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I'd expect disgruntlement more than deep state given much of the reports we've been seeing about working conditions et al. There's reasons you treat the staff well, heh. Piss on the minions when the minions can piss back and you can expect some suddenly inclement weather :V

Eh, they were neat, but the process of putting them together was a PitA. Game's ship design doesn't mesh that well with the adjacency thing, and accommodating that just... took far more effort than it was worth, for little gain (and often enough active detriment, iirc). Interesting but notably unfun, t'me.

Hell, a good start to dealing with part of the source so far as that particular border goes would be decriminalizing or legalizing pot, maybe some other stuff, cut some of the major problems driving people away directly and otherwise off from a metric fuckton or two of revenue. Throw in muzzling arms sales going south of the border and giving our own shit enough teeth to stop some of the less direct stuff filtering off in that direction, and you've just made several orders of magnitude more progress in reducing incentives to cross the border than a goddamn wall can. Extra bonus points, any of those could function as an actual revenue stream via taxation and criminal/civil penalties for firearm trafficking violations.

Just think of it. Ways to reduce immigration, assuming that's a goal worth a damn to begin with, that not only could manage to be a fiscal net positive, it could engender good will with other countries and help progress other nations -- some of them close neighbors and excellent possibilities for strong relations -- and their populaces towards a better, safer, tomorrow.

Instead, of course, we get promised a fucking wall. Damn thing's probably not even good in bed.

Depends a lot on the barbed wire and what you consider special instruments. Plenty of the stuff that's not really that difficult to go through without all that much in terms of kit. It's simple, sure, and arguably cheap, but effectiveness is an entirely different subject

I... don't think someone actually getting caught committing perjury is quite the same sort of stuff the reps were getting up to a few years back. Dems might not be all that gracious at the moment (and hey, that's not exactly a surprise considering the way each side shits on the other, and what they can expect after the last time they tried that route), but most of the shitfests around this administration you can't blame much on anyone except said administration.

Maybe if someone was trying to bring in people that didn't have histories and practices as questionable as much of this lot has, there wouldn't be quite the amount of problem :V

E: Why was that comparing even there, brain?

I mean... I guess? But I'm pretty sure the effort and manpower already being expended trounces any argument from that direction pretty easily, and involves notably more risk for employees and agents, as well. You can't tax catch or control the stuff without manpower, but right now they've got no tax or control, and significantly more incentive to avoid being caught, and are still having to expend the manpower. Means pretty much anything coming in on that front is an improvement. That's not even getting into the issues involved with how gov't folks have been trying to bleed some dosh from the mess. Less incentive to abuse civil forfeiture laws and shit would be pretty nice.

If you're running effort calculus there's basically no way for the current state of things to be more efficient or less burdensome than a state of legalization (or at the absolute least decriminalization). Fact that the criminalized aspect of things makes some of organizations like the ATF's other duties something more of an issue is loitering around, too, heh.

Pretty sure there's some similar stuff with microbreweries, at least in some states, so far as the "Up to a point, then we've got problems" thing. Know there is with fishing and hunting, in most(/all?) parts of the country. Seem to do a'ight on that front, least from what I've seen. Enforcement's kinda' loose, much like it is with road law and speeding, but it seems to do decently for keeping most folks mostly on the up and up, such as it is. And most is all you really need, at the end of the day, at the very least with something as relatively harmless as pot.

Also think you're somewhat severely overestimating how much of our population would bother maintaining a garden plot if an alternative of some sort is available, ehehe. That shit takes effort and time, the corner store (or whatev') doesn't.

At the least, you could go for more alliteration. Soviet Successor Scandal Sauciness Edition.

Kinda' annoying there doesn't seem to be an easy place to see the actual statements of those justice department officials mentioned in stuff related to that mess.

That said, I'll give 'em this much, Peskov (one of russia's critters) response to the thing was definitely amusing. "Let's say it's not our headache." indeed...