genuinely jarring to watch the tone of EPA press releases shift from like, "epa works with forest service to identify invasive beetle" to absolutely batshit insane trumpist conspiracies
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epa administrator lee zeldin claims to have found $2 billion in gold bars at an unspecified "outside organization" linked to stacy abrams. no further details offered
He didn't say he found actual gold bars, he used gold bars as a metaphor. The grant was to Power Forward Communities which helps low income people make energy efficient home improvements. United Way and Habitat for Humanity are partners in this group so hardly some incompetent start up.
Also, the link to Abrams is extremely weak. She served as an advisor to one of the other partners in the project - Rewiring America. This administration does nothing but lie.
"Methaphor" already? Man, he just made this time. His slippery slope is crazy steep. Tomorrow it will be, "the idea of gold bars". Then an hour later it will be, "ummmm. Money was stolen. Trust us." At this rate by the next day they will just cave and admit to lying without any pressure.
How is it just a metaphor? The crowd that misses the fact that Les Mis being sung at the ball was in fact subversive, the crowd that supports a known liar and collector of conspiracies and conspiracy theorists, and they were *just* talking about "checking" on the actual gold bars. HELLO.
I know it is all just bonkers stuff, but when it runs smack into physics it's just....gold is sooooo heavy. You need reinforced floors, never mind special safes to contain large amounts of it. There's a reason "personal" gold is typically jewellery, coins and teeny-tiny bars. Hard to lift/transport.
this is like twenty tons of gold and one thing about this is that I think the people who share and believe these conspiracy theories have not given a lot of thought to the logistics of moving twenty tons of gold.
Yes. It’s so amazing how it’s just democrats that have managed to sneak away with those immensely heavy gold bars. Those republicans are so well known for their honesty and integrity
nah pictorial proof is only for when the cops confiscate approximately one joint worth of marijuana and claim to have defeated every single mexican cartel simultaneously.
This is the problem with them mainly attempting to communicate with the right wing bubble. Like I'm sure everyone at the Daily Wire gets this reference, but it sounds bizarre to normal people.
we are not as a species equipped to handle the amount of mass involved in moving around a pile of gold, we always go 'well it's pretty heavy' and it is always *way* heavier than our first 3 estimates
I think we all know that Zeldin is using 'gold bars' euphemistically, as this has been his take since before he was installed there. The idea of gold bars hits a certain note of treasure, of pirates, etc. It's ultimately stupid pandering and he probably thinks he's funny.
let me put it this way:
i just read the email. at no point did it say "gold bars" were a metaphor. so i assumed gold bars meant, you know, bars of gold. i don't think that's a me issue
No, absolutely not you. I was tracking on Zeldin for a while because I hate his guts and he's used 'gold bars' as a euphemism for the kind of spending the government does for a while. It's just more of the twisting of reality that drives me nuts
The real $2 billion in gold bars parked by the Biden-Harris administration at an outside organization to reduce oversight was the friends we made along the way.
I feel like with this super random post from epa and trumps new obsession with Knox, it’s like they’re positioning a set up to jail a bunch of Dem opponents and “find” the gold that was supposed to be in fort Knox “missing” so they can actually steal it…. But that would be crazy right?
not that this diminishes the stupidity in any way, but what's happening here is Zeldin attempting to create a right wing buzz word.
"Gold bars" comes from a Project Veritas video where an employee likens the green new deal funding to "throwing gold bars off the Titanic." it's just in-group jargon.
Yeah, well there will be some gold bars coming Ms. Abrams way courtesy of the Tort Claims Act, Zeldin's personal wealth and any reasonably competent injury lawyer. This verdict is going to leave a mark. Pass the popcorn!
So, we can expect that Trump's visit to Fort Knox is going to show about 4 empty pallets where the gold bars that Zeldin referred to as being moved to Stacy Abrams' clandestine gold bar storage warehouse used to be.
I’m confused because this appears to take this quote literally: “‘They were throwing gold bars off the Titanic. We found the gold bars. We want them back,’ he said.”
It’s not possible to be more pathetic. I’m sure they have evidence THIS TIME. For once. Some actual evidence & photos & witnesses. 🤣😂 Stupidest traitor criminals on earth. Can’t see through this at all 🙄. Criminals projecting THEIR criminality while they attempt the biggest heist in history.
Sounds ridiculous. EPA has keys to $2 billion gold bars anywhere, or files for a MD NGO with a $100 bank account that writes grant applications about greenhouse gas reduction, says its 990 in Guidestar for Power Forward Communities. But, hey, if Biden did it, it's not a crime, says SCOTUS, LOL.
The jailing of Democratic politicians is going to start with women of color like Stacy Abrams, AOC, and Ilhan Omar because they believe a lot of people, even on our own side will not protest too vigorously if the initial targets are not white and not male. I hope they're wrong, but idk.
I want someone to convince him of that if only so that we can definitively say that the Scientology aliens in Battlefield Earth are actually *smarter* than he is.
Throwing the gold bars overboard might lighten the ship, so the Titanic 🚢doesn't sink so fast, which might give passengers more time to get into the lifeboats...? 🚣♀️🚣♀️🚣♀️
But no, this seems to be presented as if it's something you *wouldn't* do if you're aboard the Titanic, so my theory must be wrong.
He has a platform now that will make him look like a hero to insane Trumpers, he's going to use it.
He's establishing himself as Trump's Successor by using the Q Strategy. Build a fake paper history of wins on paper for a fan base that absolutely will not question a damn thing you say
TL;DR: There is zero evidence of wrongdoing, Zeldin is trying to make himself famous with fake fearmongering about an EPA program that's doing what Congress told it to do, causing a respected career DOJ prosecutor to resign.
Billions of dollars in gold bars parked at an outside organization? Parked how? Like in a fleet of vans? 🤔 This story is lacking in both details and logic.
I think my favorite part of this is that these funds somehow went to “the green new deal”, legislation that was never voted on, never mind enacted. Republicans are shameless, stupid, grifting, traitors.
I guess the radicalization of gullible conservatives continues. Democratic politicians don't want to fight? They no longer have a choice, MAGA is coming for everyone.
I just crawled down that rabbit hole, and yes, there was a $2B disbursement to a green investment fund and yes, Stacy Abrams is the head counsel for one of the five orgs tasked with overseeing it.
All part of a law that was passed.
And, might I say...
Republicans love to invoke Stacy Abrams as though she isn't a Yale Law School trained lawyer, high-powered politician, and fierce advocate for just causes.
In their minds, I imagine they see her as a black Roseann.
For people trying to translate from rightwingese back to English, what happened in the real world was: Congress passed a law to give people discounts when they buy energy-efficient appliances, and this is the org implementing that.
They link to a video of someone from the EPA metaphorically describing distributing grants as “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.” Zeldin pretended he literally found gold bars. Truly the dumbest shit ever.
The article that this one links to has "gold bars" in quotes, the "ICYMI" one doesn't, so either they're deliberately misleading the public or they conned themselves (or both, most likely)
20 tons of gold. They're claiming that someone stole 20 tons of gold. Bullshit. This is just them coming up with something to justify their hullabaloo about Fort Knox last week.
The EPA published a news release being seeded by an operative. I ran across him 5d ago attempting to execute a subversive attack within a @kyledcheney.bsky.social post.
He earned a "D-" for a poorly designed attack meant for race baiting a Twitter audience versus bsky.
This is a reference to a statement an upper level EPA administrator made in the waning days of the Biden Administration, in that they were funding things like they were "tossing gold bars off the Titanic".
He has emailed us about the "gold bars", it's dumb but metaphorical.
“We suspected some organizations were just created out of thin air to take advantage of this”
Gee it’s almost like they make up these conspiracies about Dems that match EXACTLY what THEY (ie Trump/Musk et al) are doing in reality. 🤔 Funny how that works…
There’s so much contempt for humanity when they won’t even do 5 minutes of work to make a lie even remotely plausible. If you say you found an account, you never have to show anything. You say it’s 40,000 pounds of gold, people are gonna demand to see the impossibly long parade of armored trucks
The lie being increasingly implausible is the point. People having to believe without seeing is the point. An army which only follows orders is the point.
Wild that they're talking about the Green New Deal which famously literally never happened. I feel like I took drugs but I did not, and I should not feel like that when the EPA is talking about things.
After being confirmed, they each get handed a magic 8-ball with "lib trigger terms": woke, DEI, trans, Green New Deal, women, Biden-Harris, decency, politeness, honor...
Is this why Trump keeps telling everyone that they are going on a field trip to Fort Knox to see if the gold is still there?
They are just a bunch of idiotic villians sitting around, planning their next nefarious caper.
So she had $2 billion (or 20?) in gold bullion in a war chest to idk, add more hormones to solar panels but blew an election by doing a book tour instead?
She clearly transported them w her space laser to a place that wasn't secure from being found by, checks notes, yep... the ultimate in gold BULLION detectives, the EPA. 🙄
NOT the Secret Service or the FBI who would normally be the ones looking for $2 BILLION in gold BARS. Nope... It was the "EPA" 🤣
People are saying there’s pictures of Lee Zeldin with little boys. Maybe it’s a rumor. I don’t know. Someone should look into it. See how easy that is?
“It turns out the beetles are very fine insects..the finest, people say beetles are pretty great actually…many people. I would have stopped this destruction of forests. It’s been many years, trees could have stopped this before it started.”
I knew the “gold bars” were a metaphor, but only because I saw others making fun of his original “gold bars off the Titanic” comment. You really shouldn’t have to be steeped in Fox News propaganda to understand an EPA press release. But this is where we are now.
“Zeldin is affectionately known in America First circles as ‘The Legend of Zeldin’…”
You did not exaggerate. If anything, I’d say that ‘batshit’ is inadequate as an adjective. Someone please summon the ghost of Terry Pratchett to find a suitable description.
My hope is he’ll be so caught up in this kind of wackadoodle nonsense he’ll forget to let corporations & farms start pouring poison into the nation’s freshwater systems.
even with the election, none of this could have happened without weak and/or complicit senior management of these departments and agencies being willing and eager to comply with unlawful orders
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you know
release proof
pictorial proof of a big room full of fucking gold
i feel this should have been spelled out
Meanwhile, this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/2-billion-grant-stacey-abrams/
The admin’s panic is taking it literally.
I don’t think he gets how metaphors work
That's not what the MAGA morons believe. They're literally believing and repeating that it's gold bars.
And that's ultimately why they chose to use "a metaphor" without qualifying it as such.
Generate the outrage, force normals to spend time trying to debunk and correct it.
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bob menendez has exited the channel (😡)
Dir. David O. Russell
Like that's at least two trips with an MTVR or lcf landscape dump truck (the box truck sized ones) for the weight.
Proof is overrated in 2025.
i just read the email. at no point did it say "gold bars" were a metaphor. so i assumed gold bars meant, you know, bars of gold. i don't think that's a me issue
You could tuck that away in a closet — but you’d want the floor to be *very* sturdy.
Granted, if you just SAY you did it Zeldin would probably believe you anyway, but still.
"Gold bars" comes from a Project Veritas video where an employee likens the green new deal funding to "throwing gold bars off the Titanic." it's just in-group jargon.
Batshit.....fucking....nuts.
Full article: https://www.foxnews.com/media/epa-administrator-likens-biden-energy-scheme-connected-stacey-abrams-throwing-gold-bars-off-titan
But no, this seems to be presented as if it's something you *wouldn't* do if you're aboard the Titanic, so my theory must be wrong.
He's establishing himself as Trump's Successor by using the Q Strategy. Build a fake paper history of wins on paper for a fan base that absolutely will not question a damn thing you say
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https://bsky.app/profile/sylviachi.bsky.social/post/3lixqhjfpfc2r
TL;DR: There is zero evidence of wrongdoing, Zeldin is trying to make himself famous with fake fearmongering about an EPA program that's doing what Congress told it to do, causing a respected career DOJ prosecutor to resign.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/denise-cheung-us-attorneys-office-washington-020363
I think it's related to Pi. or Pie, lots of Pie.
All part of a law that was passed.
And, might I say...
In their minds, I imagine they see her as a black Roseann.
He earned a "D-" for a poorly designed attack meant for race baiting a Twitter audience versus bsky.
He has emailed us about the "gold bars", it's dumb but metaphorical.
@iwriteok.bsky.social
[I'm being completely unserious don't come at me]
Gee it’s almost like they make up these conspiracies about Dems that match EXACTLY what THEY (ie Trump/Musk et al) are doing in reality. 🤔 Funny how that works…
They are just a bunch of idiotic villians sitting around, planning their next nefarious caper.
NOT the Secret Service or the FBI who would normally be the ones looking for $2 BILLION in gold BARS. Nope... It was the "EPA" 🤣
You did not exaggerate. If anything, I’d say that ‘batshit’ is inadequate as an adjective. Someone please summon the ghost of Terry Pratchett to find a suitable description.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-zeldins-powering-great-american-comeback-unveiled-epa
These freaks are all just brain rotted boomers with zero media literacy
Accuse their enemies of the crime first and then it won’t seem so bad when he does it
for Civility