Officials in California have revealed that President Donald Trump nearly flooded the region’s farms when his administration tried to send an excessive amount of water south, a feat he bragged about on Friday.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory!” Trump gloated in a Truth Social post.

Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away, and could have been useful to farmers months from now as irrigation.

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[–] 118 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

This is terrorism and people need to start treating it that way. The State of California should seriously start considering seizure of federal lands and facilities within our territory.

The state should also start negotiating treaties directly Canada, Mexico and China that circumvent the petty and counterproductive economic warfare enacted by the administration.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    states rights? right?

    That's what Repub's want more than anything

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    How cute, you think he isn't doing it on purpose.

    Seriously though, stop pretending Trump is incompetent. Because it carries with it an implicit assumption of good intent, characterizing what he does as a mistake paradoxically gives him too much credit.

    Even if he is incompetent, there are enough competent people around him to negate it as any sort of excuse. Trump absolutely knows that this is fucking over California -- "woke" urban people and Big Ag alike -- and he insisted upon it anyway because he is malicious and intending to destroy.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: all those farmers probably voted for Trump, and now they get to experience the devastation he promised them.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Did they thou?

    So many farmers got absolutely FUCKED first time around with the Tariff stuff, you would have thought they learned that lesson.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And they voted for him again. And still think he is doing the right thing.

    Like, this will probably pivot to be "anti woke " flooding.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I watched a man that owns a trucking company rip apart, bit by bit, some y'all quaeda YouTuber claiming that tariffs weren't going to cause prices to go up and fuel prices would come down. That trucking company owner has no degree but plenty of sense. Would there were more like him.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Man, the media continues to fail to address Trump.

    • NYT: "Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use"
    • WP: "Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted."
    • LAT: "Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams"
    • Newseek: "Trump Administration Releases California Dam Water Without State Approval"

    LA Times and Newseek both completely omit that it won't help the wildfires from their title. Maybe the State didn't get asked, but that's just Trump bypassing those dithering California Dems. WP and NYT both hedge that it probably won't help or will have little use, but the truth is it won't have any use for the fires and should be reported as such. It's not experts being biased or cautious or the problem being hard so it's not a simple solution, it's useless.

    The only mainstream publication on the first page of my search that kinda got it was Politico, but even they didn't mention that it was useless for the fires.

    • Politico: "Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them."
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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I was expecting a fascist coup, even the camps aren’t that surprising, but I honestly wasn’t expecting the “weaponizing civilian infrastructure” part of the war to start in less than 2 weeks.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Isn't this just going to eventually just run into the ocean? Like, if they can't use it, it's just wasted as washing downstream.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    DonOld just wanted to make someone wet for the first time in his life.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    There are fires in Florida? Better flood Virginia.

    California is bigger than most people realize.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What a clot... His Project 2025 and billionaire handlers really need to tell him to stop playing with thing he doesn't understand and to confine him to his room.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    No it wont create clothing shortages. There’s enough fast fashion crap already made to keep us modest and warm for decades. I will be rocking that Ocean Pacific t-shirt from high school for another decade at least.

    The medical concerns are somewhat based but cotton comes from many regions.

    But if I smell what the rock is cooking, a nude protest would make for a fun news cycle.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People just don’t get what’s happening here. He’s fucking America’s food supply to please Putin.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You get what you pay for.

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