Discussion: Scott Pruitt Is Our Duke Of The Week

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He just made it ! May he live a very long life, shunned for his Trump stink and disgusting behaviour…

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I wish he could be our “indicted criminal of the week.”

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Shouldn’t he be in some sort of yet more exclusive Supreme Duke club or something? I mean, this guy really surpasses anyone outside of, say, Huey P. Long or that congressman with cash in the freezer.

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There’s going to be a lot of tough calls at the end of the year for the Annual Duke Awards.
More categories too.

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If anybody has an idea on this from the copious reports on Pruitt is he in actual financial distress personally? NOW we hear that he’s done wacky things for YEARS (I am unsure of the story on one of his homes in Oklahoma: did a lobbyist sell him a house at a BIG discount from its actual worth or did a lobbyist BUY a house from him 'WAY over market value or did BOTH happen?) and earlier this week when he was ‘resigned’ by DJT – and OH that resignation letter is not something I would have even written to JESUS CHRIST – Chris Hayes said he had been hearing that Pruitt was in financial ‘difficulties.’

Is this like the Price situation, in which he saw BETSY DeVos owned a jet so he felt HE could live like a billionaire too? (At least that is my reading of Price, he thought he had a ‘right’ to some ‘honey’ from the government.)

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Funny that both your examples are from Louisiana, but I think Scottie’s got William Jefferson beat. For those with short memories, here’s a reminder:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111301266.html?noredirect=on

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A final “fuck you” from the swamp creature…

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Losing Trump TV™️ is what did in Pruitt. Don the Con didn’t care in the least that Pruitt was openly dishonest. In fact, Don the Con probably admired the brazenness of Pruitt’s stealing and conflicts of interest.

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It won’t be tough in the least. Trump is the winner.

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I’m a former New Orleanian. I know a thing or two about corruption!

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He does not deserve this accolade.
Maybe a sewage plant could be named for him.

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Your wish may come true. His resignation does not stop the numerous investigations of Pruitt’s activities.

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Unfair!
:stuck_out_tongue:

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Pruitt is (mostly) gone but we will recover from his venal greed far more quickly than his carbon and climate polluted policies and institutional damage. Still, there is far too much to weep for in this disaster of an administration; somehow we must find laughter, even of the gallows, and this dramatic interpretation of an Alexandra Petri column by science fiction author John Scalzi had me laughing almost uncontrollably.

Keep Scott Pruitt Moist

Scott Pruitt must have his moisturizing lotion.

Why?

Do not ask why.

Scott Pruitt appears to be a man with gray hair. He appears to be a man like other men, though he is charged, unlike other men, with the protection of the environment.

But he is letting the environment change, just slightly. Just enough for another creature to be quite comfortable — one with a hardy exoskeleton that thrives in warmth and darkness.

And Scott Pruitt must have his moisturizing lotion. ...

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Other sites have this update: Pruitt was forced to resign; news was delivered by John Kelly; and Pruitt was supposedly “shocked and devastated.”

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That was 5ish minutes of almost unbearable brilliance.

Thanks so much for sharing.

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And Trump said, “I liked Scott.”

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When the investigations of Pruitt wrap up, Trump will change his tune. “Pruitt? He worked here for a brief time. Mostly just got coffee and cleaned up the meeting minutes.”

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