Re: men in women's bicycle races

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:

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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.
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Pick an administration. Any administration. Select any of myriad examples of 'crazy incompetence'.
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USS Gettysburg shot down a fighter from her own carrier group (USS Truman) in the Biden administration in December.
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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.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-aircraft- carrier- red-sea- lost- another-super-hornet-2025-5?op=1
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One never runs out of examples.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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