Sharpie Man Strikes Again

@ArishMell No one dared give Saddam, or Stalin, or now Putin, or KJU, bad news. This is what we've become, with the exception that we have Fox News to mass propagandize the Sharpie adjusted numbers.

This is about as bad as it gets and the MAGA who voted for Trump, because the Deep State lied to them, must be in a conundrum, knowing that they've been carpetbagged and they will never admit to getting conned.

@Northwest Well, I don't believe in the "Deep State" - which appears to come from American inter-Party wrangling and its festering conspiracy "theories" - but at least America does have a range of news and opinion media of all political views and neutral.

@ArishMell Yes, if you politicise statistical analysis, you undermine all confidence in that public body and reduce the likelihood that any serious economist will have anything to do with that office. Fortunately it is possible to produce reasonable estimates (although nowhere near as accurate) from outside government.

@ArishMell My opinion is that the best way to overcome this conundrum is to forget to appoint anyone. Getting bogged down in the minutia of the search for the right person..Maybe we need a poll on how many inquiries and reports can be held into it.. Dont forget, Americans have not been exposed to "Yes Minister."😷

@whowasthatmaskedman :-)
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You still need capable people in charge; and that is not easy. My point was not that they don't exist, nor where was questioning how they are appointed; but that if capable people risk being dismissed for doing what they are paid to do, then they are unlikely to apply for such posts.

The original Yes Minister was a gentle satire on the difference between a Member of Parliament* and a senior civil-servant too wrapped in his own bureaucracy to do a simple thing simply (a fault in modern management generally, I think); but on the whole the UK's Civil-Service does work well when politicians don't give it unfeasible things to do then cut their budgets!

I thought an American version of the TV show was produced: the British writers working witn American ones who understand their own country's systems.

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*In the UK's system all members of the House of Commons, including the Prime and all other Ministers, are elected constituency MPs and continue as such MPs as well as any ministerial duties. Their own Parties elect their leaders, who then select the Ministers.

@ArishMell I have never seen or heard of an American version. And how could you replicate Sir Humphrey in a way Americans could follow and understand.?😷

@whowasthatmaskedman It would not have been a copy, but a version of the basic theme written around American governmental systems... and American TV show humour.

It was certainly discussed, but perhaps it was never eventually made.