Pretty clear at this point that all in the Trump regime either have no idea what the rules are, or don’t care. And they won’t consider following them unless they’re called out publicly for it.
Kleptocracy Now.
“Make sure to purchase your Gala tickets so you don’t miss out on Administrator Pruitt’s future plans and how he will continue to Drain the Swamp!”
In other words, they’re charging admission to have a first-row seat to watch The Draining of the Swamp… which, according to the previews, will be accomplished by massively flooding the swamp and stocking it with more and more Swamp Creatures until it finally collapses under its own weight and disappears into a sinkhole.
I am amused that they are always so “sorry” after they get caught. Most Corrupt Administration ever? These clowns are making Warren Harding look honest.
Pruitt" “Rules? We don’t need no stinkin rules!”
“We worked with our ethics office to ensure attendance at this event would comply with rules, and this flier unfortunately doesn’t reflect those requirements. We are working to fix this error and ensure full compliance with the rules.”
In other words, we are such naïve fucks that we had no idea there was a separation between federal office and political fundraising.
We apologize to anybody who may have been offended when we left the barn door open. It was not our intent to let the horses get away.
The Hatch Act. How quaint. Who is going to enforce that?
Pruitt, what a fracking idiot…
I’m sure Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is right on the case.
I hope the have a massive earthquake during the event. And I do mean massive.
I don’t know how many times I have to say it…and damn all the people who like to play the game of apologizing for these assholes and saying “but not all of them are actually racist.” They are. Period. The election of a black man as POTUS caused the following calculus to exist for the GOP:
End: Maintaining white privilege, dominance and control over the country’s government and culture.
Means Permitted: ALL.
Plutocracy/kleptocracy/bathing the oligarchs in tax cuts, etc., and achieving it all without any regard whatsoever for law or ethics: all just means to the End. They reached their “that’s it, I’ve had it” threshold on November 4, 2008 and haven’t cared since. The white people who have to suffer to put the minorities back in their place and re-establish and protect our “national identity” (as they see it) are just necessary collateral damage and martyrs for the cause.
So in other words, you take some words off the invite, but he’ll still be detailing all his plans to destroy the EPA that he couldn’t get done from OK. Got it. Hope someone attends that will record his comments.
There have been many opportunities for retribution…but there have been none… I’m over my ‘faith crisis’…I have been rendered ‘faithless’.
I so much wish this wasn’t true, but there is no way to deny it. I don’t know how many times you have to say it, but I am glad you have done so and continue to do so.
EPA is disbanding joint task forces which investigate criminal water polluters, according to somebody I know who works on the state end of one of those task forces.
I may have to borrow that… Do you mind?
Not at all…feel free!
I wish TPM would put some kind of indication in these pieces so that I would know whether to laugh or cry.
“This is clearly impermissible political activity under the Hatch Act.”
…and we promise it will never happen again after the Trump Presidency.