american democracy denial of service
talk about a dumpster fire. in tech, a “Denial of Service” (DoS) attack on software or hardware is pretty common. engineers typically try to ensure things like that cannot happen or at least mitigate their effects. and to a large extent, we also just expect clients to be “well-behaved”.
which, you know, i am pretty sure nobody 200 years ago thought someone would come into the presidential office and maliciously spam executive orders out of the office faster than they can be discussed or even tested in court.
holy cow.
when trump was first president, he learned pretty quickly that the news and public forget what you said yesterday, when you say something crazier today. back then, i thought, surely this is as bad as it can be. oh that was naive. that seemed so much more benign to what he’s doing now.
more EOs are coming out than can possibly be discussed or even litigated. and i can feel the news struggling to keep up, i can’t imagine the folks that are trying to actually figure out what’s “legal”. how do you keep up?
he’s effectively doing a DoS attack on the government, all by himself.
it’s chaos.