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No. of Recommendations: 9
Goes with his gut and shoots from the hip. And thinks he's a genius. Only a narcissist...
I hope someone is keeping a tally because it seems certain that Trump will surpass even his first terms amazing list of lies. What's sad and strange is that it works for him! And can only work for him because the sad state of our media and the ignorance of a huge number of voters.
last Thursday, Donny ordered GI Joe and his Hardhat Commandos to open relief valves at two of California’s dams — and then the reckless imbecile took a victory lap. you’re welcome, California!
--“Photo of beautiful water flow that I just opened in California. 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! I only wish they listened to me six years ago – There would have been no fire!”--
Donny imagines that he has somehow ‘saved’ Los Angeles by letting ‘billions of gallons of water’ pour down into Southern California.
in reality, he accomplished none of that shit. what he did do was seriously fuck up Central California’s water reserves — and now there’s a strong possibility that farmers won’t have the water they’ll need for their crops this summer.
in typical Donny style, there was no forethought or planning — because fuck that. who needs planning when you know more about water management than all the water managers? Donny doesn’t plan — that shit’s for losers. he just picks up the phone and starts barking orders.
--Water managers said they got about an hour’s warning from the Army Corp’s Sacramento office to expect the Tule and Kaweah rivers to be at “channel capacity” by Thursday night.
Channel capacity means the maximum amount of water a river can handle. For the Kaweah, that’s 5,500 cubic feet per second and for the Tule, it’s 3,500 cfs.
Those levels were last seen, and surpassed, during the 2023 floods, which destroyed dozens of homes and businesses and caused significant damage to infrastructure.--
an hour’s warning! imagine that. you’re at the office, enjoying a hot cuppa and shooting the shit with your coworkers — and the phone rings. “hi, this is GI Civil Engineer Joe. we’re on our way over to flood your farmland. ok bye!”
panicked local officials managed to get the Corps to ease off
--“We were able to get them to back off that,” said Eric Limas, General Manager of the Lower Tule River and Pixley irrigation districts, of the Army Corps. “They’ll still be releasing water sometime tonight, but it will be a smaller amount, which will increase tomorrow.”
“We’re still trying to wrap our minds around the numbers that made this happen,” Fukuda said. “We haven’t received much information from the Army Corps, just very vague answers.”--
just ‘vague answers’ — because the Corps probably didn’t know anything either, except that some ignorant asshole in Washington was screaming at them to get it done.
but the thing is, none of that water ended up anywhere near Los Angeles — because that’s not how Central California’s water system works.
--Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it virtually impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California fires.
First, it would have to be pumped at great expense across the San Joaquin Valley to get to the California Aqueduct and then travel hundreds of miles south.--
fuckity-bye, water!
farmers were depending on that water to grow crops this summer — and now it’s gone. wasted for a photo op, so Donny could pretend he’d accomplished something. you’re welcome, California!
--“This is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs. It’s vitally important that we fill our reservoirs in the rainy season so water is available for farms and cities later in the summer,” Gleick said. “I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply.”--
when you can’t find oranges in your supermarket later this year, you can blame Donny.
--The two dams are considered important reservoirs of water for farmers in the San Joaquin Valley, which is known for its “Citrus Belt” that produced more than four million tons of citrus fruits — particularly Mandarin, Navel and Valencia oranges, along with grapefruits and lemons — in the 2020-2021 season alone.--
locals can’t fucking believe what just happened.
--“A decision to take summer water from local farmers and dump it out of these reservoirs shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system works and sets a very dangerous precedent,” said Dan Vink, a longtime Tulare County water manager and principal partner at Six-33 Solutions, a water and natural resource firm in Visalia.--
now here’s the quote of the day.
--“This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions.”--
no fucking shit. Tiedrich
No. of Recommendations: 8
As anyone who has driven on I-5 knows, central California has NOTHING but very large Trump and anti-Newsome (and a few smaller water rights) signs as far as the eye can see. Yes, I’ve driven it many times.
And Trump, in his grandiose stupidity (aka “I know because I have common sense”), just screwed every one of his hard core supporters in central California (not to mention anyone that eats food).
You can’t fix stupid.
No. of Recommendations: 5
From the history department: During Trumps first term, tariffs he imposed resulted in the demise of the CA rice industry and it will likely never come back. Countries like Brazil now have this business. I am not too sad about it as rice was a major consumer of our scarce water resources, but again trump striking at the conservative base in CA.
No. of Recommendations: 3
And Trump, in his grandiose stupidity (aka “I know because I have common sense”), just screwed every one of his hard core supporters in central California...
Good.
I want them to feel pain. Real pain.
That may sound heartless, but sometimes you have to let a kid fall down so they know not to do whatever stupid thing they were doing.
I think people have long taken for granted the various protections and services the government provides. They don't even think about it.** Well, maybe they'll starting thinking about it. Choices have consequences, and I sincerely hope they are severely hurt by theirs, so they will -hopefully- learn.
**I read an article a year or two ago that indicated that the Dems are really good at fixing the stuff the public never sees...unless it's not working, then they see it.
No. of Recommendations: 2
but again trump striking at the conservative base in CA.
Trump wants to get revenge on CA for not loving him enough. Guess he also doesn't care about his many supporters there.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I was preparing a reply and as the profanity grew, I knew I was reading Tiedrich, whoever the hell he is. Anyway, he is your Fox News as far as I am concerned.
BTW, that list of lies from 45 didn't matter in the 2024 election. I predict your 47 list will have the same impact in 2028. Vance will have an easy time.
No. of Recommendations: 1
As anyone who has driven on I-5 knows, central California has NOTHING but very large Trump and anti-Newsome (and a few smaller water rights) signs as far as the eye can see. Yes, I’ve driven it many times.
I came here to say the same thing. Kevin McCarthy represented a portion of the Central Valley, as did Devin Nunez before he took his cow and moved to Florida.
And you see a LOT more of those signs if you switch over to CA-99 through the southern part of the valley.
I feel bad for the farmers who had their income cut by this foolish vanity. But that’s what they voted for.
Maybe it even helped the delta smelt a bit, as this is exactly the kind of water release (although probably not the right time) that they need.
Plus, fewer crops mean fewer immigrants to tend those crops. Wait a sec!! Is this just an anti-immigrant plot in disguise???
—Peter
No. of Recommendations: 6
I was preparing a reply and as the profanity grew, I knew I was reading Tiedrich, whoever the hell he is. Anyway, he is your Fox News as far as I am concerned.
Tiedrich is a polemicist and he's smart. He uses verifiable sources and much of the insanity he posts comes right out of the orange idiots mouth
Maybe...YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! : )
No. of Recommendations: 1
I feel bad for the farmers who had their income cut by this foolish vanity.
Some of this agriculture is huge corporate farms. They've always managed to suck off Uncle Sam's teat in various ways and will probably be just fine. If Trump has to, he'll bail them out some way.
Now the many small farmers? Maybe they will have to sell out to the large corporate farms. Win-win for Trump.
No. of Recommendations: 2
last time, Trump gave subsidies to those farmers in red states that were hurt by his tariffs. He did nothing for the very red farmers in blue CA. We will see what he does this time, but it is one way he rewards red states and punishes blue states.
Alan
No. of Recommendations: 4
He did nothing for the very red farmers in blue CA.
I hope the Dems are taking notes. The Felon is giving them a lot of ammo for 2026 and 2028. Almost too much.
No. of Recommendations: 5
You're making the assumption that there will be free and fair elections by then.
No. of Recommendations: 2
You're making the assumption that there will be free and fair elections by then.
We only have to hold out for two years. Based on the last two weeks, I expect a major shift in the 2026 election, as people become disillusioned. Chaos, endless lawsuits, inflation, recession...some combination of those things will remind people of the last time, and we should get a significant shift (assuming enough senate seats are up for grabs in 2026).
I'm certain he and Musk will try, but I don't think they can dismantle everything to the point that we don't have elections in two years.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I expect a major shift in the 2026 election, as people become disillusioned.
That's what I thought, too. But so far, the shift is not occurring and it looks likely the Republican/Trumplican Party will retain both houses. Of course there is still plenty of time for Trump's chaos to come home to roost and for people to wake up to the threat that he is to our country.
We'll see.
No. of Recommendations: 4
no. MAGA identity is at stake, reinforced by media.
there has been no situation where the blame has not been successfully deflected elsewhere.
and deflection only needs to persist until the next distraction, which will be 4 yrs of weekly (@minimum) given the tsunami of incompetence being placed.
some distractions will be quite the disaster that even alt facts cant hide, but still irrelevant.
i have yet to see any plausible where gop\MAGA will hold trump responsible, and more means of such will be gone each month.
