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Monday, 9 January 2017
quote [ Hoeven — a former North Dakota governor and vocal supporter of both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines — was elected to lead the committee on Tuesday.
Sen. Hoeven's new job is ironic because he has repeatedly opposed causes that Native Americans support. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the most recent example. As thousands of protesters from across Indian Country converged on Cannon Ball, North Dakota, over the latter half of 2016 to block the pipeline's completion, Hoeven called the protests "violent" and asked President Barack Obama to deploy federal law enforcement to quell them. ] tl/dr: US Senate says "Fuck you, Indians."
#Native American #pipeline #protest #Are we great again yet?
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mechavolt said @ 4:16pm GMT on 9th January
It's just kind of overwhelming. This isn't incremental change, this is a large scale reversal of longstanding institutions. As a civil servant, I strongly believe that regulated government can do real good for our society. While I wasn't happy about it, I've lived with locked wages, lack of support from the Democratic administration, and budget cuts. Congress and the president were largely dismissive of government employees, and even used us as a punching bag from time to time, but they felt like isolated incidents for cheap political points. This is something else entirely, this is the wholesale attempt at destroying everything I believe our government can do for our country. Trump has almost universally picked people to lead agencies that actively want to dismantle the agencies they've been given care of. It's more than finding out all your new boss wants to do is run your company into the ground. It's finding out that your boss was chosen for that specific reason.
mechavolt said @ 4:19pm GMT on 9th January
It's just kind of overwhelming. This isn't incremental change, this is a large scale reversal of longstanding institutions. As a civil servant, I strongly believe that regulated government can do real good for our society. While I wasn't happy about it, I've lived with locked wages, lack of support from the Democratic administration, and budget cuts. Congress and the president were largely dismissive of government employees, and even used us as a punching bag from time to time, but they felt like isolated incidents for cheap political points. This is something else entirely, this is the wholesale attempt at destroying everything I believe our government can do for our country. Trump has almost universally picked people to lead agencies that actively want to dismantle the agencies they've been given care of. It's more than finding out all your new boss wants to do is run your company into the ground. It's finding out that your boss was chosen for that specific reason. And it's not just a Democrat vs Republican thing. Republican presidents have generally been interested in keeping the government functioning during their term. I may not agree with their choices, but the agency leaders they've chosen in the past sought to use their agencies to fulfill their goals in the context of the existing agency. Trump just wants to burn it all to the ground.
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mechavolt said @ 4:16pm GMT on 9th January
It's just kind of overwhelming. This isn't incremental change, this is a large scale reversal of longstanding institutions. As a civil servant, I strongly believe that regulated government can do real good for our society. While I wasn't happy about it, I've lived with locked wages, lack of support from the Democratic administration, and budget cuts. Congress and the president were largely dismissive of government employees, and even used us as a punching bag from time to time, but they felt like isolated incidents for cheap political points. This is something else entirely, this is the wholesale attempt at destroying everything I believe our government can do for our country. Trump has almost universally picked people to lead agencies that actively want to dismantle the agencies they've been given care of. It's more than finding out all your new boss wants to do is run your company into the ground. It's finding out that your boss was chosen for that specific reason. And it's not just a Democrat vs Republican thing. Republican presidents have generally been interested in keeping the government functioning during their term. I may not agree with their choices, but the agency leaders they've chosen in the past sought to use their agencies to fulfill their goals in the context of the existing agency. Trump just wants to burn it all to the ground.
