Discussion: Trash and Poop Overwhelm National Parks, Happy New Year

“It’s so heartbreaking. There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I’ve seen in my four years living here,” Snider said.

Be best, campers.

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Moral suasion only works when the guilty parties are susceptible to it. Rump has no morality. His deplorables include among them people who are as disgusting as he is. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are going into the National Parks to shit and dump their garbage because they now can.

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I just left Joshua Tree 1 hour ago after a three day stay. It was nowhere near the outlaw environment the LA Times described. Volunteers cleaned and stocked the toilets, people seemed to generally repspect the rules. The NPS did close the old mine area due to “illegal activity “ but I have no idea what that was. Indeed there was trouble with campsite reservations and the campgrounds are going to be closed today due to the bathrooms not being serviced.

Btw, the park is awesome in winter.

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Flying Monkeys. I will have to start using that for his media flunkies, or just RWNJs in general.

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As a reminder here’s Trump state park just north of NYC. The conditions are well deplorable.

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Obviously, this is a very full and very close look at the Dotard’s incompetence. He’s demonstrating, yet again, that ETTD. However, just because T rumpp is a political invalid, that does not exclude thousands of morons from helping themselves to this nation’s most fragile areas and ecosystems. Just because NPS Rangers are not working, the law is still the law, meaning law enforcement can still and must be used to protect what is legally protected. This is only one example of how this shutdown will be a strong test of American’s patriotism. Do we love this country and its resources enough to respect their natural limits. or do we pillage and rape because we believe ourselves to be more important than our homeland? The deplorable idiots are exposing themselves.

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He’ll privatize them first.

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There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I’ve seen in my four years living here

And that’s just the White House.

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Best schools, best people, nobody knows more, only I can . . . allow . . .trash and poop [to] overwhelm national parks.
#MAGA!!

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The damage occurred when Fat Donny was sworn in. Now we have a chance to repair/replace.

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Twitter is always open and ready to transmit. :wink:

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I agree.

Studies were done after Nixon to see what affect a lawless president has on a society and it turns out that when the person at the very top is lawless, those among us on the edge of lawlessness think they have permission to go over the edge and be lawless like the president.

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This is like a Trumpian game of Twister, how many ways can one administration screw over the norms and values.

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This is from Body Heat, about a heat wave, but it applies to many things.

We’ve got more of everything bad
since the wave started. It’s the
crisis atmosphere. People dress
different, feel different, sweat
more. They wake up cranky and they
never recover. Look at Lowenstein.
(a flash of smile)
Things are just a little askew. Pretty
soon people think the old rules aren’t
in effect. They start breaking them.
Figure no one’ll care, cause it’s
emergency time… time out.

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That is really apropos.

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Mad Max 2,357: The National Parks Dystopic Vacation.

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It doesn’t matter–he’ll blame someone else; F&F will agree, and that is all that will happen. The NPS will have to make it right as well as they can on what will certainly be truncated budgets. and the right will point to it as a reason to privatize. When you are willing to do anything to get what you want, that is what you will do.

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Meanwhile, Trump reassess the meaningfulness of his life during a profound Christmas reflection:

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He still doesn’t understand why firing Comey was his first mistake? Really? Or is this all a lie? It’s so hard to tell sometimes.

But anyway, Happy New Year. [eyeroll]

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But if someone gets killed, the Asshole will blame it on Democrats.

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