Woman who confronted Pruitt at restaurant: Conservatives want 'civility' because their stances are..

[DonViejo]

Woman who confronted Pruitt at restaurant: Conservatives want 'civility' because their stances are losing

BY JUSTIN WISE - 07/10/18 09:56 AM EDT

The schoolteacher who confronted former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt at a restaurant last week claimed Tuesday that conservatives are pleading for "civility" because they are "losing on the content of the arguments."

"Some say it wasn’t 'civil' of me to approach Pruitt at lunch and that it’s a sign of dark times ahead for our political climate," Kristin Mink wrote in a first person essay for Vox. "But these arguments are not genuine: The bogus 'civility' argument has arisen because conservatives are losing on the content of the arguments."

Her statement comes about a week after she shared a video on Facebook of her confronting Pruitt while he was eating lunch in Washington, D.C. She urged him to resign and listed several of the scandals Pruitt had been tied up in as the EPA chief.
Just three days later, President Trump announced that he had accepted Pruitt's resignation.

"I only added a little extra gasoline to the dumpster fire of his scandal-ridden tenure, but I was proud to join the long-standing efforts of environmentalists, activists, investigative journalists, and whistleblowers across the country cranking the heat up to levels even this administration couldn’t endure," Mink writes.

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[treestar]

1. It is what they are trying to normalize

Exactly. What "civility" do we owe a Nazi? Where to draw the line? They are trying to move it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Juanita Jean agrees with you:

from her page yesterday:





http://juanitajean.com/make-good-trouble/

[The Genealogist]

2. The content of their arguments is trash

They play rhetorical games, move the goal posts, what about, change the topic when they have nothing.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. They want civility now

Bc it's mission accomplished on their agenda, and they want to spend their money in peace.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Love this paragraph:

"I only added a little extra gasoline to the dumpster fire of his scandal-ridden tenure, but I was proud to join the long-standing efforts of environmentalists, activists, investigative journalists, and whistleblowers across the country cranking the heat up to levels even this administration couldn’t endure," Mink writes.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I wouldn't have a problem with social media announcing

a flash greeting if a Trump official is identified while enjoying a meal.

[ck4829]

6. Yes, they really expect people to just sit there and not complain

When you treat black athletes kneeling as "disrespectful" to America, but do nothing about confederate flags and even Nazi flags being waved alongside the US flag...

When you are torching the environment...

When you say "NO! All Lives Matter!" but shrug and run away when refugees need help...

When you treat Muslims and immigrants as some sort of super-danger, but do nothing when white non-Muslim men are slaughtering innocent people in churches, movie theaters, and schools...

When the same Evangelicals who supported the Iraq War "because End Times" are now celebrating this government regime...

When you are enabling sexists and racists who should have nothing to do with authority and should instead be isolated far away from everyone else for everyone's safety...

When you demand respect but vote for the most disrespectful President in American history...

Did you think people weren't going to notice? Did you think people weren't going to notice the inconsistencies? Did you think people were just going to throw their hands up and stop caring?

Something tells me they kind of actually thought this.