There is no way the feds that I thought could remotely spawn a hobgoblin in my room are this incompetent at putting black bars on text. 
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
Liberals dream of the multicultural ICE raid where nobody is doing it because they’re racist. They’re just following orders.
We’re doing it because the correct paperwork was filed saying that we have to do it! If you don’t like the laws then you should vote to change them! Until then though the adults in the room need to follow the rules!
Pirate raids in the Caribbean can only continue if those brave pirates have cultural awareness training. That is a diverse region where speaking to their hostages in Spanish might be seen as insensitive.
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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
MARCO RUBIO DID A SPEECH THE OTHER DAY HIGH ON COKE
This rocks
yeah, critical support
IDK why people on this forum keep acting they’re actually super smart and this is some 5d chess plo
I mean… Properly redacting documents is hardly 5D chess. I think US politicians are some of the dumbest fucks on earth but I’m still fairly surprised at the level of incompetence on display here.
Everyone who was competent in the Republican party is either a) dead
B) backed bush or cruz in 2016
So when trump won and picked in loyalists they weren’t allowed
Fucking Dr Oz and Marco Rubio are probably the two most competent people in the administration
Everyone else is former fox News or a podcaster
I think trump 1 caused a lot of Republican party neo con brain drain and trump 2 has killed the party of any intelligent evil
The neocons that are left are legacy members of Congress
Oh, absolutely. But this still seems like an exceptional level of stupid even in that context.
MARCO RUBIO DID A SPEECH THE OTHER DAY HIGH ON COKE
Source? Want to see
It’s like I’m a Chapo listener all over again
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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?
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.
This is truly the primary issue. These idiots believe the government is really large, despite decades of austerity.
The two takes aren’t entirely mutually exclusive. They can both think that the state needs to be shrunk and that the negative consequences are irrelevant.
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.
They fired all the competent people
Probably got a good chunk of them yeah
Trump likes loyalists and neocons weren’t loyal in 2016 so he picked his guys and since then the GOP is becoming the trump party
For decades before trump there was a neocon pipeline that produced intelligent evil like you saw in the bush administration
But trump chose his loyalists in trump 1, his lawyers and friends,
And now trump 2 is podcasters and Fox News
He has killed the pipeline of talent
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.
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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.
sounds like your typical flood the zone strategy. Just wait for the book to come out.
I have a hard time believing they wouldn’t just destroy anything too risky, so there just isn’t that much of an incentive to implement extra precautions.
Maybe I’m too pessimistic, but unless there’s like tapes of high level officials personally doing horrible shit, none of these documents would lead to much. So there isn’t that much of an incentive to keep them super hidden.
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.
The GOP is good at funnelling profits to the military industrial complex. They haven’t really shown an aptitude for fighting or winning wars.
War?
They’re good at starting them at least.
Adobe Acrobat has a redaction tool. Either the redaction tool sucks or no one there has an active Creative Cloud subscription
I doubt they didn’t know how to use the correct tool.
I think its on purpose. There are actual documents with significantly more evidence and shocking content. Those have been hidden or destroyed.
Then they plant an “oopsie, we used the wrong redaction tool” on documents that are bad enough to satisfy us, but not terrible enough to lose their voters, and we are now distracted with them.
It’s the oldest trick in the book: make the person feel smart because they’re outmaneuvering you. We feel like geniuses for finding the loophole around the redactions, that’s likely what they wanted from the start.
The redact tool takes a shitload of time to process every highlighted area so the dumbass failson analyst probably thought there’s no difference between that and just putting black highlight or box layer on top, which is much faster
They don’t actually care what we think and nothing will come of it. So why bother?
