EPA message to the little people: If you like your river, you can’t keep your river.

The EPA has pardoned itself from paying claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado the summer of 2015.

The EPA said the claims could be refiled in federal court, or Congress could authorize payments.

But attorneys for the EPA and the Justice Department concluded the EPA is barred from paying the claims because of sovereign immunity, which prohibits most lawsuits against the government.

“The agency worked hard to find a way in which it could pay individuals for damages due to the incident, but unfortunately, our hands are tied,” EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said.

The EPA is hiding behind the Federal Tort Claims Act, indicating that it prevents the agency from paying claims the result from “discretionary” government actions. Congress passed the law to allow government agencies to act “without the fear of paying damages in the event something went wrong while taking the action,” according to its press release.

However, many people are not buying into that reasoning.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/4817864-155/epa-says-it-cant-pay-economic?fullpage=1

National Geographic @NatGeo
Since it was unveiled to the public on Memorial Day in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial has become one of the world’s best-known monuments—and a key stop for millions of annual visitors to Washington, D.C.
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9:01 AM · May 30, 2022

The visitors come for all sorts of reasons, as the Washington Post explains:

They come to learn, to give thanks, to protest, to be inspired, to propose, to eat lunch, to walk dogs, to peddle T-shirts, to snap selfies, to launch school trips, to shoot movie scenes, to share a kiss, to have a nightcap, to give speeches, to ask for votes, to pray for change, to mourn America’s greatest sin and remember its greatest ideals, to hope that the union Abraham Lincoln died to preserve will endure. //

The official opening occurred on this day 100 years ago in a ceremony attended by about 50,000 people, with 2 million more listening on radio. It had been 57 years since President Abraham Lincoln was felled by an assassin’s bullet just days after the Civil War had officially ended.

How many more red flags would the authorities like before they act? Remember, in this case, he would have been a minor. Why was he not ever removed from the home? In fact, I can’t find any evidence CPS ever even attempted to intervene. Instead, it appears the shooter went to live with his grandmother after a final blow-up with his mother.

It’s insane that the conversation is now about banning 9mm ammunition rather than about issues that could have actually stopped this shooting. Heck, it’s not just insane, it’s infuriating. People are rushing to garner their long-held political goals that would do nothing to prevent mass shootings instead of worrying about the problems staring the nation in the face. Schools obviously need better security, and if we can give them hundreds of billions of mostly unspent cash for COVID, I’m pretty sure we can afford to install some magnetic doors.

But past that, there needs to be a serious conversation about the lack of action in regards to clearly mentally ill people. Ramos should have been arrested many times over.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
Who do you trust less? Real question.
Politicians 75.7%
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Final results
7:54 PM · May 26, 2022

Elon Musk @elonmusk
Replying to @elonmusk
.@aoc I dare you to run the same poll with your followers
8:01 PM · May 26, 2022

David Weissman @davidmweissman
Let's prove how phony the right’s ridiculous polls are by doing one of our own. Who do you trust more @elonmusk @AOC
Elon Musk 81.2%
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Final results
6:28 PM · May 27, 2022

David Weissman @davidmweissman
Replying to @davidmweissman
Not sure how this poll flipped but I won’t delete it and will take the L.
11:19 PM · May 27, 2022

When we honor and remember those who gave their lives on Memorial Day, we should also remember the parents, spouses, siblings, and children left behind – their pain and their sacrifice. They gave all.

Elon Musk
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May 30, 2022
Replying to @HardDriveMag
Less funny than SNL on a bad day. This could make a drunk person sober. Try harder!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The reason you’re not that funny is because you’re woke.

Humor relies on an intuitive & often awkward truth being recognized by the audience, but wokism is a lie, which is why nobody laughs.
2:10 PM · May 30, 2022

The deaths of children and teachers in the Uvalde school shooting are directly linked to the Biden Border Invasion.

There has been little mention in corporate media that the school district in the small town of Uvalde, Texas, has been locked down at least 48 times this year due to law enforcement pursuits of illegal aliens and human smugglers.

Where is the FBI? How many lockdowns does a school district have to go through until the federal government realizes there is something majorly wrong here?

The politicized FBI spends untold resources fishing into the lives of anyone with the last name Trump and anyone who went to DC on January 6th, but a school that has been locked down dozens of times over the course of a few months is of no concern.

The FBI is now investigating the police response to the shooting in Uvalde. Where were they when the school was under threat dozens of times in recent months?

The Justice Department recently paid out $127.5 million to Parkland families because they ignored the threat until after children died in that 2018 school shooting.

The corporate media glossed over that story just as they have barely mentioned the fact that the Uvalde school district lives in a state of persistent lockdown from border threats.

Neither of those stories fit the leftist narrative that Second Amendment supporters and their guns are to blame for shootings so the corporate media has little need to report them.

In fact, the FBI has repeatedly ignored threats to American children and the corporate media is ignoring this corruption because the DOJ targets the political enemies of the leftist media. //

What we know now about the events leading up to the Uvalde shooting is that students, teachers, and staff had become desensitized and clearly shrugged off the lockdown as another border threat not related to the school.

Teachers and staff at Robb Elementary had been trained and had a detailed plan to protect from threats like a school shooter, but the school was locked down so frequently that lockdowns had become a sort of joke. //

If the private schools around DC or in the Hamptons were locked down 48 times in just a few months, you know that something would have been done.

Instead, this majority Hispanic school district full of legal immigrants and American citizens was ignored because they are lower-class citizens in the minds of the leftist elite. //

Joe Biden and his handlers threw open our borders and children died because Uvalde is being overrun and the citizens of that town became desensitized to deadly threats. The FBI is complicit in the deaths of these children because the only “punishment” they receive is an order to payout millions of taxpayer dollars to those whose children they allowed to die.

Worse, this invasion and subsequent shooting leaves a perfect blueprint for the next copycat shooter.

If we really want to stop shootings, our borders must be secure, our Justice Department must be cleaned out, and the evil left must be stopped.