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Rep. Cheney Accuses Tribes of "Destroying our western way of life" over grizzly protection
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https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/rep-cheney-accuses-tribes-of-destroying-our-western-way-of-life-over-sacred-grizzly-protections/
I've checked with other news sources. Her quote wasn't quite as open as this and instead:
I'm pretty shocked by this. I mean, yeah. The Trump administration uses language like this all the time, but... In Europe this is the kind of language used by the Ultranationalists. Like, no exceptions. Ultranationalists who, if they got their way, would like to turn the clock back to 1930 when race biology and pogroms were cool and fashionable.
RIVERTON, Wyo. — On a momentous day for Tribal Nations, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), the House Republican Conference Chairwoman, stated that the successful litigation by tribes and environmentalists to return the grizzly bear in Greater Yellowstone to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “was not based on science or facts” but motivated by plaintiffs “intent on destroying our Western way of life.”
One of the largest tribal-plaintiff alliances in recent memory prevailed in the landmark case, Crow Tribe et al v. Zinke last September, when US District Judge Dana Christensen ruled in favor of the tribes and environmental groups after finding that the Trump Administration’s US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) had failed to abide by the ESA and exceeded its authority in attempting to remove federal protections from the grizzly. Tuesday, USFWS officially returned federal protections to the grizzly
I've checked with other news sources. Her quote wasn't quite as open as this and instead:
But still, the implication is pretty clear considering that the native tribes (Crow Tribe in particular) were the primary plaintiffs in the case.The court-ordered relisting of the grizzly was not based on science or facts, but was rather the result of excessive litigation pursued by radical environmentalists intent on destroying our Western way of life.
I'm pretty shocked by this. I mean, yeah. The Trump administration uses language like this all the time, but... In Europe this is the kind of language used by the Ultranationalists. Like, no exceptions. Ultranationalists who, if they got their way, would like to turn the clock back to 1930 when race biology and pogroms were cool and fashionable.
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Trump has emboldened other republicans to lose the dog whistles and be openly racist.
Also Liz Cheney is a white supremacist, that's true too.
They've been the white supremacist party since 1896. Xenophobia and racism runs deep in both parties.
One party threw in 100% with the segregationists in the 60s
And if we're talking about native americans in particular while the Democratic party is also not great about native issues, I'd up those numbers to like 90+% of Republicans being actively hostile to any policy that remotely benefits any tribal interest.
It WAS based on the same reason almost a third of ESA protected species are covered: because of their cultural or symbolic value or iconic place in their environment, the exact opposite of what Cheney is accusing them of. Half of Yellowstone's protected species are LC, but are considered iconic to the park and surrounding lands.
Like lord forbid there be any land or resource they aren’t immediately able to rape for profit
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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I mean I think if you polled most Americans with the question "should wildlife within a national park be protected" I'd guess you got 70%+ saying yes.
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I remember reading a whole web comic about this. The ghosts of the Founding Fathers were consulted concerning their thoughts on gun control and it turned out "the right to bear arms" was literally the right to own bear arms.
Family Guy also did it.
Reasonably sure that was not the first place I saw the same joke, but its the one that comes to mind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/us/2004-campaign-military-service-cheney-s-five-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-era.html
Wyoming is a bastion of landed gentry Republicans.
Oh so a fucking chickenhawk like John Bolton
Point was that, Republican politicians don't tend to be the authentic local folk they like to pretend to be. (Bush's fake Texan accent comes to mind as well)
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Bolton
Bush
Cheney
Trump
What a murderers row.
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But if you do all that, then advocate sending young men and women to conflicts in order to pad your bank account, you can fuck yourself with a sideways pineapple.
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The good/shit President divide breaks about the same percentage wise for former military men vs lifelong civilians. Ditto for those who use the military judiciously vs not.
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