I never took that line as “haha, the government was dumb not to get a volume discount”, but more as “haha, only the government would be dumb enough to build two

I never took that line as “haha, the government was dumb not to get a volume discount”, but more as “haha, only the government would be dumb enough to build two of these ridiculous things”, but really it ended up kinda pro-government cause having the second worked out in the end.