The Trump presidential disaster - also known as an administration, loosely speaking - has specialized in rolling back, tossing out, overruling, or overwriting a lot of the good things that the Obama administration did.
For that reason, Trump and his staff, whoever they happen to be now, basically suck.
But it is somewhat astonishing the depths to which they will sink to overturn commonsense and humane rules that the Obama administration passed.
This story provides a prime, supremely sickening, example.
Trump administration wants to reverse rules barring hunters from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot hibernating mothers and cubs
Ugly excerpts:
"Under the proposed changes, hunters would also be allowed to hunt black bears with dogs, kill wolves and pups in their dens, and use motor boats to shoot swimming caribou."and
"The Obama-era restrictions on hunting on federal lands in Alaska were challenged by Safari Club International, a group that promotes big-game hunting. The Associated Press reported in March that [Interior Secretary] Zinke had appointed a board loaded with trophy hunters to advise him on conserving threatened and endangered wildlife, including members of the Safari Club."OK. So,
1) I thought hunting black bears with dogs went out with the rise of Cro-Magnon Man.
2) What possible hunter would feel a sense of accomplishment from killing wolf puppies in their dens?
3) Trophy hunters should be anywhere near an advisory board on conserving threatened and endangered wildlife?
Unbelievable. Horribly true, but hard to believe.
Now, this is just a proposed set of rule changes, but for modern humans to even consider such rule changes is appalling. And they might get passed, too.
Impeach all of them. ASAP.
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