Are there really hundreds of ships off the west coast that can't unload? And 100,000 stalled containers? What's up?

One of the Democrats' most revealing sayings is "Never let a good crisis go to waste."  That may well be what's causing the bottleneck at west coast ports.  Below is just a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of shipping containers sitting in the port of Los Angeles.  The "reporter" in video below claims some of these containers have been stuck here for six months or more.

 

There are a couple of theories as to the cause of the stoppage.  One is that the Cali Air Resources Board--an agency with literally dictatorial power--declared that after last January no truck would be allowed to operate in that state if it was more than 3 years old.  This barred half the trucks in the country from hauling containers out of the ports.

That sounded plausible enough, eh?  Except it wasn't the cause.  At the end of the clip above a trucker at a port in Washington state points to a long line of parked trucks, saying they've been there for weeks, ready to take a load out, but the longshoremen won't load 'em.  Washington didn't have the Air Resources Board decree, so the claim that there aren't enough trucks is bullshit.

Another clue:  The biggest long-distance freight mover over land is rail, and rail hasn't been crippled by the Air Resources Board.  Yet they're not moving containers either.  Hmmm....

And now we get to the real story:  The longshoremens' union is in the middle of contract negotiations.  What better way to get a huge pay raise than to slow "work" to a trickle, threatening major retailers with not getting product for the huge Christmas shopping season.

Huge national retailers can pressure congress--and more importantly, the corrupt biden regime--to push the port operators to give the union anything it demands.  And the socialists who infest the biden Labor Department love the labor unions, which are huge Democrat donors.

If we're ever gonna get the real story, it won't be from the alphabet networks or the NY Times or WaPo, cuz they're all scared to death of suddenly getting "labor problems" of their own.  Maybe some blogger with relatives in the shipping or port business can eventually tell us.