The execution of this is so stupid. For $2500 they should have been getting more than copy paste content. Are there no under-employeed recent college grads who can write a few original, pro-Bloomberg tweets a day for $2500 a month?
I donno, I think this shows that Bloomberg has a knack for government work. Pay people an extraordinarily inflated price for something that sounds straightforward on the surface, only to have them execute on the letter of the contract in cheapest and most amateurish way imaginable. The man clearly belongs.
The only thing more boring than government work are tired lazy stereotypes accusing government employees of incompetence/lazyness/wastefulness.
Or prissy internet sissies that can't read a joke without feeling personally attacked
This guy has clearly worked for the government. And by work I mean attended meetings, then status meetings about the previous meetings and so on for a couple of years until the project finally starts(already over budget) at which point enough money has been sunk into it to scrap it.
Perhaps there's a sampling bias? After all, copy-paste content is the easiest to find and moderate in an automated way, whereas high-quality manipulation is more likely to go unseen.
If he spends his own money so inefficiently, it really doesn't bode well for how he'd spend other people's money.