Discussion: Report: Trump Team Backtracks On Order To Remove EPA Climate Site

Whoops…

While there are means to hobble the EPA, the law does require it to report what it finds…

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How many backtracks has Team Trump needed since Friday?

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Hi from the fifteenthsixteenth century, knowledge haters.

Edit: Thanks knowledge enthusiasts!

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This is just the most vivid, detailed nightmare I’ve ever had and it just seems to be going on and on and on like forever. And I haven’t even gotten to the part where I realize I forgot to drop a class I quit going to on the first day of finals week and have to give a concert in my underwear with an instrument I don’t know how to play yet.

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Their definition of “decisive” appears to be synonymous with conflicted.

These assholes must be hell on the waiters and waitresses unfortunate enough to serve them lunch.

“I’ll have the Special. Wait, on second thought …”

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Oh, how gracious of you, Mr. President! You’re truly a gentleman and a scholar…

Fuck you, asshole.

@austin_dave Sixteenth! :smile:
@lizzymom Shaming has an effect on pollsters. Fear is the go-to corrective for Congresscritters and WH staff.

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One thing is clear:shaming does have an effect…

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Yup. But the former can produce the latter (as in fear of being shamed). So long as it works :smile:

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Another day, another backtrack.

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I was just reading a piece about how successful it turns out protest really is. The Saturday protests had quite the impact on PeePee - he was enraged.

Congress almost wet its pants in fear.

We have got to keep the pressure on. PeePee is going to break. He’s fragile.

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What a bunch of clowns…is this because they screwed up or because they are placating the ‘people’ before they do something even MORE egregious?

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The ham-handed, clueless rush to tear things down is going to raise that a lot. The vulgarians get the first move, so I expect there to be a lot of breakage that will undergo court-ordered repairs in the future.

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“We’re looking at scrubbing it up a bit, putting a little freshener on it, and getting it back up to the public,” Ericksen told The Hill.

You lie.

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“We’re looking at scrubbing it up a bit, putting a little freshener on it, and getting it back up to the public,” Ericksen told The Hill.

Translation: The site will be fully operational once we replace the facts with alternative facts.

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A very clear pattern has emerged with the Trump team.

They will do very heavy handed and Orwellian thing quietly. “Give us the name of every staffer who participated in x” or “immediately stop publishing y” When outed, they will backtrack, deny and/or throw unnamed “junior staffers” under the bus. “That request was not authorized by the White House and/or doesn’t reflect the President’s current thinking” and simply take another run it later when hopefully no one is looking. It’s going to be interesting observing how hard professional non-political federal employees push back. I think we will continue to see unprecedented leaks.

UPDATE: Here we go. Spicer: Leaked Draft Executive Order not from WH

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The President’s current thinking can always be summed up in three words: “me, me, me.”

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We’re doing our part.

Colorado’s congressional delegates on both sides of the aisle have been deluged with calls and messages since Donald Trump’s election — at times triple the normal rate — from constituents worried about everything from health care to cabinet nominees and Russian hacking.

One member of the delegation said the flood of civic engagement far eclipses what she saw when Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was passed or during the rise of the Tea Party.

“It’s wildly more than when we did the ACA or the Tea Party,” U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, said Tuesday.

Colorado’s congressional delegation juggles sharp spike in constituent calls, messages.

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God damn they don’t even know what the fuck they want to do they are so fucked in the head…

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