Trumpster Fire

It's that time of the year...actually, it's always that time of the year with the Trump administration. Out with the not quite so new, and in with the...wait, is there anybody left. We've seen this play out many times before. Somebody in the Trump Administration gets the boot - or piles up so many investigations into their conduct while in office - and then they go slinking off into the night back into the swamp from whence they came. Then the mad scramble begins to find some other halfwit, goose stepping bottom - o'- the-barrel scraper to fill in, either as "acting," "pretending" or whatever...

For this round it was Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior who was conveniently able to operate in the shadows of Greg Pruitt's sh#t show and wreak as much havoc and destruction on our country's greatest assets as he could in his brief tenure. Eliminate and/or reduce our national monuments? Sure! Open them and other public lands up to extractive industries? Why not? Kneecap and push out career scientists who served as the department's technical leaders and institutional memory? Absolutely! Fish for some sweet development deals from said extractive industries on land he and his family owns? Show me the money!!!

Just another day in the office for the Trumster Fire Misadminsitration...

Where's Smokey the Bear when you need him? Oh yeah. The U.S. Forest Service is part of the Department of Agriculture, not Interior. I kinda doubt Smokey would be willing to break out of that bureaucratic silo, certainly not to put out Zinke's hot mess of corruption and cronyism. He's too busy putting out real forest fires, caused by all of those lazy good for nothing eco-terrorists, who were just too lazy to rake between the trees they're so insistent on hugging.

As Smokey would say, "Only you can make Trump retire."