Was the Baltimore bridge repayment for the Crocus attack? If so, it was deft revenge and inflicts a serious economic and logistical wound on the U.S. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:
“A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a compact car. When millions of people can walk across our border with impunity what do you think the chances are we would catch something that size?” — Sam Faddis, Retired CIA
Who was not impressed seeing the sudden and total collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after getting its pylon bonked by the container ship Dali a few hours before the dawn’s early light in Baltimore harbor? In America’s ongoing death-of-a-thousand-cuts, that one literally severed a major artery, but it may take a while to know how badly the wounded colossus known as the USA is bleeding out.
“Joe Biden” emerged from his crypt pronto to state that the federal government would pony-up the cost of building the bridge back better, meant to reassure the public, you’d suppose. But perhaps the real reason was to obviate an otherwise requisite investigation of the crash by ship-owner Grace Ocean’s insurance company — since legal wrangling over responsibility would add more years to the already years-long estimated bridge replacement time-frame. And Gawd knows what else they might discover about how the darn thing came to pass. . . rumors of a Ukrainian captain at the Dali’s helm. . . stuff that the ruling intel blob might not want to get out there, especially given the still-murky role of the joint USA-UK black-op blobs in the Moscow Crocus Theater Massacre just a week earlier.
Ever the optimist and it has boosted morale many times but I’m going with H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain regarding the Boobus Americanus.
Then I read about the comrades are getting restless in Chicago and rethinking 100 years of CPUSA (D) rule.
They are Grinchy in that they don’t like the replacements hogging up the free green eggs and ham or those bootleg government Velveeta cheese boxes, the baseball card benders.
The meme of the car salesman regarding the UNI-Party applies, one wants to burn it all down right now and the other not so fast.
We really are stuck between Scylla and Charybdis.
Do they ship military gear out of Baltimore port? (wink)
Brandon should use his dark lasers and build it back better but I’m sure the environmental impact studies and diversity uber alles will make it take years.
BTW-the container has some hazardous materials onboard.