When we think of administrations, particularly Democratic administrations, and websites, our thoughts go to the disastrous rollout of the Obamacare portal, which clearly wasn’t ready for prime time — Juan Williams claimed it was the GOP’s “massive opposition” to Obamacare that crashed the site.
So how is that this many years later the Biden administration had a portal to apply for student loan cancellation up and taking applications within a couple of months? Of course, the site is no longer accepting applications as a judge and an appeals court found the plan unconstitutional.
Ron Klain is dunking on Ticketmaster, a private business, whose website crashed today while trying to handle the massive demand for tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour.
Ticketmaster crashes during Taylor Swift ticket presale https://t.co/mXjzt5SvFt
— Axios (@axios) November 15, 2022
Over my years in the public and private sectors, I've had people tell me: If only the government could work like business.
Well, the team at @USEdgov and @USDS built a Student Loan Forgiveness portal that processed 8 MILLION applications in the first 30 hours without a crash. https://t.co/VaaoTMVycg
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) November 15, 2022
Slow clap.
If the government worked like a business you wouldn't be able to simply print or borrow more money to waive debt for your political constituents https://t.co/hruCeZM39J
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 15, 2022
"We work just like a business! We built a website that didn't crash for 30 hours!"
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 15, 2022
Good for you!
Right? pic.twitter.com/rwe6vAFtkY
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) November 15, 2022
Now tell us how much we paid for it and how we selected the entity that built it 🤣 sorry, after Obamacare chewed up over $1 billion for a site that run like it’s Windows 95’ in a bit skeptical
— Opinionated Person (@_MyTakes) November 15, 2022
Love this level of petty. Truly
— chelznick (@chelznick) November 15, 2022
8 million in 30 hours?
I bet TicketMaster did that in 3 minutes.
🤷♂️— Casey (@miteycasey) November 15, 2022
Most states can process 8-10 million ballots in less than three hours!
— Dr. Platimus (@SWGaspar) November 15, 2022
This belongs in the twitter HOF and should be analyzed by communications experts. Someone will write their thesis about this tweet.
— JimmyG (@JimmyG303) November 15, 2022
Then what happened?
— 🇺🇲 (@MrRJNKNS) November 15, 2022
But then the law crashed it.
— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) November 15, 2022
Shame the whole thing is, you know, unconstitutional
— Gary Collard (@LakerGMC) November 15, 2022
Your example of running like a business is the student loan forgiveness program? That would be the opposite of running like a business.
— Ron Cabrera, Based (@whitematador) November 15, 2022
Look at any road project in any city in the US
— outsidetheboxer (@LucasMcDevitt) November 15, 2022
Yeah, how’s Secretary Pete doing fixing those racist overpasses?
If the govt worked like a business they wouldn’t be 30 trillion in debt while taking other people’s money at gunpoint
— Shortzjim8 (@scubasteve8771) November 15, 2022
That’s building a site and interface. That is not running a business.
— TheMEDIAisEVIL (@conservativejj1) November 15, 2022
If it ran like a business then it would have to get it's funds voluntarily and not through force
— Liberty Eval (@libertyeval) November 15, 2022
Lol. You built a website that didn’t crash for 30 hours. Congrats!
— Edgar (@ufotofu617) November 15, 2022
We haven’t been to the website but apparently, it’s just a Google form you fill out. And they probably outsourced it to a private business anyway.
Klain is a master at taking victory laps where there are none.
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