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On Wed, 14 May 2025 13:10:16 +0200, Rolf Mantel
<news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:

>Am 14.05.2025 um 12:47 schrieb Catrike Ryder:
>> On Tue, 13 May 2025 14:18:42 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/13/2025 1:18 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 5/13/2025 8:45 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 5/12/2025 11:29 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/12/2025 6:05 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/12/2025 1:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But Mr. Timid Tricyclist just won't let it go. It
>>>>>>>> allows him to hide from discussing the current
>>>>>>>> administration's crazy incompetence. What a dupe.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pick an administration. Any administration. Select any
>>>>>>> of myriad examples of 'crazy incompetence'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> USS Gettysburg shot down a fighter from her own carrier
>>>>>>> group (USS Truman) in the Biden administration in December.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then USS Truman lost two fighters overboard (one from
>>>>>>> sliding tow vehicle in April, one landing arrest failure
>>>>>>> in May.) in the 2d Trump administration.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-aircraft-
>>>>>>> carrier- red-sea- lost- another-super-hornet-2025-5?op=1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One never runs out of examples.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is each military mishap the fault of an executive
>>>>>> administration? I'd think that even the appointment of,
>>>>>> say, a low experience drunken Fox network personality
>>>>>> would require quite a bit of time to noticeably affect
>>>>>> the competence of the world's largest military.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Appointing an egotistical and inexperienced cyber dude to
>>>>>> pull in other cyber dudes with no relevant
>>>>>> qualifications, to hack away randomly at every possible
>>>>>> government agency, firing then rehiring hundreds or
>>>>>> thousands of competent workers? That's administrative
>>>>>> incompetence - one example among many.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, yes, your term 'crazy incompetence' pervades
>>>>> governments (not only US Federal government!)  in every
>>>>> administration. Hayek brilliantly wrote on the inherent
>>>>> failures of large bureaucracies, by their nature, well
>>>>> before key exemplars were born!
>>>>
>>>> First, it takes a large administration to run a large
>>>> institution, and a very large administration to run a large
>>>> country. I doubt there are any exceptions. And in any large
>>>> administation you'll be able to find examples of anything -
>>>> competence, incompetence, stupidity, brilliance. Isn't "we
>>>> have one of everything" one of your talking points?
>>>>
>>>> That does NOT mean all administrations are equal. The
>>>> unproductive chaos generated by unleashing Musk and his
>>>> buddy boys seems unique in our history. I doubt one
>>>> legitimate scientist thinks Kennedy is fully sane, let alone
>>>> competent. And the "Hillary Emails!!!" crew is giving an
>>>> astonishing pass to the signal chat leaks. I could list
>>>> more, but I think the current administration is on its way
>>>> toward record incompetence on multiple fronts.
>>>>
>>>> If you're defending all that, I'm curious about your thought
>>>> processes. Will it be "Yeah, but Obama wore a brown suit"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The British Empire in the late Victorian era ran with a
>>> skimpy budget and a slim staff.
>>>
>>> https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uk-government-did-we-rule-the-empire-with-4000-civil-servants/
>>>
>>> And Britain didn't even have a 10th Amendment!
>>>
>>> Excess in funding and excess in hiring leads to 'mission
>>> creep' outside lawful useful limits. As we see.
>>>
>>> p.s. thanks for snipping my example. There are more.
>> 
>> Krugowski's snipping is his cowardly method of avoiding issues he
>> can't deal with. 
>
>Can you please stop repeating the same accusations?  Independent on 
>whether they are true or false, they are extremely boring.

Most accusations on Usenet are boring, including Krygowski's a few
lines up, especially the one about "Mr. Timid Tricyclist." I don't
think mine are any more boring than his.

--
C'est bon
Soloman