It’s 2024 and our ports run much like they did 70 years ago because instead of bringing in basic automation, the dockworkers unions want things to run in that backward fashion. The backward state of our ports has been a contributor to the supply chain issues that have been causing problems for small businesses across the country.

With the election inbound, the union decided this would be a perfect time to cripple the economy.

Its words, not mine.

International Longshoremen’s Association boss Harold Daggett has long cast himself as a staunch advocate for blue-collar workers, even as he has lived in luxury, owning a yacht and driving a Bentley — and fought off alleged ties to the Mafia.

“They’re gonna be like this,” Daggett said, grabbing his neck in a choking gesture. “I’ll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does.”

Meanwhile, Daggett — has worked at the ILA for 57 years and took the helm as president in 2011 — raked in $728,000 in compensation last year from the ILA.

He collected another $173,000 as president emeritus of a local union branch, according to labor department filings.

He lives in a 7,136 square-foot house valued at $1.7 million on a 10-acre lot in Sparta, New Jersey, according to Zillow and NJ Property Records.

Daggett formerly owned the Obsession – a 76-foot yacht – and his family reportedly saw him zipping around in a Bentley, according to The New York Times.

In 2005, the Justice Department accused Daggett of being an “associate” of the Genovese crime family – one of the “Five Families” of the US Mafia.

During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence Ricci, an alleged major mob figure – disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.

When Daggett says, “I’ll cripple you”, he means it.

The strike is already turning violent with union thugs assaulting truck drivers.

Biden could stop this if he wanted to, but he’s choosing to stand with the thugs crippling America.

Thousands of unionized dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts are preparing to walk off the job Tuesday, stranding cargo containers, choking off supply chains for consumer goods, and costing the economy an estimated $5 billion a day.

President Joe Biden has one card left to play — a nearly 80-year-old law that would force union members back to work while negotiations continue.

On Sunday, Biden said he would not get involved.

“It’s collective bargaining,” he said. “I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley.”

On Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre backed that sentiment up.

“I know there’s a question about the Taft-Hartley. We have never invoked the Taft-Hartley to break a strike and are not considering to do so now,” she said at the press briefing, referring to Biden as a “pro-union president.”

Putting leftists first and America last.