Workers at the nuclear weapons agency are frantically being called back | Mass layoffs that happened Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are being paused
Mass layoffs that happened Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are being paused, ABC News reports. The layoffs were part of Donald Trump’s gutting of key federal workforces — including the people maintaining the country’s nuclear stockpile.
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Reminder that some of their actions are not well planned - just incompetent
I don't care if they are evil or incompetent or both. They're decimating the federal workforce which will have long term consequences. Some of which will be fatal and not just for Americans.
On the bright side, I've spent the last month learning a lot about essential government agencies that I never knew existed. I just wish it wasn't due to a real life PSA about how bad things get when the federal government is dismantled.
It's almost like the general populace NEED TO BE TAUGHT about what makes up the government and what it does.
Look, whatever political philosophy you ascribe to, you need to understand what government institutions exist and what they do so:
You can understand where your tax is being spent.
Which ones you should contact for the appropriate service or issue resolution.
When you start becoming politically aware, you can form opinions on how you think these functions should or should not be performed by your ideal institution (or individuals).
And
They SHOULD be both celebrated and criticized so the public are informationally and emotionally invested in these institutions that impact your (whole) life directly or indirectly. That, in the ideal scenario, encourages an informed and engaged populace that can work collectively to improve these institutions.
These institutions, like anything built by humans, need to be maintained, upgraded, remodeled, or replaced effectively for human society to continue to exist. You'll have ideas about what ones, why, and how and we should get to hear about those ideas and discuss them.
That ONLY happens properly when people have at least some idea of what they're talking about.
Else this is what you get; some unelected Muppet treating it like a spaghettied server and pulling random ethernet cables out and listening for what screams.
You have to have an educated populace in order to comprehend how the government works. The systematic dismantling of education since at least the eighties has left people ill equiped to deal with the world.
On one hand, the workers should tell them to shove their backpeddle up their asses. They're only going to get fired again in a month after being used to train The Detritus Duo's cronies.
On the other hand, untrained sycophants in charge of nuclear security is even worse than trained sycophants in charge of nuclear security.
You know what would be a terrible leopard ate my face moment?
US nukes remain unguarded/unmaintained due to people leaving their job.
Russia "liberates" America and seizes nukes because shit for brains Musk posted them on doge.gov
Russia points their nukes at DC and gives Trump an ultimatum: join Russia or die
Trump has a Pikachu face
I know we have entire arsenals on submarines but still with this kangaroo of a government, it is very possible that Trump will recall every one of those subs to a Russian navel port and just hand Putin the keys.
I'm from Europe btw.. However, I'm worried about my US friends and about nuclear material falling into the wrong hands and other nuclear dangers. I'm not sure there will be elections either, but I'm sure the next 4 years will feel long either way.