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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:59 PM Jan 2017

Even for Rick Perry, unbelievable.

Last edited Thu Jan 19, 2017, 09:17 AM - Edit history (1)

Perry accepted the Secretary of Energy job thinking he would be the global ambassador for the oil and glass industry. But later, he discovered he was wrong. Instead, he was to become the steward of America's nuclear energy arsenal.

Oops!

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html?_r=0

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dalton99a

(81,068 posts)
1. "Rick thinks he's smart when he's wearing glasses, but believe me, folks, he knows more about atoms
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:04 PM
Jan 2017

than nuclear physicists!"

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. The last two Energy Secretaries were physics PhDs!!!!
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:12 PM
Jan 2017

One of the them had a fucking Nobel Prize in physics!!!

Rick Perry has no such qualifications, especially since the DOEnergy has control of nuclear weapons infrastructure of the country, and many national laboratories.

He, like almost all of Drumpf's cabinet nominees, is uniquely unqualified for his position.

It is a really scary time. This position all the more since Drumpf has asked, "why can't we use them?"

hatrack

(59,440 posts)
6. He got 2 Cs, 2 Ds and an F in college chemistry 40 years ago . . . .
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:33 PM
Jan 2017

Oh, but he was the (largely ceremonial) Governor Texas, so he'll do just fine.

Fucking pathetic.

3catwoman3

(23,815 posts)
13. Where I went to school, you couldn't get credit...
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:33 AM
Jan 2017

...for a course in your major if you got a D in it.

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
8. If you were to bury that idiot under a rock, the rock would rebel & the soil would erode in protest
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:49 PM
Jan 2017

The creatures sharing the afforded habitat would turn on people-kind and give us all well deserved bites and venomous stings.

The trees in the area would fell themselves, while nearby rivers ran dry.

The man is ignorant and his ignorance - a scourge.





gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
11. Another example of Trump's incompetence
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 01:47 AM
Jan 2017

This couldn't possibly be what was keeping America from being great, could it? The country cried out for a total ignoramus to cover our nuclear arsenal. Now America can be great again, at last!

blogslut

(37,955 posts)
12. F*****************************CK!
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:14 AM
Jan 2017

His own damned state, of which he was governor for 15 goddamned years, contains a nuclear weapons facility!

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