# Scott Pruitt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360 "2018-06-03T15:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/1 "2018-06-03T15:59:26Z")
I think that Mr. Pruitt has reached the point where he needs his own thread. The strange and expensive security measures, the lapses in judgement, the way he seems to continue to work for his previous employers even in his new job, etc. And now we know that [his Nibs has a thing about nibs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/01/epas-pruitt-spent-1560-on-12-customized-fountain-pens-from-washington-jewelry-store/?utm_term=.4fe64480d7ff): > [@](#): > > The account manager at the Tiny Jewel Box, which calls itself Washington’s “premier destination for fine jewelry and watches,” had promised to expedite the order of a dozen customized silver fountain pens — each emblazoned with the seal of the Environmental Protection Agency and the signature of its leader, Scott Pruitt. > > Now all that the EPA staff member working with the store needed was for a top Pruitt aide to sign off on the $3,230 order, which also included personalized journals. > > “The cost of the Qty. 12 Fountain Pens will be around $1,560.00,” the staffer emailed Aug. 14 to Millan Hupp, Pruitt’s head of scheduling and advance and a trusted confidante dating to his Oklahoma days. “All the other items total cost is around $1,670.00 which these items are in process. Please advise.” > > “Yes, please order,” Hupp responded later that day. “Thank you.” So this thread is specifically for Scott Pruitt-related news, rants and invectives. Oh, and praise if anyone should desire to do so, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/2 "2018-06-03T16:11:30Z")
He’s a feckless cunt. . ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/3 "2018-06-03T16:13:44Z")
Once again, The Simpsons (Movie) was prescient: **Lisa** , to head of EPA: “You’ve gone mad with power!” **EPA head** : “If you go mad without power, nobody listens to you!” ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/4 "2018-06-03T16:51:50Z")
It makes perfect sense, though. One form of pollution is all these cheap disposable pens that people use and either just lose or throw away. If you spend $130 on a pen, you keep track of it. He’s just doing it to protect the environment, as his position demands. [/sarcastic praise] ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/5 "2018-06-03T17:28:55Z")
You can just tune in to your local news to see what great job Pruitt is doing. Well you can if your local news is owned by Sinclair. > [@](#): > > EPSHTEYN: Here’s the bottom line: Scott Pruitt is standing strong in his job. He’s calling for more accountability at the agency and insisting that controversy is not distracting him from carrying out key parts of President Trump’s agenda. Thank you local news man Boris Epshteyn. [Link](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/05/31/Pruitt-gives-exclusive-interview-to-conservative-Sinclair-TV-empire/220338) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/6 "2018-06-03T17:36:49Z")
He must be good. He needed to enhance his security staff. trump won’t fire him because he says good things about trump. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/7 "2018-06-03T17:59:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Pruitt and his son, Cade, were photographed and recorded on video sitting in seats reserved for season ticket holders who donated at least $1 million to the school. The seats belong to Joseph Craft, a billionaire coal baron who leads Alliance Resource Partners – the seventh largest coal mining company in the United States. > **[NYT highlights Pruitt’s cozy relationship with a coal baron | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/03/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-coal-basketball-game/index.html)** > > EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt scored some premium tickets to one of the most highly sought after University of Kentucky basketball games thanks to a friend who happens to be a coal executive and major donor, The New York Times reports. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/8 "2018-06-03T19:30:10Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > [https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/03/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-coal-basketball-game/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/03/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-coal-basketball-game/index.html) Pruitt and Craft are good buddies who text each other all the time. Craft has met in private with Pruitt at least nine times since he took over the EPA. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/9 "2018-06-03T19:49:35Z")
“There’s nothing wrong with friends talking to each other, even if business does come up once in a while.” “What about Bill Clinton meeting his friend Loretta Lynch in Phoenix?” “Hey, iokiardi!” :dubious::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/10 "2018-06-03T19:52:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pruitt and Craft are good buddies who text each other all the time. Craft has met in private with Pruitt at least nine times since he took over the EPA. It has been said that they want to make America great again. They just not clarified that it was about making America great for the Robber Barons, just like in the old times. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/11 "2018-06-03T20:01:51Z")
A New York Times reporter [was on Fresh Air](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/09/609697381/reporter-on-new-email-dump-that-reveals-secret-inner-workings-of-the-epa) recently to discuss his coverage of the EPA. What was striking to me is how Pruitt and his staff seem terrified of him coming into contact with people in a situation that isn’t stage managed. God forbid someone should ask a public servant a question he wasn’t prepped for in advance. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/12 "2018-06-03T21:10:30Z")
Pruitt is more evidence of Wolfpup’s Law: Anyone who looks like an asshole probably is one. > [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > What was striking to me is how Pruitt and his staff seem terrified of him coming into contact with people in a situation that isn’t stage managed. God forbid someone should ask a public servant a question he wasn’t prepped for in advance. Corollary to Wolfpup’s Law: Assholes are generally stupid. As for being prepped, remember that this guy is a climate change denier. This isn’t an easy position to maintain, because you never know when those pesky things called “facts” are going to be used against you, and there are so danged many of them. It’s like being a flat-earther – even a bright person required to maintain such a fiction would have a hard time with it. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/13 "2018-06-03T21:49:44Z")
Pruitt’s continued tenure as a Cabinet Secretary is, in and of itself, “proof” of Trump’s awesomely Imperial power. Because no other President could get away with keeping in his (or her) Cabinet a person of such abominably-blatant corruption, malfeasance, and unfitness for office. Or perhaps it’s proof of the gutless cowardice of that lick-spittle Paul Ryan. Your choice. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/14 "2018-06-03T22:10:40Z")
I’m never one to turn down an opportunity to express my well-deserved contempt for Paul Ryan; however, it seems relevant to point out that it was Mitch McConnell’s Senate that confirmed the cad. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/15 "2018-06-03T22:28:26Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’m never one to turn down an opportunity to express my well-deserved contempt for Paul Ryan; however, it seems relevant to point out that it was Mitch McConnell’s Senate that confirmed the cad. Right, but I was thinking of a House that would at least _hint_ at impeachment proceedings being undertaken, in the face of a President who permitted such colossal corruption in a member of the Cabinet. (I should have been more explicit.) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/16 "2018-06-03T22:29:25Z")
I said at the time of his nomination that Scott Pruitt belongs in charge of the EPA like Willie Nelson belongs in charge of the DEA. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/17 "2018-06-03T22:34:58Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I said at the time of his nomination that Scott Pruitt belongs in charge of the EPA like Willie Nelson belongs in charge of the DEA. I disagree. Scott Pruitt belongs in charge of the EPA more like Pablo Escobar belongs in charge of the DEA. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/18 "2018-06-03T22:52:42Z")
Scott Pruitt is a running joke. He’s pulled every shitty trick he can, and has suffered no effective backlash. He can do absolutely anything he wants now, with no danger of getting the sack. He has gone so far into the abyss of corruption that he is invulnerable. I can’t see how we got this far, but here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/19 "2018-06-04T01:01:24Z")
I mentioned this in the “what would make his supporters turn on him” thread, but I’ll say it again here. How is his continued employment draining the swamp? Let’s say these deplorables are fine with his buddy system with lobbyists because of the mythic coal industry, but don’t any of them care about fancy pens and privacy booths and first class tickets? Yay for Patrick Leahy, my favorite VT senator for also putting him in his place. [“You traveled first class around the world,” Leahy said, then paused to sigh disapprovingly. “What a silly reason you had to fly first class: because of a danger to you … Nobody even knew who you are.”](https://theweek.com/speedreads/773506/watch-sen-patrick-leahy-bulldoze-scott-pruitt-over-claims-that-firstclass-travel-safety) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/20 "2018-06-04T01:54:37Z")
For those about to pit Scott Pruitt - I sa-lute you! Yes, his own ring in hell is deserved, like somewhere that was once lush and green but now a firebed of vomit barfed up from all the dead animals related to his eventual legacy, that he has to stand in, knee deep, (and on bad days, up to just under his nose) for eternity. I can’t think of another Cabinet member who is more the absolute _anithesis_ of what he is supposed to represent. Bandying about heavy-handed words like “Orwellian” in this situation, in these times, well, actually _doesn’t_ seem as heavy-handed as it _fucking should_. Interior Secretary Zinke - yeah, he’s a seriously fucking useless, deluded shlub of a contender, as is Energy Secretary Perry, who dances like a fucking ponce, and Betsy “public schools be-damned” DeVos, or narcoleptic Ben Carson…ok I’m not gonna go through them all, they’re all completely toilet-ready, with the only appointee I can think of, favorably, has nothing to do with the cabinet, but is instead busy running an investigation. (ok ok technically that guy was hired by Rosenstein, deputy justice of a DoJ that President AppendectomyFace had initially signed on to.) But Pruitt, though…manoman…he is such the _diametric fucking opposite_ of what his mandated position was _supposed_ to be, and _not_ his fucking demented vision of it. And the complete _nakedness_ of his constant, egregious transgressions (because he can get away with it) so flies in the face of what I thought was once the democratic process, which at least _used to_ avoid flaunting, so fucking brazenly, such open corruption. And looking like a slick fucking eel might add to the whole…mystique. \*Great - having to use more weighty words like “transgressions” and “democratic process”…yikes [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360.md?page=2)