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.
Who said anything about democrat voters? Kudos to Democrat voters who voted Harris!
These are No-Voting couch sitter and Third-Party voters, after all.
It takes numerous factions acting as blocks to build beyond the finish-line, and those couch-sitters and third-party voters were one missing block contributing to the colossal fuck-up. Time to wise up before November elections, and 2028 -- lest the gullible suckers fall for the right-wing wedge-driving kool-aid yet again. This is thus not so re-litigating the past insomuch as learning from past mistakes and evolving moving forward so as not to repeat history in a cycle of insanity.
You agree you'll support and vote Democrat over this fascist regime then and advocate others who try to sit on the couch or vote third party to do the same given your comment, correct?