cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/42469014
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.
They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
Yeah but Harris supported Israel. So.
*gestures to everything*
The hilarious thing, many of the loudest people solely focused on criticizing only Harris actually ended up voting for her. But their votes could not offset all the people they demotivated from voting entirely or convinced to vote for Trump.
Democrats never need help losing. But they will always gladly accept it. They’ve never ever learned the lesson in the past 40 years and yet these people thought somehow they would? Make it make sense.
I think there are many, many reasons, but a simple one is: Democratic voters don’t like being told who to vote for. Republican voters demand to be told who to vote for.
So ‘dividing the left’ is super-easy and profitable.
Anyone familiar with the Forward Party? Seems like there could be some real momentum behind this. A good home for independents and anyone sick of the 2-parties fighting who’s better when they’re both corrupt. There’s more than 2 polar opposites, everyone…
So long as you have no intention of winning federal office in the next couple of decades. Heck the Greens have been a third party forever and they still only have 5 or so local officers and no federal ones.
Political organizing is crazy hard and expensive for third parties.
Well, same with Libertarian and Reform parties. No big corporate sponsors means smaller budgets yes, but not impossible. I also like the fact they will only promote positive stuff about their own part vs just slander and bash the other candidates. Telling me someone else is bad doesn’t tell me why you’re good.
Not just Democratic voters. People of all stripes who have a modicum of critical thinking skills. Which was why I didn’t participate in that myself. Just pointing out (correctly) who would win if it wasn’t the democrat. (I wish I could have been wrong) To the loudest most obsessed posters. Doesn’t matter who you voted for or if you didn’t vote at all. It’s your right. But I think we should all strive to be as informed as possible. And not self destructively manipulated as many were. I genuinely believe most were ernest, sincere, and extremely naive.
It’s fucking damning that the genocide wasn’t optional in the election. And still isn’t a deal breaker for national leadership. But without an actual plan to replace or remove them. At least not kneecapping ourselves should be the baseline.
Save 10 million in order to spend 10 billion. Classic right wing economics.
