California Fires - Politics of Blame & Trump water claims
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TullyHeel
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So now he can magically prevent fires.
superrific
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He is literally a madman, and he doesn't have anyone around him willing to tell him that the rivers don't even go to LA. The obsequies would make Waylon Smithers blush.
Seriously, though. This is a major fucking problem. Trump has been reading his reviews so long, all that Trump is God shit, that he thinks the universe will bend to his will. And everytime Paramount or ABC or whomever gives him money, his grandiosity increases.
He literally thinks that the water will go where he wants it to go. That Gazans are going to emigrate to Jordan and Egypt. That every country will do what he wants because he demands it.
Seriously, though. This is a major fucking problem. Trump has been reading his reviews so long, all that Trump is God shit, that he thinks the universe will bend to his will. And everytime Paramount or ABC or whomever gives him money, his grandiosity increases.
He literally thinks that the water will go where he wants it to go. That Gazans are going to emigrate to Jordan and Egypt. That every country will do what he wants because he demands it.
I’m guessing that failed assassination attempt only magnified his messiah complex.
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This really needs to get more attention than it is getting. Of all the things that worry me, this might worry me most. If people are acting on his orders to flood farmland ostensibly to deliver water hundreds of miles away, they will act on his orders to nuke hurricanes or Denmark.
I kind of wish the locals hadn't talked the Army Corps down. I mean, obviously I understand why they didn't. But attempted murder doesn't get headlines the way murder does. If Trump flooded farms, I think that would get people's attention and there would be talk of the 28th. The absurdity here is staggering.
I kind of wish the locals hadn't talked the Army Corps down. I mean, obviously I understand why they didn't. But attempted murder doesn't get headlines the way murder does. If Trump flooded farms, I think that would get people's attention and there would be talk of the 28th. The absurdity here is staggering.
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I cynically concur with all of this, sans the "let it flood" sentiment (though, I'm conflicted). No other action, aside from the Patel nomination, has given me more cause for fear than "turn on the water". It's so patently detached from elementary facts, reality on the ground, and good faith problem-solving that I have zero, I mean zero, hope this country can respond to a genuine crisis.
From the outset of this idiotic water fiasco, ttump has shown himself to be functionally detached from the basics of reality, in a manner that damn near resulted in a massive economic disaster. Though of different quality, this reminds me of the Soviets denying the existence of the Chernobyl meltdown, despite the skies aglow. The grandiosity, the sniffing of one's own shit, foretells catastrophe, as delusion combined with power nearly always does.
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Me too. After all, I said "kind of wish." That said, FAFO only works if there is a FO.
Trump is Inspector Gadget. If Democrats keep rescuing everyone from him like Gadget's dog Brain, then like in the cartoon people will not realize what a fucking disaster Gadget really is.
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Post-Truth Trumpism — deny or try to bend reality to serve the “Trump is always right” commandment.
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Mississippi says keep your ideas to yourself.
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What a load of shit. But the maga base will eat this up.
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Through a spigot from Canada with the lost water.
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He needs to train his ghost posters better. It reads like he thanked himself there. Oh wait, maybe he wrote that one.
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aGDevil2k
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That picture is apparently of Vermont
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If ghost-written, it is a faithful representation of many previous times he has included “Thank you President Trump” when claiming credit (often for things for which he is due no credit).
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The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California.
Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, “the water is flowing in California,” and adding the water was “heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.”
There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.
“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” said Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. “This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.”
On Friday, Trump posted that 1.6 billion gallons was being released adding that “in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/weather/why-arson-fire-climate
“This release is extremely concerning,” Cooley said. “It’s providing zero benefit and putting California farmers at risk of water supply constraints in the coming months.”
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TDS!!!!! Everyone knows Trump saved California.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California.
Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, “the water is flowing in California,” and adding the water was “heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.”
There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.
“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” said Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. “This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.”
On Friday, Trump posted that 1.6 billion gallons was being released adding that “in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/weather/why-arson-fire-climate
“This release is extremely concerning,” Cooley said. “It’s providing zero benefit and putting California farmers at risk of water supply constraints in the coming months.”
Wonder if lying 24/7 is as exhausting as it sounds to me or do narcissist like Trump get energized from it, just not think about it or what?