@spaf The immigrants, the measles guy? even the signalgate thing??

They're all distractions so people stop looking closely at ongoing #statecapture of our government by Russia.

It pisses me off immensely.

@mousey @spaf i very much dislike the “distraction” approach; more than one thing happens at once; they may or not be related, some may come from the same root cause, some are effects of what happens when a bunch of opportunists seizes the moment to win their own little games, and their actions should not be dismissed, because the results of their actions may be just as disastrous, if not moreso, that something you think is the primary issue.

and ultimately, at the mitigation stage, getting the root cause right – if there's a single one – may be less important than stopping the whole system from unraveling.

@mawhrin @spaf We fundamentally agree, and the damage being done by all the other actions also needs to stop..

But *of* all the damage being done, rsync'ing all our federal databases to a foreign adversary necessitates far more attention than it's getting.