Has he ever actually been on the rails?
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Seriously, everyone who speaks to him should just ask about president musk. Trump will fucking stroke out.
This follows on from previous posts https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-misinformation-about-the-los-angeles-wildfires-and-california-water-policy
Trump, in a Jan. 8 Truth Social post, blamed Newsom’s management for the water issues, and said Newsom had refused to allow “beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow into California.”
“Governor Gavin (Newsom) refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” Trump said. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!), but didn’t care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid.”
Trump’s posts seemed to blame the water constraints on statewide water management plans that capture rain and snow as it flows from Northern California. But experts said those plans would not have affected the fire response.
Southern California has plenty of water stored, said Mark Gold, the water scarcity solutions director at the Natural Resources Defense Council and a Southern California Metropolitan Water District board member.
Trump said something incredibly stupid? Wow, that is news!
He claimed Los Angeles limits residents to just 38 gallons of water a day, and referred to some mythical "valve" that could bring limitless water to L.A., but that officials instead diverted to the ocean.
"They have a valve, think of a sink but multiply it by many thousands of times the size of it, it's massive. And you turn it back toward Los Angeles. Why aren't they doing it? They either have a death wish, they're stupid or there's something else going on that we don't understand," Trump said.
or there's something else going on that ~~we~~ I don't understand," Trump said.
He was so close to realization.
I don't know if I can handle 4 more years of this.
We will all endure.
No. Many people are going to die. I will not have that be erased.
Block social media that centers on him or politics. Find like minded people. Do things you love.
Burying your head in the sand while the country burns is not the answer.
But killing yourself slowly with the ratcheting insanity helps how..?
Look mate, I don't even live in the States and I need to keep my sanity. I did what I could when I felt like I could do it and Americans picked Trump, so I'm doing what I gotta do to survive. Is it selfish? Yeah, it is a little bit, but that's the truth.
As an American, I'm sorry.
Just turn the giant valve?! Why didn't I think of that!
Just use the weather control machine and make it rain duh! /$
They either have a death wish, they're stupid or there's something else
You know what they say. Everything that comes out of their mouths is either a confession or projection!
Maybe hes thinking of the fact that ~80% of California's water goes to irrigation for crops instead of to communities.
Tbf, the crops come to our communities. We love our fresh California produce. It sparks joy.
And the Palisades had enough water to drink and fill pools and grow landscape plants, and several people were hosing down their homes (a few died with hose in hand because the fire was way too strong for that and they should have evacuated but a lot of the rest of us made stupid decisions in the moment that just didn't turn out as deadly.) but the real problem was that wind. They couldn't do airdrops, the conflagration was too powerful. There was a problem with the hydrants, but honestly even if they'd been fully functioning it's not clear if much more could have been saved. Altadena had plenty of water too, with working hydrants, but that maelstrom of fire was just crazy, man.
Stupid does apply here, just not in the way he thinks it does. Also, who is "they"? Is he just referring to liberals?
Also, who is "they"? Is he just referring to liberals?
A lot of people are about to have a crash course on how fascism works...
I hate “they”. Whenever someone at work says “they” I immediately ask “who?” and don’t get off of it until they actually name a person. Does wonders for stopping the random boogeyman.
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this is America.
a zombie state that doesn't realize it's already dead.
and nobody is willing to do what must be done to stop it.
Gotta cut off the head
The fish rots from the head. The status... is not quo.
Can’t go off the rails if you’ve never had rails
He's done a lot of rails at least
wtaf
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