February 9, 2018: Scott Pruitt is an Idiot

 

2/9/18: Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, tries out a fresh new argument in regard to climate change. He’s probably tired of denying climate change is real and having the rest of the world mock his position. 

Hey, Pruitt says, maybe climate change will be good! “We know that humans have most flourished during time of warming trends,” he says in an interview. 

I think there are assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. 

 

Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018? That’s fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100.

 (Sound of thousands of scientists smacking thousands of pates.)

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SPEAKING OF DUMB, the president decides to weigh in on the story of Rob Porter, who has just been booted from the White House in the wake of domestic violence accusations. “I found out about it recently and I was surprised by it,” Trump tells reporters. “We certainly wish him well. It’s obviously a very tough time for him. He did a very good job while he was in the White House. We hope that he will have a wonderful career.” 

Still, there’s hope, the president adds. “He says he’s innocent, and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent, but you’ll have to talk to him about that.” (See: 2/7/18.)

 

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SPEAKING OF DUMBER, the Trump administration decides to make America “safer” by deporting Amer Adi to Jordan. 

Adi is not a terrorist. He’s a Youngstown, Ohio businessman. He has a wife and four daughters, all U.S. citizens, and has lived in this country for 39 years. Rep. Tim Murphy called Adi a “pillar” of the community and noted that on Thanksgiving he passed out hundreds of turkeys to the poor. 

His problems with legal status began in the 1990s; but he had managed to remain in this country until now. 

In the age of No Mercy Trump.

BLOGGER’S NOTE (9/21/2021): Mr. Adi is allowed to re-enter the U.S. under a “humanitarian visa,” because the Biden administration has humanitarian instincts. He sees his grandchildren for the first time. 

As you would imagine, his family was thrilled.