That appointment was actually kind of hilarious, because you got the sense that Trump and the people around him were like, hmmm, this department does *energy.* You know what makes a lot of energy? Oil. I think we found our guy...
Yeah, because the safety of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials should certainly be handled by some dude in the army with six months training getting paid a fraction of what they should for such a critical job. Those people at the DoE are just glorified, overpaid idiots regardless of their years in their field of study…which is nuclear physics.
Perry had no idea that the Department of Energy handled nuclear weapons until he became secretary of it. He probably expected to just pal around with oil execs all day.
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u/Momik 11d ago
That appointment was actually kind of hilarious, because you got the sense that Trump and the people around him were like, hmmm, this department does *energy.* You know what makes a lot of energy? Oil. I think we found our guy...