NEW: Inside a chaotic 48 hours of resignations and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
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To defend people watching our nukes.
Insanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RMvDwBiIU8
There are maybe 6 DOGE members and many govt employees. Yet all are listening to Musk
This is some bull$hit.
Thiel bought Vance's for the future. Like that unlikable creep has a future after Trump. Trump doesn't even like him.
Fire them and we're all going to die, including you.
The only intact dept. left is the DoD.
One must wonder why this is so, has there been quiet pushback from the Pentagon?
A careful read of the Posse Comitatus Act specifies that the use of the military is only permitted in cases expressly authorized 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 OR Act of Congress.
It wouldn't be a police action against citizens but against a rouge government trying to destroy democracy and thus the Constitution, the very document defining democracy.
𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 the military to intervene!
"They look after the fucking nuclear bombs, you fucking arse holes!"
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my f*cking firing. I make $50K a yr & work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
We're under attack by billionaires, but I'm not a billionaire, so, you know, for me, the next steps are scary. I'm trying to stay focused working productively, but it's a scary moment.”
"Remember that scene from Terminator 2? The one where Sarah Connor dreams she gets incinerated by a nuclear blast? That's why you can't fire us. Dick."
28 characters
There. Now EVERY EMPLOYEE THERE has their job justified.
Fucking morons.
Another day another half-truth on prime time.
https://youtu.be/U4QVXcPDgjI?si=EF3b6-R_JrNu5KV5
Cartoon by Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social
How exactly is this mission not in the national security interest? America’s long-term national security risks just went up substantially…
So we all do not die