Squirrel!

 Ever take your nice, calm Labrador retriever for a walk in the park when a squirrel innocently bounds across the path ahead of you and up a tree? 

Your nice, calm dog becomes hard to control. It might take a while to get them away from that tree.

Well, this week, the nice, calm, mainstream news media found a squirrel.

They seem to have lost focus on the big news (and still hasn't gone away): DOGE is taking a chainsaw to the U.S. government. Instead, news this week has been dominated by "Signalgate," a kerfuffle surrounding a group chat of the "Houthi PC small group."

I don't need to go into the details of Signalgate. But how it has dominated the news may be more relevant.

With all this attention on Trump's senior security advisors and their "amateurish" handling of sensitive information on Signal, a commercial messaging app, the destruction that DOGE is wreaking on government agencies hasn't been the lead story.

I wouldn't be surprised if this "mistake" (as Trump calls it) was deliberate. It served to flood mainstream media with juicy scandal, thus distracting the media from the carnage that DOGE is bringing our world.

Do I have any evidence? Absolutely not. 

I just find it interesting that I've been hearing more about Signalgate and less about DOGE, and Trump is famous for "flooding the zone" of the media with "shock and awe." This Signalgate scandal seems to fit right in with that strategy.

Perhaps it's just a coincidence.

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