In news that no doubt comes as a surprise to the millions of Americans who assumed that no such entity existed during Donald Trump's presidency, Walter Shaub, the head of the Office of Government Ethics, abruptly announced that he would resign this month, a full six months before his term is scheduled to end. Odd.

Shaub told the The Washington Post that he "was not leaving under pressure" and "no one in the White House or the administration pushed him to leave," but that he "felt that he had reached the limit of what he could achieve in this administration," which is roughly analogous to what you said when your sixth-grade girlfriend didn't actually dump you, but instead removed your name from her AIM profile and then quietly blocked you altogether.

Shaub, to put it mildly, had his hands full with the nascent presidency, authoring a sarcastic Trump-style tweetstorm urging the then-president-elect to divest from his business interests and, later, lambasting Trump's decision retain his ownership stake as "wholly inadequate." In a terse resignation letter, Shaub called for tougher ethics laws and reiterated that government employees must “place loyalty to the Constitution, the laws, and ethical principles above private gain," a sentence I like to imagine he wrote while staring daggers at a candlelit 8x10 of Jared Kushner that he keeps next to his desk.

Who knows exactly what's happening behind the scenes that prompted Shaub to bail right now. But given how untroubled the Trump administration has proven to be with even relatively benign-sounding ethical improprieties—for God's sake, the OGE couldn't even get the White House to discipline Kellyanne Conway after she shilled for Ivanka Trump's clothing brand on national television—the fact that the head of the entity charged with oversight is suddenly turning into the bureaucratic version of that "Looks like it's fuck this shit o'clock" meme does not bode well for those of us who wonder if Trump or Kushner or Steve Bannon or anyone else holed up in the West Wing is still involved in a side hustle or two. And under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, who guess who gets to appoint Shaub's replacement, you ask?

Congrats in advance to Jared on the newest addition to his portfolio.

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