Should nuclear energy and weapons research really fall under the purview of a Secretary of Oops?
Considering the other cabinet picks who actually hate their departments, shouldn’t this have gone to a Luddite who lives off the grid?
Was Energy one of the three??? Damn!
Oh hell, I can’t remember.
Obama Energy Secretary
Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in physics,PhD in theoretical physics
Trump pick
Dancing with Stars Reject
You won Faux You Won
We now will have an administration with the collective wisdom of Fox and Friends.
I give up , the dumbing down is complete
Rick Perry can’t spell light bulb…let alone find his ass with both hands.
This is the same as Trump hiring an arsonist to manage his hotel chain,blow it up and burn it down, the Democrats can always fix it in 4 to 8 years just like the Democrats had to clean up after George W.
The White Middle class is proving to be a laughing stock in the US…going for Trump will prove to be horrible for the working class and including all those white’s who licked up all of Trump’s lies about bringing back jobs. Trump has an agenda and creating mfg. jobs for the middle class isn’t part of his agenda. Trump will say the people already knew that when they were voting for him…he was just kidding. You know, like he was kidding about THE WALL and kidding about Hillary being crooked and you know. When Trump said tax cuts he forgot the key words “for the rich” but he’ll say people knew that all along.
Going to love the new Trump super tower and commercial district outside Taipei…it will be the largest private construction project in the world for the next 5 years outside of the PRC.
Washington Post has a list of all of Trump’s picks so far, as well as those under consideration for unfilled posts, and an indication of their defining characteristics relevant to the position. Seeing it in comprehensive form is, well, just what you’d think. Congrats to Secretary Dancing Oops.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/
The only job Rick Perry is qualified for is Secretary of Stupid.
As much as the Rethugs HATE the idea, as time goes on, renewable energy is going to play a larger role in energy consumption in general in this country. It’s just inevitable; some parts of this country have moved beyond just oil and gas consumption. Perry has no vision whatsoever but, on the plus side, I also think he’s too dimwitted to do real harm in the role.
UNLESS we’re talking about nuclear meltdown…
I was at the gym and there was Faux still pushing the big lie about coal …
They had some hapless miner on saying “Oh it’s the regulations that stop people from using coal. Trump is going to repeal all those regulations so coal will be competitive again”
Thus completely ignoring the economic reality that gas is cheaper and can be piped directly to the plants thus eliminating all those pesky humans who are needed to load and unload coal.
The stupid hurts
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Perry has no vision whatsoever but,
[/quote]But, what about those big glasses? Those are for vision.
From that statement I can’t even tell if the incoming administration knows what DOE does. National Labs, nuclear isotopes, and nuclear weapons. I read in another forum about someone who work at Argonne National Lab for a few decades. He said most of these nontechnical DOE secretaries like Perry just spend their whole time learning actually what DOE does.
Yea he really seems like a hollow suit, that’s only where he is because he looks good in that suit.
Hey it’s got Energy in the title so it must be about oil.
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Brawndo! It’s got electrolytes!
Exactly. Also funding for national accelerator labs and fundamental physics research that is not related to bombs and power production too.
So Rick Perry will head Department he himself wanted to do away with!
Yeah, that will work!
So how will this work when Perry can’t remember the name of the department he heads?
Please someone correct me if I’m wrong but being the longest serving Governor doesn’t really mean that much in the state of Texas? I thought the power in Texas was in the hands of the Lt. Gov.? Being the Gov. was the showman’s job, the one who went out and about to lure businesses to TX.
“As the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry created created a business climate that produced millions of new jobs and lower energy prices in his state, and he will bring that same approach to our entire country as Secretary of Energy,” Trump said in a statement.”
And lower energy prices aren’t they connected to the cost of oil and gas? And now the boom has gone bust in TX and in ND? Oh while we are talking about booms how many things blew up in TX under that “friendly” business climate?
His wife will write it on his hand every morning, if he’s the type of guy that bathes everyday.
And like Trump’s tweet said, Rick Perry has lots of energy, you know, so it is a really perfect fit*. I loved the part where Trump gave Rick Perry all the credit for low gasoline prices in Texas. May Allah bless him a thousand times, to quote my college paperback copy of The Arabian Nights.
Oh, and did you know that Ryan Zinke loves to hunt and fish, is an avid outdoorsman who wears flip flops to his press interviews during the Summer-- just like those really typical American passengers walking into the arriving terminal after their flight from Europe!!! (thank you so much Washington Post for the People Magazine profile) so he is just so perfect for Interior. I wonder who they will pick to play him in the movie? May I suggest Jeffrey Dean Morgan???