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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Rick Perry on his newfound appreciation for the DOE:
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After being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of Energy, I regret recommending its elimination," he said.
Holy ****ing ****, these ****ing people.
Whether Campaigning Rick Perry was selling hot garbage nonsense to morons and he genuinely knew all along that the DoE shouldn't be abolished, or Rick Perry is a genuine moron figuring government out for the first time -- this seems highly emblematic of the coming few weeks.
I feel like in this quote you can rightfully feel rage, despair, chagrin for America's burgeoning and growing Idiocracy, and then finally some sort of bizarre optimism now that the bar is so low. All those feelings at once.
Hail to America's anonymous briefers. Whoever those gals and guys are that can get Rick Perry to admit the DoE does things. Important things. Perhaps they can convert the whole Trump Admin. Hail to the scourge of the right-wing chattering classes, the dreaded LIFELONG BUREAUCRAT, who lives in the swamp with a cushy government job but actually in fact operates in the quiet and in the shadows getting Rick Perry to know things. Can you imagine that conversation? That briefing? Those bureaucrats and the operational consistency they might just preserve are the literal ****ing heros of the Republic. I hope the 2217 versions of Ken Burns and David McCullough and other 23rd Century pop historians does not forget them in their documentaries and books.
We spend so much time on the Lincolns and the MLKs and the Eisenhowers of history, but ****, the hero of early 21st century America might just be some lackey in the DoE who came up with just the right kind of PowerPoint or Visio transition effects to keep Rick Perry entertained enough to pay attention for 15 minutes.
"Now Governor Perry, let's look at this next slide. The Department of Energy is responsible for...
<clicks mouse; the words "nuclear arsenal" rolls in from the left, as if by magic, spins twice, and settles on the slide>
...
America's nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are highly destructive ammunition that is capable of...
<clicks mouse; the words "hurting lots of people" rolls in from the right of the slide, this time the text is animated and appears to be on fire>
hurting lots of people."
Or maybe simply hail to Rick Perry's sense of patriotic duty, or maybe simply shame, that finally, now in office, we can be straight up with America that actually all that campaign rhetoric about eliminating core government functions was just bull****. May whatever finally got to Rick Perry's conscience be found in the rest of the Trump Administration.
Last edited by DVaut1; 01-21-2017 at 08:25 AM.