September 30, 2024 • 21 mins
The Longshoreman’s Union plan to go on strike on the East Coast on strike on October 1st which could force an imminent shutdown of all cargo imports. Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces Operation Blue Ridge to help Floridians stuck in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Celtech. It's
his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Man or Florida woman, because that's what happened here in Tampa.
A drunk Florida woman ran into a barrier wall in
the Iphoria in Tampa, and then on Sunday after when
the troopers showed up, she grabbed his man bits and
bit his leg. YEP twenty five year old Tayshiro Williams
of Largo. She crashed into a barrier wall. When troopers arrived,
(00:38):
she was impaired. They were taken under a into custody.
She resisted how to be physically restrained as officers. As
they tried to restrain her, she grabbed the junk of
one trooper and then bit another trooper's leg, so she
got charged with resisting with violence in a dui. According
(01:01):
to Florida Highway Patrol, I don't know why I thought
that they would wear cups, but maybe I mean, it
makes sense that they don't. But now I'm like, well,
got lee. You know, there's because no way to put
one on before you go over, and you know, got
to do your stop or good heavens, I don't even
know this guy, this Florida man was. He got in
(01:24):
trouble because he was hiding drugs in his nose from
the police and it didn't work. As you can imagine.
This was in Saint Petersburg. Joel Wallace was pulled over
for speeding and this was on Miles Stretch Road in Holiday, Florida.
He refused to stop originally, so they it was a
(01:46):
high speed chase, and he just high speed chased him
right on home. He literally went home, and then apparently
while en route during the high speed chase to his house,
he tried to snort the rest of the cocaine that
he had in his car. I don't know why people
you think like cheating, like flirting with death is going
to be better than just get me. Stop it. And
(02:09):
when they finally got him, he had white residue all
over his nose, and he was telling them that he
didn't have white residue all over his nose and that
he didn't have any cocaine. And he had no idea
why they thought he had illegal drugs or why he
was attempting to conceal them because he didn't have any cocaine.
Except for the fact that he literally had white powder
all over his nose because he tried to snort the
remainder of the cocaine. That's horrible. So he's totally in jail.
(02:33):
A naked Florida man claims to be the devil and
terrorizes women. I mean, it's twenty twenty four, so he
could be or maybe he's Anthony Wiener. I don't know.
Naked Florida man says he was the devil, terrorizes women.
His name is a Roverlandispina. He decided to break and
do a Florida woman's home totally butt naked and said
he was the devil, according to w TVJ, and he
(02:56):
walked into her apartment and said that he and look
went into her bedroom. Apparently broke into her apartment, went
to her bedroom, told her she had to die, and
then she tried to run away. He grabbed her, dragged
her by her hair inside. Then he's then he uh,
she has a husband who wasn't there, he was at work.
He began stealing her husband's underwear. This story never ends,
(03:22):
by the way, and the neighbors ended up calling the
cops because they heard all of this stuff. And then
when the police showed up. The devil was still yelling
and swearing. He said he was the husband because look,
would he have all this underwear if he wasn't. I'm
not even kidding you. So and then it was crazy.
It's crazy. So the guy gets he was arrested, charge
(03:43):
with burglary, assault, battery. I don't know, man, what in
the world you know? Was it a full moon, hurricane weather?
I don't know. Stick with us. The longshoreman's strike, I
said last hour, we were going to touch on this
because we've all been supply chain crisis, a supply chain
crisis before, and we all we've all had issues with
(04:06):
shipping and everything due to everything that happened with the ronavirus. Now,
if you liked how Biden and Harris handled immigration at
the southern border, you're gonna love this one. Yeah. Well,
it's the supply chain. It's a port strike, and it's
(04:26):
gonna get bad, that's all I gotta say. It's gonna
be massively disruptive. The it's gonna be East Coast ports.
Longshoremen are preparing to strike from New England to Texas.
The strike is set to happen early Tuesday, the first
walkout of its kind in almost half a century, freezing
(04:47):
commercial shipping on a massive scale, and it would be
the biggest disruption. This is how heavy. This is the
biggest disruption to the flow of goods in and out
of the country since the high of the pandemic. So
even a short lived work stoppage would snarl shipping and
create havoc in supply chains for weeks. So everything from
(05:12):
cars to electronics, food to furniture would be stuck on
ships off shore. And according to analysts, each day that
a strike lasts, it could cost the US economy up
to a billion dollars. A billion dollars. That's a lot.
(05:33):
And you have Gina Romando as the Commerce secretary. She
was asked about this audio sound by thirty six, Well,
what is she hearing if doc workers striking it goes
on longer than a week? What are you what are
you prepared to do? Listen?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Where have you been kind of focused on hearing on
what would happen if the strike goes let's say longer
than a week.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Again, I have not been very focused on that. So
Gina Romando, who is literally the Commerce Secretary, hasn't been
focused on it at all pooh pooty juice is nowhere
to be found. Okay, well, I mean, who the hell
is in charge? Oh well, let's see Biden. What is
Biden said? Biden was asked about the strikes. Now, he
(06:26):
was asked about the strikes in Yemen. This is what
he said to the strikes in Yemen. Audio somebody seven.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Mister President, will you deploy more US troops to the
Middle East?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Mister president hukung to bomb any comment on the strikes
in Yemen. Mister President, he was asked about the strikes
in Yemen, and he says, well, I'm supporting a collective
(07:06):
bargaining effort. Oh my gosh. Well so that's the guy
who's running the country. Okay, So there's that running the
conry in air quotes. So there's that, all right, So
we have no idea really what our commerce secretaries now,
(07:29):
I've not been following that. That was embarrassing. This is
like the every actually every single time she's asked a question,
she does not know about that. What was the last
like several things we've played. That's all the soundbites we
have for her, like, I don't know about that, I
don't know she Mariah carries it. I don't know her.
I don't know her. So this is just weeks before
(07:49):
the presidential campaign. Huh. You'd think Democrats would want to
solve this. You would think they would. And Harris, who's
the vice president, hasn't said anything. Realize that as as
what's his face, Walls, Balls, whatever, Tim Walls, as he
hit come on, it is an honest mistake. As he
(08:11):
hits the stage during the VP debate tomorrow with JD. Vans,
that's when apparently the port shutdown began. They Yeah, that's
when the port shutdowns begin. I wonder if that's going
to come up tomorrow. My gosh, Tim Walls is going
to try so hard to be the everyman. We're going
to talk about this. That'll be our next topic here.
(08:32):
But it's the International Longshoremen's Association forty seven thousand members
in the US Maritime Alliance. They represent container carriers and
port operators. All their discussions have installed since summer summer.
The labor contract expires tonight, so beginning at twelve oh one,
they could go on strike. And the longshoremen they load
(08:53):
and unload cargo at ports, They work the cranes that
haul those content. Those are actually super fun to watch.
They big crane of all the containers on and off
the cargo ships. They maintain the equipment. This is important stuff.
And they said that the ports that they're expecting to
close are major maritime hubs in New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah,
(09:15):
and Houston. Now they're on the West coast. Because some
people have asked, well, is it affecting the West coast too,
it's not, because they are represented by a separate union
that they had a contract agreement already last year. So
the ports like in the North, in the Pacific Northwest
(09:36):
and in California, they cannot they're not going to be
affected by this. But but they could say, in solidarity,
we're going to refuse to handle cargo right now. I
don't know if that would put them at odds with there.
(09:56):
I mean, they just negotiated and got a contract a
year ago. So wouldn't that kind of be spit in
the face of that? I don't know, don't you think so, Caine,
is that spinning in the face of it? Are you spinning?
I mean, for like, on solidarity, even though they got
a nice contractor year ago, would that be spitting in
the face of it, I don't know how's that interpreted.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, I mean, I guess it could be interpreted both ways.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But I would just be like if I was a
crane operator, to me, it would be a sad day
when I couldn't operate a crane. I mean, I don't
I've never done that, But to me, it's just like
a giant version of that, you know, the toy thing.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And the fact that this strike, this strike is even
being considered right now shows that there's actually been a
long history of grievances that they've had and it has
not been addressed by anyone, let alone the administration.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, so will they have no excuse me, they have
no way right now, nothing from the administration at handling this.
So they look at it's the International Longshoreman's Association, so
it's East Coast thirty six ports East and Golf Coast,
and it looks like everybody may have to divert to
(11:03):
West coast. That's good. You know how much more expensive
that would be, so think of it. They would have
to depending on how long it goes on with East
Coast ports, shippers then may have to divert to West coast.
Think about how much more expensive that makes something that
if it has to be diverted all the way around
the other side of the country and then to get
(11:24):
it to wherever you are, that's going to be that's
prices are going to skyrocket. And how does that affect
an economy that is already dealing with Biden inflation? I mean,
what about factories that need parts and things like that.
I mean this there was a pull this up. This
is a CNN piece that said there are shortages, higher
(11:47):
prices even you know, factory parts everything. It could actually
disrupt not just you know, more than just obviously consumption,
but it could disrupt plant operations if it halts the
delivery of supplies and parts for other factories. It's in
(12:08):
New York and New Jersey, they're both affected by this.
That's the third largest port by volume of cargo handled.
And it also and now listen to this, it also
affects places like Port Wilmington and Delaware. Support we Wilmington
and Delaware. That's the banana port that brings in the
biggest share of bananas to the United States. One point
(12:28):
two million metric tons of bananas come through that port.
Ninety percent of cherries imported cherries, eighty two percent of
hot peppers, eighty percent of imported chocolate come through all
the containers offloaded at those ports, according to the American
Farm Bureau. Now it's getting scarier. Now here's where we're
getting scary. This is where we're getting scary, guys. Eighty
(12:50):
percent gain of imported beer, wine and whiskey and scotch
in sixty percent of rum arriving at East and Gulf
Hohost ports eighty and sixty. Yeah. Yeah, that's the top
import at the Port of New York in New Jersey.
(13:12):
We're gonna have to work with wand to like come
up with some kind of rum running operation, a rum
running operation from San Juan to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I think you've already said too much.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I didn't say that, I was just speculating. Don't make
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Speaker 1 (14:31):
Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So apparently there are actually get out of jail free cards.
Did you know this? You didn't know this? How is that? So?
It's like actually a thing? Apparently so per the Hill,
every police officer in New York, including retired officers, are
allowed to buy a certain number of special cards issued
by the union. They pay a nominal sum for the
(14:57):
cars that they distribute them as they wish. Sometimes they
can get them to family and friends. You can use
them for perksc meal discounts. Sometimes they sell them. It's
the Police Benevolence Association courtesy cards. Some people call them
to get out of jail free cards. So the idea is,
when someone who has a card is pulled over for
a traffic violation or approached by police for a minor offense,
if you show the card to the officer, it basically
(15:17):
let you go on with nothing more than just a warning.
I've heard of stories like this, but I don't know.
I don't know if I believe it, all right, because
you've got to enforce the law without fear of favor,
you know what I mean. And I think that there's
a lot of good guys out there, so I don't
I just I don't know anyone that this has ever
happened to do you. I hear about these things, but
(15:39):
there's never been anyone who's like, yeah, I did it
and it worked, you know, I don't know just anyway, So, oh,
look at this. They they're trying to tell you that
it's not the injection but just alcohol that's linked to
all these cancers. Drinking alcohols is linked to six types
of cancers, but not the government, and that we still
(16:00):
don't know what the hell's inn it's just taken shut out,
not that at all. I don't believe any of the
stuff that they push. I don't believe a single bit
of it. You know why, because all those octagenarians are
what are the centenarians, sorry, the ones that are like
over one hundred. Every single time you asked them what
do you do to live on? I'd be happy and
I have a drink every now and then, not alcoholics,
like seriously, learn the difference. But so I don't believe.
(16:23):
I don't believe this stuff. I don't believe it. So
a family, this is newsweek focused on a baby's first steps.
They don't they've missed the three year old wielding a knife.
It's all on video. Everybody's watching this baby take her
first steps. But yet in the background it's a three
year old with a knife, and they it was their
(16:44):
first it was their daughter's birthday. They were one year old.
And unfortunately Newsweek buries the lead all the way down
at the bottom of the article because this persons to
go back to j school and learn how to write
a proper story. But they said that the kid was
the toddler was trying to get the cake because they
used the knife to cut the cake. They were trying
to get the cake knife to lick the cake off
the knife, which is scaring me even more. And so
(17:06):
it just literally in the background is this kid wielding
a giant knife. It's kind it's funny and also scary
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I gotcha by a Green Flow, the theme song of
Floridians who are stuck in the Blue Ridge Mountains right now.
Apparently that's the thing Floridians do this time of years.
They go to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Florida government,
(17:51):
Florida State government, was like, are you a Floridian and
are you stuck in the Blue Ridge Mountains? I gotcha?
So they're getting them. I'm not even kidding you. This
is literally what's happening. I was reading this. It said
covered to Ron de Santas launches Operation Blue Ridge. I'm
not I just think it's like they, like some of
these Southeastern states that are not democrat ran, it's like
(18:12):
they already got a plane for everything. Like I'm just
now learning that this is how Floridians do fall. They
go to the Blue Ridge Mountains and they're stuck there,
and Florida's already got a plane for it. So they
have it's literally called Operation Blue Ridge, and it's a
multi state agency response to get Floridians that are stuck
in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I didn't know that they
(18:33):
said that. I mean, it's literally a major relief expedition
to other states. They just got hit by a cat.
For dude, if I stub my toe and like fall
down a drop something, I'm done for the day. Like
they get hit by a cat four and they're like,
all right, we got all this situated. You stuck in
Blue Ridge Mountains, I gotcha. We're coming up to come
(18:54):
get you. And it's like settled. This is wild. They
got it all set. Man. They're sending ten truckloads of water,
over one hundred star links, a communication units, Strike Team,
one all Hazard's Incident Management Team, and a Telecommunications Emergency
Response Task Force. And it's they're using. This is a
(19:19):
long list of the things that they're using here. The
Florida Division of Emergency Management, Florida State Card, Florida National Guard,
Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Fision, Wilde Commission, Florida Lawenforcement
Coordination Task Course, Lawenforcement Strike Team, all of these they're
all coming together launching Operation Blue Ridge to assist Floridian
seeking rescue in western North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains and
Tennessee Valley. And you can find it at Florida Disaster
(19:40):
dot org slash Operation Blue Ridge. I'll be dang, I
will be dang. I mean this is like, this is wild.
So they're already where was Biden, by.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
The way, on the beach?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh? Correct, that's right, I mean all weekend? Literally, like
I don't look I that people in elected office they
can multitask, you know, they can go out and eat
with their families and do whatever. Biden though, this wasn't
a one off legit and it was what wasn't it
Since Thursday? Actually he has legit been had like an
(20:15):
extended weekend, and he's been pictured. I have like five
or six different images of him on the beach doing
what Trump said he would never do, sleeping in a
chair on the beach, literally asleep, mouth catch and flies
on the beach. That was what Biden. And then where
was Harris? She was at a ritzy Las Vegas fundraiser
and she was just doing fundraisers. So it's not like
(20:38):
they went out and had a meet with their family
and then they got back to response or they were
in touch the whole time. I mean he was four hours.
Because the press sits out there and watches him. He
sits there for hours hours. Nobody know aids coming up, nothing,
He's just sitting there for hours on the beach. You
wouldn't even know that he's the president of the United States.
And a major Category four hurricane came and hit a
(20:59):
multiple states and you have a one hundred fatalities. You
wouldn't even know it, with hundreds of people missing. You
wouldn't even know that's what he was doing. So there's
there's a big difference there. You know, no one would
grudge him a meal out with his family or friends,
but all weekend on the beach and not in communication.
Today was the first time that we heard him say anything. Really,
(21:23):
you're the president of the United States. Come on, it's
this weird. I mean, I I don't know. I mean,
it's uh, just a massively, massively, massively different, massively different response.
Thanks for tuning into today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd
(21:45):
Truth podcast.
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If you haven't already, made sure to hit that subscribe
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Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Celtech. It's
his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Man or Florida woman, because that's what happened here in Tampa.
A drunk Florida woman ran into a barrier wall in
the Iphoria in Tampa, and then on Sunday after when
the troopers showed up, she grabbed his man bits and
bit his leg. YEP twenty five year old Tayshiro Williams
of Largo. She crashed into a barrier wall. When troopers arrived,
(00:38):
she was impaired. They were taken under a into custody.
She resisted how to be physically restrained as officers. As
they tried to restrain her, she grabbed the junk of
one trooper and then bit another trooper's leg, so she
got charged with resisting with violence in a dui. According
(01:01):
to Florida Highway Patrol, I don't know why I thought
that they would wear cups, but maybe I mean, it
makes sense that they don't. But now I'm like, well,
got lee. You know, there's because no way to put
one on before you go over, and you know, got
to do your stop or good heavens, I don't even
know this guy, this Florida man was. He got in
(01:24):
trouble because he was hiding drugs in his nose from
the police and it didn't work. As you can imagine.
This was in Saint Petersburg. Joel Wallace was pulled over
for speeding and this was on Miles Stretch Road in Holiday, Florida.
He refused to stop originally, so they it was a
(01:46):
high speed chase, and he just high speed chased him
right on home. He literally went home, and then apparently
while en route during the high speed chase to his house,
he tried to snort the rest of the cocaine that
he had in his car. I don't know why people
you think like cheating, like flirting with death is going
to be better than just get me. Stop it. And
(02:09):
when they finally got him, he had white residue all
over his nose, and he was telling them that he
didn't have white residue all over his nose and that
he didn't have any cocaine. And he had no idea
why they thought he had illegal drugs or why he
was attempting to conceal them because he didn't have any cocaine.
Except for the fact that he literally had white powder
all over his nose because he tried to snort the
remainder of the cocaine. That's horrible. So he's totally in jail.
(02:33):
A naked Florida man claims to be the devil and
terrorizes women. I mean, it's twenty twenty four, so he
could be or maybe he's Anthony Wiener. I don't know.
Naked Florida man says he was the devil, terrorizes women.
His name is a Roverlandispina. He decided to break and
do a Florida woman's home totally butt naked and said
he was the devil, according to w TVJ, and he
(02:56):
walked into her apartment and said that he and look
went into her bedroom. Apparently broke into her apartment, went
to her bedroom, told her she had to die, and
then she tried to run away. He grabbed her, dragged
her by her hair inside. Then he's then he uh,
she has a husband who wasn't there, he was at work.
He began stealing her husband's underwear. This story never ends,
(03:22):
by the way, and the neighbors ended up calling the
cops because they heard all of this stuff. And then
when the police showed up. The devil was still yelling
and swearing. He said he was the husband because look,
would he have all this underwear if he wasn't. I'm
not even kidding you. So and then it was crazy.
It's crazy. So the guy gets he was arrested, charge
(03:43):
with burglary, assault, battery. I don't know, man, what in
the world you know? Was it a full moon, hurricane weather?
I don't know. Stick with us. The longshoreman's strike, I
said last hour, we were going to touch on this
because we've all been supply chain crisis, a supply chain
crisis before, and we all we've all had issues with
(04:06):
shipping and everything due to everything that happened with the ronavirus. Now,
if you liked how Biden and Harris handled immigration at
the southern border, you're gonna love this one. Yeah. Well,
it's the supply chain. It's a port strike, and it's
(04:26):
gonna get bad, that's all I gotta say. It's gonna
be massively disruptive. The it's gonna be East Coast ports.
Longshoremen are preparing to strike from New England to Texas.
The strike is set to happen early Tuesday, the first
walkout of its kind in almost half a century, freezing
(04:47):
commercial shipping on a massive scale, and it would be
the biggest disruption. This is how heavy. This is the
biggest disruption to the flow of goods in and out
of the country since the high of the pandemic. So
even a short lived work stoppage would snarl shipping and
create havoc in supply chains for weeks. So everything from
(05:12):
cars to electronics, food to furniture would be stuck on
ships off shore. And according to analysts, each day that
a strike lasts, it could cost the US economy up
to a billion dollars. A billion dollars. That's a lot.
(05:33):
And you have Gina Romando as the Commerce secretary. She
was asked about this audio sound by thirty six, Well,
what is she hearing if doc workers striking it goes
on longer than a week? What are you what are
you prepared to do? Listen?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Where have you been kind of focused on hearing on
what would happen if the strike goes let's say longer
than a week.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Again, I have not been very focused on that. So
Gina Romando, who is literally the Commerce Secretary, hasn't been
focused on it at all pooh pooty juice is nowhere
to be found. Okay, well, I mean, who the hell
is in charge? Oh well, let's see Biden. What is
Biden said? Biden was asked about the strikes. Now, he
(06:26):
was asked about the strikes in Yemen. This is what
he said to the strikes in Yemen. Audio somebody seven.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Mister President, will you deploy more US troops to the
Middle East?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Mister president hukung to bomb any comment on the strikes
in Yemen. Mister President, he was asked about the strikes
in Yemen, and he says, well, I'm supporting a collective
(07:06):
bargaining effort. Oh my gosh. Well so that's the guy
who's running the country. Okay, So there's that running the
conry in air quotes. So there's that, all right, So
we have no idea really what our commerce secretaries now,
(07:29):
I've not been following that. That was embarrassing. This is
like the every actually every single time she's asked a question,
she does not know about that. What was the last
like several things we've played. That's all the soundbites we
have for her, like, I don't know about that, I
don't know she Mariah carries it. I don't know her.
I don't know her. So this is just weeks before
(07:49):
the presidential campaign. Huh. You'd think Democrats would want to
solve this. You would think they would. And Harris, who's
the vice president, hasn't said anything. Realize that as as
what's his face, Walls, Balls, whatever, Tim Walls, as he
hit come on, it is an honest mistake. As he
(08:11):
hits the stage during the VP debate tomorrow with JD. Vans,
that's when apparently the port shutdown began. They Yeah, that's
when the port shutdowns begin. I wonder if that's going
to come up tomorrow. My gosh, Tim Walls is going
to try so hard to be the everyman. We're going
to talk about this. That'll be our next topic here.
(08:32):
But it's the International Longshoremen's Association forty seven thousand members
in the US Maritime Alliance. They represent container carriers and
port operators. All their discussions have installed since summer summer.
The labor contract expires tonight, so beginning at twelve oh one,
they could go on strike. And the longshoremen they load
(08:53):
and unload cargo at ports, They work the cranes that
haul those content. Those are actually super fun to watch.
They big crane of all the containers on and off
the cargo ships. They maintain the equipment. This is important stuff.
And they said that the ports that they're expecting to
close are major maritime hubs in New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah,
(09:15):
and Houston. Now they're on the West coast. Because some
people have asked, well, is it affecting the West coast too,
it's not, because they are represented by a separate union
that they had a contract agreement already last year. So
the ports like in the North, in the Pacific Northwest
(09:36):
and in California, they cannot they're not going to be
affected by this. But but they could say, in solidarity,
we're going to refuse to handle cargo right now. I
don't know if that would put them at odds with there.
(09:56):
I mean, they just negotiated and got a contract a
year ago. So wouldn't that kind of be spit in
the face of that? I don't know, don't you think so, Caine,
is that spinning in the face of it? Are you spinning?
I mean, for like, on solidarity, even though they got
a nice contractor year ago, would that be spitting in
the face of it, I don't know how's that interpreted.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, I mean, I guess it could be interpreted both ways.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But I would just be like if I was a
crane operator, to me, it would be a sad day
when I couldn't operate a crane. I mean, I don't
I've never done that, But to me, it's just like
a giant version of that, you know, the toy thing.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And the fact that this strike, this strike is even
being considered right now shows that there's actually been a
long history of grievances that they've had and it has
not been addressed by anyone, let alone the administration.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, so will they have no excuse me, they have
no way right now, nothing from the administration at handling this.
So they look at it's the International Longshoreman's Association, so
it's East Coast thirty six ports East and Golf Coast,
and it looks like everybody may have to divert to
(11:03):
West coast. That's good. You know how much more expensive
that would be, so think of it. They would have
to depending on how long it goes on with East
Coast ports, shippers then may have to divert to West coast.
Think about how much more expensive that makes something that
if it has to be diverted all the way around
the other side of the country and then to get
(11:24):
it to wherever you are, that's going to be that's
prices are going to skyrocket. And how does that affect
an economy that is already dealing with Biden inflation? I mean,
what about factories that need parts and things like that.
I mean this there was a pull this up. This
is a CNN piece that said there are shortages, higher
(11:47):
prices even you know, factory parts everything. It could actually
disrupt not just you know, more than just obviously consumption,
but it could disrupt plant operations if it halts the
delivery of supplies and parts for other factories. It's in
(12:08):
New York and New Jersey, they're both affected by this.
That's the third largest port by volume of cargo handled.
And it also and now listen to this, it also
affects places like Port Wilmington and Delaware. Support we Wilmington
and Delaware. That's the banana port that brings in the
biggest share of bananas to the United States. One point
(12:28):
two million metric tons of bananas come through that port.
Ninety percent of cherries imported cherries, eighty two percent of
hot peppers, eighty percent of imported chocolate come through all
the containers offloaded at those ports, according to the American
Farm Bureau. Now it's getting scarier. Now here's where we're
getting scary. This is where we're getting scary, guys. Eighty
(12:50):
percent gain of imported beer, wine and whiskey and scotch
in sixty percent of rum arriving at East and Gulf
Hohost ports eighty and sixty. Yeah. Yeah, that's the top
import at the Port of New York in New Jersey.
(13:12):
We're gonna have to work with wand to like come
up with some kind of rum running operation, a rum
running operation from San Juan to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I think you've already said too much.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
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Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So apparently there are actually get out of jail free cards.
Did you know this? You didn't know this? How is that? So?
It's like actually a thing? Apparently so per the Hill,
every police officer in New York, including retired officers, are
allowed to buy a certain number of special cards issued
by the union. They pay a nominal sum for the
(14:57):
cars that they distribute them as they wish. Sometimes they
can get them to family and friends. You can use
them for perksc meal discounts. Sometimes they sell them. It's
the Police Benevolence Association courtesy cards. Some people call them
to get out of jail free cards. So the idea is,
when someone who has a card is pulled over for
a traffic violation or approached by police for a minor offense,
if you show the card to the officer, it basically
(15:17):
let you go on with nothing more than just a warning.
I've heard of stories like this, but I don't know.
I don't know if I believe it, all right, because
you've got to enforce the law without fear of favor,
you know what I mean. And I think that there's
a lot of good guys out there, so I don't
I just I don't know anyone that this has ever
happened to do you. I hear about these things, but
(15:39):
there's never been anyone who's like, yeah, I did it
and it worked, you know, I don't know just anyway, So, oh,
look at this. They they're trying to tell you that
it's not the injection but just alcohol that's linked to
all these cancers. Drinking alcohols is linked to six types
of cancers, but not the government, and that we still
(16:00):
don't know what the hell's inn it's just taken shut out,
not that at all. I don't believe any of the
stuff that they push. I don't believe a single bit
of it. You know why, because all those octagenarians are
what are the centenarians, sorry, the ones that are like
over one hundred. Every single time you asked them what
do you do to live on? I'd be happy and
I have a drink every now and then, not alcoholics,
like seriously, learn the difference. But so I don't believe.
(16:23):
I don't believe this stuff. I don't believe it. So
a family, this is newsweek focused on a baby's first steps.
They don't they've missed the three year old wielding a knife.
It's all on video. Everybody's watching this baby take her
first steps. But yet in the background it's a three
year old with a knife, and they it was their
(16:44):
first it was their daughter's birthday. They were one year old.
And unfortunately Newsweek buries the lead all the way down
at the bottom of the article because this persons to
go back to j school and learn how to write
a proper story. But they said that the kid was
the toddler was trying to get the cake because they
used the knife to cut the cake. They were trying
to get the cake knife to lick the cake off
the knife, which is scaring me even more. And so
(17:06):
it just literally in the background is this kid wielding
a giant knife. It's kind it's funny and also scary
if you're a parent, because you're like, you know, how
quickly that could happen. Oh, by the way, twenty three
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(17:28):
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customers DNA material. Yeah, look at that this is apparently
I gotcha by a Green Flow, the theme song of
Floridians who are stuck in the Blue Ridge Mountains right now.
Apparently that's the thing Floridians do this time of years.
They go to the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Florida government,
(17:51):
Florida State government, was like, are you a Floridian and
are you stuck in the Blue Ridge Mountains? I gotcha?
So they're getting them. I'm not even kidding you. This
is literally what's happening. I was reading this. It said
covered to Ron de Santas launches Operation Blue Ridge. I'm
not I just think it's like they, like some of
these Southeastern states that are not democrat ran, it's like
(18:12):
they already got a plane for everything. Like I'm just
now learning that this is how Floridians do fall. They
go to the Blue Ridge Mountains and they're stuck there,
and Florida's already got a plane for it. So they
have it's literally called Operation Blue Ridge, and it's a
multi state agency response to get Floridians that are stuck
in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I didn't know that they
(18:33):
said that. I mean, it's literally a major relief expedition
to other states. They just got hit by a cat.
For dude, if I stub my toe and like fall
down a drop something, I'm done for the day. Like
they get hit by a cat four and they're like,
all right, we got all this situated. You stuck in
Blue Ridge Mountains, I gotcha. We're coming up to come
(18:54):
get you. And it's like settled. This is wild. They
got it all set. Man. They're sending ten truckloads of water,
over one hundred star links, a communication units, Strike Team,
one all Hazard's Incident Management Team, and a Telecommunications Emergency
Response Task Force. And it's they're using. This is a
(19:19):
long list of the things that they're using here. The
Florida Division of Emergency Management, Florida State Card, Florida National Guard,
Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Fision, Wilde Commission, Florida Lawenforcement
Coordination Task Course, Lawenforcement Strike Team, all of these they're
all coming together launching Operation Blue Ridge to assist Floridian
seeking rescue in western North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains and
Tennessee Valley. And you can find it at Florida Disaster
(19:40):
dot org slash Operation Blue Ridge. I'll be dang, I
will be dang. I mean this is like, this is wild.
So they're already where was Biden, by.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
The way, on the beach?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh? Correct, that's right, I mean all weekend? Literally, like
I don't look I that people in elected office they
can multitask, you know, they can go out and eat
with their families and do whatever. Biden though, this wasn't
a one off legit and it was what wasn't it
Since Thursday? Actually he has legit been had like an
(20:15):
extended weekend, and he's been pictured. I have like five
or six different images of him on the beach doing
what Trump said he would never do, sleeping in a
chair on the beach, literally asleep, mouth catch and flies
on the beach. That was what Biden. And then where
was Harris? She was at a ritzy Las Vegas fundraiser
and she was just doing fundraisers. So it's not like
(20:38):
they went out and had a meet with their family
and then they got back to response or they were
in touch the whole time. I mean he was four hours.
Because the press sits out there and watches him. He
sits there for hours hours. Nobody know aids coming up, nothing,
He's just sitting there for hours on the beach. You
wouldn't even know that he's the president of the United States.
And a major Category four hurricane came and hit a
(20:59):
multiple states and you have a one hundred fatalities. You
wouldn't even know it, with hundreds of people missing. You
wouldn't even know that's what he was doing. So there's
there's a big difference there. You know, no one would
grudge him a meal out with his family or friends,
but all weekend on the beach and not in communication.
Today was the first time that we heard him say anything. Really,
(21:23):
you're the president of the United States. Come on, it's
this weird. I mean, I I don't know. I mean,
it's uh, just a massively, massively, massively different, massively different response.
Thanks for tuning into today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd
(21:45):
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