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Simon Edelman was recently fired - he was the Department of Energy's Chief Creative Officer.  He wanted to talk about why.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/opinions/rick-perry-meeting-opinion-edelman/index.html

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(CNN)I was fired from my job as Department of Energy chief creative officer for releasing public domain photos of a meeting between Rick Perry, secretary of energy, and Robert Murray, CEO of Ohio-based Murray Energy, a large US coal company. There was no classified information present, I didn't engage with either of them and I didn't interrupt their conversation. 

The pictures showed Murray, who donated $300,000 to Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, give Perry an "action plan." Murray's company has previously lobbied the Trump administration to end new federal public health protections for greenhouse gas emissions and smog pollution, loosen mine safety rules, and cut the staff of the Environmental Protection Agency by "at least half."
 
Perry and Murray shook hands, hugged and agreed to get it done. Then they kept everything that happened that day a secret.
If this raises a few flags for you, then you understand the predicament I was in when I was still employed at DOE in March 2017. I thought about it and decided to release the photos and the story to the public, after which I was placed on leave and then fired. My personal laptop was seized (though it was recently returned to me), and I was subjected to intimidation tactics from DOE staff.
 
Some of the policies Murray's company has advocated for have been faithfully executed without research, thoughtful public comment periods or policy input from public health professionals. President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement on climate that cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions globally, and his administration gave notice of repealing the landmark Clean Power Plan, which reduced greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants nationwide. The Trump administration attempted to delay, but was eventually forced to proceed due to lawsuits, clean air protections against smog pollution. The President also nominated a coal company consultantto oversee national mine safety and began cutting EPA scientists and other career agency staffers in droves.

That is how aggy Trump supporters do things - without much, if any, thought.

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34 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Simon Edelman was recently fired - he was the Department of Energy's Chief Creative Officer.  He wanted to talk about why.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/opinions/rick-perry-meeting-opinion-edelman/index.html

That is how aggy Trump supporters do things - without much, if any, thought.

On the contrary, they thought about it, and went ahead and did it.  

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16 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Wow. Super shady.  I’d been proud of Rick for not being an embarrassment up there. I guess it was just because he’d been successfully hiding it.  

There's so much shit surrounding the DOTUS right now, who would expect the acts of lesser dotards to get attention?

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20 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Wow. Super shady.  I’d been proud of Rick for not being an embarrassment up there. I guess it was just because he’d been successfully hiding it.  

Uh you're proud of Rick Perry? Have you had your head under a rock the last decade or so? The man is a complete dipshit sellout and always has been.

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33 minutes ago, Viper said:

so he was fired for attacking his boss and opposing the boss's agenda? Of course that whole "Deep State" thing is a conspiracy theory right? (well it kind of is, but not completely)

Yeah, obviously the problem here is the civil servant employee who was offended by the fact that Perry circumvented proper agency procedure to grant political favors.

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38 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Yeah, obviously the problem here is the civil servant employee who was offended by the fact that Perry circumvented proper agency procedure to grant political favors.

Wait, I thought the civil servants were the Deep State preventing Trump and Co. from accomplishing anything?

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I like how the Coal CEO was nice enough to give Perry a plan actually labeled as his "Action Plan", which basically consisted of removing any govt official that didn't actively pursue protecting coal power plants even if that meant govt subsidies to keep them afloat.  

We all have those days when it's nice to be given a to-do list instead of trying to figure it out ourselves.

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8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Wait, I thought the civil servants were the Deep State preventing Trump and Co. from accomplishing anything?

All I know is that the deep state is bad because Trump told me so.

It's very weird to see fans of a guy who ran on draining the swamp clamoring for a return to the spoils system.

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These policies are bad not just for the obvious of the governments subsiding an industry that is dying because better technology came along. Clean energy, etc provides more jobs and provides us high end manufacturing that we can export so these policies are a net negative for the economy.  

 

Guess conservatives werent really in favor of free of free markers after all. 

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On 3/29/2018 at 11:15 AM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Wow. Super shady. 

On 3/29/2018 at 12:36 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

Rick Perry is a lesser dotard. Let that sink in.

Well....

On 8/21/2019 at 6:26 PM, horn4life said:

I am surprised Trump didn't appoint Perry the 2020 Election Czar!    Well not Czar... that would be too obvious...

Yeah, about that...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/rick-perry-jan-6-text-mark-meadows-nov-4/index.html

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Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol believe that former Texas Governor and Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry was the author of a text message sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows the day after the 2020 election pushing an "AGRESSIVE (sic) STRATEGY" for three state legislatures to ignore the will of their voters and deliver their states' electors to Donald Trump, three sources familiar with the House Committee investigation tell CNN. 

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A spokesman for Perry told CNN that the former Energy Secretary denies being the author of the text. Multiple people who know Rick Perry confirmed to CNN that the phone number the committee has associated with that text message is Perry's number. 

The cell phone number the text was sent from, obtained from a source knowledgeable about the investigation, appears in databases as being registered to a James Richard Perry of Texas, the former governor's full name.

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The number is also associated in a second database as registered to a Department of Energy email address associated with Perry when he was secretary. When told of these facts, the spokesman had no explanation.

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The text to Meadows suggests a willingness to force a constitutional crisis to undermine the election even before all the legal votes had been counted. The final results from Pennsylvania and Georgia didn't come for days; Trump ultimately won North Carolina. 

Boston College professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson found the text striking in that its author "wanted Republican-dominated state legislatures not even to wait to see who had won the election—none of those states had been called by November 4—but simply to ignore the will of the voters, choose their own electors, and hope that the Supreme Court would hand the election to Trump as he had been saying for weeks it would."

 

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5 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

Of course it has to be aggy Rick. The simulation would have it no other way. 

On the one hand, you'd think his dumbass would just ask some really stupid fucking question, like "Hey Mark, what if Pence doesn't show or just doesn't count all of the electoral ballots in January?"

But no, he's flat out saying that R-controlled legislatures should just throw out votes and send their own electoral votes.

That's evil and aggy as fuck.  

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4 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Niiice. The "it wasn't me" defense. Multiple sources identify the number. Rick: "Hey. It wasn't me."  

Seems like it'd be smarter, the way things are going, to just be a dick and say there was nothing wrong with what he did. He's gotten away with everything else so far.

The thing is, he's finished in politics - he won't get elected to anything else statewide, and I don't see any future cabinet positions or decent lobbying gigs for him.

I take that back, I suppose he could get an (R) House seat here in Texas, but that's going to be his ceiling.

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15 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Well....

Yeah, about that...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/rick-perry-jan-6-text-mark-meadows-nov-4/index.html

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1 hour ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Niiice. The "it wasn't me" defense. Multiple sources identify the number. Rick: "Hey. It wasn't me."  

Seems like it'd be smarter, the way things are going, to just be a dick and say there was nothing wrong with what he did. He's gotten away with everything else so far.

Declare this is BS = cheat

Send their own electors = steal

It wasn’t me = lie

The trifecta of honor code hypocrisy 

 

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8 minutes ago, brown water said:

Let’s check in to see if they tolerate those who do.  Place your bets  

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3259995

 

 

Man, I never go there, but for some reason this time intrigued me.  God damn.

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So what's wrong with pushing a strategy? Maybe because it was agressive? Libs don't like aggressive, unless it is their own burning down cities trying to make Trump look bad.

 

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3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Texags is a study in the doom of this country.

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

1st response

It's a group of people that joyfully cheered the spending of $75 million on a single coach so that they could...never win their own division, let alone their conference.

 

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I still can’t fathom the folks, even aggy folk, who think the media is a conspiracy of lies, choosing to believe one stand alone narrative from a foreign owned broadcast. A station whose lawyers said in court that no reasonable person would believe anything that those broadcasters say.
 

Amaze balls.

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8 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

I still can’t fathom the folks, even aggy folk, who think the media is a conspiracy of lies, choosing to believe one stand alone narrative from a foreign owned broadcast. A station whose lawyers said in court that no reasonable person would believe anything that those broadcasters say.
 

Amaze balls.

And there is nothing you can do about it. They've made themselves argument-proof. 

Which type of mind is gaining in this country? UT* or A&M?

It's like a cancer of mysterious origin. You can see it. You can hate it. You can try remedies. But nothing seems to work as the body becomes more invaded. All the doctors are arthritis specialists who insist your problem is arthritis.

You know how it ends.

 

*Or any of the universities that encourage critical thinking. 

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9 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

I still can’t fathom the folks, even aggy folk, who think the media is a conspiracy of lies, choosing to believe one stand alone narrative from a foreign owned broadcast. A station whose lawyers said in court that no reasonable person would believe anything that those broadcasters say.
 

Amaze balls.

They’ve moved past fnc and into newsmax, haven’t they?

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50 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

And there is nothing you can do about it. They've made themselves argument-proof. 

Which type of mind is gaining in this country? UT* or A&M?

It's like a cancer of mysterious origin. You can see it. You can hate it. You can try remedies. But nothing seems to work as the body becomes more invaded. All the doctors are arthritis specialists who insist your problem is arthritis.

You know how it ends.

 

*Or any of the universities that encourage critical thinking. 

There's plenty of dumbass, brainwashed UT grads as well.  See the DT forum for proof.

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