Kind of impressive how every agency of government believes it answers to nobody:
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it will not repay claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado, saying the law prohibits it.
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.
This itself is r-ifying. If you can do anything with no consequence, your amygdala will stop constraining your behavior within any sort of boundaries. As that psychology grows, it will inevitably begin acting out against citizens, just because it can. That is the reason that today we have a government who views everyone else as hostile enemies in need of being controlled and kept in their place. Limiting the ability of citizens to get in their way is just the easiest way to assuage their amygdala-angst.
Eventually these things produce the exact opposite. Clearly just as Trump is about to take over, and the very existence of the EPA hangs in the balance, is the very time the EPA’s amygdala should have been telling it that now is a particularly bad time to go claiming sovereign immunity for some case of gross negligence.
But r always turns into K, and the last ones to realize it are always the amygdala-atrophied.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because there is no sovereign immunity from the Apocalypse