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At that press conference, Trump denounced the Environmental Protection Agency's "totalitarian tactics" and promised to slash its "onslaught of regulations." Standing by his side was Harold Hamm, an oil and gas billionaire who supported Pruitt in his campaign for Oklahoma's attorney general and for this Cabinet post.
Trump said American fossil fuel would make America great again. Now, with his plans to scrap clean power, build pipelines and cancel the Paris accord, and with the help of someone like Pruitt, he will put that to the test.
Pruitt epitomizes a more general trend evident in Trump's picks: the choice to name people who are downright hostile to the mission of the agency they are appointed to run.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/10/opinions/government-is-the-problem-jacobs/index.html
MANative
(4,112 posts)RIP, USA.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)Appoint the most incompetent and/or hostile people to run it, and then when everything falls apart they can say, "See? Government doesn't work."
drray23
(7,638 posts)He annexed the us without firing a shot. Now he can destroy us from within using his puppet.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Trying to defend these picks on twitter. Sad
procon
(15,805 posts)How does anarchy, chaos, impoverishment or even a revolt, benefit the profiteering schemes of the oligarchs?
MANative
(4,112 posts)They'll go live in their castles while the rest of us fight for the crumbs. Sport for their viewing pleasure, while they laugh, sip their Dom, and eat Russian caviar by the pound.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)would be met with the likes of Blackwater (or whatever they are calling themselves) pretty quickly. Kill 5 or 10k of the revolters, and it would be over. We don't have the stomach for such a thing. Hell, 3k people were killed in 9/11, and we said "fine- go ahead and fuck the Constitution". We are pathetic.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)and his appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate.
IF he is Inaugurated I sincerely doubt his appointments will make it through.