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On March 26, 2024, at about 1:30 in the morning the 948-foot container ship MV Dali, with two Harbor Pilots aboard, lost power and navigation control in Baltimore’s Patapsco River and slammed into a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it into the river. The wreckage blocked the Port of Baltimore, America’s 9th-busiest port for international cargo shipments and the Nation’s busiest coal shipping port, and trapped 11 ships on the river, including four US Navy Ships deemed “critical to the Nation’s defense“. When built in 1977 the truss girder bridge was the (2nd) longest of its’ kind ever built, and carried over 11 million vehicles per year across the river.
Interesting Fact!
[The MV Dali, a Neopanamax container ship, was built by Koreans (in 2015), crewed by Indians, chartered to a Danish shipping company, and owned and registered in Singapore.]
Of course it didn’t take long for “Conspiracy Theorists” – perhaps more accurately referred to as “Conservative Fact-Checkers” – to suspect foul play: A foreign country hacked the ship’s electronic GPS navigation and / or SCADA control system, Biden wanted to stop coal shipments, bad actors wanted to keep US Navy ships at port, blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda. I’ll let the pundits ponder that and wait for their conclusions.
And naturally, Joe Biden is using the disaster to cater to his allies (especially during an election year): He’ll redistribute wealth from Federal Taxpayers to pay for the rebuilding, give the construction jobs to Union Labor, and a “Progressive, Black, Millennial Mayor” of a Democrat city will get to brag about a brand new bridge.
Obviously, this requires a meme:
