Rick Perry is a moron.

[Bleacher Creature]

Link to tweet

[pbmus]

1. LMAO

Build it , they will come.

[Gothmog]

2. Governor Goodhair is too stupid for this job

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38. It's amazing how this dumb as a rock person was gov. of Texas and is now Energy Sec.

Being male, having a lot of hair and being white are his only qualifications.

[Marie Marie]

50. You forgot his "Mr. Smarty" glasses.

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53. Yes. Heeheeheehee.

[Gothmog]

59. It was painful having goodhair as governor

[yallerdawg]

3. The next lesson:

Why 96 Percent of Businesses Fail Within 10 Years

"Why do most businesses fail? Because they can’t pay their bills."

[aggiesal]

47. Scientist have determined a new way to lose weight ...

Eat less, excercise more!

[Vinca]

4. A more likely scenario is you put the supply out there, but since demand for coal isn't there

anymore, you mark down the price. Then you mark it down again. Eventually you realize it costs more to produce the coal than what you can sell it for so you decide to open a wind turbine business. At least Rick Perry has his dancing to fall back on.

[Corvo Bianco]

6. Wow total buzzkill.

He was going to supply us straight to Paradise.

[Renew Deal]

5. lol

It works for drug dealers.

[Corvo Bianco]

7. The coal epidemic is real. n/t

[appal_jack]

66. Perry is a coalpioid addict. nt

[niyad]

8. awww, ricky boy, all that hairspray finally ate your brain, didn't it???

[niyad]

9. in other news, water is wet!

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Rick and Donald have something very important in common.

Neither of them know anything about anything, at all.

Trump knows nothing, at all, about real estate or business. Nothing. Not to mention government, science, etc.

Rick Perry knows nothing about anything especially anything to do with the job he is tasked with.

Donald Trump did not know what a "strong dollar" was. He knows nothing, well not nothing, what he knows is how to lie and steal, but if you asked him what any of the NYS laws are to do with real estate, for instance, he would not have a clue.

The problem isnt people this dumb existing, the problem is people as dumb or dumber than them electing them into positions they have no business being anywhere near. Sure the election was stolen, but someone as dumb and mean and sick as trump should not have received 30% of the vote, let alone what he did get. SICK

Climate change WILL kill billions, or kill millions and displace billions, and most of this could STILL be avoided, but not now, we have no way around it now.

And why? Woman with private server, oh my.

[MyOwnPeace]

60. Eliot,

SO well stated - these guys are idiots and SHOULD NOT have ANY position of authority - hell, I wouldn't trust them to be monitors on a school bus! (oh, wait, I would NEVER put Orange Cheat-o on a school bus with future Miss America contestants riding!).

[rgbecker]

11. An entire generation of Republicans who never made it to school...apparently.

Between "Supply side economics" (where reducing taxes is supposed to increase government revenue) and this derivative, we will be lucky to survive long enough to suffer the consequences of not doing anything about Climate Change.

[unblock]

12. "now, what was that third department i said should be eliminated?"

[n2doc]

13. I think we have a nominee for the 2017 ignoble prize in Economics

And Rick, dude, the only thing that works that way is drugs. And maybe ice cream in summer. But I repeat myself....

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I'm 100% Sure He Meant The Opposite

Well actually, i'm 100% sure i meant the opposite of what i just said.

That guy is an idiot.

[hatrack]

15. Rick Perry is such a . . . . . . I can't the third one. I can't. Sorry. Oops.

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[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Hot diggity. I can rev my buggy whip business back up!

Because we say "supply and demand" instead of "demand and supply", I guess Ricky thought supply was what drives commerce.

[MiddleClass]

17. 1. Overstating the obvious

He has done pretty good for himself,

like celebrating when the baby takes that crap all red-faced.

I assume, like every other Ronald Reagan supply-sider, got an F in economics 101

[Cha]

18. Understood.

[Va Lefty]

19. John Cleese on stupidity...this means you Rick!

[sinkingfeeling]

20. LOL. He forgot that the price will also drop like a rock with an over supply.

[SFierro2004]

21. The man has a degree in Animal Science, for crying out loud

Yet the orange buffoon thought it was a good idea to leave this mental midget in charge of our nuclear weapons. Insanity.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Animal Science?

Then why does my dog know more science than Perry?

[catchnrelease]

55. I got my degree in Animal Science

I don't know how Perry graduated but he must have had help (cheated) in all of his classes. My degree required 3 different kinds of chemistry, microbiology, biology, zoology, genetics, statistics, (how to grow)forage crops...just off the top of my head. Plus learning the anatomy/physiology of all the species of animals you would find in farming, ranching, ag vet medicine etc.

It was all some form of science other than the basic general ed requirements like English, math, history and so on. I can't imagine how a dolt like this guy got through it all and managed to graduate. I wonder if he was just passed on via some kind of legacy deal, like GWBush.

[MoonRiver]

22. Say's Law introduced this idiotic idea in 1803.

It's all about promoting capitalism without governmental intervention, i.e. trickle down economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law

[Paladin]

23. Rick Perry, a moron? In other news, shit stinks. (nt)

[MarianJack]

43. Also,...

...water (and piss) is wet!

PEACE!

[Paladin]

45. And the current TX governor, Greg Abbott, makes Perry look OK, by comparison.

And the less said about Abbott's likely successor---"Bathroom" Dan Patrick---the better.

[progressoid]

24. Holy fuck. Can he tie his own shoes?

[Brainstormy]

26. He's channeling George Bush. n/t

[Tanuki]

27. No wonder he got a D in Economics at Texas A&M.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/919357
"As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a controversial agenda that would gut Texas’ vaunted public university system in favor of something that more closely resembles a business.
......
One reason that might explain his hostility toward the system: He didn’t do very well in it. A source in Texas passed The Huffington Post Perry’s transcripts from his years at Texas A&M University. The future politician did not distinguish himself much in the classroom. While he later became a student leader, he had to get out of academic probation to do so. He rarely earned anything above a C in his courses — earning a C in U.S. History, a D in Shakespeare, and a D in the principles of economics. Perry got a C in gym.

Perry also did poorly on classes within his animal science major. In fall semester 1970, he received a D in veterinary anatomy, a F in a second course on organic chemistry and a C in animal breeding. He did get an A in world military systems and “Improv. of Learning” — his only two As while at A&M.

“A&M wasn’t exactly Harvard on the Brazos River,” recalled a Perry classmate in an interview with The Huffington Post. “This was not the brightest guy around. We always kind of laughed. He was always kind of a joke.”....(more)

[Solly Mack]

28. Well, yeah. But he does wear his smart people glasses.

LMAO

[tblue37]

29. If you sell it they will come? nt

[dalton99a]

30. "He put on glasses so people think he's smart. People can see through the glasses."

- "I'm like really smart" Trump

[keithbvadu2]

31. Anyone got his drunken speech video?

[FSogol]

32. Perry is right! I'm launching a buggy whip, telegrapher receiver, and rotary dial phone store!

Who's with me!

[nolabear]

33. Let's make coal fashionable again! Coal for Christmas!

Coal makes great eye makeup! Coal cleanses! Nutritional coal for when you can't afford food because coal ain't coming back!!

[Fresh_Start]

34. GOP should help coal miners out....

by converting their cars and homes to using coal for energy.

It will also create employment opportunities as they will need ppl to convert their cars/homes.
And they may need ppl to fuel the coal to the engines until they develop the technology.

[Grins]

35. EDIT!!! Rick Perry is STILL a moron.

Rick Perry is STILL a moron.

There. fixed it.

[NCjack]

36. Rick and a fellow classmate at Texas A&M went into the watermelon hauling business.

They argued over the size of truck to buy, and finally Rick gave in to the decision to buy a smaller truck that could haul a max of 10 tons of melons, instead of a bigger one that could haul 20 tons. As a concession, Rick was allowed to set operating values. He chose to buy melons at $1 a pound, take them to NYC, and sell them wholesale at $100 per 100 pounds. After a year of operating, the two owners reviewed their losses, and Rick declared to his partner "see, I told ya that we should have bought the bigger truck." Rick left that business in ruin and went on to become the governor of Texas and subsequently the Sec. of DOE, bestowing on those two positions the benefit of his business experience.

[Ilsa]

48. Please, please, please tell me he isn't THAT STUPID.

If this is a true story, then I'm going to get a fake birth certificate from another state. It hurts my head that we were ever in the same state, breathing the same fumes.

[NCjack]

61. He really is that stupid, but I made up the story.

[WinkyDink]

37. Film at 11!

[elmac]

39. The republican party

has the dumbest members of any organization. I don't know if they are all doped up on prescription drugs, or never had an education or suffer from a fox news lobotomy or what but they are really, really stupid.

[Cyrano]

40. "Build it and they will come."

Do you really want to bet the farm on your theory, Rick?

[SergeStorms]

41. That cuts it!

I've been thinking about opening a buggy whip manufacturing facility, but I wasn't quite sure it was the correct time to do so. Rick Perry has inspired me, and now I'm going to do it!

I'd like my DU compatriots to be the VERY FIRST to hear my announcement of;

THE SERGESTORMS BUGGY WHIP COMPANY!

Buggy whips for the 21st Century!

I've set manufacturing goals of 10 million units in the first year alone, and I'm quite sure we'll sell MANY more than that.

And I owe EVERYTHING to Rick Perry. Without his economic wisdom I might have sat on this idea forever, and SOMEONE ELSE would have cornered the buggy whip market. Now I feel assured of my, and my family's, financial future.

I'M SO PSYCHED! GOD BLESS 'MURKA!

[paleotn]

44. Damn, beat me to it....

...how about manual typewriters and 8 track tapes! Well make a fortune!

[SergeStorms]

62. Oh........

I have CASES of 8 track tapes in my basement, just waiting for the right moment to bring them out. I'll do the buggy whips, and I'm SURE the demand is going to go through the roof, so you'll have to do the 8 tracks all by yourself. We'll have to bring a third person in for the manual typewriters though. There just aren't going to be enough hours in the day for the work WE have to do!

Thanks once again, Rick Perry! You're truly a great human being. Now let's get to work!

[paleotn]

64. Ha!!

[MarianJack]

42. There are three reasons why Perry is stupid at his job.

First, he doesn't understand energy.

Second, he doesn't understand economics.

Third, errr...ummm...ahhh...OOOPS!

Yeah, I'll never forget that one, either.

PEACE!

[Bleacher Creature]

51. Thread winner.

Thanks!

[MarianJack]

63. My pleasure!

PEACE!

[pansypoo53219]

46. lemonade in dec. brilliant.

[47of74]

49. That's insulting.

To morons by comparing them to Rick Perry.

[DefenseLawyer]

52. Supply Side Jesus agrees!

[Scalded Nun]

54. many of us here in TX have known this for a loooooong time.

[FSogol]

56. Uh oh. The Smart Glasses didn't help.

[walkingman]

57. Not a secret for anyone living in Texas. The sad

thing is there are a whole lot more just like him these days. I'm beginning to wonder if it's something in the water?

[Motley13]

58. he is 3 things, moron, imbecile, oops

I remembered stupid, idiot

[Eugene]

65. Chris Hayes just showed the video. It's almost painful to watch.

As the free market lecture continues, he seems to realize that he stepped in it. Not unlike his what three agencies to eliminate response.