alt Hacker News> The problem is the people in charge now have not earned that kind of faith.
If you set partisan politics aside for 90 seconds, you might realize that regardless of the administration publicly in charge, the government is always doing stuff behind closed doors that your brain could not even begin to comprehend how they pull it off.
Stories like this hilariously implausible "grizzled old man casually leaks secret program to Aviation Week" is like throwing a cat a ball of yarn.
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Now turn your brain back on and wonder a 34-time felon & rapist POTUS who steals from charity is doing behind closed doors.
On the other hand our commander-in-chief (engineering expert that he is) has ordered the Navy to switch back to steam catapults on an already half-built carrier. That will also require bringing back 70 year old retirees. Pretty sure Trump would switch back to coal if he could find any living boilermakers.
Sometimes bad ideas are just stupidity.
>If you set partisan politics aside for 90 seconds
About the people who gutted every major agency and meddled constantly making forces less effective in the name of the most partisan of partisan politics? Most people won't and that is a completely self-created problem.
> If you set partisan politics aside for 90 seconds
You realise that government agencies including the pentagon have been gutted, and filled with conmen and frauds?
It would be funny for the rest of the world if we didn’t also have to pay for the people America elected.