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Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com)
Scott Pruitt's polarizing tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come to an end. From a report: President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he has accepted Pruitt's resignation. Trump said that the agency's deputy administrator, Andrew Wheeler, will become the acting head of EPA. The departure follows months of scrutiny that gathered momentum following reports that Pruitt had rented a Capitol Hill condominium linked to an energy lobbyist on favorable terms. The revelation exacerbated concerns about the high cost of Pruitt's travel and security detail and triggered a flood of allegations that Pruitt fostered a culture of workplace retaliation, wasteful spending and self-dealing at EPA. The steady flow of negative news stories prompted multiple government investigators to open several inquiries into Pruitt. His EPA now faces about a dozen probes into its spending, ethics and policy decisions. In a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said, "Good." Further reading: Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims
Just sayin
Scott acknowledges that 19 ethics investigations is about all he's able to deny at one time, due to limitations of fingers and toes. The boob sellout finally had enough - now let his accountability phase begin. #Lock the bitch up
Fill it so high that America gags, then drain it the tiniest bit and try to get everyone to ignore the stink of dried out shit around their necks.
I'm sure trumptards will find a way to blame the democrats and Hillary for this. Anything to reject responsability that because of them, the U.S. is now ruled by corporate fascists.
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOO! MOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU ENVIRONMENTALLY PROTECTED COWS!!
Asshole, doorknob. Make sure you don't hit it on the way out.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Is the swamp drained yet? Are we tired of "winning" yet? Is America great again yet?
Thoughts and prayers.
Drain them up!
... but the EPA needs to be curtailed in every way. Trump gave him a chance because he's a known EPA-hater, but he turned out to be in it for the money. Maybe the next guy can actually change things at EPA. Suck on that lefties.
From https://lfb.org/how-government-wrecked-the-gas-can/: "The government never said “no vents.” It abolished them de facto with new standards that every state had to adopt by 2009. So for the last three years, you have not been able to buy gas cans that work properly. They are not permitted to have a separate vent. The top has to close automatically. There are other silly things now, too, but the biggest problem is that they do not do well what cans are supposed to do."
the Political Appointees and Activist need executed.
Find out what the people consider unbearable and then go a few steps beyond that. The people will finally be angered enough to call for heads to roll and finally the judicial and legislative wheels will be pushed into motion that have rusted up in political complacency.
Seems like overall he is living up to that particular promise, just in the most Jar Jar Binks method possible.
The science denier is finally kicked out of the one department where science should rule above all. About time. Just the fact he was even in that position shows how terrible the Trump administration is for the world.
that was inappropriate, not authorized, and forced upon staff, nor inappropriate use of office for getting wife job, franchise, or money
And yet, he had the most harmful agenda toward his own agancy of any predecessor.
What's crazy is that it took an ethics scandal over sweetheart deals with a gas industry lobbying firm to get him out
Yeah, I guess you can say at least he's out, but who knows who Trump will replace him with. Probably just another oil and coal industry lapdog.
Scott Pruitt resigning is a good thing, but is his replacement going to be as bad, or worse? We need an EPA that puts protecting the environment ahead of corporate interests and ignores 'personal loyalty' to Trump, and you can call me 'anti-Trump' (true, but irrelevant for this subject) or 'pro-Hillary' (untrue, and just as irrelevant), but if your kids are getting cancer (or YOU get cancer) or are born with birth defects because there's toxic substances in your drinking water and/or air, I guarantee that you will care, and if your nice coastal home has to be abandoned because sea levels rise permanently and flood you out, you will care. Try thinking in the long term, Conservative types, and not just about punishing so-called 'liberals', or only as far ahead as next quarters' profits.
Wonder what really was the tipping point..did he hit on Ivanka?
another one bites the dust.
>"agency's deputy administrator and former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, will become the acting head of EPA"
That's not good news either, lets hope it slows down the destruction of environment for time being.
It's good that he's gone but I doubt whoever replaces him will be any better at the job except for being more competent at avoiding most of the ridiculous scandals that Pruitt perpetrated. He treated the job as if it was his to fulfill his dreams of being in charge of his own personal kingdom. The guy was out of control spending money on personal protection that shouldn't be warranted for someone in his position. I mean who spends $43,000 on a cone of silence?
This guy was a clusterfuck from the beginning.
Don't worry though, another swampthing will replace him...
Melania is going to get the boot as a surprise twist during the fall season premier.
I hear that Anthony Weiner is open to exploring new opportunities. Does anyone have Matt Lauer or Harvey Weinstein or Charlie Rose on speed dial? Now that the bar has been set sufficient low I'm sure that any of them would be fine candidates.
Trump knows great people, the best people, good people , if they weren't the best people he wouldn't have pardoned them.
I'm a U.S. citizen, live in the U.S., and wish the U.S. eventually will have a healthy government again.
The problem with replacing Sessions is he's recused. Anyone Trump gets in there besides him won't be, and would end the investigations causing the big Constitutional crisis that could really... be bad for everybody.
I don't put it past Trump to burn the White House down if he can't have it.
But at least he is no longer getting paid. Apart from whatever golden parachute program is available for Trump's impressive line dance of cronies, of course.
Go ahead and find me a poor politician, I'll wait.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
(someone had to say it)
Pruitt had become the poster child for government corruption, but I think Trump actually liked his flamboyance about it. Sort of created cover for Trump's own shenanigans. I am sort of curious which camel broke the straw's back, but mostly I agree with the "good riddance" comments and I'm offended by the holier-than-thou hypocrisy.
The last of the vestigial TRUE Republicans are dying or retiring. The brand has been hijacked.
Gee, do you suppose it would deter the hijackers like Scott Pruitt if someone would lock up their kids? You know, the old collective responsibility thing.
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Yeah, there are some of the poeple you are speaking of
Then there are the single issue voters - like anti-abortionists/Evangelicals and the folks who have been convinced that illegal immigration is this HUGE problem. And the NRA fanatical gun supporters that want no gun control at all - on any level.
They live and breath those issues and don't give a shit about anything else.
I live in a Waffle House state and I can tell you that I'm surrounded by those people. Some are in my family. Holidays are real fun because I hear, "I love Trump!!" from others and approval from around the room.
Democrats have been so effectively demonized by Fox News and the conservative pundits that if one were the Republican nominee, he could make a political ad that showed him half naked with a half naked teen on his lap, an empty bottle of Jack Daniels and him saying, "I have an R by my name. You're gonna vote for me no matter what! Moron!" and then flip them off.
The Republicans would all fall in line and vote for their "team".
Just remember, Roy Moore (R) - the accused child molester in Alabama - was very close to winning Alabama's Senate seat. Just the fact that he was close tells you of the mentality of those people.
Trump is an adulterer, liar, total buffoon and he won.
Those people WILL vote for him again. I KNOW for a fact.
Too many of the articles seem to be things designed to "engage" people, and aren't terribly informative. And by "engage" I mean get people to start arguing.
Mostly just concurring with your comments, but in terms of solutions, I am trying to speculate how we can divide and conquer Trump's mob of marching morons in a way similar to how he divided and conquered America (even if Trump was only following Putin's lead and advice).
My current theory is that maybe Trump's supporters can be divided on the family separation issue. I think Trump's craziest followers agree with locking up kids to the point that they would actually chant "Lock kids up" if they heard it at one of Trump's rallies. However I think there are less crazy followers of Trump who would draw the line at that point.
Unfortunately, it would be hard to do the experiment at an actual Trump rally, but maybe it could be simulated at one of the protests against separating the kids? What if each of the protestors has a piece of paper with Trump's face on it and they use it for a "Word from the OTHER side" chant? Just a minute or two of chanting somewhere in the protest? I think the video of a mob of angry Trump faces chanting "Lock kids up, LOCK KIDS UP!" would have the potential to go viral--and it might even get into the heads of some of Trump's followers.
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You're hitting on a serious problem with America's political system there. If you want competent politicians on both sides, and if you agree that the issues are complicated, then where do you store the losers of the last election? That's on the theory that they were actually competent to run for office in the first place.
For elections to be meaningful, we need more than one choice, regardless of how long the incumbent has been "studying" the issues. We need some politicians who want to serve the public interests, not just people who are so rich that they don't care about losing and doing nothing until the next election. We especially don't need politicians who are just trying to rig the game to make themselves and their friends richer.
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I firmly believe that many of Trump's base are his base not because they like Trump so much, but because they hated Obama and all Democrats and used their ballots for revenge, and to hell what it did to the Country, let it all burn to the ground so far as they're concerned; it's the ugly underside of having a democratic republic, nothing prevents people from abusing their right to vote in such a way that they use it to cause damage just out of spite. I also firmly believe that many of Trump's supporters are in so deep now that they don't think they can do and about-face without losing everything, so they continue to hold their noses, and that members of the GOP who are suddenly retiring from office are doing so because they can't hold their noses anymore, but aren't going to 'sell out' their own party (although ironically, they did exactly that by supporting Trump as a candidate).
Wow. The parent comment is reasonable and probably correct for the most part, but is being down-moderated as "Trolling"? Really?
It looks like a lot of Trumptards have moderation privileges today (and unlike the parent post, I don't feel the need to coddle their precious feelings) and are doing their best to use them to silence criticism of their orange god.
I wonder if we should start blocking IP addresses in Trumptardia (the American Outback, or in other words, rural counties where critical thinking exceeds the mental capacity of the entire hick population). See, unlike the parent's comment, I don't sugar coat it. But hey, at least if I'm modded a Troll, that's one less moderation point that can be abused to silence more thoughtful posts.
He has shown he expects to leech off department funds, incur high expenses and bill to the department and basically sap as much as he can get out of who/what he works for.
You can imagine the money and backroom deals he has had over the years as he was paid to fight the EPA for any corporation which hired him.
Good riddance.
There was a great new yorker article about him and his "philosophies".
https://www.newyorker.com/maga...
like he sued the EPA 14 times before he became the administrator and plenty of other horrible industry funded activities. Literally the last and most corrupt and paranoid person you could get to run that agency...
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
She added 10 years to her face following her recent hysterectomy.
Nobody is a more rabid environmentalist than the hunter who wants to protect their land or the fisherman who wants to protect their livelihood.
I disagree with the term "environmentalist". I believe that a more accurate term is "conservationist". A conservationist believes that humans are part of the environment. This is shown in that a conservationist sees managed hunting as part of preserving a healthy environment. An environmentalist believes that humans are outside of the environment, that any human activity is harmful. An environmentalist seems to think that humans need to be removed from the environment, that "the environment" is something people observe through a window and visit once in a while. That kind of thinking is not that the environment is to be a zoo, something caged off by humans. That kind of thinking is getting humans to place themselves in cages.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Reset the X Days Since Last Win poster. Tomorrow begins a new loosing streak.
is a true case of kettle calling pot black.
Seriously, CREW is about as corrupt as they get.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
His replacement, Andrew Wheeler, has been involved in numerous EPA battles as a lobbyist. He will have to recuse himself, or the Senate will have to write a huge list of exceptions before swearing him in and wipe their dirty assholes on the US Constitution.
In November we'll see if the average American has started to give a shit about what goes on in D.C.
and rolling the functions back under the Interior Department. Since Nixon created the department by executive order to clamp down on some of the most egregious abuses in the Democrat states it has been nothing but an bureaucratic nightmare. Time for another executive order and confirmation by Congress to reform it out of existence.
MAGA
Though i didnt care about his policies, i learned from the article that all we have to do is threaten bodily harm to his family and whammo slammo we effect change. Why does this not sound so good for our side?
Just like vaccines, right-wing ideologues can't imagine a world where acid rain, lead in gasoline and paint (i.e. just about everywhere), and Superfund sites that are decades away from being completely cleaned up.
Maybe we should kill the IRS too, because they're evil according to __fill-in-the-blank__
I'm a registered GOP voter, but sometimes the more ignorant, emotionally-driven members of our party really embarrass the rest of us.
We might finally find a purpose for the existence of Kim Kardashian. Trump should make her the new EPA chief.
Sure she won't be great at it, but she'll be less bad than any other Trump pick.
If you have to illegally falsify meeting records because it would be really embarrassing for the American public to know who you're really meeting with, one has to ask: who were you actually working for? You're not clear on the concept that federal employees are supposed to work for the American citizens???
They are the Eggmen,
I am the Walrus! Koo Koo ka Joo! ah Koo Koo ka Joo!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
That's not why he got the Prize and you know it. He denuclearized several countries including ours. You could look that shit up if you ACTUALLY cared but you just wanna shit on the black dude. Your dumbass can't even fix your stupid phone.
I knew someone would jump on that and here you are!
We give you examples and you blow them off just like you did in your second sentence. You act like there aren't videos of your nationalists, tea partiers, and other deplorables marching alongside Nazis in several states. You constantly go on about all the bad guys when the evening news just shows another crazy conservatard shooting up a school or a mall. The evidence is there. Thousands of videos on Youtube. Somehow though all a liberal conspiracy to make thousands of fake news videos. You guys aren't racist, no siree, those black kids in georgia just magically ended up in those trees last year. Google shit, I ain't doing it for ya. And if YOU, in particular, are getting so worked up about being a racist twat, then A) police your team, they're giving YOU a bad name, and B) you have internalized some bad shit man, and it's trying to get out, meaning you either are racist or want to be racist. It's called projection. So if you aren't Projecting, you need to be Ejecting the nazis out of your party instead of voting them in. That also happened. A California district IIRC. Google that shit too. I mean, I know you won't because you don't actually care. You're just tired of being called poopypants even though you literally have poop in your pants. Change your pants, stop shitting in them, or own that shit. Either way, shut the fuck up.
Actually, the Nobel Peace Prize is not a real Nobel Prize. Its winners are chosen by all the orevious winners. The entire thing is a joke.
Yeah, Obama's gonna play a major role in picking the next one.
And HE didn'd "denuclearize" shit!
He's just one figurehead at the front of the ship. His purpose was/is decorative. And distractive. While the ship is actually steered by the one behind the wheel and commanded by the captain. (Like Darth Cheney in JarJar Bush years.}
That's possible, but I actually agree when Chomsky says that Nixon was the last actually liberal president. Don't forget he came from California, where he was apparently a better governor than Saints Reagan or Schwarzenegger. Nixon also used a special kind of impartial briefing to guide him in difficult decisions? Maybe Brandeis? I actually think Nixon believed in justice but had delusions of grandeur that misled him and ultimately negated his good ideas.
It's a funny thing about justice... There are different kinds of justice and various standards. For example, If you're a vet, then you must remember the UCMJ. In the case of an actual crime in civilian jurisdictions in normal America, there is a strong presumption of innocence and the standard of proof is quite high. In a civil matter, the preponderance of the evidence can be sufficient and the punishment is highly negotiable, to say the least.
In today's story, we see that Scott Pruitt was using a different standard of justice: The should-be-patented Scott-Pruitt "It's probably legal and I want to do it!" standard. Took a long time to catch up to him.
Shaky as that seems, it's probably firmer than #PresidentTweety's grasp of the law. Seems like Trump's idea is to grab Lady Justice by the pussy and shake her until she does what he wants. Let's see if Mueller can help her file a few charges...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Looking for some insight into the reason why Pruitt was apparently fired now. The most plausible theory I've heard so far is that General Kelly wanted to tie up a few loose ends before he leaves, and Pruitt was the closest thing to a gangrene-infested wound in the body politic. If it's true, I'm actually surprised Kelly still has that much influence.
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Oh gosh! A corrupt politician?
Who could have forseen this?
But why are we focusing specifically on Donald Drumpf?
Aren't all politicians corrupt?
Seriously if you real down trumps part of literally everything. Heâ(TM)s actually trying his best and doing well. Iâ(TM)m being serious.
Wow, /. has become a cesspool of Trump vs anti-Trump trolls. I've been visiting and commenting fairly regularly since 2000 and I don't think I'll be coming back here anymore.
wait til the dumbasses in OK elect him as governor or senator.
Joe Q Public is too fucking afraid to actually stand up for their rights. Interferes with couch potatoin', video gayming, narcissistic NIMBY, self entitled selfishness.
"They were both unfit for the office." To me, that seems correct. For example, Hillary was amazingly poor at dealing with conflicts.
True: "Who do I think will cause less damage" should NOT be what determines who you vote for.
Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead!
Scott Pruitt is gone! And the people danced and sang! ...and Pruitt is replaced by someone even worse. Just kidding! Wait...
I didn't read your post, APK, but you're a lying cunt and this is the only response you deserve.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Z^-1
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No doubt, Pruitt was a prick. Just like all the glyphosphate-, GMO-pushing PRICKS BEFORE HIM. Though I think minimizing children's baths could be good, I personally believe intentionally poisoning old people in EPA experiments was an overreach. Https://lists.grabien.com/list-epa-scandals-under-obama-administration Didn't we already agree that Obama's death panels were already in charge of that? ðY