Monday, January 09, 2017

Donald Trump just fired the guys who maintain our nuclear arsenal. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Gizmodo:  

The NNSA is the $12 billion-a-year agency that “maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.” It’s unclear when the two officials will be replaced. 

Traditionally, all political appointees of an outgoing presidential administration turn in resignation letters effective on noon of inauguration day, January 20. But appointees in key positions—like the people who make sure our nukes work—are often asked to stay on in their roles until a replacement can be found and confirmed by the Senate, helping ensure a smooth transition and allowing our government to continue functioning. In fact, for the entirety of Obama’s first term and into part of his second, the NNSA Administrator remained a Bush appointee. 

Trump, however, appears determined to immediately push out everyone who was appointed by Obama, regardless of whether or not he has anyone in line for the job. Or, as our source put it: “It’s a shocking disregard for process and continuity of government.” 

Just in case you are not sure if this is a really big deal or not:  

The source later added, “I’m more and more coming around to the idea that we’re so very very fucked.”

Yeah, what he said.

Gee I am trying to think of which leader of a foreign government might be overjoyed at Donald Trump undermining our nuclear capabilities.

Wait, don't tell me, I've almost got it.

Oops, lost it.

Maybe YOU can think of who it might be.

31 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:23 PM

    OT? FUCK m. mcCONnell:
    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/schumer-brilliantly-exposes-gop-hypocrisy-by-sending-mcconnell-his-own-2009-confirmation-letter/

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    1. Anonymous3:16 PM

      Brillant !! We need more of this.

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  2. Anonymous2:32 PM

    This is what's wrong with America. Every job depends on political patronage, a totally corrupt system.

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    1. Anonymous3:05 PM

      Good grief. Trump is corrupt before he'd even sworn in. At least the Obama employees were vetted. Is he going to put Barron in charge of nuclear maintenance?

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    2. Anonymous4:04 PM

      That is patently untrue. Usually only the few people at the top of government agencies change with administrations, There are many thousands of people who work for the federal government. They are educated and trained to do their jobs; many have been in place or advancing up the normal ladder of employment for decades. No country can exist without a functioning civil service. This country has been blessed with a remarkably stable civil service for a couple of hundred years now. They track storms; they investigate air plane crashes; they test our food for safety; the test drugs before they can go on the market. Their talents and roles are vast. And Trump wants to trash the whole system for whom - his ignorant supporters?

      I'm willing to bet that the two nuclear facility people he wants to fire forthwith are both experts in their fields, tapped by the Obama administration because they know what they're doing. Will they be replaced by croupiers from a Trump casino? Or by bouncers Trump is acquainted with?
      Beaglemom

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    3. Anonymous4:09 PM

      Yeah, he's so good with computers! RME.

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    4. Anonymous5:26 PM

      I think the reason he fired them was that commercial that was run during the campaign and the one guy that controlled the nuclear codes dissed the Donald. Said he wouldn't let Trump have the nuclear codes. Trump's little fee fees were hurt. How come we don't see this kind of news on the front page of EVERY freakking newspaper in the country?!

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    5. Anonymous5:29 PM

      Just remember, every time Donald is tweeting something stupid about Hollywood or celebrities or whatever, he is distracting from the bigger picture of him dismantling the government so it benefits his task master Vladimir Putin, the ex KGB guy in the Kremlin.

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    6. Anonymous5:48 PM

      Beaglemom, Trump is going after any and every civil servant he chooses. That has been made quite plain.

      And it's only because he can.

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    7. Anonymous6:24 PM

      @ 4:04 Try to keep up, please. ReTHUGlicans are tryign to fire individual workers at all levels: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/house-republicans-revive-obscure-rule-that-could-allow-them-to-slash-the-pay-of-individual-federal-workers-to-1/2017/01/04/4e80c990-d2b2-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?utm_term=.9ede896fd06f

      And I hear there's a witch hunt going on by T.Rump to find out who federal workers or their families made political contributions to.

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  3. Anonymous2:40 PM

    Donald Trump is the worst American we have on this planet. And, a frigging imbecile! He could care less about protecting America and Americans!

    He truly is deplorable as they come! And, I will NEVER refer to him as my president! How can I when I find him rancid, a pathological liar, a racist, not intelligent and w/no obvious leadership skills! He is NOT qualified to be potus!

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    1. Anonymous5:20 PM

      He's Makin' Russia Great Again. Be happy. Go to your local junior college and take a class in the Russian language, you'll have a head start on everybody else when Pooty takes over.

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    2. Anonymous6:26 PM

      Correction - T.Rump is a horrible human, His Trumpkins are unpatriotic, idiotic Americans.

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  4. Anonymous2:46 PM

    OOPS!!!! Rick Perry is Sec. of Energy in waiting. I wouldn't trust him to microwave popcorn.

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  5. Anonymous2:51 PM

    For some reason, on Twitter he decided to post a pic of him with the Reagans from years back. He was merely in a greeting line. He was one of many. We all know Reagan developed Alzheimer's, but I doubt that's why he autographed Trump's book "Nancy and Reagan Reagan." As one article put things, he wasn't paying that much attention. Trump was probably blathering on and Ronnie's mind wandered. It's a good time to remind people that Trump tried countless times to get the Reagans to stay at Mar-a-Lago and to point to some of his desperate acts as he sought validity from the most important people. When an aide saw the error in the autograph, she sent Trump a new book copy with an auto-penned signature. He couldn't just use that today. He had to use the blooper real-penned autographed pic. Why? So he can claim he was never just worth the auto-penned signature others got? To diss the Reagans who he claims to honor?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/06/22/daily-202-reagan-white-house-viewed-trump-and-his-large-ego-warily/5769f9e3981b92a22d278fa5/?utm_term=.ac1a849b2e2d

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    1. Anonymous2:57 PM

      So the haters will think he is alzhimers?

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  6. Anonymous3:19 PM

    The government is going to be in chaos on Jan 20th. perfect time for a terrorist attack.

    No one will know who is in charge.

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    1. Anonymous4:05 PM

      Great. Hadn't thought of THAT fuck-up!

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    2. Anonymous9:14 PM

      My immediate thought was "this is fucking chaos already!".

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  7. Anonymous3:26 PM

    No words eloquent enough to describe a response to this news. Just picture a figure at a desk with face in their hands, moaning in despair.

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  8. Anonymous3:56 PM

    Trump seems to be determined to fulfill Grover Norquist's greatest wish - to drown the government in a bathtub.
    Beaglemom

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    1. But it will be a gold-plated bathtub, so that's all right then.

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  9. New name,PUTINS PONY

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    1. Anonymous5:12 PM

      Pooty's puppet.

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    2. Putin's Pussy.

      Now who's being grabbed by the short hairs?

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  10. Anonymous4:06 PM

    If Trump trying to fuck up so badly some adult will take over and he can slink back to his gold-plated bathroom and hide in shame?

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  11. Anonymous6:20 PM

    Baron, Invanka, Melania, Jaren or FiddleDeeDee & FiddleDeeDum Jrs? Track Palin?

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  12. Anonymous6:30 PM

    "Go see “Hidden Figures,” and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best and are prepared."

    http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-hidden-figures-katherine-johnson-20170109-story.html

    Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2015.

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    1. Saw it yesterday.

      Fabulous.

      Stay until the ending credits so you can see the photos of the women, both young and "experienced".

      There better be Oscars for sure.

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  13. Giving jobs to connections. A lot of unemployed in DC coming up

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  14. Anonymous3:21 PM

    You are DEAD wrong about Emperor Drumpf, Gryphen, and I will bet you FOUR $1 "President Dick Cheney" memorial bus token that you will soon eat your own words.

    Literally.

    By firing the chuckleheads now in charge of the nucular arsenal and hiring TOP ranked Russian nucular experts at a FRACTION of the cost, Drumpf is saving the American taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars PER YEAR!!!!!

    Seriously, you libtards make me sick. Drumpf will truly make America grate again, even if it destroys this country in the process. You libtards HAVE to give him some respect for that single-minded determination and unwarranted belief in his own supremacy.

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