Portland had a busy port.
But in 2015 there were labor disputes and stuff backed up.
Hanjin and Hapag-Lloyd then said fuck it and went elsewhere, they accounted for about 85% of the traffic.
No big deal.

^^ Didn't Portland have a lot of worn-out equipment and a hostile, er, "environmentalist" state/local government as well?

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^^ Didn't Portland have a lot of worn-out equipment and a hostile, er, "environmentalist" state/local government as well?

As far as the equipment I don't know.
They are still hostile.
The environmental shit is no joke.
One shop I did some work at was down there, they would test the puddles in the parking lot and fine you for contamination.
Had to use Dawn in a garden sprayer if there was any rainbows in the parking lot.
If a splotch of oil hit the dirt you had to dig it up right now.
It was a huge pain in the ass.

Censorship at its best, I guess new are outsourcing our censorship to Chinese companies now?

TikTok rapper says his account was frozen for 'bullying' after 'Let's go Brandon' video went viral

CTH

https://theconservativetreehou...lp-here/#more-218447

The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards. As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. Operating the port 24/7 will not cure the issue, because all it does is pile up more containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up. THIS is the central issue.

On October 16, 2020, the EPA reached a settlement agreement [DATA HERE] with California Air Resource Board (CARB) to shut down semi tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards:

2020 SAN FRANCISCO – “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements with three interstate trucking companies imposing $417,000 in penalties for violating the California Air Resources Board’s federally enforceable Truck and Bus Regulation, Drayage Truck Regulation and Transport Refrigeration Unit Regulation.

“As trucks are one of the largest sources of air pollution in California, EPA will continue to ensure these heavy-duty vehicles have the needed pollution-control equipment and operate in compliance with the rules,” said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator John Busterud. “These companies have agreed to bring their trucks into compliance and operate more cleanly in all communities they serve.”


Transportation is a primary contributor to the high levels of air pollutants in Southern California and the Central Valley. Diesel emissions from trucks are one of the state’s largest sources of fine particle pollution, or soot, which is linked to health issues including asthma, impaired lung development in children, and cardiovascular effects in adults. Many of these trucks are older models and emit high amounts of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).

In effect, what this 2020 determination and settlement created was an inability of half the nation’s truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port of Long Beach. Virtually all private owner operator trucks and half of the fleet trucks that are used for moving containers across the nation were shut out.

In an effort to offset the problem, transportation companies started using compliant trucks (low emission) to take the products to the California state line, where they could be transferred to non-compliant trucks who cannot enter California. However, the scale of the problem creates an immediate bottleneck that builds over time. It doesn’t matter if the ports start working 24/7, they are only going to end up with even more containers waiting on a limited amount of available trucks.

more at link

Joe Biden’s Misplaced Anger At Unvaccinated Americans

Joe Biden is losing his patience with us. He’s a caring dictator and would never force us to do anything he didn’t believe was in our best interest. So, when millions of Americans refuse his benevolence, well, that ticks him off a little. He’s promised that soon he’s going to be really mad and we had better watch out. “I don’t quite get this,” quoth he. He’s offering us salvation but we choose not to accept it. How could we be so stupid and ungrateful?

It’s a little disconcerting to think that the equivalent of a spoiled, angry, and somewhat addled teenager, is ostensibly running what is still the most powerful country in the world despite his best efforts to diminish it. The “president” apparently sees Americans as adversaries to be bent to his will. Only when all citizens are cowed into following his every whim, will things be well in the United States of Biden.

So, what is Joe so angry about?

He’s a little peeved about the pesky climate and its nasty habit of being variable. Much like fellow traveler Greta Thunberg, he wants the United States to pay a stipend to the rest of the world as punishment for our success. It would be nice if Joe. Greta, and their comrades could decide which way they want the climate to go in their perfect world before they start taxing Americans to death.

Yesterday they wanted it hotter and today they want it cooler. They tell us climate change is an existential threat but if there has ever been anything consistent about the climate, it would be its inconsistency. We had better find a way to make the world tepid and keep it that way before they drive the US economy off a cliff.
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What Joe’s most angry about, however, is the COVID vaccine. He believes that the vaccine has become politicized and, because the White House is demanding that every last man, woman, and child get vaccinated (except the millions of illegal aliens who are pouring across the border), you pretty much have to agree with him. Since he doesn’t “quite get this,” it behooves us to try and explain.

The vaccine was rushed out of the laboratory in record time. It was only through an “emergency use authorization” that it was made available to millions of Americans. It is a new kind of vaccine that has not been thoroughly evaluated for possibly harmful side effects.

The President said recently of the unvaccinated, “The vaccine has FDA approval. Over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot. We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”

This speech has given new meaning to the phrase “bully pulpit,” but as Ronald Reagan once said of the left, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Let’s start with FDA approval.

The average FDA approval time for any new drug is 12 years. The roughly 1.5 year approval time for covid vaccines got it done ten and a half years early. Also, only one in five new drugs get approved for human use. Fast and efficient is nice but, in this case, it’s hard to believe that political pressure wasn’t brought to bear. So, we can toss out FDA approval.

The President also said, “Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.”

Let’s now take a brief look at the safe and effective part of the equation. A recent study by the UK Health Security Agency, produced these results for weeks 35-38 of 2021 or August 30-September 26th as reported by Europe Reloaded:

Confirmed cases among all unvaccinated adults over the age of 18 between August 30th and September 26th equate to 75,925. Whilst confirmed cases among all adults who had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine equate to 313,292. Therefore unvaccinated adults account for just 18% of cases in September, whilst vaccinated adults account for 74% of cases in September.

Also, “the unvaccinated account for just 22% of Covid-19 deaths during September 2021, whilst the vaccinated account for a disastrous 78%.”

You would expect the numbers to be somewhat slanted in a country such as England that has a ninety percent vaccination rate, but these numbers are off the chart for a vaccine that, until very recently, was touted as almost one hundred percent effective.

It’s also interesting to note that deaths from COVID in the United States in 2021 recently surpassed the number of deaths in 2020. When you consider that the base population of those who haven’t already been infected and recovered is roughly 115 million fewer than in 2020, this means that 2021, with over 200 million people vaccinated, has proportionately been a much deadlier year than 2020. So much for efficacy. Let’s move on to safety.

Also, from the same U.K. study as reported in Europe Reloaded:

This shows that the number of deaths between June 19th 2021 and September 17th 2021 among teens aged 15 and over were 47% higher than the number of deaths in this age group during the same period in 2020, and the increase in deaths began at precisely the same time teens started receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, and also correlated with the huge increase in calls requesting an ambulance due to cardiac arrest.

The same post explains that

It is now known that younger adults, teenagers, and children (especially males) are much more likely to suffer myocarditis due to the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 injections. Both jabs have had warnings added to the safety labels by the UK Medicine Regulator due to a suspicion they are causing myocarditis and pericarditis in younger adults, mainly men, after they have had the second dose.

There is much more information available at the link about the lack of both safety and efficacy but this overview might help with some of Joe’s confusion. Those people in the high-risk age category may be well served by the vaccine but, for the vast majority, it seems like a plausible alternative to take your chances with the disease rather than with the cure.

It’s a gamble either way but, especially for those under age twenty-five (with no co-morbidities) who have virtually no chance of succumbing to COVID, it seems like a no-brainer to take your chances with the disease. Had we gone that route from the start we would already have herd immunity and we could have avoided all the unconstitutional government mandates that have devastated the middle class and further divided the country. But maybe wreaking havoc on the country was the plan all along.

Cloward and Piven would be proud.

https://www.americanthinker.co...nated_americans.html

Not far from the truth. Not far at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...leave-during-crisis/

Pete Buttigieg and his gay partner adopted two babies

Buttigieg took two months off as Transportation Secretary for maternity leave



The White House defended Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday for taking off two months of paid paternity leave — even as the national supply chain crisis worsened.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Buttigieg a role model for taking so much time off after he and Chasten got baby twins.

“Proud to work in an Administration that is fighting to make paid leave a reality for everyone, and with people like Sec. Pete Buttigieg who are role models on the importance of paid leave for new parents,” she wrote.

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role models. really ?

This story is so "Democrat". Gay men adopt babies. Babies that wouldn't exist if their gay life was the normal. Then a gay man abandons his Transportation cabinet level position while being paid w taxpayer dollars. While there is a transportation crisis causing supply shortages nationwide.

A true Democrat role model.

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https://www.breitbart.com/poli...leave-during-crisis/

Pete Buttigieg and his gay partner adopted two babies

Buttigieg took two months off as Transportation Secretary for maternity leave



The White House defended Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday for taking off two months of paid paternity leave — even as the national supply chain crisis worsened.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Buttigieg a role model for taking so much time off after he and Chasten got baby twins.

“Proud to work in an Administration that is fighting to make paid leave a reality for everyone, and with people like Sec. Pete Buttigieg who are role models on the importance of paid leave for new parents,” she wrote.

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role models. really ?

So paid leave is designed to help out the ultra rich and powerful?

He is on the fast track to a dead end political career.

Two separate realities in this country.

The worst part is that no one realized he was missing until now. Maybe that cabinet position isn't that important.

Or he hasn't actively screwed anything up while he's been on paternity leave. With these guys it can be kinda hard to tell.

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Maybe that cabinet position isn't that important.

Yeah: Ya think?
But that reminds me that I often wonder why anyone complains that a high level government official doesn’t do anything. When 44 was in office and people would point out that he spent a lot of time on the golf course, I could only think that in terms of what was best for the country, that was the best place for him to spend his time.

Pete Buttagig didn't just take two months paid leave. It's two months and counting. The guy has no plans at this time to go back to "work."

This is beyond pathetic. When my wife had our daughters, each time I took an extra two weeks off my regular work schedule to be home to help her. That's two weeks unpaid. Not two months paid and counting. I had 8 months to plan and save for this eventuality. Furthermore, my wife actually birthed our children and was grateful for the help I could provide while she recovered from the stresses of childbirth. What hell are these two recovering from that the two of them need to be home 24/7?

Those poor children. They deserve a mother.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Pete Buttagig didn't just take two months paid leave. It's two months and counting. The guy has no plans at this time to go back to "work."

This is beyond pathetic. When my wife had our daughters, each time I took an extra two weeks off my regular work schedule to be home to help her. That's two weeks unpaid. Not two months paid and counting. I had 8 months to plan and save for this eventuality. Furthermore, my wife actually birthed our children and was grateful for the help I could provide while she recovered from the stresses of childbirth. What hell are these two recovering from that the two of them need to be home 24/7?

Those poor children. They deserve a mother.

He and his husband are still trying to figure out how they are going to breast feed. Give him a break.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
He is on the fast track to a dead end political career.

"Fast track"? Please, this limp wristed moron has already driven his pink Barbie car off the track and into the paddock with a totally 'blown' engine.

There isn't a single member of this administration that is competent to serve in any of the rolls they hold today. They're all buffoons.

Joe best lose weight, your gonna pop a suit button chomping down cones.