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Debra Baxter's avatar

This is exactly right! So many cuts to so many departments. And then to find out he has diverted our money to his idiotic projects that nobody wants. If only “his Congress” would stop him! We just don’t understand his power over them.

MegaWattz's avatar

To all who did not vote in 2024 because they "didn't like any of the candidates": this mess is what has resulted from your decision not to to exercise your right to vote on one of the most important issues before this country: its leader. We don't have a leader with legislative and judicial branches that work with him/her for the good of THE PEOPLE of this country; we have a clown surrounded by sycophants making sure that the twice-convicted felon gets anything that he wants for himself and his wealthy friends while the world wonders what is wrong with the American people for electing the worst person in American history to lead them.

Nick Minorsky's avatar

My fondest boyhood memories are of family vacationing and camping trips in the National Parks. They are treasures. Congress votes to allocate funds for these parks for specific purposes. These funds are being grabbed and yes pirated away to pay for beastly egomaniacal projects in Washington DC that no one approved. Worse yet the National Parks are burning due to DOGE cuts wielded by Musk, a South Afrikaner appointed by Trump. We will have little to nothing left.

Martin's avatar

On point!!!!

Note to all home-owners here: all will pay for this indirectly for years in heightened property insurance premiums, as those companies spread recovery of their losses. Of course, in a K-shaped economy, this is only a concern for the downward-sloping part of the K.

D Charles's avatar

If he lives long enough Trump along with his entire ,useless cabinets must be held accountable for the fires, misappropriation of tax dollars for his ego and which must come down. There must be laws or amendments that any felon can't hold any high office in our government and crooks and getting rich off of others bribery must be changed. Vote blue this November to start to rid our Country of this stench.

Susan's avatar

Thank you for putting such eloquent words to my thoughts exactly. Just visited Mt Rainier with my daughter. We left a most magnificent spot to come home to smoke filled Oregon.

Christine's avatar

Guess the firefighters have slacked off on racking the leaves

Zoe's avatar

Vote blue Montana! Scorched lands are not good for the economy. It was never about efficiency it was about playing libertarians as fools to make corporate America unstoppably wealthy. Donnie’s one skill. And we all are getting burned.

Jim Tripp's avatar

Trump just needs to sit down, relax, and not do anything. The Congress does it all the time.

Mary DeWester's avatar

Grateful for Steady. Thank you.

susan Williams's avatar

Canadians have sent us Californians help for decades, remember truckloads of water to Santa Barbara in 1990? i do, I help unload it. We Cali folks remain grateful. And send who and what we can, plus our prayers.

Gary Hanks's avatar

So well said Dan. I've spent many days hiking in the great parks we have here in California. It is despicable and disgusting that Trump is stealing the funds set aside for taking care of these national treasures.

Irna Gadd's avatar

Your eloquence, Dan, is a fitting tribute to our national parks and national forests. Their grandeur, beauty, and diverse landscapes are - as President Theodore Roosevelt said – the best examples of what America is. That the current occupant of the White House has no respect or regard for these treasures is no surprise. That his total obsession with enhancing HIS version of his own importance and stature leads him to divert money from agencies that maintain and care for our national parks and use it for his narcissistic aggrandizement is yet another giant F*#k You to the American people. He doesn’t care a bit if homes and lives are destroyed due to inadequate resources to fight the increasing wildfires, so long as he can buy more tacky gold accessories for his vanity projects. When will the people who voted for him and his cronies, people whose very lives are at risk due to his disregard for nature and science finally realize that THEY have the power to vote his sycophants out of office?!?!?!

Martin's avatar

a propos no respect or regard: they don't call real estate developers "land rapers" for nothing -- and that's where his mindset is from

Patricia Lane's avatar

It’s a horrible situation when the president of the US is eager to destroy our greatest resources so his selfishness can be paramount . I’m sick to death of hearing how this misfit president is destroying yet another facet of our lives . Stealing money from these beautiful , historic lands . It’s another tragic act from our criminal president .

Beth Peters's avatar

More new chaos everyday from this idiotic clown "in charge" and his pathetic GOP who constantly enable and roll over for him. Their actions are destroying our entire country and need to be stopped asap.