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Investment Strategies / Falling Knives
No. of Recommendations: 7
OMG, read Trump's direct quotes in the text below; how did such an IDIOT get elected POTUS??
Donny Convict inflicted himself on the people of Los Angeles on Friday, because of course he did. why wouldn’t he? after all, the guy knows more about wildfires than all the wildfire experts, so it’s only natural that he should show up and show everyone how it’s done.
so, how did it go?
how the fuck do you think it went? the guy blithered and spewed a lot of stupid shit, and then jetted right out of there, post haste. you’re welcome, California.
“we shouldn’t be in a position where you have tumbleweed that’s dry as a bone. that even tumbleweed can be nice and green and rich and loaded up with water and it’s not gonna burn. you don't even have to remove it. it’s not gonna burn. but it’s just dry. so I hope you can all get together and say, ‘I’m so happy with the water that’s gonna be flowing down.”
let’s make a valiant attempt to unpack this firehose of batshittery. first: does Commander Crazypants even know what a tumbleweed is?
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Donny still hasn’t figured out that wildfires and forest fires are two different things. it’s just like his confusion about political asylum and insane asylums. all Donny sees is the word “asylum” and away we go on another deranged reverie about Hannibal Lecter.
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now, why is Dear Leader predicting that Californians will be saying ‘I’m so happy with the water that’s gonna be flowing down’? because he signed an executive order to open up that ginormous fucking Canadian faucet that doesn’t exist, that’s why.
“I’m signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. we want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible, let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California, and that’ll be a big benefit to you. look, if you don’t want it, you’re going to tell me, but I can’t imagine it ... we have a lot of water that is available and I hope you can work that out among yourselves, because we show that we have to have that water. you’re talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming up from parts of Canada, and it pours down naturally, it has for a million years, it pours down, you’ll never run out.”
again with this fever-swamp hallucination.
I know I keep harping on Donny’s fixation with an imaginary spigot, but it’s just completely insane that voters handed the reins of power to a delusional half-wit who lives in a fantasy world.
water does not flow downhill from Canada and the Pacific Northwest all the way to Southern California, and there is no huge fucking faucet anywhere. not one water management expert on the planet has any fucking clue what Donny is gibbering about.
How do intelligent supporters of DJT, like our friends on the right in this message board, not DIE OF EMBARASSMENT when he spews such idiocy!?
No. of Recommendations: 1
No. of Recommendations: 4
“we shouldn’t be in a position where you have tumbleweed that’s dry as a bone. that even tumbleweed can be nice and green and rich and loaded up with water and it’s not gonna burn. you don't even have to remove it. it’s not gonna burn. but it’s just dry. so I hope you can all get together and say, ‘I’m so happy with the water that’s gonna be flowing down.”
This is so bad. As part of its life cycle the tumbleweed dries out, easily snaps off with a wind gust, and tumbles to spread its seeds.
No. of Recommendations: 4
This is so bad. As part of its life cycle the tumbleweed dries out, easily snaps off with a wind gust, and tumbles to spread its seeds.
What the hell is bouncing around in that senile old head of his? He thinks if you just keep watering a tumbleweed it will stay nice and green and juicy.
He is the kind of fool who never hesitates to pontificate on things he knows nothing about. Narcissist with a capital N.
No. of Recommendations: 8
“I’m signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. we want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible, let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California,
That "valve" in the North looks like it's owned by California.
SNIP The SWP collects water from rivers in Northern California and redistributes it to the water-scarce but populous cities through a network of aqueducts, pumping stations and power plants. About 70% of the water provided by the project is used for urban areas and industry in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, and 30% is used for irrigation in the Central Valley.[5] To reach Southern California, the water must be pumped 2,882 feet (878 m) over the Tehachapi Mountains, with 1,926 feet (587 m) at the Edmonston Pumping Plant alone, the highest single water lift in the world.[6] The SWP shares many facilities with the federal Central Valley Project (CVP), which primarily serves agricultural users. Water can be interchanged between SWP and CVP canals as needed to meet peak requirements for project constituents. The SWP provides estimated annual benefits of $400 billion to California's economy.[7] SNIP
One pumping station is Edmonson.
The pumps themselves extend downward six floors. Each unit discharges water into a manifold that connects to the main discharge lines. The two main discharge lines stairstep up the mountain in an 8400-foot-long tunnel.
Four pumping plants known as the Valley String – Buena Vista, Teerink, Chrisman, and Edmonston Pumping Plants – move water over the Tehachapi Mountains and into Southern California. The Edmonston Pumping Plant, the highest single lift pumping plant in the world, lifts water nearly 2,000 feet up the Tehachapi Mountains. Water travels to the Tehachapi Crossing where it marks the end of the field division boundary before beginning its journey over the mountain range and into Southern California. (This appears to be all owned by the California State Water system.)
The Fed part is in the Central Valley that supplies irrigation water to industrial areas, farmers, etc.
The CVP has long-term agreements to supply water to more than 250 contractors in 29 of California’s 58 counties. Deliveries by the CVP include providing an annual average of 5 million acre-feet of water for farms; 600,000 acre-feet of water for municipal and industrial uses (enough water to supply about 2.5 million people for a year); and water for wildlife refuges and maintaining water quality in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. (Remember, there was no discharge for the smelt before the fires because of the dry conditions in Southern California)
Then you have the limits of the aqueduct capacity on the way to the south.
California has been managing its water for a long time and seems to do well.
No. of Recommendations: 5
The aquaduck starts at Sacramento ... that's just skoshie shy of Canada... like 3 states shy.
The Liar in Chief said his ''imaginary spigot' was in Canada.
"“You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps in Canada and all pouring down and they have essentially a very large faucet. You turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it. It's massive, it's as big as the wall of that building … and you turn that and all of that water goes … aimlessly into the Pacific and if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles."
Again, you have been misinformed and misled, lied to, by the felonious rapist.
No. of Recommendations: 3
...how did such an IDIOT get elected POTUS??
He reflects the people that voted for him.
People get the government they deserve.
