[kulahan]

Are you under the impression this is somehow different from the last few years?

[kstrauser]

Of course. Whatever problems the US government had before, mass firings, loyalty tests, furloughs, and endless other shenanigans have only exacerbated them.

[exceptione]

Are you American? Do you think this is normal? Just curious (non American).

[kulahan]

There is a somewhat stubborn idea that a government will always have many inefficiencies baked in, since there’s no real incentive to remove them beyond a generic “that would be nice”.