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Summary
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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Why is trump even allowed to do this?
He’s not supposed to be, he is just making it clear that he will fire anyone who says no to him.
He’s not, but no one has the power or balls to stop him
All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
Congress is in charge of stopping him. Republicans are in charge of Congress.
And the entire judicial branch so he will face no consequences either.
Everyone is allowed to do anything as they please as long as theres noone enforcing the rules that would forbid it.
Everyone is allowed to do anything as they please
This means checks- ans balances are a lie? Where are these systems that characterize democracy in times of need?
They look like they voted in the Trump supporters in every department of checks and balances, democratically.
Funny how this time it was actually a democratic decision to abolish democracy. Back then in Germany the NSDAP reached 30% and then 44% the next year with a heavily rigged election. Gotta give the people what they want I guess…
At least California has loads of water to spare… Oh wait… No they don’t. Trump is going to change California to New Ethiopia.
I feel like the Aral Sea might be the better analogy, since it really feels like he’s destroying California at Putin’s behest.
We’re not going to keep tolerating it.
you probably are though
remind me in 4 years … I doubt there will be a revolution. And JD-vance is eager to replace Trump as leader in charge, if potus dies.
… eventually?
There needs to be protests in the streets and general strikes yesterday. They’re solidifying power by the day.
Mutual aid, and other more underground ideas are in discussion.
Your fields aren’t flooding you fools! Read the Bible! God sent a (definitely not gay) rainbow and that doesn’t happen anymore!
It’s OK. Trump is sending fire to Disney world Florida to fight their possible flooding!
This motherfucker really is all four horsemen of the apocalypse all at once huh?
He really is a cow in a porcelain store.
Will this reduce egg prices?
I imagine actively messing with farmers and their productivity will not help egg prices.
Don’t worry! He will find a way to blame Obama for it
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.
The drought in summer 2025 will be Trumps Drought.
Alongside Trumps Inflation.
He will blame whatever reactionary dogwhistle that’s currently plaguing the fascist MAGAts.
Don’t need those migrant workers to pick crops if there aren’t any crops.
Stable genius.
No it won’t. They’ll spin it as poor planning and mismanagement by liberal California, and their base will eat it up.
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.
Naw man, murica first. He’s clearly playing 8d chess. Canada ain’t never dun nothin
trying to fuck the country
No just the blue states who dont like him
Edit: keyword “trying.” Hes trying to fuck the blue states. yall down voting me into oblivion like trump doesnt have a clear vendetta against calfiornia. Yea, hes hurting the whole country as collateral damage, but lets not pretend that parts on purpose. Hes an idiot who has never understood the ramifications of his decisions. This orange turd see and opportunity to hurt california , and he takes it becuase its California, not because hes smart enough to understand
Edit 2: in this same thread is a Comment that says “hes just trying to destroy california” with clear upvotes. Has lemmy become the reddit hive mind already? Sheesh
Nah, bruv. Where does all of our domestic fruit and veg, and crops like almonds come from? California. The San Joaquin Valley. Who eats that stuff? You do. All of us. The plan is to fuck America. Why does trump do anything at all? To fuck America. That’s his job.
This the answer. California is one of our prize jewels for sure. If Vlad can monkey wrench that, it will do a lot of damage.
The central valley is a desert, and most of the water in California goes to these cash crops, causing massive water shortages and killing the native fish. It does not grow the majority of fruits and vegetables in the US.
The central valley IS a desert in only the very strict sense of the term, in that it doesn’t receive much rainfall. That’s where the likeness ends. Before industrialized farming took over and completely remade the ecology here, the San Joaquin valley was essentially the world’s largest river delta thanks to Sierra snow melt. Much of the valley was covered in shallow wetlands, and it was also home to one of the largest fresh water lakes in the country (by surface area).
I don’t know what the fuck you’re on about, bruh. 1/4 of all our food is grown in the Valley. https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/about-central-valley.html.
I don’t know why the fuck you’re citing vaguely-worded “valley facts”
The central valley is a desert and does not grow the majority of crops in the US. Here’s a map of all the fruits and vegetables grown in the us:
The central valley grows a lot of high-value crops like almonds for almond milk, but it does not grow the majority of crops, or even the majority of luxury fruits and vegetables.
Also, if we’re talking calories for human consumption, the central valley hardly grows any grain or vegetable oils. There is no way 1/4 of all non-livestock calories comes from a tiny desert.
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Wjere do you think the lettuce and tomatos you eat in the winter come from? Unloke Midwestern farms, California agriculture grows actual food that people actually eat, not cattle feed.
They grow a lot of cattle feed in California
https://apps1.cdfa.ca.gov/FertilizerResearch/docs/Alfalfa_Production_CA.pdf
fair argument that California is good for winter farming though. I live in Sweden, so most of our winter produce comes from Spain, which is also pretty arid.
Destroying the nation’s food supply by flooding fields, deporting the workers, and imposing tarrifs on outside sources of food is objectively bad for the entire nation, and the only people who could possibly benefit are America’s global adversaries.
Even if Trump is too stupid to know it, the rest of his administration is not. The fact that they haven’t enacted the 25th amendment is a clear indication that hurting America is the goal.
A hungry crowd is an angry mob, and I’m increasingly worried this will end in mass violence.
I wish we had a website that systematically track a running list of every single enshitification move that Traitorapist Trump had made to date so that they are all in one place.
It may not be exactly what you’re asking for, but someone on Lemmy made a 2025 reality check website to help.
I’m hoping it ends in mass class violence
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Worried? Mass violence feels like my only hope at this point.
The rest of his administration is absolutely as stupid as he is. After his last cycle he has purged anyone remotely competent.
There are very smart but evil people working in his administration.
You just don’t see them giving speeches.
Also they have to interact with both Musk and Trump on a regular basis, so lets be honest here theyre probably on liquor rotation to keep them from quiting. Prolly have three teams where at any given time two of the teams are blackout drunk.
Someone wrote Project 2025.
They are just trying to destroy California.
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.
You have the voting demographics of California fundamentally backwards.
Did you expect anything logical out of liberal analysis? They’ve only been wrong on literally everything for the past 200 years.
Dafuq is a liberal analysis in this context?
Anything any .world user says. Tankies in a nutshell. Which will probably get me called liberal, because all of .world is liberal.
Probably. That’s why you have to wear a tin foil hat when you read it.
The Conservative subs have been really quiet for the last few days, after all their glee a fortnight ago.
Almost like they are hiding.
Lemmy has conservative subs?
Yeah there are two: one at .world and one at .ee
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.
Likewise, I like to pop into them from time to time. Check up on what insanity is their new flavor of the month.
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!”
Half of it. The other half is on full r/LeopardsAteMyFace mode.
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.
“they are thinking”
You give them too much credit.
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.
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
Every fucking day it’s more “WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, TRUMP?” in the news.
Fun thing being that this is what all of the signs in the Central Valley claimed that they wanted.
I have negative sympathy for anyone affected by this that voted for him.
Ah, good old Calitucky.
Driving the 5 is always such a trip.
This is literally terrorism.
What else could one expect from republicans?
Terrorism is when you do it. Politics is when the establishment does it.
Why did that shooter have to miss?
“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.
“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.”
Because it was a stunt to make the fat orange idiot look like a hero.
Oh come on, that was by accident. Let’s not fall down to their level with the idiotic conspiracies.
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.
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.
When you’re the right flavor of stupid and arrogant, things like getting training, following the rules, and keeping things calm & predictable are just signs of weakness and lack of confidence.
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.
He probably just crapped himself due to the pressure.
People who would have supported this.
When it comes to presidential assassinations, there’s really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.
Everyday I curse him for missing
