Trump’s role model isn’t McCarthy. It’s a certain failed painter from Austria.
With a smidge of Saudi Arabia thrown in.
Dash of Maos’s cultural revolution
Yeah. I just read a bunch of teenage dumbasses are going to rewrite 60 million lines of Cobol code in “months”. So definitely more than a smidge: telling some in the younger generation that they are magical beings that just understand everything better than anyone that came before stinks to high heaven of cultural revolution trash.
I wonder what their little red book will be? The Shart of the Deal?
The way you describe it, it sounds more like Dianetics.
It’s all part of the same massive con.
It’s a bunch of independent cons but they all use the same methods.
I have serious doubts about that kind of timeline, most especially for such a critical system (I write software for a living; no way in hell would I give a timeline of “months” for something like this, but then I have years and years of experience, while Dunning-Kruger is running rampant in our government right now - giving teenagers the keys to the kingdom and constantly praising them for what prodigies they are is going to not end well).
But since our version of Idiocracy includes such Hollywood tropes like “young people just know tech”, we are all consigned to this…I’m sure the average magoff is going to proclaim what a “genius” fElon and his techbois are all during the process, too.
Given fElon’s many failed delivery timelines on things related to his companies, I expect more of the same here. Sadly, he’s going to ruin a lot of people’s lives in the process…at least with his bullshit companies, no one has to opt in to that. In this case, he’s broken into our government and he’s going to impact millions who want no part in his bullshit or his stupid crew of teenage dumbasses. And I bet anything they try to use “AI” to do most of this work.
According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to “rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.” This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine regulations dealing with Social Security, it’s no wonder that the codebase is this large. What is in question though is whether a small team can rewrite this code “in months.” After all, what could possibly go wrong?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-codebase-in-months
New news is that pro-Israel elements aided in identifying and tracking these students.
So the failed Austrian painter’s heinous policies are now supported by the people they were first used against. What’s next? Jewish oven operators?
Next? This is already happening in Gaza right now.
I remember getting called a terrorist sympathizer because I opposed the Patriot Act because it could be used for this.
Americans are trash.
Not ALL Americans, Conservative/ MAGA Traitors.
Most democrats also supported the Patriot act
The only people who resisted it were non-conservatives.
So the rest of them are conservatives regardless of party affiliation? I’d buy that.
Too bad they make up over half of the Democratic Party
And before you mention it, yes I do vote in primaries.
I didn’t say that at all. Just because someone isn’t a Republican doesnt make them a Democrat, and just because someone isn’t a Democrat doesnt make them a Republican.
Independents are a bigger demographic segment that Republicans or Democrats, and MANY independents, and many Dems, were against the Patriot Act. It would be nearly impossible to find a Republican who was against it.
Also, there is a big difference between the behavior of craven politicians of any party, and the citizens. Cowardly Democratic politicians voted for the Patriot Act because they were much more afraid of the backlash from terrified citizens in the wake of 9/11, than thinking Americans who could see that this bill was just a disguised Civil Rights grab.
But make no mistake, there were many people who thought the Patriot Act was a VERY bad idea, but NONE of them were Republicans.
So vote Democrat and get the Patriot Act anyway
I remember lying about my age and signing actual ink and paper petitions opposing that when I was barely into my teens. Felt then and honestly still feels now that a lot of this country just jumped squarely up its own ass after 9/11 and simply never came back out again.
Could be. They’ve already disappeared some students, have they not?
That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.
