
West Coast port officials on Friday told CNN that, for the first time since the pandemic, there were as of that morning zero container ships headed from China to be offloaded at American docks, a sign all the more troubling for the fact that six days ago, 41 vessels had been scheduled to depart from the bloated, dysfunctional autocratic state that is nonetheless the US’s largest trading partner.
Thus it’s no real mystery why convicted felon President Trump is making the kind of panic moves like he did that same morning, posting “80 percent Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B.” He’s been warned repeatedly by his minions that what he set in motion with “Liberation Day” will, within the next few weeks, come to bear down on an electorate of which a near-majority last year bought into horseshit like the Fox News propaganda above – which you may remember used what was actually a 2011 photo of a store in Japan from near that nuclear reactor that exploded after being hit with a goddamned tsunami – being used to exploit lingering supply chain issues from – again – COVID.
Yeah, COVID’s actually going to be something of a running theme here given the certain overlaps in the respective situation. In fact it overlaps in so many respects – except for the deadly virus part.