Why do articles indicating they have 1 comment actually have none?
And this week’s message should be that Pruitt has to be fired, ASAP. Fat chance of that happening. The Ditherer-in-Chief will let Pruitt twist in the wind over the weekend, and then assign someone to do the dirty work, or do it himself in a tweet. No one can leave the administration without undergoing maximum public humiliation.
Trump is very obviously avoiding asking for Pruitt’s resignation. The fact that his advisors are telling him to fire Pruitt could even make Trump more intractable. Someone may have to indict the little Okie Kochsucker and arrest him before he’s gotten rid of. Until then, as long as Trump supports him or the House is willing to move on him, he’s just gonna try to survive the scandals while fucking up the EPA and putting the community at large in danger.
Actually Kelly is the guy who should resign because trump no longer listens to him and rejects his advice.
And
@navamske, …to TPM’s system …it’s the sound of one hand clapping…
“John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that Pruitt should step down…”
What are the current Vegas odds on Kelly exiting before Pruitt?
(@navamske, the first “comment” is the headline/photo posted by “system”; just the way Discourse works.)
To keep people from saying “First!”?
Perhaps the article itself counts as a comment?? Consider that you can “like” i.e., recommend, the article. That’s all I got.
But he hopes he’ll be successful…at firing Rosenstein and Mueller as the new AG…
WTF! This was written as though there was an assumption that the Asshole-elect would listen to something other than the voices in his head. Sad.
From what I’ve seen, the article itself is the first entry. It initializes the comment section. Without it, we can’t comment on the story. It’s just the way it’s programmed.
@clemmers nailed it — the link to the article is the first element to the thread (first link on the chain, so to speak…).
Being as it’s Friday and since we know trump will say/do something epically stupid I thought I’d post this ahead of time just to get it out of my system…
I’ll date myself, but I’ve just got to add “Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!”
Hey, now we’re talkin’
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year, when he described a meeting in Seychelles with a Russian financier close to Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources told ABC News.
Kelly’s right, proving even a racist / fascist enabler can be right once in a very great while…
That’s my read on it too. Sparky’s done this before.
Nothing makes a toddler more stubborn than telling he can’t do something or that he must do something.
Last night Maddow brought up another reason trump may be reluctant to ditch Pruitt.Carl Icahn recommended Pruitt to trump in the first place, right after Icahn quit for the self-dealing scandal (now the WH says he was never an adviser despite the flashy press release when he was first announced as an adviser to trump).
Icahn is a major investor in Cheniere Energy, the only US exporter of LNG. Pruitt lives in a condo owned by an LNG lobbyist, and took his entourage on a first-class trip to Morocco (with a 2-day stop in Paris) to promote American LNG to the Moroccans, even though this business had no relation to anything in his portfolio.
Carl Icahn, trump’s good friend and fellow corrupt collaborator, recommends a guy for EPA to enable LNG deregulation and promotion around the world. How much more obvious does it have to get?
Karl Ichanovitch?
I saw that earlier and I am sooooooooo hoping it’s true. Would be too wonderful to get this SOB behind bars. Wish we could tie that dipstick sister of his to something as well and send them off together to Gitmo, where there’s no AC and a whole lotta bitey bugs…