https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/19/record-rick-perry-wants-succeed-two-physicists-energy-chief/96762042/

> A nuclear physicist currently holds the role, and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist held the job before that. Perry's background is a bit different: He studied animal husbandry at Texas A&M. He also once frolicked to the “Green Acres” theme on TV's “Dancing with the Stars.”

"Some have pointed out that Perry acknowledged that the Energy Secretary oversees America’s nuclear arsenal in a statement on the day he accepted the job, which would of course dispute the New York Times’ assertion that he didn’t know the full scope of the role.

“It is a tremendous honor to be selected to serve as Secretary of Energy by President-elect Trump. I am deeply humbled by his trust in me,” Perry said that day. “As the former governor of the nation’s largest energy producing state, I know American energy is critical to our economy and our security. I look forward to engaging in a conversation about the development, stewardship and regulation of our energy resources, safeguarding our *nuclear arsenal*, and promoting an American energy policy that creates jobs and puts America first.”"

if only liberals could read to the end of the article LOL

Or read past the headline

or think for themselves

You're missing the main point LOL

> A big chunk of the Energy secretary’s job involves upkeep of America’s nuclear arsenal, as the New York Times reported, a focus requiring two-thirds of the department’s $30 billion budget. A nuclear physicist currently holds the role, and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist held the job before that.

> Perry's background is a bit different: He studied animal husbandry at Texas A&M. He also once frolicked to the “Green Acres” theme on TV's “Dancing with the Stars.”

Replacing a nuclear scientist with somone who has a degree in animal husbandry. Who will oversee Americas nuclear aresenal <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

If only "conservatives" could think.

So, it's not that he will just oversee nuclear stuff. He'll oversee a lot of stuff, including some nuclear.
By that logic, a nuclear scientists would make the best admiral, since there are nuclear reactors on some vessels.

>He ignores the fact that it's a majority of his job

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>He ignores the fact that someone with a degree in animal husbandry shouldn't be in this position regardless

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Okay, you got me. That was a good troll.

>majority of the job
says who? NYT?

It definitely doesn't hurt for the person to have more insight, but these jobs are management jobs first and foremost.

Ah yes, I'm sure his degree in animal husbandry will help him in that role <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

Imagine being so deluded as to actually trying to defend this.

Are you going to tell me that the cybersecurity advisor is okay as well? The one that cannot open his own phone.

Advisors should know their stuff.
Management people should likewise.

The energy secretary's main job is not to oversee nuclear weapons, this is the job literally of the military, with their nuclear people. Furthermore this is a job for politics, and not a job that requires extensive technical expertise, let alone in nuclear matters, given that it's about broad energy policies and not about specific nuclear information

Glad we agree that these two people shouldn't be in their positions then.

And management is about managing other people, that is what matters most.

it's kind of silly to assert otherwise, it's not even his job to oversea the nuclear weapons, it will be some staff member's job who is a nuclear scientist

For the same reason underneath Trump are his generals, underneath anyone in political office are the technical experts

That's just how it works

Yeah, and energy secretary's "stuff" is management

not nuclear physics

https://www.energy.gov/leadership
> Rick Perry currently serves as the 14th United States Secretary of Energy. He leads an agency tasked with maintaining a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent and reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation, overseeing the United States’ energy supply, carrying out the environmental clean-up from the Cold War nuclear mission, and managing the 17 National Laboratories, home to the country’s best scientists and engineers.

Exactly

Hm, the government website says otherwise lads.

Sorry.

I have no idea, whether the guy actually knows something about management, but that's what matters.

I'm going to believe the GOV website and not you two. Sorry.

It's not the key element of the job lol

The agency is, not the secretary, you cretin

> and leads an agency tasked with overseeing the United States’ energy supply, nuclear defense capacity

Can you not read?

the secretary is responsible for managing it