Demented Biden Creates and Botches Supply Chain Crisis

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Thats what he does.........

 

 

The leading shipping industry website rips President Biden for naming a US Maritime Administrator with ‘zero shipping experience’ 

 

 

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/10/18/the-leading-shipping-industry-website-rips-president-biden-for-naming-a-us-maritime-administrator-with-zero-shipping-experience/

 

 

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

25 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

You are a hack - 100% hack.

 

 

 

 

 

 Whether or not that's true or not doesn't change the reality that we're screwed and stuck with this clown car administration through 2024.  I see a dark winter ahead.  So maybe take some time away from worshiping Joe Biden the champion of mediocrity and prepare yourself for some tough times.  

[BillStime]

3 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

 Whether or not that's true or not doesn't change the reality that we're screwed and stuck with this clown car administration through 2024.  I see a dark winter ahead.  So maybe take some time away from worshiping Joe Biden the champion of mediocrity and prepare yourself for some tough times.  

 

Here's the thing - I don't worship ANYONE unlike you and your cult.

 

Turn off Fox News - they have your RIGHT where they want you:

 

[Wacka]

On 10/16/2021 at 11:41 AM, ALF said:

 

A record number of truck drivers retired during the pandemic , it's not that complicated.

Then why aren't these on TV now??

Of course you don't need to spell to drive a truck.😀

[All_Pro_Bills]

3 hours ago, BillStime said:

 

Here's the thing - I don't worship ANYONE unlike you and your cult.

 

Turn off Fox News - they have your RIGHT where they want you:

 

What you smell is a load of crap in your pants.  My only fear is some wokester might throw a soy latte in my face.  Other than that I think I can handle any potential woke threat.  All I need to do is call them an incorrect pronoun and they'll run off sobbing to their safe space and crisis counselor. 

[B-Man]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

The leading shipping industry website rips President Biden for naming a US Maritime Administrator with ‘zero shipping experience’ 

 

 

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/10/18/the-leading-shipping-industry-website-rips-president-biden-for-naming-a-us-maritime-administrator-with-zero-shipping-experience/

 

 

 

 

More on this.

 

Biden Appoints US Maritime Administrator With Zero Shipping Experience During Worst Shipping Crisis In Decades.

 

The FAA is headed by a pilot, NASA is headed by an astronaut, the US Marine Corps is headed by a Marine but for the fourth time in a row, and during the worst shipping crisis of the century, the US Department of Transportation, has appointed someone to the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) who is not a captain and has no commercial shipping experience.

 

Yesterday afternoon, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Rear Admiral Ann Phillips, US Navy (Retired), as the next US Maritime Administrator, a position that has been vacant since Rear Admiral Mark Buzby stepped down following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January.

 

Phillips is a highly decorated Navy leader with a long list of accomplishments and is highly respected by everyone gCaptain has interviewed. She was head of the Navy’s Climate Change Task Force and is a highly sought after consultant on climate security issues. She holds an MBA. She was chairman of a local government Sea Level Rise Preparedness and Resilience project. She once captained a Navy warship. The appointment looks great on paper except for one kinda big problem. This is not a warship position. It’s a commercial shipping appointment and she has zero experience aboard any commercial ships. She does not even have experience leading navy military sealift ships.

 

It’s par for the course with this administration. As Karol Markowicz noted yesterday, Pete Buttigieg “was always going to be a lightweight transportation chief. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and also because he said he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station. My 5-year-old likes trains, too. Yet just because he can say ‘Choo choo!’ with enthusiasm doesn’t mean he can oversee the country’s transportation system. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable.”

 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is far more obsessed with critical race theory than the debacle in Afghanistan.

 

As Cheryl Chumley wrote at the beginning of the month in the Washington Times, “The new comptroller of the currency selected by President Joe Biden is fresh off the Marxist bus, having graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 and since, spoken in glowing terms about communism.”

 

This is some crew that President Klain is assembling:

 

● Senate Confirms Radical Eco-Terrorist as Chief of the Bureau of Land Management.

● Kamala Harris doing damage control after encouraging student who accused Israel of genocide.

● Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden, Is a Conspiracy Theorist Who Pushed False and Disputed Election Information on Twitter.

Tanden eventually withdrew her OMB nomination, but: Neera Tanden lands in the White House, after all. “The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden had appointed Tanden to be a senior adviser. She will start on Monday. The move came two months after the veteran Democratic policy adviser, known for her combative Twitter feed and in-your-face politics, withdrew her bid to become Biden’s budget director — Biden’s first, and, to this point, only failed nominee and one of his few political setbacks thus far.”

 

https://gcaptain.com/biden-maritime-marad-admiral-phillips/

[BillStime]

1 hour ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

What you smell is a load of crap in your pants.  My only fear is some wokester might throw a soy latte in my face.  Other than that I think I can handle any potential woke threat.  All I need to do is call them an incorrect pronoun and they'll run off sobbing to their safe space and crisis counselor. 

 

You are a hack

54 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

More on this.

 

Biden Appoints US Maritime Administrator With Zero Shipping Experience During Worst Shipping Crisis In Decades.

 

The FAA is headed by a pilot, NASA is headed by an astronaut, the US Marine Corps is headed by a Marine but for the fourth time in a row, and during the worst shipping crisis of the century, the US Department of Transportation, has appointed someone to the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) who is not a captain and has no commercial shipping experience.

 

Yesterday afternoon, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Rear Admiral Ann Phillips, US Navy (Retired), as the next US Maritime Administrator, a position that has been vacant since Rear Admiral Mark Buzby stepped down following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January.

 

Phillips is a highly decorated Navy leader with a long list of accomplishments and is highly respected by everyone gCaptain has interviewed. She was head of the Navy’s Climate Change Task Force and is a highly sought after consultant on climate security issues. She holds an MBA. She was chairman of a local government Sea Level Rise Preparedness and Resilience project. She once captained a Navy warship. The appointment looks great on paper except for one kinda big problem. This is not a warship position. It’s a commercial shipping appointment and she has zero experience aboard any commercial ships. She does not even have experience leading navy military sealift ships.

 

It’s par for the course with this administration. As Karol Markowicz noted yesterday, Pete Buttigieg “was always going to be a lightweight transportation chief. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and also because he said he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station. My 5-year-old likes trains, too. Yet just because he can say ‘Choo choo!’ with enthusiasm doesn’t mean he can oversee the country’s transportation system. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable.”

 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is far more obsessed with critical race theory than the debacle in Afghanistan.

 

As Cheryl Chumley wrote at the beginning of the month in the Washington Times, “The new comptroller of the currency selected by President Joe Biden is fresh off the Marxist bus, having graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 and since, spoken in glowing terms about communism.”

 

This is some crew that President Klain is assembling:

 

● Senate Confirms Radical Eco-Terrorist as Chief of the Bureau of Land Management.

● Kamala Harris doing damage control after encouraging student who accused Israel of genocide.

● Biden’s OMB Pick, Neera Tanden, Is a Conspiracy Theorist Who Pushed False and Disputed Election Information on Twitter.

Tanden eventually withdrew her OMB nomination, but: Neera Tanden lands in the White House, after all. “The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden had appointed Tanden to be a senior adviser. She will start on Monday. The move came two months after the veteran Democratic policy adviser, known for her combative Twitter feed and in-your-face politics, withdrew her bid to become Biden’s budget director — Biden’s first, and, to this point, only failed nominee and one of his few political setbacks thus far.”

 

https://gcaptain.com/biden-maritime-marad-admiral-phillips/

 

Why did Admiral Mark Buzby step down?

[Tenhigh]

4 hours ago, BillStime said:

 

Here's the thing - I don't worship ANYONE unlike you and your cult.

 

Turn off Fox News - they have your RIGHT where they want you:

 

The hypocrisy of you calling anyone a coward is almost to much to bear, Blllsy.

[Tenhigh]

31 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

The hypocrisy of you calling anyone a coward is almost to much to bear, Blllsy.

Why are you rolling your eyes, @BillStime?

[B-Man]

2 hours ago, BillStime said:

 

Why did Admiral Mark Buzby step down?

 

 

 

No.

 

No attempts at distraction will be entertained  (no matter how often you childishly repeat the question )

 

It is not about "cowardice"

It is not about Trump

It is not about your "Word of the Day" -- Hack.

 

The thread is about the Biden Harris administration failure with the economy, in particular the supply chain.

 

If you cannot address it, then please return to your "Kid's Table"

 

 

The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden.

 

Buttigieg was always going to be a lightweight transportation chief. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and also because he said he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station.

 

My 5-year-old likes trains, too. Yet just because he can say “Choo choo!” with enthusiasm doesn’t mean he can oversee the country’s transportation system. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable.

Buttigieg can take a two-month paternity leave, but the guy who runs the pizza shop down the block can’t just disappear for two months without putting someone else in charge. Someone has to make the calzone.

 

The public didn’t even learn about Buttigieg’s break at the start, but only after transportation-related problems exploded around us. Who’s running the shop? Anyone?

 

Now, as Americans start to worry about stocking their cupboards and buying Christmas presents, Biden goes more than a week refusing to take any questions. Sorry, but this is unacceptable, no matter who’s president.

 

 

https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/biden-administrations-mishandling-of-supply-chain-crisis-feeds-inflation/

 

 

It’s Karol Markowicz, so read the whole thing.

 

 

 

[BillStime]

3 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

No.

 

No attempts at distraction will be entertained  (no matter how often you childishly repeat the question )

 

It is not about "cowardice"

It is not about Trump

It is not about your "Word of the Day" -- Hack.

 

The thread is about the Biden Harris administration failure with the economy, in particular the supply chain.

 

If you cannot address it, then please return to your "Kid's Table"

 

 

The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden.

 

Buttigieg was always going to be a lightweight transportation chief. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and also because he said he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station.

 

My 5-year-old likes trains, too. Yet just because he can say “Choo choo!” with enthusiasm doesn’t mean he can oversee the country’s transportation system. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable.

Buttigieg can take a two-month paternity leave, but the guy who runs the pizza shop down the block can’t just disappear for two months without putting someone else in charge. Someone has to make the calzone.

 

The public didn’t even learn about Buttigieg’s break at the start, but only after transportation-related problems exploded around us. Who’s running the shop? Anyone?

 

Now, as Americans start to worry about stocking their cupboards and buying Christmas presents, Biden goes more than a week refusing to take any questions. Sorry, but this is unacceptable, no matter who’s president.

 

 

https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/biden-administrations-mishandling-of-supply-chain-crisis-feeds-inflation/

 

 

It’s Karol Markowicz, so read the whole thing.

 

 

 

 

LMAO - Why are you afraid to answer the question.

 

SO TELLING

[SoCal Deek]

Hey Hilary! Shouldn’t you be at your husband’s bedside? 

[Precision]

From what I've seen there are 3 main components to the supply chain problems.   

 

The first has been the lack of supply due to countries shutting down.  Honestly I don't think any administration would have been prepared for the breadth and depth of the problem.  From raw materials all the way to completed product the "just in time" supply chain system has turned into "just too late" as everything is being delayed.  The industry trend to carry as little inventory as possible has only further exacerbated the problem.    The supply shortages cascade through the chain as each sub-assembly is delayed by multiple piece parts and raw materials delays.  I am in charge of a product development effort and we are short PCB's, IC's, cables assemblies, motors, sheet metal, raw material for machined parts, plastic for our injection molds, even stuff like common hardware.  We have components in transit from China to Long Beach and I fully expect that we will not see these until January.

 

The second item that's an issue is the lack of transportation resources.  Many older workers left the transportation industry when Covid hit making distribution of available product more difficult.  This was an obvious issue months ago as the lack of truck drivers was common knowledge.  We had difficulties both shipping and receiving product so anyone in the game knew that this was going on.  I feel that the current administration does bear some of the responsibility for this as it is problem that was fixable months ago.

 

The final component, demand, falls squarely on this administration.  Really their lack of insight on this makes me wonder if anyone in the administration has even run a lemonade stand.  Let's take a test, when you give people sitting around at home free money what are they going to do with it?

A.  Save it

B.  Give it to charity

C.  Put it into their retirement plan

D.  Pay off their debts

E.  Spend it on crap as fast as possible.

 

Well, I think we know what they did (it wasn't give it to charity by the way) which is why there is a big spike in demand.  Take out the unsustainable short term demand and the supply chain and transportation issues wouldn't be nearly as bad as they are today.      

[B-Man]

 

 

Its "funny" to them.................they don't care about you.

 

 

 

[Irv]

6 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Its "funny" to them.................they don't care about you.

 

 

 

 

Demented Biden and his communist buddies are so out of touch with the mainstream.  They treat this country like some ***** social experiment while we sit here and suffer from their ineptitude.

 

What

A

Mess  

[SoCal Deek]

7 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Its "funny" to them.................they don't care about you.

 

 

 

She’s beyond horrible. What’s next Peppermint Patty: “Let them eat cake!” 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

                         

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

[Doc]

36 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

They won't do anything until it's too late.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

[Irv]

Cornholio!

 

[T master]

On 10/16/2021 at 1:48 PM, ALF said:

 

Ok what's your reason for the backup at the ports ?

 

https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/business/2021/05/16/ruckers-needed-driver-shortage-aggravated-by-pandemic/116453634/

 

 

I run up and down the road all over the US and every rest stop every night is filled with trucks and they are running up and down the road seems just as much as it use to be . 

 

I will say while i was out in California the brilliant liberal minds out there decided to extend the unemployment benefits (Brilliant) which why would any of the truck drivers, dock workers or any one else go back to work if they can sit on their a** in their living room and have the gov't pay them .

 

As long as they continue to pay people and have them believe the apocalypse is upon us the world as we knew it will never be back to what it was because there are the mind less that want to be led by the hand and told what is best for them and they can't think for them selves.

 

It is up to those independent people that will over come to prove that it can be done with out their help or supposed leadership if that's what you call it ...

 

P.S. It wouldn't surprise me if this was all planned to keep the hysteria going JMHO .

Edited October 24, 2021 by T master

[Irv]

2 hours ago, T master said:

 

I run up and down the road all over the US and every rest stop every night is filled with trucks and they are running up and down the road seems just as much as it use to be . 

 

I will say while i was out in California the brilliant liberal minds out there decided to extend the unemployment benefits (Brilliant) which why would any of the truck drivers, dock workers or any one else go back to work if they can sit on their a** in their living room and have the gov't pay them .

 

As long as they continue to pay people and have them believe the apocalypse is upon us the world as we knew it will never be back to what it was because there are the mind less that want to be led by the hand and told what is best for them and they can't think for them selves.

 

It is up to those independent people that will over come to prove that it can be done with out their help or supposed leadership if that's what you call it ...

 

P.S. It wouldn't surprise me if this was all planned to keep the hysteria going JMHO .

 

This could be the best post of the year.  Demented Biden is a sad mess.  

 

 

[LeviF]

lol wait what

 

This is forty years of policy, production, and consumption issues finally coming to a head thanks to a mass shutdown/restart event. 
 

Biden is an incompetent and so is Mayor Pete. But these problems didn’t start in January. In fact, Elaine Chao’s tenure as SecTrans was as disastrous as Pete’s so far.  But this is what happens when a position like that gets handed off to a political favorite rather than to someone with actual, real-world knowledge of these issues. 

[All_Pro_Bills]

11 minutes ago, LeviF said:

lol wait what

 

This is forty years of policy, production, and consumption issues finally coming to a head thanks to a mass shutdown/restart event. 
 

Biden is an incompetent and so is Mayor Pete. But these problems didn’t start in January. In fact, Elaine Chao’s tenure as SecTrans was as disastrous as Pete’s so far.  But this is what happens when a position like that gets handed off to a political favorite rather than to someone with actual, real-world knowledge of these issues. 

Its the breakdown of overly complex systems at work.  And some light should be shined on the architects of the globalization policies that gutted US manufacturing capacity, killed millions of jobs and thousands of small towns and cities, along with enabling the rise of China as a world power.  Professing a process of engagement would make the Chinese system more like us.  Swing and a miss on that.  Right now Xi seems worse than Mao.  All this for saving at everyday low prices and producing mostly poor quality junk consumer products that break in a couple years.  So I guess the rule that you get what you pay for still applies.

 

If the Scarecrow had a brain the administration might generate an idea to maybe, just maybe, look at concept of making mission critical products and components domestically.  And for a few pennies on the dollar avoid the 10,000 miles supply chain problems.  And eliminate sending hundreds of billions in trade to our enemies.  

 

 

[Doc]

3 hours ago, LeviF said:

lol wait what

 

This is forty years of policy, production, and consumption issues finally coming to a head thanks to a mass shutdown/restart event. 
 

Biden is an incompetent and so is Mayor Pete. But these problems didn’t start in January. In fact, Elaine Chao’s tenure as SecTrans was as disastrous as Pete’s so far.  But this is what happens when a position like that gets handed off to a political favorite rather than to someone with actual, real-world knowledge of these issues. 

 

True but there are ways to alleviate the logjam as illustrated above.  The problem is, it would likely involve stepping on Union toes and this admin won't do it.  Again, until it's too late.

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

                                      

 

 

 

 

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

On 10/24/2021 at 10:49 AM, Doc said:

 

True but there are ways to alleviate the logjam as illustrated above.  The problem is, it would likely involve stepping on Union toes and this admin won't do it.  Again, until it's too late.

This is a lesson in the perils of the 10,000 mile logistics supply line and the virtues and benefits of self-sufficiency.  Maybe the lesson will be learned and some of the productive capacity that was off-shored to save a few pennies and enrich large mega-corporations will be re-established if for nothing more than national security reasons surrounding critical components and materials? 

Our current shell of an economy is dominated by billionaire Silicon Valley tech oligarchs that produce nothing other than moving data and information around while skimming 5% off the top.   

Edited October 26, 2021 by All_Pro_Bills

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

SUPPLY CHAIN WOES WORSEN FOLLOWING BIDEN’S INTERVENTION

 

Two weeks ago, Joe Biden announced with fanfare that he was taking steps towards having our main port facilities operate around the clock to alleviate the supply chain snags that are causing so much disruption. Since then, according to the Washington Post, the backlog of ships anchored off the coast of Southern California has increased.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/supply-chain-woes-worsen-following-bidens-intervention.php

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/26/supply-chain-ports-fees-biden/

 

 

[Irv]

Demented Biden and his communist buddies have proven the "America Last" agenda is an abject failure.  If you voted for this loser and his comrades, shame on you!  You are losers. Sad.   

[Thurmal34]

Never thought i would see the people who don't understand socialism begging for socialism.

 

Do we hate socialism this week or do we want socialism this week?

 

 

[Backintheday544]

On 10/16/2021 at 9:28 AM, Irv said:

 

Just force the illegals to drive trucks.  

 

What

A

*****

Mess

This people is your Republican Party. They say they’re not racist but here they’re promoting the US bringing back slavery.

 

What a mess.

[Backintheday544]

On 10/15/2021 at 6:08 PM, Irv said:

I could solve two problems Demented Biden Blunder Buttogag can't figure out in about a minute.  Round up every able body illegal at the border.  Take them to truck driver and longshoreman training.  After one week training take them to the ports and order them to work.  If they do a good job they can stay.  If not, make them swim back across the Rio Grand at gunpoint.  Problems solved.   

 

What

A

*****

Mess

 

 

Second post with a right wing poster promoting slavery.

 

Very telling we had a ton of right wing comments on here and not a single one called him out.

[Doc]

Because slaves had the opportunity to go back to their home countries...

[Backintheday544]

2 minutes ago, Doc said:

Because slaves had the opportunity to go back to their home countries...

To quote “If not, make them swim back across the Rio Grand at gunpoint.”

 

what the poster was talking was forced labor.

 

Don't lump yourself in with supporting US slavery.

4 minutes ago, Doc said:

Because slaves had the opportunity to go back to their home countries...

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/forced-labour/

 

Forced labour is any work or service which people are forced to do against their will, under threat of punishment. Almost all slavery practices contain some element of forced labour.

[Doc]

Nope, still not slavery.  Slaves aren't/weren't given the choice to return to their homelands, where they would be free again. 

[Backintheday544]

21 minutes ago, Doc said:

Nope, still not slavery.  Slaves aren't/weren't given the choice to return to their homelands, where they would be free again. 

So do  we believe Doc or a webpage called antislavery.Org?

 

“Forced labour is the most common element of modern slavery. It is the most extreme form of people exploitation.”

 

This is beyond this board being a cesspool that a person is promoting slavery and another is defending it.

 

Shame

 

Add UN or Doc:

 

According to the  International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Essentially, it refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.
 

https://www.un.org/en/observances/slavery-abolition-day

Edited October 30, 2021 by Backintheday544

[Irv]

16 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

So do  we believe Doc or a webpage called antislavery.Org?

 

“Forced labour is the most common element of modern slavery. It is the most extreme form of people exploitation.”

 

This is beyond this board being a cesspool that a person is promoting slavery and another is defending it.

 

Shame

 

Add UN or Doc:

 

According to the  International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Essentially, it refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.
 

https://www.un.org/en/observances/slavery-abolition-day

You’re funny. Thanks.