{"id":13382,"date":"2025-04-22T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13382"},"modified":"2025-04-25T00:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:07:03","slug":"competent-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13382","title":{"rendered":"Competent government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get this straight. America presently has the competentest government ever, right?\u00a0This includes&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is a conspiracy theorist anti-vaxxer, who explained that a worm got inside his head and ate a part of his brain.<\/li>\n<li>A Defense Secretary who is a former Fox News commentator, a known alcoholic, who thinks it is cool to share military secrets using his personal phone, over a commercial Internet application, with friends, family, and inadvertently, even journalists.<\/li>\n<li>A Homeland Security secretary who gets her purse stolen, with $3000 in cash and her DHS access card, while dining in a Washington, DC restaurant, protected by a Secret Service entourage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is, of course, entirely consistent with the fact that their boss is not only a genius but a stable one at that, who can identify an elephant in a cognitive test, who knows that people hundreds of millions of years ago were trading in rocks, and who thinks import tariffs are paid by foreigners, not American shoppers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13383\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stable-genius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Way to go, America! I am sure if despite all of the above, something happens to the United States economy, the supremacy of the US dollar as the world&#8217;s reserve currency, or heaven forbid, the existing world order and fragile global peace, it&#8217;s either an unfortunate coincidence or the fault of &#8220;Sleepy Joe&#8221; Biden. Or maybe just fake news made up by corrupt mainstream media.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>PS: The image here was created by Midjourney. Midjourney is rather shy when it comes to specifically naming the US government or the President. However, when I craft a prompt in neutral language (&#8220;<em>An image depicting a government made up of incompetent officials led by a leader who claims to be a stable genius.<\/em>&#8220;) &#8230; Well, I am sure that any resemblance to actual, living persons is purely accidental.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13382' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get this straight. America presently has the competentest government ever, right?\u00a0This includes&#8230; A Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is a conspiracy theorist anti-vaxxer, who explained that a worm got inside his head and ate a part of his brain. A Defense Secretary who is a former Fox News commentator, a <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13382' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13387,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13382\/revisions\/13387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}