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highplainsdem

(54,776 posts) Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:16 PM Thursday

Trump: "I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down... We broke in to do it."

Aaron Rupar post with video on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lkbpeiodkb2o

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Trump: "I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down... We broke in to do it." (Original Post) highplainsdem Thursday OP

That's dementia talk. ananda Thursday #1

And he also said crazy things about Canada and Greenland: highplainsdem Thursday #4

This was a stupid stunt that wasted water that will be needed later LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #2

I really think this on purpose clevergrrrl Thursday #3

I don't think it is dementia in the way we normally conceive of it misanthrope Thursday #5

But it's just so d*mn crazy and unrelated to reality. jeffreyi Thursday #7

Even more stupidity, Doge lightbulbs got in on the act. jeffreyi Thursday #6

God, he is such a fucking moron. Initech Thursday #8

More from an LA Times article Shambala Thursday #9

When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. DET Thursday #10

I can't shake this conviction that Trump thinks water flows towards the bottom of a map. n/t Emrys Thursday #11

ananda

(31,333 posts)

1. That's dementia talk.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:19 PM

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Just crazy insane.

highplainsdem

(54,776 posts)

4. And he also said crazy things about Canada and Greenland:

Reply to ananda (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:27 PM

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220133948

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220134019

LetMyPeopleVote

(159,892 posts)

2. This was a stupid stunt that wasted water that will be needed later

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:19 PM

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trump's stunt was incredibly stupid

Link to tweet

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcalifornia/article/trump-california-reservoir-dump-kaweah-success-20209496.php

When it happened, the late-January release of around 2.2 billion gallons from California reservoirs already seemed strange, ill-advised and abrupt. But a new report from the Washington Post paints an even bleaker picture.

The three-day release from Lake Kaweah and Lake Success by the Army Corp of Engineers was water that’s typically saved for the drier, hotter growing season, as SFGATE reported at the time. The Army Corps’ move came after Los Angeles County’s devastating January fires prompted President Donald Trump to issue an executive order where he blasted California water policies and commanded federal department heads to “ensure water resources in Southern California.” But the corps’ decision, the Post reported, flew in the face of actual acts......

It’s now clear that Army Corps officials knew that the sudden dam releases wouldn’t help Southern California, per the Post’s Friday piece, which featured information from an internal memo. But they dumped the water anyway.

The memo was written four days after the releases by Col. Chad W. Caldwell, commander of the Army Corps’ Sacramento District, the Post reported. According to the outlet, he wrote that on the afternoon before releases began, federal and state water officials told him, “It would take more time for them to activate their systems and they likely could not utilize the additional water with such short notice.”

Per the Post, he also wrote in the memo that the water from the two reservoirs “could not be delivered to Southern California directly,” but that the releases were aimed at following Trump’s executive order.

clevergrrrl

(45 posts)

3. I really think this on purpose

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:22 PM

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double whammy. we know Trump hates California. He wants them to suffer.

misanthrope

(8,566 posts)

5. I don't think it is dementia in the way we normally conceive of it

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:40 PM

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He merely says whatever comes to mind in the moment to serve whatever short-term purpose is right in front of him. Then sticks by it until it becomes more advantageous to say something else. It isn't so much built on belief of a fact as his realization that he will never be called to account for his untruths. There's no disincentive.

jeffreyi

(2,313 posts)

7. But it's just so d*mn crazy and unrelated to reality.

Reply to misanthrope (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:57 PM

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Even more than usual.

It seems that at least a couple of the cult members have to be noticing.

jeffreyi

(2,313 posts)

6. Even more stupidity, Doge lightbulbs got in on the act.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:51 PM

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These little boy basement gamer incel bros should have been arrested. This must be the "breaking in" twitler is spewing about.

"Musk’s DOGE ‘whiz kids’ flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-doge-california-water-wildfires-b2711228.html

Initech

(104,177 posts)

8. God, he is such a fucking moron.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:58 PM

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By the way, my brother is in water management in Central California. He said if you really want to fuck with people, start messing with their water supply.

What Trump did was dangerous and reckless, he destroyed the water supply that was being reserved for summer. This was all just to satisfy the Fox News voices in his head.

Shambala

(133 posts)

9. More from an LA Times article

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 03:58 PM

Thursday

Fortunately significantly less water was released than originally planned to avoid flooding farmlands and that the water was allowed to percolate underground to replenish the area’s groundwater so didn't totally go to waste.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-13/trump-army-corps-dam-water-dumped

“It was cavalier and an extremely high-risk decision, and wasteful,” said Ann Willis, California regional director of American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental organization."

"To intentionally create a situation where that could have been the outcome, it’s depraved and mind-blowing,” Willis said.

(Denise England county official who manages the local flood control district) said she was puzzled by a decision that “made no sense.”

“We were just scratching our heads. ‘What is happening here?’” England said. Because everyone knew the water wouldn’t be transported to L.A., she said, it was “just creating a problem locally.”