Wild that the entire political media machine can spend weeks obsessing over one leaked group chat and almost nobody asks the basic question: why are senior officials using apps that auto-delete in the first place? If you're making decisions that could drag us into another regional war, that record belongs to the public eventually, not just to your buddies on Signal. And no, this isn't me clutching pearls over "norms." It's about accountability. The same people who scream about threats to democracy suddenly get casual when it's their team cutting corners. Either public business gets preserved and reviewed, or we're just trusting the right set of insiders to be responsible. That's not a system. That's court politics with better branding.