What if You Are?
A stupid man is stripped of the ability to be kind…Etienne La Boetie
A discussion on the DJT Administration begun with a plethora of aphorisms?
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. Fool me three times, mistakes have become habitual and things have to be done. Mistakes happen; they are forgivable, forgettable but eventually foreseeable.
And, the only reason a person is recognized as an idiot is because he (in this case) keeps making the same mistakes. (I sound repetitive)
Cue American Public Radio.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind
Papers about the meeting between DJT and Russian President Putin, the other day, were left in a printer in the Alaskan Hotel associated with the event and forgotten. Basically, bureaucratic incompetence.
Except
Trained Diplomatic Staff don’t fail at this sort of thing. DOGE has saved the American tax payer money by enabling ideological sycophants to assume responsibility for such things. Like Diplomacy…
And, they are untrained. DOGE Staff are Kids. They are under 25, obviously, uneducated, untrained and uninformed on the obligations of job protocol. Particularly for government positions. And, the sycophants? They are not trained Diplomatic Staff either. Hence, the papers…
The more obvious question is why DJT’s Administration won’t admit to the staff failings?And, arrange for more qualified People?
The Administration did deny the forgotten papers were a security breach despite data with Peoples’ names, positions, phone numbers/ contact information revealed for both the Americans and Russians.
Reasoning reminiscent of the excuse for Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence, caught spilling secrets on the phone and drunk on the job a few times…
And, is an echo of the similar excuse for ICE picking up the wrong People all the time…
From NPR, quoting a Prof: It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration.
And, it’s not going to change because this is how DJT operates: a world wind of chaos obscuring the futile and the pointless.