Morning Jolt: The Self-Inflicted Dagger to America’s Economic Heart

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

October 03 2024

The Self-Inflicted Dagger to America's Economic Heart

On the menu today: The International Longshoremen's Association strike already has Americans going to stores and buying more than usual, leading to empty shelves. (But you don't need to worry about toilet paper this time around.) The 78-year-old, Bentley-driving ILA head who makes $900,000 per year is fundamentally unreasonable, as he's still complaining about E-ZPass, the electronic toll-collection system on East Coast highways, an entire generation after it was implemented. It cannot be emphasized enough that President Biden could end this strike immediately with a stroke of his pen, but he just doesn't want to — even though widespread economic disruption and hardship probably hurts Kamala Harris's chances of winning the election. We are governed by a senile idiot.

Meanwhile, the harshest assessment of Tim Walz's VP debate performance comes from someone you probably did not expect. Read on.

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