Thugs are cracking down hard on pipeline protesters, and the US Army (under Obama's command) is backing them.

Obama said wants to let the pipeline advance "play out" for more weeks, but since his own men are joining the attack on protesters, those words misrepresent his actions.

Meanwhile, the US government is looking at "re-routing" the pipeline. That might avoid the secondary problem of destruction of archeological sites. It might alter the danger of water pollution, but can't eliminate it -- the pipeline will still have to cross the same rivers.

Re-routing certainly won't do anything to curb global heating. It won't get us off the path to defeat for civilization and the natural world. That's Obama in a nutshell.

"Why do we punish Dakota pipeline protesters but exonerate the Bundys?"

My conjecture is, because the Bundys are selfish bastards and the pipeline protesters are not.

That answer might seem flip, but it is actually a serious conjecture stated in flip words.