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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 129 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

“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.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Billions and billions of gallons of water. Took the entire fresh water supply out the United States and just body slammed it into the ocean. No sir going to let the whole thing burn as god intended. /s just in case.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 30 minutes ago

The water wasn't used for firefighting.

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

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I wish he would have the governor arrested. I want to see him send in the states on national guard or state police and take Newman. Then maybe the fucking democrats would wake the fuck up and see they need to do more then strongly worded letters. But Trump won't this all smoke and mirrors he to big of wuss to do it. Come on Taco do it I triple dog dare you. Lets light this candle.

[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago

Spoiler: the democrats won’t do shit.

[–] Devmapall@lemmy.zip 39 points 10 hours ago

I had forgotten they did that. I know they're evil but it shocks me again

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They got the headline they wanted.

They did in this case, too.

Trump still playing the media like a fiddle.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 28 minutes ago

The media colludes with that. They're not victims.