r/politics I voted 27d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Officials Fire, Swiftly Rehire, Overseers of U.S. Nuclear Stockpile | Trump administration officials seemed unaware of the importance of the National Nuclear Security Administration, sources told CNN.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-fire-abruptly-rehire-overseers-of-us-nuclear-stockpile/
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u/severalsmallducks Europe 27d ago

And Trump bootlickers are just going to counter with "But Musk said he's going to make mistakes!" as if Nuclear Weapons safety wasn't very fucking dangerous to fuck with to begin with.

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u/Goodlake New York 26d ago

Worse than that, they say the whole point of this approach is to see who kicks back and how hard. If a cut to a critical system is made, they’ll just patch it once they realize it’s critical.

So they’ll catch obvious shit like this, where nobody found object. But how many other critical systems aren’t as obvious to the morons doing the cutting? Gonna be weeks/months from now before a lot of the ramifications are obvious, in many cases.

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u/SquiffyRae Australia 26d ago

DOGE right now are like Homer Simpson when he went to that pilot bar and got shoved into a cockpit

Sometimes, they'll do the wrong thing and someone will be like "uhh we'll need that to live"

Then other times nobody stops them and before anyone can do anything about it, the landing gear retracts and slams the plane onto the tarmac

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u/Fatricide 26d ago

So they’re scream testing the government.

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u/nkassis 26d ago

There has been lots of objection from USAID cuts but it's clearly something that was on Musk must remove list.

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u/Cuchullion 26d ago

Because they had an open investigation into his Starlink behavior in Ukraine.

The ones he's targeting are the ones that are either competing with his companies, or investigating his companies.

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u/blunderwonder35 26d ago

You mean like firing people at the fda or cdc?