Except for the fig leaf of a warrant, it's all there.
The smarmy, arrogant ignorance.
The dismissal of all warnings that what this idiot is about to do will cause a disaster. From Wired:
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
And, of course, after the disaster, this idiot blaming the people who tried to stop him from blowing everything up.
Also my 20th blogiversary tip jar remains open.
And don't forget to...
Burn The Lifeboats
4 comments:
There are reasons you might consider rewriting an application (in this case probably a system with multiple interfaces and components). You might need new features the langauage can't support, it might be getting harder to run or rebuild the complier on newer hardware or OS as the old stuff ages out. Just upgrading the OS is a major project. None of that applies. These morons may build something, but it will never "work" no matter how narrowly you define it. I still wonder where they keep the backups for the OS, applications, and data. They are gonna be real important after the kidz clear out.
The Elmo and Donnie DOGE reality show is The entertaining distraction from what they are after.
Abbra Cadabrah, I Elmo the great found $10 trillion in savings. Now Trump can order his GOP=bots in the house and senate to pass their reconciliation tax cuts . Billionaires with get $8 and a half trillion and all you nobodies can split up the half trillion for tax cuts.
But wait, Even if Elmo found $20 or even $20 trillion in savings. The national debt is $37 Trillion. Which means America is still in deep debt and you will have to borrow any money to pay out in tax cuts to anyone. Any borrowed money to pay tax cuts out means a loan which has to be repaid with interests. Will the billionaires be pay taxes to repay this loan and interests?
20 years of brilliant comments and getting on to about 14 from when I first came across you on a random day in 2011 while incapacitated and struggling to deal with the way my darned arthritic back was rubbing on my spinal cord (it wasn't fun!).
Thanks DG for your insights, wit and good cheer. Oh and I'm sure that Mr Brooks sends his best wishes too.
These people are so clueless that they probably won't even keep working backup copies to restore to when things stop working.
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