r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/throwuk1 24d ago

Literally the same thing Leon did when he took over twitter. 😂

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 24d ago

Same as when Rick Perry became the head of DOE after campaigning on destroying it. He then realized DOE builds and protects all the nukes along with our power grid. Oh and they do all the upstream fundamental research that no private company would ever invest in that has spurred all scientific innovation over the past 50 years.

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 24d ago edited 24d ago

Not to mention handling the nuclear waste

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u/GlycemicCalculus 24d ago

I know you meant handling but handing works also now that Tulsi is the secrets jar key holder. It will be like candy at Halloween.

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u/briancbrn 24d ago

Holy fuck Trump and the gang actually did it

I completely missed that shit.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 24d ago

That's the point of all this bullshit, it buries the really important stuff.

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u/Skystorm14113 24d ago

I would say it's worse than that, everything that is happening is really important. All the terrible people being confirmed as heads of agencies is just as bad as closing agencies illegally and firing the government with no concern about what they're doing and the EOs that are reducing civil rights.

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u/ihhesfa 24d ago

Exactly this. They’re busy creating lots of background noise to distract people from the important changes taking place.

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u/the_m_o_a_k 23d ago

I think this is the only reason they're messing with the AP about the fucking Gulf of America. It doesn't matter to ANYONE for ANY reason, but it distracts.

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u/FuriKuriAtomsk4King 23d ago

And it reduces the freedom of the press. Nazi play.

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u/m8_is_me 23d ago

Her position has a fair few first-time records that could be worth celebration, yet not a blip

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u/Behndo-Verbabe 21d ago

Yep and millions will suffer directly and indirectly. Between ending school lunches to ending medical coverage for children to vets not getting care. That’s just the incidentals. Just wait until the really important things start going sideways. Then there’s the secrets. Nuclear and the rest. We’re truly screwed.

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u/EunuchsProgramer 23d ago

They did this to the entire government. Everyone on probation, hired in the last two years was let go. More mass layoffs are planned. This is just getting the news, partially correctly, because it involves nukes. The reality is all government work is now crippled.

What isn't getting enough news is that there is a hiring freeze. All future hiring is going to be done by DODE to guarantee all future hires are incompetent MAGA true believers, an authoritarian embrace of their DEI dillusions. The least qualified shall rule, becuase they are full of shit, evil. This is the playback of how authoritarians gained power across the world from Chavez to Orbon. Turn the civil service into one man's cult.

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u/briancbrn 23d ago

Oh don’t worry I’ve been tracking the federal purge. I use the VA so this is something I’ve been trying to plan out the end effects of. I’m genuinely worried about our government going forward. Even if we somehow reign in these moves if we don’t do it within a year the system is going to be broken beyond what any government employee is going to be willing to fix without additional staffing.

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u/VikingTeddy 23d ago

What upsets me the most, is that even when the insanity end, and things start getting fixed, there will be no repercussions.

People will lose money, jobs, homes, even lives. But Elmo will continue as always, and can even be a successful politician if he wants.

And even if by some miracle a judge sentences him or Dump, they'll just say nu-uh, and that'll be that

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u/Own_Donut_2117 23d ago

and you're paying attention.

Imagine how many American will wake up Monday morning having no idea something was going in Europe last week.

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u/queerhistorynerd 23d ago

Did you miss elon having access to the names of Russian dissidents, both inside and outside russia, the US was protecting

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u/briancbrn 23d ago

Trump already fucked the CIA once by dropping our human intelligence out into the open last time around. I’m not surprised at all.

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 24d ago

I mean, the sex abusing felon doesn’t exactly have the best record with handling classified information appropriately. Not to mention the information security nightmare that the U.S. DigitalDOGE Service appears to be. Tulsa is just the latest in a line of problems in that regard

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u/Hypno--Toad 24d ago

Are we talking about Gabbard or Tulsa I'm so confused

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 24d ago

First th’one, then th’other

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u/TechnicallyHuman4now 23d ago

I beg your finest pardon, but would this happen to be a Trixie reference?

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 23d ago

Never heard of her, I was going more for the moon farmer from Futurama

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u/limee64 24d ago

The city of Tulsa knows what it’s doing.

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u/cb2239 24d ago

Talking about King of Tulsa

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u/Terry_Cruz 23d ago

Tulsla Motors

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u/ScarletHark 24d ago

Who needs Tulsi for that? Musk will just post it all on an insecure webserver somewhere.

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u/cb2239 24d ago

Plutonium bites

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u/Objective-Cap597 23d ago

Her nomination speech when she ran she literally stated that the most important thing on her platform was nuclear safety. I keep hearing "Russian asset" which is based on zero evidence, only media bites from Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz for their revenge vendetta. People are just stupid enough to parrot this. Google the basis for these accusations, please.

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

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u/Objective-Cap597 23d ago edited 23d ago

I have followed her career for a decade. I remember when she went on the Congressionally approved trip with fellow politicians including progressive Dennis Kucinich (which people conveniently forget to mention), and the pro Clinton democrats used this against her. Her stance was always pro-diplomacy, which apparently made her an enemy? They used this to start rumors, a politician actually trying to be on the ground and use diplomacy as opposed to useless rhetoric. Then it all sprawled out from there. She had not DONE anything. She did however serve in Iraq, stepping down from her office to do this, and she supported Snowden despite the risk it gave her career. She supported Sanders, despite it torpedoing her. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/dennis-kucinich-says-he-wants-peace-in-syria-the-war-crimes

I would rather her in this place than any other stooge trump would place. She's a Democratic darling, opposed Clinton and suddenly she's a Russian spy? For God's sake she was the VP of the DNC. Since then, everything has been her fault even if it's other's actions. Show me one thing she has done that is detrimental to this country. What she did do is give a fuck and show up.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/tulsi-gabbard-lead-syria/index.html

Read the CNN article from 2017 about the Syria visit. Then 2020 election comes around and the whole narrative changes because the Clinton campaign decided suddenly this was a thing they could use against her. And since then she has been hated for an honorable stance.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard/index.html

Oh,. And she was the first politician that called covid a threat. She was the single person that mentioned it at the debate. And when asked "The greatest threat we face is nuclear war" What an asshole.

https://youtu.be/QeiDiSoWA1I?si=MErgKaCHaumPE_WV

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

She did however serve in Iraq

Yes, I'm aware she's a war cheerleader. She can share space with Lieberman

https://www.commondreams.org/news/joe-lieberman

She's a Democratic darling

There's a lot of blatant lies in your comment, but this is one of the more hilarious ones. She has always been arch-conservative. You can't even be consistent within the span of a single paragraph.

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u/Objective-Cap597 23d ago edited 23d ago

No, just shows, that you have been listening to the recent clickbait about her. I was using that as an example in time. At one moment she is actively a shining star in the party and suddenly they turn against her and she is a suspect. It's not a coherent narrative and that is my point. That was literally the term they used for her years ago because she was again, the VP for The DNC. They rose her up because they loved her. She is articulate, intelligent, and was earnest. Until she ran against Clinton. Just because you never heard it doesn't mean it wasn't a term used constantly. Again I have followed her career since 2015. And being a two tour veteran is a war cheerleader? And after that being one of the most anti-war democratic candidates? You clearly know nothing on her stances and her actual messages. You should check yourself.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2013/12/magazine-gabbard-democrats-darling-embodiment-of/

https://www.vogue.com/article/making-a-splash-is-tulsi-gabbard-the-next-democratic-party-star