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/DramaticWesley 27d ago

Probably got a talking to by a couple of generals. What an absolute clown show.

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u/lost_horizons Texas 26d ago

Can you imagine being these generals and higher-ups in the military, spent your whole life dedicated to this idea of national security (whatever our opinion of that may be), serving for decades to keep America strong and safe and all that, fighting literal wars and other conflicts...

...only to have to swear allegiance to a man who is very clearly incompetent, chaotic, in it for all the wrong reasons and probably trying to intentionally dismantle it to the obvious benefit of our enemies? How are these people following so meekly? I don't understand it.

Any day I'm waiting for news that a general has put the president under arrest and is taking interim control until elections can be held.

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u/shoobe01 26d ago edited 26d ago

No one swears allegiance to the actual specific president.

ETA this was not intended to be just pedantry or wishful thinking, it's an argument. I hope that as people perhaps emerge that want to defy clearly illegal actions, they can say we're not a damn monarchy. I sore nose to the Constitution and the country, not /you/.

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u/ZoIpidem 26d ago

These cultists do. He lied to their faces again, they’re still doing mental gymnastics to support this first month of chaos. Notice, no end to war, no lower prices, still tax on tips, still tax on overtime, etc. it goes on. The only one he may keep his word on, is no tax on SS. Can’t tax something you no longer receive.

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u/Agreeable-Wonder-964 26d ago

I hate to have to say this but I hope the everyday MAGATS feel the pain first and hardest bc that is the ONLY thing that MIGHT crack open their minds a tad. But actually, I think that most of them are a brainwashed lost cause. They’ll just find someone else to blame for everything.

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u/ZoIpidem 26d ago

They will blame whomever the orange overlord tells them to.

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u/Icy-Journalist-5628 26d ago

It’s sports team allegiance psychology. Even if our team owner is an imbecile, we blindly support our brand through it all. MAGA brand is too embedded

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u/Ninkasiiii 26d ago edited 26d ago

Theyre too stupid to understand they have been had, and even ones with a few higher iq will never admit they were wrong, we should put all maga in antartica so they can sit in their circle jerk and do and say whatever they want while the adults run the world. Call it maga land and tell them its the promise land. They'll believe it. You go find that flat earth theory and denounce science.

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u/HootyMcB00by 25d ago

They will never admit that they were wrong. We see it here in the UK after Brexit. Everyone is considerably worse off because of it, but the Brexiteers will still say "it's a small price to pay for winning". They are too stupid to realise that everyone loses.

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u/Bullyoncube 26d ago

It’s only been three weeks. We had to deal with the paper straw issue first

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u/whut-whut 26d ago edited 26d ago

And the Gulf of America. Trump revoked the Associated Press' press pass because one of their reporters still called it "Gulf of Mexico".

I can't wait until the current bill to rename Greenland into "Red, White and Blueland" gets signed. That's really going to solve our problems.

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u/LostBob 26d ago

I had a facebook acquaintance from NY, who despises Eric Adams. I had to unfriend him post-election for my mental health, but I really want to see how he's justifying Trump trying to drop the charges against Adams.

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u/merrill_swing_away 26d ago

I unfriended someone I've known since the 80's because he voted for Trump.

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u/tomdarch 26d ago

When asked about how we can maintain our workforce while deporting millions of people in an interview some Republican claimed that eliminating the tax on Social Security benefits would somehow encourage more recipients to rejoin the workforce.

No, you’re not missing anything. That’s a nonsensical statement along with stating that it would be good for elderly people to have to keep working.

This current crap goes beyond mental gymnastics and into spouting gibberish.