It turns out that actions based on moving fast and breaking things can be…well…destructive. Who knew?

The movers and breakers are trying to unfire some of the crucial people they fired so swiftly and breakingly, but they’re having trouble because they did so much breaking.

The US government is trying to rehire nuclear safety employees it had fired on Thursday, after concerns grew that their dismissal could jeopardise national security, US media reported.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters.

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The Trump administration has since tried to reverse their terminations, according to media outlets, but has reportedly struggled to reach the people that were fired after they were locked out of their federal email accounts.

A memo sent to NNSA employees on Friday and obtained by NBC News read: “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”

“Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people’s personal contact emails,” the memo added.

Amateurish much?

That’s the problem, see. Breaking things is breaking things. If it occurs to you five minutes later that you need the things you just broke, well, maybe you shouldn’t have broken them.

Musk and Trump’s moronic method here is just to throw out all the people who are easy to fire because they don’t yet have protections. Their method is not to investigate what people do and try to figure out which jobs are least essential. Their method is what a child having a tantrum would do, but it’s not what anyone with an adult brain and a lick of sense would do. It’s fast, but then so is a missile launch; that doesn’t mean you want to launch missiles at the very people who are there to warn us of approaching missiles.

The sheer infantile stupidity of it is hard to believe.