I'm too old and jaded to assume that any branch of the federal leviathan is any good at what they are tasked with doing. I'll reserve judgement about our armed forces, because even with the catastrophe of Obama's purges and the focus on how to walk in pumps and respecting people's pronouns, there are undoubtedly many NCOs and even some officers who are expert at killing people and breaking their things, and can lead their troops to do something other than a bump and grind.
But in the main...government is bad at doing things, and the federal government, with its magical never-ending stream of funds seems to be the worst of the bunch. Yet every day it seems as though they are getting worse! The shift from minimally competent government employees that we expected even into the beginning of the 21st century has morphed into a chaotic clown show of poorly planned responses, idiotic Newspeak pronouncements from gibbering fools, and the abject failure to do even the most basic stuff.
The agent who noticed the suspected shooter was five feet away when he noticed the barrel of a gun. He fired six shots and struck naught. However, the Secret Service has yet to confirm the actual number of shots fired, another embarrassing failure by the elite security service to account for ammunition spent.
How can the United States Secret Service keep in its employment a man who missed his target from five feet away? With six rounds? How can the United States Secret Service fail to notice that at least one of their front-line employees -- a man tasked with protecting the life of a former and soon-to-be current president -- can't shoot his weapon with anything approaching competence? What sort of training and evaluation does that federal department use that is unable to sort out and reject a man who is that profoundly bad at his one job?
[...]an FBI official confirmed in an interagency press call on Saturday that drone sightings had spread to Maryland, but stopped short of saying they were directly connected to the original reports in New Jersey.
“There’s no confirmation that any of those [initial reports] are linked to anything that’s being observed throughout the country, or at other locations,” the official said.
“I don’t want to cause alarm and panic, but we can’t ignore the sightings that have been there, and we are concerned about those just as much as anybody else [who’s a] resident here of New Jersey,” he added.
The official said the FBI is conducting an ongoing investigation into the origin of the sightings.
Well, except at butchering the English language with nonsensical blather that means nothing. At least the official is "concerned!" That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Every day that passes with more of these sightings and without a coherent and understandable response from the federal government makes normal people suspect that either the government isn't trying hard, or they are incredibly incompetent, or they are covering up something.
My money is on all three.
At the risk of being coarse, my current impression of our government is that they could f*ck up a wet dream. Can anyone point to a successful project or action by the federal government in the last four years?
And yes, they have succeeded in flooding the country with illegals, but they did it in such a hamfisted way that pretty much the entire country is pissed off and wants it to end. So what they got for their labors is a profound realignment in, and hardening of America's opinion about illegal immigration, and as a lovely bonus it probably got Donald Trump elected!