Ok, hang on. I know he is the president, but he is just one guy. The military could have disobeyed. This whole debacle could be stopped by ten soldiers sitting on him (or 30 in 3x8hr shifts). The people obeying, or staying quiet are complicit at this point.
Fascists create chaos to accomplish their real goals that they are trying to divert attention from.
Misdirection is their primary tactic.
Why believe all powerful billionaires are your enemies when you can blame immigrants/LGBTQ/minorities who are easy to punch down on and feel superior to?
Well, when I was listening to today's episode of "The Daily" podcast, Maga Haberman assured me that Trump's recent actions were simply reacting to some career govt. employees trying to thwart his agenda in 2016 after he was "duly elected." Maybe that was a good thing?
And he damn near caused a massive flood in the Central
Valley because he NEVER listens to experts. He NEVER reads the science. Ne has ZERO sense of history. He makes every decision based on the next press release or photo op. Idiot in Chief.
Leapords can have at them. Housecat libertarian farmers don't need govt water, they have bootstraps and highly paid domestic employees, which is all you need to succeed in America. Let the water run free.
Not only that but republicans love to bash on California dems "for letting water run to the ocean" which is literally what this is doing. So the dichotomy is they hate it when rivers exist, except when they allow the rivers to exist.
Full blown Mad King shit, and they just let him do this and put EOs in front of him to sign while Elon assimilates the entire federal govt to try and find the secret Do Nazi Shit and Make People Like Me (But I Can Still Be A Nazi) button he's convinced exists
Draining the reservoirs and flooding farmland and homes. I really think he’s one of those crazy “asylum seekers” he talked about at his rallies that escaped the mental hospital like Michael Myers.
Can’t wait for all of those pro-Trump farmers whose fields are parched this summer to be putting up signs that blame the empty reservoirs on Biden or DE&I or whatever scapegoat they come up with next.
“In 25 years I’ve never seen anything like this.” 🤦♀️
Can you imagine if you were a brain surgeon and this lunatic showed up one day in the OR and said move over “I’m taking over.” Time to burn this all down.
CA farmland is generally used to grow specialty crops so most likely it just means that the cost of citrus and artichokes etc go way up — row crops like wheat, rice and potatoes are mostly grown elsewhere.
The reason the reservoirs were being held above normal is because snow coverage is well below normal this year.
This isn’t reasonable or normal water management. This is wasting billions of gallons of desperately needed water to satisfy the ego of a demented old fool.
Good lord. No, as it happens he's now flooded some already flooded areas. This was done for two reasons: Shitler is beyond stupid, but cannot be told he's wrong under any circumstances, and secondly, vindictiveness. To "own the libs".
The farmers who've received this "gift" are utterly distraught.
I guess I didn’t elaborate enough. He’s using what should be normal well managed releases to make him appear to have control. He’s counting on people to believe him.
Don't take my word for it, though, here's a thread by a licensed hydrologist on just how ignorant El Presidente's grasp of water management is. Well written and detailed, if you're keen to get some quality knowledge on the subject. https://bsky.app/profile/missyleone.bsky.social/post/3lh3w7rsubk2h
It’s reserve water needed to feed crops during the dry, hot, growing season in Central Valley aka the fruit produce basket of America. So it’s possibly even worse than using it as backups for potential for fights
Luckily we're on great terms with all our allies and have free trade so we can reap the benefits of decades of our predecessors having built an intercontonental net of resilience.
Tbf, people are still alive in North Korea. They eat food. Their country has not been on fire. They may all have the same haircut, but N Korea is better governed right now!
Kind of. This water is not going to get anywhere near LA under any circumstances. It doesn't even feed into an aqueduct, which is how water gets pumped over the Tehachapi range. It's mainly used for flood control.
Your favorite Presnidet! Totally in touch with reality! The water flows downhill as per Executive Order! Drain the swamp! Is that my ball in the bunker? Impossible!
I legitimately could be wrong here, please tell me where I am.
This sounds like it's depleting water reserves for the future, in order to add water short term, that wont actually do anything, will encourage burnable grasses to grow, to feed future fires that we now won't have as much water to fight
I've driven on I-5 through Central/Northern CA enough to know that those farmers get really pissed when you waste water like this. But, oh well, I guess.
There's an entire mountain range between us and the Central Valley, and Altadena is way over a thousand feet above sea level. He was going to drown a bunch of farm fields and starve us!
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Misdirection is their primary tactic.
Why believe all powerful billionaires are your enemies when you can blame immigrants/LGBTQ/minorities who are easy to punch down on and feel superior to?
Cognitive dissonance to destroy logical thought on drought and climate change being the objective.
https://bsky.app/profile/sky.skymarchini.net/post/3lh36zvdid22h
Valley because he NEVER listens to experts. He NEVER reads the science. Ne has ZERO sense of history. He makes every decision based on the next press release or photo op. Idiot in Chief.
This water is used for farming
https://www.alternet.org/trump-california-water/
Can you imagine if you were a brain surgeon and this lunatic showed up one day in the OR and said move over “I’m taking over.” Time to burn this all down.
This is the updated article- the other one from yesterday says they backed off
(taps sign) https://bsky.app/profile/sky.skymarchini.net/post/3lh2zgdzf722b
Honestly, though, I think the film he really enjoyed & is hoping to replicate is Superman (1978)
Trump says, "I’m brilliant—watch it flow!"
A trickle drips. Impressive? No.
Calfornians sigh, "This helps no one."
But Trump’s already claimed he’s won.
https://youtu.be/WAoBW3yjlvA
This is “causes food shortages” level bad?
But those farmers might well be fucked.
I imagine some representatives are going to be getting phone calls from pissed off constituents and donors?
This isn’t reasonable or normal water management. This is wasting billions of gallons of desperately needed water to satisfy the ego of a demented old fool.
The farmers who've received this "gift" are utterly distraught.
https://bsky.app/profile/missyleone.bsky.social/post/3lh3w7rsubk2h
He’s literally about a 70 or 80 IQ. Years ago someone bitched about the reservoirs and he’s been promising ever since to “turn the water on”
But he’s 70 IQ so he doesn’t understand when you’d want to do that
Which freaks everyone out because it’s flooding empty fields in winter time
Then he brags about sending in the military because he’s actually developmentally disabled, no joke
That's rewilding or Indigenous food sovereignty or something
*finger to earpiece* oh?
This sounds like it's depleting water reserves for the future, in order to add water short term, that wont actually do anything, will encourage burnable grasses to grow, to feed future fires that we now won't have as much water to fight
https://bsky.app/profile/amicusopus.bsky.social/post/3lh2ol63wm22n