If He Doesn’t Go To Jail, Surely He’s Going To Hell
Scott Pruitt.
Y’all, Pruitt took lying lessons from Trump.
Remember when he said that he did not know about the enormous raises two of his staffers got? He was totally unaware of it.
Turns out, it was through his urging.
In mid-March, Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to the administrator, wrote to HR in an attempt to confirm that her pay raise of $56,765 was being processed. Greenwalt “definitively stated that Pruitt approves and was supportive of her getting a raise,” according to an administration official who has seen the email chain.
Can you even imagine if Pruitt was serving in the Obama administration? Sean Hannity would be outraged. Outraged, I tell you.
The question is how does the swamp get worse than ever?
The answer, of course, is that the Pruitts, the Trumps (and the Tom Prices and on and on) are people who serve interests far more powerful and nefarious than they are. Big money has taken over the political system, and hired people like Pruitt to run it on their behalf.
Pruitt is meeting with Trump this afternoon. And the devil is giggling.
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
45 to Pruitt, “Do something, quick. Make me look good to our base.”
Pruitt’s response, “The lead damage will take too long”…
1I had to read the last sentence a second time. At first I thought it said the devil was gagging. Hey, even evil supernatural entities have their standards…
2Pro-Pruitters are arguing that 1. there are no facts to back up any of this (!?), 2.) what “facts” are available are cooked up by anti-Trumpers whether in the media or not, 3.) and there are no such things as optics and even if there were, they wouldn’t matter one damn bit.
Of course, there are facts. Even the evidence Pruitt tried to hide is popping up like bloated corpses in a polluted pond. These facts blow the charge of “contrived” right out of the scummy water, and optics have mattered a whole damn much in many other situations when R’s are the ones doing the investigating. For that matter when they do it, optics overwhelm facts, law, and the table they pound on. So, R’s, grab your pearls, relax on your fainting couches and gives this country the break it deserves!
3$56,675 is roughly the salary of a full-time GS-7 Federal Civilian employee. Assuming Ms. Greenwalt was probably already a GS-13/14, that pay raise should have required Senate approval, because it would have put her into a policy making position. unless, of course, her appointment was a political one.
4The sad thing is that swamps are perfectly good and threatened places filled with wildlife and plants doing good stuff like living and croaking and chirping and reproducing and filtering water to make it cleaner. They should not be drained, and they should be associated with these amoral scumbags. And while we’re at it, I know several witches who are quite nice people and don’t deserve to be hunted.
5It’s a damned shame that many decades of anti-pollution progress is actively, gleefully, being rolled back by these execrable SOB’s. And we now know that the harmful effects manifest on a global scale, not just in a town, state, or nation. (wanted to quote/link a scientist who foresaw all this over a hundred years ago, but can’t find the link, dangit)
When I was a kid we once lived on a river, almost surrounded by chemical plants, refineries, and steel mills, etc. The pollution was literally staggering at times, visibility almost zero, choking clouds of pollution, fallout you could measure daily, water so dirty that little lived in it (and it could even catch fire).
No one in the US today currently experiences such severe environmental degradation of their air and water as that.
Not even places like Deer Park, Pasadena, or Texas City near Houston, nor the Los Angeles area on a bad day are anywhere comparable to that 1940-60’s hell on earth (places I’ve worked in, even LA in the old, bad smog era, as bad as they may still be).
Yet these bipedal vermin like Trump, Pruitt and the rest want to return us to that Stygian world (us, not ‘them’). Fuck them all.
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*** Achtung! ###
There is an excellent PBS program on at 9PM CDT tonight (8PM EDT):
Frontline, titled “Trump’s Takeover” (of the Republican Party).
Well worth watching. Our ‘Third Reich’ began it’s ascent then. Can we end it before it’s completion?
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6Pruitt, another OK asshole, like Inhofe, Mattress Mary, Oral R., etc.
(I watched about 15min of Tulsa Talibangelical ‘minister’ Les Feldick recently, OMFG, what a whackjob. These people are bloodcurdling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Bible_with_Les_Feldick )
On your PBS channel TONIGHT:
Trump’s Takeover
APRIL 10, 2018
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trumps-takeover/
“FRONTLINE goes inside President Trump’s high-stakes battle for control of the GOP, examining how he attacked fellow Republicans and used inflammatory rhetoric that rallied his base and further divided the country in his first year as president.”
(it should be even better than the program on Hannibal (the Carthaginian) airing right now)
7Rhea, what you say is so very true. Traitor trump and his administration live in a cesspool. The only life it supports is toxic bacteria. Well, the great wheel of life keeps turning or what goes around comes back and kicks butt. Karma and her buddies are alive and well. Just remember those polluted rivers that caught fire. Cesspool dwellers beware.
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