God Save The Zinke
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is already under investigation for extravagant personal expenditures of taxpayer money. We’ve paid for hockey games, ski lodges, steakhouses, and snorkeling, but what are these and a few charter jet rides to a guy who has his own damn flag and coin?
At the Interior Department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government.
A security staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and hoists a special secretarial flag whenever Zinke enters the building. When the secretary goes home for the day or travels, the flag — a blue banner emblazoned with the agency’s bison seal flanked by seven white stars representing the Interior bureaus — comes down.
Yep. Zinke: the Queen of Damn England.
Nobody can remember this ever happening since about 1917. Maybe it’s a 100 years of sanity celebration.
He also commissioned his own coin that he gives to who … I dunno, maybe taxpayers because they paid for the damn thing in the first place.
Nice of him to follow Trump’s gold theme, right?
Have a nice weekend thinking about ways the Trump administration is saving you money in Puerto Rico.
Thanks to Deb for the heads up.
I’m glad I know breathing exercises for calm. I need them. Every. Damned. Day.
1Good god… Everyday I cannot believe my ears…what the heck is going on now? These people are insane they are going to bring us to war, or bankrupt us for sure. What next duels in the rose garden?
2What next duels in the rose garden?
With The Donald getting the really sharp sword, and everyone else with a rubber one.
Next Congress will authorize the expenditure for every cabinet official to have his or her coat of arms.
3Trump will fire Zinke for sure!
4Minting a gold coin without Trumps name and face on it is an inexcusable disgrace.
Maymoon, duels in the rose garden sound good. Or, at least in comparison to Donnie’s dream of Soviet style military parades on Pennsylvania Avenue and in lieu of fireworks let’s launch a few nukes for the grand finale. Dotard45 and his maladministration are certifiably cra-cra. A guy called Mad Dog and a drain the planet dry oil baron are the supposed “adults in the room;” we are so screwed.
How whacked is the pResident Whackpot? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jFYLtGCh1mU/WeAFJskKxkI/AAAAAAABrSk/OpXOx4yoNvMTVfheIBiAuLi7Q9Y5XOEIgCLcBGAs/s640/3%2Bclay%2Bjones.jpg
5Holy Crap-o-Rama!
Rachel reported the flag last night, but even she missed the damned coin.
She did, however, suggest that in his pursuit of all his government-funded fun, Zinke forgot the Bouncy Castle.
What a waste of protoplasm. Montana must be so proud.
6It is simply not the station of the common rabble to question the privileges of the nobility. Nor is it becoming.
You will desist immediately.
7The Tweeter in Chief is gonna be REAL pissed that he didn’t think of this first. Given the way things are going, Zinke money could very well become the coin of the realm.
8Even Nixon, despite his attempt to dress the White House staff like the Ruritanian Army in some comic operetta, never, to my knowledge, insisted on a “presidential flag” or his own little coin.
These guys are astonishing – cone-of-silence phone booths, charter jets for European vacations, extra secret service details – and the MAGA crowd evidently takes this slosh of corruption for a form of greatness. If I didn’t know how much they loathe public television, I’d think they’ve been watching too much imported BBC stuff, and want to turn America into 19th century Britain, complete with royal family, acres of gilded palaces, foreign spouses, and intriguing dukes, on the one hand, and Dickensian levels of poverty, poorhouses, and epidemics on the other hand.
9We need to start a series of t-shirts:
Secretary of the Interior Zinke
Minted His Own Coin
But All I Got Was This T Shirt
President Trump Spent $60 Million on Golf Trips
So Far
But All I Got Was This T Shirt
HHS Secretary Tom Price
Flew Private
But All I Got Was This T Shirt
Print up thousands of these t shirts, ship them to Puerto Rico, and send in the photographers.
10A chesty attitude – a pompous non entity.
11Oops. Just glanced at your headline and saw “God Save the Skank”. My bad. Or was it?
12I think it was EPA-Destroyer Pruitt who demanded the 24-hour guard detail and the “cone of silence” phone booth. I’d like to take a pot shot at these megalomaniac idiots myself, and I don’t even have a gun. But when your boss has the biggest ego on the planet (with the least excuse for one) and wants everything solid gold handed to him at taxpayers’ expense, why not have everybody cash in?
They all need to be impeached, or drummed out, or strangled with their own perks.
And do you think that, living that way, they’re going to spend one nanosecond per day thinking about how to make the average American’s life a bit better?
13Wordless
14Sounds like Zinke had/has an overdose of chootz-pah (thank you Crazy-eyed One-L Michele Bachman) .
15They should just hoist the Jolly Roger over the stinking government and be done with it.
16Hinky Zinke sure seems quite full of himdelf.
17OMG, Zinke has himself a whopping case of Margaret Thatcher-itis! She used to pull the same damn stuff until the Palace shut her down! We don’t have a Palace or a Queen but we do have “we the people.” Just thought Zinke might like to know.
18Zinke, along with the BLM, are trying desperately to round up and pen up and eventually butcher up every last living wild mustang and burro out in the open plains just so the greedy, non-paying cattle assholes can graze their stock for free on public lands ala The Bundy Boys.
19Plus … Zinke is the one who is trying to ruin all of our national parks and make them into oil and gas producing parks for the enjoyment of who? The general public? I don’t think so!
They are ALL a bunch of SOBs!!
I’m lodging an “Oh, brother!” protest on behalf of my late father, a career DoI employee/public servant, as that would have been his reaction to this piece of ridiculousness. Dad was passionate about stuff but immensely understated so that utterance along with an eye roll would have been it. Consider it done, dad. Miss you, and mom too. And mom, sorry about all the f bombs I’ve been dropping this year. Can’t help it.
20Remember when Zinke referred to himself as a Theodore Roosevelt Republican? I wonder what the presidential candidate of the Bull Moose party would have thought of Zinke.
21We now have a ringside seat at seeing how a functioning, economically-viable democracy becomes a bankrupt, wartorn, 3rd-world country, with a despot and his minions living in gaudy, tasteless luxe at the top. If you ever wondered how that could happen, here it is.
22When he commandeered a horse from the Park Police so he could “ride” to work on his first day, that should have been a clue.
But, Secretary of the Interior, not a high profile job. The coins are just so folks will remember who the hell they just shook hands with.
23I had a quick witted great-aunt who gave each of her new son-in-laws a flag to hang whenever she would visit. The image was a large battle-ax.
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