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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.

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[–] ricketyrackets@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is such an utter fucking idiot. Nothing this useless fuck makes any sense. He’s neither a good businessman, leader, or president.

[–] 1337@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

He knows exactly what he's doing here. He's punishing the blue state specifically.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

He's draining the reservoirs to starve California of water.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 30 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

The Conservative subs have been really quiet for the last few days, after all their glee a fortnight ago.

Almost like they are hiding.

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

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 7 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Half of it. The other half is on full r/LeopardsAteMyFace mode.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy has conservative subs?

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah there are two: one at .world and one at .ee

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Likewise, I like to pop into them from time to time. Check up on what insanity is their new flavor of the month.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

"they are thinking"

You give them too much credit.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

There is nothing stopping them from storming the Capitol, yknow?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

It's OK. Trump is sending fire to Disney world Florida to fight their possible flooding!

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 53 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This motherfucker really is all four horsemen of the apocalypse all at once huh?

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 2 points 10 hours ago

He really is a cow in a porcelain store.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have driven by countless large signs from California farmers supporting trump. I hope they enjoy the flooding.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 36 points 22 hours ago

It's a face eating extravaganza - for the leopards that is.

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He is a complete moron. He is wrong about literally everything and it is pathetic.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

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".

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's so cartoonishly moronic, he makes Portal 2's Wheatley look like a Harvard graduate.

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[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 191 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why did that shooter have to miss?

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

"Inches from a better world" has been a common phrase on my mind, with the added benefit of really needing a lot of context before the magastappo get pissy.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 26 points 22 hours ago

"I went forward in time...to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the assassination attempt."

"How many did you see?"

"Fourteen million six hundred and five."

"How many were successful?"

"All but one."

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 6 points 17 hours ago

When it comes to presidential assassinations, there's really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He didn't miss, he hit people in the crowd.

It's about what I expect from conservative shooters. Shooting everyone except the people who should be shot.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Ironic that the gun nuts absolutely suck at handling their guns. Much like there is a huge car scene where I live, but nobody can fucking drive.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

He probably just crapped himself due to the pressure.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Buying guns is easy as long as you have money. Getting proper training and improving via practice requires effort and discipline.

Much easier to show off how much $$$ you dumped on a fancy rifle.

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it was a stunt to make the fat orange idiot look like a hero.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh come on, that was by accident. Let's not fall down to their level with the idiotic conspiracies.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 130 points 1 day ago (21 children)

damn bruh, it's like he's trying to fuck the country in order to please a foreign adversary and spare himself an unpleasant fate.

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[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 143 points 1 day ago (9 children)

How can a president in a democratic country order a dam opening, and this is left unchallenged by knowledgeable experts affected by the dam and stake holders? There seems a deep flaw in the system when it comes to the singular power of the US-president?

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[–] dx1@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

What an idiot.

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