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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 4341493" data-attributes="member: 1132">You have to remember that the state legislature and executive office both fought extensively to deny the petitions and ballot initiatives. They lost and were&#039;nt prepared for that eventuality. They were completely out of their depth on drafting the laws and regulations that followed, which is what allowed the Chinese to move in so quickly and establish footholds across the state. Sometimes you have to be prepared to do what you hope you won&#039;t have to do.&nbsp; <img src="/images/smilies/anyone.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":anyone:" title="Anyone&nbsp; &nbsp; :anyone:" data-shortname=":anyone:" /> Yeah, DHS cannot defend the indefensible. Mayorkas loves to say &quot;they&#039;ve been vetted&quot;. I can walk out and look at a vast sea of humanity, not see any nakedly transparent threats and decree &quot;they&#039;ve been vetted&quot;. That doesn&#039;t make it so. Under no rational definition of &quot;vetted&quot; have these people been vetted. It&#039;s sheer insanity to pretend otherwise. From my perspective, I consider it weaponized incompetence. They want to do a thing. They know what they want to do is indefensible by any rational measure. They pretend they&#039;re negating the immense downside by &quot;doing X&quot;, with the full knowledge that doing X will not in any appreciable way mitigate the downside. It&#039;s a lie by obfuscation. The same thing happened with the CBP One app. People knew full well it was ripe for abuses. The Biden Administration pretended it wasn&#039;t because they wanted to do exactly what they did, which is fundamentally circumvent the systems measures and procedures in place to prevent what happened from happening. <img src="/images/smilies/frown.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 4341493, member: 1132"] You have to remember that the state legislature and executive office both fought extensively to deny the petitions and ballot initiatives. They lost and were'nt prepared for that eventuality. They were completely out of their depth on drafting the laws and regulations that followed, which is what allowed the Chinese to move in so quickly and establish footholds across the state. Sometimes you have to be prepared to do what you hope you won't have to do. :anyone: Yeah, DHS cannot defend the indefensible. Mayorkas loves to say "they've been vetted". I can walk out and look at a vast sea of humanity, not see any nakedly transparent threats and decree "they've been vetted". That doesn't make it so. Under no rational definition of "vetted" have these people been vetted. It's sheer insanity to pretend otherwise. From my perspective, I consider it weaponized incompetence. They want to do a thing. They know what they want to do is indefensible by any rational measure. They pretend they're negating the immense downside by "doing X", with the full knowledge that doing X will not in any appreciable way mitigate the downside. It's a lie by obfuscation. The same thing happened with the CBP One app. People knew full well it was ripe for abuses. The Biden Administration pretended it wasn't because they wanted to do exactly what they did, which is fundamentally circumvent the systems measures and procedures in place to prevent what happened from happening. :( [/QUOTE]

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