I agree that the part that is really messed up is that no one is stopping this.

I mean, just look at the comment fro the user “Ryan” to a post about a new schedule at the visitor’s center:

If you have trouble opening, I’ll copy and paste.

OP from Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park:

“NEW VISITOR CENTER HOURS FROM THE Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks official Facebook Account . . .

Schedule update!

The adjusted schedule for visitor centers are as follows:

⛺️ Foothills Visitor Center is open Wednesday – Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

🌳 Giant Forest Museum is open Friday – Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

⛰️ Kings Canyon Visitor Center is open Thursday – Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.”

This one guy responds: “This sure seems like a lot of cuts given the limited number of job losses that I’ve read about. Is this just a political statement? While I wish the federal government would spend more on parks, I’m questioning my substantial donations at this point if efforts aren’t being made to make the best of the situation.”

To be fair, a lot of the do lean blue and are livid. But there are a lot of angry boomers on FB.

Is this a real picture?

I really hope that this is what’s gonna happen.

I’m a member of a lot of hiking communities on FB. Prior to Trump second presidency, they would blame any kind of problems related to insufficient budgeting to “ sending all money to Ukraine”. Now that he’s the president, and is BLATANTLY cutting budgets to national parks and forests, I see his supporters say “ it’s too bad we donated so much money to the national parks of Ukraine” or “ if Biden did this, you wouldn’t be complaining”, or some version of “ this is necessary, nothing really changed”.

This is starting to sound a lot like the typical Russian mentality.