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Henry203

(503 posts)
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:38 PM Mar 4

Rocky Mountain issued a statement- will be closed this summer

due to personnell issues. National parks cost $3 Billion and make $55 billion in revenue. How stupid can Trump and Musk be?

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Ocelot II

(124,230 posts)
1. "How stupid can Trump and Musk be?" must be a rhetorical question,
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:41 PM
Mar 4

because there is no definite answer to a question with infinite possibilities.

gab13by13

(27,681 posts)
2. How much money will Krasnov make
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:41 PM
Mar 4

from loggers and fossil fuel frackers?

Krasnov makes nothing from tourists.

brush

(59,534 posts)
8. There's no low. But musk makes 8 million a day from government contracts...
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:49 PM
Mar 4

so what does he care. And trump gets his kick backs.

People getting fired from money making national parks? It matters nothing to them.

madaboutharry

(41,836 posts)
7. From my post at 10:06 this morning about the National Park Service:
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:48 PM
Mar 4
Leases on 34 locations within the National Park Service were cancelled over the weekend. Many of these buildings were the only workspace for Park Rangers, Planners, Superintendents, and staff. What is to become of those National Parks? Glad you asked. The dominant theory is that Trump intends to sell off these lands and deposit the proceeds into the Sovereign Wealth Fund he recently created by executive order. This is only the beginning.

Sell off pieces of the NPS system, even parts of expansive properties. Cut down protected forests, destroy protected habitats, and strip America of all that makes it joyful and beautiful. It is what the Soviets did to the eastern bloc nations behind The Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Turn it ugly, steal all the natural resources, and suck all joy out of the lives of the citizenry.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220099357

People know me here. I do not own a tin foil hat. But I am telling you this is a canary in the coal mine of what is behind the slash and burn tirade against our institutions that we are witnessing.

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,005 posts)
12. The Parks don't make money for Musk and Trump.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 02:10 PM
Mar 4

That's the point. Unless something makes money for some ultra-rich asshole, it needs to be destroyed. We don't need government, we can be ruled by their corporations owned by the ultra-rich.

When it was conceived in the late 19th century, American corporations were the model for fascism.

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