its so much like 2020 in that the donkeys are genuinely surprised at how badly they are doing and start throwing together harebrained schemes to save the day that are so transparently obvious.
Look!! Another conspiracy nut here determined to prove he can follow the predicted pattern of what conspiracy nuts do. Trying hard to get his own cookie!!
The other reason these conspiracy theories spread is the same reason that QAnon itself did: There are reward mechanisms for sowing doubt that don’t exist for sharing the less-exciting truth. There are political rewards, certainly; various political actors got new surges in attention by spreading false claims about the attack