‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country

[Wildabeest]

You will have to type slower for me.

What folks hate them? I assume you are referring to environmental folks and not the landowners that are the decision maker on their own property. I looked into landowner compensation and it looks like $8-16k per year per turbine based on MW produced. I don't know if that is a lot or not, but the landowner gets to make that decision. Seems like a fair offset for surface disturbance.
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I always felt bad for the landowner in split estate instances where the energy developer made the decisions where fluid mineral surface disturbances would be on private land. That being said, it made my NEPA analysis very easy.

View attachment 396496If anyone is bored today, zoom into more detail in this area, approximately 7 miles west of the previous map. Pretty good example of fluid mineral development on native habitat. If you look at this map and think, "man, that is a lot of roads". Just zoom in please.

I’m guessing the reason the little hamlet of Cut Bank has an international airport has something to do with all of those pumpers out there…

 

[thebestusernamesaretaken]

Of the 267 "contributors" listed in the credits for Project 2025, over 140 of them came from Trump's first administration, his election team, or his transition team. That's more than 50%. It is laughable to entertain the idea that this was not part of the POTUS 47 plan.

Trump did a remarkable job of deflecting it. The facts present today make it hard to deny that it was, and still is, part of the road map put together by the Heritage Foundation.

I would agree that all that anyone needed to know was there from the start. All the Information was available and this situation was avoidable for anyone who wanted to to understand MAGA intentions. All that needed to know was actually available prior to his first election, but some folks were pissed and wanted to burn the place down.

I don't necessarily agree that he did a remarkable job of deflecting it. None the rhetoric was believable by any reasonable person unless they already desperately wanted to believe it.

Asking some in DC who are "in the know" as to the origin of the attacks on public lands and the conservation infrastructure, and all fingers points to Vought, Wright, and Pendley, three main contributors of Project 2025.

POTUS has endeavored to rip us apart but I believe that these folks are actually much more dangerous than Donald. POTUS has done some terrible things and in my opinion is a bad human being; but he is just the emotionally unstable front person for this group that will likely have a much longer lasting effects.

Some wanted these changes and voted for such. Some did not expect it to go this far, yet voted for POTUS based on other priorities in their life. Yet, here we are.

I can understand why Terry says he "didn't vote for this." I hope he and others who voted for POTUS and who are having that feeling are compelled to stand up and speak up on the issues of public lands, conservation, access, etc. That's our only hope to prevent a dismantling of many systems that provide habitat necessary for robust wildlife numbers.

The election is done, based on how voters assessed their priorities. What matters now is that we give voice to wild places and wild things at this time when the folks with the levers of power have no interest in considering such. If we don't do so in the next few years, wildlife on public lands, the wildlife we have access to, is going to take the hit. If we think tags are hard to draw at the lower herd levels of today, we "ain't seen nothin' yet" would be the appropriate phrase to compare what it will be like 10 years from now.

I was a lifelong Republican, then this happened:

After that there is no doubt and honestly the largest failure of the Biden Administration was not aggressively pursuing the insurrection charges of which he would have been convicted for and the Constitution would have kept us from having this conversation in the first place.

Maga has now gutted the GOP, and the Republican Party is not what it was. The old GOP doesn't exist anymore but I do believe that maybe not all Republicans are in agreement with everything in this project 2025 program but all are complicit now. I'm not a Democrat but I can not vote for republican now. We might however agree on this.

 

[Nick87]

I understand why quite a few of us talk politics on here. But I totally it comes out to be a very small percaentage if what we talk about. But why in the actual F$ck would anyone come on here and spend 80 to 90% of there time on hunttalk just on these threads? Its gotta be a miserable life.