Better check the office supplies closet to make sure he didn’t strip the shelves on his way out. You know he wouldn’t want to use his own money to buy paperclips or tape.
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Sometimes I have a daydream after reading TPM called “If I Were Evil”
Skull shaped private island? - you bet
Massive amounts of plastic surgery and a fantastic villainess wardrobe? - check
One last christmas party before I was fired? That’s simply not done old chap.
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So, let me get this straight: you get basically fired, but you want to hang around for the Christmas party? To host the party?? Seriously??
The Trumpsters all have an unfathomable quantity of screws loose. None of them are anywhere in the general vicinity of “normal”.
Dickheads, the lot of ‘em.
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I for one am having a very merry Christmas with the news of Zinke’s departure. His attack on our national monuments here in Utah was blatantly illegal and and perversion of public lands stewardship. Soon the courts will reverse Trump’s executive orders, that will be even better!
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No matter how hard I try, my mind just can’t boggle anymore. Its too exhausted.
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They do fit the pattern of rich morons: the type of people who know for a fact that they are vastly superior to the rest of humanity, and that the rest of humanity is a herd of grunting animals which need to be culled. Really.
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I know he’s not into recycling, but I"m thinking those blood red trees from the white house would have been appropriate for this celebration of christ’s birth in a stable.
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Or been shot by one of those fine Trump boys.
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I’m sure it goes without saying that in the final reel, you always villiansplain your evil plan in great detail.
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Mmmwaaahahahahah. Yes, my dear Mr. Bond, as you can see from this incredibly elaborate and detailed 3-D holographic image projected over this titanium dining table, I, and a picked band of squirrels, will descend upon the nations’s parks and kill all the litterbugs.
Then, we will demand a ransom of a million pounds of walnuts from the world’s governments.
Now, will you have a little more of the mashed potatoes?
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This, 100 times.
Right after President Obama took out Osama Bin Laden, there were a series of Right Wing GOP moves to minimize the accomplishment. One of course was to claim that GWB actually deserved credit. That generated a ton of laughs. But there was a documentary on what is now American Hero Network, which was then The Military Channel. And it featured several anti Obama talking heads, most prominent of which was Ryan Zinke, then a Montana State Legislator and of course, Former Navy Seal. I didnt have a DVR and I wish I had taped it. But he was essentially using the Navy Seal credential to make a national name for himself and he was actually critical of President Obama for the Navy Seal deployment. I wish I remember more of it.
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Zinke is the kind of person who steals hotel ash trays. Then gives them away as Xmas presents.
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On the grift right to the very end, idn’t he? The effing Santa hat is a nice touch.
In a just world, he’d be put up against a wall and shot, like the Chinese Communist periodically used to do to make an example of “corruption.” I pray his departure doesn’t stop a massive investigation of him, and his just-as-corrupt successor.
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I don’t know the details of Interior’s “morale support activities” policies, but in my (100 or so Federal employees) organization we either sold tickets to an event like this, or held a potluck. We didn’t have a pool of organization cash to draw from. (Our highest local exec was a bottom-level SES)
At the next higher level, for our organization picnic (multiple offices, around 300 people) we were allowed to spend up to one dollar per employee. This was more of a budget-tracking exercise - we also had to “lease” the picnic grounds at our facility and that’s where most of the money went. Food, games for kids, etc., had to be funded via ticket sales.
Even if Interior has a generous entertainment budget for their headquarters suite, having lobbyists there would seem to be against ethics rules.
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Poor Ryan. He’s forced out, but before he hits the door the New York Times editorial board kicks him in the ass.
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Well, that’s how they funded it then, lobbyists buying “tickets”. Pay for play. Merry Christmas.
He has “I’m a Dickhead” plastered across his face. What an awful person.
Just to clarify, I have nothing against the horse that Zinke rode in on.
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Wow, this could be the understatement of this administration. Something to carve on each of their headstones…
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