• @Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    “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.

      • @phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        02 months ago

        The water wasn’t used for firefighting.

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

        • @havocpants@lemmy.world
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          12 months ago

          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.