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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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."
[–] hperrin 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

They learned the lesson to the same degree that America as a whole did.

[–] hperrin 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They always blame it on the Democrats.

[–] masterofn001 4 points 2 hours ago

But the mega agro corps live to see the little guys suffer.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

states rights? right?

That's what Repub's want more than anything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah! Let's start with Fort Sumner!

...wait

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Flood the fields now, then they won't have enough water in the summer dry season to irrigate the fields with. Good thinking, moron.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

How cute, you think he's thinking that far ahead.

6 months from now, when crops fail because of this bullshit, he'll blame it on the Green New Deal.

Then he'll probably try to irrigate the fields with water straight from the Pacific Ocean. "Free unlimited water, right at our doorstep? So what if our food tastes a little more salty? Free Water = less costs = cheaper food #MAGA"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

He can be both malicious and incompetent. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. A competent man with malicious intent in Trump's position would be able to do a lot more damage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

In his office a few days ago: "Fire bad. Water puts fire out. More water means more better."

"But Mr President, what about the flo-"

"YOU'RE FIRED. I SAID MORE WATER!"

[–] hperrin 5 points 3 hours ago

There are fires in Florida? Better flood Virginia.

California is bigger than most people realize.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

You get what you pay for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

He isn't making an incompetent mistake. He's making a deliberate choice to fuck over California, and by extension the US.