Summary
California officials warned that Trump’s order to release massive amounts of water nearly caused severe flooding for farmers.
Trump boasted about the move, claiming it would help fight wildfires, but experts said the water couldn’t reach affected areas, which are over 200 miles away.
The Army Corps of Engineers initially planned to release water at maximum capacity but scaled back after urgent pushback.
Experts warned the water could have been better used months later for irrigation.
Holodomor 2: Orange Crush
The drought in summer 2025 will be Trumps Drought.
Alongside Trumps Inflation.
Right, but what real news will there be to report on it?
He will blame whatever reactionary dogwhistle that’s currently plaguing the fascist MAGAts.
No it won’t. They’ll spin it as poor planning and mismanagement by liberal California, and their base will eat it up.
Don’t need those migrant workers to pick crops if there aren’t any crops.
Stable genius.
It’s OK. Trump is sending fire to Disney world Florida to fight their possible flooding!
At least California has loads of water to spare… Oh wait… No they don’t. Trump is going to change California to New Ethiopia.
I feel like the Aral Sea might be the better analogy, since it really feels like he’s destroying California at Putin’s behest.
We’re not going to keep tolerating it.
remind me in 4 years … I doubt there will be a revolution. And JD-vance is eager to replace Trump as leader in charge, if potus dies.
I think if Trump tries this again, Newsom is justified in sending the California National Guard to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from gaining access. Then, we might get that civil war that the Right has been clamoring for.
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Think you mean 8, if that proposition is enacted…
… eventually?
There needs to be protests in the streets and general strikes yesterday. They’re solidifying power by the day.
Mutual aid, and other more underground ideas are in discussion.
you probably are though
Meh. I’m working on stuff.
What a fucking idiot
This isn’t about his ample idiocy. It’s about raising food prices.
Thanks, Kamala! This is her fault, right?
It’s just about everyone’s fault. Biden/Harris co-opted and crippled the opposition movement.
That’s putting it lightly. But I don’t blame you, language can’t easily express the level of moron we’re witnessing.
Trump is such an utter fucking idiot. Nothing this useless fuck makes any sense. He’s neither a good businessman, leader, or president.
He knows exactly what he’s doing here. He’s punishing the blue state specifically.
I have a feeling that the republicans are now weaponizing “incompetence”, so they won’t be called out as much.
This is literally terrorism.
What else could one expect from republicans?
Terrorism is when you do it. Politics is when the establishment does it.
The Conservative subs have been really quiet for the last few days, after all their glee a fortnight ago.
Almost like they are hiding.
When they elected him the first time i tgought: hah, i bet they feel really stupid now because how incompetent he was. Nope, they doubled down and did it again.
Lemmy has conservative subs?
Yeah there are two: one at .world and one at .ee
I don’t know about the .ee instance, but the .world one tends to have every post downvoted to zero and every comment stating why conservatives are wrong. I try to keep my ear to the ground and know what crazy talking points conservatives are believing and the .world sub is pretty much useless for that. I don’t think there’s a single conservative that actually uses that sub.
Likewise, I like to pop into them from time to time. Check up on what insanity is their new flavor of the month.
Oh no don’t worry there is plenty of leopards eating people’s faces going on. I’ve seen so many crying about how these tariffs are gonna cost them jobs. Also saw some posts by conservative women pissed off when they found out DEI includes them as well not just people of colour
Almost like they are hiding.
Hopefully, they are thinking about their decision to vote for a guy who’s coming to destroy their lives, too.
“they are thinking”
You give them too much credit.
I keep peeking at old.shittyplace.com/r/conservative and AFAICT they are still in full on “FUCK YEAH this is what we voted for!”
Half of it. The other half is on full r/LeopardsAteMyFace mode.
What an idiot.
He is a complete moron. He is wrong about literally everything and it is pathetic.
He’s weak, confused and incompetent.
Anti-intellectualism is one hell of a drug.
He is going to “common sense” America into Idiocracy. Remember his fantastic solution to COVID (injecting bleach + UV)? Or nuking hurricanes? When you make all the scientists run away, you end up with “the idea sounded good in my head… after a few beers”.
He’s so cartoonishly moronic, he makes Portal 2’s Wheatley look like a Harvard graduate.
I! AM! NOT! A! MORON!
Will this reduce egg prices?
I imagine actively messing with farmers and their productivity will not help egg prices.
Don’t worry! He will find a way to blame Obama for it
Stalinesque
This motherfucker really is all four horsemen of the apocalypse all at once huh?
He really is a cow in a porcelain store.
