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.
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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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.
Then when the plants all die because they can’t absorb water he’ll blame fire prevention, which of course is DEI. 175 million people will agree with him and the rest shrug.
The red parts are mostly farming areas. There are some exceptions, like Napa and Sonoma, but they’re wine counties and tend to attract a different crowd.
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.
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."
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.
Yes, we are in the dumbest timeline. He flooded the farms and got rid of their water for the summer for a photo op and maga are still gargling his balls
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.
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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