https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/29/bingo-longshoreman-union-announce-opposition-to-president-trumps-tariff-program/
BINGO – Longshoreman Union Announce Opposition to President Trump’s Tariff Program
Last week CTH noted, “interested political followers in the USA should pay close attention to how the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWA) respond to the corporate media narrative. … Will the International Longshoremen’s Association stand with Trump, or will they drop support as the global trade reset emphasizes domestically manufactured jobs? That will be an interesting aspect to watch because the dockworker union leadership will face massive pressure to comply with the anti-tariff narrative.” (link to full article below)
Yesterday, we got the answer: “The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) unequivocally condemns the recent tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed.”
All these moves are so transparently political, it almost makes you laugh. However, that said, we are now in a better position to understand exactly how the Democrats and Deep State operatives will weaponize the supply chain along with their union orcs.
In the next phase of the anti-Trump tariff agenda, approximately 3 months from now it will begin, we will see/hear a constant drumbeat of empty shelves, missing parts and missing products. Whether factually true, or whether the shortages are an outcome of a strategy by the ILWA to assist the shortage narrative, the overall objective will be to blame President Trump for everything from shortages of medicine to shortages of parts to fix, repair or maintain consumer products.
The process looming on the horizon is as predictable as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg moving the stalled container cargo ships beyond the horizon so that no one was able to take pictures of the mess they created in the ports. Factually, the last thing the global shipping conglomerates want is for nations to be self-sufficient.
Global supply chains are dependent on extreme ‘globalism’ and, well, ultimately, there are trillions at stake. Imagine the collapsed business models if nations were self-sufficient. Heck, even a small drop in U.S. import purchases has the ripple effect of the shipping companies losing billions in revenue.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy would be well advised to assemble a proactive ‘supply chain’ group right now to game out an offset strategy to what we can predictably see coming.
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Related: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/25/watch-longshoremen-union-a-predictable-democrat-strategy-to-weaponize-absent-china-goods-in-coming-months/
If the playbook is known, will the current Administration prevent the obvious from happening?