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Science MemesShout out to my wife's uncle, the nature photographer who loves hiking and nature and voted for this chode to stop the woke mind virus. How's that going bud?
Was this a condition of the Iranian ceasefire?
Since when is the President in charge of government agencies and their funding in any way?
I guess they know what they are doing.
Just kidding
one man should not be allowed to hand America's assets to his cronies and sidekicks
The ~~Confederates~~ Republicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.
Brace yourselves for widespread Mossad set fires this summer and then a justification for being forced to sell off these lands for “maintenance”
This is the way the world ends.
Well how the USA ends if nothing else. But knowing the USA we will take everyone and everything down with us.
I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY.
I don’t hate this country. Just a few select individuals with too much power and money.
Nah, Trump and the Oligarchy aren't something happening to America, they're a consequence of America
I think both are true. When the media is controlled and the populace is spoon fed bullshit for a long enough period of time, people who lack critical thinking skills eat it up and vote against their own self interests. People are also very unlikely to take responsibility for their own actions and find it much easier to blame others for their own shortcomings, which leads to tribalism and racism among other things. The other major issue is the giant wealth disparity causing a huge imbalance of power and influence. Couple that with the inability to have politicians not beholden to that power and money (citizens united) and you have the perfect storm of bullshit and corruption.
I really think the quote from Agent K in MIB really sums it up.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are just trolls and assholes who are beyond saving. But I continue to believe they are exceptions rather than the norm.
But why destroy the research?
They're unironically Captain Planet villains.
To show the sheer contempt for the goodie two-shoes trying to save the world.
The whole world is panicking as one lunatic is destroying everything. And there is nobody who can take him by the ear and pull him out on the street ...
There are people who can, but not people who can AND will.
Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.
Gonna be a lot more fires in CA.
Next step, logging
Sweet mother Appalachia, the robber barrows are back. I grew up in the deep woods there, they have always been exploiting us. Please help save your rainforest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_temperate_rainforest
It’s such a shame. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.
I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.
This isn’t the park service, but rather the forest service, and afaik the title is wrong: its not being shut down just restructured. National forest lands will stay national forest lands, parks will stay parks, and nobody is losing their jobs.
But I might be misinformed, happy to be corrected.
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I am not from the US, so I didn’t realize those were different departments. Hopefully the restructuring has minimal impacts
In retrospect we probably shouldn't have let a paedophile destroy the country.
Nobody could possibly have seen that coming.
There couldn’t have possibly been a detailed plan released by a conservative think tank that was actively involved in his election campaign.
Do you expect me to read all that? Nerd!
I think its more shocking they knew but didnt care. Apparently all they care about is the stock market going up.
If democracy is by the people, of the people, for the people-- does that mean people are pedophiles?
Unfortunately, it kinda low key does.
At least apologists, yeah. The amount of people who I've seen say "Yeah, the Epstein files are concerning, but..." has killed any hope I had that they might come around someday. Instead I'm all in for getting kids into politics early enough for them to form their own opinions instead of those of their parents.
Can you source this? Feels like a gross over exaggeration compared to the article I read before.
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-forest-service-a-force-across-rural-america-reorganizes-under-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/us-forest-service-restructure-union
Like I thought, both of these state its being restructured, not dismantled. There is and will still be a functioning forest service doing research.
Not that I like the restructure but accuracy matters.
So far none of the Trump administration's restructuring has been benign. If an incompetent lackey is put in place, and one will be, they have all proven to destroy the previous work.
There is and will still be a functioning forest service doing research.
you can always trust trump to protect the environment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Every one of your own sources contradicts your post. Your post is still misinformation, no research has been stated to cease, only that some portion of the research stations will move to a centralized location.
So, you are spreading misinformation by saying the research has been halted because nobody has said whether any research will be halted. No research program has been stated to be “destroyed” or otherwise dismantled.
The labs that are being "relocated" are next to the forests that they study. How the fuck do you study forests from a central headquarters in Utah?
How does moving research away from the study sites that need actively monitored not affect research? That's not how this stuff works. The geographical locations of the offices is extremely important for this stuff. Does not one remember the maps of forests they planned to sell off last year? This also gets rid of people because not all can relocate and a lot of those are not going to be replaced.
Please tell me how effecting research is equivalent to destroying their research program, which is what you posted.
Yeah it is highly exaggerated.
The regional offices are being replaced with 15 state-based offices.
Same with the research program.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Exactly. And I dislike this organizational change, and it should be stopped and reverted in the courts if its illegal. But accuracy matters.
look at all the Palestinians that were saved because we didn't elect a warmonger like Harris.
this is an acceptable price to pay for saving all those children.
/s
Ya know, if the Democrats fucked off to conservative land and the Republicans fucked off to hell then the US could be a place where actual progressives are the opposition you could be voting for.
And look at how pathetically weak the Democrats have been during all this. They wouldn’t have do fuck-all if Harris was elected. Ya’ll need to stop praising the knife because it’s quieter than the gun.
it's always about the democrats this and the republicans that with you people.
if I gave you the option between getting shot in the face by a Republican or getting slapped in the face by a democrat cock, you would probably choose getting dicked down by a progressive with HIV and blame getting infected because democrats refused to run a candidate with a smaller cock.
y'all need to realize that you're just as guilty as MAGA is for allowing Trump his second (and potential for third) term, along with all the horrid shit he's been allowed to do.
but you go on and keep bitching about democrats and railing against the machine you swear you're not a part of. after all, you're getting chewed up in it just like the rest of us.
If you look at what Biden accomplished in his term he actually did quite a bit for environmental protection.
But even if Harris did do fuck all, it'd still be better than this
He also allowed the GOP to, once again, get away with literal treason and face no real consequences. Harris was his VP during it all, too. They do a little bit of good for the headlines but are functionally useless when it comes to addressing the major systemic issues that keep pushing that country to the right. Their pathetic complacency is a major reason why the far-right was able to get a foothold and they continue to show that they don’t really give a fuck.
I’m not stupid, I do know that Biden’s administration did ok at a handful of things, it’s just wild that you believe that’s enough. It’s like saying you had a good day because your partner didn’t hit you as though that should be remarkable. Ya’ll’re in an abusive relationship and need to figure that shit out yesterday.
I don't think it's enough, but it is enough to vote for them over trump. If you feel otherwise I can only suspect you are privileged enough to not be effected by Trump's actions, great for you, not great for the people being killed by ICE or blown up outside schools.
If there was another viable option I absolutely would not have voted for Kamala, but there wasn't so how is not voting supposed to be the better option?
Thank you. It's rare that someone criticizes the Democrats AND acknowledges that a third of the country (MAGA) would have to die before things could get better.
They have been so incompetent and ineffective im starting to believe the whole "fake opposition" conspiracy might be true.
Grey's Law.
Even if it wasn’t true, they are so consistently operating in ways that make it functionally true that clearly their entire way of being is just bad. Intention doesn’t really matter if both options are the same level of utter failure.
Can always count on centrists to gloat that no one had the option to vote against the genocide that gives their lives meaning.
Ah, so everyone voted for Trump instead?
If they didn't vote, yes they voted for Trump.
Ah, so you're saying the Republicans hacked the voting machines so anyone who didn't show up voted for Trump?
Or are you saying they gained access to ancient Eldritch magics that did the same but on paper?
Hack the voting machines? They did it the old fashioned way by closing voting sites in high density cities, violent intimidation tactics to keep entire neighborhoods from voting, dismantling mail sorting machines, destroying ballots, etc. The voting machines were probably compromised too, yes.
No. Some fElanous Armpit Stink did that.
Eh he is funneling money from everything he deems unnecessary (health, science, nature preservation, education, progressing human rights etc) to pockets of his buddies, Netanyahu and tech oligarchs.
his buddies, Netanyahu and tech oligarchs.
Aren't Netanyahu and tech oligarchs his buddies too?
It feels more like he is Netanyahu's attack dog and some of the tech oligarchs with dad issues treat him like one. The others just lick his ass for free pass to do whatever the fuck they want. Of course you may ask "aren't these the only modes of friendship that exists in Trump's life" and you may be right...
Make 👏 America 👏 great 👏 again 👏
I wouldn't call this a meme. It is fucking horrible news though
Edit. It's half true, see comments below
Idk. Is this even real? Is this a real thing that is happening? I guess it's a meme insofar as it's a very ridiculous, far-fetched, outrageous thing for the leader of a country to do. And yet, I genuinely don't know whether to think that it's true...
He is moving the forest service HQ out of washington DC and shutting down research. Ive not heard that he's closing regional offices.
Ive always felt like people think of the National Forests as National Parks or preserves, but theyre not. National Forests are mixed use allowing for recreation and industry.
Moving the HQ to the west makes sense to me since that's where a bulk of the forestland is. And we know that stupid people dont like smart people and their ideas, so research was bound to get torpedoed by Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/forest-service-relocation-dc-salt-lake-city-eca93fa055ffce3528f5e8c71160a135
He is also not eliminating research, a lot of research projects are closing but this seems to be more of a re-org.
Some jobs will change and some employees will be asked to move to new locations, according to a March 31 email that Thomas M. Schultz, Jr., the Forest Service chief, sent to employees of the research and development section.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
I don't think it is real. It seems to be the oversimplified and overexaggerated story of what is really happening. The guardian says that the US Forest Service will move headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/us-forest-service-washington-dc-salt-lake-city
This seems to cause many of its research facilities to (temporarily?) close:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Oh wow, seems like what he's doing is not as bad as this post makes it out to be, although I'm sure he's doing it with bad intentions anyways.
Thanks for the sources, kind stranger!
This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.
Yeah this is more of a re-org than an elimination. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Still seems like it might cause problems but it's not the catastrophic change some people are making it out to be. And the Forest Service isn't just a bunch of tree-hugging conservationists their mission is basically the sustainable exploitation of US forests. So for that reason they are very important to industry.
It's "just a reorg" where they shut down all the research labs (which can't be moved because they're located by the forests they study) and hand leadership to pro-logging lobbyists.
Loving nature is woke.
Hell yeah! Nature rules
I'm sure this isn't really about saving money. It's about destroying the US Forest Service. That's the direct goal.
In a few years: "These unkempt forests are a real eyesore, what if we sell the land to private entities"
Within three years: “These unkempt forests...."
They're going to try and steal as much of it as possible while Taco is in charge
It's about removing roadblock to "national parks are open for business"
It’s actually $9B a year…which I wouldn’t call “minuscule” like PBS was.
0.1% of annual spending is minuscule.
The point is Trump will never do anything that isn't for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn't care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a "liberal" thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.
Fine. But calling 9 billion dollars, an amount of money most people can’t even fathom, “minuscule” is pretty stupid.
In the federal budget context, that is literally a few dollars. It is super disingenuous to compare it to the budget of a single person.
Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment
The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.
Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency's discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13101
What could possibly go wrong?
This makes me rationally livid.
Buy guns
It makes my fucking blood boil and I don't even live in the USA. For all the problems your country has, the parks, the forestry, the public land and wild spaces are truly unique and precious assets, even looking at it in a global sense rather than a national one. Something worth defending tooth and nail. So of course Trump would want to destroy all of that, because if he didn't, you could still make the case that he hadn't really irredeemably and permanently ruined every single aspect of the country.
Even if Trump hadn’t raped children, being the exact opposite of Teddy Roosevelt would make him among the worst American presidents.
The child-raping thing makes it considerably worse btw.
Please provide sources with posts from prominent people. A lot of altered and fake posts tend to be spread.
This looks like it may be one of them as only parts of the forest service are closing as far as a fast search can tell.
It seems that this may be just one step short of a complete dismantling
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
https://www.geo.tv/latest/659295-trump-administration-dismantling-us-forest-service-heres-what-it-means
Where's Captain Planet when you need him?
More fuckin' trees!
Both parties same though.
I mean, both did/do support genocide
Yes so they're exactly the same.
Identical. These people don't do subtlety or incremental.
From the perspective of anyone against genocide, yes they functionally are.
You are part of the problem
As I would contend about you, but I and many others like me exist, and you can do nothing about it but scream impotently into the wind.
Yeah you must feel so potent sitting at home on election day lol
At least I'd be doing something productive with my time.
Yeah that's pretty misleading. The regional offices are being replaced with 15 state-based offices.
Same with the research program.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
You fell for the bullshit spin excuse
hope he dies by a thousand pine needles.
under a manchineel tree.
Please steal the data...FFS....these people are such complete fucking morons....
Sorry but such a screencap requires a source. This is almost surely misinformation.
What the fuck
Sir, this is not Reddit. Here people still factcheck headlines before replying to ragebait.
And this is why he won. Useless twats.
He didn't win. Sucker
Not for long!
President Javier Melei is a self described ancap and the inspiration behind DOGE. Wouldn't surprise me if this is another attempt at shaping things by another libertarian group.
