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Zinke: "You haven't served!"

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Lest we forget that other members of the current administration are less than ideal:

Protester Confronts Zinke On Climate Change, He Snaps: ‘You Haven’t Served’

Local protester Sallie Holmes stood up during a speech by Zinke, calling out: “Why won’t you acknowledge that climate change is causing and accelerating wildfires, even in Routt County?”

Steamboat Springs is located in Routt County in western Colorado, where officials have been battling fires.

Holmes, 27, was immediately escorted out by security as the crowd booed. Zinke angrily shouted: “You know what? You haven’t served and you don’t understand what energy is. I’d like to see your child have to fight for energy.”
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What, non-Veterans can't possibly know anything useful?



Starship Troopers? What kind of society was that?
 
Best guess... it was a poorly worded reference to "serving in public office".

And didn't he just get spanked this week for trying to sell off some land (Utah?) that Trump had shaved off an NPS site... after stating he'd never sell off public lands?

What a mook. :(
 
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I think Zinke days as Sec.Interior are probably numbered;he is just saying and doing too many dumb things. He's becoming a liability. He will be replaced with somebody who can continue his horrid policies but with a much lower profile.
 
dudalb said:
I think Zinke days as Sec.Interior are probably numbered;he is just saying and doing too many dumb things. He's becoming a liability. He will be replaced with somebody who can continue his horrid policies but with a much lower profile.
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I don't think saying and doing too many dumb things is a deal breaker for this administration.
 
dudalb said:
He's becoming a liability. He will be replaced with somebody who can continue his horrid policies but with a much lower profile.
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This is becoming a familiar tune. First with Pruitt and ending possibly with Trump, leaving us with Spence? yuck
 
dmaker said:
This is becoming a familiar tune. First with Pruitt and ending possibly with Trump, leaving us with Spence? yuck
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I know. The only downside to Trump being gone is Spence becoming president. We trade a lying, immoral, loud mouthed criminal for a religious zealot who kissed the backside of a lying, cheating, loud mouthed criminal.
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Jim_MDP said:
Best guess... it was a poorly worded reference to "serving in public office".

And didn't he just get spanked this week for trying to sell off some land (Utah?) that Trump had shaved off an NPS site... after stating he'd never sell off public lands?

What a mook. :(
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Does serving in public office bequeath one with bonus information (and possibly information withheld from the public) about climate change?
 
"I was a SEAL, so therefore I know all about the climate!". That's pretty much his entire argument, right? What a maroon.

It just amazes me that you USAians still have this warrior-cult going.

The rest of the world dropped this BS like 1000 years ago. At least.
 
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Jim_MDP said:
Best guess... it was a poorly worded reference to "serving in public office".(
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I think that is unlikely. Zinke bases his image very very strongly on his service as a SEAL. He has a personal flag flown the roof on Interior Main when he is in the building, which I gather is something that military base commanders also do, but which, prior to Zinke, was not done with civilian departments.

Obviously, I am not psychic, I can't really know what was going on in his head. But based on his record, I think is is very likely he was referring to military service.

ETA: The flag thing: President Trump's Interior Secretary Makes His Staff Raise a Special Flag When He's Around

Zinke has revived an obscure military tradition, according to the Washington Post, that involves staffers raising and lowering a special secretarial flag whenever he enters or leaves the building.

The flag, which features the Interior Department’s bison seal on a blue banner with seven white stars for the agency’s bureaus, flies over the building whenever Zinke is present. If only Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt is in the office, a different flag is flown, according to the Post.
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The personal flags do have a long military history, and marking an official’s presence is still done in the military, but that has not carried over to government employees in the past.
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Do what the military tells you at all times. If they decide something don’t question it with your science and logic.
 
dudalb said:
I think Zinke days as Sec.Interior are probably numbered;he is just saying and doing too many dumb things. He's becoming a liability. He will be replaced with somebody who can continue his horrid policies but with a much lower profile.
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Not now, the administration needs a better scandal to distract from 16 felony convictions this week.
 
Bob001 said:
No, he meant in uniform. Zinke was a Navy SEAL commander and sees that fact as his trump card in policy debates and pretty much everywhere else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Zinke
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I think he is overplaying his career just a tad. Looks despite his early track record he had something (besides the one financial impropriety) holding him back from making O-6.
 
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