious questions, they have had no practice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (d9fT1)
++++
True enough, but it's still fairly amazing. Just having to come up through the ranks in a corporation or agency should have taught *some* degree of tact and bullshit artistry. None. Raimondo has none at all. It shouldn't be possible to be *this* bad this part of the job. Just managing to get promoted out of the mail room should require a bit more communication skill than she regularly demonstrates.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (HnUIn)

139 Chasten has sensitive nipples.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (sDO9P)

140 Try not to dwell on it much. The Pit of Despair is hard to get out of.

Hey, it's good that our enemies are mediocrities.

When they lose, maybe they can blame their loss on demons, like Hezbollah did.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (uxCna)

141 More failing up.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (JeYYB)

142 123 Is Our sec of transportation meating with any longshoreman?
Posted by: Inogame
______

Mayo Pete meating longshoreman.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (Dm8we)


West Side Highway, Meat Packing District 1970s.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (x0n13)

143 Not sure it will matter:

@LeadingReport 35s
BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to stop local authorities from requiring photo ID to vote.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (IG4Id)

144 She's a people person, god dammit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (VoAdT)

145 Every time this idiot Raimondo shows up she says something to demonstrate that she is totally checked out. Same idiot who said she was not awaeebof the -800,000 payrolls reduction.

Posted by: Paladin at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (N2i6W)

146 The union strikes at worst time possible, for America, that is. For democrats it couldn't be a better time, like the hurricane.

Disagree. Giving voters the sense that the center isn't holding, and the gyre is widening right before the election isn't a good thing for them.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (xCA6C)

147 >>> 131 Why has the price of dog food doubled over the past 24 hours. How will I feed my family ???
Posted by: Franklin Stein at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (rcLES)

We've CRUSHED inflation and have delivered the BEST ECONOMY EVER!!!

Posted by: Kamala Coconut Harris at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (FnneF)

148 "Why has the price of dog food doubled over the past 24 hours. How will feed my family ???"

I hear you can cut down on costs to your pets by selling your kid for $1000 and a case of beer.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 02:57 PM (B0mGw)

149 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.
Posted by: Ace at 02:38 PM

The sad part - they are. This is the result.
Posted by: El Mariachi at September 30, 2024 02:55 PM (nLFEI)

To be honest, this lady looks more like she knows she'll be out of a job in a few months, and doesn't care.

Whether she was a female equivalent to Gay Mayor Pete, getting a job way over her head, that I don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 02:57 PM (dGCAG)

150 If the Junta was merely incompetent, I could deal with it.

Unfortunately for us, the Junta is malignant and incompetent.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 30, 2024 02:57 PM (tT6L1)

151 Remember when the "Get Rid of Old Joe" movement was pushing this slimy Raimondo retard as a much better candidate for president?

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

152
"It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners." - Lord Birkenhead, 1925

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2024 02:57 PM (BkEzK)

153 Please don't eat my cat.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (ufFY8)

154 Heard earlier that the employers at the ports have made a new offer to the Unions earlier today. No response as of yet. Allegedly Sec Su is involved but this administration could screw up a wet dream so I'm not real optimistic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (RTfY1)

155 I saw an automated dock at Long Beach a few years ago and it was scary how fast it worked. I thought it was an amusement park at first and those were the rides. I think this strike is mostly about their jobs not being replaced by automation. But there is no way they can work as fast as those robots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (AxhV2)

156 We've CRUSHED inflation and have delivered the BEST ECONOMY EVER!!!
Posted by: Kamala Coconut Harris at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (FnneF)

Thanks, Comrade Stalin, I feel less hungry already.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (dGCAG)

157 demanding a 77% wage increase

This works?! I'm going on strike...

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (GCKiK)

158 OT but The Bee: (delete space and sorry tis on X)

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/ 1840096150180815080

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (s3qiR)

159 Go unions!

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (pZEOD)

160 114 Thanks for passing along the info on Hammer.

Posted by: scampydog at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (2bFN5)

161 Remember when the "Get Rid of Old Joe" movement was pushing this slimy Raimondo retard as a much better candidate for president?
Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

Instead we got another slimy retard.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2024 02:59 PM (LCr8f)

162 CNBC: What are you hearing will happen if dockworkers strike and it goes longer than a week?

Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."

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holy cow !

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 02:59 PM (V13WU)

163 Just having to come up through the ranks in a corporation or agency should have taught *some* degree of tact and bullshit artistry. None. Raimondo has none at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (HnUIn)


Agreed, but you are looking at the system as one that has some logic to it.

The real system is loyalty to the Democrat apparatus, and it is entirely possible that intelligence and that loyalty are mutually exclusive.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2024 02:59 PM (d9fT1)

164 He is probably on a watchlist now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Worth at least 100 moron points. Be sure to use them next opportunity to upgrade your membership level

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 03:00 PM (iziaj)

165 Please don't eat my cat.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (ufFY

Honestly though, if it came to that, my bigger cat, who I NEVER call Mr. Chubbs to his face, would last us for several days.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:00 PM (dGCAG)

166 Chasen has sensitive nipples
The trannies are hitting the beaches
Repeat; the trannies are hitting the beaches

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 03:00 PM (RTfY1)

167 how long till someone like rachel maddow blames this on trump?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 30, 2024 03:00 PM (CWTWj)

168 "Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years."
------

I've seen several of her ads on TV. She will fix everything and Trump is a poopy-head. Infantile.

Posted by: javems at September 30, 2024 03:00 PM (8I4hW)

169 Workers, represented by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), are demanding a 77% wage increase over six years,
_____________________________

There is high balling....then there is "HIGH BALLING".

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (dIske)

170 77% over six years. Still....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (ufFY8)

171 how long till someone like rachel maddow blames this on trump?
Posted by: gnats local 67

tonight at 8 when her show is on I assume.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (CIS44)

172 I would appreciate it if I didn't have to see any more about a certain someone's vestigial chest organs and they're alleged sensitivity.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (IHRQq)

173 I think I may organize. I am sitting here doing the 2025 class schedule and J said he would do a beer can chicken tonight. Yay! However, he was just yelling from the pantry someone “stole” his brine bag. I got it for him and he says “well you moved it. The same as stealing”.
My life.

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (pZEOD)

174 150 If the Junta was merely incompetent, I could deal with it.

Unfortunately for us, the Junta is malignant and incompetent.
Posted by: blake
======
The Dem Biden Junta members are quite competent about generating enormous wealth for them and theirs and staying out of prison for they ways that they gather it in.

At the end of the day, like Maduro or Chavez in Venezuela, they are most competent about what they care about the most--power and money.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (SI97o)

175 138 True enough, but it's still fairly amazing. Just having to come up through the ranks in a corporation or agency should have taught *some* degree of tact and bullshit artistry. None. Raimondo has none at all. It shouldn't be possible to be *this* bad this part of the job. Just managing to get promoted out of the mail room should require a bit more communication skill than she regularly demonstrates.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (HnUIn)

======

But...is that her job?

Or is her job to be a cutout for powerful interests who want control of her department?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

176
Joey's people aren't doing anything until it's established where their 10% is coming from.

That the vile old narcissist could be sabotaging his party for revenge would require that he's capable of forming a plan.

Dr. Jill and the perverts might be the ones standing in the way, or more likely, they're just being stupid.

Posted by: Auspex at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (j4U/Z)

177 >>Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.

But it looks like America! The retarded part.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (LkLld)

178 Hey, it's good that our enemies are mediocrities.

When they lose, maybe they can blame their loss on demons, like Hezbollah did.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (uxCna)

I have thought they were blaming magical Jews.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (g8Ew8)

179 >>> Our "elites". Is it French Revolution time yet?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (C26rB)

======

At the very least, BMA (buy more ammo) time.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (JfxgE)

180 I saw an automated dock at Long Beach a few years ago and it was scary how fast it worked. I thought it was an amusement park at first and those were the rides. I think this strike is mostly about their jobs not being replaced by automation. But there is no way they can work as fast as those robots.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 30, 2024 02:58 PM (AxhV2)
_____

Most people don't realize how insanely advanced these transportation and manufacturing robots are. All we see are videos of human-like robots walking and jumping over boxes. But behind the scenes, less photogenic robots have revolutionized transportation and manufacturing. Modern robotic assembly lines are basically alien tech.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

181 Biden knifing Kamala in the back over being pushed out.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (sDO9P)
===

You think Biden would let American suffer and die in order to score political points???

Yeah, me too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (5p7su)

182 Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.

=======

Yeah, but turnover is low.

So, it's not chaotic.

So, it's good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

183 That damn Rotwang is having his robot Kamala destroy the Heart Machine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (HUco/)

184 We will gladly adopt your unwanted pets if pet food is too expensive for you....

148 "Why has the price of dog food doubled over the past 24 hours. How will feed my family ???"

I hear you can cut down on costs to your pets by selling your kid for $1000 and a case of beer.

Posted by: The Haitian population of Sprigfield, Ohio at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (/1UO6)

185 Thought we got most of our food from MX & CA.

Posted by: Braenard at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (ZNBMN)

186 Israel has declared the Lebanese border a closed military zone.

Invasion imminent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (uxCna)

187 170 77% over six years. Still....
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (ufFY

If Kamala wins, that probably won't even match the next 6 year's of true inflation...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (exHjb)

188 This bespectacled blonde is pretty sure she's a much better, quicker and more effective communicator than Secretary Raimondo:
http://tiny.cc/031ozz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (HnUIn)

189 "Yeah, but turnover is low. So, it's not chaotic. So, it's good."

Imagine a job where your boss had not shown up for the entire year and then suddenly his wife showed up one day and yelled a bunch of stuff and then business as normal.

Who quits that job by choice?

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (IHRQq)

190 Words cannot express how insane their demands are.

A 77% increase in pay over 6 years? Literally nobody else in the entire country is getting an increase like that, never mind low-skill idiots that can be replaced with a handful of weeks of training.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (setIA)

191 Biden knifing Kamala in the back over being pushed out.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 02:41 PM (sDO9P)
===

You think Biden would let American suffer and die in order to score political points???

Yeah, me too.


I never thought I'd say this, but Biden better watch his ass for the next month. They might decide he's become a real problem, and, well, you know...

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (xCA6C)

192 "Israel has declared the Lebanese border a closed military zone. Invasion imminent."

Not much is being said, but Turkey is very quietly getting angrier and angrier about this.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (IHRQq)

193 Commerce department is one of those things that needs to disappear. Raimundo is such a incompetent political hack that it should show once and for all that if a chimp could run a Cabinet Department there is no reason for the department to exist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (RTfY1)

194 163 Just having to come up through the ranks in a corporation or agency should have taught *some* degree of tact and bullshit artistry. None. Raimondo has none at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:56 PM (HnUIn)

Agreed, but you are looking at the system as one that has some logic to it.

The real system is loyalty to the Democrat apparatus, and it is entirely possible that intelligence and that loyalty are mutually exclusive.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 30, 2024 02:59 PM (d9fT1)



Look what they did to Eric Adams because he actually called out the emperors for being buck naked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (x0n13)

195
I used to cruise the docks at night for loose chicks. No joke. And another thing, I was popular with those broads.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (+oR7L)

196 "Why isn't Kamala negotiating personally? She says she can fix all of the failures of the past three and a half years."

Of course she 'can' (i.e., could) because she and hers ARE the failures of the past three and a half years.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (GCKiK)

197 182 Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.

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Yeah, but turnover is low.

So, it's not chaotic.

So, it's good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

Well, they are not capable of their current jobs or any other jobs, so who would hire them?

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (exHjb)

198 77% over six years. Still....
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:01 PM (ufFY

If we had to get ALL our cheap fentanyl pills from across the mexican border... well, you think inflation's bad now.....

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (dGCAG)

199 Invasion imminent.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 03:03 PM (uxCna)

I guess Haznoballs is out of charismatic people. And balls, they are out of balls.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (AxhV2)

200 That damn Rotwang is having his robot Kamala destroy the Heart Machine.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (HUco/)
__________

"Fuck her"

-- Maria

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (iFTx/)

201 How does that CNBC guy still have a job? That seems against the NBC suggested news narrative.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

202 idiots that can be replaced with a handful of weeks of training.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (setIA)

They coulda been contenders.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (ufFY8)

203 Words cannot express how insane their demands are.

A 77% increase in pay over 6 years? Literally nobody else in the entire country is getting an increase like that, never mind low-skill idiots that can be replaced with a handful of weeks of training.


I don't know why you're surprised. This has been their MO for the last 70 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (xCA6C)

204 Had a long conversation with youngest about government, taxes, public assistance leeches, politicians, etc. on the way to a campout.

He is probably on a watchlist now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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A consolation, your son and you are on on the list with the best of people in this society.

Think of the list as a networking opportunity. We should make the administration release of the various watchlists via FOIA so we know who to befriend and who to ignore.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (SI97o)

205 Anybody knows how many Gays and transgender people was killed from the Trump-cane in North Carolina.

Gay and Transgender businesses are the back bone of the country.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (1t11C)

206 >>> Biden knifing Kamala in the back over being pushed out.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September
- - -

Watching them eat their own.

Posted by: Braenard at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (ZNBMN)

207 My son was offered a baseball scholarship to a college in Asheville. He ended up turning it down. Thank God he did. I cannot imagine my hysteria if he were there now.

Posted by: jmel at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (RWHIh)

208 Yeah, but turnover is low.

So, it's not chaotic.

So, it's good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

"Dammnit" Janet Reno lasted all 8 years of the Clinton Admin, the only one to do so, which means she was the best.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (dGCAG)

209 Just came from the most expensive store in my area (Haggens) and even their shelves had bare in spots. Of course it's Monday so stocking may be behind schedule, but still...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (W/lyH)

210
BTW, the new editor at Stanford's conservative newspaper noted that the average Stanford graduate reads an average of four books while they are at Stanford.

My granddaughter, in her kindergarten class, is expected to read 1,000 books before the end of the year. She's up to 800 some already. It looks clear she'll hit the mark with some room to spare.

My son grew up with weekly trips to the library.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (RKVpM)

211 Between whether Appalachia or Baltimore/Philly/NYC slides into Lord of the Flies, I know where I'm placing my bet.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (KSNKu)

212 How does that CNBC guy still have a job? That seems against the NBC suggested news narrative.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

I think that was Joe Kearns?
Apparently from MIT.
Has to be smart to navigate the bullshit at CNBC, although business channel people generally are more reasonable and clear sighted...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (ufFY8)

213 I got bad news and good news; the bad news is Biden's incompetence isn't setting Kamala up for success. The good news is Biden's incompetence isn't setting Kamala up for success.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (LaNzR)

214 128 Oh G-d we humbly beseech Thee that all the vile and wicked plans of this administration be thwarted and they be suitably chastised.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (HUco/)
Amen and Amen!

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (LHPAg)

215 I used to refer to her as the 2nd dumbest Raimondo, but damn! She took the lead!

Posted by: Wally at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (NXYp1)

216 206 >>> Biden knifing Kamala in the back over being pushed out.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September
- - -

Watching them eat their own.
Posted by: Braenard at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (ZNBMN)

He and Jill want to prove they are the only ones who could have won...it's all ego...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (exHjb)

217 The inflation from the Trump Dock Worker Encouraged Strike will be only Transitory.

The transit back to normal should only take 25 years for wages to catch up ...

Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 30, 2024 03:08 PM (/1UO6)

218 Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."
.......

Takes a lot of her focus to raise 10 cats.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 03:08 PM (v0R5T)

219 Reuters: US East Coast port strike set to start Tuesday, says union.

They couldnt wait another month? This could be the October surprise.

So people will vote for Trump to strike break? Don't see it. The "October Surprise" will likely be how Israel's invasion of Lebanon goes or a Supreme Court Justice dying

OH FFS!!! 'United States Maritime Alliance ... refuses to address a half-century of wage subjugation,'. I have known about it, but hasn't been top of mind. Just come to the table and rectify this situation.

Things must be awful for the workers if this is the first strike since 1977. Clearly they don’t strike unless at the limit of seeing unfairness, poor pay and other issues they believe are not being heard.

Well this could kill all our efforts in beating Trump. If people can't get their Chinese products Democrats will be blamed.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2024 03:08 PM (JCZqz)

220 Democratic apparatchik - Democratchiks !

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 03:08 PM (V13WU)

221 Not much is being said, but Turkey is very quietly getting angrier and angrier about this.
Posted by: Ribbed
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Erdogan has shit in his nest by trying to play everyone in the region around him and now no one trusts him. His Ham Ass card got punched and the impending demise of Hezbollah makes it harder to play the Iran card against the West for bennies.

He has no friends and his domestic enemies are accumulating over time.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:08 PM (SI97o)

222 Has to be smart to navigate the bullshit at CNBC, although business channel people generally are more reasonable and clear sighted...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (ufFY


Why thank you!

Posted by: Jim Cramer at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (PiwSw)

223 Words cannot express how insane their demands are.

A 77% increase in pay over 6 years? Literally nobody else in the entire country is getting an increase like that, never mind low-skill idiots that can be replaced with a handful of weeks of training.

I don't know why you're surprised. This has been their MO for the last 70 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 30, 2024 03:05 PM (xCA6C)
______

And it works, so why should they stop? People respond to the incentives they're given. If you reward unions for striking if their ridiculous demands aren't met, you'll get more ridiculous demands and strikes. If you reward women for sucking their bosses' dicks, then you'll get more Kamalas.

Posted by: Doctor Elric the Blade at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

224 1
My prediction? PAIN
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
......

always a sure bet under this administration.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (v0R5T)

225 In other news:

Bus drivers not focused on driving are often surprised by bridges ...with similar results.

This lady must have been busy scrambling for new batteries for her 3hp Husquvarna dildo and missed her onboarding as FUCKIN COMMERCE SECRETARY.

Posted by: Sifty at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (FI8u7)

226 215 I used to refer to her as the 2nd dumbest Raimondo, but damn! She took the lead!
Posted by: Wally
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Must be related. Genetics will tell.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (SI97o)

227 77% over six years. Still....
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Barely keeping up with the already built-in inflation.
If Kummala gets in 77% will not be enough to stay even...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (F+VNN)

228 205 Anybody knows how many Gays and transgender people was killed from the Trump-cane in North Carolina.

Gay and Transgender businesses are the back bone of the country.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at September 30, 2024 03:06 PM (1t11C)

_______________________________

Lia Thomas pretty much proved that Transgenders can identify as world class swimmers. So, I think they'll be ok.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (dIske)

229 Dont get me started

Posted by: Sifty at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (FI8u7)

230 That's my line, fool.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

I ain't got time for your jibba-jabba.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 03:10 PM (N1DT3)

231 211 Between whether Appalachia or Baltimore/Philly/NYC slides into Lord of the Flies, I know where I'm placing my bet.


speaking of, are we gonna have a thread/mention about the field hockey game that had to be stopped b/c of gunshots in the middle of the day?!? I have all kinds of direct info on THAT atrocity.

yah Philly is already Lord of the Flies, or worse really

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 30, 2024 03:10 PM (s3qiR)

232 177 >>Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.

But it looks like America! The retarded part.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (LkLld)

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This is 100% true.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 30, 2024 03:10 PM (JeYYB)

233 Hadrian, some wag said years back that Buttigieg is such a bad Transportation Sec. that we know his name. Perfectly stated.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 30, 2024 02:53 PM (lRO1C)
===
No love for Norm Mineta?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 03:10 PM (5p7su)

234
I think that was Joe Kearns?
Apparently from MIT.
Has to be smart to navigate the bullshit at CNBC, although business channel people generally are more reasonable and clear sighted...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM



Now, he mentioned the pandemic as being the reason for the high unemployment, which is true. However, the government, under Trump getting advised by Fauci and his ilk, was the reason for the shutdowns and the resulting high unemployment. Trump, as commander in chief at the time, does bear some responsibility for that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

235 219 They couldnt wait another month? This could be the October surprise.

So people will vote for Trump to strike break? Don't see it. The "October Surprise" will likely be how Israel's invasion of Lebanon goes or a Supreme Court Justice dying

Things must be awful for the workers if this is the first strike since 1977. Clearly they don’t strike unless at the limit of seeing unfairness, poor pay and other issues they believe are not being heard.

Well this could kill all our efforts in beating Trump. If people can't get their Chinese products Democrats will be blamed.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 30, 2024 03:08 PM (JCZqz)

======

1. So, they think a strike on Kamala's watch would help Kamala?
2. These people are way more caught up in Israel as a driving factor in American politics than reasonable. I mean...is it really moving votes?
3. Hey...working a union is the only path to middle class life, and even they're struggling under Biden? Is that the message they're trying to work through?
4. Discord of effects, I see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

236 Not much is being said, but Turkey is very quietly getting angrier and angrier about this.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:04 PM (IHRQq)
—-

Israel awaits the invitation.

Posted by: Braenard at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (ZNBMN)

237 When the locusts from the blue shit holes start showing up in Podunk, USA looking for food, gas, supplies after their blue shit hole runs dry... what to do, what to do...

This might be a taste of the burning times if the strike really ends up putting a crimp into the food-supply-chain.

*goes back to polishing bullets*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (Q4IgG)

238 "If people can't get their Chinese products Democrats will be blamed."

I do think it's unfair to blame the people in charge. How is it their fault?

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (B0mGw)

239
It's going to take more than Pete Buttigieg offering blow jobs to get the dock workers not to strike. It won't stop him from doing it, but.......

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (+oR7L)

240 huh, the jin did it !

"Mossad infiltrated Iranian intelligence unit established to spy on Israel, Ahmadinejad says
Former president of Iran tells CNN Turk that the man who headed the Islamic Republic's division meant to thwart Mossad operations was found in 2021 to be an Israeli spy, and 'another 20 members were Mossad agents'; They stole Iran's nuclear documents."

Could be paranoia , could be true...

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (V13WU)

241 238 "If people can't get their Chinese products Democrats will be blamed."

I do think it's unfair to blame the people in charge. How is it their fault?
Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (B0mGw)

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If it's so important to prevent this from happening, then DU should greatly support union busting to send in scabs to do the work for a fraction of union cost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

242 I genuinely believe that Raimondo actually has no idea what to do. She is clueless.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (W/lyH)

243 Biden Wants Cease-Fire as Israel Mulls Entering Lebanon

This is not a Threat but a Promise..... I will send VP Harris to the ME and have her Broadcast her Cackling for days as Psychological warfare to end this conflict ASAP....


I will disregard all UN Protocols stating that this is "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (/1UO6)

244 Commerce department is one of those things that needs to disappear. Raimundo is such a incompetent political hack that it should show once and for all that if a chimp could run a Cabinet Department there is no reason for the department to exist
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......

at least a chimp would make sure we had plenty of bananas.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (v0R5T)

245 Ummm Ace, maybe the DNC and their media wing ARE sending their best. It figures that incompetents like Biden picked other incompetents for Veep and cabinet positions.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024 02:50 PM (UKUm3)


To mash together two schools of thought, we have rule by rube going on, where the original players running the scam all died off leaving the useful idiots who were hired for their focus on things other than the main purpose, and instead of understanding the job, or the scam, are focused on the distractions, using the original Gantt chart that worked until reality started kicking in the doors screaming "warrant"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (D7oie)

246 >>> US Dockworkers Set to Strike Tomorrow; Biden Refuses to Intervene

WWRD -- What Would Reagan do?

We all know.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (QAK8m)

247 2022 From Gallup
"Americans in most major subgroups are reading fewer books now than in the past. This is based on a comparison of the 2021 results to an average of those from the three polls conducted between 2002 and 2016. During those years, Americans read an average of 15.2 books a year.

The decline is greater among subgroups that tended to be more avid readers, particularly college graduates but also women and older Americans. College graduates read an average of about six fewer books in 2021 than they did between 2002 and 2016, 14.6 versus 21.1.

In the past, women read close to twice as many books as men did, but the gap has narrowed as the average U.S. woman read 15.7 books last year, compared with 19.3 between 2002 and 2016. Over the same period, men's readership declined by barely one book, to 9.5.

Older adults traditionally read a lot more than younger adults did, but that difference has vanished, with Americans aged 55 and older dropping from an average of 16.7 books read a year to 12, while there has been little change in the average number read by those younger than 55."

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (SI97o)

248 242 I genuinely believe that Raimondo actually has no idea what to do. She is clueless.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (W/lyH)

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In surprise development, governorship of a fake state (RI) does not prepare one for the rigors of Commerce Secretary.

More at 11.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

249 could be true...

"Ahmadinejad was the president of Iran until 2013. He was succeeded by Hassan Rouhani, and his former chief of staff - former intelligence minister Ali Younesi - admitted in an interview in 2022: "The Mossad has infiltrated many government departments in the last 10 years, to such a degree that all the country's top officials should fear for their lives."

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (V13WU)

250 >>"Mossad infiltrated Iranian intelligence unit established to spy on Israel, Ahmadinejad says
Former president of Iran tells CNN Turk that the man who headed the Islamic Republic's division meant to thwart Mossad operations was found in 2021 to be an Israeli spy, and 'another 20 members were Mossad agents'; They stole Iran's nuclear documents."



'Won't someone rid me of these Zionist Genies!?', he concluded.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (lKYo+)

251 "If it's so important to prevent this from happening, then DU should greatly support union busting to send in scabs to do the work for a fraction of union cost."

This administration has been a beautiful collision of Democrat sacred cows.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (B0mGw)

252 242 I genuinely believe that Raimondo actually has no idea what to do. She is clueless.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:12 PM (W/lyH)

And BootyJuice.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (N39Ws)

253 *goes back to polishing bullets*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (Q4IgG)

---------------

You're not signing them like the Z-man?

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (oRCFL)

254 Unions are extortion schemes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (v6JzV)

255 I love Otis Redding. If he sings "Sitting on the Dock at the Bay" tomorrow that will be great day for America

Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (/1UO6)

256 business channel people generally are more reasonable and clear sighted...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:07 PM (ufFY

Why thank you!
Posted by: Jim Cramer at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (PiwSw)

Ooops, forgot about that dickhead.
I always watched when stacked Maria Caruso-Cabrera (or whatever) was on, for a couple of reasons.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (ufFY8)

257 The problem with the media.

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NEW - Hillary Clinton: "The press needs a consistent narrative about the danger that Trump poses."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (L/fGl)

258 251 This administration has been a beautiful collision of Democrat sacred cows.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (B0mGw)

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Because Democrats are united, believe in a common ideology, and are focused on delivering for the little guy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

259 6 Our "elites". Is it French Revolution time yet?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 30, 2024 02:39 PM (C26rB)

Speaking of, been reading a lot about our country's founding and given the parallels, was wondering if anyone knew of any must-reads on the French Revolution.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (KbCG3)

260 Prayer Request-Our State House is currently voting on far left Zwicker's Bill euphemistically called the "Freedom to Read Act" so that we can have porno and transgender stuff in school libraries. Please pray-if you would be so kind-that it goes down to defeat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (MQJVv)

261 Naked and Paranoid !

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (V13WU)

262 >>Words cannot express how insane their demands are.

Agreed. I was a member of ALPA for years. Even I thought there were times when the union's proposal to management was way over the top. A negotiation tactic, to be sure, but holy hell, 77% as a starting point boggles the mind.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (Y1sOo)

263 "A key demand of the union is to reduce automation."

It's a key demand of EVERY union.

Posted by: pawn at September 30, 2024 03:15 PM (QB+5g)

264 >>I love Otis Redding. If he sings "Sitting on the Dock at the Bay" tomorrow that will be great day for America


A Zombie Apocalypse will NOT be a good October surprise.

RIP Otis.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:15 PM (lKYo+)

265 Unions are extortion schemes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Actually, I meant to write "extortion rackets."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:15 PM (v6JzV)

266 I love Otis Redding. If he sings "Sitting on the Dock at the Bay" tomorrow that will be great day for America
Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (/1UO6)



I would be unburdened!
Nothing to buy? No problem. Joy!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:15 PM (W/lyH)

267 "Because Democrats are united, believe in a common ideology, and are focused on delivering for the little guy?"

Because they keep stepping on their own dicks. Who needed trannies going after kids? Why is that even a thing? Or South American gangs invading and taking over cities? Or muslims calling for the genocide of jews?

It's all self inflicted.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:15 PM (B0mGw)

268 He has no friends and his domestic enemies are accumulating over time.
Posted by: whig

Perfect setup for him doing something extremely stupid like moving troops into Syria.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (iziaj)

269 "A key demand of the union is to reduce automation."

It's a key demand of EVERY union.

Posted by: pawn at September 30, 2024 03:15 PM (QB+5g)

Give us more teaspoons!

Posted by: International Ditch Diggers Union at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (Aqu9a)

270 Americans in most major subgroups are reading fewer books now than in the past.

Did they define "books"? Does their definition of "books" count e-books and webnovels, or just dead-tree books?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (hB7mE)

271 I genuinely believe that Raimondo actually has no idea what to do. She is clueless.

You take that back! She can attend meetings with the best of them!

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (Ag3aL)

272 Raimondo, Granholm, Mayorkas, Bootyjudge, Becerra, Cardona, Garland, Austin, Bilken, Yellen off the top of my head - I mean it's like a who's who of incompetence

Posted by: jhawk90 at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (ggOdn)

273 Sundowner is on vacation until January when he retirement kicks in

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

274 This might be a taste of the burning times if the strike really ends up putting a crimp into the food-supply-chain.

*goes back to polishing bullets*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 03:11 PM (Q4IgG)

Horde Mind.
I was thinking the same thing this morning.

Then stop the EBT cards.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (ufFY8)

275 Raimondo is no good and this was a bafflingly bad answer, but is it her jurisdiction? Even if it isn't, a better answer would have been along the lines of, "Commerce is preparing to assist the Department of Transportation in any way necessary to ensure supply chain integrity for the United States during this labor dispute."

These people are singularly bad at speaking to the public.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2024 02:42 PM (HnUIn)

The question turned her into a stuttering fool.

Trump could've spoken at length on it.

Kamala would've needed an explainer on what a dock was. "I would suck it."

"No, Ms. Harris. We said dock."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (KbCG3)

276 BTW, the new editor at Stanford's conservative newspaper noted that the average Stanford graduate reads an average of four books while they are at Stanford.

Reading is hard - it's all networking now.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 02:54 PM (uxCna)

....


WOW. I think I averaged 4 books per week at Hillsdale.


OK, maybe not averaged, but some had weeks with that much. So maybe every 2-3 weeks, depending on my class make-up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (N1DT3)

277 This is a sham. Shakedown. "We'll vote and donate if you get us our 77%."

Every union is a Democrat cash register. Cumala's rattlesnake personality just means the price is higher for the commies than usual.



Posted by: Sifty at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (t7AE8)

278 Did they define "books"? Does their definition of "books" count e-books and webnovels, or just dead-tree books?
Posted by: FeatherBlade


Dead-tree books are the only books.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

279 "Perfect setup for him doing something extremely stupid like moving troops into Syria."

Yep.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:17 PM (B0mGw)

280 249 could be true...

"Ahmadinejad was the president of Iran until 2013. He was succeeded by Hassan Rouhani, and his former chief of staff - former intelligence minister Ali Younesi - admitted in an interview in 2022: "The Mossad has infiltrated many government departments in the last 10 years, to such a degree that all the country's top officials should fear for their lives."
Posted by: runner
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Probably easier to penetrate Iran's government for Mossad to get information on Hezblownup and Ham Ass than the organizations themselves. As funders and patrons, the terrorists catspaws probably had to do show and tell to their sponsors for mullah cash.

That thought should make the mullahs and their thugs very nervous.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:17 PM (SI97o)

281 Unions are extortion schemes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:13 PM (v6JzV)


No, but they are cartels to fix prices and availability on labor. And like all successful cartels, they are backed fully by the government.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 03:17 PM (D7oie)

282 This lady must have been busy scrambling for new batteries for her 3hp Husquvarna dildo and missed her onboarding as FUCKIN COMMERCE SECRETARY.
Posted by: Sifty at September 30, 2024 03:09 PM (FI8u7)

Husqvarna makes a dildo?

How did I not know this? The perils of purchasing cheap China knockoffs from Amazon... oh well, those will be drying up soon.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)

283 >>Dead-tree books are the only books.


They are preferable...but a Kindle with a few hundred books on it is ALWAYS in my truck.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (lKYo+)

284 Speaking of, been reading a lot about our country's founding and given the parallels, was wondering if anyone knew of any must-reads on the French Revolution.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (KbCG3)

The documentary "History of the World, Part I."

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (Aqu9a)

285 Did they define "books"? Does their definition of "books" count e-books and webnovels, or just dead-tree books?
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Both.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (SI97o)

286 All the while they are trying to prosecute Musk...

@SawyerMerritt 15h
NEWS: The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is sending SpaceX @Starlink
terminals to help victims of the historic flooding up in North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 03:19 PM (IG4Id)

287 Worthless response to dockers striking

Worthless response to hurricane helene

Gets endorsed by IRS

is it me or do they actually want Trump to win?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at September 30, 2024 03:19 PM (M7vhK)

288 284 Speaking of, been reading a lot about our country's founding and given the parallels, was wondering if anyone knew of any must-reads on the French Revolution.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Start with Edmund Burke--Reflections on the Revolution in France. Cheap enough and Burke was writing contemporaneous with events.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:19 PM (SI97o)

289
If average longshoremen make $20.00 an hour now, then a 77% raise should put them at about $35.00 per hour.

Seems reasonable... for Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:20 PM (RKVpM)

290 190 Words cannot express how insane their demands are.

A 77% increase in pay over 6 years? Literally nobody else in the entire country is getting an increase like that, never mind low-skill idiots that can be replaced with a handful of weeks of training.
Posted by: DudeAbiding

Let's not be too hasty here...these is a brilliant demand. If Harris wins, and inflation stays consistent with the rest of the Biden/Harris administration, 77% over 5 years seems a lot more reasonable.

And, if they don't get it, the nation shuts down right before an election, hurting the incumbent (Harris, as VP), and helping elect Trump, where 77% over 5 years won't be required. Win/win!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 30, 2024 03:20 PM (JCZqz)

291
@SawyerMerritt 15h
NEWS: The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is sending SpaceX @Starlink
terminals to help victims of the historic flooding up in North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 03:19 PM (IG4Id)



Only because Trump already said he was working with Musk to make exactly that happen, showing the Biden Administration their own ass in the process.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

292 No way the Democrat let the dockworkers strike. The event has nothing but downside for their election prospects, so it won't happen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2024 03:20 PM (z4DCN)

293 Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NEW - Hillary Clinton: "The press needs a consistent narrative about the danger that Trump poses."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM

--

The despair I'm hearing in that quotation is quite tasty and filling.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (wzAuc)

294 Naked and Paranoid !
Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (V13WU)



Is that an upcoming show in Discovery?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

295 I genuinely believe that Raimondo actually has no idea what to do. She is clueless.
--------
You take that back! She can attend meetings with the best of them!
Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (Ag3aL)

Reminds me of when Bernie was at some event, and they asked him a question about the difference between equality and equity and he just shrugged his shoulders, basically said he didn't know.

It's all phony. Even the extent to which they spout their marxist drivel, they don't know what the words coming out of their mouths mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (dGCAG)

296
@SawyerMerritt 15h
NEWS: The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is sending SpaceX @Starlink
terminals to help victims of the historic flooding up in North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 03:19 PM


Hopefully, they'll include a box of electricity to go along.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (RKVpM)

297 >>190 Words cannot express how insane their demands are.


I agree. It would take at least 200 words.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (lKYo+)

298 One of Rush Limbaugh's favorite shows of all time was The Wire; he even had its theme song in his bumper rotation. I was too young when it first came out, I finally caught it because he was a fan.

Stellar, stellar drama on the tragedy of liberal policies and how they blight a city.

The second season was one of my faves, which I know is an unpopular opinion. The tragedy of Frank Sabotka, union dockworker leader in Baltimore, selling his soul, and the effect it has on his kids...it was gutting. But it was, from start to finish, as a good of a tragic morality play as anything by Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'neill, Arthur Miller. It goes toe to toe with them.

The tragedy in real life is all of these union dock workers refuse to see how the dems have sold them out, they trusted the wrong horse.

Nerdrotic said it best about unions on one of the recent FNT eps: unions are not designed to help the union grunts get ahead. You stay in and sweat and pay dues till death. Only the bosses get ahead.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (QAK8m)

299 CBS News - East Coast port strike looms for first time since 1977. Here's what to know.

Part,"Negotiations between the union representing dockworkers and a shipping industry group representing terminal operators and ocean carriers have been stalled for months, with both sides issuing conflicting statements about their willingness to bargain.

"A port strike could cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a day, hurting American businesses, workers and consumers across the country," Business Roundtable CEO Joshua Bolten said in a statement this weekend. "We urge both sides to come to an agreement before Monday night's deadline."

The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) has filed an unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board requesting "immediate injunctive relief — requiring the union to resume bargaining — so we can negotiate a deal," the alliance said Thursday.

The NLRB confirmed it had received the unfair labor practice charge, which is being docketed by its regional office in Newark, New Jersey. The charge will appear on the agency's website in the next few days, after which an investigation would begin.

USMX's appeal to the NLRB was derided..." (More)

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (NFX2v)

300 "No way the Democrat let the dockworkers strike. The event has nothing but downside for their election prospects, so it won't happen."

Maybe. Raimondo's response seems to indicate there is no plan. At the very least lie to me. Nothing? That's not very winning.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (B0mGw)

301 Naked and Paranoid !
Posted by: runner


When you're naked, you can see your pair o' noids.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (v6JzV)

302 None of us has ever seen a bunch as *bad* at retail politics as this Biden Harris bunch. Headed for an economy killing crisis in the last 5 weeks of the campaign - and all they say is “who cares, I ain’t gonna do anything about it.” Incredible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (+6sNf)

303 @disclosetv
NEW - Hillary Clinton: "The press needs a consistent narrative about the danger that Trump poses."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM



Your husband gave nuclear tech to North Korea. You gave our Uranium to the Russians.

Who is posing danger again?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

304 300 "No way the Democrat let the dockworkers strike. The event has nothing but downside for their election prospects, so it won't happen."

Maybe. Raimondo's response seems to indicate there is no plan. At the very least lie to me. Nothing? That's not very winning.
Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (B0mGw)

=======

It doesn't take a whole lot of planning to just give into every demand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

305 No way the Democrat let the dockworkers strike. The event has nothing but downside for their election prospects, so it won't happen.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2024 03:20 PM (z4DCN)

Gina, it looks like we'll be living on a prayer, again.

Whoa, we're half way there
Oh-oh, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear
Oh-oh, livin' on a prayer

Posted by: Tommy at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (Aqu9a)

306 Speaking of pet eating, I heard this morning parents in Springfield are being told it may not be safe to let your children ride the bus because of…wait for it….Haitians.

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (p4NUW)

307 How much does the average dock worker make right now? I'm guessing at least $50/hr, probably more, plus nice benefits and vacations and overtime.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 30, 2024 03:23 PM (Cus5s)

308 BTW I don't think 77% wage increase over 6 years is very unreasonable. That will not even keep up with Bidenflation. Oh they may be sitting pretty if Trump beats the cheat and is able to halve inflation; but their buying power has been drastically cut from 4 years of Bidenomics.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024 03:23 PM (UKUm3)

309 Some of the longshoremen make $200k per year. Don't know what the actual pay scale/distribution is. Apparently there are many levels and types of jobs.

My only experience with this is Season 2(?) of The Wire.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:23 PM (ufFY8)

310 288 284 Speaking of, been reading a lot about our country's founding and given the parallels, was wondering if anyone knew of any must-reads on the French Revolution.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

=======
Start with Edmund Burke--Reflections on the Revolution in France. Cheap enough and Burke was writing contemporaneous with events.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:19 PM (SI97o)

Excellent. Thank you.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:23 PM (KbCG3)

311 We will make sure the dock workers achieve their dreams and aspirations holistically.

Posted by: Kamalama Ding Dong at September 30, 2024 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

312 301 Naked and Paranoid !
Posted by: runner


When you're naked, you can see your pair o' noids.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:22 PM (v6JzV)

Yeah, about that.....

Posted by: 'Krispie-Cream" Christie at September 30, 2024 03:24 PM (LxER7)

313 182 Has to be one of the worst cabinets in history.

=======

Yeah, but turnover is low.

So, it's not chaotic.

So, it's good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at September 30, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
And the doors don't match up.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2024 03:24 PM (LHPAg)

314 Some of the longshoremen make $200k per year. Don't know what the actual pay scale/distribution is. Apparently there are many levels and types of jobs.

My only experience with this is Season 2(?) of The Wire.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:23 PM



Go stay at a Holliday Inn Express tonight. You'll be better apt to speak on it tomorrow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

315 and helping elect Trump, where 77% over 5 years won't be required. Win/win!

*********

I bet the dockers know this too and are acting accordingly

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at September 30, 2024 03:24 PM (M7vhK)

316 LOL. I actually think the longshoreman have a legit grievance. Inflation has been 50% over the past 4 years. Why not.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:24 PM (+H2BX)

317 The second season was one of my faves, which I know is an unpopular opinion. The tragedy of Frank Sabotka, union dockworker leader in Baltimore, selling his soul, and the effect it has on his kids...it was gutting. But it was, from start to finish, as a good of a tragic morality play as anything by Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'neill, Arthur Miller. It goes toe to toe with them.

The tragedy in real life is all of these union dock workers refuse to see how the dems have sold them out, they trusted the wrong horse.

Nerdrotic said it best about unions on one of the recent FNT eps: unions are not designed to help the union grunts get ahead. You stay in and sweat and pay dues till death. Only the bosses get ahead.
Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (QAK8m)

I too liked the second season. You're being generous that that's an unpopular opinion, haha.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (KbCG3)

318 If you think food is expensive now, wait until the cities experience shortages.

--

Aw, ace. You paint the prettiest word pictures.

Posted by: Rural conservatives in the Southeast, reading AoSHQ by candlelight at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (wzAuc)

319 Raimondo, Granholm, Mayorkas, Bootyjudge, Becerra, Cardona, Garland, Austin, Bilken, Yellen off the top of my head - I mean it's like a who's who of incompetence
Posted by: jhawk90 at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (ggOdn)

I'd say you have a plethora of incompetents right there.

Posted by: El Guapo at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (Aqu9a)

320 Nerdrotic said it best about unions on one of the recent FNT eps: unions are not designed to help the union grunts get ahead. You stay in and sweat and pay dues till death. Only the bosses get ahead.
Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (QAK8m)

That's not true. I'm sure made men who have nothing to do with the union or the industry in question, get a cut.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (dGCAG)

321 How much does the average dock worker make right now? I'm guessing at least $50/hr, probably more, plus nice benefits and vacations and overtime.
Posted by: illiniwek
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$125k - $200k plus per year includes O/T. Not sure who is auditing said O/T.

Posted by: scampydog at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (2bFN5)

322 Husqvarna makes a dildo?

How did I not know this? The perils of purchasing cheap China knockoffs from Amazon... oh well, those will be drying up soon.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)

Begun, the Stihl vs Husqvarna war has.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (VGRuw)

323 Longshoremen do make good money. But they are ridiculously productive and efficient.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:26 PM (+H2BX)

324 Speaking of, been reading a lot about our country's founding and given the parallels, was wondering if anyone knew of any must-reads on the French Revolution.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:14 PM (KbCG3)


Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast, episode 3.1 to episode 3.55
(episode 4.1 to 4.19 is on Haiti)
Good synthesis on available information, not a lot of non-orthodox speculation since he is doing a popularization and not new research

He has presence on Apple, Youtube but he also has Libsyn

https://revolutionspodcast.libsyn.com/

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 03:26 PM (D7oie)

325 I bet the McCulloch dildo has more oomph.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:26 PM (+H2BX)

326 $125k - $200k plus per year includes O/T. Not sure who is auditing said O/T.
Posted by: scampydog


That's 2001 numbers. Crane ops are probably close to $400k

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2024 03:26 PM (IG4Id)

327 >>Longshoremen do make good money. But they are ridiculously productive and efficient.


No Union, EVER, has been Productive OR Efficient.

None.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:27 PM (lKYo+)

328 309 Some of the longshoremen make $200k per year. Don't know what the actual pay scale/distribution is. Apparently there are many levels and types of jobs.

My only experience with this is Season 2(?) of The Wire.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:23 PM

--

I imagine Lee J. Cobb and his happy little mob in "On the Waterfront."

Posted by: Rural conservatives in the Southeast, reading AoSHQ by candlelight at September 30, 2024 03:27 PM (wzAuc)

329 Does anyone the make and model of CBD's, uh, D?

Posted by: I don't want to know, I'm just asking at September 30, 2024 03:27 PM (PiwSw)

330 The "Anatomy of Revolution" by Crane Briton compares the French, Russian, American, English (Glorious) revolutions.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:28 PM (+H2BX)

331 Raimondo, Granholm, Mayorkas, Bootyjudge, Becerra, Cardona, Garland, Austin, Bilken, Yellen off the top of my head - I mean it's like a who's who of incompetence
Posted by: jhawk90

They look like America and that’s what's important.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:28 PM (L/fGl)

332 No Union, EVER, has been Productive OR Efficient.

None.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:27 PM (lKYo+)



A very hard statement to argue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

333 Husqvarna makes a dildo?

A double headed man o war.
It's a two-stroke.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (V3Ryg)

334 "No Union, EVER, has been Productive OR Efficient.

None.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:27 PM (lKYo+)"

LOL. I don't care.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (+H2BX)

335 From X, a half-hour ago:

It is roughly 10:00pm in Israel, and the Invasion of Southern Lebanon has begun.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (uxCna)

336 Humor me. The strike creates mass shortages of food. That creates panic. That allows an election delay or extraordinary changes to the voting process i.e. an “emergency”

.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (ieceu)

337 Is that an upcoming show in Discovery?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Disney...

Posted by: runner at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (V13WU)

338 >>> I too liked the second season. You're being generous that that's an unpopular opinion, haha.

Well, Central Scrutinizer, now that I think about it, I was frequenting liberal chatboards at the time I watched it. The average liberal opinion seemed to be it was the worst because--and I know this blatant racism will shock you--it was too white of a season, all about boring white men. They wanted to get back to the other characters.

But I liked it nonetheless. Glad to hear you and Ian liked the second season too!

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:30 PM (QAK8m)

339 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Not only about the French Revolution , but writer Crane Brinton compared the French Revolution to the English one under Cromwell and to, the American. French and the Russian Revolution. It's probably a book from the late 30's to 40's

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2024 03:30 PM (MQJVv)

340 Please do not hold this against the Junta.
This is what they call "Bad Luck".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 30, 2024 03:30 PM (/lPRQ)

341 Speaking of pet eating, I heard this morning parents in Springfield are being told it may not be safe to let your children ride the bus because of…wait for it….Haitians.
Posted by: Piper
.......

So when do they change their name to New Port-Au-Prince?

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

342 Husqvarna Dildos: We'll shake your fillings out and scare the cats.
9/10 Commerce Administrative Assistants Agree

Posted by: Sifty at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (YUm6j)

343 Raimondo, Granholm, Mayorkas, Bootyjudge, Becerra, Cardona, Garland, Austin, Bilken, Yellen off the top of my head - I mean it's like a who's who of incompetence
Posted by: jhawk90 at September 30, 2024 03:16 PM (ggOdn)

I'd say you have a plethora of incompetents right there.
Posted by: El Guapo at September 30, 2024 03:25 PM (Aqu9a)


Hey!
You need to stop using words they won't understand.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (W/lyH)

344 It's not like they are big guys carrying cargo manually anymore. How much do Caterpillar drivers (the big caterpillars) make?

It is skilled labor.

LOL. Buy more rice and beans. And spices.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (+H2BX)

345 It is roughly 10:00pm in Israel, and the Invasion of Southern Lebanon has begun.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

The Jews ignored Biden?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (L/fGl)

346 "The strike creates mass shortages of food. That creates panic. That allows an election delay or extraordinary changes to the voting process i.e. an “emergency”"

War is easier and cheaper.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (B0mGw)

347 Nerdrotic said it best about unions on one of the recent FNT eps: unions are not designed to help the union grunts get ahead. You stay in and sweat and pay dues till death. Only the bosses get ahead.
Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:21 PM (QAK8m)
Just like many black folk. They never catch on that their 'leaders' are selling them downriver to politicians.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (LHPAg)

348 Unions are illegal combinations in restraint of trade and needed laws passed in order to create them.

This can be undone.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 03:31 PM (5p7su)

349 338 >>> I too liked the second season. You're being generous that that's an unpopular opinion, haha.

Well, Central Scrutinizer, now that I think about it, I was frequenting liberal chatboards at the time I watched it. The average liberal opinion seemed to be it was the worst because--and I know this blatant racism will shock you--it was too white of a season, all about boring white men. They wanted to get back to the other characters.

But I liked it nonetheless. Glad to hear you and Ian liked the second season too!
Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:30 PM (QAK8m)

The inner city stuff was more entertaining. But if season 2 was a standalone show, people would've loved it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (KbCG3)

350 You don't think they are dumb enough to think that this catalyst could be used to give weight to the idiots' "Price Control" philosophy do you?

I mean, Kamala is dumb enough, sure. But, there has to be an advisor in there that knows how to tie his shoes.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (dIske)

351 Husqvarna makes a dildo?
How did I not know this? The perils of purchasing cheap China knockoffs from Amazon... oh well, those will be drying up soon.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)


Husqvarna doesn't sell a dildo. It is marketed under the Viking brand. (It is an up-engineered Elna, by the way)

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (D7oie)

352 292 No way the Democrat let the dockworkers strike. The event has nothing but downside for their election prospects, so it won't happen.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
======
You do not have a prezzie but a junta and each of the junta members have different objectives. Biden himself is refusing to be tagged with anti labor. Kamel Toe is terrified of anything resembling governance, the foreign policy junta types are mourning their Hezblowup and Ham Ass friends, the China grubbers are less influential on the East Coast ILA, and so on.

That is ultimately why a depraved and debased aristocracy (claiming it is a meritocracy) is the worst of all forms of governance according to Aristotle and history. Countries with this situation in the past either descend into revolution that shreds the remnants of the Constitutional Republic or they get a despot. Easier to satisfy one El Supremo leader than a multitude of petty tyrants like we have today.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (SI97o)

353 This is a sham. Shakedown. "We'll vote and donate if you get us our 77%."

Every union is a Democrat cash register. Cumala's rattlesnake personality just means the price is higher for the commies than usual.

Posted by: Sifty


Thingnis, Kamala can't negotiate shit. Joe has to. And he's pissed he got an official bluebell labeled shiv in his back. He's not helping Kamala. Already said so.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (sDO9P)

354
IDF troops invade Lebanon, according to foreign reports
IDF soldiers enter southern Lebanon in a ground offensive for the first time since 2006 following a series of escalations with Iran-backed Hezbollah.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 22:06
Updated: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 22:10

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (5p7su)

355
Let's not be too hasty here...these is a brilliant demand. If Harris wins, and inflation stays consistent with the rest of the Biden/Harris administration, 77% over 5 years seems a lot more reasonable.

And, if they don't get it, the nation shuts down right before an election, hurting the incumbent (Harris, as VP), and helping elect Trump, where 77% over 5 years won't be required. Win/win!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 30, 2024 03:20 PM (JCZqz

Did I just hear a starters pistol on the rush to stockpile toilet paper again?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (uBBbP)

356 And he's pissed he got an official bluebell labeled shiv in his back. He's not helping Kamala.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (sDO9P)

He should be proud.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (i24o9)

357 Husqvarna makes a dildo?

How did I not know this? The perils of purchasing cheap China knockoffs from Amazon... oh well, those will be drying up soon.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)
***

A woman using a dildo isn't a big deal. But you might want to avoid the women who's dildo has a kick starter.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (W/lyH)

358 People are under the impression that this strike was purposefully planned for its timing re:political shenanigans.

No.

This is the end of a six year contract.

The timing is more coincidental than purposeful.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (ufFY8)

359 335 From X, a half-hour ago:

It is roughly 10:00pm in Israel, and the Invasion of Southern Lebanon has begun.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (uxCna)

Good!!!! Israel has finally quit pussyfooting around, trying to make the west happy, playing at endless and pointless “negotiations”. Invade Now! Hezbollah has no leadership, what’s left is just an angry armed mob with no command and control. No match for any organized military.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (+6sNf)

360 Not only about the French Revolution , but writer Crane Brinton compared the French Revolution to the English one under Cromwell and to, the American. French and the Russian Revolution. It's probably a book from the late 30's to 40's
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2024 03:30 PM (MQJVv)


Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast (noted above) also does this, and goes onto other revolutions.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (D7oie)

361 No way the Democrat let the dockworkers strike. The event has nothing but downside for their election prospects, so it won't happen.

I say Joe lets them strike and reminds us that ports are our border, too, and sends Kamala down to the docks.

Posted by: t-bird at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (ueHpO)

362 The Haitians are into voodoo and eat people too.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (+H2BX)

363 Never got how a union is a company inside a company. I only way I ever see them.

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

364
Thingnis, Kamala can't negotiate shit. Joe has to. And he's pissed he got an official bluebell labeled shiv in his back. He's not helping Kamala. Already said so.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (sDO9P)



And meanwhile, the country gets f*cked because of it.

How nice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

365 Speaking of pet eating, I heard this morning parents in Springfield are being told it may not be safe to let your children ride the bus because of…wait for it….Haitians.
Posted by: Piper

Haiti Demands Reparations

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (L/fGl)

366 > NEW - Hillary Clinton: "The press needs a consistent narrative about the danger that Trump poses."
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No shit. She's the one in danger tho'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (Q4IgG)

367 During WWII, at a base my dad was stationed at, a supply train arrived with boxcars packed to the gills with various and sundry supplies. Each squad? platoon? was assigned a boxcar to unload and 48 hours to unload it in. If you finished early, the remaining time was your own. My dad's sergeant had been a longshoreman in civilian life and directed them in unloading in the most efficient way. They were done in half a day. There were some guys who were still unloading at the 48-hour mark.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (VdhcA)

368 Incompetent fucks and retarded political hacks top to bottom

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (4oXVn)

369 Vengeance at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (ieceu)

Hmm. no chance that could backfire bigtime on the commiecrats /sarc

I think if the folks that get EBT cards can't find their usual items at Tar-jay or Wallys they may turn on the Ds and those artisan bakery bread, ivory tower, Ds will be scared witless.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (UKUm3)

370 >>> I imagine Lee J. Cobb and his happy little mob in "On the Waterfront."

Love that movie too. Are there any honest, like actually honest, movies about unions where they aren't totally corrupt? I think corruption is baked in the cake from day 1.

I never saw Norma Rae, it felt like union propaganda, though I love Sally Field. Maybe a movie about the Triangle Factory fire scandal could be possible, if any good ones were made.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (QAK8m)

371 "The strike creates mass shortages of food. That creates panic. That allows an election delay or extraordinary changes to the voting process i.e. an “emergency”"

War is easier and cheaper.
Posted by: Ribbed

Only food really hurt is Olive oil and prosciutto. Any Chinese/Asian food comes through Kalifornia.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (sDO9P)

372 I bet the McCulloch dildo has more oomph.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:26 PM (+H2BX)

Let's replace Mrs. Flagel's MCulloch dildo with a store brand dildo... and see if she notices.....

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (dGCAG)

373 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE LONGSHOREMAN WILL WIN AND STILL FOR TRUMP.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (+H2BX)

374
Raimondo looks like the HR clerk who types out your separation papers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (y9nCu)

375 Report: US says limited Israeli operations in Lebanon have begun
Lebanese military evacuates 5 km from the Israel-Lebanon border in expectation of Israeli ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Israel National News
Israel National News
Sep 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM (GMT+3)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (5p7su)

376 >>Never got how a union is a company inside a company. I only way I ever see them.


They are more insidious than that as they aren't subject to most of the Policys and Rules that govern actual Corporations.

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:35 PM (lKYo+)

377 Not only about the French Revolution , but writer Crane Brinton compared the French Revolution to the English one under Cromwell and to, the American. French and the Russian Revolution. It's probably a book from the late 30's to 40's
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
========
He wrote an interesting book (you can still find some copies via Ebay) but his comparisons naturally lacked the granularity of books that studied only the French Revolution (or the American, the English Civil War which really was not a Revolution until 1688, and so on. )

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:36 PM (SI97o)

378 It is roughly 10:00pm in Israel, and the Invasion of Southern Lebanon has begun.
Posted by: The ARC of History!


10:36 pm in Tel Aviv.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 03:36 PM (sDO9P)

379 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:

"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

https://tinyurl.com/mr2tzmez

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 30, 2024 03:36 PM (paSBy)

380 379 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:

"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."


This sounds big

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2024 03:37 PM (IyPmt)

381 How is that Simon Schama book on the French Rev?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:37 PM (v6JzV)

382
The strike creates mass shortages of food. That creates panic. That allows an election delay or extraordinary changes to the voting process i.e. an “emergency”

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM


Those dockworkers aren't unloading containers of USA beef. Just fruits and vegetables from central America. So 'vegans' will be disproportionately effected.

Sucks to be them. I think Bob Marley mentioned this in his lyrics once about 'a hungry mob of vegans is an angry mob.'

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:37 PM (RKVpM)

383 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:

"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

https://tinyurl.com/mr2tzmez
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 30, 2024 03:36 PM (paSBy)
====

The Islamic fascists in Tehran are sweating in their bunkers right now.

Today is a good day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2024 03:37 PM (5p7su)

384 I didn't like the second season first time I saw it, because it was such a change from the first. It was jarring. But then, I got the structure.

Season 1 - The Wire
Season 2 - The Docks
Season 3 - The Schools(?)
Season 4 - The Bodies in the Blockhouses(?)
Season 5 - The Newspaper

Great series.

David Simon is a libtarded douchebag, but he can sure write.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:38 PM (ufFY8)

385 John Adams, who had both familiarity with the British and French situations at the time, spoke these words at a government meeting in Jan. 16, 1793,

At a meeting of the board for the sinking fund, in a conversation after business was over, Mr. Adams declared that ‘men could never be governed but by force’ that neither virtue prudence, wisdom nor any thing else sufficed to restrain their passions. That the first National convention of France had established a constitution, had excluded themselves from it’s administration for certain time, a new set of successors had come, had demolished their constitution, put to death all the leading characters concerned in making it, were now proceeding to make a new constitution, and to exclude themselves for 6 years from it’s administration. That their successors would in their turn demolish, hang them, and make a new constitution, and so on eternally till force could be brought into place to restrain them.

Thomas Jefferson recorded what Adams said, as Sec. of State. Probably gritting his teeth as Tom had a part in drafting the French Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2024 03:39 PM (SI97o)

386 A woman using a dildo isn't a big deal. But you might want to avoid the women who's dildo has a kick starter.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM (W/lyH)

You gotta wonder, all those wamminz voting for Cummala, because of abortion, how many of them use two-stroke gas powered dildos, and do they know what happens when the Democrats make everything electric.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 30, 2024 03:39 PM (dGCAG)

387 325 I bet the McCulloch dildo has more oomph.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:26 PM (+H2BX)

Eh, they're more of a consumer brand, not used by professionals.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 30, 2024 03:39 PM (VGRuw)

388 I was supposed to read "The Anatomy of Revolution" back in the Summer of 71, in preparation for AP US History. Yikes. The vocabulary.

Fast forward 45 years. I bought it and read it. Easy peasy. Apparently, my older self vocab is just fine.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:39 PM (+H2BX)

389 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:

"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

-
Cry havoc! And let slip the genies of war!5 t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 30, 2024 03:40 PM (L/fGl)

390 I screwed up. I lent the book out and forgot who I lent it too. Oh well.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:40 PM (+H2BX)

391 The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.
_______________

Then again, maybe they are.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 30, 2024 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

392 379 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:

"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

This sounds big
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

Kirby and Blinken are gonna be so upset.

Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 03:40 PM (v0R5T)

393 From X, a half-hour ago:

It is roughly 10:00pm in Israel, and the Invasion of Southern Lebanon has begun.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2024 03:29 PM (uxCna)

Good!!!! Israel has finally quit pussyfooting around, trying to make the west happy, playing at endless and pointless “negotiations”. Invade Now! Hezbollah has no leadership, what’s left is just an angry armed mob with no command and control. No match for any organized military.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 03:33 PM

--

Especially with genies.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (jOYm0)

394 Lots of Black Swans are coming home to roost...suddenly

Posted by: Pete Seria at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (jyd01)

395 >>> "Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

Miniskirts and free flowing hair for all the wimmens again!

It was made by and out and out socialist, but Persepolis was a good graphic novel about a girl's perspective on the Iranian revolution. Diary of Anne Frank meets Maus, but she survives and escapes. Though the real author, who lived through this and is telling her story as a sorta memoir, didn't get how socialism is just as poisonous.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (QAK8m)

396 I imagine millions of Arabs are delighted today.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (+H2BX)

397 If this isn't settled quickly, I predict a sizable drop in the rabbit population that has been going unchecked in my neighborhood.

Posted by: Rex B at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (592Pr)

398 Out: Longshoremen
IN: Shortshoremen

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (PWI4f)

399 389 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:
"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

Iran is only successful to the extent we allow them to be successful. Part of the problem with demonizing Israel, is they have nothing left to lose.

Posted by: El Mariachi at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (nLFEI)

400 Imagine. You are now competing with millions of illegal immigrants for food.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM (ieceu)

401 Sucks to be them. I think Bob Marley mentioned this in his lyrics once about 'a hungry mob of vegans is an angry mob.'

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:37 PM


But since it's a mob of vegans, it's most likely an unarmed mob.

Rotate selector switches to "pew" and watch your lane.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM (ZANHd)

402 I was supposed to read "The Anatomy of Revolution" back in the Summer of 71, in preparation for AP US History. Yikes. The vocabulary.
Posted by: no one of any consequence


Did it use "dilligrout?" "Qiviut?" "Absquatulate?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM (v6JzV)

403 398 Out: Longshoremen
IN: Shortshoremen
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (PWI4f)


Tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: The Lollipop Guild at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM (PiwSw)

404 Out: Longshoremen
IN: Shortshoremen
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 30, 2024 03:41 PM (PWI4f)
-----------
Movie starring Peter Dinklage.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM (VdhcA)

405 382
Sucks to be them. I think Bob Marley mentioned this in his lyrics once about 'a hungry mob of vegans is an angry mob.'

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:37 PM (RKVpM)

What are they going to do? Throw themselves down on the ground kicking and screaming because they can't get their bananas or cucumbers?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM (N39Ws)

406 From my own reading on revolutions and civil wars, I believe the English Civil Wars of the 1640’s and the Spanish Civil War of the 1930’s are of one type, where a powerful military with what we now call very conservative values eventually asserted control over the old aristocracy and all other groups. The Russian and French Revolutions are ones where true mob rule ran riot and existing military forces sat out, for the most part, resulting in the imposition of truly radical regimes. The US conflict of the 1860’s really wasn’t like either of these, it was a separatist movement by one region attempting to escape dominance by another.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 03:43 PM (+6sNf)

407 Icebergs? I have not been real focused on that.

Posted by: Capt. Edward Smith at September 30, 2024 03:43 PM (GCKiK)

408 Getting invaded by an army of Barbara Eden clones is something I could get behind.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:43 PM (v6JzV)

409 Only food really hurt is Olive oil and prosciutto. Any Chinese/Asian food comes through Kalifornia.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 30, 2024 03:34 PM (sDO9P)
__________________

Apparently the West Coast longshoremen will not unload ships if the East Coast and Gulf Coast longshoremen go on strike.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 30, 2024 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

410 Netanyahu issues message to Iranians:

"Israel stands with you, you’ll be free sooner than people think."

This sounds big
Posted by: It's me donna
.......

Kirby and Blinken are gonna be so upset.
Posted by: wth at September 30, 2024 03:40 PM


Nice Islamic republic you have there...shame if something was to happen to it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2024 03:44 PM (ZANHd)

411 4 "No Union, EVER, has been Productive OR Efficient.

None.
Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:27 PM (lKYo+)"

Agree. I'm hoping the dems and the unions get burnt bad by this strike. Fuck 'em both.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at September 30, 2024 03:44 PM (g8Ew8)

412 Dockworkers strike to prevent automations - doesn't that just encourage automations? I mean, if I automate, i don't have to listen to the union, now do I?

Posted by: El Mariachi at September 30, 2024 03:45 PM (nLFEI)

413 nood

Posted by: Halfhand at September 30, 2024 03:45 PM (x/nfO)

414 The longshoreman's strike is Trump's fault. Now that we have that out of the way we can continue.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at September 30, 2024 03:45 PM (LrWnf)

415 "Did it use "dilligrout?" "Qiviut?" "Absquatulate?""

Nope.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 30, 2024 03:45 PM (+H2BX)

416 Did it use "dilligrout?" "Qiviut?" "Absquatulate?"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 30, 2024 03:42 PM


Blast your eyes!

Posted by: Samuel Johnson at September 30, 2024 03:46 PM (ZANHd)

417
Season 4 - The Bodies in the Blockhouses (City Hall)
Season 5 - The Newspaper

Great series.

David Simon is a libtarded douchebag, but he can sure write.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 30, 2024 03:38 PM (ufFY


He supposedly wanted to write an indictment of the drug war, but unintentionally wrote the greatest indictment of Democrat Party government ever broadcast.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2024 03:46 PM (y9nCu)

418 Did I just hear a starters pistol on the rush to stockpile toilet paper again?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 30, 2024 03:32 PM (uBBbP)

Shirley we don't import tp?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2024 03:47 PM (LxER7)

419
I don't know what the proper term is for a quantity of vegans in one place... a 'scrawn' of vegans?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2024 03:47 PM (RKVpM)

420 "One of Rush Limbaugh's favorite shows of all time was The Wire;

Best multi-season drama ever with best ensamble cast ever. Created by a former homicide cop and the guy who ran the city desk at the Baltimore Sun, so they knew their material.

The star is the City of Baltimore. The games the game, yo!

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 30, 2024 03:48 PM (nFx0I)

421 @381 Schama's French Revolution book is good. A lot of little things I didn't know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2024 03:48 PM (RTfY1)

422 The US conflict of the 1860’s really wasn’t like either of these, it was a separatist movement by one region attempting to escape dominance by another.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2024 03:43 PM (+6sNf)

.. while asserting dominance over a class within its own region.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 30, 2024 03:49 PM (/lPRQ)

423 Got home but have to get gas to get to work tomorrow.
Mentioned other day for first time I know Pennsylvania gas is cheaper than Delaware.

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2024 03:50 PM (fwDg9)

424 >>What are they going to do? Throw themselves down on the ground kicking and screaming because they can't get their bananas or cucumbers?


The Country just barely survived the Great Avocado Shortage that Trump caused...

Posted by: garrett at September 30, 2024 03:50 PM (lKYo+)

425 They want this to happen. There will be "Price Gouging" due to the inevitable shortages and it will put emphasis on SWMBO's campaign issue.

Posted by: Shredder at September 30, 2024 03:55 PM (YU7qb)

426
Those Teamsters better make an exception for those yummy LOW CARB "KETO" brand ice cream bars at Sam's Club.

Otherwise, I just may have to go warlord and conquer the local Sam's Club and perform a 'mutual' merger.

Posted by: Sapwolf at September 30, 2024 04:22 PM (arJ9M)

427 “The Democrat-Media Party isn't sending their best.“

What if they ARE?

Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at September 30, 2024 04:29 PM (sJSth)

428 I used to be a truck driver that ran the LA ports. If every single longshoreman were to be replaced by a robot tomorrow, America would be much better off. A bunch of useless incompetent morons who couldn't find their buttocks with both hands and a search and rescue team, but they make a million dollars a month and can't be fired ever.

Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Prisoner of Cats at September 30, 2024 07:43 PM (vOwFz)

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