at core, modern politics has little to do with genuine sentiment or ideology. when one really boils it down, it’s all moneyball:
how do i most cheaply acquire “on base” (getting elected) and runs (getting control) to put up wins (welding influence). and like billy bean before him, soros has been a pioneer in this, playing the political establishment over and over by finding unlikely avenues of highly affordable influence like NGO’s, prosecutors, AG’s and similar means of acquiring massive and effective influence on the cheap.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-most-important-idea-in-current
Auditor General Karen Hogan delivered a scathing assessment of Canada Revenue Agency call centres Tuesday, revealing that agents provided inaccurate information 87 percent of the time for general tax inquiries despite hundreds of millions in government investments since a devastating 2017 audit.���The report found that Canadians waited an average of 31 minutes to reach a CRA representative by phone, more than double the agency's service standard, with only 18 percent of calls answered within the promised 15-minute window during 2024-25. The situation deteriorated further by June, when just five percent of calls met the agency's service standard.���
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/cra-agents-gave-wrong-answers-keVsFAc.Sma.Jufr7lrD9g
