OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

[sonik]

Well I guess it's more or less official.

And the rose goes to....



Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil for Secretary of State

&

Rick Perry as Energy Secretary

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Well I guess it's more or less official.

And the rose goes to....



Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil for Secretary of State

&

Rick Perry as Energy Secretary

Our current Secretary of Energy is a nuclear physicist and headed up the Dept of Physics at MIT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Moniz

 

[sonik]

 

[tiger roach]

Well I guess it's more or less official.

And the rose goes to....



Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil for Secretary of State

&

Rick Perry as Energy Secretary

Perry fits the pattern - put the guy who is a sworn enemy of the agency in charge of the agency.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Perry fits the pattern - put the guy who is a sworn enemy of the agency in charge of the agency.

Well, if anything, it's consistent.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

So is the end game destroying the executive branch as we know it? Does the douche-in-chief elect think he's going to turn it into a royal position that he will hand down to his daughter or (worse) one of his sons?

Seriously, no one thinks we should have minimum qualifications for elected officials and their appointees?

He's not draining the swamp, he's just throwing out babies as if they were bath water. How the fuck is a reasonable person supposed to keep hoping for the best? We're pretty much fucked and the masses were too stupid to see it coming and just as stupid as the foundations are being laid out right in front of them.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

How the fuck is a reasonable person supposed to keep hoping for the best?

First mistake, optimism

We're pretty much fucked

yep

and the masses were too stupid to see it coming and just as stupid as the foundations are being laid out right in front of them.

not stupid, just didn't give a fuck.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Dark days ahead for human rights.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

not stupid, just didn't give a fuck.

Which I'll associate with ignorance.

Deplorably stupid non-fuck givers.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Which I'll associate with ignorance.

Deplorably stupid non-fuck givers.

In my lifetime, America has proven it's stupidity at every turn. Thinking we're better than this is delusional. Maybe as individuals we are, but we are demonstrably not as a country.

 

[GDSmithTX]

In my lifetime, America has proven it's stupidity at every turn. Thinking we're better than this is delusional. Maybe as individuals we are, but we are demonstrably not as a country.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
-- Agent K (MiB)

 

[Flamencology]

In my lifetime, America has proven it's stupidity at every turn. Thinking we're better than this is delusional. Maybe as individuals we are, but we are demonstrably not as a country.

I don't know if I'd agree with that, but the Reagans were monsters, and '68 was a turning point. Look at RFK's speeches from that campaign; if a presidential nominee these days dared to quote Aeschylus from memory in a speech, they'd immediately be dismissed as hopeless elitist intellectuals.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

I don't know if I'd agree with that, but the Reagans were monsters, and '68 was a turning point. Look at RFK's speeches from that campaign; if a presidential nominee these days dared to quote Aeschylus from memory in a speech, they'd immediately be dismissed as hopeless elitist intellectuals.

I wasn't alive in '68, hence "in my lifetime".

 

[mongooz]

Dark days ahead for human rights.

and civil rights
and the constitution
and the environment

 

[mongooz]

I wasn't alive in '68, hence "in my lifetime".

i was. and we got it right in '60, but someone decided to change the election results.

 

[smurfco]

In my lifetime, America has proven it's stupidity

 

[Flamencology]

and the constitution

That can get scrapped, we need a new one anyway.

The other two, though...

 

[Flamencology]

i was. and we got it right in '60, but someone decided to change the election results.

'60-'68 were relatively strong domestically, at least.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

i was. and we got it right in '60, but someone decided to change the election results.

I blame Frank Sinatra.

 

[Tig]

So is the end game destroying the executive branch as we know it? Does the douche-in-chief elect think he's going to turn it into a royal position that he will hand down to his daughter or (worse) one of his sons?

Seriously, no one thinks we should have minimum qualifications for elected officials and their appointees?

He's not draining the swamp, he's just throwing out babies as if they were bath water. How the fuck is a reasonable person supposed to keep hoping for the best? We're pretty much fucked and the masses were too stupid to see it coming and just as stupid as the foundations are being laid out right in front of them.

What can we expect from someone who had been a dictator (both business and personal) his entire adult life?