Last Thursday they fired several hundred people at the NNSA with no notice, and then had to walk it back by Friday night when they realized that's the people that oversee the fucking nukes.
“The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” Daryl Kimball said to The Associated Press, executive director of the Arms Control Association. “They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons, more than it is the Department of Energy.”
> “The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” Daryl Kimball said to The Associated Press, executive director of the Arms Control Association. “They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons, more than it is the Department of Energy.”
The predictable result when you send in a bunch of young, obviously arrogant software engineers to "fix" things.
As a software engineer, I can say technology people can be fucking obnoxious. So many have an inflated sense of their own intelligence (and the important of "intelligence"). They swagger around foolishly thinking everyone else is an idiot, and make messes because they're so dumb they didn't learn from the people who know how things work.
> Last Thursday they fired several hundred people at the NNSA with no notice, and then had to walk it back by Friday night when they realized that's the people that oversee the fucking nukes.
Last Thursday is old news. Yesterday's headline was "USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them":
It's not incompetence, it's exactly what was planned.
> Russell Vought, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, has expressed plans to put career civil servants “in trauma” under a second Trump administration so that they dread coming into work and quit. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,” says Vought.
Last Thursday they fired several hundred people at the NNSA with no notice, and then had to walk it back by Friday night when they realized that's the people that oversee the fucking nukes.
“The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” Daryl Kimball said to The Associated Press, executive director of the Arms Control Association. “They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons, more than it is the Department of Energy.”
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/national/firings-of-east-t...