Chapotraphouse

They fired and/or failed to retain all the people who know what they're doing. The empire has become so reliant on systems it doesn't understand that it doesn't know how to maintain those systems anymore. Just one more sign of the empire in decline.

Don't worry though the Dems will come in eventually and fix these systems that serve only to protect the ruling elite and claim it's some great victory that saved America

They fired anyone competent in the FBI for being "libs" with trump 2 because trump was mad Biden admin FBI investigated him for Jan 6 and shit

This admin is stupid

IDK why people on this forum keep acting they're actually super smart and this is some 5d chess plo

KASH PATTEL IS A THE HEAD OF THE FBI HE IS A PODCASTER

MARCO RUBIO DID A SPEECH THE OTHER DAY HIGH ON COKE

I’m of two minds on this.

One mind says, this is the result of generations of conservatives believing their own marketing about the state being bloated and useless and can be done more efficiently by making it more private sector-like. The previous generations were just using it to appeal to the rubes but this one actually means it. So they’ve purged everyone with the institutional knowledge to keep the basic functions up and now they’ve been caught flat-footed.

The other mind says, this is a feature, not bug. The disregard for the “norms and standards” extends to not going through the fig leaf processes of protecting the image of TPTB. They get that these systems are so ingrained and the populous is so allergic to even the mildest pushback that they can just flaunt that they’re letting the dirty laundry air. What’s anyone gonna do about it?

Why is the state so terrifyingly effective at times, and so bumblingly incompetent at others? One reason is that when you're the state -- especially when you're the feds -- you can get away with a ton of stuff an individual or a small private group would get absolutely nailed for. This is partly because you have so much influence over investigating and prosecuting everything, and partly because you have so many resources to begin with. You're on easy mode most of the time, so most of your personnel don't have to be too sharp.

There are 38,000 people working for the FBI and I guarantee you only about 10% of that number are seriously competent people.

I haven't made up my mind as to whether or not it was intentional or a fuckup.

Either way it serves to muddy the waters around the veracity of what we info is released.

Even if the Epstein files were released unredacted in their entirety, there simply too much information there for any one person to grasp without devoting to it the same effort as a PhD thesis. The way things are being released is compounding this.

It's made worse by:

• The Piecemeal Release.
• Redacted portions.
• Redacted portions that can be unredacted.
• Those same portions properly redacted in later releases.
• Documents first being released then taken off the DOJ website.
• Documents released by different entities. (DOJ, Congress, Estate)

It all just makes it more difficult to gather the information coherently, know what is relevant, and trust what you're reading. Huge portions of the population will not trust this source, or that source. Some will refuse to believe the unredacted bits aren't just made up. It'll be nearly impossible to get the information together before another bit is released, or another bit disappears again and hard to verify it even existed in the first place.

Intentional or not dragging it out like this acts like a pressure release valve for the public's furor. By the time it's "all" released it will have been so long and the process of vetting any tidbit of info will be so convoluted that anyone who still cares will be seen as a kook and a crank.

Red herring maybe. My understanding is that there was nothing truly groundbreaking there, so they may have done it on purpose to devalue the other redactions.

That's not fair; you can't highlight blackened text on a piece of paper, so you're supposed to follow the honor system and not highlight it on your pc.

The only person that knew how to redact text properly got let go during the budget cuts.

The GOP is really only competent at these things:

• Winning elections
• War

Nothing else.

Adobe Acrobat has a redaction tool. Either the redaction tool sucks or no one there has an active Creative Cloud subscription

They don't actually care what we think and nothing will come of it. So why bother?