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So, mission accomplished then? I never believed for a moment it was ever about reducing waste / increasing efficiency. At best, it was scrounging the government couch for change to pay for tax breaks for the rich.
Well, yeah. He should have named it the Department of Dismantling the Administrative State, but that's not a meme.
At least if you read the acronym backwards, SADD, it's fitting.
DODAS or just DODS
Hey, I just realized that the Department of Dismantling the Organized State could be DoDOS, or DDOS, both of which work too
Department of Destroying Our Dedicated Operational State
Department Engaged in Actively Dismantling the Administrative State Structure.
DDOS the government
The only waste in government is corruption. “Inefficiencies” are actually resiliency—a crucial trait of any social system.
Underappreciated fact.
I was listening to conservative AM radio (combo of morbid curiosity and masochism), and they talked about a social security warehouse full of documents and how inefficient that is in 2025, and we should get rid of it.
I’m just like:
First of all, there’s no way that’s their primary data source. So if you’re crying for modernization, that already happened a long time ago.
But if you’re saying we shouldn’t preserve paper copies, then you’re opening the door to all sorts of terrible things.
Like, saying we should just trust whatever the government says and not have to prove it in a court of law, or making our systems vulnerable to hackers, or making it so certain government actions can never be undone.
But uh... I guess all three of those things have become hallmarks of this administration anyway, huh?