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April LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of April?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 4.84%

John Kelly

13 20.97%

Jared Kushner

1 1.61%

Ty Cobb

6 9.68%

Ben Carson

4 6.45%

Ryan Zinke

1 1.61%

Scott Pruitt

18 29.03%

Kellyanne Conway

7 11.29%

Rod Rosenstein

6 9.68%

Write-in

3 4.84%

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04-05-2018 , 04:39 PM

#201

Namath12

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Also the new head of security for Pruitt justified whatever Pruitt wanted and also got no bid contracts from Pruitt on the side.

04-05-2018 , 04:49 PM

#202

amoeba

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Video evidence could possibly become completely unreliable as AI assisted video editing becomes reality.

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_...mpression=true

04-05-2018 , 05:02 PM

#203

bobman0330

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In for a lame buzzer-beater on Pruitt.

04-05-2018 , 05:05 PM

#204

Namath12

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Coal country loves Scott Pruitt apparently

04-05-2018 , 05:12 PM

#205

Huehuecoyotl

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Apparently not just the security detail got reassigned after raising issues with Pruitt, 5 other people who offered objections about Pruitt's spending were reassigned

Quote:

At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management of the agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt.

The concerns included unusually large spending on office furniture and first-class travel, as well as certain demands by Mr. Pruitt for security coverage, such as requests for a bulletproof vehicle and an expanded 20-person protective detail, according to people who worked for or with the E.P.A. and have direct knowledge of the situation.

Mr. Pruitt bristled when the officials — four career E.P.A. employees and one Trump administration political appointee — confronted him, the people said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/b...?smid=tw-share

04-05-2018 , 05:40 PM

#206

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I think Pruitt won't go. Why? Because we live in a reality show. Our lives are the Apprentice now. And on the Apprentice, the editors did a bunch of work all season setting up a character arc for a person to get fired, only for Donald Trump at the last moment to decide he wanted to fire someone else because they were too fat or whatever. It makes too much sense for him to fire Pruitt, ergo he won't do it. It's too boring. Won't bring in the ratings. Sad.

04-05-2018 , 07:09 PM

#207

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Cherry on top of the sunday.

https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status...698571776?s=19

04-05-2018 , 07:40 PM

#208

Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

Cherry on top of the sunday.

https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status...698571776?s=19

I'll see your cherry on top with a bit of chocolate drizzle

04-05-2018 , 09:00 PM

#209

PoppaTMan

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GJGE Jeff Goldberg and The Atlantic for hiring and letting go Kevin Williamson in the space of a single Mooch. Back to scraping that barrel, I guess.

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/stat...58438648459270

04-05-2018 , 09:13 PM

#210

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Not that anyone believed Pruitt's denials about giving his aides he brought from Oklahoma raises

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Pruitt spoke at length during a Fox News interview about his role in Greenwalt and Hupp getting raises of 52 percent and 33 percent respectively under an unusual maneuver involving their reappointment through a provision of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

In the interview Wednesday, Pruitt implied he was not involved in those decisions.

“I found out this yesterday and I corrected the action, and we are in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting that going forward,” he told correspondent Ed Henry.

But two EPA officials and a White House official told The Post that the administrator instructed staff to award substantial pay boosts to both women, who had worked in different roles for him in Oklahoma.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.7397770c24e7

04-05-2018 , 09:15 PM

#211

ScreaminAsian

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he's safe, guys. we're looking for ty cobb in april lol wtf did i do

04-05-2018 , 09:17 PM

#212

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Yeah I'd put him as safer than anyone else, though he still could get the can, but a lot of Conservatives have been ramping up their defenses of him. He is comically corrupt though.

Quote:

Pruitt requested not only a bulletproof vehicle with run-flat tires that could keep driving even after raked with gunfire, he wanted a bulletproof desk.

Quote:

Mr. Chmielewski also objected to a proposal to spend about $70,000 to replace two desks in Mr. Pruitt’s office suite, including his personal desk and one at a security station outside his office. Asked about the proposed desk purchases, Mr. Wilcox, the E.P.A. spokesman, said that “the administrator never considered the proposal.” Pasquale Perrotta, who became head of Mr. Pruitt’s security detail after Mr. Weese was removed, insisted that the security desk be upgraded to a bulletproof model, according to current and former E.P.A. employees with direct knowledge of the discussions.

The bulletproof security desk was not purchased, but two new desks were ordered for Mr. Pruitt’s personal office: a brown maple wood stand-up desk, with brass locks, that was purchased from a craftsman and an oversize desk with ornate woodworking that had been in a federal government warehouse in Virginia and was refurbished for Mr. Pruitt at a cost of $2,075. E.P.A. employees gawked at the size and grandeur of Mr. Pruitt’s refurbished desk, with some comparing it to the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, officials said in interviews.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.7397770c24e7

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...fired-now.html

04-05-2018 , 09:22 PM

#213

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i don't understand why fox news did real journalism on him tho. it was like in goodfellas when joe pesci was walking into the room thinking he was gonna get made, except they actually let pruitt sit down

Last edited by ScreaminAsian; 04-05-2018 at 09:28 PM.

04-05-2018 , 09:46 PM

#214

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I went Pruitt but Conway is probably the safer choice

Conway is never leaving. She will be here for thousands of years I’m pretty sure I saw her in 30 Days of Night.

04-05-2018 , 10:09 PM

#215

dth123451

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What is it with these *******s and office furniture?

04-05-2018 , 10:26 PM

#216

Loki

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Gotta waste as much taxpayer money as possible

04-05-2018 , 10:34 PM

#217

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https://twitter.com/ScottPruittOK/st...01537026519043

04-05-2018 , 10:36 PM

#218

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Conway is never leaving. She will be here for thousands of years I’m pretty sure I saw her in 30 Days of Night.

I thought she might get got because of her husband throwing shade @ Trump on twitter but he deleted them so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

04-05-2018 , 11:23 PM

#219

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04-05-2018 , 11:27 PM

#220

simplicitus

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Interesting short article.

Who has any use for conservative intellectuals?

04-05-2018 , 11:32 PM

#221

suzzer99

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Lol FB algorithm - thanks for showing me this right away.

04-05-2018 , 11:42 PM

#222

simplicitus

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Longish article on why Calif. represents the future of US politics.

The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War
Why there’s no bipartisan way forward at this juncture in our history — one side must win

https://medium.com/s/state-of-the-fu...ar-e52e2861f30

04-05-2018 , 11:43 PM

#223

AllTheCheese

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I kind of get it, I think? Like the Blind Melon song and the typos, but is there something else?

04-05-2018 , 11:50 PM

#224

AllTheCheese

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

i don't understand why fox news did real journalism on him tho.

This is a stolen theory but it makes total sense to me. There have been other reports about Pruitt gunning for Sessions' job, as well as other high level Republican political positions. So the theory is that other, more powerful Republicans didn't like Pruitt flying too close to the sun and ordered Fox to melt the wax on his wings. The proof that the interview is an intentional hatchet job rather than real journalism is when they ask him about calling Donald Trump an "empty vessel" in the early stages of the primary. That has no relevance to anything currently in the news. They just wanted to make sure Trump was good and pissed at Pruitt.