you haven't changed your rule set at all. the current game actually is whack-a-mole because the money is being attacked on multiple fronts. USAID and many other things have been closed. they are in a landscape of diminishing resources and are beginning to run out. every one of these thousand cuts counts.
a) disinformation is necessary. b) looking back, perhaps "trust" as used was meant differently than we originally took it. "trust them to do what they always do and be a necessary part of the plan" might be a better way to take it.
the point is we needed to come to this point where more and more of the public are awakening, and that wouldn't have happened then. mass arrests would of simply broken the government then, as they would now.
the implications that on pedophilia it will be our choice to know and that it will break people's brains implies that it will not be the tool that is used. RICO makes waaay more sense. it allows them to continue showcasing the corruption and to roll up pieces of the network at a speed that doesn't screw up our governance as well as allowing for asset seizure to destroy our debt.
let's all pretend that this isn't why we shouldn't have that many spies in the first place, shall we? the idea of loyalty being enough to see them through all the situations where they will get burned and locked out for someone else's mistake makes the use of spies a huge risk that needs to be contained.
a casino unconnected to the actual economy? say it aint so.