Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on social media(X) that federal border agents will be assigned to NPS sites as part of the broader federal law enforcement push in DC. He said the Interior Department had authorized a “service-wide deputization” of Customs and Border Protection
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So the parks will be whites only?
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No!
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DC is under NPS jurisdiction, yes?
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fuck.
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Because there's so much fucking serious crime in the national parks. JFC.
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WTF?
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Degrading our National Park experience even more. BP could be cleaning bathrooms and picking up trash while real National Park Rangers do their great and important and very much appreciated jobs. BP could arrest speeders, too, and protect wildlife! 😡 Imagine a BP nature talk around the campfire 😱
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It will only take one person, one practiced person
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Nothing to do with "law enforcement."
Everything to do with a would-be dictator following the instructions given him by his war-criminal mentor.
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So are the BCP gestapo going to clean toilets and empty the trash in the NPS parks since these assholes took away all the funding for that?
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I'm guessing they're going to start fires, harass tourists, arrest park personnel, and get dug in in preparation for potential protests when they start selling our parks off to whatever foreign interests wave cash (bitcoin?) at his fat orangeness.
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#SandwichRebellion
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UN-american AF. Dictator much?
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This is to work around that pesky 100 miles from the border limit?
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These guys also may be looking for you guys. Be careful. Stay safe.
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I'm sick & heartbroken 💔
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...I hope the bears get pissed off and crush some ICE.
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"Military Madness Is Ruining My Country"... Graham Nash
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🤯🤬😡
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officers to bolster crime prevention efforts on park grounds. In practice, this means Border Patrol agents are being given temporary authority to act as law enforcement officers within the National Park Service system, a role typically reserved for park rangers and the U.S. Park Police.
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Please. It’s Doug Cumburger.
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I feckin hate this guy.
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Trump is terrified that Americans are going to rebel and come for him! Why else would he fill the city with armed military? Wonder which side they would take, the constitution they swore to protect or the tyrant in The White House?
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Again, though, if Trump really WAS a deep cover Russian agent looking to destroy the US, what would he be doing differently?
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It’s not about the level of crime. It’s about control. Don’t forget they have plans for the national park lands.
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Soooooooooo....are the painters and Noem the only ones working along the border? Who the fuck is actually at the border?
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There's no way they can pay for all the deployments. This whole power demo is bankrupting the US.
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assholes! That's not their F job
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The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:34
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trump’s petrie dish in which he formulates how to take over a Democratic city with armed National Guard troops from multiple maga states…What could go wrong?…
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No! No! No!
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Will they help keep the campsites and restrooms clean?
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Goddamn it!
Brown people will no longer safely be able to visit our parks.
Fuck this administration.
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Also, Patel told the FBI that agents will be investigating violent crimes, previously the responsibility of local and state police, and carrying tasers He is turning the FBI into a 30,000+ member national police force under the control of Trump. All of this is very, very bad.
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GOP won't adequately fund the park system, but they will send border agents in to police parks. (Or is it to secure them for the new corporate ownership they want to usher in?)
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Maybe they can clean bathrooms restore walking paths and clean up trash all while looking for anyone to harrass
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Got something for Mr. Burgum here…
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More control by the republicans. Less freedom for us.
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Thnx for th notice. 47 hates our country— only explanation for all his despicable destruction & vile intent to hurt as many Americans as possible. He wants to reign over the leftover scraps ? He’s just ensuring people who do love our country,warts & all, will NEVER give up on restoring DEMOCRACY!
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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He just gets more and more brazen in making ICE his personal police force.
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How to waste taxpayer money, part #44,368
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You have got to be f’ing kidding me! These people have got to go. Living does not require this many armed assholes on a daily basis.
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So they fire all the park service staff, including all the support staff for the firefighters, and now they're going to send ICE? What's ICE going to do, run the gift shops?
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It is called Twitter until Musk stops dead-naming his daughter.
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One step away from martial law which Trump has wanted to do for a long time. He may use it to stop the midterms. 😳
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The people that continue to work for these agencies will receive consequences when we get our country back..
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Also operate as immigration enforcement throughout the country— even in areas beyond the 100mi limit
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WTF 🤬
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Oh Joy!!! Now we get to hike and camp with White Nazi's
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They are out of control.
And we are just watching it happen as if a spectator sport.
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Unleashing armed MAGA-avengers in our national parks looks like another big Republican win for America’s tourist industry.
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What an opportunity for the wolves and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, an International Peace Park.
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What are NPS sites. Sounds like more fascism.
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What a bunch of traitorous pricks
I have a feeling it's not going to be a good mix....the National Park service is just so......ethical..&respectful to people, nature, earth.... &American...& follow constitution
Next, their going to buddy up with nuns and priests
Epstein Maxwell Epstein files
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🤯 😡😡😡🤬!
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"service-wide deputization" seems like a complicated way to say Gestapo.
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outrageous and unconstitutional !
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And you get a badge, and you get a badge and you get a badge...... now go get em huckleberries! Worthless administration/spineless minions!
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Border Patrol in the National Parks is the perfect grotesque example of how far from a free country we are now and why fascism needs fighting. Imagine immigration checkpoints in Yosemite or Yellowstone.
It’s not coming to America. It’s fully in place now.
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Nasty business
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WTF?
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I guess anyone working for the government is going to be issued a gun and badge to go after migrants.
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Taking NPS money to fund Trump's gestapo?
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Looks like we have an organized attack underway. Epstein files tomorrow right?
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The march toward authoritarian rule proceeds unimpeded.
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Militarized USA. Parks. Cities. Hospitals. Borders. Farms. Manufacturing. Meatpacking plants.
This is not law enforcement. It’s militarization. Enslavement of a supposedly free people.
The gov has slashed most services except for the military & concentration camps.
Wow. Isn’t America Great
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So now we have ICE instead of Park Rangers????
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I am waiting for Federal agents to move onto Indian reservations, where they have very little civil authority! It will be a clash like Alcatraz.
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US supplied missiles hit what they aim for
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Ah so they're going to drive visitors away from the national parks so we can't see how they're selling it all off. Makes sense.
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Assigning federal border agents to NPS sites seems like a significant expansion of their role. Curious to see how it plays out in practice.
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Wasting more money
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Good grief
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They're coming for foreign National Park tourists. The World Cup and Olympics should have already been boycotted but this should leave no doubt.
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SO... Replacing Park employees with "the Heat" from the Feds? When will it be the military? To stop anyone coming to protest vast sections of our Public Lands being sold off without express written permission from the American people I suppose? We must come up with a way to stop this regime ASAP!
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Dafuq???
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And fascism flourishes
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Be visible wherever you live Join a local protest put blue lights up in a window or on the porch put up a yard sign hang a pride, BLM, Ukraine, etc flag at your house
We are stronger together We will push back on this through mass non-violent demonstrations.
We will prevail
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Interesting. I've rafted through Big Bend NP on the Rio Grand and there were many obvious crossing spots in the canyons.
But these guys better not be "Meal Team" bitches, because that is some super-rugged terrain...
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What a crock of crap. This is all to create a layer of loyal security around the bunker bitch in preparation for the time when he cancels elections and declares himself Supreme Bunker Bitch for life. I wish I was kidding.
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Sounds like Burgum figured out how to stifle the parks enough to justify shutting them down and selling them off for resource extraction. I wonder if, instead, he found a new way to feed bears.
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Will they catch all the people pushing over rocks that have been there more milennia? What "crime" do they think is happening?
Thus shit needs to stop.
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The National Park Service manages 433 individual units covering more than 85 million acres in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories. Whoa! gestapo much?!!!
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Nazis in nature.
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He absolutely does Not understand just how many places the National Park Service oversees. Does he plan to staff ALL of them - or just the ones this bogus "administration" wants to land grab???
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Building their Nazi Goon Squad.
They are rushing to throw as many bodies in to it as quickly as possible. They’re worried it’s all gonna collapse upon itself.
Resist!
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We’re all fucked
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I’m confused. Is there a huge amount of crime happening in our National Parks, or have I misunderstood something?
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Damn these immigrants stealing all the good parking spots at the scenic lookout!!
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CBP and DHS have become the most corrupt and biggest joke. Their departments are now accepting any racist uneducated thug while the ones prior to this facist regime had to qualify and train to get a job with the department.
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So ICE has overtly become Brownshirts.
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Lemme get this straight. Trump fired NPS people who were trained to do that job. Then he hired new border patrol agents. Now he's sending those new border control agents to national parks to do jobs for which they are not qualified that have been vacated because qualified people were fired. Right?
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All we need.
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Welcome to the American Hellscape. Remember that nice vacation you wanted to take the kids on?
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🤬🤬🤬🤬 Burgum is awful!!
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If we make it out of this, DC Statehood needs to be our first priority.
There is no reason to make them suffer this oppression by a tyrant again.
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Sad. Go to a national park, get detained/disappeared.
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This is bad. VERY VERY bad.
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& he's handed over Interior land to military & now using Park employees for local law enforcement. His interest in wildlife, conservation, & public lands is zero (except for handing them over to private sector as part of the "balance sheet."
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Such ridiculous fuckery
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FUCKING WASTE, FAUD AND ABUSE!!!
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Cue the bison! :)
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What the Holy Fk?!
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Burgum is a bad man.
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Does this make all the Epstein files disappear?
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I am confused. What? Why?
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They just keep pushing law enforcement on every aspect of life!
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Who knew the Chesapeake Bay was a huge gateway for illegal people entering this country by sea. Hmmmm.
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Time to mobilize Yogi and his fellows.
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Turning the US into a police state. Not just our cities but also our national parks.
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I thought border patrol could only operate within so many miles of the border. When did that change?
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😡😡😡
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They are trying to make all federal employees part of the emergency security mission.
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How very American. Grrr.
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Not trained for that role. What could go wrong?
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What a waste of money and resources
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Make no mistake, they've been planning for years to control every aspect of American life. Fascism is here.
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This is insane.
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MAGA is destroying everything that makes America great.
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Almost liked they planned the whole thing in plain sight.
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Folks, start removing their masks and taking their pictures. This will be important in the next few years.
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Gawd dammit !
They are really asking for a revolution
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Burgum is not only a massive asshole, but a vain stupid one too.
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Haaa.... how many of ICE are going to end up having volunteer search and rescue groups saving them from their own stupidity
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Are there sandwiches running around?
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When they deputize the Postal Service, I am executing Canada Escape Plan #1.
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Trump is paranoid that there will be a revolt and he is locking down DC
He may not be wrong on this one
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Perhaps a bribe is in order
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Twig pigs are going to be ICE incels now too? I hate this racist country.
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How many more ways can we say unbelievable!
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We have most definitely turned into an abusive police state.
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Sounds like a method to also prep for resource harvesting.
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DEPUTIZING means lending your power (qualified for and earned, and wielded under oath and regulated by conditions) to the torch and pitchfork mob in an emergency.
THERE IS NO EMERGENCY ‼️
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So we're still paying for ICE clowns to go sight seeing
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All the three-letter orgs are turning into Brownshirts or cosplaying Gestapo these days.
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Maybe a bear will eat them or they fall into a geyser or lose an argument with a bison.
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This is why so many government employees were fired - so they could take their salaries to pay all “their” people they had waiting in the wings, supposedly 50K
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The. F*ck.
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FFS, make it stop
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Unbelievable!
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Oh what fun for NP visitors. Budget cuts and take downs.
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This is Burgum’s vision of our country. A police state.
Sick and pathetic to destroy our precious democracy. For a snake oil salesman. For power and money.
Our founders and so many have fought and died for this country to continue to work toward a more perfect union governed by the people. Shame.
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Have we redrawn all the lines in this country? I didn’t realize DC had a border.
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Call it what it is - military occupation by a dictatorial madman and his complicit administration and republicans I. Congress - traitors all
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Yeah, nope. They’re trying the same thing with all civil positions, seeking volunteers to be transferred to DHS and ICE.
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They are building a army to take over the government and do away with the constitution
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Border Patrol in the parks. Horrifying. That will drop park visits even more. Evil.
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Here comes the Gestapo.
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And if any of our precious wildlife scares them, they will shoot them ? If I see them, I am gonna have to tell them they DO NOT BELONG, are NOT QUALIFIED, and DONT make me feel safer but much LESS safer.
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No training, no apparent knowledge of laws and statutes-- what could go wrong??!!
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Okay: in other words don’t visit national parks and then we can strip mine them
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When asked to show an ID, are they authorized to show their vehicle's LICENSE PLATE?
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Trying to kill off tourism and the claim nobody uses them so they can sell them.
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Well maybe then they can get rid of the illegal pot growing operations that are happening in some of our national parks..
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Next: sovereign First Nations lands, again.
Land grabs and natural resources to destroy at will. For greed.
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They better get to work cleaning toilets, emptying trash bins, & clearing trails then.
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Maybe they can help clean toilets and pick up trash!
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Guess DC hasn’t exploded yet, so the Regime is upping the ante to see if they can get the violence they want. Trump wants civil unrest so he can declare martial law.
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More performative fascist nonsense to menace people just trying to enjoy our national parks.
His does this end, guys?! We’ve got 3 years and a few months of this fascist bullshit!
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I only look at the news every 38 seconds so I must have missed the giant national park crime wave happening.
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This isn't how the Holocaust started; we're way past that now. We're literally becoming a police state.
I'm praying hard that Cheato Shitler goes to see James Dobson in hell. Dear God, I know you're not there, but if you'd just smite this guy dead, I'd be early for church and bring donuts. 🚫Nazis
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Hopefully they have to clean bathrooms and clear some trails. Some useful work would be good for them.
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So the border isn't that important after all, I guess.
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Let me guess - next NWS forecasters will be sent to do that instead of forecast
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Wow, looks like guarding the Epstein Files is an all-hands-on-deck operation!
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This is about policing the 250th. No history allowed that isn't Trump's approved history. It's also about intimidating people from using the parks and historic sites. Wait for them to start dumping smaller sites from the system to "save money."
