Trump's Environmental Rollbacks Could Be the End of This Swamp

[@rg9810]

When a federal prison is the biggest job creator in ANY area...it's time to reconsider what system you are living within.

[@Ceez542]

Yeah theyre soooo close to getting it and they seriously think that the mining company will follow the regulations when they have over 50 violations from the past?

[@johnadams5992]

but i thought it was the land of the free

[@thewifipassword3942]

Ok George

[@chittofrye6841]

@@johnadams5992yea land of the freemasons

[@2011blueman]

@J G They are the byproduct of prisons period, in fact state run prisons generally provide more and better paying jobs than for-profit prisons.

[@cartilago6435]

Not the kind of swamp people thought trump would drain.

[@johnarrington1057]

Good one. Underrated comment

[@chaddobson9174]

I’m sure Biden has signed a executive order already 🤣🤣

[@chaddobson9174]

Don’t worry about the 700 jobs worry about the thousands Biden has already gotten rid of!

[@lawnman3638]

@@chaddobson9174 You won't be laughing when you can't find clean water or food for your kids.

[@chaddobson9174]

@@lawnman3638 how do you I won’t are you God?

[@emily.3329]

Destroying more environment than necessary for ones personal gain is absolutely selfish. America and many other countries need more environmentally friendly methods of collecting recourses.

[@frizza241]

You know.....at some point we gotta stop being so damn greedy...once it's done it's done..can't bring it back

[@PHlophe]

which is why some the companies that mine in the african continent and locals can't fight them off . titanium is being extracted here but cobalt is elsewhere also. oh both sides you have caucasian men frying the entire planet for money they are not going to carry to their grave

[@anonymoususername1091]

People who are pro-abortion and then try to save the environment make me laugh

[@PHlophe]

@@anonymoususername1091 its pro choice hunnie, but what's the link with the environment.

[@anonymoususername1091]

@@PHlopheI like the way I said it better. And the fact that you think killing human babies makes no negative impact on the environment, yet think killing animal babies is wrong is so ironic and hypocritical.

[@v0idk1tty]

They don't care.

[@internet_internet]

People were literally chanting “drain the swamp” Kinda hard not to take them literally.

[@rollcam321]

If we don’t reserve we won’t last, what is natural will always overcome. God bless

[@grantsmythe8625]

Well yes, Nature will win, even if it has to force extinction upon the Human Race. Looks like we could a better way than forcing Nature to wipe us out. Maybe not though.

[@tcamvideo]

AMÉN.

[@Naturemanuk]

We as humans do not deserve this planet. 99.9% of people treat this planet like a disposable object. We will ultimately in the future cause our own extinction.

[@rollcam321]

@@Naturemanuk toy ever see the movie wall e? Or however it’s spelled.... well that pretty much sums up how I feel about our future.

[@3M0710N]

The way that woman speaks brings tears to my eyes

[@miguelmartin901]

I feel so stupid I thought you could the real Musk and had to check your channel...

[@Guccihotwheels]

Ok Elon Musk

[@nopreach]

who are you trying to fool? reptiloids can't cry ;D

[@SarahSmith-zj2ek]

mate, after a mine comes through your kids are gonna need health insurance.

[@The_Tiffster]

Even WITH health insurance, they'll be sick and have a reduced IQ - but, at least you can maybe get them chemo....smh...

[@AmazingJayB51]

They’ll need it, from all the carcinogens from the waste ponds!

[@panache8722]

Dang man dude, TRUMP, when your supporters CALLED for you to “drain the swamp” they didn’t mean LITERALLY, drain a swamp!

[@elkcreekkiowa96]

people don’t even think to clean up the place they destroyed with oil 😩

[@v0idk1tty]

We're going to die. I have no faith that the greedy rich will ever stop until there is nothing left. No amount of complaining, yelling, arguing has changed it thus far and there are signs everywhere the environment is being irreversibly changed and they. Do. Not. Care.

[@internet_internet]

Im from a suburb in Texas that grew very rapidly while I was young. I watched every area of untouched land, pastures, & woods that I played/explored in when I was a kid all get dug up before my eyes & turned into roads, neighborhoods, apartments, condos, townhomes, a golf course, a very large grocery store & shopping center, and a multi-lane toll road. Every creek/stream that was in our immediate/particular area got dug up, filled in with either concrete, rocks, dirt, & grass, and turned into drainage ditches or rainwater runoff areas. The creeks/streams that we fished in & picked crawfish & little shrimp-things out of the water are gone. Either dry, or destroyed. 95% + of the wildlife in our area is gone. The peace & quiet is gone. It’s been heartbreaking to watch it happen over all these years.

[@lionheartglass]

The same thing is happening here in NC. It takes 45 minutes to an hour to reach fields and forest. It used to take 3 to 5 minutes.

[@internet_internet]

@@lionheartglass Jesus.

[@magneto44]

never trust a mining corporation

[@astroloudboy]

*Shrek: first Lord Maximus Farquaad and now Trump wants to take away my Swamp?* 😄

[@Tommy-bm8ig]

😆

[@plumhunter9158]

Who is Farquaad?

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s4eb2q]

@@plumhunter9158 The villain from the series of films that are collectively referred to as "Shrek".

[@samanthab1923]

Plum Hunter John Lithgow

[@hallooos7585]

G E T O U T O F M Y S W A M P!!!!

[@chelseabarron2546]

Morticia and Gomez were right the swamps should be left alone!

[@djack915]

If the land is RUINED, NOBODY will be there, NO TOWN or WILDLIFE

[@jackiepollard3651]

Just look back thru history for the negative and lasting catastrohic damage that mining has and continues to do from anywhere. How mmany times do we need to be shown that when you mess with the make up of the environment, there is NEVER enough benefit to outweigh the cost ($, healthwise, to the ecology, endangering species, etc.(.

[@Bonifazius00]

At this point I am so disillusioned that I am thinking: Well, in 30 years or so most parts of Georgia are gonna be under water anway...

[@The_Tiffster]

If they mine there...swamp protects that area from drowning...

[@brightmooninthenight2111]

Yeah but if The Flood returns, due to some cosmic cycle regarding the electromagnetic waves of the galactic core and our sun, and hits us with a flood like that happened at the end of the pleistocene and the beginning of the holocene, it really will be under water for good

[@SamDiscovers]

No mining, not under current mining standards, they are not held accountable for returning lands to their natural state when they are done using them for their own personal benefit. We have seen this in Tongass Application, Pebble Mine, Boundary Waters Mine Application, virtually all of them.

[@jy4627]

It's Georgia we are talking about. The big wigs here like to destory anything and everything beautiful and natural in this State to make a penny. Or, they keep it to themselves and turn it all into Golf Courses. No joke, just Google Map this State and count how many golf courses are here compared to Public Land.

[@gonzolonzo1383]

Lmao who would've thunk when he said "drain the swamp", he was referring to the real swamp, he just didn't know it.

[@justinmanzo3945]

They can save the small town by opening up shops and places like an Observatory, they can add jobs, insing solar panels and stuff like that, by opening up the mine they are taking away the people's jobs that depend on the swamp, they are simply shifting the unemployment to another town

[@michaeloravetz1594]

Dot let them open it will ruin it

[@WallyTony]

What they will ruin is a swamp. Let's put people first.

[@romulus_]

@@WallyTony people have had enough. these rubes can move.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

The best analogy here is if you punched a hole into the side of a bathtub, just because you made a tiny hole on the side, doesn’t mean you didn’t damage it. 😐

[@Ryan-yx9kz]

There is a giant sarracenia minor variety only found here. This could really suck for the carnivorous plant community.

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

T****: "lets drain the swamp..." Mines: Great we can let loose our pollution... Alligators: "WTAF??!!!"

[@slyfox5017]

I wouldn't be mad of another asteroid hit earth...

[@PatrickdaStarr]

Can you guys please do a story on No roads to ruin in Florida!! They are going to destroy precious wildlife habitat in Florida for toll roads.

[@thathobbitlife]

I remember reading about Roosevelt and the folks in America were so gleeful to explore the new National Parks when they were made.. people came by the thousands on railroad which all of that provided jobs and of course it was a job boom. Besides that, it gave people a great sense of wonder, of pride, joy, spiritual wholeness, wellness, whatever else you want to add Im sure it was felt. People have forgotten that America was the first place ever to make a National Park, and we just dont have pride in our natural areas as much as 100 years ago +. I realize the swamps arent necessarily Nat'l Parks but theyre beloved treases all the same, and I feel we need to protect them. Once ruined and gone, we cannot recreate them. They are Nature made, period. We mess this up with greed, thats it, gone. We are really going to miss clean air and water as creatures who depend on it naturally would.

[@katherineallen9060]

Stop the mining!!!

[@FullyCharged22]

Too bad it wasn't the end of the Washington swamp.

[@qzwx4205]

But trump said he would drain the swamp... pretty sure thats not what people thought he meant...

[@theUNEXPLAINABLEuap]

Trump didn’t do anything to this fuckin swamp. These people just compared the GameStop stock frenzy to white supremacism. Do you REALLY think they are being accurate and unbiased?? Especially with the name Trump in the title? Nothing happened to the swamp. This is part of the climate change propaganda for the Biden admin. That’s why they uploaded it now.

[@potatomatop9326]

That swamp won't end cos trump's gonna live there soon.

[@wearewatchingyouhumans6956]

period

[@miliba]

the swamp and his residence are pretty far away

[@wouterdewaal6998]

Budget Shrek

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s4eb2q]

@@wouterdewaal6998 😆

[@PBBoogie99]

This is truly a natural treasure if the world. I’ve spent many days in this swamp, growing up about 40 miles from there.

[@n00dles79]

Has any state done due diligence in anything ever?

[@n00dles79]

@M Pulverman hah, fair play bruv.

[@Mental_Egg]

This will create three mining jobs and thousands of super fund clean up jobs decades after the mining in done.

[@Light84736]

Anyone who See's this message you are so valuable and special to Jesus, he died for your sins so that they can be forgiven ,come to him as you are doesn't matter how broken you think you are , he loves you so unconditionally , no matter where you've been and he knows you personally doesn't matter what you done he'll forgive and wait for you to come to him so he can give you rest no joke he loves you so much! And also ,I was spiritually dead wanted to die didn’t care about life ,I went through so much in life physically and mentally that my feeling became num in a way and I started seeking God and He found me he revealed stuff to me and why I had to go through certain stuff in my life, only to bear more fruit in my life ,I’m not telling people about Jesus because some pastor told me to or something else I’m telling people because He gives a peace that surpasses understanding 😔👍

[@Naturemanuk]

I lived in the swamps for 2 years on a small boat

[@amosjsoma]

$64.7 million per year. That's what they are worried about, cash in their pockets, not the wildlife. Who the hell are they trying to kid?

[@octavioperez985]

That was bogus of Trump to sign away the most important resource we have!! Keep our water ways clean and protect them for the future generations of people and wildlife!!

[@TheGraveyShow]

He was working on killing swamp creatures but it wasn't in Georgia, it was in Washington D.C.

[@jacksonmacpherson6101]

Damn, so how many of them got arrested? What? Zero?

[@mrmojorisin6951]

At the Capitol building? I'm sure that's what he meant.

[@gab.lab.martins]

Should’ve voted for Stacey Abrams.

[@harrisonturner1716]

Yo he ain’t the president anymore, we need an updateee

[@harutyunyan93]

His doings are still in effect. People seem to not understand how policy or lack of policy (deregulation) works. There are measurable damages from bad decisions that can last for years after initial policies implemented. For example, Trump isn't president, but his tax cuts are still in effect.

[@romulus_]

@White Lives Matter why not pull yourself up by your bootstraps instead of playing the victim?

[@harrisonturner1716]

@@harutyunyan93 I understand that, what irks me is they refer to him as president trump in the video

[@harutyunyan93]

@@harrisonturner1716 that makes no sense. If anything that is too much courtesy extended to trump from anti trumpers. We refer to Obama as president. To Bush too. Clinton. Etc... Up till Jan 19th, biden was called Vice president. And people will refer to Pence as "vice president pence" Is your issue with the context of the video or with a long lasting american tradition of referring to former officials by their former title? Because seems to me your problem is semantic and not based in policy and politics.

[@erickr.8977]

This is honestly sad. The South is the most Biodiverse environment in the United States of America 🇺🇸 but it is the least protected. This needs to change and we need to step up and save these Fragile Environments. Something like this is happening in the Appalachicola River but with Oil Mining in the River basin. If anybody is reading this please go sign that petition as well to stop the Oil drilling in the Appalachicola River.

[@archiepratt2499]

Dress like Shrek and have a donkey, they'll get global coverage and hopefully that'll change public opinion

[@williamchamberlain2263]

4:46 ; "Our country doesn't have a decent health care system, or fair access to education, so we've got to sacrifice our land for corporate profit, and risk putting 700 other people out of work."

[@howthech]

Can we all agree, Trump set back our country by a decade?

[@ColorblindBullpup]

nah

[@josuecabrera2401]

Not till Creepy Joe goes to prison.

[@romulus_]

far more.

[@willpgarrett2940]

Trump is the worst environmental POTUS in U.S. history. Ever.

[@2011blueman]

Environmental legacies for presidents are hard to evaluate. For example FDR protected 230 million acres of public land during his presidency. On the other hand he's responsible for all the nuclear test sites that have poisoned many areas (e.g the St. Louis West Lake Landfill Superfund Site and Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands).

[@thathobbitlife]

I cant stand how easily he manipulated people but they really should have seen it coming. He was always a fraud.

[@carlover9988]

I took a field trip here as a kid. One of the most memorable field trips I've ever taken it was awesome.

[@MrEtherShot]

“Orange man still bad, even though he’s no longer in office”.

[@Galactic_fart_sniffer]

Daddy would you like some sausages?

[@MrEtherShot]

Drew Babos daddy is that you?? I got one question!

[@aoflex]

Vice, what are you going to do after a few months when all Trump stories dry up? Learn to code.

[@AMNRAH]

don't you worry ur stained trailer park maga hat, you'll stay tuned for sure -- like a moth to a porch light ..

[@BonShula]

Cope

[@Euphoryaaa]

@@AMNRAH 🤣🤣🤣

[@aoflex]

@@AMNRAH I actually have a physics PhD which means I am almost certainly smarter than you and everyone else in this thread.

[@larrywoodward8612]

Thank God somebody cares!

[@AmazingJayB51]

You can never mine safely. Don’t believe it.

[@josephgutierrez4440]

NO MORE BLAMING HIM FOR THE WORLDS PROBLEMS HES GONE NOW!! GET IT TOGEATHER PEOPLE!!

[@AncientPulse]

Thats what they are trying to do but he just left, so there's a lot of undoing that needs to happen.

[@josephgutierrez4440]

@@AncientPulse just like they're trying to get rid of ice even though they are the ones who put ice there in the first place LOL people are so stupid it amazes me. None of you even know who put what laws in place.

[@AncientPulse]

@@josephgutierrez4440 You can't realize something failed and adjust huh ? Ik thats the typical republican ideology but when something doesn't work we usually try something else lol

[@josephgutierrez4440]

@@AncientPulse you're looking at wife through this to party perspective I'm looking at Life as a realist... you don't even have a real picture or name for your profile that makes you completely irrelevant as a reliable source to anything. Nor do you have to confront anything that you say as an actual person. You're just a person that lives behind a keyboard and doesn't know anything about real life or living in reality. they know they are for sure wrong about so many laws and have for a long time. And they are not doing anything for the people, either party. The Democratic party is going to do what's best for the Democratic party and the Republican party is going to do what's the best for the Republican party. They do not care about you. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[@fabrizio483]

"Money isn't everything" - easy to say when it's not you without a job and with a family to feed.

[@AlvarLagerlof]

Mine next to a potential unesco site. Damn.

[@WallyTony]

Vice just blames everything on Trump.

[@92656trw]

Trump who?

[@manuelwgiddensjr6536]

Leave the wetlands be or you'll have another florida wetlands fiasco on your hands.

[@alansilverman8500]

What'd you expect? He SAID he was going to "drain the swamp"...!

[@issakandah1936]

She should invite state heads and take them on a canoe tour to see its beauty

[@turkmukral308]

Why worry about cryptocurrency quotes if there is FBC14 algorithm?

[@hiddensalami4334]

WhAt ArE yOu DoIn In My SwAmP!!!

[@gloomsouls]

The end of the world is coming, nothing at all lasts forever. It's just so sad to live to see these times of such death and decay.

[@user-ts2ny8jg9d]

That's life frankly

[@BonShula]

They said that in the 1900's

[@yungmentalproblems]

@@BonShula compare 1900s locations covered in ice with today

[@monty_wolfkitty]

Maybe 30 years left, use them wisely.

[@gloomsouls]

@@BonShula But they didn't know what we now know today. There wasn't almost 8 billion people on the planet back then. Too many people is the ultimate reason for all the climate problems/issues. Overconsumption of electricity, gas, oil, food, water, plastic etc.

[@ToudaHell]

THIS. Is why I have up on environmentalism. I spent 8 years studying ecology and environmental biology.

[@vinayakiyadav7265]

And yet I see people arguing online about ethical oil drilling methods & ethical 'exploitation' of natural resources for the purpose of creating more jobs. Are we seriously arguing about money vs ecosystem?

[@nokiot9]

Isn’t this Biden’s responsibility now?

[@Lucky14970]

If the mining companies were smart they would have people dump random chemicals in the ponds that would be the biproduct of producing titanium/minerals so that when they open the factory it would look like they arent dumping anything.

[@hiltonwatkins6750]

As was said in the end of my favorite movie, Fargo... “For a little bit of money. There’s more to life then a little money, you know. Don’t you know that? And here ya are. And it’s a beautiful day. “

[@ryanlove8242]

You're gonna go and piss off shrek. Don't go destroying shreks home because you're gonna piss him off and he will f**k you up, homes. You saw what happened to Lord Farquad (Lord Fuckwad). Him and donkey might even join forces and smash lmfao oh god i always respond to insanity with humor. I guess it's one of my strong points. :)

[@ebercastanon995]

I mean we’ve seen multiple outcomes of mines near natural places, they still don’t do much, they do dispose of it but most of the time it ends up on the people

[@manphins]

It’s crazy that even with Simeon thing like this the threat is still thought of as economic, the eco tourism or the swamp based jobs, what about the actual ecosystems and the devastating impact it’d have on the swamp itelf

[@plumhunter9158]

Trump was such a nature lover - when it could make him some mooolA

[@ar21angler76]

trump and his sons are not nature lovers i am a big time hunter and and fisherman and if you allow this you are not an lover of the outdoors those guys his sons hunt for status just look at what they hunt they are lovers of money not the enviroment

[@bluedevilg3542]

Lol 😂 definitely not nature lovers more like money lovers

[@QuasiTraction]

Wait. Did Trump LITERALLY drain a swamp?

[@kenlandon6130]

Wheeler and Pruitt did take care of Superfund. But everything else they did was horrible

[@nickprice701]

Frequent visitor of Okefenokee. I've seen first hand what mines can do in our local area. From Dupont to chemours and in-between. Travel south to keystone and ask any local about the mines. They have the money to beat any small town.

[@johndoe-li8oy]

the woman at the end made the best point.

[@Lucky14970]

That "surface water" looks like dirty toilet water.

[@JoshuaVarghese]

He has successfully drained the swamp

[@seriousblack5018]

Filling the metaphorical swamp and draining the literal one

[@b.richardsalas1393]

So this is what he meant when he said "drain the swamp"

[@chelseaschaefer8091]

Soooo lobbyists really got the regulations pulled back......this is why lobbying in politics should be regulated

[@anthonylezama1645]

Shrek: *sweating intensifies*

[@thewifipassword3942]

So what'll it be, Putting people back into jobs but possibly effecting an entire important wildlife reserve, or protecting a wildlife reserve but leave many people without jobs.

[@twt000]

Did you hear $67 million and growing in eco-tourism/swamp tours?

[@thewifipassword3942]

@@twt000 that doesn't assist the people that are jobless. While yeah I know it's good that they are making money, none of that can be flushed back into the community when half of it is unemployed

[@twt000]

@@thewifipassword3942 It goes directly to the community. The mine could ruin the swamp and create a net loss in jobs. The mine/mining does not put hardly any money back into communities.

[@kenlandon6130]

4:53 Maybe if the kids don't have health insurance cause of the lost jobs, DONT TIE HEALTH INSURANCE TO JOBS! This is why we need Medicare for all

[@seebass7]

i thought we were draining the swamps. Now we are saving the swamps?

[@survivalistboards]

Vice is going downhill with its obsession with Trump.

[@twt000]

Swamp tours Hell Yeah. No Mine!

[@j4k3vlogs]

Jobs are not worth the destruction of a natural landscape. I’m sorry that’s a shitty fucking thing to say but it’s the truth. What we need is a government that invests in GREEN industry that doesn’t mine our national and state parks, protected areas and wildlife refugees.

[@alexstrauss5264]

always true, people always run on the promise of jobs but the underlying truth is that most of the jobs they want will not even be able to pay for a one bedroom apartment, we don't need more jobs just better jobs

[@theFLCLguy]

He said he'd drain the swamp.

[@kyusim3745]

what I wanna know is the people whose lifestyle depends on the wildlife refuge did they vote for trump or biden (donkey or elephant)? If Biden then ok but if Trump I just have to wonder.

[@The_Tiffster]

Good point.

[@loki_anonymous_0249]

Why do I cringe so much when they talk about draining the swamp 😂

[@gregorszurnicki41]

Do you guys remember the slogan “better living thru chemistry “ DuPont

[@popcornsaidfu8757]

PFOA-C8! DuPont just looking out for the little guy.

[@gregorszurnicki41]

@M Pulverman I know just being a wise ass.

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

"I'll be the first to oppose it..." Then it will be too late... once the proposal is passed... It's like living below an avalanche... once it starts.... it's all over...

[@MohdArif-pl3sy]

What are you doing in my swamp?!

[@larrywoodward8612]

That place sucks! I'd rather profit from changing it......... wtf is wrong with us to be that desperate . Addicted to money

[@karmakazi219]

Trump did say he was going to drain the swamp....

[@kogabuu2657]

Save the swamp or depend on foreign countries for resources

[@ChrisHansen.]

rather depend on foreign countries than having cancer at 40 and expecting my children and their children to have the same.

[@coywolfoutdoor540]

Sterlin Archer isn't going to be very happy when he hears about this