Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.

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    Lol, ok, I can see why this is called NOT THE ONION. Geeze, and this is the most powerful country in the world. Maybe they don’t actually know where Canada is, ha.

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    When they beg you to come back, Dean and a contract for 10x your previous salary or no deal.

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    Ah, the willy nilly style of leadership… Oh wait, this is coming from the Russian puppet rapist pants-shitter. In that case it’s exactly what Russia needs. It’s deliberate. It’s expected.

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    Reminds me of when I would root my phone and then go through stripping out anything I didn’t understand assuming it was bloat or spyware. I’d typically end up frustrated that my device didn’t seem to run very well.

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      lol … idiots are trying to root the US government and don’t know what they are doing. Hopefully they won’t brick everything and go out and buy an overpriced brand new iphone.

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    "Not realizing. "

    No. They absolutely realized it. Farking the country up is the entire point

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      The US government is gigantic and does a lot beyond what most people see in a day to day basis.

      The visible part of DoE is energy conservation and developing alternative energy sources. It turns out the DoE does a lot more and they didn’t realize this before promising to destroy the department.

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        I could also see them being manipulated by outside powers so that weapons might mysteriously end up in foreign hands.

        They are both ignorant and pliable.

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        TBH it’s on message for them.

        The guy they had to lead the DOE last time had no idea what they did, either. It’s nice to see that at least some things don’t change.

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    It seems funny until you realize that we actually do need some serious people running government, and instead, our president has staffed it with 20 year-old morons and idiotic TV personalities that he probably secretly uses for fap fodder.

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    8 days ago

    So a hair under 20 years ago I was offered a position similar to this after leaving the Navy. I’m so glad I went into private industry in another field entirely.

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    Those stockpiles should be moved to Canada, because clearly they are not mature enough to take care of such things.