Big Stories, Small Time

There are two huge stories today: Paul Ryan's Obamacare-lite bill, which will surely die as it is opposed by CATO, the Club for Growth, Paul's libertarian faction, Cruz's conservative faction, all Democrats, but not Susan Collins. It deserves more attention, but won't get it because...

...of the second big story, Wikileaks' huge CIA dump. This purports to come from a leaker within the intelligence community itself, and to give away the store on the CIA's hacking techniques. Allegedly they can take over your car (or a big truck near your car) for assassination purposes, and listen in to your conversations through your iWhatever or smart television. This, likewise, is huge news if true and needs to be carefully studied, but we won't get to do that because...

...of yesterday's big story, the new EO on immigration and refugees. It is supposed to be a significant improvement over the first one, and Trump's legal team is in place to fight challenges as they arise. Opponents are swearing to combat it, but most of us won't have time to pay attention because...

...of the weekend's big story, on 'wiretapping' accusations, which threatens to turn into an all-engulfing war between the two leading political factions in America. This is likewise an intricate story that needs very careful parsing, but we won't get to do that because...

...of all the other stories, and the ones that will come starting tomorrow.

6 comments:

Dad29 said...

Dunno about CIA, but any LE agency can request that OnStar activate the mike in your car at any time--whether you kept or abandoned the service--and they will be listening.

Grim said...

I like my 20 year old truck in part because it is immune to such things.

Anonymous said...

Yup, My 1991 3/4 ton P/U with a new engine I dropped in two years ago is immune as well......
:)

-Mississippi

Texan99 said...

It's my conversation that's immune, I think. Anyone who put me under surveillance would die of boredom. "If she listens to that audiotape of Pride and Prejudice in the car again I'll shoot myself!"

douglas said...

I think Trump paid close attention during the Obama administration, and at how much he was able to push through because something else was pulling attention away. The Republicans could never fight him because he kept their focus constantly shifting. Chaos is a form of cover and concealment.

Ymar Sakar said...

They don't watch people manually. THey record. If you then break a law or they need to destroy you, they have your data stored.

Humans aren't as all powerful as they may wish to think, even with technology inferior to that of pre Flood times.