To be honest, I'm not talking only about elected national or state-level Democraps, like our past two presidents, like the current governor of New Mexico and others.
I'm also talking about the rank-and-file, reasonably intelligent, reasonably politically active Donkey voters who don't like to hear that about their elected "betters," but will also go out of their way to defend them, AND, beyond that, maybe aren't that environmentalist themselves.
This is a riff on last week's post about a tribalist duopoly ban.
Before I get to some of the stuff copy-pasta'ed from there?
Let's look at oil drilling.
Both Dear Leader and Green Fake Deal Biden promoted "all of the above" for "energy." This included continued drilling permits on BLM and USFS land. Outside Mag has Biden's background:
During his 2020 campaign, Biden swore not to open any new public lands for drilling. And at first, he was true to his word, issuing an executive order that paused all new oil and gas leases. But in 2021, a federal judge struck down his ban on drilling, and public outcry ratcheted up amid rising gas prices. In 2022, Biden went back on his campaign promise and opened Bureau of Land Management land in Colorado, Nevada, North Dakota, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah to drilling.
Afterward, Biden’s administration approved additional oil and gas permits at a rate comparable to Trump during his first term. Biden also approved the massive, long-disputed Willow Project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, which will involve drilling up to 199 new oil and gas wells over 30 years. Many of the leases approved by Biden were sold by former presidents—ConocoPhillips bought the Willow project lease back in 1999.
But there’s no getting around the fact that U.S. domestic crude oil production grew to more than any country, ever, during his time in office.
“Every day that you are allowing [the industry] to remain in the room, that you are indulging their fantasies about continued production, that you are allowing them to kind of peddle their false solutions and prolong their existence, you’re shooting yourself in the foot,” Collin Rees, U.S. program manager for Oil Change International, told E&E News in 2024.
"But they had to issue those leases!"
No they didn't. If nothing else, since the Pentagon had said, before the end of Obama's time in office, that climate change was a national security measure, they had the opening right there to ban oil leases. Or per federal judicial rulings by that time and later, to essentially stop such drilling by carbon-emission environmental impact findings.
And, I've said time after time that Obama got in bed with Xi Jinping to make the Paris Accords totally voluntary Jell-O. Too bad that doesn't fit the left hand of the dupoly's narrative.
As for the ban? It was related to a comment of mine on a post I POSTED at r/nationalpark about the Grand Canyon Lodge burning at the North Rim.
A respondent said Obama didn't cut NPS firefighting.
Maybe he did. Obama DID cut the budget for individual national parks. There you are, certain Reddit soy boy.
That link comes off Google's AI, which also returned all of this:
I focused on stuff that came out of Obama's presidential budget.
Here's more on that third bullet point:
The President's Fiscal Year 2013 budget released today requests $2.6 billion to support the bureau's critical national recreation, preservation and conservation mission. The 2013 President's budget request fully funds $27.0 million in fixed costs and provides increases totaling $39.2 million to fund essential programs and emerging operational needs. Reflecting the President's call for fiscal discipline and sustainability, the budget also includes $67.2 million in strategic reductions in park and program operations, construction, and heritage partnership programs.
This is the same O'Bummer who listened to Rahmbo Emanuel on cutting the size of his stimulus.
But wait, that's not all.
Not just Dear Leader, either. Fake Green New Deal, per a leading group like National Parks Conservation Association, cut money for an already massive deferred maintenance backlog. That is listed after several "goods."
Let's pivot to land protection, namely the tussle over Bear's Ears. Both Obama and Biden, while using the Antiquities Act, made it and other national monuments — but kept them in their original BLM or Forest Service oversight. Even before Trump 1.0's threatened downsizing, places like Grand Staircase-Escalante (who? Clinton) showed this approach didn't work well. Yes, making the NPS national monuments would have burdened it even more. But, at least somewhat better protected them. I've opposed non-NPS monuments for these and other reasons for a decade in this space.
On Bears Ears in particular? I offered my first thought nearly a decade ago. I wrote again two years later. Today, I'm not totally sure a BLM NM is better than nothing, or not that much better.
As for my original comment? Even before the NPS centennial celebration itself, here's Dear Leader already pushing backdoor privatization at the Park Service.
Or, to current times, and in Congress, look at all the Democraps supporting environmentally destructive bitcoin mining.
You Dumbocrats keep falling for this.
You fall for Bears Ears. Neither Obama nor Biden made it part of the National Park Service with orders to phase out multi-use shit, even though we see how problematic Grand Staircase-Escalante has been.
Then you keep attacking the messengers of truth.
And, then, many of you claim people like me "really" voted for Trump.
I grow more and more tired of these lies.
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