Another 35000 people lose their job thanks to Trump. People who also prevent forest fires. But that has never been in issue in the US, right?
Right?
RIGHT?!?
Hello, my name is Jimmy Pop and I’m a dumb white guy I’m not old or new, but middle school, fifth grade, like junior high I don’t know mofo’, if y’all peeps be bugging, givin’ props to my ho, 'cause she fly But I can take the heat, 'cause I’m the other white meat known as ‘Kid Funky Fried’ Yeah, I’m hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don’t shine 'Cause I’m kind of like Han Solo, always stroking my own Wookiee I’m the root of all that’s evil, yeah, but you can call me Cookie
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn Burn, motherfucker, burn
‘Fire, Water, Burn’ by the Bloodhound Gang for the curious.
Well one thing these last years have taught me is that the US president has way too much power.
It was never an issue before because presidents didn’t test it, but this is insanity.
The president largely doesn’t have too much power. Problem is the other two branches of government conceding theirs.
To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.
To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power.
Yeah. Want a minimum wage increase, legal cannabis, childcare, family leave, protecting Roe, protecting democracy itself, pursuing justice for January 6 or Epstein’s victims, and the president is conveniently powerless.
Want to ignore the law to sell weapons for genocide and the president is fucking omnipotent.
Which is what shocked me. I can understand that there are a few foul eggs in politics and if they take the wheel shits going down.
But since his second term literally nobody did stop any illegal shit from him.
The whole system is corrupt and broken. Nobody dares to defy the president even if they are supposed to!
I don’t think it’s so much “fear” of defying the president as it is they’re getting what they want from him (white christo-fascism), and they’re getting bribed by the same people. Most of the Dems are also dependant on the same interests as well (not necessarily the white Christian-nationalist stuff, but the same money). The concentration of wealth has put far too much power into too few hands. These same people are heavily influencing politics and public opinion worldwide. Idk, how we get out of this mess; have to bring the entire global economic system to its knees; forcibly redistribute their wealth or make it worthless I guess.
What is happening with this administration is exposing the great flaw of electoralism that anarchists and other leftists have been warning about for nearly a century.
That if we do not restructure our society, our politics and our culture leave us manipulatable to where these corrupt individuals could systematically consolidate power and out themselves or their allies into positions of power.
This is the result of not a decade but over a century of political and systemic manipulation by the owning-class.
Living in the US during this time has radicalized me so much against the system.
it all starts with half assing copying the Haudenosaunee’s system in 1789
Also: The same party has both houses of Congress who pretty much abdicated their power to the Executive branch.
I should not need to have new reasons for hating this scumbag. But fuck is dismantling the park system even profitable? Fuck is the point here?
Fdr, like all of american presidents was no saint and maybe arguably a fucking atrocity. But dam the park system he helped give to us americans, its so good what the fuck. Why fuck it up?
the USA exists to make profit for corporations and oligarchs
when you look at it with that in mind, lots of things make sense
Oil prospecting
Industrial agriculture (especially cattle farms)
Lumber trade
Suburban developments
Military bases
Espionage training
Weapons testing
Retail chains
Data centers
And the list goes on and on…
Thank you. I hate your answer but yea i get it. A few of the last ones dont need to crush our national parks in order to exist, but yea.
data centers is likely on the top of the list.
Its something to pillage. Its something beautiful to destroy. Its an outside to cull, so people have nothing and nowhere to do go or be that isnt controlled owned and surveilled.
The obly surprise is how slow its hapoening.
I mean. You have to give it to them. They are really going all in on destroying anything that actually made America great.
I’m not sure if that was the original goal, or even the intent now, but even with how terrible this news is, if the goal is to systematically dismantle a country, these guys are very very good at it.
The National Parks were literally the last thing that would entice me to travel to the US
They’re running it like a business. Sell everything of value, bail when it crashes.
You don’t have to be good at anything to destroy things, which is why it’s all they brag about.
I guess you are right. The staggering thing for me is the shear apathy required to do what they are doing. It’s revolting and frankly terrifying, but fascinating.
There is a yet to be diagnosed mental illness involved here, for so many people to so callously trumpet and parade toward things that actively and directly hurt them as well, just to prove some imaginary point.
It’s like psychopathy mixed with a side of Stockholm flavoured bias soup.
Fascism is a mental illness, luckily it can be treated at home.
It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.
Use 1984 rules, reverse everything they say, that is the actual goal.
Shout out to my wife’s uncle, the nature photographer who loves hiking and nature and voted for this chode to stop the woke mind virus. How’s that going bud?
Was this a condition of the Iranian ceasefire?
Yes it was. Also no, tomorrow. And yes the day after. Who knows? Certainly not the government.
one man should not be allowed to hand America’s assets to his cronies and sidekicks
The
ConfederatesRepublicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.jumpstarted by reagan, and helped along by gingrich and mitch mcconnel, newt was significant in founding the “never work with the dems on anything, until they cave you demands” in the 90s.
“No one man should have all that power”
- Hatsune Miku
Trees are for liberal pussies
Since when is the President in charge of government agencies and their funding in any way?
I guess they know what they are doing.
Just kidding
Turns out laws are just calvinball and obeying them is for cucks.
Always has been.
Weird legal theories. They propose that Congress authorizes spending, but does not impose it. Therefore because Article II Section 3 requires “the President to ensure laws are faithfully executed”, he then controls how the department functions (if it all, apparently) and if there is leftover money it reverts to the Treasury.
The us treats legal texts like it does the Bible. Always twisting it to mean whatever they want it to mean, while pretending it’s an absolute truth.
I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY.
I don’t hate this country. Just a few select individuals with too much power and money.
Nah, Trump and the Oligarchy aren’t something happening to America, they’re a consequence of America
Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely. May these profligates see their wealth evaporate and never be returned for contempt of their weakness, corruption, and stupidity should ensure their inevitable and violent deaths.
HELL FUCKING YEAH
Thanks for the enthusiasm dude.
I think both are true. When the media is controlled and the populace is spoon fed bullshit for a long enough period of time, people who lack critical thinking skills eat it up and vote against their own self interests. People are also very unlikely to take responsibility for their own actions and find it much easier to blame others for their own shortcomings, which leads to tribalism and racism among other things. The other major issue is the giant wealth disparity causing a huge imbalance of power and influence. Couple that with the inability to have politicians not beholden to that power and money (citizens united) and you have the perfect storm of bullshit and corruption.
I really think the quote from Agent K in MIB really sums it up.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are just trolls and assholes who are beyond saving. But I continue to believe they are exceptions rather than the norm.
But why destroy the research?
When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.
They think smart and good people are just playing team sports against them, so they play the other team and try to win.
They’re dumb enough not to think any of it through.
To show the sheer contempt for the goodie two-shoes trying to save the world.
They’re unironically Captain Planet villains.
Brace yourselves for widespread Mossad set fires this summer and then a justification for being forced to sell off these lands for “maintenance”
i miss what windmills are doing to our once beautiful country…
Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.
