The hits keep coming: Republicans are quietly preparing to sell off public lands – owned by the taxpayers – to pay for their tax breaks for billionaires.
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Ahnold tried to do this in CA as well and it's about the stupidest dumb CEO only looking at next quarter and not thinking long term, as well as the colossal grift in terms of leasing it back as a taxpayer giveaway.
Great. Now we'll have Starbucks National Park. McDonalds Canyon. Amazon Lakes. Sounds wonderful, but at least the Dems skeeted throughout the whole process. 🙄
Even if did not “win” rigged election w/ aid of bomb threats called in from Russia to polling stations and fellow Putin pal, Musk’s, Starlink enabled ballot fraud (or barred as insurrectionist), the oath of office is legally operational—and absolute.
Oath of office is not pro forma nor performative. And the oath is real clear what need intend do and actually try to do to be binding or operational—both when the words are uttered and—I am confident—on an ongoing basis.
The oath of office is technical and brilliant in its construction. But clear.
We should have had an investigation into this and we should have fought it like they would. In retrospect, we should have done what Australia does and had an outside country count the votes. I knew it was “Off” the night it was called, in time for the 8pm news!! That’s a first, 11/5 by 8pm
They wanted us to object right away and had planned for it. Pushing for violence and civil war in part to get sent to Congress or our (corrupt) Supreme Court.
So many lawyers working to end these United States. Have a lot of foreign assets or compromised or just useful folks already in office too.
Also—ongoing many years transnational organized crime investigations and actions. That is what are dealing with. Trump & Musk not the biggest targets of those 194 country and many institutions and organizations efforts either.
Our election was but one thing in greater campaign of hybrid warfare that includes Brexit, Freedom Convoy, Jan 6th and interference with a number of other countries’ elections too.
I’ve thought this way since 2020. A large chunk of society doesn’t want the constitution. Okay with ignoring it. Nothing to be done then. Then maga Christian nation tries to take back states by force. Putin gets everything he wanted.
We were warned (in Montana) that this would happen. But they still voted in the liars who said they would never do that. Sad that so many decent folks fell for the con.
Never watched Yellowstone, but we do like 1923. My hope is that people finally wake up to what’s going on with Trump and his ilk, and that we finally get back to common sense and doing the right thing.
He ran for Governor and was elected on a platform that land shouldn’t be developed for transplants who didn’t want to live there only escape from where they lived. How do you do it if they sell off our public lands? If they do it should be applied to the deficit only. Not to pass a tax cut
Public lands need to be protected and, if anything, we should be adding more and not eliminating them. If we want to reduce the deficit how about a wealth tax?
well this could be interesting. let's declare mar a lago a public land as trump has previously referred to it as the southern white house. if he conducts official white house business there, then, like the white house, i believe it should belong to the people and country, not him. sell it off...
People really need to study what happened after the collapse of the ussr. This is 2025 version of that. Stealing all the resources that the people paid and worked for leaving them poor and a few extremely wealthy.
They will probably vote against it, but Republicans are going to try to pass a budget by reconciliation, which doesn't need a single Dem vote. Dems can raise the issue loudly of course. I think if this happens we need to try to push California to make the land state parks https://www.parks.ca.gov/
States can obtain authority to own and manage federal lands within their borders only by federal, not state, law. Congress's broad authority over federal lands includes the authority to dispose of lands, and Congress can choose to transfer ownership of federal land to states.
I don’t understand the point of these dem senators anymore. The constant whining is so demoralizing. They never post plans of action - just engagement bait. Gd they have no ideas. Desperately need to replace these worthless apparatchiks. Can’t even vote against unanimous consent motions- jfc.
Voters put Dems in the minority. It irritates me when I turn on the tv, and people are trashing Dems for not doing something. Instead, trash Congress RepubliKKKans for giving their power to trump! Trash voters who didn't listen to warnings from Dems and voted for trump! This is not on the Dems!
All the people who want "Dems to do something about it". How about voting to give them the power to do something? Voters set the house on fire and then cry that the firemen have no water in their hoses. Yeah, the voters took the water away. Burn baby, burn.
Texas has way too many fences. There are mountains with nothing on them and no one is using them, but they're fenced off and no one is allowed to go there.
Imagine not being allowed to climb a mountain in Colorado without buying a ticket to the Buffet Rocky Mountain Amusement Park*.
Well we no longer have the rule of law, so … so unless dems can control law enforcement and arrest people for ignoring the constitution we are entirely fucked.
Another issue to address, the corruption never ends. Ohio just announced a significant number of river otters in the Hamilton County Park systems. It all began in the 1980’s with clean water incentives and stream restoration projects. We can’t let our lands be destroyed for short term gains.
Please, Senator. No more billionaires taking more than their share and freeloading off the rest of us. No more breaking things that are working. No more hands in the cookie jar. No more theft.
I don’t buy that it’s to pay for their tax breaks. I think the repubs are in on it. What are they being promised in exchange for bankrupting the citizens and selling land?
Trump is a revolting man. The GOP is dead and buried. What's left are Trojan horses ready to surprise attack all of us, whenever this piece of shit gives the signal.
It's not just extractive industries. There are several billionaires looking to create their own townships that are completely unregulated where they can write their own bylaws. Company Towns 2.0.
And Dems better be prepared to seize it back from billionaires when/if Dems get power again
Every penny that Elon and his billionaire friends have stolen from us will be seized back, with interest, to build an even larger administrative state than the one they destroyed
Wow, talk about taking a short term payout to screw future generations. Again.
(See also: Social security, federal deficit spending, etc, etc) Sorry to say you are part of these messes. I wish someone would take the future into account.
How do we stop them, Senator? This is a sincere question. These lands are invaluable and belong to the public and all future generations of Americans. Lead this fight and the people will support you.
So... if they sell public lands to the only people who can afford it (billionaires), and then give them the money earned from the sales... aren't they just giving them everything?
All Democrat and Independent Representative and Senator must publicly file legislation to specifically and immediately lower tax rate to 10 percent for any family and individual earning less than $200,000. absolutely no tax rate decrease for business and wealthy. Stop whining and fight.
OMG, Ron!! As an Oregonian, I love our public lands and have enjoyed visiting out of the way places, viewing wildlife, beautiful vistas and hiking through the wilderness! We must stop the plundering of our natural resources!!
Corporate Socialism and Democrats Capitulation has evolved since Reagan's trickle down BS has grown hand and hand. But what stated this was the pardoning of the Confederates for the civil war and then rebuilding their infrastructure. They took it as do over and been harassing the rest of USA since
Is there any way that we can prevent them from doing this? feel like they’ll happily sell this off to the oligarchs who can purchase a gold card and the russians will be embedded in our country forevermore
The reality: more of the world's capital and wealth that we all create will be mined from us and then get squirreled away in the Caymans, in hedge funds, and stock buy backs.
How did we the people of this nation let our government evolve into something so grotesque? Every day is a new horror. Is Trump trying to radicalize the world? Looks like Russia won the Cold war in the end. #LongCon
The things Trump and this GOP are doing now are pushing things, even for their own radicalized Fox watching base.
They've gone too far. And if they keep pushing then they're never coming back.
To be purchased by the oligarchs and leased back to the government at an inflated rate. The rich get richer and that’s why inflation benefits them, whether it’s real estate or stock
This is going to sound like a lie, but I genuinely read that and my mind thought it said Russians are preparing to sell off public lands. Didn’t even misread the word. My brain just envisioned Russians when it saw Republicans. Wow.
Hey how do we change our feeds algorithm? We have ran away from Twitter because elon musk banned our accounts unlawfully. We are protesting turkey's current goverment. And Does bluesky give ip to Governments? Can they track us?
I expect a 25 hr stand from you, you in particular, to protest this.
Talk about the Civilian Conservation Corps building up these public lands. You can easily spend 15 minutes on each major park, and 5 on the minor projects they did.
I don't know what it is about these people. It's like they don't have a sense of shared public good & responsibility. When I go to DC or Nat parks, I am in awe of all which is OURS & I feel both pride & responsibility to steward it. It's why Jan 6 destruction felt visceral, as does this selling off.
As the lands and facilities will be sold off at well-below market value to in-laws, ol' frat buddies, and high-value campaign contributors, I imagine that means $trillons of taxpayer lands in trust will be dispersed to defray $billions in tax breaks...
It'll be tough to parse out the bribery felonies from the embezzlement felonies from the fraud and conspiracy felonies. 'Guess they were just being prudent in firing the inspectors and filling the vacant positions with incompetent cronies, so as to muddy the waters thoroughly before the heist...
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Not only for tax breaks!!! THEY ARE HAPPY TO PORTION OFF THE US IN FRACTURED PIECES TO ANYONE WHO CAN PAY!
They want to do it all on the blockchain all crypto bs so that anyone, globally from any location, who is connected to the internet and has a crypto wallet can pay for their own little piece of
the US, even if it only turns out to be a lie and a scam, or they succeed in destroying the infrastructure of life as we know it, it doesn’t matter. They’re making $ and gaining influence either way.
Fight it! No more unanimous consent. Filibusters left and right. Do everything you can to bring this to a halt. Stop pretending that rules of decorum still apply; that went out the window with McConnell. Please prevent this catastrophic theft and destruction.
Let me guess, the Senate parliamentarian will say uh, no and Republicans will just shrug and do it anyway. They've always wanted to sell off public lands. It's been a dream of theirs for a long while.
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Not okay with the taxpayers.
Who do you think they will sell the land TO?
It’s a fraud too…
Might need to start exterminating some billionaires and their families…
Even if did not “win” rigged election w/ aid of bomb threats called in from Russia to polling stations and fellow Putin pal, Musk’s, Starlink enabled ballot fraud (or barred as insurrectionist), the oath of office is legally operational—and absolute.
The oath of office is technical and brilliant in its construction. But clear.
So many lawyers working to end these United States. Have a lot of foreign assets or compromised or just useful folks already in office too.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/
Crooks.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ron-wyden/summary?cid=N00007724
#WeThePeople
Or is it more like a hostile takeover?
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
Not a SINGLE acre of California "public land" should be sold to assist with tax breaks for the Repub billionaires!!
ALL of California needs you to vote against this.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/
Imagine not being allowed to climb a mountain in Colorado without buying a ticket to the Buffet Rocky Mountain Amusement Park*.
Remember when Mark Zuckerbeeg bought a Hawaiian island and fenced it off?
AMERICA IS NOT FOR SALE!
Perhaps a page from the French this time, since we're dealing with robber barons.
Krasnov will be employee of the month for sure this time.
Every penny that Elon and his billionaire friends have stolen from us will be seized back, with interest, to build an even larger administrative state than the one they destroyed
Run on that.
Win on that.
(See also: Social security, federal deficit spending, etc, etc) Sorry to say you are part of these messes. I wish someone would take the future into account.
#ReplaceSchumer
The OILgarchy is coming…
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They've gone too far. And if they keep pushing then they're never coming back.
I expect a 25 hr stand from you, you in particular, to protest this.
Talk about the Civilian Conservation Corps building up these public lands. You can easily spend 15 minutes on each major park, and 5 on the minor projects they did.
25 hrs of material, easy.
If sold illegally, might we be able to one day seize the property back as stolen goods?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/03/13/gsa-administrator-brother-property-menlo-park/
Hope the stewards of public lands including Hawaiian Homelands are ready for this.
https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
That's one thing that Heinrich will fight to the death to stop here.
They want to do it all on the blockchain all crypto bs so that anyone, globally from any location, who is connected to the internet and has a crypto wallet can pay for their own little piece of