The Consequence of a Movie Line Coming To Life

There is a line in the movie The American President between the President and his Chief of Staff played by Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen which goes like this: Sheen - Never have an airline strike at Christmas? 

Douglas - I'm going to St. Louis.

 

Maybe the Harris-Biden regime needs to take a lesson from this.

It was reported today by Newsmax and others that dockworkers on the US East Coast and Gulf Coast began a strike early Tuesday, their first large-scale stoppage in nearly fifty years, halting the flow of about half the nation's ocean shipping after negotiations for a new labor contract broke down over wages.

It is thirty-six days until the most consequential election in our nation’s history. Amazingly, I had read a blurb reported in an online publication that Hillary Clinton was predicting a “major” October Surprise which would have a decided impact on this election. Against Kacklin’Kammy.

The impact of a strike will be devastating on the American economy. The strike blocks everything from food to automobile shipments across dozens of ports from Maine to Texas, in a disruption analysts warned will cost the economy billions of dollars a day, threaten jobs, and potentially stoke inflation.

But, of course, rather than heading to the negotiating table, the Kamster was still far away, out on the campaign trail and President Biden was resting at his Delaware Beach house over the weekend.

Not good optics for either of them.

Maybe the updated line for this regime should be: Never have a longshoreman strike before an election.