04/16/2024
đ„ It used to take about six months for conspiracy theories to become conspiracy facts, but the cycle time seems to be shortening up. You may recall that, after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed following a container shipâs unexplained power loss, some people suspected there might be more to the story than just a coincidental accident.
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But corporate media laughed like hyenas at all the silly conspiracy theories.
For instance, MSNBC prominently ran an op-ed titled, âThe MAGA world's bridge conspiracies highlight an incredibly dark reality. Somehow that wasnât perfectly clear, the article somehow conflated questioning the cause of the container shipâs loss of power with MAGA politics. I donât really understand the authorâs reasoning (I blame the public school system), but this is how he explained it:
For most Americans it was a breathtaking disaster and human tragedy. But far-right conspiracy theorists saw it as an opportunity. In a rapid flood of social media posts, politicians and âpunditsâ insisted that the disaster could not have simply been an accident.
âFar-rightâ conspiracy theorists. Theyâre probably Ukrainian N***s. Or robots. Or both â far-right robot N***s! But I digress.
Guess what happened next? Yesterday, mere weeks after the collapse, The Washington Post ran a curious story headlined, Federal criminal investigation opened into Key Bridge crash. The FBI is now investigating the âsimple accident.â
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The FBI, of course, is not saying anything about the pending criminal investigation. But that didnât stop the Washington Post from quoting several âexpertsâ opining that it doesnât mean anything serious, the FBI is probably just looking into some paperwork problem, or a minor failure to comply with port regulations, or some transgression of admiralty law, or â and I am not making this up â vessels being âunseaworthy.â
I never realized seaworthiness was within the FBIâs salty jurisdiction. You learn something new every day. Now I know who to call when the rental boatâs ice chest is empty.
The fact is, nobody knows what the FBI is up to, since the feds arenât talking. But if it were âsimply an accident,â there would be nothing to criminally investigate. Therefore, the investigation, just by existing, confirms the suspicions of the conspiracy theorists who thought there must be more to the story. It also, once again, revealed the useless corporate media as obsequious government puppies who enjoy being humiliated.
