DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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If it fails spectaculairly who will take the blame? Will there be any repercussions at all?
Or will Musk and Trump shrug their shoulders? Halfheartedly blame Biden for badly programming the original database then go play some golf/videogaminges?
I think the hope is that it fails, they don’t want social security to work.
"Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!"
They'll have backups. And those backups and associated restore processes would never have been properly tested.
I've come to places where that happened and there were very few remaining IT ops people after the mass firing that followed.
Bingo
If Trump is smart, he'll let Musk do all the unpopular project 2025 stuff, then throw him in prison at the end and escape the blame personally. This way he gets to keep popularity with his base while telling his donors they got everything they asked for. It's what all dictators do, really.
I'd be fine with the Musk in prison part. Launching him into the sun in one of his own rockets would be cooler, though.