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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPerry didnt know that the Energy Dept. maintains nuke arsenal.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/rick-perry-might-have-misunderstood-job-of-energy-secretary.html?mid=facebook_nymagOops! He thought it was only about oil and gas.
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Perry didnt know that the Energy Dept. maintains nuke arsenal. (Original Post)
Cattledog
Jan 2017
OP
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)1. I think he and Betsy DeVos should trade nominations. How could that be
any worse?
underpants
(182,805 posts)4. Nuke the grizzlies
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. Incompetence and ignorance abounds in the entire drumpf
administration. Most cabinet members are highly unqualified for their prospective jobs.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)3. Perry needs more than a pair of 'smart' glasses
I'd say odds are high he won't last long in the job,
but Ben Carson may precede him out the door.
66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)5. Nobel Prize Winner then MIT Prof. to "Dancing with the Stars" yokel
President Barack Obama's first Secretary of Energy was Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Chu. His second and current Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, is a nuclear physicist who taught at MIT.
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_is_replacing_obama_energy_secretary_a_nuclear_physicist_with_rick_perry_and_twitter_is_exploding
Sad ... very, very sad.
Botany
(70,506 posts)10. It is quite the drop off isn't it?
We are fucked.
Vinca
(50,273 posts)6. I wasn't totally terrified until I heard this. OMG, what a mess we're in.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)7. Wonder if he knows that the nukes are all made in Texas?
enough
(13,259 posts)8. Trump and his people probably didn't know that either. NT
MBS
(9,688 posts)9. Terrifying.
Like so many - too many - things about this dark transition in our history.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)11. cement head perry is a fucking moron.
I should know, that mouth breather was my governor.