Law Burgum Seizes Control of the Interior

[Deorum]

Founder Era physiognomy has officially taken charge at the Department of the Interior to boisterous applause. He is one of the few DJT cabinet picks to sail through his Senate confirmation hearings with relative ease.

Established in 1849, Interior is the third longest surviving executive cabinet department in American history after only the Department of State and Treasury. It never existed as anything else, was never folded or renamed nor rebranded. Despite operating on one of the smallest and least wasteful budgets of the federal government, it manages and oversees over 500 million acres of public lands (including all national park units). It's going to be interesting to see how Doug manages to juggle conservationism with POTUS directives on utilizing natural resources, and might be worth keeping a running tab on.

 

[High Test With da Best]

Founder Era physiognomy has officially taken charge at the Department of the Interior to boisterous applause. He is one of the few DJT cabinet picks to sail through his Senate confirmation hearings with relative ease.

Established in 1849, Interior is the third longest surviving executive cabinet department in American history after only the Department of State and Treasury. It never existed as anything else, was never folded or renamed nor rebranded. Despite operating on one of the smallest and least wasteful budgets of the federal government, it manages and oversees over 500 million acres of public lands (including all national park units). It's going to be interesting to see how Doug manages to juggle conservationism with POTUS directives on utilizing natural resources, and might be worth keeping a running tab on.

Have you caught wind of any plans he has? I agree seeing him and the new energy secretary possibly interface on conservation vs production could be a downlow interesting aspect of this admin

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Welcome back, George Washington

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

I'm looking for a 'founding father' type of vibe

I have thee, familial member

 

[Sakuraba'sEar]

Doug looks like a reincarnated Roman Senator

 

[Islam Imamate]

Founder Era physiognomy has officially taken charge at the Department of the Interior to boisterous applause. He is one of the few DJT cabinet picks to sail through his Senate confirmation hearings with relative ease.

No kidding

The Senate confirmed former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as Interior secretary Thursday in a 79-18 vote, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in the chamber.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-e...nate-confirms-doug-burgum-interior-secretary/

 

[Cajun]

I don't know a lot about the guy, but if both sides like him then it's a win for me.

 

[Deorum]

Have you caught wind of any plans he has? I agree seeing him and the new energy secretary possibly interface on conservation vs production could be a downlow interesting aspect of this admin

Trump has also named Burgum his "energy czar" and chairman of the National Energy Council. The Department of Energy and its secretary obviously also plays a very direct role in those matters, but it's a lot more militarized than most people think and does a lot of applied science cooking up some very lethal shit. The majority of our national laboratories fall under the Dept of Energy, and it is responsible for the design, manufacturing, maintenance, and testing of the US thermonuclear weapons stockpile.

 

[Deorum]

Yeah.

 

[Mr Holmes]

Yeah.

I took this one at the badlands.

 

[Deorum]

I took this one at the badlands.

Forest Ninjas on North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

 

[Deorum]

Are you still coming, @Long Dark Blues?

Forest Ninjas on North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

 

[Deorum]

Have you caught wind of any plans he has? I agree seeing him and the new energy secretary possibly interface on conservation vs production could be a downlow interesting aspect of this admin

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Are you still coming, @Long Dark Blues?

It's on the books for October!

We decided on Harper's Ferry, WV for our summer vacation in July as our eldest is flying in to D.C. from Chicago the weekend before for some conference.

We are scooping him up then chillin' for a week in and around eastern West Virginia.

 

[BFoe]

Burgum is one of the few appointees that doesn’t seem to be completely insane, so that’s a refreshing change.
That said, Trump is pretty much only installing loyalists, and Trump’s policies in the past were abysmal, so I don’t have high hopes.

 

[Deorum]

It's on the books for October!

We decided on Harper's Ferry, WV for our summer vacation in July as our eldest is flying in to D.C. from Chicago the weekend before for some conference.

We are scooping him up then chillin' for a week in and around eastern West Virginia.

Early or Late October? Just 'member that the North shuts down all of its limited amenities and services by the 15th of the month, and becomes outright inaccessible by road after the first snow storm. It's on a separate plateau with a much higher elevation and has an isolated subarctic climate, which is absurd in its own right. Nature is such a freak, lol.

Burgum is one of the few appointees that doesn’t seem to be completely insane, so that’s a refreshing change.
That said, Trump is pretty much only installing loyalists, and Trump’s policies in the past were abysmal, so I don’t have high hopes.

He isn't remotely close to "insane" and may actually be one of the few cabinet picks with the ability to successfully push back and make DJT reconsider on his more wild ideas. I'm grateful for that since Interior (and several agencies under its umbrella) in particular is my favorite aspect of our entire federal government, and there ain't much that I'm very fond of. But he does serve at the pleasure of POTUS and is tasked with carrying out his agenda, so early dismissal is always in the cards.

 

[BFoe]

He isn't remotely close to "insane" and may actually be one of the few cabinet picks with the ability to successfully push back and make DJT reconsider on his more wild ideas. I'm grateful for that since Interior (and several agencies under its umbrella) in particular is my favorite aspect of our entire federal government, and there ain't much that I'm very fond of. But he does serve at the pleasure of POTUS and is tasked with carrying out his agenda, so early dismissal is always in the cards.

He’s a step up from Ryan Zinke, that’s for sure.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

But he does serve at the pleasure of POTUS and is tasked with carrying out his agenda, so early dismissal is always in the cards.

I'll say this - Trump or somebody around him got really smart about playing the emotional game. he's currently completely obliterating the left directly on their playing field, the emotional-victimisation-resistence pipeline.

It used to be something happened and the left deployed the usual mechanism of reporters-media-twitter-reddit-talking heads-experts that would amplify a theme to hysteria over the course of some weeks. now trump's been in for two weeks and it seems like months, an unending barrage of items, day after day, relentlessly, not allowing the mechanism to fixate its bearings and start deploying the usual method, since it's a hard moving one, with so many parts. do we even remember when Trump was talking about buying Greenland? when was that? a week ago? a year, a decade?

Now they simply can't withstand this barrage of hit after hit, daily. it's discombobulating as shit and i've never seen "the resistence" so limp and confused and impotent. It's like taking the war from throwing stones to nuclear multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. this isn't a coincidence, it's planned and it's being executed flawlessly. i suspect this will continue for some months until "the resistance" is broken down and left in a puddle of despair, and the ones left standing will be yelling about nazis and elon musk taking over the planet with the same repulsive energy you get from wide-eyed flat earthers.

and around them the world will simply go on. people won't care and will disconnect from it. how long can you be DAILY in despair about the latest thing Trump did? i think this is the point, this strategy is so spectacularly effective that my guess it's from the deepest darkest sweaty rooms of Palantir and Meta and whoever else there is.

in this larger context, the interior is probably small potatoes. there will be some push and pull regarding pipelines or drill baby drill, but i doubt it is high on anyone's mind. so maybe, just maybe, nobody will touch the tall, old trees.

 

[Deorum]

I'll say this - Trump or somebody around him got really smart about playing the emotional game. he's currently completely obliterating the left directly on their playing field, the emotional-victimisation-resistence pipeline.

It used to be something happened and the left deployed the usual mechanism of reporters-media-twitter-reddit-talking heads-experts that would amplify a theme to hysteria over the course of some weeks. now trump's been in for two weeks and it seems like months, an unending barrage of items, day after day, relentlessly, not allowing the mechanism to fixate its bearings and start deploying the usual method, since it's a hard moving one, with so many parts. do we even remember when Trump was talking about buying Greenland? when was that? a week ago? a year, a decade?

Now they simply can't withstand this barrage of hit after hit, daily. it's discombobulating as shit and i've never seen "the resistence" so limp and confused and impotent. It's like taking the war from throwing stones to nuclear multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. this isn't a coincidence, it's planned and it's being executed flawlessly. i suspect this will continue for some months until "the resistance" is broken down and left in a puddle of despair, and the ones left standing will be yelling about nazis and elon musk taking over the planet with the same repulsive energy you get from wide-eyed flat earthers.

and around them the world will simply go on. people won't care and will disconnect from it. how long can you be DAILY in despair about the latest thing Trump did? i think this is the point, this strategy is so spectacularly effective that my guess it's from the deepest darkest sweaty rooms of Palantir and Meta and whoever else there is.

Dude, this post deserves a whole thread of its own.

in this larger context, the interior is probably small potatoes. there will be some push and pull regarding pipelines or drill baby drill, but i doubt it is high on anyone's mind. so maybe, just maybe, nobody will touch the tall, old trees.

The average American mind can not comprehend the nation's public lands. The vast majority of US citizens may come to visit a small handful of places once in their lives and for no more than a few days at a time (no different from a foreign tourist). For those of us who reside permanently in the Great American West, public lands are one of the biggest reasons that we do.

 

[Andy Capp]

Dude, this post deserves a whole thread of its own.



The average American mind can not comprehend the nation's public lands. The vast majority of US citizens may come to visit a small handful of places once in their lives and for no more than a few days at a time (no different from a foreign tourist). For those of us who reside permanently in the Great American West, public lands are one of the biggest reasons that we do.

Agree to disagree on what he posts deserves, just speaking for myself. Good thread though. Here's hoping he doesn't go full on "drill baby drill" and allow a bunch of mining in your parks and the like. Trump has already signalled he wants to rape Alaska of all its natural resources and the people and other living things there can get proper fucked.

Good luck with that.