The President Stole Your Land: Patagonia blasts Trump for monuments move

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

On Monday night, just hours after President Donald Trump announced that he would be reducing the size of two national monuments by some 2 million acres, Patagonia’s website went dark save for a simple message in bold white lettering.

“The President Stole Your Land,” the homepage of Patagonia.com read, adding, “In an illegal move, the president just reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history.”

The website then offered visitors a chance to learn more, both about the president’s move to reduce the size of the two Utah monuments as well as Patagonia’s own commitment to maintaining federally protected public lands. Earlier this year, Patagonia ran its first-ever television advertisement in direct opposition to the administration’s then-rumored intention to shrink national monuments, spending some $700,000 on television and radio advertisements in Utah, Montana, and Nevada.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/patagonia-trump-monuments-move-6e61fd999648/

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Pretty straight forward, it is not UTAH'S, MONTANA, NEVADA state government land, it is "our" land.

[AmericanActivist]

1. Thank you Patagonia nm

[ffr]

2. I'm going to have to buy some new clothes.

Thanks Patagonia for standing up against the establishment.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Instead of using vast wealth to launch Egos Into Space, how about Earth First, like these guys?

[Botany]

4. I'm going to buy some Patagonia stuff today or tomorrow

[Judi Lynn]

12. Thank you for posting the image. Never have seen it revealed that way before you shared it. n/t

[Tikki]

5. Does the average voter in Utah even care?

I know a lady in a Rocky Mountain State who brags about the unspoiled beauty
of her State's wilderness, even owns an outdoor's business and vote's repug
and backs fracking and has repeatedly pushed for more sale of Public Lands to the highest bidder. She wants to see someone make money off the land...she just doesn't actually realize..she is not the one pocketing the money and never will be.

She does not see herself as a hypocrite.

Tikki

[question everything]

6. Did he actually offer an explanation of doing this, besides reveling at being an a-hole?

Did not follow the story closely and I am not sure that developers will rush to develop there, will they?

[groundloop]

7. There must somehow be money in this for 45*

One of his companies, or Kusher's, or one of the t-rump kids is gonna' make a killing off of this.

[0rganism]

8. he also reveled in "reversing federal government overreach" and similar horseshit

doubt developers are going to rush in there, however there are some sizable coal deposits so expect lots of "really really excellent, yuge biggest ever" strip mines doing their part to MAGA.

[murielm99]

9. He wants to erase everything Obama did.

It works for him if Bill Clinton gets thrown into the erasures too.

[question everything]

10. There really is a mean streak with Republicans

I remember when Reagan came to power, he, and his people - Watt, especially - really reveled in reversing everything that FDR did with his New Deal. At least, whatever they could.

Even removing the solar panels that Carter installed. Why? Because..

And now this putz.

[onenote]

11. Clive Bundy and his followers.

Who don't like grazing restrictions on public land.

Ironically, those who claim that the land is "ours" not the "government's" are actually echoing the sovereign rights advocates like Bundy.