(July 17, 2017 at 10:13 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(July 17, 2017 at 8:48 pm)Fireball Wrote: Pff. I'd settle for a competent government. Transparency would be a nice side-effect of that.
Transparency would work to enforce competency ... probably why the current government is so opaque. They need to hide their incompetence as much as possible -- not to mention foreign dalliances, emoluments, and so forth.
I'm keeping my head down, so that when this turd explodes, the shit misses me. As far as opaque goes, I think that all the leaks are coming from the people who serve every president, like those on White House staff, who probably don't get changed out with each administration. I don't know that that is true, but one can't replace all of those people that easily. A lot of vetting has to occur. You just have to know that they see this shit going on and think, "Dafuq?". Then again, how opaque is an administration, when the people in it are accused of crimes, but post an email trail exposing their guilt? Hapless might be a better word. This isn't a game show, in spite of how the Chumps treat it.
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