Discussion: Pruitt Requests Around-The-Clock Security Detail As Deep Cuts Loom At EPA

[katscherger]

@crewman6

Must be afraid one of the EPA employees will put one of those “harmless” pesticides in his coffee or give him some Flint water to drink.

exactly

[khaaannn]

Once again the “Proud, Brave Conservative” is revealed to be a sniveling little coward, scared of his own shadow.

He only wants this detail so he can use them to rough up anyone who has the gall to oppose what his dark masters in the Extraction Industry order him to do.

After all, he has a cushy VP job waiting for him at Koch Industries when he “retires” from the EPA in a few years to think about.

[smarish]

It would seem that all the budget cuts Drumph is planning will go toward protection of his family and his cabinet. that leaves nothing for the billionaires. They aren’t gonna like that.

[ronbyers]

He isn’t afraid of people who like to breath clean air or drink clean water is he?

[blugrass]

These Republicans are just a bunch of snowflakes. There’s never been an administration so full of cabinet officers demanding Secret Service protection at taxpayers’ expense. Snowflakes, the whole lot of them.

[established_1781]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[sniffit]

In other words, the guy sent to destroy the EPA and ruin everything it is legally obligated to do pursuant to its enabling statute, is afraid of the people who work there that actually want to do their jobs. It’s going to be a symphony of whistleblowing when it comes to this agency under Trump.

[thunderclapnewman]

@sanni

You could throw a dart at a picture of Trump’s cabinet

Why can’t we throw the darts at the actual cabinet members?

It’s both more fun and more appropriate.

[mondfledermaus]

Why doesn’t he get a concealed carry licence, and protect himself like a real man.

[lkrigel]

Adding another element from Nazi Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

[leftcoaster]

DeVos needs security to protect her from elementary school teachers armed with books and pencils and Pruitt is afraid of scientists armed with data and charts. Jeebus.

[bashful]

It’s current Republican orthodoxy that the amount of opposition you face is a metric of how correct you are - the more those people dislike you, the worse they are, and if your opponents are bad, you must be good. So, it’s an obvious beta-cuck move to pre-emptively request protection in order to pump up your Republican He-Man John Wayne / Dirty Harry power fantasy.

[riverstreet]

I say we give them a good headstart and then play

[bluestatedon]

DeVos needs security to protect her from elementary school teachers armed with books and pencils and Pruitt is afraid of scientists armed with data and charts.

Well, it makes sense… there’s nothing more frightening to Republicans than educated people who know facts. This is the primary motivation for their continuing and sustained assault on public education. It’s much easier to control what children are taught when their “teachers” are being paid by glibertarian billionaire thugs to purvey the message that Adam and Eve had vegetarian T-Rexes for neighbors in the Garden of Eden 5,000 years ago.

[chelsea530]

@leftcoaster

DeVos needs security to protect her from elementary school teachers armed with books and pencils and Pruitt is afraid of scientists armed with data and charts. Jeebus.

And armed with brains. Don’t forget brains.

[ronbyers]

Weaponized charts and data are just as dangerous as weaponized books and pencils, don’t you know.

[austin_dave]

[bodie1]

Poisoning the air and befouling the streams must just rub some people the wrong way. Imagine.

[old_curmudgeon]

Gee, wouldn’t it be sad if he tripped over his own feet and fell into the Gowanus canal?

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206222

[ajaykalra]

Very confusing. I thought Second Amendment was about people taking out the govt (Pruitt).