Damn, it’s crazy that we let one guy decide these things. Seems like the kind of thing that should be determined by a large legislative body that holds the power over our nation’s budget and the ability to write laws. Weird we don’t have one of those.
Almost as if this one guy is just a figurehead for a larger political movement.
Well one thing these last years have taught me is that the US president has way too much power.
It was never an issue before because presidents didn’t test it, but this is insanity.
The president largely doesn’t have too much power. Problem is the other two branches of government conceding theirs.
To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.
To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power.
Yeah. Want a minimum wage increase, legal cannabis, childcare, family leave, protecting Roe, protecting democracy itself, pursuing justice for January 6 or Epstein’s victims, and the president is conveniently powerless.
Want to ignore the law to sell weapons for genocide and the president is fucking omnipotent.
He is de facto incredibly powerful, but he is de jure not. He’s only capable of doing those things because the checks and balances failed through the coordinated efforts of hundreds of Republican congressmen. Every heinous act that goes unchecked bears the implicit seal of approval of the entire Republican party. He could do many of the things you claim he’s powerless to do, too, but he doesn’t want to, and all the mechanisms meant to force him to have failed.
I was talking about the previous administration. I don’t expect anything good out of this one. And I was a fool to expect anything good out of the last one.
That’s definitely true, but I’d still say the president shouldn’t even have the power to issue such decrees. Many of these things wouldn’t even happen if the president would first have to convince the legislative body (even if controlled by his own party) to write a law. Reverting an already issued decree is harder than saying no beforehand, and politically much more delicate.
The decrees are basically glorified memos. They hold little to no legal weight in and of themselves, except that they direct the agencies that work under the president’s control, so it’s less legally binding document and more written order from your boss. The problem is that he writes ones directing them to do illegal shit, and they just do it because they know Trump and the rest of the Republicans spent decades packing the courts to protect them when this day came, and if they packed the courts, they’re sure as hell not gonna ruin all that work by properly using their congressional powers.
Which is what shocked me. I can understand that there are a few foul eggs in politics and if they take the wheel shits going down.
But since his second term literally nobody did stop any illegal shit from him.
The whole system is corrupt and broken. Nobody dares to defy the president even if they are supposed to!
What is happening with this administration is exposing the great flaw of electoralism that anarchists and other leftists have been warning about for nearly a century.
That if we do not restructure our society, our politics and our culture leave us manipulatable to where these corrupt individuals could systematically consolidate power and out themselves or their allies into positions of power.
This is the result of not a decade but over a century of political and systemic manipulation by the owning-class.
Living in the US during this time has radicalized me so much against the system.
it all starts with half assing copying the Haudenosaunee’s system in 1789
I don’t think it’s so much “fear” of defying the president as it is they’re getting what they want from him (white christo-fascism), and they’re getting bribed by the same people. Most of the Dems are also dependant on the same interests as well (not necessarily the white Christian-nationalist stuff, but the same money). The concentration of wealth has put far too much power into too few hands. These same people are heavily influencing politics and public opinion worldwide. Idk, how we get out of this mess; have to bring the entire global economic system to its knees; forcibly redistribute their wealth or make it worthless I guess.
Also: The same party has both houses of Congress who pretty much abdicated their power to the Executive branch.
Another 35000 people lose their job thanks to Trump. People who also prevent forest fires. But that has never been in issue in the US, right?
Right?
RIGHT?!?
Hello, my name is Jimmy Pop and I’m a dumb white guy I’m not old or new, but middle school, fifth grade, like junior high I don’t know mofo’, if y’all peeps be bugging, givin’ props to my ho, 'cause she fly But I can take the heat, 'cause I’m the other white meat known as ‘Kid Funky Fried’ Yeah, I’m hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don’t shine 'Cause I’m kind of like Han Solo, always stroking my own Wookiee I’m the root of all that’s evil, yeah, but you can call me Cookie
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn Burn, motherfucker, burn
‘Fire, Water, Burn’ by the Bloodhound Gang for the curious.
I mean. You have to give it to them. They are really going all in on destroying anything that actually made America great.
I’m not sure if that was the original goal, or even the intent now, but even with how terrible this news is, if the goal is to systematically dismantle a country, these guys are very very good at it.
They’re running it like a business. Sell everything of value, bail when it crashes.
You don’t have to be good at anything to destroy things, which is why it’s all they brag about.
I guess you are right. The staggering thing for me is the shear apathy required to do what they are doing. It’s revolting and frankly terrifying, but fascinating.
There is a yet to be diagnosed mental illness involved here, for so many people to so callously trumpet and parade toward things that actively and directly hurt them as well, just to prove some imaginary point.
It’s like psychopathy mixed with a side of Stockholm flavoured bias soup.
Fascism is a mental illness, luckily it can be treated at home.
The National Parks were literally the last thing that would entice me to travel to the US
Use 1984 rules, reverse everything they say, that is the actual goal.
It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.
Shout out to my wife’s uncle, the nature photographer who loves hiking and nature and voted for this chode to stop the woke mind virus. How’s that going bud?
I should not need to have new reasons for hating this scumbag. But fuck is dismantling the park system even profitable? Fuck is the point here?
Fdr, like all of american presidents was no saint and maybe arguably a fucking atrocity. But dam the park system he helped give to us americans, its so good what the fuck. Why fuck it up?
Oil prospecting
Industrial agriculture (especially cattle farms)
Lumber trade
Suburban developments
Military bases
Espionage training
Weapons testing
Retail chains
Data centers
And the list goes on and on…
Thank you. I hate your answer but yea i get it. A few of the last ones dont need to crush our national parks in order to exist, but yea.
data centers is likely on the top of the list.
the USA exists to make profit for corporations and oligarchs
when you look at it with that in mind, lots of things make sense
Its something to pillage. Its something beautiful to destroy. Its an outside to cull, so people have nothing and nowhere to do go or be that isnt controlled owned and surveilled.
The obly surprise is how slow its hapoening.
one man should not be allowed to hand America’s assets to his cronies and sidekicks
The
ConfederatesRepublicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.jumpstarted by reagan, and helped along by gingrich and mitch mcconnel, newt was significant in founding the “never work with the dems on anything, until they cave you demands” in the 90s.
“No one man should have all that power”
- Hatsune Miku
In retrospect we probably shouldn’t have let a paedophile destroy the country.
Nobody could possibly have seen that coming.
There couldn’t have possibly been a detailed plan released by a conservative think tank that was actively involved in his election campaign.
Do you expect me to read all that? Nerd!
I think its more shocking they knew but didnt care. Apparently all they care about is the stock market going up.
don’t forget egg and gas prices
kid rape is a ok though
If democracy is by the people, of the people, for the people-- does that mean people are pedophiles?
Unfortunately, it kinda low key does.
At least apologists, yeah. The amount of people who I’ve seen say “Yeah, the Epstein files are concerning, but…” has killed any hope I had that they might come around someday. Instead I’m all in for getting kids into politics early enough for them to form their own opinions instead of those of their parents.
Was this a condition of the Iranian ceasefire?
Yes it was. Also no, tomorrow. And yes the day after. Who knows? Certainly not the government.
I wouldn’t call this a meme. It is fucking horrible news though
Edit. It’s half true, see comments below
Idk. Is this even real? Is this a real thing that is happening? I guess it’s a meme insofar as it’s a very ridiculous, far-fetched, outrageous thing for the leader of a country to do. And yet, I genuinely don’t know whether to think that it’s true…
He is moving the forest service HQ out of washington DC and shutting down research. Ive not heard that he’s closing regional offices.
Ive always felt like people think of the National Forests as National Parks or preserves, but theyre not. National Forests are mixed use allowing for recreation and industry.
Moving the HQ to the west makes sense to me since that’s where a bulk of the forestland is. And we know that stupid people dont like smart people and their ideas, so research was bound to get torpedoed by Trump.
He is also not eliminating research, a lot of research projects are closing but this seems to be more of a re-org.
Some jobs will change and some employees will be asked to move to new locations, according to a March 31 email that Thomas M. Schultz, Jr., the Forest Service chief, sent to employees of the research and development section.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
i got a bridge for sale!
great deal!
From what I heard they are shuttering all regional offices - even if they do open back up, it’ll be a question of what loyalist garbage they put in there https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
I don’t think it is real. It seems to be the oversimplified and overexaggerated story of what is really happening. The guardian says that the US Forest Service will move headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/us-forest-service-washington-dc-salt-lake-city
This seems to cause many of its research facilities to (temporarily?) close:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Oh wow, seems like what he’s doing is not as bad as this post makes it out to be, although I’m sure he’s doing it with bad intentions anyways.
Thanks for the sources, kind stranger!
project 2025 isn’t real, stop exaggerating!
I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY.
I don’t hate this country. Just a few select individuals with too much power and money.
Nah, Trump and the Oligarchy aren’t something happening to America, they’re a consequence of America
Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely. May these profligates see their wealth evaporate and never be returned for contempt of their weakness, corruption, and stupidity should ensure their inevitable and violent deaths.
Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely
Later, in the smoldering ruins:
“I meant 🌹 🌺 ❤️ Balkanization🌈 🎂 🦄, not 🔫 💥 🔥 Balkanization 💀 🪦 💣!”
No I know what I said. The damage done through violent balkanization is an acceptable cost, if I’m killed in a car bombing so be it.
HELL FUCKING YEAH
Thanks for the enthusiasm dude.
I think both are true. When the media is controlled and the populace is spoon fed bullshit for a long enough period of time, people who lack critical thinking skills eat it up and vote against their own self interests. People are also very unlikely to take responsibility for their own actions and find it much easier to blame others for their own shortcomings, which leads to tribalism and racism among other things. The other major issue is the giant wealth disparity causing a huge imbalance of power and influence. Couple that with the inability to have politicians not beholden to that power and money (citizens united) and you have the perfect storm of bullshit and corruption.
I really think the quote from Agent K in MIB really sums it up.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are just trolls and assholes who are beyond saving. But I continue to believe they are exceptions rather than the norm.
It’s such a shame. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.
I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.
This isn’t the park service, but rather the forest service, and afaik the title is wrong: its not being shut down just restructured. National forest lands will stay national forest lands, parks will stay parks, and nobody is losing their jobs.
But I might be misinformed, happy to be corrected.
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I am not from the US, so I didn’t realize those were different departments. Hopefully the restructuring has minimal impacts
But why destroy the research?
To show the sheer contempt for the goodie two-shoes trying to save the world.
When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.
They’re unironically Captain Planet villains.
They think smart and good people are just playing team sports against them, so they play the other team and try to win.
They’re dumb enough not to think any of it through.
This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.
I’m sure this isn’t really about saving money. It’s about destroying the US Forest Service. That’s the direct goal.
In a few years: “These unkempt forests are a real eyesore, what if we sell the land to private entities”
Within three years: “These unkempt forests…"
They’re going to try and steal as much of it as possible while Taco is in charge
It’s about removing roadblock to “national parks are open for business”
It’s probably so they can destroy climate change research and distract people yet again from other atrocities. Oh and drill or whatever they want to do with the land.
that too, the distraction, but he already has done this during his 1st term in some form.
Loving nature is woke.
Hell yeah! Nature rules
Plus, it’s loud outside.
This is also the second time that he’s tried this. The first time was during his previous term, and though he was forced to reopen everything by the courts, the fact that he sold some of the federal land to (I think) oil companies was never acted upon, despite it being illegal to sell public land to corporate interests.
Yeah this is more of a re-org than an elimination. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Still seems like it might cause problems but it’s not the catastrophic change some people are making it out to be. And the Forest Service isn’t just a bunch of tree-hugging conservationists their mission is basically the sustainable exploitation of US forests. So for that reason they are very important to industry.
It’s “just a reorg” where they shut down all the research labs (which can’t be moved because they’re located by the forests they study) and hand leadership to pro-logging lobbyists.
It’s actually $9B a year…which I wouldn’t call “minuscule” like PBS was.
0.1% of annual spending is minuscule.
The point is Trump will never do anything that isn’t for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn’t care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a “liberal” thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.
Fine. But calling 9 billion dollars, an amount of money most people can’t even fathom, “minuscule” is pretty stupid.
In the federal budget context, that is literally a few dollars. It is super disingenuous to compare it to the budget of a single person.
Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment
The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.
Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency’s discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).
What could possibly go wrong?
