• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    “But you have a governor who let the city burn down, didn’t want water to be sent down to him,” Trump complained about Newsom and January’s wildfires. “I mean, I sent billions of gallons of water. I wanted to do it in the first term. He wouldn’t do it over. I don’t know, they have environmental reasons, but there were no environmental reasons. It’s, I think it’s just a political philosophy. But it’s lucky for the people in Los Angeles and in California that we did what we did.”

    They dumped an entire reservoir full of water designed for agriculture purposes, into the fucking ocean! That reservoir didn’t even connect to LA’s supply.

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      Billions and billions of gallons of water. Took the entire fresh water supply out the United States and just body slammed it into the ocean. No sir going to let the whole thing burn as god intended. /s just in case.

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        The water wasn’t used for firefighting.

        The whole idea was to cause crop failures, which Trump will of course blame California for.

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          I still find it absolutely wild that the president of the US has this much power, that the president can be an unqualified, incompetent drooling fucking moron and they are allowed to veto sensible knowledgeable people and do dangerous, stupid things like control the dumping of reservoirs.

          WTF is wrong with America? In my country we have a parliamentary democracy and a civil service of qualified, intelligent people. We don’t allow one total fucking imbecile to ride roughshod over everything and ruin anything they like. US congress is like some useless appendix right now when it should be in charge of making these decisions.

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      I wish he would have the governor arrested. I want to see him send in the states on national guard or state police and take Newman. Then maybe the fucking democrats would wake the fuck up and see they need to do more then strongly worded letters. But Trump won’t this all smoke and mirrors he to big of wuss to do it. Come on Taco do it I triple dog dare you. Lets light this candle.

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          You know how in abusive families there is often one outright abusive parent and one codependent parent?

          The one who will hug their kids and tell them to keep their heads down and don’t upset mom/dad? The one who acts like they’re just as much a powerless victim of the abuse as the kids they are supposed to protect? The one who never, ever steps in to actually protect their kids or get them away from the abusive parent?

          That’s the DNC.