• EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigns
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/07/05/embattled-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-resigns/?utm_term=.ea222c762234 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk
Get off this planet you sack of shit. Leave someone who understands science in your place.
Fuck off Scotty boy, the pipelines are calling.
too bad an actual oil lobbyist is next in line
https://i.imgur.com/lk46bw1.png
Where is a throw up rating option
The overt worship is absolutely terrifying.
it really is a cult
I guess friday nights are blowjob nights for Scott Pruitt in the oval office, fucking hell.
https://twitter.com/ProPublica/status/1014962888283426819?s=19
Well shit, we go from an incompetent buffoon who willfully misspends the EPA's funds, and rolls back some of the important regs, to someone who might have half a brain and might be a bit more tactful in their malicious behavior. I don't know which is worse.
Good News: Pruitt is gone Bad News: his replacement isn't better If embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt were to leave office, the reins of the agency could fall to a former Senate aide and coal mining lobbyist who was confirmed 53 to 45 Thursday afternoon to become second-in-command at the EPA. Andrew Wheeler worked at the EPA more than two decades ago and later served as an adviser to Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), a high-profile critic of climate science who famously brought a snowball to the Senate floor as a prop. For the past nine years, Wheeler has been a lobbyist for a variety of companies, including Appalachian coal mining firm Murray Energy.
It's about goddamn time he resigned. He flagrantly abused his position on a regular basis. This should have happened a long time ago. Pruitt's laundry list of scandals: He reportedly ordered raises for two aides, despite the White House rejecting his request. He later said he was unaware of the raises. He spent $3 million of taxpayer funds on an extensive security detail, which was three times bigger than his predecessor's. Biometric locks were installed on his office doors for $5,700, Politico reports. He came under fire for renting a bedroom near Capitol Hill from a lobbyist for $50 a night. He told the Washington Examiner: "I'm dumbfounded that that's controversial." The agency installed a $43,000 private phone booth in his office. He has spent over $105,000 on first-class flights, per Politico, citing "threats to his safety." He had a tendency to want to use flashing lights and sirens on his motorcade to cut through D.C. traffic — including at least one trip to a popular French restaurant, Le Diplomate. A former Comcast lobbyist helped the agency set up a trip to Morocco in December, which cost $100,000, despite original claims that it would cost $40,000. Pruitt accepted seats at a University of Kentucky basketball game for him and his son from a billionaire coal executive. His staff spent over $1,500 on fountain pens, CNN reported, and more than $1,600 on journals. His director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, says Pruitt asked her to perform personal tasks, which included a request for a Trump hotel mattress. He told his allies in the conservative movement that Hupp lied in her testimony and could not be trusted implying that "she should not be hired at their institutions," reports the Daily Beast. He tried to use his position to get his wife a job as a Chick-fil-A franchisee, per the Washington Post. Pruitt requested that his 24/7 security detail help him find "a favorite moisturizing lotion" offered at Ritz-Carlton hotels, and retrieve his dry cleaning without him, the Washington Post reported. He sent employees during the work day to "pick up his favorite snacks and treats," per the Daily Beast, including particular finger foods, Greek yogurt, and more. He enlisted the help of a top aide to find his wife a job by reaching out to Republican donors, the Washington Post reported. The Post later reported that the aide was told to find a job which offered a salary topping $200,000. He put the former treasurer of his political action committee, Elizabeth Beacham White, in charge of the EPA's Office of the Executive Secretariat, which oversees FOIA requests, Politico reported. https://www.axios.com/go-deeper-the-scandals-that-led-to-scott-pruitts-resignation-5e7778c7-3b61-4188-92e1-5d45dc32a1fd.html
I hope that same “Providence” bends you and Trumpy over and fucks you with a rake.
We both know someone of the same standard will be put in place.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1014974061754007552?s=19
I guess confronting him while he was eating worked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDEn5HAwhU
Truly shocking when you realized everyone else has a similarly worded letter, but instead of serving the president, they serve the United States.
The agency installed a $43,000 private phone booth in his office. You forgot the most important part: this "phone booth" was designed to be completely soundproof, likely so that Pruitt could talk in secret with the oil industry lobbyists he obviously is beholden to without fear of being exposed. Same goes for the biometric locks on his office door I'd say this guy redefined the very concept of government corruption, but frankly he didn't so much redefine it as embodied it perfectly. I'm amazed he got away with it for as long as he did considering how blatantly he went about systematiclly destroying the EPA and turning it into a hostage of the oil lobby.
Having armed private security running around the city doing odds and ends for the highly paranoid and corrupt head of the EPA sounds like a piece of fiction.
Sounds like some kind of Shadowrun sidequest. ”I require the shipment of Twinkies be delivered no later than midnight to a secure location. Accomplish this in however means you see fit. We’ll wire the credits to your account on completion of the contract.”
This doesn't seem to be really worth anything in the long run. What good does it do throwing out the trash if it's just to make room for more waste from the dump?
His replacement is kinda worse. Dude was a coal industry lobbyist
Is that seriously a legitimate, official, 'god-emperor trump' reference?
His resignation isn't going to stop me from mustering the nastiest loogie I can and hocking it right into face if I ever see him in California
Luckily it didn't end up with a bizarre shootout between a decker, a street samurai, and a bunch of twinkie running cartel members with automatic weapons.
After the past couple of years, I wouldn't have even questioned that headline.
Imagine what will happen with someone with actual charisma and good lucks enters the political scene.
You can kinda substitute anything regarding Trump's administration for the EPA in this phrase and still be right on the nose unfortunately.
Oh, so that's why they remodelled the nutritional sludge system. https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/941715143150526465
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