BREAKING: Rick Perry added to National Security Councils core decision-makers

[HAB911]

Source: Statesman

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been added to a core group within the National Security Council in a shakeup of members announced on Wednesday.

Perry, the secretary of energy, was one of several officials added to the principals committee, the primary group of policy-makers for national security.

Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, was also removed from the committee.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/breaking-rick-perry-added-national-security-council-core-decision-makers/zWCr3g9ZZhCTCn3380KOhI/

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[Cattledog]

1. Evil replaced with stupid.

[cstanleytech]

14. Still it makes a bit more sense than Bannon ever did as part of the job for the SoE

is to oversee the disposal of radioactive waste which in the wrong hands could be used as a weapon of terror at the very least.

[MGKrebs]

33. It makes sense

in theory but he likely doesn't know anything about "energy", especially as it relates to foreign policy or national security. His only qualification on that is that he is from Texas.

[cstanleytech]

37. I know, I am simply saying that it makes more sense in comparison than Bannon "ever" did. nt

[get the red out]

32. Yep

But stupid can't cause as much trouble, I hope.

[Iggo]

2. But, but, but...guys...um...he's not really smart. (n/t)

[cstanleytech]

16. That pretty much sums up everyone in the Trump administration. nt

[Kittycow]

34. Look you guys. ...

Rick Perry will put his glasses on. His glasses make him smart. You're all-ginned up (no,wait, that would be Steve Bannon) for nothing.

Sheesh.

[madinmaryland]

62. I though the glasses made him smart.

[Iggo]

64. It's a trick!

[enough]

3. They are insane. NT

[ananda]

4. So now the NSC has a new moron.

!@#$%

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. .

Seriously - you just can't make this shit up!

They are historic in their total and complete awfulness and ineptitude!

It would be pants pissing hilarious if it weren't so tragic.

[Nitram]

6. OMG, just when we thought it couldn't get stupider.

[Jeroen]

7. Oops n/t

[janterry]

8. this in is line with trump's thinking

if we vanquish the enemy we need the Sec. of energy at the forefront of the discussion (so we can steal their oil). Right?

[underpants]

9. Well, I mean, he's is a fairly good dancer

There is that.

[HAB911]

10. dancing fool

Link to tweet

[volstork]

11. Frying pan,

meet fire.

[FSogol]

12. Man, did those smart glasses pay off!

[geek tragedy]

13. He's in charge of our nuclear program, not an insane choice nt

[metalbot]

39. With respect to the position, maybe

But I'd also argue he was an insane choice to be in charge of our nuclear program

[geek tragedy]

43. not disputing that, but from perspective of an org chart, Sec of Energy is

a valid choice to be there. Whereas political advisor was always a terrible choice, by nature of the position.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Is this some kind of joke?

[packman]

17. A major shuffle in Trump's eyes - Dee replaces Dum OR Dum replaces Dee?

[Tanuki]

18. .......

[roscoeroscoe]

56. Why God why?!

Please don't do that

[calimary]

19. Oh for Pete's Sake...

Governor Oops is on there now? And here I thought cooler more reasonable heads would prevail now that Steve Bannon got flushed from the NSC.

[Thekaspervote]

20. Bannon for perry??!! Has bannon become the latest liability

In the Russian trump debacle?

1. Last week financials were disclosed From WH worker bees.
2. Bannon has financial ties with Cambridge anayltica (as does Kelly the con)
3. Cambridge analytica known "data miners" has ties with Russia
4. Trump dumps bannon as FBI begins to look at bannon

Anyone? Your thoughts?

[Tanuki]

21. Some people are pleased with this announcement

[yallerdawg]

22. Now he's going for...

intellectual equivalence.

The two can get together and be of one mind - literally.

[Vinca]

23. Oh, good lord. Wasn't Pee Wee Herman available?

[Cryptoad]

25. +1000

[True Blue American]

50. Pee Wee is already AG!

[2naSalit]

58. I think Pee Wee is

a lot smarter than governor oops.

[Solly Mack]

24. That would be funny if not so damn scary.

Unreal world we live in now.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Stupid person...We are in very deep trouble, and I think he is a dominionist

We is the human race.

[GeorgeGist]

27. Don't you have to know ...

how to spell 'National Security Council' first?

[Cryptoad]

28. Break out the Oxycodone and Whiskey!

[IdiotsforPalin]

29. Perry,

part of the Texas Holy Trinity of Stupid, along with Gohmert and Cruz

[Initech]

30. WTF!!!!!! These crooks should all be behind bars!!!

[Guilded Lilly]

31. You couldn't write Sci Fi to match this.

[bucolic_frolic]

35. If you're the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room

Is there a smartest guy in that room?

I don't think so.

[lunasun]

36. NOT the Onion.

[SunSeeker]

38. Oy.

[Gothmog]

40. This is a stupid move

[rurallib]

53. All of Benedict Donald's moves are stupid

just the degree of stupid is in question.

I would give this one a "super-fucking stupid."
But you know Donnie goes for how a person looks. So the glasses must have persuaded Donny that Ricky is security!

[Freethinker65]

41. With or without his glasses? Hahahaha

[OldHippieChick]

42. I sincerely hope someone smarter than Mark Halperin

is writing a book about all this. The next generations (should they survive) are simply not going to believe we allowed such a group of Keystone Cops to run the show.

[BigDemVoter]

44. Perry is stupid beyond belief. He won't understand much of what he hears.

[duncang]

45. The guy who loves America so much

He said Texas should succeed from the U.S.. Sounds like a true AmeriKan to me.

[spiderpig]

46. Who is writing this script anyway?

Mel Brooks and the surviving Monty Python cast turned it down as too preposterous.

[hamsterjill]

47. As a Texan who was so glad to get rid of him,

I cannot tell you how frightening this is. Rick Perry is a total idiot, easily manipulated and completely without a soul.

[Sunlei]

48. A Republican first ordered that dossier about trump. Mr. Trump better make sure it wasn't Perry.

No one has said what Republican ordered the dossier from the PI Russian expert, people assume Jeb! but it could have been any of the 15? Republicanswho wanted to be president.

[SunSeeker]

51. That dossier was expensive oppo research. It had to be Jeb "Money to Burn" Bush. nt

[Lithos]

49. Oil

The fight in Syria is about the Oil and the pipeline access to the Mediterranean. Perry's role as Energy Secretary is to help drive the front end work Tillerson is doing for Putin.

L-

[Voltaire2]

52. Which reminds me that the problem isn't Trump.

It is all of the clowns. They are, almost without exception, vile idiots.

[Glimmer of Hope]

54. Good grief. How did we get here?

[SummerSnow]

55. Rick Perry and National Security should not be in the sentence

[BumRushDaShow]

57. He will probably end up

doing a "shake up" every couple months to allow his cabal to see classified info on themselves and then rotate them out for a new group from the cabal until they have all been briefed.

[Skittles]

59. the man is dumber than a bag of hammers

he is a dumbass

[moonscape]

60. Make it stop! n/t

[JCMach1]

61. Given what we have seen so far, HE MAY be the smartest man in the room...

seriously!

[mahina]

63. Oops.

Getting critical security advice from a boob doesn't really make anyone feel more secure.

On the other hand, Mr. Oops is responsible for our nuclear reactors, so maybe there's some sense in his presence.

Has any other energy dept secretary been seated at the NSC before, I wonder?

[KittyWampus]

65. So which billionaire does Perry represent? Which billionaire wants their stooge on the NSC