Cargo containers aren't piling up in California because of a lack of longshoremen. Or teamsters, for that matter. They're piling up from a lack of trucks. Or, more precisely, a lack of trucks that comply with the draconian California emissions standards that went into effect late last year, which had the effect of banning 50% of the truc…
Cargo containers aren't piling up in California because of a lack of longshoremen. Or teamsters, for that matter. They're piling up from a lack of trucks. Or, more precisely, a lack of trucks that comply with the draconian California emissions standards that went into effect late last year, which had the effect of banning 50% of the trucks currently on the road overnight.
The Biden Regime knows this, but it can't be seen publicly admitting to it, because it is broadly in support of California-style emissions standard, and either way, would stand behind the Democrat political machine that runs the state no matter what the issue. Hence the idiotic posturing with mayors and union leaders that everyone involved knew ahead of time would amount to nothing.
First, "Lying through one's teeth" is depressingly effective as a tool of political misdirection when the entirety of corporate media is in the tank. We're talking about the same people who have spent the last five years telling us that Trump was a Russian asset. Lying about the causes of supply chain disruptions would appear to be small potatoes by comparison.
Second, what political consequences? We're talking about the same people who rammed through Obamacare in early 2010. The party as a whole got hammered in the 2010 midterm elections, true. But the people who were leading the Democrat political machine at the beginning of 2010 are, for the most part, exactly the same people who are leading it now.
Third, and as a mitigating factor to the second, when one has just successfully installed one's chosen fall guy in the White House in a transparently brazen piece of electoral fraud, one might well be justified in believing that one is immune from political consequences.
Cargo containers aren't piling up in California because of a lack of longshoremen. Or teamsters, for that matter. They're piling up from a lack of trucks. Or, more precisely, a lack of trucks that comply with the draconian California emissions standards that went into effect late last year, which had the effect of banning 50% of the trucks currently on the road overnight.
The Biden Regime knows this, but it can't be seen publicly admitting to it, because it is broadly in support of California-style emissions standard, and either way, would stand behind the Democrat political machine that runs the state no matter what the issue. Hence the idiotic posturing with mayors and union leaders that everyone involved knew ahead of time would amount to nothing.
Aren't they then causing a crisis that will only hurt them politically? Or do they just not care anymore?
First, "Lying through one's teeth" is depressingly effective as a tool of political misdirection when the entirety of corporate media is in the tank. We're talking about the same people who have spent the last five years telling us that Trump was a Russian asset. Lying about the causes of supply chain disruptions would appear to be small potatoes by comparison.
Second, what political consequences? We're talking about the same people who rammed through Obamacare in early 2010. The party as a whole got hammered in the 2010 midterm elections, true. But the people who were leading the Democrat political machine at the beginning of 2010 are, for the most part, exactly the same people who are leading it now.
Third, and as a mitigating factor to the second, when one has just successfully installed one's chosen fall guy in the White House in a transparently brazen piece of electoral fraud, one might well be justified in believing that one is immune from political consequences.