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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:34:00 PM EDT

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Backlog. Happens from time to time. During the initial COVID stuff it got bad and you had tankers and cruise ships anchored and waiting around all over the place; they'd sometimes come in so we could refuel them, and then they'd go right back out. Traffic from other vessels dropped off a lot, though. I hardly got to work any shifts during that time because of that.

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Are the longshoremen striking again?

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:34:24 PM EDT

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May be there's ammo on them

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:36:08 PM EDT

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Get all the NG troops to the east coast and attack the west coast ;)

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Can they keep Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles please?

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:37:01 PM EDT

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No wonder they have all the troops in DC, look at the port of Baltimore.

We're fucking surrounded!!

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:37:21 PM EDT

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Union workers are holding a work stoppage/slow down in order to negotiate higher wages. I heard this morning the line of ships offshore is 30 miles long!

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Don't they already get paid a 100 bucks an hour?

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:37:47 PM EDT

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Reminds me of the women insistent that there were chemtrails in her water just like Alex Jones said because water doesn't make a rainbow when it goes through a sprinkler! When you prime your audience to look for evidence of a conspiracy everywhere, then anything you're unfamiliar with is evide of he conspiracy. Note how no effort is given to fact checking (looking at marine traffic patterns) before taking to twitter to declare it's unusual and suspicious.

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It's pretty embarrassing, honestly, to see how much of the Right, and how much of ARFCOM, has gone this route. In some cases it can also make it hard to know what's true or not, like with the election fraud stuff.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:38:02 PM EDT

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There are always many container ships off port. Ports are busy places, they prefer to work at capacity and not wait a day or two for the next scheduled ship. I have seen dozens of tankers in que waiting for their port space as well.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:38:52 PM EDT

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Full of chinamen waiting to collect their debts or something.

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I almost hope those are Trojan horses full of pissed off China men here to annex California.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:39:43 PM EDT

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Interesting.

My supply chain (consumer electronics) is utterly borked right now and manufacturer reps are warning us it is going to get even worse.

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Ours is jacked globally. Not just US. Sea shipments are having major delays.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:41:08 PM EDT

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I've played this one.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:41:21 PM EDT

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There is normally a very steady flow of them in/out of Long Beach. But not normal to have that many of them just kinda loitering there.

Not saying "OMG the Chinese are staging to invade", but it sure is odd. I think the person who mentioned tariffs may be somewhat accurate. Gonna hang back and wait until Xiden cancels them out.

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Are there usually not dozens of container ships in the ocean near this continent?

There is normally a very steady flow of them in/out of Long Beach. But not normal to have that many of them just kinda loitering there.

Not saying "OMG the Chinese are staging to invade", but it sure is odd. I think the person who mentioned tariffs may be somewhat accurate. Gonna hang back and wait until Xiden cancels them out.

Most of that stuff has already been invoiced. Not sure if tariffs are the issue.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:43:39 PM EDT

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Are the longshoremen striking again?

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Backlog. Happens from time to time. During the initial COVID stuff it got bad and you had tankers and cruise ships anchored and waiting around all over the place; they'd sometimes come in so we could refuel them, and then they'd go right back out. Traffic from other vessels dropped off a lot, though. I hardly got to work any shifts during that time because of that.

Are the longshoremen striking again?

My union, which is affiliated with them, normally would tell us (they even inform us about negotiations, or potential for stuff to happen). I haven't heard anything. At least for our side of the business, there's still work (ship assist, bunkering, lightering, and product transfers between terminals), although it's been slow enough to where my shifts are being cancelled, so I haven't come in during the past several days. Last time I was there, everything seemed normal and I heard no chatter about anything about to happen.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:45:54 PM EDT

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There are always many container ships off port. Ports are busy places, they prefer to work at capacity and not wait a day or two for the next scheduled ship. I have seen dozens of tankers in que waiting for their port space as well.

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Someone posted a video somewhere else, and it seemed to be more than usual based on what I've seen for this port. But yes, there're usually ships anchored offshore or coming in and out. Traffic and ships waiting are not unusual. Common thing.

Posted: 1/19/2021 3:48:03 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:53:33 PM EDT

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Well, that’s where the ports are...

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:03:17 PM EDT

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Don't they already get paid a 100 bucks an hour?

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I don’t know what they make but it’s a lot. A relative of mine used to be the director for a number of apprenticeship programs covering souther California and Arizona. He could get me in any program I wanted except longshoreman. That side of my family has some pull in the trades out there and he couldn’t get himself in there if he wanted. This was mid 1990’s.

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:05:09 PM EDT

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Chinese Missile Battery’s

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:13:49 PM EDT

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In the 1980s training film titled " red dawn "
The Chinese did in fact come down thru Canada and Mexico.

Just saying.

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The Qtard I know says the Chinese are coming in from Canada and Mexico to take your guns. Those ships might just be full of eatin' babies.

BTW the country shut down last night at 8. There's a total internet, news, and banking blackout on.

In the 1980s training film titled " red dawn "
The Chinese did in fact come down thru Canada and Mexico.

Just saying.

I thought those were Cubans and Central American troops

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:16:02 PM EDT

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There are ALWAYS ships outside of the Port of Long Beach waiting to get in. Especially now since the port is running on roma staffing right now.

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:17:20 PM EDT

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I wish they would do a re-master of WiC.

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:22:32 PM EDT

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Oil rig at 22 seconds? You sure this isn't off the Bolivar Penninsula near Galveston???

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Artificial island built for drilling. There are 3 of them on the south end of the Port of Long Beach.

Derrick is on rails and can move all around the island.

Posted: 1/19/2021 4:22:42 PM EDT

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Waiting to get loaded up with pallets of cash to finish selling out the rest of America.

Posted: 1/19/2021 5:15:18 PM EDT

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No wonder they have all the troops in DC, look at the port of Baltimore.

We're fucking surrounded!!

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.... and the air assault is coming from everywhere!!!

Posted: 1/19/2021 7:33:15 PM EDT

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Chinese Missile Battery’s

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Ideas for privateers.

Posted: 1/19/2021 7:38:16 PM EDT

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Are there usually not dozens of container ships in the ocean near this continent?

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Day and Night ... for years ... Nothing to see here move along

Posted: 1/19/2021 7:45:07 PM EDT

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My supply chain at work is wrecked also, with some of the product literally sitting in those containers. We’ve got containerloads upon containerloads that were supposed to be delivered to the East Coast and Utah 2-3 months ago sitting off the port. It’s a nightmare.

Posted: 1/19/2021 9:19:44 PM EDT

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Chinese came down thru Alaska and Canada...

Posted: 1/19/2021 9:22:52 PM EDT

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It's the UN troops that are coming as part of the occupying force.

Posted: 1/19/2021 9:32:15 PM EDT

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It’s a proper shit show. I have been dealing with the fallout for months.

Import and export traffic jam.

Posted: 1/19/2021 9:33:40 PM EDT

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I thought those were Cubans and Central American troops

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The Qtard I know says the Chinese are coming in from Canada and Mexico to take your guns. Those ships might just be full of eatin' babies.

BTW the country shut down last night at 8. There's a total internet, news, and banking blackout on.

In the 1980s training film titled " red dawn "
The Chinese did in fact come down thru Canada and Mexico.

Just saying.

I thought those were Cubans and Central American troops

He must have been confused by the newer revision of the training documents.
But even then, I think it was NORKs, not Chin...ese...