Rick Perry Is Officially in Charge of America's Nuclear Weapons Stockpile

[HAB911]

Ben Carson Is Now Officially in Charge of Housing Policy



I never knew what a nightmare was like until now

[spanone]

1. OOPS

[nycbos]

2. Not just the nukes.

Also the the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

[RKP5637]

3. It is now officially The Twilight Zone! n/t

[Nitram]

4. Keep your hat on. Perry is not smart enough or knowledeable enough to do anything without the

cooperation of career federal employees at the Dept of Energy.

[Initech]

5. Remember he's the guy who couldn't name 3 branches of government he wanted to cut.

The fact that they want to cut *ANY* is disturbing enough.

[Nitram]

6. This is a guy who has been promoted way above his level of competence and he knows it.

He will rely on aides and subordinates for everything he does.

[dalton99a]

7. Perry: "Remind me what a neutron is again?"

"How much is a megaton??"

[doc03]

8. Doh!

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

9. Perry had no idea nukes were under Energy

He thought it was some gas/oil ambassadorship.



And, according to this DailyKos article (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/19/1622155/-Rick-Perry-doesn-t-have-a-clue-what-the-Department-of-Energy-actually-does), Trump's people never asked NNSA staff to stay for a transitional period:

As Gizmodo reported earlier this month, the NNSA chief and his deputy have not been invited to stay on by Trump, and are planning to clear out their desks at noon Friday—marking, Heinrich warned, “the first time in [the agency’s] 16-year history, through four different administrations, in which there will not be any continuity in leadership during a presidential transition.”

So, yeah, so far, so good.

[Nitram]

14. If nobody reminds him, he'll probably forget and we can breathe a sigh of relief.

[Iggo]

10. That's the guy who had problems counting to three, right?

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. ...

[WhiteTara]

12. I hope his next Oops isn't a launch

of nuclear missiles.

[itcfish]

13. Now that is

really scary

[Vinca]

15. It's mind boggling.

They couldn't possibly have found more unqualified people for the positions if they'd tried.