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Scott Pruitt can he get any more weird?

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The thing that absolutely grinds my gears is that these conservative shitheads that abuse the ever loving crap out of their positions are the same ones pushing for "Right to Work" laws in states. I can be fired for stealing a pad of post it notes from my employer.

Abuse the taxpayers for millions...just because you can? No problem. Abuse away.

Fuck that. Time to start holding people accountable.
 
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Despite denials, lobbyist tied to condo met with EPA chief


https://www.yahoo.com/news/despite-...-condo-met-epa-chief-041310251--politics.html

"Both Pruitt and lobbyist Steven Hart had previously denied Hart had conducted any recent business with EPA.

A spokesman for Hart confirmed Saturday that the lobbyist met with Pruitt at EPA headquarters in July 2017 to discuss efforts to preserve the Chesapeake Bay.

The admission about the meeting came after the lobbying firm Williams & Jensen filed a new disclosure report late Friday hours after Hart announced his early retirement as chairman."
 
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Despite denials, lobbyist tied to condo met with EPA chief


https://www.yahoo.com/news/despite-...-condo-met-epa-chief-041310251--politics.html

"Both Pruitt and lobbyist Steven Hart had previously denied Hart had conducted any recent business with EPA.

A spokesman for Hart confirmed Saturday that the lobbyist met with Pruitt at EPA headquarters in July 2017 to discuss efforts to pollute the Chesapeake Bay.

The admission about the meeting came after the lobbying firm Williams & Jensen filed a new disclosure report late Friday hours after Hart announced his early retirement as chairman."

FTFY to reflect the real intent of the meeting. :)
 
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He’s a bottomless can of worms

Today I heard he had dinner with a Vatican Priest who had been accused of Child Molestation. Sounded like the charges occurred post that dinner but why does Pruitt attract this stuff?
 
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He’s a bottomless can of worms

Today I heard he had dinner with a Vatican Priest who had been accused of Child Molestation. Sounded like the charges occurred post that dinner but why does Pruitt attract this stuff?
It's all good cause he was a famous Climate Denier, 3rd in line to the Pope, and curiously, head of the Vatican Bank. Pruitt was trying to get him onboard with the Blue Team/ Red Team propaganda tour that Pruitts been trying to organize, so that we can have a "real debate" about climate change.
 
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The weirdness continues, just heard a tail end of a story on the radio about Mr. Pruitt ordering & needing $1500 worth of Fountaine pens to do his work.
 

hal2kilo

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The weirdness continues, just heard a tail end of a story on the radio about Mr. Pruitt ordering & needing $1500 worth of Fountaine pens to do his work.
I guess he thought he was going to have a lot of signing parties. Over stepped his skis a bit.

Edit: maybe they were embossed with FYF or MAGA.
 

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gotta admit didn't see this one coming...

Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress

In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator’s director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request. Hupp wanted to know how much the hotel would charge EPA chief Scott Pruitt for purchasing one of its used mattresses.

Hupp’s search for a discount “Trump Home Luxury Plush Euro Pillow Top” mattress, which she detailed in a recent interview with congressional investigators, was one of several unusual tasks she performed for the administrator. The senior EPA official also scouted apartments for her boss in some of the District’s hippest neighborhoods, and helped arrange his family vacation to California over the New Year’s holiday so that the Pruitts could watch the Oklahoma Sooners play in the Rose Bowl.

https://wapo.st/2sCnDDa?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f9c654a90481
 

PottedMeat

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hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress

whats the psychology behind this? is this a way to sleep with the boss?

lol she should have just driven around on trash day with some bungee cord ( in the upscale neighborhoods of course ) and picked one out.

'love the mattress, where'd you get it?'
'uh... trump hotel'
'nice.'
 

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gotta admit didn't see this one coming...

Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress



https://wapo.st/2sCnDDa?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f9c654a90481

Buying a hotel mattress isn't all that weird. But specifically one from Trump hotel in DC...well considering that this is in effect payment to Trump, well know you, pay to play.

I wonder if used mattress purchases are put in the books in some way that they are written off as an anonymous "refuse disposal expense"? I wonder if, say, this "mattress" was purchased for a couple $100k's or so, if it's just yet another neato way to funnel industry cash directly to Trump in order to loosen regulations/dump more lead into Flint's water.

Hmmm.
 
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Damn, who knew that one of Pruitt's hobbies included mattress forensics. The guy never ceases to impress and amaze with his stunning list of talents that include the promotion and institution of entitled corporate culture into government service and employing the aloofness and arrogance of a personality imbued with the influence of the aristocrat class as he insufferably deals with having to dirty himself with the mundane duties of a hatchet man for the elegants.

Good to know that America is in the good hands of the self-interested, self-enriching folks who gained their experience stabbing each other in the back to get ahead of each other in their race for the riches.

Yep, that's exactly the kind of folks we need to run the nation....................................into the dirt..............................................again.
 

dawp

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pruitt is the the worst cabinet member in this admin, other than trump.

any other admin and he'd be gone already.
 
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So to answer the question in the OP, yes, he can definitely get more weird. And I don't think we've hit bottom yet.