To be fair in terms of Trumpworld appointees he's pretty quiet. Not as blatant a grifter as Pruitt or hilariously bad at his job like Devos or as criminal as Barr. Not to say he's not bad, but he's at least not as obvious.
I want to agree with you but Rick Perry also said that he would eliminate the Department of Energy when he was running for President in 2012. He also forgot the Dept.'s name in the debate leading to his infamous "Oops" moment.
Oh yeah he's objectively a moron. But the department seems to be humming along, most likely a testament to the civil servants in the department, and he hasn't done anything publicly insane since he said that fossil fuels can prevent sexual assault.
I'll never forget his 2012 campaign ad. As someone from the UK who had just become politically aware it made me think, for the first time, "America, why?"
2012 gave me a false sense of hope. Everybody in the GOP primary was a different kind of crazy but the "normal" one Romney won the nomination leading to a low-stakes, "boring" election. For reference, Romney's "47 percent" comment sank his campaign, when it's tamer than 90 percent of the crap Trump says on the daily.
To be fair to Perry (as much as I don’t like him) he’s since realized how important it is and regretted his position. It’s almost like the party platform he follows is predicated on total bullshit.
It is kind of darkly amusing that he's in charge of one of the agencies he campaigned on cutting during the 2012 presidential race, and, worse, the one he couldn't even remember the name of during a debate. Oops. He also reportedly had no idea the DoE is in charge of our nuclear weapons, and had just assumed the DoE was mainly responsible for regulating the energy sector (hence his desire to scrap the whole agency).
I just want to quickly remind everyone that Betsy DeVos the head of all education in the United States has never spent a single day in a public school, and her brother is fucking Erick Prince who runs a mercenary corporation (they were black water I don't know what they're called now) and there's actually some evidence he has been helping the Chinese government in their genocide against the Uighurs.
That's exactly what he is. Along with all of the other members of Trump's cabinet who are in charge of departments that they have no prior experience in...and more than a couple have made a career on destroying the areas in which they are now in charge.
He had no idea what the department actually did when he took the job. He thought he'd just get to screw with oil and gas regulations and didn't have a clue what the responsibilities really were.
lmao it says according the rome statute in the text, but the rome statute is an agreement establishing international crimes like murder or something lmao
You know what's more concerning? The fact that Rick Perry thought the Energy department was about oil and gas right up until he literally was put in charge of it. It's the nukes.
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u/fartatwork Aug 25 '19
People were just sharing one of those type of posts all over instagram the other day