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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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What an idiot.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is literally terrorism.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Terrorism is when you do it. Politics is when the establishment does it.

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

That's putting it lightly. But I don't blame you, language can't easily express the level of moron we're witnessing.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This isn't about his ample idiocy. It's about raising food prices.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are just trying to destroy California.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps. Put on your tin foil hats.. Maybe it's to remove the lower socioeconomic class from California through drought, damage, and famine. Thereby making California a republican state because only the rich would be able to afford to rebuild. This means that California would vote red, pushing a large mass of electoral votes towards the other side.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You have the voting demographics of California fundamentally backwards.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

I have a feeling that the republicans are now weaponizing "incompetence", so they won't be called out as much.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 82 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why is trump even allowed to do this?

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He’s not, but no one has the power or balls to stop him

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago

He's not supposed to be, he is just making it clear that he will fire anyone who says no to him.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Everyone is allowed to do anything as they please as long as theres noone enforcing the rules that would forbid it.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Congress is in charge of stopping him. Republicans are in charge of Congress.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago

Trump knows his audience and the media too well.

He claimed his actions would help wildfires. That's a win to his audience.

Experts said no and the Army Corps responded to pushback. That fuels his audience's prejudices into believing Trump's initial claim even more.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The drought in summer 2025 will be Trumps Drought.

Alongside Trumps Inflation.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will this reduce egg prices?

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I imagine actively messing with farmers and their productivity will not help egg prices.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fun thing being that this is what all of the signs in the Central Valley claimed that they wanted.

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