The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs.
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My initial gut reaction was that I hoped the fired workers would invite Trump and his (re-)recruiters in no uncertain terms to kiss their entire asshole.
But these are nuclear weapons. And I can’t say I’m thrilled about the prospect of anybody with less experience than these fired workers taking over their jobs.
So I guess I hope they get ridiculous raises and an in-person, heartfelt groveling from Trump and Musk.
Not a realistic hope, but it is what it is.
I was laughing my ass off reading this. you dont fuck with the DOE. jesus
Ah, the circus continues. Cutting nuclear staff like it’s a Black Friday sale on institutional memory—because nothing stabilizes existential threats like fresh-faced probationary admins handling warhead reassembly. DOGE’s spreadsheet jihad meets the Manhattan Project’s ghostly legacy, and somehow we’re surprised when the lights flicker over Hanford’s waste tanks.
Modernization budgets balloon while the humans who actually understand the systems get pink slips and keycard revocations. A $750 billion face-lift for the apocalypse, yet we’re outsourcing sanity to LinkedIn manifesto writers and crypto-adjacent cabinet appointees. Priorities, right?
The real kicker? This isn’t governance. It’s a loot box for political theater—sacrificing continuity on the altar of “efficiency,” then pretending the fallout won’t seep into the water table. But hey, at least the adversarial nations get a front-row seat to the self-own.
Spreadsheet jihad
Pinching this. What a phrase.
It’s just so stupid
At least the administration admits to the mistake instead of pretending it was the right decision
wow, big credit for admitting the colossally apocalyptically stupid thing everyone knows is stupid was stupid. such credits.
That’s how low the bar is
Yeah but, can they not run a government like a tech company? They can’t just move fast and break thing and then correct it like a tech company, thing can fucking burn overnight with a simple decision that only go through melon husk’s empty head.
Move fast, break (nuclear) things.
When did the administration admit their mistake?
If you saying this because one wouldn’t believe they’d to that, your comment is pretty funny
But if you mean it like, that it is something other administrations didn’t do… Well, than it is a bit a sad comment
Ahhhh I highly doubt they’ll admit to a mistake, they’ll likely simply not acknowledge it at all but if they do acknowledge that they’re stepping in their own shit they’ll spin it as some kind of grand strategy to “determine which portions of the fat they trimmed were truly useless”.
