There Is No End Game -- Mary Trump

[erronis]

https://www.marytrump.org/p/there-is-no-end-game

Last night in the Oval Office, Donald signed proclamations stripping federal protections from millions of acres surrounding Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah. The move clears the way for expanded drilling, mining, grazing, and commercial development across landscapes rich in archaeological sites, fossils, and lands sacred to Native American tribes.

This is what Donald said:

We're terminating certain monuments. They call it monuments, not the ones we have outside, but these are large thousands of acres. It's a total of almost three million acres and we're going to be discussing it. But in fact, I think we'll start discussing it right now before I sign. After that, we're going to be signing two documents that are close to a million and a half acres each.

I keep making the same point because it bears repeating. This is what happens when we put men in power who are so rapacious, so greedy, that they care nothing about our natural resources, the natural beauty of this country, our history, or our traditions if those things stand in the way of making another dollar.

This decision will have an enormous deleterious effect on this country, especially on the wildlife and the people who have long treasured these extraordinary public lands.

Not to put too fine a point on it, this is exactly what happens when we continue empowering people who value nothing if it gets in the way of their ability to make a buck.

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And, of course, much much more. Because it's the Con Job Don.

[WmChris]

1. You have to wonder

How much he will get from the future despoilers of nature granting contracts the lobbies are probably licking their lips.

[SheltieLover]

2. This cannot stand

[ColoringFool]

3. And yet......

[AZJonnie]

4. I don't even know if it's so "noble" as "trying to make a buck"

Those monuments are Obama's work. And Obama made bigly fun of him that one time, and he ended up looking like the chump that he is.

He's a petulant and emotionally unstable CHILD occupying an 80 year old man's body. That's really what its about, in this particular case. Revenge, cause somebody was mean to him

[erronis]

6. Revenge and 'friends' whispering in his ear (and slipping a banknote under the table.)

Of course since Obama was the president while these monuments were put in place, trump would want to raise his pudgy little leg and try and piss on them.

[a kennedy]

5. Gawd I hate this orange piece of shit!!!!!!

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Efilroft Sul]

7. Future generations are going to wonder why we never killed all the planet-wreckers and democracy-slayers.

[erronis]

8. We're not done yet. And it might not be my generation. But it will happen.

Mother nature is in charge. I hope we can help her before the outcome is severe.

[Efilroft Sul]

9. I envy your optimism. I hope we can overcome our climate challenges before it's too late, but the jackals are in charge.

We need to skip ahead to the part where they blow their heads off in the bunker.