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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  1. Just more examples of the incompetence, blatant disregard of actual job needs and wholesale corruption.

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

  3. Fuck around, find out, ctrl + z.

    Their incompetence is astonishing. Genuinely just bumbling around in the dark.

  4. USA will not learn anything until something bad will happen on their own territory.

  5. This is what creates vulnerability in our top secret intelligence. Kill the morale of the very people trusted to protect us.

  6. 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.

  7. So basically everyone got a big fat pay raise because of their fuckup

  10. hope they negotiated an increased salary when they were rehired

  11. Despite how much the people running this shit show of an administration are complete morons, completely self-interested, or downright dangerously evil, given both what they’ve said leading up to this and their previous actions, nothing about this is or should be remotely shocking or surprising to anyone.

    Unfortunately, we’re all in for a world of trouble and it will be sheer luck if large numbers of people aren’t killed, or at best, seriously financially and/or physically harmed permanently or for decades to come as a result of both this administration’s incompetence and their intentional actions and decisions.

  12. Is everyone so scared of this lunatic. They all stand by and agree with him. America you do know the rest of the world can see you

  13. Maybe they were aware and hoping they could get away with it without the media blowing it up.

  14. Oh, no, we have people who deliver security briefings on this sort of thi–
    *Receives piece of paper*
    Aaaand I’ve just been informed that I’ve been let go from the organization. /s

  15. “Move fast and break stuff” is the worst plan ever for a government.

  16. The college interns DID NOT KNOW??? Who could have predicted that?

  17. Because they are idiots. All of them are totally clueless goons who aren’t qualified for any of this.

  18. “Trump administration officials seemed unaware”
    No shit.

  19. people say it a lot, and yes, i do go on the r/nottheonion sub, but this really, *really* sounds like a real onion headline. imo we actually have reached that threshhold with this story.

  21. This is only Musk’s first run as president. Maybe I would be outraged if this was his second time around as president, but give the guy a break.

  22. This is truly frightening to have such an incompetent administration in charge. When we do have an inevitable disaster, they’ll likely blame it on DEI or some other BS.

  23. Keep in mind, Trump was president for four years and still doesn’t know what people do. Because he never cared.

  25. Reminder to everyone who voted republican – you are responsible for this asshat and the entire clownshow. We are barely 1 month in and the incompetence of this entire administration is STAGGERING.

    Trump continues to act like the entitled, impulsive, and ignorant child that he is

  26. They assume every gov job is a bullshit job that has zero value and zero impact in society.

    Just because they have a realization about jobs that have the word “nuclear” attached to them doesn’t mean that they haven’t eliminated thousands upon thousands of jobs that benefit Americans and the world.

    They don’t care enough to even bother to find out. Elon literally had his teenage minions forcing sit downs with federal employees where they demanded those employees prove their worth and loyalty to keep their job. The same kids that leak classified intel and openly hate immigrants.

  27. Leon saw an [1875] error code in the Cobol programming of the SS system and thought it was year of birth so he told everyone there’s 150 year old people on SS.

    It’s always dangerous when people who don’t know as much as they think they do start messing with things they know nothing about. Unintentional consequences could be and have already been disastrous.

    Killing off something before knowing the consequences is basic. All the unnecessary death and suffering he’s already caused to babies, children and women in hospitals and refugee camps around the world are on his and Trump’s heads. He may be remembered more for the number of deaths he’s wrought that mimic Hitler’s cruelty than his imitation salute to the Nazi party. The mass murder of the most desperately poor and sick around the world is despicable. Getting rich doesn’t make you smarter, but it apparently makes you think it does.

    These Aid workers could have been allowed to distribute the food and medicines they had on hand. They could have brought them home after. Give them time to find some alternative funding. Those employees were stranded without a way home. Their families posting Go Fund Me campaigns to get them back.

    Every time they do something like this or publish something crazy it’s discovered/clarified later they didn’t know what they were doing/looking at or they are misinformed or confused. But correction of the false information is never retracted and corrected. People who watch Fox News are never made aware it was BS.

    Like when he confused a Reuters Data Security contract with a Reuters News contract. Two different things/companies readily explained by the cost of the contracts if he’d looked at them objectively. But he went into government systems certain he was right that everything was fraudulent so everything he sees is fraud. Even where there is none. He just doesn’t know anything about what he’s looking at. Providing a service doesn’t follow the same process or procedures as manufacturing a product. And even his products aren’t exactly up to par.

    There’s bound to be mistakes and mis-spent funds at that level of spending but it takes research to see what the contracts actually cover. The title of a line item on a spreadsheet isn’t enough information to condemn it. We are discovering just how incompetent he is at everything but marketing and destroying the lives of hard working people and their families who do not deserve what is happening to them.

    Someone else said it’s beneficial to prune a tree but you don’t take a chainsaw to it.

  28. Trump is just playing three-dimensional chess to Own the Libs /s

  29. Almost like these people don’t know what they’re doing.

  31. How do you not know the importance of that!? It’s in the fucking name!

  33. Joint chiefs need to start making moves. He’s dangerously incompetent and a national security risk.

  34. So let’s recap.

    Doge has:
    1. Mistakenly said $50M worth of condoms were sent to the Gaza Strip.
    2. Leaked classified information.
    3. Hired, fired, and rehired a fervent racist.
    4. Terminated and rehired key nuclear security personnel.
    5. Hired a kid who was fired for leaking confidential company information.
    6. Hired no COBOL experts.
    7. Mistakenly accused Social Security of fraudulently sending checks to 150 year olds (undoubtedly this was due to the default date of the system which should be used as an error code).
    8. Hired no audit experts.
    9. Attached spyware to the Treasury Payments system.
    10. Shut down entire departments without Congress’s approval.
    11. Hired mostly kids just out of college.

    Unfortunately this list will grow over time.

    Edit: and what savings does it have to show for all its bumbling? Mainly indiscriminate terminations based solely on “can we easily terminate them” criteria.

    We expect the Federal government to provide many things, defense, weather reports, drug approvals, Federal law enforcement … we’ll just have to wait and see what fails.

  36. Musk believes he knows more than everyone on everything. His worshippers feel the same way. Yet, what this shows is he clearly doesn’t understand what the federal government does or how it functions. He is the living avatar of the incompetence he claims he is trying to rid the government of. I know people at DoE (who funny enough have Q level clearance, cue the conspiracy theories). It’s not like what the NNSA did was a secret. DOGGY could have asked and found out, but they were too incompetent and arrogant to ask.

    They are exactly what they accuse the government of being.

  37. During the first Trump administration Michael Lewis wrote a book about the transition (or lack thereof) called [*The Fifth Risk*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Risk). It specifically talks about the Trump administration, and Republicans in general, having no idea that the U.S. Department of Energy not only manages our nuclear stockpile but works with other countries to track the movements around the globe of specific materials conducive to building nuclear weapons in order to prevent those materials from falling into the wrong hands. This was in 2018.

    They absolutely know; they just don’t care. Or worse, their ultimate motive and endgame is far worse.

    Edit: Excerpt from *The Fifth Risk* was published in The Guardian in 2018:

    ‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

    Interview with Michael Lewis at the time:

    Michael Lewis: The Big Short author on how Trump is gambling with nuclear disaster
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/22/michael-lewis-trump-gambling-america

  38. They were unaware of the importance of the national nuclear security administration. Unaware, that’s how ridiculous this administration is. How ridiculous and dangerous this man is.

  39. Jesus. I have to imagine there are quiet conversations happening in the background about just exactly who will do what if certain lines are ordered to be crossed. Scary times folks.

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