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Saturday, March 03, 2018

Remember Scott Pruitt?

Trump's EPA head who wants to hand over our national parks and national monuments to Big Oil? It turns out he's even worse than we thought:

Environmental Protection Chief Scott Pruitt believes the “most grievous threat” facing America are the courts, which he called the “imperialistic judiciary” and the “judicial monarchy,” claiming their objective is to create “religious sterility.”

Spoken like a true monarchist. And what, do you suppose, is "religious sterility," exactly?

This is so divorced from reality it's almost comedy:

“There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint,” Pruitt said in 2005.

What the hell does that even mean?

It's a short post. It's amazing how much unhinged bullshit they manage to pack in, courtesy of Mr. Pruitt.

But don't worry -- he's promised to stop wasting our money on first class airline tickets and military planes. Maybe.

"What I've told them going forward is this: There's a change occurring. You're going to accommodate the security threats as they exist. You're going to accommodate those in all ways — alternate ways — up to and including flying coach, and that's going to happen on my very next flight," he said.

The post doesn't explain who "them" is -- his security team? If that's the case, this sounds rather ominous to me.

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