https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1905422938352091313Jon Stewart walks through the process states needed to fulfill to get Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" broadband internet subsidies from the federal government.
Importantly, the extremely redundant and overly long bureaucratic process that redoes the same steps over and over and has taken states 4 years to get to the
initial proposal phase, was purposefully designed this way and the result of the bill's own regulatory structure, not one imposed on it by executive agencies or the courts. Even kakfaesque parodies of government disfunction don't look this absurd, there's 14 steps each taking weeks, months or years just to get to submitting proposals for a project