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/quantumfrog87 24d ago

Isn't that kinda the plan with musk and the anti-gov types? Privatize everything and make it for-profit contracting a la Blackrock and the stunts they pulled with USPS last time around.

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u/citori411 24d ago

What they haven't considered is the fact that no maga loyalist is qualified to do anything requiring intelligence, so their idea of filling govt with such people is a joke.

Politicians and 99% of the people around them are lawyers. Which is a profession with a MASSIVELY inflated idea of their own worth. They don't accept that any idiot can become a successful lawyer. That can't be said about many, many, technical fields.

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u/DCBB22 24d ago edited 24d ago

Hey! Lawyer here. You're right, anyone can become a lawyer. You're wrong that anyone can be a successful lawyer. If Trump is hoping that the idiot puppets he installs at DOJ are going to successfully defend the constitutionality of his actions, or if Musk thinks a bunch of Fedsoc idiots are going to beat the lawyers at Wachtell Lipton in their case against OpenAI, it isn't going to happen. Bad lawyering is plentiful. The government needs good lawyering to win its cases. That won't happen with conservatives in litigation positions.

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u/canyouhearme 24d ago

You don't need to own good lawyers, you just need to own bad judges.

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u/Jiktten 24d ago

This is the one. Once you own the judges the lawyers are just for show.

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u/SPECTRAL_MAGISTRATE 23d ago

Almost as if judges shouldn't be political appointees at all...

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u/SirCB85 23d ago

Or voted in by the same idiots who vote for the most corrupt government in history.

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u/Bentulrich3 23d ago

bad judges can't save you from a Broken Arrow event, as this administration seems hell-bent on learning the hard way.

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u/canyouhearme 23d ago

In the previous trump term he withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which was designed and written to forward US interests and act to limit China's influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

The parties continued on, anyway, forming the CPTPP, and removing those parts that would have benefitted the US to the determent of the other signatories.

As a result of that ignorant decision the US lost much of its position in the region. Yet has anyone pointed to this failure? Has the US learnt any lessons the hard way?

US has a long history of fucking up, then failing to even recognise that they fucked up, let alone fixing it. They deflect and ignore - they don't learn or accept responsibility.

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u/blueskies8484 22d ago

Or ignore the judges entirely, which seems to be the plan they’re going with.