What the actual hell is wrong with these people?

[bigtree]

...hell being the operative word.



https://t.co/itahPvtfVn

Link to tweet

[elleng]

1. Very good question.

'People?' Maybe not.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Uday and Qusay want to go on another safari

I will not post the obscene photos of them with the animals they killed.

[Sancho]

3. These are evil people...

https://www.snopes.com/donald-trumps-son-game-hunting-photos/

[Glorfindel]

4. They are actually evil. No other explanation is possible.

Evidently they lie awake at night trying to think up new and particularly vicious ways to exercise their evil, twisted desires. Licensing slaughter of elephants is what they would think of as "a good first step." What's next? Join the evil Japanese in their murder of whales?

[Solly Mack]

5. Sick fucks. Barbarous throwbacks that should go extinct for the good of humanity.

[BigmanPigman]

6. An illustrator needs to reverse the roles

and have an elephant holding Jr's you know what.

[SHRED]

7. This douche

[applegrove]

8. What a douche!

[IcyPeas]

9. don't "we the people" get to vote on this shit?

[bigtree]

15. hard to get legislation to a vote w/republican opposition

...hence, the Obama wildlife dept. order.

report:

The ban follow(ed) a massive ecological disaster at Hwange National Park (in 2013) which saw hundreds of elephants being killed through cyanide poisoning by poachers.

In a statement on its website, the US wildlife department said: “Given the current situation on the ground in both Tanzania and Zimbabwe, the Service is unable to make positive findings required under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Endangered Species Act to allow import of elephant trophies from these countries.

“Additional killing of elephants in these countries, even if legal, is not sustainable and is not currently supporting conservation efforts that contribute towards the recovery of the species.”


...upheld by a Federal judge:

In April 2014, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was suspending imports of sport-hunted African elephant trophies taken in Tanzania and Zimbabwe through the remainder of 2014. The Service noted: “Questionable management practices, a lack of effective law enforcement and weak governance have resulted in uncontrolled poaching and catastrophic population declines of African elephants in Tanzania. … Anecdotal evidence, such as the widely publicized poisoning last year of 300 elephants in Hwange National Park, suggests that Zimbabwe’s elephants are also under siege.”

The moratorium did not sit well with Safari Club International, which sought a preliminary injunction to block it. Safari Club claimed that the inability to import trophies irreparably harmed the vital interests of its members, depriving them of the “full enjoyment of the hunt.” (The irreparable harm to the dead elephant was not directly addressed, although the Club did claim an interest in “sustainable use conservation.”)

In June, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled against the Safari Club’s motion, noting that the import suspension does not prohibit anyone from hunting, and that the inability to “bring home a particularly prized souvenir” of the hunt does not represent “irreparable harm” so as to justify an injunction overturning the ban.

[uponit7771]

35. No doubt Red Don has allowed more access to voting machines

[oasis]

10. Trump Jr. will have his tail clipped shortly. nt

[VOX]

11. What a BIG MAN!!! (Excuse me while I go outside and SPEW.)

Someone should shove that poor elephant's tail right up Donnie's dumb ass.

Goddamnit, I hate these "people." They are a disease. A malignant one at that.

[Snackshack]

12. 3 Reasons.

President Obama
Progressives
Conservation

They hate all 3.

[CatMor]

13. New York State bans the sale of ivory, mammoth and

Rhino items less than 100 years old. Even musical instruments with any ivory on them require a special permit to sell.

[Phoenix61]

14. They are sick, sick fucks

who have no respect or concern for anything outside of their worthless hides. May they rot in hell, sooner rather than later.

[jalan48]

16. These are very rich, out of touch people. They don't care about anything but their money.

[Qutzupalotl]

17. Distraction.

So they can pass their tax cut/Obamacare sabotage by siphoning off some of our outrage.

We’ll make more.

[bigtree]

19. at this point

...you could dismiss ANY of their destructive actions as a 'distraction.'

Fact is, there's isn't any room to focus on just one of their dismantling of protections. More importantly, if you're not outraged, you're not paying enough attention. And if you're not responding forcefully, you're acquiescing to that dismantling.

[Qutzupalotl]

37. True, but the tax cut for the rich is the big one

and it’s happening now.

Other than Don Jr., they don’t have much of a stake in hunting elephants and the ivory trade...whereas they DO have a huge investment in tax cuts for the rich and killing the ACA. It’s do or die for the Republican party, so they throw out shit like this.

I’m not saying it’s not outrageous; it is. I’m not saying we can’t be outraged by more than one thing at a time. We can. But their game plan is transparent here, and their desperation is showing.

[Puzzler]

18. Everything (n/t)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. The Pave the Earth Gang doesn't care if species go extinct so long as they get their trophy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. The only elephant who should go extinct is the RepubliCON / GOP.

[Kleveland]

22. I think it is hell on earth.

The proliferation of sheer evil on this planet astounds me everyday.

"Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way."

Jerry Garcia

[Honeycombe8]

30. Yes. This is really really upsetting. Horrible. More than anything else. Horrible. nt

[blueinredohio]

23. To use it as a dick because the wuss doesn't have one

[RussBLib]

24. yeah, quit saying that Trump isn't getting anything done

Maybe no BIG legislative items but they are wreaking havoc on the regulatory agencies. Don't look behind the curtain!

[pansypoo53219]

25. that elephant had more soul & brains than that mother fucking twat.

[bigtree]

36. no doubt

Link to tweet

[Grassy Knoll]

26. Trump Desperately Trying Hard To Find A Big Distraction Away From..

..The Media And His Crooked Russia Scandal.

...Mueller Time!

[kentuck]

27. OMG!

speechless...

[burrowowl]

28. Elephants are a higher order of being than they are.

[Honeycombe8]

29. I heard that on Hardball. This pisses me off more than anything he's done so far. THIS IS SO WRONG!

All the innocent elephants that are going to be killed for their ivory. AND he's propping up a bad ruler, who will reap the monetary benefits.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? PURE EVIL OR WHAT????? This is crazy!

[Angry Dragon]

31. idiots????

[guss]

32. they dont care

Its just a symbol for how soulless they are.
That is what they are doing to America.

[marble falls]

33. What's wrong with these people? Easier question: what's right with these people? ....

other than the wing of their politics.

But we can fix it. Vote 2018 and 2020 and any special elections in between now and 2020.

[JHB]

34. Simple: They're shitbags.

The only conceivable reason to "understand" their point of view is to is to better position ourselves to crush its influence in modern politics.