Trumps pick for Interior Secretary wants to sell off public lands.

[Cattledog]

"McMorris Rodgers is the author of a bill that would have directed the Department of the Interior to sell off federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming."


https://thinkprogress.org/cathy-mcmorris-interior-111c30319780#.mm5xnapge

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Incredible timing - we just started watching Ken Burns "The National Parks" again

of course, "America's Best Idea" must start to be eroded by the party of America's Worst Ideas

[pscot]

2. Is four years enough time to dispose of all public lands west of the Mississippi?

Possibly. Depending on how diligently the Trump wrecking crew pursue their nefarious ends.

[Frustratedlady]

3. I've been waiting for this announcement as I know one supporter who will be devastated...

and I want to point it out. No once has she given Obama any credit for his efforts to protect public lands and she certainly had no interest in voting for Killer Hillary, so I want to point out what she got for her ignorance.

[MFM008]

4. CMR

a disgrace to the state of Washington.
I have a warning for her.
Tom Foley.
Never think you are above getting your dumb ass kicked out.

[bluedigger]

5. Tell us about another of his swell picks.

But this time, try to sound surprised.

[pinboy3niner]

6. It's not just a grassroots sagebrush rebellion

Koch brothers and ALEC are pushing hard for this.

I'm growing increasingly nostalgic for the OTHER Bundys...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. My teabagger Trump-voting SIL was outraged a few years ago

when the GOP-induced sequester resulted in the temporary closing of the national parks just before a planned vacation to one of them; she blamed this entirely on Obama, of course. I wonder how she will feel when there are no more national parks to visit because they've been sold by Trump's government to oil and mining companies and developers?

[pinboy3niner]

9. Government shutdowns--who to blame?

Some blame the party that put the poison pill in the bill and some blame the party that voted against it.

[Missn-Hitch]

19. Obama and the Democrats did it. Simple.

[keithbvadu2]

24. You can still visit what's left.

You can still visit what's left.
Private parks for profit of course.


They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Cynical, Sinister, Sick.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Why are they so dementedly bent of hate and destruction???
I really don't think the planet itself has ever seen bigger evil.
WTF.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I second that. I feel like I just spend half my day walking around going

"WTF". I just can't even believe what is happening and that there can actually be such evil people in the world.

[RKP5637]

32. It's a coup, a seizure of the government and instillation of a right wing

white nationalistic government. It's gone, all gone. And those the voted him and his herd in are going to be totally fucked, unless they have hoards and hoards and hoards of money, the damn fucken fools!

[pangaia]

29. Stop asking rhetorical . Get out there and DO something ..FAST!!!

Get out and contact your reps and tell them to fight against every single nominee il duce puts up for his cabinet.

Write letters to editors.
Contact broadcast media.
Join groups fighting the coup.
Contribute $$ if you can.
Post on social media.
Join protests, marches, strikes, boycotts.
any other type of civil disobedience. .
PROTEST any way possible...

Anything else you can think of...

[C_U_L8R]

39. Absolutely.

Just blowing off some steam here to keep sanity.
But you're absolutely right. We can move ahead
if we each act in whatever way we can. Large or small.
We outnumber them but we need to out-act them.
Okay, enough words.

[pangaia]

43. I know. I blow off steam also..

But let's blow the steam up their asses.

"&gt ))

[TBA]

10. Dear Progressive Rich People

Please buy up our public lands and preserve them for our children.


Ted Turner owns a huge chunk of forested land near me. While I'll never see it it does give some comfort that he is protecting it and all of the critters get to live there unmolested.

[JustinL]

14. and then turn them back over to the public when a decent administration takes office n/t

[lunatica]

11. Public lands soon to be full of McMansions behind walls

All of them built on the edge of the Grand Canyon with no access left for anyone else to see it.

[Ilsa]

12. Maybe those people wanting to build and or buy there will

Fall in or accidentally get tossed in. Maybe the earth will rebell and there will be enough erosion to suck them all down to the Colorado River.

[List left]

13. but not it in her home state of Washington. nt

[Sunlei]

15. Theres no public land left in many states. Public land is owned by all Americans, we tasked the Feds

Federal government to manage our land.

[FarCenter]

16. The Fed owns 28.5% of Washington. 84.9% of Nevada.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf

[doc03]

17. Well hell yea they will drilling in Yellowstone if there is anything there nt

[secondwind]

20. Public lands are just that... for the PUBLIC... they belong to ALL OF US!

[KT2000]

21. Koch brothers dream come true

she is likely a member of ALEC

[Crash2Parties]

30. Trump's entire presidency is their dream, made real.

[RKP5637]

35. It's a seizure of the US government, but too many Americans are just too damn stupid to get what's

going on.

[TeamPooka]

22. all of America is for sale as of 1/20/2017

[weissmam]

23. ass whole

[bucolic_frolic]

25. I don't know what will happen

but Americans are not going to take this lightly

[FiveGoodMen]

27. Americans are the ones who voted for this

20 years of hate radio and the megachurches have turned us into monsters.

[RKP5637]

36. Sadly, I don't think many Americans care, don't pay attention, too self absorbed, and frankly

too stupid and uneducated to comprehend what's going on. After all, they voted this regime/coup into office. The writing has been on the wall, what was going on, but just way too fucken stupid to get it. I have no faith in many of my fellow Americans. Sorry to have to say that, but that's the way I feel, and I'm not alone.

[bucolic_frolic]

41. Our party leaders

have done a miserable job of citizen education. Our last radical infusion was the 60s,
early 70s. They have not taught class consciousness, they're too busy fundraising
from corporations and staying mainstream to suit them.

When we've held majorities in Congress, voter rights, election reform, vote by mail,
have barely been mentioned, or as an add-on to other big issue bills. Public funding
of elections and election rules, the same thing.

We've been outmaneuvered over 37 years with IRA's, Roth IRA's, tax cuts for the rich,
estate tax reform. Chief Justice Roberts added Citizens United. Elections are about money
now. Congress is bought, not elected.

Limbaugh and Glenn Beck turn ideology upside down and hate radio loves it. Beck's
latest book is about Progressives fomenting fear and scaring people into voting for them.
Hypocrisy rules!

Bernie Sanders was late to the game, and his ideology is wonderful, but it didn't do enough
damage to the GOP ideology. Where were our rants against tax cuts, environmental
degradation, stealing the commons? Our Democratic Party barely mentioned them, they
were too afraid of offending someone.

Biden-Sanders might have won. Everyone of our Congress need to grow a pair, and fast.
Being meek and reasonable doesn't cut the mustard. And 2018 may see us lose more in
Congress if the public doesn't wake up.

[RKP5637]

44. I could not agree more. The democratic party has enabled this! Now, I wonder what the

democratic party will do to counter this. My fear is nothing, because I find most democrats far too meek. Way back democrats were tough, my father was one of them. I wish he were alive today, he would be kicking ass making many democrats of today look/sound like mush. He would have kicked someone like Trump in the ass and sent them on their way. The democratic party of today has changed so much it's unrecognizable. My father was cut of cloth similar to Bernie Sanders.

[FiveGoodMen]

26. Most of what Trump wants to do will be irreversable

In one term, America will be destroyed forever.

[RKP5637]

37. That's this regimes agenda, just even briefly looking at the appointments by Herr Dictator Dump. n/t

[DonCoquixote]

28. how muchya wanna bet Beijing and Moscow

are drooling as they can buy what normally would take armies to defend. In the years to come, we will look upon Trump as the traitor he is.

[Cha]

31. Hey trump and stein voters.. and stay at homes happy yet?

[Kathy M]

34. +1

[RKP5637]

38. Incredible, isn't it. I guess this is what they wanted, goodbye to what was once the USA into

a dictatorship by Herr Dump and his strong armed herd. The Brownshirts can't be far beyond, deplorables well paid. Please wake me up Cha and tell me this is just a nightmare of a dream!

[bucolic_frolic]

33. Once they steal your country

the reality on which you hung your hat is gone. Your reasons for living will change.
You may not protest publicly, but you will see the overlords as your enemy, and
you won't lift a finger to help them. This is the way it is in many corporations.
You do only what is necessary, often the minimum. Companies are always amazed
to learn of the ways in which employees work around the rules, or that the rules
are followed precisely. Free lunches can result in carry home bags, paid expenses
for work at home Mondays can mean stocking the home office at company expense.

Each of us makes peace with our own efforts. Barely cooperating is a choice too.

[Initech]

40. Coming in 2019: Westfield Yosemite!

[liberal N proud]

42. Bet they already have buyers lined up

And the ranchers who are either squatting or paying minimal fees will find their land under corporate ownership.