Anyone else notice how every major blackout in the last decade happened right before a big political announcement?

Right so I've been down this rabbit hole for about three years now and the timing correlation is genuinely hard to ignore once you start actually mapping it out properly. Texas 2021, the Northeast grid failures, even some of the smaller regional ones in the UK - pull up the news archives and check what got announced in the 48-72 hours after each one. Its not subtle.

My working theory is its less about causing the blackout and more about using the chaos as cover, like everyone's distracted arguing about the power companies and nobody's reading the small print on whatever just got quietly dropped.

Anyone actually sat down and done a proper timeline on this or am I the only nerd who spent his Saturday doing that instead of something normal?

@BobbyPhantom the Texas one I'd be careful with - that was genuinely a perfect storm of deregulation failures and a cold snap the grid wasn't built for. The timing with anything political is more likely because politics moves fast after a crisis rather than before it.

That said I'm not dismissing the broader pattern entirely. Grid infrastructure is one of those areas where if you wanted to apply pressure quietly, you absolutely could. Ive done enough research into how utility companies operate to know the oversight is thin and the attack surface is huge.

What's your methodology for the mapping? Are you accounting for how many major political announcements happen in a given month versus how many don't coincide with anything?