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[-] ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee 212 points 6 days ago

Everything else aside... What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?

[-] EmptySlime 218 points 6 days ago

Nothing. The "emergency order" is entirely so he doesn't have to go through Congress to do it.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 81 points 6 days ago

“I can do anything I want if it’s an emergency!”

[-] Val 45 points 6 days ago

Dang i wonder if we can find example of emergency powers eroding democracy in the past now...

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[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Quickly becoming his go to play. It's how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There's probably more that I'm unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy

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[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Building "freedom cities" for billionaires, maybe. In his '23 announcement, it specifically stated:

Freedom Cities will be built on federal land that is undeveloped and not part of any of our country’s magnificent national parks or other natural treasures.

Which I assume means they'll be built on your parks?

(for anyone scrolling past like, "wtf are freedom cities" - it's feudalism. The Company Town. Literally lords and serfs type shit. Plenty of good places to read more about it, but here's one to start.)

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Almost like they're fully comforatble with reckless corruption.

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[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 100 points 6 days ago

In 200 years people will ask in disbelief why such old forests were logged down.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 63 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Once again, we find out most of the past presidents just obeyed decorum and norms... Did no one consider that a bad-faith president would just say, "uh...'EMERGENCY!' " then he's allowed to bypass Congress and just do whatever the fuck he wants!?

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago

Afaik congress could stop him, revoking his "emergency tariff powers" and revoking the emergency itself. But they won't. Like Trump, they only seek power.

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[-] diffusive@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

There are 3 powers here supposed to balance:

  • the president
  • the houses
  • the supreme court

Guess who scored all of them?

Incidentally this is the reason the judiciary power in other democracies is self governed (e.g., judges elect their own supreme court) and parties in the judiciary are forbidden

But… well… here we are 🤷‍♂️

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

This needs to be turned against him. Obviously through the courts would be ideal. But at least in terms of the media juxtaposing his emergency declarations with his golfing.

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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago

What’s the emergency? Climate change isn’t catastrophic enough yet?

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[-] leds@feddit.dk 54 points 6 days ago

Fuck, some of that will be last remaining old growth, forever lost

[-] parricc@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago

That includes almost all remaining old growth forests. Almost all of the areas he chose are old growth forests. Here's a map of all remaining old growth forests in the US for comparison.

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[-] AlexLost@lemm.ee 40 points 6 days ago

It's an emergency!! We need lumber for... Things. Quick!

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[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 55 points 6 days ago
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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 67 points 6 days ago

I love that this map still has the Gulf of Mexico.

I hate that this will be done to our national forests. They're a natural treasure and should be protected for so many reasons.

[-] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 59 points 6 days ago

"Emergency orders" designed to protect this country in case we're attacked are being used by presidents to sidestep the constitutional as it regards separation of powers. It's about time this shit came to an end also.

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[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

trump.... Ensureing America has no future

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago

Not happy with destroying our society anymore. Now they have to physically destroy our country.

This is what happens when you allow conservatives to have control.

I'd ask Americans to make better decisions going forward, but we all know that isn't happening.

RIP.

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[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago

Remember: a can of expanding foam can disable most any vehicle when sprayed in the right places.

[-] PyroNeurosis 31 points 6 days ago

Do chainsaws still snap and maim their wielders when they hit rebar in trees?

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago

They sure do! And they still ruin expensive lumber mill equipment. Just a few trees can make an entire logging job unprofitable and not worth the risk.

Bonus, it's a felony to spike a tree, so you'd qualify for being president as well!

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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 64 points 6 days ago

It was nice to have a planet while it lasted, I guess.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 days ago

Don't worry. The planet will be fine. We may not be around, but life will persist.

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[-] index@sh.itjust.works 44 points 6 days ago
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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Time for this guy to get taken out....of office.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I really hope to see him buried soon.

Under massive voter disapproval polls and impeachment proceedings.

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[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“I think that I now understand what he is up to. He is plotting to become a Power. He Has a Mind of Metal and Wheels; and He Does Not Care For Growing Things.

Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom.”

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[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s crazy how republicans are framing cutting down forests as a “good way to prevent arsons”

[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

This motherfucker wants to clear cut the boundary waters. All these special areas destroyed because they're not a beach side golf course or some tacky casino.

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[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Would be a damn shame if the National Forestry service just started spiking all those trees.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Would be a shame if the millions of people who cherish our national forests, such as outdoors-people, survivalists, veterans and preppers, just decided that they don't want their woods chopped down.

Sure would be a shame if anything kept happening to that expensive logging equipment over and over.

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[-] Goldholz 6 points 4 days ago

Do you know why greece is so barren? Because in antiquity they chopped all the trees for their navy

[-] Hircine@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

2024 cost US 500 billion in hurricane costs. and how to you counter that, plant more trees not cut them down. he is the biggest clown in human history

[-] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

Has anyone actually done the co2 math and the amount of other gases we have to reverse?

It will blow your mind. Dont look up.

Basically everything we have ever consumed for carbonous goods or fuel sources has to be reversed.

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

If a tree falls on him in the forest, would anyone hear him squish? Or care?

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[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 6 days ago

do you remember when in minecraft you chopped down a forest for wood and didn't replant it? remember how you had to go to triple the distance to find another one, wasting even more time?

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[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

And oil exploration, and real estate development, and golf courses, and casinos, and...

[-] kingofras@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

This is the exact same tactic this regime will use on the 20th of April to declare martial law. I’m really curious how long it took the Germans in the late 1930’s to call it what it was.

This is a coup d’etat. Lots of people will die. The regime - even if DJT dies or gets shot - will go on. There won’t be any more fair elections. I hope these protests go from 5 million to 10 million on Saturday, because only a mass movement can stop this.

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