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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: men in women's bicycle races
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 07:46:53 -0500
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On 5/13/2025 5:07 AM, zen cycle wrote:
> On 5/12/2025 6:05 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 5/12/2025 1:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 5/12/2025 10:43 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 12 May 2025 09:29:35 -0400, Zen Cycle 
>>>> <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1 to all of that Roger. The right wing is being told 
>>>>> by their echo
>>>>> chamber that this is a major issue that demands major 
>>>>> attention away
>>>>> from actual problems that affect millions of americans, 
>>>>> when it's an insignificant issue being used as a wedge 
>>>>> and a distraction.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nobody says it's a major issue, but...
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
> I think it's a bit of a stretch to blame incidents like 
> these on whichever administration is in office. The recent 
> incidents on the USS Truman for example may have been 
> incompetence or some other failure of equipment that wasn't 
> _reasonably_ foreseeable or preventable. Without access to 
> the Root Cause Failure Analysis we can only speculate. As 
> much as I consider the existence of trump in the US white 
> house to be an existential threat to the US, he had nothing 
> to do with what happened on the USS Truman.

I didn't blame either administration. I merely noted that Mr 
Krygowski's term 'crazy incompetence' is quite apt.  Always.

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Andrew Muzi
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