“The best people.”

He is doing a fair job of getting rid of people by bringing them as close as possible. It's been such an established pattern I'm almost inclined to start believing it's on purpose lol

Your not the only one. I've suspected Trump is getting rid of the worse swamp creatures by inviting them to the whitehouse. Otherwise they would just fly under the radar.

one of the biggest swamp creatures is the one sending out the invites and appointing judges though.

That's a goddamn brilliant idea.

Hrmm... I suspect that so-and-so is highly corrupt. Let me give them a position of authority so that they can be far more damaging to the country than they previously could just so I can let them resign after seeing what kind of scandal high score they can achieve.

You cannot honestly believe that Trump is filling his cabinet with swamp creatures as a method of "draining the swamp," can you?

47D shoots and ladders!

Lol so that's why Trump defends them after he's forced to fire them right? He just defended Pruitt...

He can't make it public or the swamp creatures won't accept jobs running the country. He has to keep up the illusion so they come out in the spotlight.

Or he could just not give them power?

But how are you going to drain the swamo without having a swamp?

1. Shit on the floor
2. Clean up the shit on the floor after people have been complaining about it for months
3. Congratulate the shit after you cleaned it up.
4. Repeat step 1.

Alternatively, just dont shit on your floor.

hes doing a great job of shining light on all the cockroaches and making them scurry away with whatever they can grab and take with them.

Lmao this is some serious 4-d chess delusion

Almost

I've noticed that too. I'm not sure if it's on purpose. It can't be can it? Seems like everyone he mentions, or gets close to burns up under spotlight. It's crazy. I will stop short of calling it 4D chess though.

Sometimes I'm glad our government is incompetent.

That's just a bad attitude. We should all be rooting for our cou try and president to succeed. To do otherwise is literally "unamerican".

If the president tries to pursue a dumb or immoral agenda that will be detrimental to the country, then rooting for him to succeed and rooting for the country to succeed are at odds with each other. In that situation, one should root for the country to succeed. Easy choice. Anything else would indeed be un-American.

This presidents “agenda” is “America first” he ran in a nationalistic platform, he has kept nearly every promise he campaigned on. He hasn’t put any gay people in camps, he ended the policy that separates children from famil that lasted 20+ years. He’s trying to help reunify the koreas. He’s protecting the second amendment (very American). He canceled a steak picnic bode Congress and donated those steaks to vets being treated at Walter reed hospital (bet you didn’t hear bout that) he was awarded the Ellis island award alongside Rosa parks and Muhammad Ali for continued support of legal immigration and immigrants to America. Awarded the tree of life award by Israel for continued support (their most prestigious award). Germany just bent the knee on tariffs of our automobiles I.e. he is fighting to get a better deal FOR AMERICA. He cut taxes for Americans, black unemployment is the lowest ever recorded, female unemployment is lowest in 60 years. Warren buffet and other billionaire hedge fund managers have publicly stated they are very pleasently surprised at the economy and that it is “in rare form”. Obama (only president to never hit 3% gdp growth, ever.) said 1.8% gdp is “the new norm” and that 3% is unrealistic, well we did 3.7 last year and this quarter atlanta fed estimates it at 4.5%. For the first time in the country’s history we have more jobs than people to fill them.

I want to know which one of those things, putting America first, is “immoral”. Because I can think of plenty immoral things that Obama and Hilary did and they didn’t even put their own country first.

Good. Dude was corrupt as they come.

Well looks like Trump wants to challenge that.

Trump Nominates a Coal Lobbyist to Be No. 2 at E.P.A.

Article published in October 2017 but this will currently be the acting EPA director after Scott leaves.....

Andrew R. Wheeler, a coal lobbyist with links to outspoken deniers of established science on climate change, to help lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

do trump supporters like having energy company lobbyists regulate the industry?

do we hire the mafia to enforce the laws?

Dude! Don't you know? He's bringing in the lobbyists to drain the swamp! He campaigned on that exact point.... oh wait.

do we hire the mafia to enforce the laws?

Didn't MacArthur do this in Japan?

im not sure. was it a good idea

I don't know the extent, but the Yakuza were instrumental in keeping order, strike breaking and such after the defeat. They still are.

so youre in favor of the mafia enforcing the laws?

What are my other choices?

the govt

In Japan, there was no government. What is the mafia up to in the US?

Pruitt was more corrupt. But this dude sounds just as dumb. That Inhofe stunt was a fascinating display of ignorance.

I won’t be happy until he is in jail. Lock him up.

He is a corrupt corporate cronies like no other.

attempted corruption should be illegal too.

trying to find a 200k/year job for your wife and misusing public funds should both absolutely be criminal offenses. we have been far too tolerant of corruption in this country, and absolute roaches have moved in to take advantage and push the boundaries.

americans act like we are inherently better than countries like mexico or the philippines or other corrupt countries. We Are Not. We could easily slip into the same type of corruption if we allow it. in fact we will. without checks We WILL become a kleptocracy

everybody stop giving a corruption a pass, even if its on your team

"Absolute roaches have moved in to take advantage push the boundaries."

Wait is that your friends?

what do you mean?

We could easily slip into the same type of corruption if we allow it

I think that happened a long time ago. What needs to happen now is to root out the corruption. Pruit was a minor player in this regard.

Dude was a total criminal, especially when we was attorney general of OK.

*edit fixed typo

I'm sorry but this isn't a conspiracy... WHY IS THIS SUB TURNING INTO POLITICAL MUMBO JUMBO?!?!

A top ranking government official committing crimes is a conspiracy. Why is this sub so in the tank for Trump and Russia?!?!

How about just fuck the government and all of these corrupt and outdated institutionns.

That's not a conspiracy. The conspiracy is who made him resign and is fluffing up all this stuff to make him look bad.

fluffing up all this stuff to make him look bad.

Fluffing up?

How?

I'm sorry but this isn't a conspiracy

Look at who is replacing him.

Only thing that matters is whether the next guy breaks the cycle of corporate influence.

A well-protected and thriving environment is national security.

This is very true. Not trying to be a downer, but do you really think someone responsible will take his place given the current political scene?

Andrew Wheeler will be stepping in and he is an form coal lobbyist, so don't expect anything good...

Why are we not discussing why he resigned?

In his letter it says that he resigned because of all the death threats e was getting

oh that's why we're not talking about it

Revolution isn't so kind to the aristocracy.

Why aren't we talking about all of Pruitt's actual ethical scandals that forced him to resign, and instead focusing on his proffered reason?

Because it gives people who agree with basically destroying our national and world environment a reason to believe they were in the right. Wasn't his scandal after scandal, it was his security worries everyone was scratching their heads wondering wtf he was talking about.

He is a coal lobbyist so I wouldn't exactly hold my breath

We might have to start though.

Replacing our coal-dependent infrastructure with nuclear power is the most important thing. The EPA has very little to do with it.

The EPA has very little to do with it.

Yes, very little to do with it....

The EPA's role in nuclear power generation is to set public health and environmental radiation protection standards. To learn more, please visit Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations (40 CFR Part 190).

setting public health standards, they're doing the big work alright.

setting public health standards, they're doing the big work alright.

This is what you get with no public health standards crazy how private for-profit corporations don't just do the right thing themselves without regulations.

So uh, yea I'd say they're doing big work.

How about batteries and solar, wind and tide?

all the solar wind powered tesla batteries in the world would barely put a dent in the power needed to keep our grid up and running. keep dreaming.

No one is going to build a nuclear plant when they can get the same production cheaper and faster with renewables. Especially when you take into account the ease of upgrading to new tech as it develops. Their is a lot more rnd in renewables.

20% of our power is aleady nuclear. wind and solar dont even come close.

no comparison. Solar has always been a scam. remember solyndra? same shit. different importer nothing has changed except I swear to god, china is brainwashing people with this solar shit somehow.

The numbers are the numbers and we are gong to pick what is estimated to be the cheapest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

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And Anthropogenic Global Warming is still a hoax. Blaming the trace gas CO2 for 1001 things most of which cannot possibly be true in the real world – outside of the world of propaganda.

Don't look to closely at the difference in the Arctic circle over the last thirty years then. Wouldn't want your bold assurances to melt like several kilometers worth of ice.

over the last thirty years

That's just the beginning of the fraud. Starting your account from the high point, when there was plenty of ice.

https://realclimatescience.com/2017/02/visualizing-government-arctic-sea-ice-fraud/

Government agencies like NOAA, NASA and NSIDC start their sea ice graphs in 1979, in order to make it look like there is a linear decline in sea ice.

In fact, there is reasonably good ice data going back to the 1920’s, which shows that ice extent was very low in the 1940’s and 1950’s.

I live in Canada dude. We can measure the retreating permafrost line. You can't lie to us up here.

I live in Canada dude.

Well, that makes you an expert then. lol

We can measure the retreating permafrost line. You can't lie to us up here.

Yeah, I can see you with a ruler, measuring the retreating permafrost line every couple of days.

Meanwhile the official govt studies say something different. The graph that says it all,

https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen2-Shot-2017-02-14-at-6.17.49-AM.gif

If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response.

• Dick Cheney

Apparently this only applies when there's money to be made for cronies.

Well, the people that back Trump elected him to strip away all of these protections.

Lets be honest, Trump's base wants more coal, more fracking, more mining, more drilling...

Its not like all of a sudden Trump is going to nominate someone with any scientific credentials to restore scientists to the advisory counsels, restore regulations on coal mining companies dumping waste into streams, etc...

Amidst all this Russia crisis, and do not get me wrong, there is plenty concerning in that sphere, people have missed the wrecking ball Pruit has taken to the EPAs attempts to keep our environment clean.

Hmmm, but I keep hearing that everyone in Trump's administration is as clean as they come and would never be involved in any scandals?? What's this about? /s

Name the scandals.

I'll bite.

Flynn, Manafort, Pruitt to name the easy ones right off the top of my head.

Any response from you will be ignored FYI. If you've been paying ANY attention no matter where you stand...scandals are everywhere on The Hill.

I didn't ask you to name them. I asked Mr. /s.

I dont like being called out on my shit so I'll choose to ignore an answer to a question I asked -Justasguy

Woopty doo

That was worthy of -27 downvotes in r/conspiracy. No manipulation at all...

It’s not vote manipulation. There are a shitload of users on this sub who hate Trump.

The upvotes and downvotes are the same basically. Now its in the 40's.

You’re getting downvotes because you’re an idiot.

Unjustified. Stick to your username. I could eclipse everything you know in a patahraph. In fact I already have.

wonder why. people here loved his work

This has been planned for months. The replacement - Andrew Wheeler - is a lifelong politician, supported by the Koch Brothers, who was most recently a lobbyist for the coal industry.

Trump put a climate-change denying, fossil fuel hack in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency. They then launched a war on science, rolled back environmental protections so the coal industry can freely dump wherever they want, and have swiftly caused the United States to become last in clean energy development among major nations.

There is a special place in hell for Trump, Pruitt, and everyone who voted for his confirmation. Our children and grandchildren deserve better than this.

No argument from me.

That's solid truth.

You'll get the retard around here that claims that anthropogenic climate change is due to some conflagration of chemtrails and HAARP, but let's be honest with one another - regardless of whether you are a left or right or completely disinterested in either, the climate is getting warmer, correct?

I mean, who disagrees?

You say that like it hasn't been warming for the last billion years.

There was an ice age 10,000 years ago, so no.

so no

Lmfao so wrong

1. Your link discusses greenhouse gases and temperature anomalies going back 800,000 years, which is 1/1200 of a billion years.

2. Your link states "the paleoclimate record also reveals that the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events."

3. Your link states "The predicted rate of warming for the next century is at least 20 times faster. This rate of change is extremely unusual."

Are you trying to pre-rebut yourself? It's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.

What do you think that link says?

Do you think it supports your position?

lmfao, indeed

It says the earth has been warming, putting to rest your stupid argument of "hurr durr there was an ice age so no the earth isn't warming hurr dur durrr"

Lmfao indeed.

It says the earth has been warming, putting to rest your stupid argument of "hurr durr there was an ice age so no the earth isn't warming hurr dur durrr"

Do you read one line of everything you link and make a conclusion? Thats not how you read boy, you need to go back to grade school.

You obviously lack basic skills in analysis. His argument said since there was an ice age, the earth hasn't been warming. The article prove it has been. Case closed.

Thats not what the article says.

As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. 

the global temperature rose

Stop being stupid and take your own advice.

the global temperature rose

You literally took the quote and removed the authors conclusion. What the fuck? Thats literally the definition of cherry picking.

This cognitive dissonance is insane.

Your misunderstanding of the text in the article is laughable. Nice try though.

the rare quadrupling down on stupidity.

never thought I'd see the day...

At least I don't believe the earth hasn't been warming because there was supposedly an ice age 10,000 years ago.

Hey dummy. There's nothing supposed about the last ice age. To claim otherwise puts you square into flat Earth territory.

Now, if your about had been - the Earth has gone through heating and cooling cycles for the last 800,000 years, then I'd agree. See 800,000 years is as far back as we can know the temperature via drilled I've cares in Antarctica.

The problem with that argument is that the RATE in which the heating is happening is completely unseen in recorded climate history.

Now, I realize that you're a true dummy, but those are the facts. Do with them as you will.

You act like the conclusion proves you're right. Fucking learn how to read and comprehend fucking English.

Poor mammoths and woolly rhinos, walking around in that heat.

Not a conspiracy

Corrupt government official appointed by Trump who wasted taxpayer dollars and had secret meetings that are scrubbed from his calendar. Yeah not a conspiracy at all...

No. Scott Pruitt resigning is news or fact.

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This isnt a conspiracy

The fuck it isn't.

A coal lobbyist is gonna run the Environmental Protection Agency.

Probably due to his, what?

Normal corruption and incompetence by one government official is not a conspiracy

It is a run of the mill political scandal that could and has been perpetrated before by politicians of both parties

It is the kind of score one for my team post that has no place here and is frankly boring

Normal corruption isnt a conspiracy?? NORMAL CORRUPTION ISNT A CONSPIRACY???!

too easy to prove.

wake up

You're intentionally playing daft or just plain stupid in either case go away

Pointing out an individual politician's corruption because it favors one party while not pointing the party you favor corruption is dishonest

Not acknowledging that the two party is inherently corrupted because this particular situations\ favors the party youre a fanboy of is dishonest and foolish.

The two parties working together to maintain their hold over this system is what breeds corruption. That is a real conspiracy

These kind of news story posts are just vague enough to turn into yet another partisan shit show designed to reduce the effectiveness of this website

You need to GTFO.

Wonderful response

For a second I thought this was r/cfb and I was wondering why he would take the Tennessee job just to resign before his first game.

Butch Jones for EPA!

To be replaced by a coal lobbyist.

Yay

Woah crazy conspiracy right here

Is Pelosi's husband guilty of insider trading?

In late October 2014, Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul purchased between $100,000 and $250,000 in stock from green energy company Sun Edison. Just three weeks later, the company acquired First Wind, a wind power company. The purchase caused Sun Edison's stock to soar 29%.

Coincidence? Or did Paul Pelosi act on information that came to his wife in her duties as House minority leader?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/is_pelosis_husband_guilty_of_insider_trading.html

You looking for a different thread?

I am surprised he got his agenda accomplished so fast.

1. I was using a hyperbole.

2. Space_pecs was giving me the impression that the earth hadn't increased in temperature at all. Of course it's increasing at an accelerated rate now. We weren't talking about the rates though.

This is very true. Not trying to be a downer, but do you really think someone responsible will take his place given the current political scene?

He is a coal lobbyist so I wouldn't exactly hold my breath

Replacing our coal-dependent infrastructure with nuclear power is the most important thing. The EPA has very little to do with it.

And Anthropogenic Global Warming is still a hoax. Blaming the trace gas CO2 for 1001 things most of which cannot possibly be true in the real world – outside of the world of propaganda.

If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response.

• Dick Cheney

Apparently this only applies when there's money to be made for cronies.

Well, the people that back Trump elected him to strip away all of these protections.

Lets be honest, Trump's base wants more coal, more fracking, more mining, more drilling...

Its not like all of a sudden Trump is going to nominate someone with any scientific credentials to restore scientists to the advisory counsels, restore regulations on coal mining companies dumping waste into streams, etc...

Amidst all this Russia crisis, and do not get me wrong, there is plenty concerning in that sphere, people have missed the wrecking ball Pruit has taken to the EPAs attempts to keep our environment clean.