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Mommabear's avatar

Can you say John Dutton? This sounds just like the show “Yellowstone” starring Kevin Costner. It’s criminal (and I’m being nice) and it needs to be stopped at all cost. Of not, what’s next??

Al's avatar

Y'all better send someone by FORT KNOX and the NATIONAL TREASURY as well, just to see if the TRUMP CRIME FAMILY left anything behind for the suckers and the loosers.

David Hope's avatar

Bugrum, who at one time showed a modicum of intelligence, and then promptly hurried to sell his soul for a can of soup — and his master, Renfield Trump — hope to strip the assets of the country. The rest of the sorry cabinet moves with them — like Jabbaa the Hut.

Richard Nash's avatar

And to think that Trump does not even know how to pronounce the word "Yosemite", at least on one previous occasion.

Sonia's avatar

Yosemite belongs to us. NO!

Everything beautiful, every delight enjoyed, he has to sh*t all over it.

Richard Nash's avatar

Well, there is money to be made in them, there, hills. If your Trump, what else matters?

Deborah Crawford's avatar

and they are destroying on the other side of the Atlantic:

Jared and Ivana have spent more than $1bn on an Albanian island (Sazan) that will be a luxury resort, once the unexploded ordnance has been removed. This has beem a sanctuary for plants and 200 bird species for years. Furthermore, the Island was owned by the people and their creepy leader sneakily sold it. The people are furious and protesting. If I were Ivana and Jared, I would let that go.... it will just be misery.

Helen Nowlin's avatar

The wealthy who want a corridor for a private driveway can go pound sand. They push this through, but they need to know it is illegitimate and will never give them a good title. We will come back to this and remove them as the trespassers they will be.

Al's avatar

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES and see all the documents that UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL Todd Blanche has redacted, scrubbed, sanitized, covered-up, hidden away and experty sequestered, which chronicle the details of moral turpitude and debauchery by Donald J TRUMP when he was a modeling agency associate and best friend of the world's most infamous child sex trafficker, JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

He who has NOTHING to hide, HIDES NOTHING.

Eric's avatar

Representative letter example:

Subject: Reject the Yosemite Land Swap — Don't Trade Public Park Land for a Private Developer's Driveway

Senator [Last Name],

I'm writing as a constituent to urge you to oppose the proposed National Park Service land exchange that would grant Kingsbarn Realty Capital road access through Yosemite to its privately held Hazel Green parcel.

The facts are straightforward and troubling. Kingsbarn purchased the 83-acre parcel for $4 million in February 2024 from Lewis Geyser, whose own decade-long legal campaign for road access through park land was rejected by the Park Service and ultimately by the courts in 2012. That litigation settled the question: this land has no legal right of access through Yosemite. A change in ownership should not reopen a matter the courts already closed.

Now, with support from the current administration, NPS staff have spent months quietly negotiating a swap that would hand Kingsbarn an interest in park land in exchange for property elsewhere, all to build a new road connecting Highway 120's Big Oak Flat corridor to a private commercial development. This road would run within roughly five miles of an ancient sequoia grove, in a landscape that has real ecological value and no existing infrastructure to support new traffic, construction, or private development pressure.

Federal land exchange authority exists to serve the public interest and improve park integrity, not to manufacture access for a developer who bought the land knowing full well it was landlocked. Granting this exchange rewards land speculation, sets a precedent that private buyers can pressure NPS into road deals the agency has previously refused, and puts an irreplaceable natural resource at risk for the benefit of a single upscale development.

I ask that you publicly oppose this exchange, request full transparency and Congressional review of the negotiations to date, and press the Department of the Interior to affirm that no new roads will be built through Yosemite National Park to serve private development.

Helen Nowlin's avatar

They bought land near the Park, knowing it was landlocked or should have known. Time to dedicate the land to the Park!

BigDaddy52's avatar

They also knew they had a 'smoke-filled room' to 'negotiate' with the regime.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Great template. Works for Reps, too.

Mitch, does it pass legal muster, please?

Lori Block's avatar

Thanks for writing about this, Mitch. You do the heavy lifting for people like me who are incensed by this.

One has to ask: How much money do these people need? How many homes do they need to own; how big do their yachts need to be?

America's National Parks are a true treasure, and they belong to We the People. We do not need them to pave paradise to put up a parking lot (or a luxury resort).

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Another question is, who do these people think they are? The problem here is that I see the good old boys club approving this deal behind closed doors. That's the sad part.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Didn’t want to LIKE. Where's my damned AGREE button?!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Good point. I find myself dealing with the same mental gymnastics when wanting to support what someone has posted, but I don't really like the underlying story.

Lori Block's avatar

The “good ol’ boys club" has always existed, but never in my lifetime have I seen them operate so brazenly and so greedily.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Worse than sad. Immoral and obnoxious come to mind. Still not harsh enough.

Mommabear's avatar

I could not agree more.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Good to hear.

Al's avatar

Can anyone possibly be surprised that Donald J Trump demands infinite and unlimited Legal and INCOME TAX AUDIT immunity in perpetuity for: Himself, his family, his Businesses, all of his businessess associates, and any and all of his Businesses affiliates (all and sundry) as well as any friends and neighbors as he may see fit?

The Donald J Trump crime family are functioning as a collective parasite of GREED and infestation of SELFISHNESS that are engorging themselves on the WEALTH of the NATION, while remaining latched firmly on the NECK of the NATION and are not planning on letting go anytime soon of their personal and private supply pipeline to public wealth and BILLIONS upon BILLIONS in tax free riches, beyond thier wildest dreams.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Not surprised at all to share my take on the daily mismanagement and corruption.

Zzyzx's avatar

Reach out to Congressman Thomas McClintock (R) whose district includes Yosemite. He is our representative. Hasn’t held a town hall in years and years. He just regurgitates the MAGA talking points.

Helen Nowlin's avatar

Spread the word in that area (McClintock). Write a letters to the Editor in your local newspaper. I used to live in Modesto and am so glad I moved away from that fake Central Valley.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

That is not good to hear. Hopefully the voters will step up and take care of business moving forward

Bassehound's avatar

Thank you for this.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

You're welcome. I wish it wasn't happening. Please feel free to share with your family, friends, and community.

Bassehound's avatar

I have been sharing. Will be sharing more on substack. I am not on any other media platform.

Seeing how Don carries grudges I would not be surprised if he tries to do more damage to CA. Don was rejected by Los Angeles from building a trump tower on the old Ambassador Hotel site in the 1990’s.

Currently CA is fighting Don’s off shore drilling attempt.

Al's avatar

This is OBNOXIOUS to the Nth degree. This is tantamount to the dessicration of a National public (and global) treasure.The Trump Crime Family stands as the very epitome of the Waste, Fraud and Abuse that Donald J Trump anointed himself as the people's saviour in control of eradicating. This is unrestrained GREED and unlimited SELFISHNESS is a manifestation of the very waste fraud and abuse that Donald J Trump and family have availed them selves to.

Someone should go and check out Fort Knox as well as the NATIONAL TREASURY just to see if the Trump crime family has left anything behind.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES if you want to see documented evidence of what kind of serial ABUSER Donald J Trump really has made of himself.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

It's obnoxious, it's degrading, it's insulting, and it should be illegal. Make the phone call. It's important.

Al's avatar

DJT has always been an Ignoramus.

An IGNOBLE IGNORAMUS

Ignorance can be cured.

STUPID IS FOREVER.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

I think the cure, or at least the first couple of steps to a cure, are the midterm elections

Joseph McPhillips's avatar

Flawed, not perfect Dems are at least an order of magnitude better than, Trump & Co.

The Golden Age for Trump & Co? The corruption & rebranding campaigns are endless. Meanwhile, catastrophic wars of choice against Obama, Biden, Canada, & other allies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CP1gxzpGhY

#VoteBlue

Mitch Jackson's avatar

The Dems are the solution. Full stop.

Deborah Crawford's avatar

Yes, but still keep your eye on ALL politicians

Mona Davis's avatar

This administration and it's supports always value money over tradition, and natural beauty. I weep for the possible invasion of Yosemite by these hustlers.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

In the main article, I shared a link to an e-book with six prior posts. My team and I researched and wrote on how Trump is destroying the environment. It's worth looking at and sharing. It's sad.

Deborah Crawford's avatar

He is definitely in bed with fossil fuel companies.

Laurie's avatar

This picture is frightening, and dark and ugly! What he’s attempting to do with our beautifully preserved lands has got to be stopped! There is just nothing, apparently, this POS

won’t do or deface for money. That is pure evil! I am so sick of him, his name, and everything he is, everything he thinks, everything he does-can’t wait to VOTE!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Let's make that phone call, Laurie, and take care of business.

Laurie's avatar

Got it! You bet I’ll call! Thanks!