DSC Raises $60,000 for Republican National Committee, Trump Jr. Advocates for Future of Hunting

DALLAS - DSC recently hosted a breakfast that raised $60,000 for the Republican National Committee and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. The candidate's son, Donald Trump Jr., served as guest speaker at the breakfast and assured the more than 150 attending DSC members that his father's administration would advocate for hunting and sustainable use. Trump Jr. recognizes the next few years will be crucial to ensuring the future of hunters' rights.

"The candidate's family connection to hunting and its legacy gives DSC a huge opportunity to have the right people in place as advocates for our mission," said Ben Carter, DSC executive director. "Also, like never before, DSC is positioned to become a strong resource to the Trump administration and promote the North American Model of Conservation as the gold standard for environmental policy."

Trump Jr. was introduced to hunting by his grandfather. Growing up, Trump Jr. would spend a few weeks of each summer with his grandfather in the Czech Republic. Over the course of these annual trips, Trump Jr. developed a love and appreciation for wildlife and wild places.

As a big game hunter, Trump Jr. has endured the scorn from anti-hunting groups. The hunter has a great understanding of the value of wildlife and how hunting contributes to the overall health of animal populations and their habitats. Trump Jr. serves as a direct link to the Republican candidate and stands as a strong voice for hunters worldwide.



Source: Dallas Safari Club (DSC)

Do we have a potential secretary of the interior speaking here?!!!

Wheels said:

Do we have a potential secretary of the interior speaking here?!!!

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Hope so

replacement for dan ashe would be nice.

Wish I could have made it to that breakfast although it would have only made the grand total $60,050.00. I would have enjoyed listening to him speak.
Cody

I just saw this am that HSUS and HSI have filed a petition with USFWS to ban the import of leopard (see my post in the Hunting Africa forum http://www.africahunting.com/threads/petition-by-hsus-and-hsi-to-ban-leopard-import.30427/ ) since their numbers "have plummeted by more than 30% in the last 25 years and experts agree that leopard trophy hunting is unsustainable". I think it is critical that we support Trump if we want to save importing any of the Big 5 for Americans.

Custom said:

I just saw this am that HSUS and HSI have filed a petition with USFWS to ban the import of leopard (see my post in the Hunting Africa forum http://www.africahunting.com/threads/petition-by-hsus-and-hsi-to-ban-leopard-import.30427/ ) since their numbers "have plummeted by more than 30% in the last 25 years and experts agree that leopard trophy hunting is unsustainable". I think it is critical that we support Trump if we want to save importing any of the Big 5 for Americans.

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This is scary! They aren't going to stop. There is alot riding on this election.

The Trump kids are great Orators, They did a fine job for their father at the RNC.

If the Hilderbeest steals this election, the outlook for US hunters looks really bleak ....

As hunters we better damn well believe there's a lot riding on this election. As Americans there's even more. The liberal far left is destroying this country's way of life as we once knew it. Obama should rot in hell along with the rest of the liberal democrats.

If Trump wins, its off to Zim for elephant. If Hillary wins, it's off to Texas for the secession(than to Zim for elephant).

cmnhunt said:

If Trump wins, its off to Zim for elephant. If Hillary wins, it's off to Texas for the secession(than to Zim for elephant).

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Love the attitude.

Guys, please, pull your heads out of your collective butts. Neither Hillary nor Trump would be good for the world, much less America. We're in a serious situation and it's no small matter. Do I love the outdoors and the opportunity to hunt? Of course. Do I think the antis need to appeal to reality? Absolutely. But neither is enough to convince me of the value of a Trump administration. Neither is enough to outweigh the overwhelming risk of handing the single most powerful position in the world over to an unstable, unpredictable human being (one who questions why we don't use nukes against some of our adversaries...do any of you want to see WWIII, to see a level of destruction beyond anything imagined, to see civilization as we know it wiped from the face of the earth?). I'm serious, this is no small matter. Please, wake up, get real.

And by the way, climate change is real, too, and it is anthropogenic. Don't let the profiteers and their web of dogma rob your mind of reason. The sooner we come to grips with the TRUE nature of the problem and do something about it, the better. I'm many ways it's already too late, but that's no excuse to fold our arms and resign to an undesirable fate.

Sorry, hate to harp, but if you love life, love your fellow people, and love nature you'll want to think long and hard (and not merely about what you decide come November...heck, in many ways the "decision" is nothing more than an illusion of choice...if you don't believe me, do the research for yourself).

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And by the way, climate change is real, too, and it is anthropogenic. Don't let the profiteers and their web of dogma rob your mind of reason. The sooner we come to grips with the TRUE nature of the problem and do something about it, the better. I'm many ways it's already too late, but that's no excuse to fold our arms and resign to an undesirable fate.

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Please explain this thing you call climate change. I have recently immigrated from middle of the east in last few year and am interested in this. I have heard of this only one time before.

It's best to research the subject online, tapping into a variety of sources (and, above all, educating yourself regarding the source of funding behind scholarly journal entries as not all are beholden to the purity of scientific inquiry, alone).

CTDolan said:

It's best to research the subject online, tapping into a variety of sources (and, above all, educating yourself regarding the source of funding behind scholarly journal entries as not all are beholden to the purity of scientific inquiry, alone).

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Thank you for your help. I just found info from great scientist on MSNBC. His name is Bill Nye and he seem to be unbiased.

Sarcasm and a laugh in the morning always starts the day out right.

Hope everyone has a happy day.

CTDolan said:

And by the way, climate change is real, too, and it is anthropogenic. Don't let the profiteers and their web of dogma rob your mind of reason. The sooner we come to grips with the TRUE nature of the problem and do something about it, the better. I'm many ways it's already too late, but that's no excuse to fold our arms and resign to an undesirable fate.

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Good post

Whether you think climate change is caused by man, is a natural swing that happens every so many 10,000 years, or both the fact is it will cause hundreds of millions or billions of people to be displaced since many/most large cities in the world (including our own in the US) are built right on the shores of rising salt water and it will result in quintillion or sextillion dollars in damage in the next 100 years or so. And that appears to be the best case scenario.

As you said, "I'm many ways it's already too late, but that's no excuse to fold our arms and resign to an undesirable fate".

I live in Minnesota (as I know one or two of you do, also). The changes I've seen in my 40-some years have been dramatic (mostly as it pertains to changes in flora and fauna). But, my largest worry with regard to the election is nuclear. And I'm sorry to have hijacked the thread, but it's important. *Below are some reasons:


"The detonation of 100 nuclear warheads — there are about 15,000 on the planet right now — could kill 2 billion people, according to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

At the president’s disposal right now are a little over 900 nuclear warheads deployed on various “delivery vehicles” around the planet. Some sit atop missiles buried in the ground in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. Some are carried by submarines that are patrolling the North Atlantic and western Pacific. Others are ready to be loaded onto aircraft in Missouri, North Dakota, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.

Some of these warheads can be launched within minutes of the president’s order, hit anywhere in the world within a half hour, and deliver 20 times the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The president can order this without consulting Congress, without being checked by the Supreme Court.

“The longer I’m in the Senate, the more I fear for a major error that somebody makes,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told CQ last month after a hearing on plans to develop a new nuclear cruise missile that could cost $20 billion. “One man, the president, is responsible. He makes an error and, who knows, it’s Armageddon.”

America just nominated two people to inherit this ultimate power. The winner will also inherit an unnerving history of close calls.

In 1961, a B-52 bomber broke up over North Carolina and dropped two warheads to the earth; each had the potential to explode with the force of 200-plus Hiroshimas.

In 1979, Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was told that hundreds of missiles were on their way from the Soviet Union; a minute before he called the president to coordinate a devastating response, he was told that the military had misinterpreted a training exercise.

In 1983 and 1995, Moscow came within minutes of retaliating against false alarms — the first prompted by sunlight reflecting off clouds, the second by a NASA research rocket.

In 2007, six warheads were mistakenly flown from North Dakota to Louisiana before anyone realized that nuclear weapons had been in the air over the United States.

In 2012, an 82-year-old Catholic nun and two fellow peace activists easily intruded into a weapons site in East Tennessee that is nicknamed “the Fort Knox of Uranium” and hosts perhaps the biggest stockpile of fissile material in the world.

North Korea tested a nuclear bomb in January and may be readying another.

Troops are massing along European borders with Russia, which deployed nuclear-capable forces after it annexed Crimea in 2014. In May, NATO began operating a U.S. missile-defense system in Romania, just across the Black Sea.

From 2010 to 2014 the National Nuclear Security Administration was hacked 19 times, according to documents obtained by USA Today.

In the past two years there have been 2,700 cases of illicit trafficking of radiological material around the world.

Former defense secretary William Perry witnessed three false alarms during his service in government, which ended nearly 20 years ago. And yet: “The likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe is greater today than during the Cold War,” Perry said last month in Washington at a dinner with journalists.

There’s the possibility of accident or miscalculation, he said.

Or the threat of nuclear terrorism.

Or tensions between India and Pakistan."


Anyway, you get the drift. On one side we've Hillary Clinton, the trigger-happy hawk and on the other the insecure, unpredictable, irrational Donald Trump. Each brings a distinct set of doomsday possibilities to the table, any of which would result in literally billions of lives lost and an end to civilization as we know it (for the unfortunate few who happen to survive). But hey, look at the bright side, the resultant nuclear winter would pretty much eliminate the effects of global warming.


*Source: The Washington Post, Dan Zak, August 3, 2016