The Daily Whatever, April 29: It’s the End of the Ports as We Know It
We don't feel fine about it, we need wine to gripe about it, and stuff is about to get scarce and more expensive. 😭😭
First of all, CONGRATS to Canada and the Liberals and Mark Carney! The liberals will form a minority government (meaning they don’t outright have 172 seats to form a majority government; they’ll need a junior party to team up with.) AND, Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat. The power of Trump—to kill everything he touches, again!
Brace yourselves, word on the street is that Carney has a bigger tariff retaliation plan, and was waiting until he had been elected to a full term to impose them. Here he is sounding tough on ‘Merica to the Beeb.
As we noted, other smart folks here on Substack have been talking about the impending “stuff shortage” that will come about this week as a result of tariffs. The last container ships from China are arriving, and the port traffic to replace them is down massively.
Michael Snyder: Experts Are Warning That There Will Be Significant Shortages In The United States By The End Of Next Month
Opinionated Ogre: The Trump Crash is Almost Here. Are You Prepared?
And Dana noted that folks in Seattle are talking about the absence of container ships at the Port of Seattle—something that can be seen from nearly every vantage point from most of the city!
We talked about the obvious and immediate impacts in our article from this morning:
We talked about the things we can do now.
Plan ahead.
Buy more staples when they’re available and resist the urge to panic buy.
Think about investing in electronics purchases or car purchases now before the supply chain gets truly fucked again.
Stock up on your emergency supplies like we’re going to have a monthlong blackout.
Start a Victory Garden—tho we might rename them to “Fuck Trump Gardens”.
Follow good folks who are sharing wisdom, like Michelle Teheaux at Untrickled.
We can get through this together, but good lord this is a lesson we didn’t need to learn again after COVID, and yet, here we are!
Thank you Sally Prag, Karen Marie Shelton, Sarah, Ed Green, Untrickled by Michelle Teheux and many others for tuning into “The Daily Whatever” with Dana DuBois! Join us tomorrow and every weekday at 7am Pacific, 10am Eastern for an episode of “The Daily Whatever”!
Lawrence Winnerman
The science fiction writer
Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. All stories by Lawrence
Dana DuBois
The memoirist
Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy. All stories by Dana
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