70 years ago, people like this were raging about having to let black students into their whites-only schools. 125 years ago, they were raging about the Irish and the Italians being permitted to live here. 175 years ago, they were running riot in Kansas to make it a slave state.
Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.
More than 100 nations copied it.
Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.
This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.
That was a lie.
To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.
I serve on Appropriations.
The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.
They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.
Fighting for kids to receive state-mandated Bible instruction while fighting against those same kids receiving free lunch is exactly the kind of religious hypocrisy Christians should stand against.
This is what it looks like to take the Lord’s name in vain.
America 250 was going to be like a World Fair that would have attracted millions of people.
But Trump stole the money, denied permits, & renamed it Freedom 250 so he could make it all about himself & Republicans.
Trump stole America's Birthday from you! 🤬
This Vet brilliantly exposes the evils of US imperialism:
“The recruitment tool of the US military is to go to impoverished areas and offer things America doesn’t offer you like housing, healthcare, and income. We offer soldiers socialism to go abroad & defend capitalism.”
How do Americans not grasp how evil this is? The U.S. intentionally keeps its own people poor so they’re forced to enlist in the army to blow up innocent people in other countries, all to defend a capitalist system that makes the rich even richer.
When you defend US capitalism, you are defending a system that deprives your own people healthcare and housing so they’ll murder people abroad and fight in endless wars to ensure US corporations can plunder and extract other countries’ resources.
This is why we fight to end capitalism and build a world where no one is exploited or bombed to make another person rich. A world where the economy is based on meeting social needs and caring for the commons instead of endlessly exploiting others for profit.
The Earth was fully stocked: water to drink, soil to grow food, forests to shelter us, a sun that rises every day, a moon that moves water, and oceans that regulate the climate. Then, men invented war, debt and capitalism.
In Texas if you protest against the illegal kidnappings of your neighbors, you’ll get sentenced to 50 years in prison because the judge wants to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Egregious.
All I can say about the reflecting pool debacle is that I thought it would be impossible to top the Four Seasons Landscaping plot line, but having the guy who said he was gonna drain the swamp accidentally MAKE A GIANT SWAMP is giving it a run for its money.
The Boomers have been subsidized more than any generation in human history and it seems they’ll squeeze every bit out of everyone younger than them til they’re gone.