My MAGAt relatives love to visit National parks. SHitler just enshittified them.

[CousinIT]

Dirty Toilets, Grumpy Visitors And Vandalism: Get Ready For Summer In The Parks

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/dirty-toilets-grumpy-visitors-and-vandalism-get-ready-summer-parks?

National park visitors could be confronted by "chaos" this summer if the Trump administration does not lift its hold on season hirings — soon —, says former National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis.

"It will be chaos. There will be a lot of dirty toilets and a lot of visitors unsatisfied with their experience, and hopefully not too much damage to the resource," Jarvis told the Traveler during a phone call Thursday. "But if you don't have folks on the ground out there, we certainly saw this during the last shutdown [in 2018-19] when they didn't staff the parks, and we saw vandalism, intentional damage."

The ramifications could affect a suite of crucial operations in the parks, everything from plumbing and electrical work in park buildings to critical water testing, snowplowing roads and sanitation treatment, he said.

The National Park Service, like many other federal agencies, has been traumatized by the administration's hiring freeze and "deferred resignation" offer, under which Trump is trying to get federal employees to quit, by promising them pay through September.

The agency already was struggling on a daily basis due to underfunding and lack of personnel prior to the Republican's second term. According to the National Parks Conservation Association, staffing to operate national parks is down 20 percent, or nearly 3,500 full-time jobs, since 2010.

[JBTaurus83]

1. Next up

Privatization of the parks.

[Ilsa]

4. Nah, Drump will just take ownership and turn

the parks into shitty golf courses and clubs for the ultra wealthy.

[DBoon]

6. Like what DeSantis tried to do with Florida's state parks?

[rubbersole]

5. Gotta drill baby drill...

[progressoid]

12. Yep. Open them up to ATVs.

[1WorldHope]

2. That evil ogre 👹

[dutch777]

3. Oh, just close them, the flora and fauna need a few year's rest anyway. Chickens will come home to roost.

Until folks see what pain and disruption Mr. Knee Jerk will cause, they will just be in the same fog that allowed so many to vote for him like that was a good ideal.

[JI7]

8. Exactly this. Even then they will try to blame democrats or anyone else

but it will take these thugs repeatedly happening and their personal vacation plans bring ruined for them to even consider something is wrong.

[mackdaddy]

7. Trump will just sell them to some Billionaires.

He has stated one of his goals is to sell half of all government property. He can just include parks and wildlife preserves.

Donald Trump to Sell Off Half of All Federal Property: What to Know

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sell-off-half-all-federal-property-what-know-downsize-cut-costs-2026412

[mn9driver]

9. The Trumpers that infest this country are long overdue

for a right wing enema. And they are about to get one. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.

45 years of unanswered hard right agitprop will take a long time and a lot of suffering before the brainwashed figure it out, if they ever do.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. The MAGAots gun lovers

will probably rejoice. With no authorities in the National Parks, they will feel free to hunt, (probably poach) the amazing wildlife previously protected within park boundaries.......

Teddy Roosevelt is rolling over in his grave.....................

[modrepub]

11. Not Going To Make It To Summer

Funding runs out in March.

There’s a high probability the government will shut down in a month. Could be for a long time. I wouldn’t plan on visiting a NPS or other federal space this year. Go to your local or state park, preferably in a Blue state.

[Harker]

13. Perhaps they missed the clue that Trumpsky provided when he said...

"I don't care about you, I just want your vote."

[Orrex]

14. You'll be amazed at how quickly they find it in their hearts to forgive him

simultaneously finding a way to blame Democrats.