@MikeCrispi It’ll soon be free for criminals and noncitizens. He just needs to bump it up another 20% and name it something that virtue signals like “End struggle”
Now is a good time to remind you that Asante Samuel scored a 10 on his Wonderlic cognitive test for the NFL. Yes, that would be a 10 out of 50.
The son he raised scored a 12.
No one expected Pratt to win
But they were surprised that he cleanly beat the second place Dem on election night only to have her win the late ballots so hard that they look like two completely different elections
it was a black bear that killed him. a black bear.
do you know how comically retarded you have to be to piss off a black bear enough that it wants to kill you?
Two hilarious things about this tweet that Rocky Mountain people see all the time. First, it’s very common for NYC/SF/DC beltway people to spend several *days* on vacation on Western public land. Shortly after, they fancy themselves policy experts and proudly proclaim their “love” of public land but then go home and go out of their way to advocate for its privatization and sale.
They return to their cities and condescendingly explain to Westerners that we must privatize public land or sell it off to foreigners/investment funds/billionaires/out of staters because line must always go up and BLM land isn’t as “pretty” as the NPS parcel where they vacationed.
Second is BLM land, from a conservation perspective, isn’t set aside for recreation or aesthetic value, and he’s displaying a complete lack of knowledge in our land portfolio that disqualifies him from weighing in on its sale. What the National Park tourists don’t understand (because they don’t live here and their knowledge of the issue is quite shallow) is the BLM land that he disparages for not being pretty is “multiple use.” This is a particularly brilliant and uniquely American management classification that allows large swaths of land to be wild and working landscapes that permit livelihoods and conservation.
Oil and gas operations can share their parcels with sensitive sage grouse leks. Mining operations can occur, with regulations, on migratory game corridors for some of our biggest deer and elk herds. Recreation and hunting can still occur right next to a seventh generation small family run cattle operation.
There’s also a big 2A connection here. Near my university, the only place the kids have to go to zero in their rifles before elk season is BLM land. They couldn’t do any shooting sports while away at college be it not for our local BLM parcel that Andrew wants to sell because it’s not as pretty as Yosemite.
BLM as an agency isn’t perfect but their scientists have been instrumental in collaborative efforts to restore the Bonneville Cutthroat trout (a symbol of the West, beloved by westerners, and endemic to the waters of Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Idaho) as well as Colorado’s iconic greenback cutthroat. Migration corridor habitat protection by BLM for Mule deer, bighorn, and elk has been instrumental across a number of states in the Rockies for keeping herd numbers where they need to be so we can fund wildlife conservation work with hunting tags.
If members of the America first coalition want to partner with rw people of Western states, they shouldn’t be so prideful and think that a vacation qualifies them to advocate for the sale of public land that they woefully misunderstand in terms of both the purpose and how we manage it.
Public land enables a unique heritage, culture, people, ecology, and set of livelihoods that make tourists like Andrew want to come and spend time out here. Once you put a fence around it all, and lose access to things that American legends like Teddy Roosevelt set aside for us and our children, you’re just advocating to further strip America for its parts so long as that sacred line goes up.
East coast conservative think tankers and GOP staffers should learn fast that the rw under 50 high elevation crowd isn’t Orrin Hatch. We are led by Hunter/angler groups and GWOT vets like the guys at @Sagebrush_Inst who embody servant leadership and stewards of our beloved American commons. We follow ranching families like @caseymurph1 who safeguard our land from foreign land grabs. This issue is very serious to us.
2.2 million views is a heck of a lot more than the ~30 students in her class.
What the teacher meant for bad, God used for good. Bravo to this brave girl!