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.
Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Dragomus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
jonne@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
futatorius@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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.
Grunt4019@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I think the hope is that it fails, they don’t want social security to work.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
“Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!”
futatorius@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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.
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Bingo