• jabeez
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    7 hours ago

    Wild, would assume a hiking community would lean pretty solidly blue and be livid about cuts to national parks. As the last handful of elections have shown though, there are idiots all over the political spectrum.

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      47 seconds ago

      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.”

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      27 seconds ago

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