An upside-down American flag flew over Yosemite National Park yesterday, as the park plummets into ruin because of Orange Hitler’s fascist plan to make the federal government somewhat smaller.
Any government worker participating in flying an upside down flag should be fired immediately. If You want to do that as a private citizen, I have no problem with it. But the flag code is very specific, and government employees in particular should be held to it.
Also our National Parks are the jointly owned property of all American citizens, not a venue for the political grandstanding of government employees. It’s an act that is disrespectful one of the most magnificent places in our nation and demonstrates a lack of respect for the land as well as the flag. Everyone involved in this desecration needs to be summarily fired.
Who do you think is more familiar with the fire risk is South Dakota - the lifelong resident & governor, or an East Coast administration that’s only seen SD from 35,000 ft?
Actually, I'm no Karen, I'm actually anti-partisan, and all I did was suggest looking into the reason before jumping to political conclusions. I was in the thick of the 1988 Yellowstone fires, and in my neighborhood then as well as my current one, fireworks are not allowed at all because of fire danger. (Yes, I know fireworks did not cause the Yellowstone fires.)
That said, it's perfectly plausible that the administration's decision to deny the fireworks display was political in nature.
Fireworks were allowed up until 1942. I wonder what happened in 1941…
In 1998, fireworks resumed and continued until 2008 (inclusive).
Permits were denied from 2009-16 inclusive.
Kristi Noem became SD Governor in 2019.
In 2020, fireworks were permitted for the 1st time since 2008.
2021 – Denied
Stated reasons: coronavirus, environmental concerns, wildfire risks, and ongoing construction
2022 – Denied
wildfire conditions, opposition from Native American tribes
"There is ample documented opposition for the Tribes to the 2020 event, and we understand from ongoing meetings with the Tribes that these concerns have not diminished."
2023 – Denied
2024 – Denied
2026
Approved (250th Birthday)
I found this history of the subject up until 2020:
Reading that history reminds me of something I’ve seen many times in life: the narrower a person’s job focus, the greater the emphasis placed on the remaining elements. NPS fire supervisors oppose EVERYTHING that adds to fire risk, without being tasked with the consequences of the resulting tradeoffs. Doesn’t mean they’re wrong; just means you have to look at the whole picture.
To me it’s clear that during Obama/Biden, the treehuggers were ascendant. In 2020, Noem persuaded Trump that the Nation needed a positive event during COVID uncertainty.
I don’t know the Administration’s thinking about 2025, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the decision was made to not add to the workload at the same time the Federal workforce is being cut.
(BTW, we live in the forest adjacent to GSMNP, & we cleared a 180’ diameter circle of trees and built with fire resistant materials (Hardiplank & steel roof.)
I suggest you watch the movie “Only the Brave” about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013.
Firemen are not disposable Kleenex. The benefits and risks must both be evaluated when wildfire is a substantial risk.
Agree. Doing that on our taxpayer funds is unacceptable. If you work for the U.S. government, you represent the people and work for the people. Go protest on your Facebook page on your personal time. Employees doing that should be fired, because they do it deliberately, knowing they are causing a scene and are creating propaganda and public messaging that will draw attention.
Yes they are. The Alt National Park page on Facebook has been nonstop hysteria. I hope they find out who is running the page and fire them too! The gall of these people.
Yea where did this Alt National Park page come from? It popped up on my feed, right after Trump took office, and the people on there are morons. Who’s backing them?
Think or think should? For optics doing nothing encourages more of it. Not doing anything for fear of optics got us priceless national monuments destroyed in the first place, hence the passage of an act making defacement felonies.
If those in charge of government prosecutors wanted to send a message and uphold the law that was passed to prevent BS just like that they'd indict them. Or find themselves helplessly watching hoodlums deface everything all over again, "to get Trump."
Something yells me they may actually let these employees go because the current viewpoint publicly would be detrimental to potential mid term result for the right.
My line of thinking comes from 35 years of understanding politics enough that the party that never forgets always seems to have left their integrity, balls, will, assertiveness, balls, or any other balls, thing needed to do anything but allow the democrats to get anything they want. They also do nothing which will ever hurt them on the public eye. Seen it way too many times to not think this way. I mean look, our side already has started walking back a little regarding the Doge findings.
We aren't hearing much more regarding the illegal spending. But over the weekend I have heard the head of its office trolling employees telling they have to essentially beg for their jobs. That incident gives me great pause regarding Doge right now. It won't take many more unrefuted actions like this before I drop support totally for what dogebis supposed to do. It only took one action during the fiasco in the sandbox that turned my support for it off completely. That was when our government decided that a Marine platoon would make perfect political fodder for the war protesters for their retribution killing of a Afghani who helped the enemy and led to an ied death of one of rhat platoons members. The government went after them hard-core. While be still have the "mastermind" of 911 sipping Pina coladas in guantanamo. Same government let a fuckwit who went awol, went and begged for the Taliban to save him and because the guy was a fruit cake, turned him right over to where we promptly rushed him back to the states and he walks free today albeit sans penis with the added manufactured vag. Both incidents I just mentioned happened due to public outcry would have made doing what was right would have been hard politically due to the then current optics.
I liken the two parties to horse trainers, the Bronc Buster & Horse Whisperer. Both trying to break the wild stallion of liberty and freedom into domesticated working stock, slaves.
D’s in the role of the Bronc Buster, ride us hard into submission. R’s in the role of the Horse Whisperer when we refuse to break, get angry, throw the rider off of us, riding us too hard. “There, there, it’s ok, easy there big fella., I got you!” The wild stallion of freedom is hard to break. They’ve got this tag-team approach trying to finally make us submit. Many wild stallions will.
They saw during pandemic about 70-80% submission rates to masks/injecting experimental biotech without much resistance at all. God forbid they get us to 90%+. That type of compliance and submission, either to the Bronc Buster or Horse Whisperer pretty much ensures the crackdown on the remaining wild stallions of freedom. They’re ready to deploy every tool of the authoritarian state they’ve been deploying all around us these past several years. Surveillance, debanking, deplatforming, “Passports/ID’s” at every checkpoint, travel restrictions (15-minute cities), power restrictions (planned outages), food restrictions (planned shortages), QR code permissions to navigate work/shopping/dining, etc. Authorities are only holding back because to impose that on 30% of the population is too big a challenge. Ten-percent? Five-percent? Three-percent? With the submission to authority that 90-97% of a populations has complied with sociology/psychology understanding of man says they will support our eradication, deprivation of rights; they’ve already submitted and there’s no greater enforcer of submission than those already enslaved, “What, you think you’re better than us?”
D’s and R’s are the Bronc Buster/Horse Whisperer team endeavoring to break the will of the Wild Stallion of Freedom in the US. They let R’s/Trump into power when they feel the Wild Stallion buck the Bronc Buster off its back, becoming to feisty. “There, there, it’s gonna be ok.” We mustn’t fall for it. Must grow our numbers of resistance. So it remains too large for authorities to dare try to flex on us freedom lovers.
Rhw same needs to be said to our military when they decide to involve themselves and publicly Comment on political matters. I've seen several videos lately of staff non-commisioned officers making barely hidden political comments as well as one master sergeant making veiled threats against the administration. When I was in 1991-1997, if you engaged in any public political protest or rally in uniform or not and it was discovered, let's just say God himself would have needed to help you out of that one. What makes these SNCOs feel like this is ok? I mean have regulations relaxed that much?
So this is how much the SBA cared about all the business that went out of biz during c19 and those who lost their jobs.Selfish mother effers. I have zero sympathy for them. It'd be different if they cared...but they don't.
You'd think every single employee would be there when she showed up. Bunch of entitled cry babies. NOBODY on earth except a federal employee would be able to get away with what they've been doing and then getting a more than fair 8 month severance
Even if you've been working in your pajamas for 3 years, you show up when your new CEO comes into the office for the first time: it's polite; you know your new boss doesn't like work-from-home; and who knows what it might lead to. Imagine if she'd walked around that part of the office and you were the ONLY employee working -- what a great opportunity with your boss' boss' boss.
That makes me wonder if this was just a photo-op. She doesn't actually go anywhere in the video. Perhaps she just found an unused part of the building (any company has some of those) and used it for a corny PR stunt that played into Trump and Elon's "lazy bureaucrats" motif. I hope not, since it's a crappy thing to do to your new employees.
“Imagine if she'd walked around that part of the office and you were the ONLY employee working -- what a great opportunity with your boss' boss' boss.”
INSTANTLY, the scene in “Patton” came to mind where he walks into his new HQ early and stumbles over a soldier sleeping on the floor. The soldier stands up sleepily, realizes who’s in front of him and snaps a salute.
Patton: “What were you doing down there?”
Soldier: “Sleeping, sir.”
Payton: “Get back down there, son. You’re the only sonofabitch in this place who knows what he’s doing.
A friend of mine bought a MiG-29 from some Russian fighter pilots stranded in East Germany in 1989 - for $500 US dollars - they didn't have enough money to eat or get back to Russia...
they've already sold us out to the Chinese, so I won't be surprised at any additional treason. However, I would expect some legal repercussions under this administration.
There's only one guy with a key to the bathrooms...so they had to hire another hundred to turn the building around in a circle to unlock the door...lol. they could've just hired 3 blondes to do that....;)
Actually that makes perfect sense for a bureaucrat!
🤣Yes. The flag signifies there is someone trapped in the bathroom. 🚽 The lock broke, and since they sent the locksmith home, there is no locksmith available to rescue the bathroom user. Also, the heating unit broke, and since the extra HVAC tech was sent home, the poor guy is trapped in a freezing bathroom. And since they sent 1-2 hospitality employees home, there is no one to cook food and hand it through the window at the very top of the bathroom wall so the poor person trapped inside the freezing bathroom doesn’t starve to death. Even worse, because there is no extra biologist (beside the other biologists still on staff) available to monitor the scavaging activities of the wild bears, the bears have surrounded the bathroom, knowing there is food (a human) inside the bathroom and have started tearing at the walls. It’s a pretty drastic sight, and a frozen, starved man who has been locked in the bathroom for two hours is about to get eaten alive by dangerous wildlife. IT’S ALL ORANGE MAN’s FAULT!!! Any ethical person, if they value doing the right thing, will NEVER eat nonGMO, regenerative-agriculture oranges EVER again!! Only lab-grown artificial oranges which require no sunlight, manure, soil, or water in order to be produced!!!!🤬🤬🤬
This is bogus. I am so sorry. You just got murdered so hard again By Trump. It's like a mob hit only worse, because this time it involves campfires, possibly bears, and trees. I remember the last time you got murdered, or had a hangnail, I don't know. The ketamine makes it hard. This is like the 15th time this year. Each time you get murdered harder, but somehow you always come back from it in the face of Orange Man fascism by the evil MAGA people. I really respect your ability to get murdered and keep writing.
Viva los burócratas!
Layoffs are the same as concentration camps, which are the same as nuclear holocausts or was it the same as no fry sauce at In-N-Out burger? I forget, but anyway, it's really bad. The struggle is real.
Oh my Leapin' Lizards, O, I can't stop myself. Laughing into hysteria, Wait, I'be been here before, how did I do this? I think it was the "Viva los burocratas!"
The government applies the highest marginal tax rate to GDP, and regards anything less than that in collections as a ”revenue loss.” They really are like the mafia.
The 11 were likely in the probationary period. How does this make one Hitler? It’s like the email that went out yesterday with civil service running to social media to groan. My husband is civil service and retired military. His answer? JUST ANSWER THE DAMN EMAIL. The end.
If we were living in the information age, we are now officially in the post truth era. I give you example number two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7C49BJASYA (FOX "news" report on National Parks)
The comments are amazing. One side believes it hook, line, and sinker. The other side scratches their head and goes...WTF, that doesn't sound right?! I lived 30 minutes away from the parks in question, I frequented them. I sent an email to Fox...to no avail, but I had to try. You are on point as usual Chris.
Every nations park is closed part of the year . There is no staff at the park in my state for months . Stop dramatizing shit.” Another said Mt Rainier (one of the ones mentioned by Mr We Love Public Servants) is always closed in the winter. I think high school drama clubs are working overtime.
My theory is half the country, especially the leaders they pick, are nothing but theater kids. They don't live in a realistic state of mind. The "report" I shared (and Chris shared) is the fine point example of that. Because they don't like the decisions the current leadership have made, they have to create a reality that doesn't exist to deal with it and explain it. The "reporter" should have stuck with making a report saying "I hate Donald Trump and conservatives" and left it there, but she had to propagandize the story and manipulate emotion: It's all they have left.
As one who lives in a country suffering under the "leadership" (or something) of an actual drama teacher...as opposed to actual Hitler...trust me. You don't want the teacher.
Did they close those trails out of politically motivated spite? Those eleven employees, especially the locksmith, were integral to popular trailhead maintenance? I thought seasonal employees and volunteers did most of that?
The "expert" on the news report represents the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a "non-profit" that reports over $40 million in annual "contributions, grants and contracts" as of 2022. They may do great work, and receive no government (taxpayer) funds. Their reports are opaque with regard to the latter.
The news report originated in Seattle, and so was predictable: Trump cuts cause trail closures. Apparently, the trail closes to vehicle traffic every year, but this year, it's Trump's fault.
I live 1/8th mile from the Great Smoky Mountains NP. There is a 1 lane motor trail out of the park (actually several) named Parson Branch Road that is the ORIGINAL road cut by settlers in the 1800s out of Cades Cove. It is marked: Water crossings / 4WD HIGHLY recommended / NO services / No NPS rescue / Use 100% at your own risk. More NPs should consider that approach.
We used our MDX in the Fall and it was OK, but at it’s limit on a couple of crestings. If it had been in the Spring (runoff through 16+ stream crossings), I would have been averse to testing the car’s claimed 22” fording capability.
I though WE were bold until some beat up Chevy sedan passed us doing 15-20 mph. We were SURE we were going to see him with a ripped open oil pan.
You — we — paid for the flag, the equipment to affix it to the mountain while leaving no trace, the overtime, insurance premium in case someone fell, another locksmith to unlock the Park Service Forest Green Jeep that Sonny left the keys in…
I used to admire the Park and Forest Service. They missed a huge opportunity by whining here instead of taking the reins and saying “the feds have underfunded the service for years, deferred maintenance backlog is mission critical. I’m sending ten pros to sit down with the folks Elon has assembled to show them exactly what to cut and where to direct needed funds.” Public lands do belong to all of us. It’s in our best interests to do this correctly.
I don’t know very much about National Park Service but I know the Forest Service can take a job they would expect the private sector to finish in two days with two laborers and by keeping the project “in house “ they can run a crew of six for two weeks. This is considered a savings because they didn’t spend the money outside the USFS. I’m actually not exaggerating. It’s a common occurrence. They also run millions and millions through Native Corps. There’s a budget benefit or woke points or some kind of perk.
Sounds like over here, when you're working for the local county or region. Tried to explain it many times to politicians:
"Private sector, if you're done early and the job's a good'un, you get a reward of some kind. Public sector if you're done early and the job's a good'un, you get more work and no reward. Do you see the problem?"
So far, I've yet to meet a single politician - of any party - who "gets it".
yes they belong to us but not if the UN gets their way. "In 1993, the EPA circulated a detailed action plan on how, over the next eight years, U.S. environmental regulations would conform to those of the UN...An internal Bureau of Land Management document of the time declared: “All ecosystem management activities should consider human beings as a biological resource.” What fun! BLM employees were clearly more human than others. They got to involve themselves with everything, including the height and footprint of barns, the siting of new houses, the evaluation of chicken houses, and the registering of saddle horses. In fact, as it turned out, the exigencies of creating “sustainability” meant they had to measure the depth and speed of flow in your irrigation system three times a week, put four meters on your wells, and drive down any
driveway and be met with a biological resource so servile that one could feel really important for the rest of the day." pp 123-24 from elizabeth nickson's classic 2012 broadside ECO-FASCISTS - How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage
"Yosemite administrators, concerned about insufficient staffing come the busy summer months, have already delayed the sale of reservations at five campgrounds, which can’t be operated without an adequate number of people on the job."
If you didn't know better, you might think that those administrators are trying to make sure the public feels the pain, revolting instead of trying to serve the public with the resources they have available. They wouldn't do that would they, just because Obama instructed them to in 2013?
You are so right, “all day, every day” and I don’t want to unfriend people I went to high school with because I like hearing about family matters but seriously I can’t take much more of their utter nonsense. Yesterday it was a rant about all the children separated from parents due to deportation. Seriously these people will say anything to get attention with absolutely no data to back it up.
Well, just for that, I'd lay off 22 more, and when they complain about that, lay off 44, and keep doubling it untill they STFU! Sooner or later, we'll get to that magic number!
Any government worker participating in flying an upside down flag should be fired immediately. If You want to do that as a private citizen, I have no problem with it. But the flag code is very specific, and government employees in particular should be held to it.
Also our National Parks are the jointly owned property of all American citizens, not a venue for the political grandstanding of government employees. It’s an act that is disrespectful one of the most magnificent places in our nation and demonstrates a lack of respect for the land as well as the flag. Everyone involved in this desecration needs to be summarily fired.
There’s a certain perverse reciprocity:
The Biden Admin denied South Dakota (Kristi Noem) permission for a fireworks display over Mount Rushmore at July 4 for 4 years straight.
Before criticizing that, I would want to check to see why. Fire danger is a very real thing in the summertime.
Who do you think is more familiar with the fire risk is South Dakota - the lifelong resident & governor, or an East Coast administration that’s only seen SD from 35,000 ft?
See my reply to DEEBEE
Should that lead to caution or prohibition. Just a tad irritating to have to say to to that obvious Karenesque response, that’s a one-handed analysis
You misread my reply.
Actually, I'm no Karen, I'm actually anti-partisan, and all I did was suggest looking into the reason before jumping to political conclusions. I was in the thick of the 1988 Yellowstone fires, and in my neighborhood then as well as my current one, fireworks are not allowed at all because of fire danger. (Yes, I know fireworks did not cause the Yellowstone fires.)
That said, it's perfectly plausible that the administration's decision to deny the fireworks display was political in nature.
A great reply on your part. 👍
I’ve researched the subject’s history:
Fireworks were allowed up until 1942. I wonder what happened in 1941…
In 1998, fireworks resumed and continued until 2008 (inclusive).
Permits were denied from 2009-16 inclusive.
Kristi Noem became SD Governor in 2019.
In 2020, fireworks were permitted for the 1st time since 2008.
2021 – Denied
Stated reasons: coronavirus, environmental concerns, wildfire risks, and ongoing construction
2022 – Denied
wildfire conditions, opposition from Native American tribes
"There is ample documented opposition for the Tribes to the 2020 event, and we understand from ongoing meetings with the Tribes that these concerns have not diminished."
2023 – Denied
2024 – Denied
2026
Approved (250th Birthday)
I found this history of the subject up until 2020:
https://www.sdpb.org/politics-public-policy/2020-02-21/from-never-again-to-again-politics-trump-environmental-concerns-about-mount-rushmore-fireworks
Reading that history reminds me of something I’ve seen many times in life: the narrower a person’s job focus, the greater the emphasis placed on the remaining elements. NPS fire supervisors oppose EVERYTHING that adds to fire risk, without being tasked with the consequences of the resulting tradeoffs. Doesn’t mean they’re wrong; just means you have to look at the whole picture.
To me it’s clear that during Obama/Biden, the treehuggers were ascendant. In 2020, Noem persuaded Trump that the Nation needed a positive event during COVID uncertainty.
I don’t know the Administration’s thinking about 2025, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the decision was made to not add to the workload at the same time the Federal workforce is being cut.
(BTW, we live in the forest adjacent to GSMNP, & we cleared a 180’ diameter circle of trees and built with fire resistant materials (Hardiplank & steel roof.)
It's our property.
I will bet they did look into the fire risk they been doing the fireworks for many years.
Garbage. That's why we have firemen. Safety-ism is a disease.
Next 4th we're blowing it up with a celebration.
I suggest you watch the movie “Only the Brave” about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013.
Firemen are not disposable Kleenex. The benefits and risks must both be evaluated when wildfire is a substantial risk.
I lived through the event. The nation was devastated.
Don’t assume a difference of opinion means I’m treating incredibly brave men as “tissue.”
Have you ever been in a really big forest fire?
That’s the problem with “safetyism” – it breeds distrust of rational caution when the REAL hazards arise.
Agree. Doing that on our taxpayer funds is unacceptable. If you work for the U.S. government, you represent the people and work for the people. Go protest on your Facebook page on your personal time. Employees doing that should be fired, because they do it deliberately, knowing they are causing a scene and are creating propaganda and public messaging that will draw attention.
Yes they are. The Alt National Park page on Facebook has been nonstop hysteria. I hope they find out who is running the page and fire them too! The gall of these people.
Yea where did this Alt National Park page come from? It popped up on my feed, right after Trump took office, and the people on there are morons. Who’s backing them?
Pretty sure that's desecration of a national monument. A felony. Hope their 15 minutes of fame was worth it. Bondi?
You think the government will indict those I moved or will let it slide out of fear of optics?
Think or think should? For optics doing nothing encourages more of it. Not doing anything for fear of optics got us priceless national monuments destroyed in the first place, hence the passage of an act making defacement felonies.
If those in charge of government prosecutors wanted to send a message and uphold the law that was passed to prevent BS just like that they'd indict them. Or find themselves helplessly watching hoodlums deface everything all over again, "to get Trump."
Something yells me they may actually let these employees go because the current viewpoint publicly would be detrimental to potential mid term result for the right.
My line of thinking comes from 35 years of understanding politics enough that the party that never forgets always seems to have left their integrity, balls, will, assertiveness, balls, or any other balls, thing needed to do anything but allow the democrats to get anything they want. They also do nothing which will ever hurt them on the public eye. Seen it way too many times to not think this way. I mean look, our side already has started walking back a little regarding the Doge findings.
We aren't hearing much more regarding the illegal spending. But over the weekend I have heard the head of its office trolling employees telling they have to essentially beg for their jobs. That incident gives me great pause regarding Doge right now. It won't take many more unrefuted actions like this before I drop support totally for what dogebis supposed to do. It only took one action during the fiasco in the sandbox that turned my support for it off completely. That was when our government decided that a Marine platoon would make perfect political fodder for the war protesters for their retribution killing of a Afghani who helped the enemy and led to an ied death of one of rhat platoons members. The government went after them hard-core. While be still have the "mastermind" of 911 sipping Pina coladas in guantanamo. Same government let a fuckwit who went awol, went and begged for the Taliban to save him and because the guy was a fruit cake, turned him right over to where we promptly rushed him back to the states and he walks free today albeit sans penis with the added manufactured vag. Both incidents I just mentioned happened due to public outcry would have made doing what was right would have been hard politically due to the then current optics.
I liken the two parties to horse trainers, the Bronc Buster & Horse Whisperer. Both trying to break the wild stallion of liberty and freedom into domesticated working stock, slaves.
D’s in the role of the Bronc Buster, ride us hard into submission. R’s in the role of the Horse Whisperer when we refuse to break, get angry, throw the rider off of us, riding us too hard. “There, there, it’s ok, easy there big fella., I got you!” The wild stallion of freedom is hard to break. They’ve got this tag-team approach trying to finally make us submit. Many wild stallions will.
They saw during pandemic about 70-80% submission rates to masks/injecting experimental biotech without much resistance at all. God forbid they get us to 90%+. That type of compliance and submission, either to the Bronc Buster or Horse Whisperer pretty much ensures the crackdown on the remaining wild stallions of freedom. They’re ready to deploy every tool of the authoritarian state they’ve been deploying all around us these past several years. Surveillance, debanking, deplatforming, “Passports/ID’s” at every checkpoint, travel restrictions (15-minute cities), power restrictions (planned outages), food restrictions (planned shortages), QR code permissions to navigate work/shopping/dining, etc. Authorities are only holding back because to impose that on 30% of the population is too big a challenge. Ten-percent? Five-percent? Three-percent? With the submission to authority that 90-97% of a populations has complied with sociology/psychology understanding of man says they will support our eradication, deprivation of rights; they’ve already submitted and there’s no greater enforcer of submission than those already enslaved, “What, you think you’re better than us?”
D’s and R’s are the Bronc Buster/Horse Whisperer team endeavoring to break the will of the Wild Stallion of Freedom in the US. They let R’s/Trump into power when they feel the Wild Stallion buck the Bronc Buster off its back, becoming to feisty. “There, there, it’s gonna be ok.” We mustn’t fall for it. Must grow our numbers of resistance. So it remains too large for authorities to dare try to flex on us freedom lovers.
No kidding!! That’s quite a task for a disabled veteran too. Just sayin’.
Rhw same needs to be said to our military when they decide to involve themselves and publicly Comment on political matters. I've seen several videos lately of staff non-commisioned officers making barely hidden political comments as well as one master sergeant making veiled threats against the administration. When I was in 1991-1997, if you engaged in any public political protest or rally in uniform or not and it was discovered, let's just say God himself would have needed to help you out of that one. What makes these SNCOs feel like this is ok? I mean have regulations relaxed that much?
^^This!!!!^^
Do they know how many lose their jobs when our absurd debts come home to roost?
Like this?!:
https://x.com/SBA_Kelly/status/1893070684957348301?s=19
So this is how much the SBA cared about all the business that went out of biz during c19 and those who lost their jobs.Selfish mother effers. I have zero sympathy for them. It'd be different if they cared...but they don't.
You'd think every single employee would be there when she showed up. Bunch of entitled cry babies. NOBODY on earth except a federal employee would be able to get away with what they've been doing and then getting a more than fair 8 month severance
Even if you've been working in your pajamas for 3 years, you show up when your new CEO comes into the office for the first time: it's polite; you know your new boss doesn't like work-from-home; and who knows what it might lead to. Imagine if she'd walked around that part of the office and you were the ONLY employee working -- what a great opportunity with your boss' boss' boss.
That makes me wonder if this was just a photo-op. She doesn't actually go anywhere in the video. Perhaps she just found an unused part of the building (any company has some of those) and used it for a corny PR stunt that played into Trump and Elon's "lazy bureaucrats" motif. I hope not, since it's a crappy thing to do to your new employees.
“Imagine if she'd walked around that part of the office and you were the ONLY employee working -- what a great opportunity with your boss' boss' boss.”
INSTANTLY, the scene in “Patton” came to mind where he walks into his new HQ early and stumbles over a soldier sleeping on the floor. The soldier stands up sleepily, realizes who’s in front of him and snaps a salute.
Patton: “What were you doing down there?”
Soldier: “Sleeping, sir.”
Payton: “Get back down there, son. You’re the only sonofabitch in this place who knows what he’s doing.
Exactly. Well said.
Seriously! I could definitely use 8 months of salary handed to me for barely doing any work for years. Too bad I couldn’t stomach DC or bureaucrats 😂
A friend of mine bought a MiG-29 from some Russian fighter pilots stranded in East Germany in 1989 - for $500 US dollars - they didn't have enough money to eat or get back to Russia...
they've already sold us out to the Chinese, so I won't be surprised at any additional treason. However, I would expect some legal repercussions under this administration.
How could Russian fighter pilots sell us out to the Chinese if they are in East Germany, which hasn't existed since 1989?
since that's obviously an absurd scenario, maybe that's not what I meant
They don't do math. That's for those capitalist oppressors.
It did take some work, and assumption of risk, to pin the flag to that rock wall. It's more than just social media complaining, I mean.
They only pinned it to the top. They used weights on the bottom. Maybe batteries?
Good one, Phisto.
Maybe the upside down flag is someone signaling that they’re trapped in the restroom, since nobody else is a locksmith? 🤷🏼♀️😂
They need an on staff locksmith? (Salary, benefits, housing??) vs an on call contract with a local supplier? Washington is a populated state.
Ditto for on staff HVAC guy.
Staft HVAC probably does "other duties as required" as is normal.
Nearest real town is Mariposa close to an hour away.
Its California.
Park Locksmith probably does "other duties as required" as is normal.
Nearest real town is Mariposa close to an hour away.
I believe that NPS rangers have keys to the biffys. If they don’t, then the NPS is lame, and needs a serious overhaul.
Actually Oakhurst is much bigger, 2 hrs away.
Yosemite is in California. Not Washington.
I was referring to Mt Rainier. Longmire 25 mins.
There's only one guy with a key to the bathrooms...so they had to hire another hundred to turn the building around in a circle to unlock the door...lol. they could've just hired 3 blondes to do that....;)
Actually that makes perfect sense for a bureaucrat!
Oh, the blonde joke reference, Ryan! I knew I liked you for a reason. 😁
Sure, when the #Resistance does it, it’s ok, but when Samuel Alito’s wife did it, it was NOT OK!!! https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/18/upside-down-flag-at-justice-alitos-home-another-blow-for-supreme-court-under-fire-00158772
🤣Yes. The flag signifies there is someone trapped in the bathroom. 🚽 The lock broke, and since they sent the locksmith home, there is no locksmith available to rescue the bathroom user. Also, the heating unit broke, and since the extra HVAC tech was sent home, the poor guy is trapped in a freezing bathroom. And since they sent 1-2 hospitality employees home, there is no one to cook food and hand it through the window at the very top of the bathroom wall so the poor person trapped inside the freezing bathroom doesn’t starve to death. Even worse, because there is no extra biologist (beside the other biologists still on staff) available to monitor the scavaging activities of the wild bears, the bears have surrounded the bathroom, knowing there is food (a human) inside the bathroom and have started tearing at the walls. It’s a pretty drastic sight, and a frozen, starved man who has been locked in the bathroom for two hours is about to get eaten alive by dangerous wildlife. IT’S ALL ORANGE MAN’s FAULT!!! Any ethical person, if they value doing the right thing, will NEVER eat nonGMO, regenerative-agriculture oranges EVER again!! Only lab-grown artificial oranges which require no sunlight, manure, soil, or water in order to be produced!!!!🤬🤬🤬
That's pretty good propagandizing. LOL
Dude!
This is bogus. I am so sorry. You just got murdered so hard again By Trump. It's like a mob hit only worse, because this time it involves campfires, possibly bears, and trees. I remember the last time you got murdered, or had a hangnail, I don't know. The ketamine makes it hard. This is like the 15th time this year. Each time you get murdered harder, but somehow you always come back from it in the face of Orange Man fascism by the evil MAGA people. I really respect your ability to get murdered and keep writing.
Viva los burócratas!
Layoffs are the same as concentration camps, which are the same as nuclear holocausts or was it the same as no fry sauce at In-N-Out burger? I forget, but anyway, it's really bad. The struggle is real.
Resist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccd7Su27eHk
Reno 911, unfair! LMAO!
Chris- I DO NOT want to see you out there in short shorts skating. Just sayin'
You just murdered me, I laughed myself to death.
Oh my Leapin' Lizards, O, I can't stop myself. Laughing into hysteria, Wait, I'be been here before, how did I do this? I think it was the "Viva los burocratas!"
These are the same people who scream that if you don't GIVE your tax dollars, you are TAKING from the government.
Only our university system could produce such idiots.
The government applies the highest marginal tax rate to GDP, and regards anything less than that in collections as a ”revenue loss.” They really are like the mafia.
The 11 were likely in the probationary period. How does this make one Hitler? It’s like the email that went out yesterday with civil service running to social media to groan. My husband is civil service and retired military. His answer? JUST ANSWER THE DAMN EMAIL. The end.
The first sentence here is the most rational comment in this question thread.
When we get fired or laid off in the private sector, no one even bats an eye.
If we were living in the information age, we are now officially in the post truth era. I give you example number two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7C49BJASYA (FOX "news" report on National Parks)
The comments are amazing. One side believes it hook, line, and sinker. The other side scratches their head and goes...WTF, that doesn't sound right?! I lived 30 minutes away from the parks in question, I frequented them. I sent an email to Fox...to no avail, but I had to try. You are on point as usual Chris.
One of the comments:
“2 days ago
Every nations park is closed part of the year . There is no staff at the park in my state for months . Stop dramatizing shit.” Another said Mt Rainier (one of the ones mentioned by Mr We Love Public Servants) is always closed in the winter. I think high school drama clubs are working overtime.
My theory is half the country, especially the leaders they pick, are nothing but theater kids. They don't live in a realistic state of mind. The "report" I shared (and Chris shared) is the fine point example of that. Because they don't like the decisions the current leadership have made, they have to create a reality that doesn't exist to deal with it and explain it. The "reporter" should have stuck with making a report saying "I hate Donald Trump and conservatives" and left it there, but she had to propagandize the story and manipulate emotion: It's all they have left.
As one who lives in a country suffering under the "leadership" (or something) of an actual drama teacher...as opposed to actual Hitler...trust me. You don't want the teacher.
Parts of Mt. Rainier are closed during the winter months, though others are accessible *weather depending*. Same for Yellowstone and Olympic NP.
The National Parks near me open 365
Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Yosemite,.Death Valley.
Did they close those trails out of politically motivated spite? Those eleven employees, especially the locksmith, were integral to popular trailhead maintenance? I thought seasonal employees and volunteers did most of that?
So much to deride, so little time........
The "expert" on the news report represents the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a "non-profit" that reports over $40 million in annual "contributions, grants and contracts" as of 2022. They may do great work, and receive no government (taxpayer) funds. Their reports are opaque with regard to the latter.
The news report originated in Seattle, and so was predictable: Trump cuts cause trail closures. Apparently, the trail closes to vehicle traffic every year, but this year, it's Trump's fault.
I live 1/8th mile from the Great Smoky Mountains NP. There is a 1 lane motor trail out of the park (actually several) named Parson Branch Road that is the ORIGINAL road cut by settlers in the 1800s out of Cades Cove. It is marked: Water crossings / 4WD HIGHLY recommended / NO services / No NPS rescue / Use 100% at your own risk. More NPs should consider that approach.
We used our MDX in the Fall and it was OK, but at it’s limit on a couple of crestings. If it had been in the Spring (runoff through 16+ stream crossings), I would have been averse to testing the car’s claimed 22” fording capability.
I though WE were bold until some beat up Chevy sedan passed us doing 15-20 mph. We were SURE we were going to see him with a ripped open oil pan.
I would sympathy quit rather than get all sweaty and dirty carrying that heavy flag up that rock.
I better not find out next week that I paid for that flag.
I would be quite surprised if you didn't pay for that flag.
Of course we did!
You — we — paid for the flag, the equipment to affix it to the mountain while leaving no trace, the overtime, insurance premium in case someone fell, another locksmith to unlock the Park Service Forest Green Jeep that Sonny left the keys in…
I used to admire the Park and Forest Service. They missed a huge opportunity by whining here instead of taking the reins and saying “the feds have underfunded the service for years, deferred maintenance backlog is mission critical. I’m sending ten pros to sit down with the folks Elon has assembled to show them exactly what to cut and where to direct needed funds.” Public lands do belong to all of us. It’s in our best interests to do this correctly.
I don’t know very much about National Park Service but I know the Forest Service can take a job they would expect the private sector to finish in two days with two laborers and by keeping the project “in house “ they can run a crew of six for two weeks. This is considered a savings because they didn’t spend the money outside the USFS. I’m actually not exaggerating. It’s a common occurrence. They also run millions and millions through Native Corps. There’s a budget benefit or woke points or some kind of perk.
Sounds like over here, when you're working for the local county or region. Tried to explain it many times to politicians:
"Private sector, if you're done early and the job's a good'un, you get a reward of some kind. Public sector if you're done early and the job's a good'un, you get more work and no reward. Do you see the problem?"
So far, I've yet to meet a single politician - of any party - who "gets it".
yes they belong to us but not if the UN gets their way. "In 1993, the EPA circulated a detailed action plan on how, over the next eight years, U.S. environmental regulations would conform to those of the UN...An internal Bureau of Land Management document of the time declared: “All ecosystem management activities should consider human beings as a biological resource.” What fun! BLM employees were clearly more human than others. They got to involve themselves with everything, including the height and footprint of barns, the siting of new houses, the evaluation of chicken houses, and the registering of saddle horses. In fact, as it turned out, the exigencies of creating “sustainability” meant they had to measure the depth and speed of flow in your irrigation system three times a week, put four meters on your wells, and drive down any
driveway and be met with a biological resource so servile that one could feel really important for the rest of the day." pp 123-24 from elizabeth nickson's classic 2012 broadside ECO-FASCISTS - How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage
AMEN, Brother!
There was a time when that might have happened, but now there’s a sense of entitlement.
They dropped it from the top of the rock.
The linked article noted:
"Yosemite administrators, concerned about insufficient staffing come the busy summer months, have already delayed the sale of reservations at five campgrounds, which can’t be operated without an adequate number of people on the job."
If you didn't know better, you might think that those administrators are trying to make sure the public feels the pain, revolting instead of trying to serve the public with the resources they have available. They wouldn't do that would they, just because Obama instructed them to in 2013?
Yes to the effort to make the public hurt. The loss of a biologist and a locksmith is preventing us from opening campgrounds, somehow.
Exactly what they’re doing.
We all know that it takes a government biologist to run a campground and we couldn’t possibly let people pitch tents without a locksmith around.
The 11 workers stay, or the puppy dies. You choose.
The puppy is actually a coyote and killing it will keep your chickens safe. Game, set, match.
You are so right, “all day, every day” and I don’t want to unfriend people I went to high school with because I like hearing about family matters but seriously I can’t take much more of their utter nonsense. Yesterday it was a rant about all the children separated from parents due to deportation. Seriously these people will say anything to get attention with absolutely no data to back it up.
So….hope this will give you a chuckle. Was following a car today with a Trump sign that said, Clean Up on Aisle 46!
Need another chuckle? This is from the 2016 campaign. It was intended to be anti-Trump, but it had the opposite effect.
https://youtu.be/KU_Jdts5rL0
To the park service wussies, welcome to the real world. Sucks sometimes. Grow a pair and get on with your life.
I betcha they turn down that $5k for tax reparations Elon is talking about....not.
Trust me, they’ll want it grossed up for taxes. Not making this up.
Well, just for that, I'd lay off 22 more, and when they complain about that, lay off 44, and keep doubling it untill they STFU! Sooner or later, we'll get to that magic number!
The beatings will continue until morale improves
Yes, exactly!
So boring. Make sure we fire the upside down flag flyers
"Writhing in Agony and Despair as Everything is UTTERLY RUINED"
DAMN that is AWESOME!
Can we start tossing some of these parasites off El Captain?
There's no need to throw people off El Capitan -- plenty of people already fall off.
Selfies 😂
Lotsa people fall off of Half Dome. I have never heard of anyone but a climber falling off of El Cap.