Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons (www.npr.org)

submitted 3 months ago by SerotoninSqueeze@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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What’s the end game here? Another second closer to midnight?

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's sad to say, but I have a feeling that it will take a totally-avoidable, Trump-made catastrophic disaster to turn a majority of the population against him and his cronies enough to oust them before it's too late and they turn the Republic into the 4th Reich.

And so sadly, I wonder if a nuclear accident and the subsequent immediate removal of Trump and the Trumpista who caused it, followed by the prompt restoration of the rule of law in this country, wouldn't be preferrable to years of low-level but cumulative, and ultimately graver damage.

[-] SerotoninSqueeze@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

There’s got to be some end/long game here, I’m not sure what the surprise could be, but if a nuclear catastrophe happens here soon the official narrative should definitely be met with caution. What could musk and his group of technocrats gain from the loss of control from NNSA. The only thing I could think of (and this is just armchair speculation) is some type of shock and awe operation on the American public to either declare war, martial law, or to change the constitution.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think Hanlon's razor applies here: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I think Trump and Musk haven't thought anything through and they're applying Silicon Valley's idiotic "move fast and break things" motto. The trouble is, while this may be fine to develop a web browser or a social media platform, it doesn't apply to many things that require forethought and time to do things right because they are literally not allowed to break, such as nuclear shit.