I got word from my cousin, who is a longshoreman. On October 1st, longshoremen will be shutting down all East Coast ports from Texas to Maine. Nothing will be offloaded from the ships coming into these ports.
While some goods may trickle in from the West Coast, you can expect prices of those goods to double, possibly triple.
The rising cost of goods will be blamed on the Biden/Harris regime. This could propel Trump even further. My cousin believes that this strike could last a month or more because no one is budging.
Stay safe frens.
Did Democrats care when they fucked the country in 2019-2020? No? Why should we care if liberals starve? We've been telling mother fuckers for YEARS to stock up, to be prepared.
Besides, something like this will show people we need to start producing our own shit again.
We should care if anyone starves, no matter if they're liberals or not. Because we aren't horrible people. You realize that those starving people you don't care about includes children, right? They have no control over what their parents do.
And it's not only liberal families that will suffer. You can tell people over and over to stock up, but if they're struggling to put food on the table as it is, how are they going to stock up?
There are plenty of people right here, in this forum, who have been struggling since the pandemic. Some even before that.
Canned food is cheap, dude. Planting tomatoes is cheap, and they grow fairly fast. It may not be luxury food, but you do what you have to do to survive. Do you think I like squash? Hell no, but I have squash growing for a rainy day, too.
The pandemic taught me a lot of things; I was so unprepared when that happened, and I refuse to be unprepared this time around.
What might seem cheap to you is unaffordable for others.
Not everyone has the ability to garden.
I've noticed that when a person feels like they are well prepared to get through hard times, that they have much less empathy for others.
We saw that during the pandemic. Plenty of Anons have been preppers for decades, so they thought that they would get by just fine.
But then they discovered that there were shortages they hadn't planned on. One of the biggest during the pandemic was medication. Know any diabetics or people with high blood pressure? Anyone on dialysis? Asthma?
It's rare that people are able to stockpile maintenance medications. Either their insurance won't cover more than a one month supply at a time, or their doctors won't approve enough refills at one time.
You can grow tomatoes from a tomato you get at a store; it's 50 cents for a tomato. Harvest the seeds and grow your own... I have empathy for children, just not grown-ass liberals who bring this upon themselves.
Everyone can garden, You don't need acres to do it... just a little 1 x 1 square area... heck, if you don't have that, just get some soil, and a pot.
As much as I hate the idea of people needing medicine, perhaps it's time for us to stop purchasing it from overseas and make it ourselves. We have become a lazy country, and globalization has made us weak.
Just based on observation....
...not many will be starving anytime soon ;p
Why should we care if human beings starve.
Remember when liberals didn't consider conservatives humans? pepperridge farm remembers. You're sounding mighty liberal there my friend.
Pepe's Fam remembers
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I'm liberal bc I don't want to see a majority suffer for the benefit of a few who have it good already? I don't give a fuck what anyone would consider me. Why would i
Do you know what the average longshoreman makes a year for the job they do?
50k... that is not a well-paying job, not for the dangerous shit they have to put up with.
Did you approve of what the Democrats did in 2019-2020? If not, why are you using them as a measuring stick to compare yourself to?
Are you happy to be as despicable as they are, or do you hold yourself to higher standards?
If the pandemic and all the fallout afterwards with the supply chain didn't convince people that we needed to increase our own production, why would a labor strike do it?
Good question - No, I didn't approve of them hating on conservatives back then, but back then, I cared about people...Do you think if the shoe was on the other foot, they would have come here and let everyone know that a strike was coming? Hell no. If that is despicable, then so be it.
As for the other one - the longshoremen WERE STILL WORKING DURING THE PANDEMIC. Things may have been unloaded slower, but they were still being unloaded. A full-scale shutdown of all ports will have a much greater effect than that of a pandemic where tens of thousands of longshoremen were still working. You're talking about not one container being unloaded at all.
If that doesn't show people we need to start increasing our own production, then nothing will...
So you no longer care about people? That's sad.
Longshoremen working during the pandemic didn't erase the fact that other countries weren't producing or shipping nearly as much as they usually did. There were still shortages. Shortages that lasted for well over a year after the pandemic ended.
You're like Charlie Brown, thinking that this time Lucy won't pull the football away when you go to kick it. This time will be different.
I care about my family and other conservatives... liberals have proven time and time again they're the enemy. I'm not Christ; I'm not going to pretend to "love a neighbor" who hates my guts because I identify as Republican.
When you drop from unloading 30-50 containers an hour down to 10-15, then things slow down... what do you think will happen when that number drops to 0 an hour?