I have the feeling that saying "Houston, we have a problem" is somewhat of an understatement at this point. Are you seriously saying that Musk now has access to the nuke data?
Man, I worked with some of the 9/11-era NEST leadership, absolutely brilliant minds and dedicated public servants. Absolutely insane even for the Musk wrecking crew that they would target NNSA.
There are reports they've been given security clearances but we haven't gotten any details on how. One of the things we learned recently is that there's no law mandating that FBI conduct the background checks and Trump can apparently just give people security clearance waivers.
This is quite logical from Kremlin's viewpoint.
Russia's nuclear arsenal is rusty, even more so its ICBM missiles, and Kremlin doesn't have money to refurbish it (paying $4K upfront to every single-use soldier doesn't help).
So, Elon received his marching orders about NNSA.
My whole life, I thought that if anyone was going to drown government in the bathtub, it would be Libertarians with a semi-coherent ideology that prioritizes national security so DoD, intelligence, and nuclear weapons would be adequately and competently staffed.
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Musk owns the USA.
Putin, Xi and the others just have to watch while enjoying a drink and some popcorn.
They don't need to be involved. Greed and a childish behaviour are enough to make the USA fall, rotten from the inside. I know, it's difficult to admit but it's already happening for many years...
Because they probably are. Though if it's Russia, I say bring it on because they don't have the state capacity to fight on two fronts. Of course, that might come with a nuclear exchange, but that was likely of either of the nations with the capability and desire to threaten us attacked us.
If nobody resists, it’ll be easy. The American people doesn’t seem to have much resistance in them now, so they’ll just shrug and turn on the telly when the invasion starts. Might not even need an invasion, just an executive order.
You do realize insulting us isn't going to get us to protest? There already have been protests, and civil disobedience, much less conflict take working up to. Also, I doubt such an order would be followed. Plus, only an insurgency would likely do the trick, and to get to us, they'd have to go..
...through several allies either direction they chose and even if we've pissed you off, I doubt you're up for leaving a Russian force alone as they make for the U.S. much less the fact they might try to stage their assault by taking over Norway first or Canada if they went the other direction.
Why invade when they can set us up to have our own nuclear weapons turned against us? It’d be a poetic turn of events for someone like Putin who has a fetish for the Soviet Union.
When are we going to rise up?! When are we going to protest all over the country when are we going to go and make them stop this?? Oh my gosh we're literally going to be in a massive depression soon our economy's going to crash and our enemies are going to start wars on our land! We must rise up!
Talking about nuclear, I've been rewatching The West Wing Tonight's episode was "Duck and Cover", the nuclear plant accident. As I'm watching Bartlett & co desperately trying to avert a nuclear nightmare bc of equipment malfunction, all I could think of was, what if this happens under Trump.
What! How do we know it's smallpox? Who would release smallpox in Gaza? Israel? Who's butt up against Gaza? What's to stop the smallpox from spreading to Israel? And beyond? Don't we have herd immunity or something? How can smallpox come back if it's been eradicated?
Reply 3: Vax compliance was much better then and immunity was achieved through it. But because it was eradicated world wide in about 1980 and from US in 1949 only a small number of older people are vaxed against it.
So small pox is eradicated in nature, but samples were kept in labs-CDC and a lab in Russia. Random samples have also been found in labs including ones they weren't supposed to be in-for example NIH found samples while cleaning they didn't know they had 10-15 years ago.
We don't know for sure. Radio watermelon though is a very legit place for information about Palestine, although possible they could have made a mistake. Israel isn't great at accessing the consequences of their actions including on their own people. Will answer more in second reply.
One thing we deal with a lot in science is competing hypotheses. If we set aside what we expect (confirmation bias), we can ask: "What would the world look like if this one was true? What would be *different*? Which does the real world more closely resemble?"
Is it really that unrealistic that Russian intelligence could have kompromat on someone like this? Partying in Moscow, where the rules don't apply to a favoured oligarch and "nyet" doesn't count as a "no", but FSB cameras are rolling? Maybe it's totally innocent.
That one seems like a job that you try to keep fully staffed but hey what do I know, maybe we can cut it down to just one guy who checks on every reactor
I give it two weeks before Twitter has a press release saying they’re taking over this function of the government as BombX and Elon will say, it really is the everything app.
For clarity, these are the HQ staff who oversee the NNSA. They are very smart, educated, effective people. But the hands-on work is primarily done at the national labs that this staff oversees. Labs are run by contractors like UC or Battelle who employ the staff.
Well, as a Canadian, these cuts should make it harder for the US to stop us from developing nuclear weapons to defend ourselves from the US, so it isn’t all bad
I’m generally against nuclear proliferation but I’m at the point where I don’t think countries like Canada and Germany have any choice but to have their own to deter the US
Hakeem Jeffries was on @joyannreid.bsky.social today and he said something about how evidence will come out against muskrat eventually. I truly believe they are so radical they’re planning a nuclear attack on NYC with Iran as the patsy just to get rid of any evidence against them. Think about it
Exactly. I believe they want to install 45 indefinitely. And I think the plan is to pull the US out of NATO before the attack then 45 can say “r u z z I a will help us” and make him and his dictator buddies look like heroes
Well, if Putin doesn't want you to be able to defend yourself, sure.
Anybody who doubts at this point this is an operation to disable the US is naive and willfully stupid. And steal a lot of money along the way, that's what's in it for Trump.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Sadly, there’s nothing in there about not handing it over to the lowest bidder.
say hello to Silicon Valley's uber-capitalist belief to "do more with less" (alongside "move fast, break things").
and we wonder why so many video games and hardware devices are so buggy coming out of Beta. /headdesk
Musk is working for musk. His interests are what matter to him. That means getting rid of things that are in his way, including, but not limited to, bureaucracy and democracy.
If a foreign county wants to attack the USA, he's destroying the institutions (FBI, CIA. NNSA, military) that could protect him. I know he's an idiot, but I think he's got at least two brain cells to run together to figure that out. I think he's going to smash and run.
No need to refer to Putin. It's a question of power, money and avoiding any official department interfering in more money grabing. And if it means making profit by selling nuclear stuff to terroristes, as long as it makes Elon richer...
These guys are interested only in themselves, not in others.
This feels like a preamble to nuclear weapons at an understaffed installation going missing, and nobody knowing how to tell Trump that his fuckup lead to it.
Remember the time he was squirreling away a bunch of nuclear secrets in the mar-a-lago bathrooms and running the boxes around to try and hide them from the government
Workers who are fired for cause (performance issues) might not be able to claim unemployment. Workers who are merely laid off can do so. The cruelty is the point.
they froze the processes that essentially rubberstamp the end of your probationary period too. everyone that was supposed to flip over since 1/20 is still probationary
If you work at NNSA please talk to somebody in the press to alert the public about what’s going on right now. My Singal is mattnovak.11 but it obviously doesn’t need to be me. Just talk to anybody and get your story out. These cuts are incredibly dangerous.
They need to be stood outside their agency building holding a press conference preferably but I would understand if they are scared to speak out in public.
Ideally, TV news would run interviews with these illegally fired workers and alert the average American about what’s going on. But I understand if they’re too busy hosting panel discussions giving equal airtime to former Trump officials whose every response is about Elon bathing in liberal tears.
Gonna suggest that the NNSA employees hold/held high-level clearances (because, you know, nukes), and are probably very interested in not getting those clearances revoked.
CNN helped Trump get elected the first time. They cut their regular programming to show his rallies. Why? Because the ratings were so good! They haven't changed? Round 2!
Let me put it this way. If there’s a nuclear accident, NNSA are the people who are called to figure out what to do. These are the people who search the Super Bowl for radiation to make sure aren’t any nuclear devices planted for a terrorist attack. These are not the people you want to cut.
NNSA has a team of engineers and scientists called the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) who are called during any nuclear extortion threat. I really hope none of them lost their job today.
No. We have nuclear weapons. These people keep track and maintain them. They take care of situations if there is a crack to fix it. They trace terrorists who might plant a nuke at an event. These guys protect us and the weapons.
We need to start making our individual States more safe. We need Big business to step up. We need the “rich” for whom all of this damage is being done, step up and fund State programs that keep their workers and customers safe. Mike Bloomberg is the only one who has any principles.
Musk is trying to fire all recent hires across all agencies, as there's a probationary period within which they don't have full civil service employment protections. Very very stupid. It's also how they had the massive security breach from getting the email list of all CIA hires in last 2 years.
It's disproportionately harmful because obviously the people you've hired recently are the ones with skillsets for the most pressing problems. CIA was ramping up its intel about China, so they hired a lot of people with Chinese language skills. Then Musk fires them all and sets it back.
Cut to: Elon Musk, clearly high, doing an interview in front of a nuclear bomb, telling us how AI will manage our arsenal, while lil X climbs on top of the bomb and quietly picks his nose.
These decisions are being made by persons who haven’t undergone basic security training or clearances, couple pass basic security clearance and one is a South African illegal immigrant.
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But we won't, which is why we're going to be invaded.
And we will have deserved it.
Soon they will lower our Military to pre WW2 numbers
Russia's nuclear arsenal is rusty, even more so its ICBM missiles, and Kremlin doesn't have money to refurbish it (paying $4K upfront to every single-use soldier doesn't help).
So, Elon received his marching orders about NNSA.
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Putin, Xi and the others just have to watch while enjoying a drink and some popcorn.
They don't need to be involved. Greed and a childish behaviour are enough to make the USA fall, rotten from the inside. I know, it's difficult to admit but it's already happening for many years...
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Hypothesis: Putin is calling the shots.
But...🤔
https://bsky.app/profile/mark-ungrin.bsky.social/post/3lhrb3ueoes2s
Either way we're fucked and we're all gonna die.
These people are obviously incompetent and only have their jobs because the GOP Senate installed them.
https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/nuclear-emergency-support-team-nest
Is it on like a any% seppuku ritual suicide speedrun?
Like cutting millions of dollars in healthcare and services is scummy, but it can't lead to the extinction of the human race.
Ketamine, Adderall , they can't be the only two in that nest.
I am tired of weak politicians that are only out for their personal gain ... on both sides of the border.
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Hahaha oh America. I fuckin hate you so much
Anybody who doubts at this point this is an operation to disable the US is naive and willfully stupid. And steal a lot of money along the way, that's what's in it for Trump.
Sadly, there’s nothing in there about not handing it over to the lowest bidder.
and we wonder why so many video games and hardware devices are so buggy coming out of Beta. /headdesk
…this is worse.
This is his fleecing for himself
These guys are interested only in themselves, not in others.
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they froze the processes that essentially rubberstamp the end of your probationary period too. everyone that was supposed to flip over since 1/20 is still probationary
Like, y'know, important news should.
Like, what's going on with Drake and the international pedophile industry?
Did they see the Super Bowl?
Jesus.
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