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 Do you know who your FBI doesn't know? The undocumented people who crossed your border. Lucky them. 😏 
 Yeah, they're getting everything free and I keep  getting told  I need to go work for it. I'm over it. 
 They don't work for you anymore. Well, have they ever?  
 Real lucky 🙄 
 These days I tend towards the FBI a bit more than the extreme right-wing bullshit narratives that tend to resemble russian active measures tactics. 
 That’s the problem though right? That the FBI has become part of the political games. 
 It's one thing to be discerning and or dubious of various purveyors of information out in the world but a whole other problem to fall into conspiracy theory madness being driven by entities that have 50+ years of masterful propaganda operations.

Essentially it's important to constantly be tuning and retuning your own bullshit detector and don't take anything at face value... especially in echo chambers like this place. 
 Of course  🫡 
I am merely a distant observer of dumpster fires. I have not yet lost my mind.  
 And don’t get me wrong; the CIA/FBI economic hit men of 50s 60s 70s were an absolute dumpster fire. It’s hard to trust much but all things move in cycles. 🔄