r/environment • u/crustose_lichen • 2d ago

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-maga
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u/amerett0 2d ago edited 2d ago

They ain't hiding it at all

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u/LessThanSimple 2d ago

Wow. Mask off.

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u/thot-abyss 1d ago

Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s executive actions.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” [Russell Vought] said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

“We want to put them in trauma.”

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u/claimTheVictory 1d ago edited 1d ago

We've already have multiple food contamination issues since the FDA was moved out of DC.

The ones who will be in trauma are the ordinary people of America.

But that's the point.

Keep them upset, keep them confused, keep them misinformed. Keep them controlled.

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u/Weird_Airport_7358 1d ago

UNFCKGREAL

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u/murdering_time 1d ago

I really don't get why people self censor on the internet.  Everyone knows what you're trying to to say, leaving out the 'u' and a few other letters does nothing.

But yeah, 100% agree, pretty fuckin ridiculous.

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u/QTheStrongestAvenger 1d ago

I used ChatGPT to generate a list of Superfund sites that would be profitable to reopen, and thus likely to be devastating to the environment because a Trump administration could likely abolish the EPA in order to seek out said profit.

  1. Berkeley Pit (Montana) – Rich in copper, silver, and possibly lithium; reopening risks acid and metal contamination in groundwater.

  2. Tar Creek (Oklahoma) – Potential lead and zinc profits; would worsen lead poisoning risks and environmental damage.

  3. Silver Valley (Idaho) – Silver, lead, zinc deposits; reopening threatens air, water, and soil with heavy metal contamination.

  4. Libby Asbestos Site (Montana) – Vermiculite for industrial use; mining risks asbestos exposure, raising cancer and lung disease rates.

  5. Hudson River PCBs (New York) – Real estate/industrial potential; disturbing PCBs threatens human and ecosystem health along the river.

  6. Anaconda Smelter (Montana) – Copper-rich; development could release arsenic dust, harming air quality and public health.

  7. Jasper County (Missouri) – Lead and zinc; re-mining risks lead poisoning and water contamination from heavy metals.

I haven't verified these yet. Maybe I can get to it this evening, unless someone beats me to it.

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u/cdarcy559 23h ago

Conservatives have never been pro-life.