Kind of think this should be a bigger story

[senseandsensibility]

From Catherine Rampell on BlueSky: I know I should not be laughing at this but like the same people who have accessed Americans' Social Security numbers and may be storing them on unsecured laptops can't figure out how to contact the NUCLEAR SAFETY EXPERTS they just indiscriminately fired. If this were Veep, I'd give them all the Emmys.

I know sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying, but corporate media WAKE UP. They fired the Nuclear Safety experts, They did. That's a top straight news story that should be leading all newscasts and in huge headlines on every major newspaper. Journalistically, that is just how it is. And now, as Rampell points out, THEY CAN'T HIRE THEM BACK because they lost their contact info!

Oh, and Dems might want to be screaming about this too.

[sop]

1. Not to worry, Trump will replace the fired nuclear safety experts with Major Kong...

[bronxiteforever]

2. Why would experts come back only

to live in fear that their job could be pulled out from under them. Some may be close to retirement but others may already have a new opportunity or are reevaluating their career while always looking to the exit ramp.

[erronis]

4. Exactly! This feeling must run rampant throughout the whole government.

Which is probably what they want.

Everybody will be a gig worker.

[MLWR]

3. Rex Tillerson was right

He IS a bleeping moron.

[erronis]

5. It's as planned.

[Attilatheblond]

6. And it's a safe bet Putin did the planning

Vlad: So, Elon, if you do THIS for me then I will do that for you.

It's a transactional world when only the 'princes of industry' hold power. And future wars will make the war lords of the Dark Ages look like puppies.

[PatSeg]

12. Yep, Putin is fulfilling his dream

of destroying the U.S. from within. He must be absolutely giddy with delight as he watches all the dominoes fall.

People were warned over and over again, but they undoubtedly believed, "No, that can't happen here".

[Haggard Celine]

16. That's their job. Trump and Elon.

I guess you could say that Vance wants to destroy the country, too. There’s several who are doing Putin’s bidding. And the MAGAts think these people are patriots! When will Americans learn what this is all about?

[Attilatheblond]

18. Even worse than finding out so many Americans are hate filled bigots

is finding out how many are just plain stupid and/or mentally ill & running on delusions. Pretty discouraging.

[PatSeg]

19. I guess this is all a testament

to the decline of education in this country. Though I suppose there are people who know where this is headed and they'll go along with it anyway. And not just the Evangelical end-timers.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. Not sure they are capable of truth

[yellow dahlia]

20. I had the same thought.

[Karasu]

7. Everyone should be talking nonstop about this. Don't simply focus on the evil, focus on the stupidity. These people are

far, far too fucking stupid to be in positions of power, or even eligible for it.

This country needs actual, strict qualifications for elected officials and their appointees, and it needed them fucking yesterday.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Last time I checked this wasn't even on the CNN webpage

Their main story is about trump criticizing McConnell and framing like a food fight. Ridiculous. This story is NEWS.

[ReRe]

8. I have a sinking feeling

that there's more to this story than meets the eye.
OPM would surely have contact info for them, right?
They didn't fire everyone in OPM, did they?
I can not believe the USG does not have their contact info!

[SupportSanity]

22. Aren't they still looking for immigrant kids separated from their parents to return them? And they don't have the info.

From Trump's first wack at President. Separating kids from parents as they enter America at the border?

They have no record of where they put the parents. Or vice versa.

Don't EVER understimate the power of stupidity. EVER!

It's much more powerful than intelligence.

And stupidity in power. That's just stupidity amplified.

And Trump's goes up to 11.*



*reference to the movie "This is Spinal Tap" amplifier volume control.

[SupportSanity]

32. It's very tough. But there are a lot of us who didn't vote for him.

Our strength is in our numbers.

As it always is with a dictator.

[louis-t]

9. They can't find them because Elon and his Hitler Youth

erased everything. Fucking idiots.

[czarjak]

11. Never woulda thunk I'd miss Rick Perry.

These Mother-Fuckers!

[rubbersole]

13. "Unqualified" from the absolute top to the absolute bottom.

[SupportSanity]

24. Unqualified IS the qualification. nt

[birdographer]

14. Can't help laughing

It would be the height of entertainment if it weren't so scary. From Tiedrich this morning:
---------
This week, Anna Paulina Luna, Congresswoman from America’s Dangly Bit (as long as we’re renaming things), announced that she would be investigating the death of John F. Kennedy — and she plans on having quite the panel of expert witnesses.

“Based on what we’re actually looking to do with the JFK investigation, I’m looking to actually bring in some of the attending physicians, at the initial assassination, and also the people that had been on the various commissions — like the Warren Commission.”

Who wants to tell her?

Anna — all those people are dead. Everyone on the Warren Commission died decades ago. Gerald Ford was the last surviving member. He died in 2008.

What are you going to do, hold a fucking seance?
—————
Add everything that MTG thinks and says and it just such a clown show. Too bad it’s our lives.

[SupportSanity]

23. Yeah, I heard that and did a double-take.

Shhhhhh. Let's not tell her and just watch.

Popcorn, anyone?

[summer_in_TX]

15. Congress isn't in session this week. Sure hope Dems raise a stink anyway!

The story seems to be getting news coverage.

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

[link:|DOGE layoffs: US Energy Department fires over 300 nuclear staff, seeks to bring them back next day

Trump Admin fires nuclear staff—Oops, they were in charge of US weapons stockpile

"Trump Moves to Fire Staff Overseeing Nuclear Weapons Then Backtracks—Report"

Dismissed nuclear bomb specialists recalled by Energy Department

And several more.

[GiqueCee]

17. I would sing an aria...

... of scathing condemnation, scorching the hides of those we are supposed to be able to trust to have our backs, but I don't wanna get spanked.
Suffice it to say, there are lovely, gentle, little old cat ladies on this forum with more spine and grit than those elected officials that bent the knee to tyranny in recent Senate confirmation hearings.
It appears that we must look to lovely, gentle, little old cat ladies for courage and leadership, 'cause we're not gonna get it from anyone paid to embody such stalwart qualities, are we, Lindsey, et al.

For the terminally obtuse:

[yellow dahlia]

21. Such a gift of a talking point for the Dems.

Not such a gift for our national security.

[Hekate]

25. ...."without firing a shot"....

I hear old Nikita’s shoe being pounded on his desk at the UN

[AncientOfDays]

26. it's the email

They shut of those fired employees email access, so now they can't send them emails to come back to work.

[Progressive dog]

27. Musk has several high school age

hackers who are ready to go to work. Nothing to worry about unless you really want someone who has a clue of how to keep nukes safe.

[exoskeleton]

28. Just call Vlad

He's got all of the names and numbers they are looking for.

[DallasNE]

30. This Just Boggles The Mind

When you terminate someone you don't purge them from your HR system. You change their status from active to inactive and update a code for rehire considerations. You don't delete them. Indeed, they have payroll data needed for W-2 preparation for their partial-year employment. There should be no way on earth that this has happened unless they are too stupid to contact HR and ask them for this information.