‘A travesty to this nation’: People are destroying Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park

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'A travesty to this nation.' People are destroying Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park.

 

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SophiaArmen We have to stand up to these White Nationalists Neo Nazis Trump advocates! Trump’s the United States of America’s greatest enemies!

A tree allegedly“chopped”down and it’s a travesty. What do ya call a president walking out of a meeting when he doesn’t get his way. poutus

PS that is a rock

Travesty?

Pure scum would do this

🤦🏻‍♂️ I apologise for my city. Not all of us in the 419 are ignorant like this.

This is a TRAIN WRECK. Thanks Trump.

Who are these lunatics that think it's cool to vandalize and raze a national park?

Vandals the Scourge of Society. Nothing better to do with their time . I should feel sorry for them but i dont .

Hand sovereignty back to the Indigenous peoples. Europeans have trashed the joint.

i don't think anything makes me angrier about the hissy fit this fool occupying the whitehouse is throwing than this.

This is the work of the Cult of Trump......pure and simple.......PLEASE CLOSE THE PARK UNTIL THE BABYSITTERS CAN BE RE-HIRED.

horton_niko Ugly!!!!!!

This is a GD travesty. People can be such scumbags. Goodlord!

You know it's kids or young adults doing this....lack of common sense dumbasses...close the main roads off...

About 40% of this nation's 'people' are barbaric trolls. They simply do not care about anything other than their own instant gratification. They, along with our so-called leaders, are destroying this nation from the inside out. Terrorism? Yeah, it's right here folks!!!

Nothing like a Manufactured crisis

Meanwhile,,,2 days after the govt shutdown,you people were complaining about toilets overflowing and garbage everywhere...how does that happen in 2 days...meanwhile,port a John's are pumped out every week....and they are serviced by the porta john company...

So...tell me how a few Forrest Rangers protect Trees in a national park that's 1,000's of acres in size ? Quit creating story's and acting like this stuff hasn't happened before when the parks were fully staffed!!!

Probably,,,the Democratic voters

Yes, why aren't they closed? Obama closed them during the 2013 shutdown, and none of this happened.

Thus we need regulations. Shut it down. Totally makes me sick.

hblodget Well, they are definitely not illegal immigrants..

shaunking Wouldn't it be a strange turn of events if the people who tore down the threes turned out to be illegals.

Resist___45 Thanks to Individual 1 and his insane (vanity) ideas - enabled by the GOP, let's not forget.

AllResistNews Humans really suck. I don't get it.

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ToriRob11 😰😰😰

Photoshop?

Why would someone do this my son asked me and I said because some people are just terrible human beings.

Fahrenthold We now live in a country full of IDIOTS! Zinke destroyed the parks his way and these fools are doing it their way!

Democrats did this.

Fahrenthold But isn’t this what MAGA wants? No government oversight and the personal right to do as they please. If I want to be an asshole, that’s my right?

Fahrenthold Who is this stupid?

shaunking The ignorance ship has landed.

Fahrenthold People = shit

shaunking WITAF is wrong with people in this country!?!? These are the kind of people that need to be put down like a diseased animal.

These are probably the same outstanding Americans who want to build a wall to keep immigrants from coming in & ‘destroying’ our country...

Fahrenthold And we wonder where the term 'ugly American' came from.

Find them and apply the harshest penalties allowed by law...Singapore law

Fahrenthold The Eagles filmed their first album cover in Joshua Tree. They managed to not destroy a thing — as did all of the rest of us that hiked there. In those days, we all packed out what we packed in and reveled in the glory of nature.

Fahrenthold

The of stupid & disrepectful people in this country is far larger than i ever imagined

Give MAGAs their own settlement and watch it turn into Mad Max Fury Road in 20 years

There was a time when respect ruled the land and selfishness didn't. Now selfishness rules the land and respect doesn't. Now more than ever, laws and oversight are critical to manage this sad inversion. Do you trust your food, the air, or a building without regulated standards?

No speculation on who may be doing it?

$5 will get you $10 that the folks doing this are leftists trying to make a point.

Our national parks should be protected, but why it’s those “trees” I’ll never understand. They’re glorified yucca plants and they’re butt-ugly. Anything that can thrive in such a harsh environment near major California freeways can’t really be all that endangered.

Mad Max the beginning

Also, does anyone else feel the the current administration is almost celebrating the destruction of our national parks during the shutdown?

I truly feel like our national parks are gifts from the universe. Could someone please explain why people would do such things? I really don't understand the mindset. 😟

Humans are so vile.

TracyWortman I see this defilement,this exercise in low-brow human devolution..i look around&see examples everywhere of this descent into distilled stupidity It reminds me of a scene in a fav movie of mine B. C. Rock (full movie link; IMDB listing in subtweet)

Awful.

Not 'people.' Vandals.

We became a global embarrassment the moment we let Russia saddle us with the stooge. This is just shit icing on the turd cake.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Understand this administration does not care. In fact they’d just as soon C a hotel where that rock is. Or an oil derek. with 45’s name on it

Thanks for the shutdown realDonaldTrump ... but also, WTF people?

Hillary had it right.... Deplorables just gotta deplore.

Thanks America.

If AI is reducing employment 40% in 15yrs, maybe the country should employ them as rakers to oversee what parents have failed to instruct on...?

We can’t have nice things

End the shutdown!

Wtf

We all know that the shutdown is pure political theater with only one objective - to bolster realDonaldTrump’s stranglehold on his political base in an attempt to increase his chances of winning re-election in 2020. One more reason why he must go.

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Americans. Smh.

… that’s American Exceptionalism for you.

It takes a real asshole to do that. Maybe someone should chain them to the rock now that they think they own it. I figure a week or 2 & they'll change their mind about graffiti.

And this is why Obama closed national parks during a shutdown. Thanks, Trump! MAGA

Why are they doing that

'People are only as good as the world allows them to be' - The Joker

Thank the Trump Kakistocracy.

If this is true, it is some lefty making a political point. Hope they get caught.

Democrats have too much time on their hands.

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