>>23888048That was ridiculous. They also "accidentally leaked", the identities of a whole bunch of undercover federal agents and assets all over the world and it resulted in a pretty disastrous series of events for those compromised as you'd imagine.
Personally I see all of this disregard for laws and the norm as the same as the rest of the federal overreach over the past 15 years or so. Both sides have engaged in it. It's just been a constant degradation of the integrity of the government itself to push partisan political ends. The leaders of our countries play hot potato with difficult issues and only plan and address for them meaningfully when they are actually happening. It has become about optics, and the party narrative, over everything. This game of hot potato is resulting in a malicious wounding of the state in itself and also it's population in its entirety, to push these party agendas and narratives. Even when it is to the express detriment of the entire country, they choose to put the party above it and follow some vague and largely hollow political doctrine in their response. Rather than actually address these issues and recognize that there are some things we need to be able to get together on to secure a future, they focus on how they can avoid being the ones who has to do the necessary but unpopular thing. It's like a sailor bailing water out of a sinking boat, and stopping because if the boat sinks while he bails he might look bad. Totally irrational. Totally schizophrenic.
As I said earlier, I think that all of it is a sign of general decay. Though decay that has identifiable causes.
Many of the major pressing issues in our societies could have been averted if someone would have just stepped up and handled it 20-25 years ago. It's also not like these things weren't clear, what needed to be done. It was crystal clear. They just focus on keeping the machine running until the next shift takes over. What happens at that point is on the next shift.
