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If you told me that in 2019 the government would have been shutdown for over 20 days because of the wall funding AND that Clemson not only won the Championship BUT the President of the United States would serve them McDonalds, Wendys. Burger King and Pizza Hut…I would not have believed you. Its straight up, like an article from theonion
Imagine winning the championship and you’re invited to the white house only to walk into the room to find cold fast food had been served. I mean COME ON
They’ve got fine china and this poor guy is struggling to pick up a piece of pizza with…tongs. THEY DIDN’T EVEN TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF THE BOX
At the same time this is sad, disrespectful and trashy but like…I find it hilarious that this even happened.
EDIT: I CAN’T BREATHE THEY PUT THE PACKETS OF SAUCES IN THESE FANCY DISHES
his big brag for this one was he “paid for all the food himself” because the white house cooks are furloughed (because of him you know) but are you telling me that this dude who is supposedly a billionaire couldnt afford to pay a few chefs for the night? my dude that is fucked
Is The Onion still in business because the world is one major shitpost already. What are they gonna do? Write real news?
I just saw that people have cut down some of the Joshua trees during this shutdown and I want to cry
w H A T
The what trees? Someone explain? I want to be appropriately sad. I mean, I’m sad either way because trees are better than people. But why are these trees more special than usual?
They’re a rare species, and one that is very stunning, and also one that is very vulnerable to habitat loss and climate change.
And if I ever get my hands on one of the people who did this, I will be hard pressed to not kill them.
Did you see WHY they cut them down? They cut them down so they could go off roading in closed off areas of pristine desert.
Some fucking people should not be let out of their cages.
These are Joshua trees. They can be 300 years old (and at tallest, 15 meters).
Their range isn’t confined to the national park, fortunately. They are found in spots throughout southern CA, NV, and AZ.
This news makes me absolutely furious.
Read those articles. A lot of people think that you can’t “damage” the desert, because they don’t realize it’s not “just rocks and sand”, but an extremely delicate ecosystem that takes decades to grow even a little bit. Once damaged, it probably won’t repair itself in these assholes’ lifetimes.
And this is exactly the kind of thing that the national parks were established to combat – the mindset of “what does it matter if I cut down some of these trees, there are lots more right over there; what does it matter if I go off-roading, there’s more desert than anyone really needs”. It’s a profoundly selfish and wasteful mindset.
Just this week I went googling around – hesitantly – to see what the latest news is from Yellowstone. All of the parks are in danger of poachers coming in while the rangers are understaffed, but I feel like Yellowstone is especially vulnerable, because its wildlife is famous, and in cases like the wolf reintroduction there, infamous amongst exactly the same kind of people who are committing vandalism throughout the parks.
Fortunately, at least so far, I haven’t found any news reports of poachers targeting the wildlife. There are apparently a lot of local businesses (probably near many of the parks, but particularly Yellowstone) that are chipping in money for cleaning and upkeep and, one expects, security, because those businesses depend on visitors to the parks for their own survival. (Which is why the shutdown affects far more than just the 800k workers who aren’t being paid.)
Some people are absolutely awful, and the only thing I can take comfort from at the moment is that there are also many people who love the parks, know the danger they face right now, and who are trying to help protect them.
Sorry to chime in on the post, but I wanna add that Zion National Park is also partially staffed thanks to local businesses. To anyone visiting these parks right now, PLEASE be respectful. With the current level of staffing, try to pack your trash out with you even if there are garbage cans. They won’t be emptied as often. (Also, please pick up trash you see along popular trails. Now especially but also in general, it’s good hiking etiquette to leave a trail cleaner than you found it.)
Don’t go into restricted areas (i.e., in Zion, don’t poach canyons; just because the permit system is down doesn’t mean you’re allowed in—besides the fact that it makes you an asshole, it’s also incredibly dangerous because there aren’t enough rangers to help field SAR calls). Don’t fuck with the wildlife or plants. Be kind to any rangers you do see. They’re all struggling right now.
Listen does anyone else remember that episode of Scooby Do where theyre talking about how thick the fog was and one of them pulled out a knife and cut a circle in the fog and then ate the fog circle. why is this so vivid.
it seems like a lot of people remember it vividly, but what’s weirder is that everyone i’ve seen remembers him cutting the fog and eating it, but he doesn’t eat it
why does everyone including myself, remember him eating the fog
OK so here’s the dealio
Apparently there IS a scene where Scooby Doo cuts a hole in the fog in the shape of a donut and takes a bite out of it (as evidenced by this picture)
But here’s the strangest thing: All I could find was one screen cap of this instance
I’ve searched all over google and youtube and couldn’t find the actual clip
It’s like someone went to great lengths to erase its existence off the web
All that remains of it is this one picture of the scene
We all remember it vividly, yet the scene itself has simply up and vanished
someone absolutely went to great lengths to stop this sensitive footage from being leaked onto the web of scoobert eatin fog, but heres the first video that’s suggested from the one above
trump’s 1 year anniversary of being president is starting off with the government shutting down that’s the perfect representation of how american politics has been going for the past year
The government got shut down when Obama was president as well.
It’s not new.
Stop blowing it out of proportion.
It’s not a rare occurrence.
When the government shutdown under the Obama administration it was a divided government. Which made more sense because under a divided government it’s harder to compromise.
Here we are, 2018, and the Republicans control ALL branches of the government. They still failed to compromise and negotiate.
This is actually the third government shut-down this year. The third. There was the first in January, an additional one in February, and now we’re rounding out the year with athird shut-down. There was only one during the entire eight years Obama was President. There have only been nine total shut-downs in the entire history of America. Trump is responsible for athird of all government shut-downs and this has all happened in one year and it is only his second year in office. Is that alarming? That should be really fucking alarming.
