Discussion: Gov't Ethics Chief Scolds Cabinet Heads Amid Scrutiny Of Officials' Travel

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Scolding grifters is not enough. Admonishing those who think of themselves as privileged is not enough. A fish rots from the head down.

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Yeah, right, like that’s gonna help.

Only a Trumper-tantrum would have an effect. As we have seen with Price.

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These aristocrats didn’t listen to a word this plebeian said; the only thing they heard was Charlie Brown’s teacher.

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He then listed ways in which Cabinet officials could go about strengthening their focus on ethics. He told leaders to act with a “‘Should I do it?’ mentality,” as opposed to a “‘Can I do it?’ mentality.” He also encouraged agency chiefs to talk more about ethics at their departments, learn more about ethics policies and include ethics officials in more meetings.

Is he fucking serious? One of the first rules of writing is to know your audience. And his audience is a group of self-important, entitled assholes who fervently believe that they are better than everyone else and that the rules don’t apply to them. What a wasted effort on his part! What he should have written is, “DON’T. FUCKING. DO. IT!!!” And then gone back to playing Microsoft Solitaire, as that is about the only thing he will ever have any chance of being effective at in this “administration”…

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Exactly. All these grifting cabinet members think of Apol as a subservient bureaucrat, not mighty masters of the universe like themselves. They could not give a single crap what he thinks of their extravagant waste. The memo will go immediately to the circular file.

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Hey David Apol, check the Emoluments clause of the Constitution and write THAT memo, will ya?

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No!

Seriously.

He provided an attachment called “Suggested Actions for Agency Leaders” to the current supposed “leaders” of the fucking free world that starts with a bullet-point list I wouldn’t give to 9th-graders because it might insult their intelligence:

  • Demonstrate personal ethical behavior by modeling a “Should I do it?” mentality (versus a “Can I do it?” mentality)

How low can we go?

If the phrase “it’s a feature, not a bug” wasn’t already here we’d have to invent it.

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Shorter Trump Appointees: “… The Aristocrats Ethicists!”

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Apol encouraged agency heads to "re-double” their commitment to ethics.

Well, if two times zero is still zero, then two times two times zero is also still zero. So, how’s re-doubling gonna help?