"What difference, at this point, does it make?"- Lifelong Bureaucrat and Shrieking Karen, Hillary Clinton

Karl Denninger at the Market Ticker discusses Signal-gate, the latest leftist Karen-moment designed to scare stupid citizens into believing that amateurish Trump cretins are spoiling their finely tuned federal expertocracy. As usual, Karl sees through the crap and suggests a way to put Humpty Dumpty back together again:

This incident, beyond the actual person who added (or changed) the recipient so that reporter was in the list, is directly chargeable against CISA and their recommendation.  Since it is their job to put forward such standards for the government this is a fatal failure and every individual involved in that process, no matter how small their involvement, must be both publicly identified and expelled.  As there was apparently no classified data breached as a result of this, criminal sanction is not appropriate -- but permanent severance from any government employment now and in the future, along with summary and permanent revocation of any clearance held by said persons is not just advisable -- it is mandatory.

Security is a process, not a product.

What's wrong here is the assumption that you can make things work in Washington DC by tightening up the rules and getting rid of a few rotten apples. The truth is the entire orchard is rotten. There is no way to make things work in the Washington bureaucracy. The only sane policy is to destroy it from top to bottom.

That includes CISA, a $3-billion per year bureaucracy that employs over 4,000 bureaucrats, probably 90% of them leftist Democrats. Garbage in. Is it any wonder a few Trump bureaucrats got screwed by the CISA garbage out?

Now consider that the federal government is a $6-trillion leviathan with 450,000 leftist bureaucrats ensconced in the Washington DC landfill. What are the odds Trump or Musk or any sane conservative can make that trash work for us?

Zero.

The federal bureaucracy is not our friend. It will never be our friend. It CANNOT be our friend. Garbage is garbage.

Elon Musk is on the right track, although he must come to the understanding that the workings of the federal leviathan are not IMPAIRED by waste and fraud. The federal leviathan IS waste and fraud. Musk's mission should be to eliminate federal spending and terminate federal employees, wherever he finds them. CISA should be his next stop.