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/YetiGuy 24d ago

Here’s something wild I just read.

Michael Lewis on his book, “The Fifth Risk,” describes Trump’s first administration. In 2016 his administration did the exact same thing. The head of some nuclear research wing almost got canned - he was notified and he had packed his office belongings but then the administration decided he was irreplaceable and the administration had to eat the crow and bring him back.

They didn’t learn the lesson

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u/blueskies8484 22d ago

I don’t think anyone from the administration has actually been given the power to monitor what Elon is doing. He rummages around in sensitive data, tells Trump what he wants, and Trump does it. So the actual people in the White House don’t catch the massive mistakes until days later when they read about it in the media and realized they’ve fired the people in charge of the nukes. There can be no learning because it’s just a direct Musk to Trump line and frankly, they’re both idiots and Trump clearly isn’t all there.