People just don’t get what’s happening here. He’s fucking America’s food supply to please Putin.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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DonOld just wanted to make someone wet for the first time in his life.
I was expecting a fascist coup, even the camps aren’t that surprising, but I honestly wasn’t expecting the “weaponing civilian infrastructure” part of the war to start in less than 2 weeks.
Tulare county?
Good.
That should be a lake, not cotton fields.
Used to be one of the biggest lakes in the US.
In the 1862 flood it was bigger than lake ontario.
Then the cotton farmer arrived post civil war.
Flood 'em and rebuild the natural ecology.
Best thing he could have done for long-term stability of the region.
Gotta give props when he does the right thing.
Refill the swamp!
Only Trump can get away with ruining the land of the cotton barons (wealthy elite) to restore the natural ecosystem. I may not agree with how it's being done, but this one had the right spirit. I hope he keeps it up and gives the great central swamp of California some time to recover. That would help wildfire resilience, and probably improve groundwater stores for the future. No human alive knows this ecosystem, they've just been living in its grave. As the husk dries, it's prone to burning. Let's regrow the wetlands.
With the loss of our major cotton fields and high tariffs on imports, clothing will be hard to come by.
Q-tips. Medical gauze.
We need a better relationship with clothing.
Death to fashion. Let's build something new.d
No it wont create clothing shortages. There’s enough fast fashion crap already made to keep us modest and warm for decades. I will be rocking that Ocean Pacific t-shirt from high school for another decade at least.
The medical concerns are somewhat based but cotton comes from many regions.
But if I smell what the rock is cooking, a nude protest would make for a fun news cycle.
You guys have to stop wearing Q-tips, it's not sustainable!
The deep south is poised to make a lot of money if they play their cards right. The US economy hemmed in by tariffs is powered by the south making cotton. They are the region best poised to make up the loss of supply that lake corcoran will replace.
It's time to return to our roots. It's what Trump promised and is delivering.
But please, no more (land)lords, no more masters, no more (wage)slaves.
The people that grow the crop need to get the profit.
If we can pull that off, that's a form of reparations. They get the land and the profit from the revived colonial machine to get us through a few hard years when the country really needs a cotton supply, and then when the country opens back up they get to do whatever they want with it. Infuse the region with cotton money and build a strong backbone of southern culture. Build the future MLK dreamed of. It's what you promised at inauguration. I dare you.
A chance to return to our roots and do it right. Give people land and get them growing cotton. The American way, just this time without the slavery. A chance to fix one of our mistakes.
Somehow we need to show solidarity for these workers. This could go badly for them, and they are probably the most vulnerable group of American citizens right now.
I doubt a crop rotation plan is in place.
This is terrorism and people need to start treating it that way. The State of California should seriously start considering seizure of federal lands and facilities within our territory.
The state should also start negotiating treaties directly Canada, Mexico and China that circumvent the petty and counterproductive economic warfare enacted by the administration.
states rights? right?
That's what Repub's want more than anything
Only the states right to be racist.
Only when it suits them
And the get to hurt women, children, and then rest of the people they hate.
They care about state's rights as much as they care about legal immigration.
Yeah! Let's start with Fort Sumner!
...wait
Isn't this just going to eventually just run into the ocean? Like, if they can't use it, it's just wasted as washing downstream.
It's not going towards the fires
It was kept in the reservoir to water farmland during the summer drought
It will just flow down to the ocean
Trump is an idiot
Yes, we are in the dumbest timeline. He flooded the farms and got rid of their water for the summer for a photo op and maga are still gargling his balls
Man, the media continues to fail to address Trump.
- NYT: "Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use"
- WP: "Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted."
- LAT: "Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams"
- Newseek: "Trump Administration Releases California Dam Water Without State Approval"
LA Times and Newseek both completely omit that it won't help the wildfires from their title. Maybe the State didn't get asked, but that's just Trump bypassing those dithering California Dems. WP and NYT both hedge that it probably won't help or will have little use, but the truth is it won't have any use for the fires and should be reported as such. It's not experts being biased or cautious or the problem being hard so it's not a simple solution, it's useless.
The only mainstream publication on the first page of my search that kinda got it was Politico, but even they didn't mention that it was useless for the fires.
- Politico: "Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them."
Flood the fields now, then they won't have enough water in the summer dry season to irrigate the fields with. Good thinking, moron.
How cute, you think he's thinking that far ahead.
6 months from now, when crops fail because of this bullshit, he'll blame it on the Green New Deal.
Then he'll probably try to irrigate the fields with water straight from the Pacific Ocean. "Free unlimited water, right at our doorstep? So what if our food tastes a little more salty? Free Water = less costs = cheaper food #MAGA"
How cute, you think he isn't doing it on purpose.
Seriously though, stop pretending Trump is incompetent. Because it carries with it an implicit assumption of good intent, characterizing what he does as a mistake paradoxically gives him too much credit.
Even if he is incompetent, there are enough competent people around him to negate it as any sort of excuse. Trump absolutely knows that this is fucking over California -- "woke" urban people and Big Ag alike -- and he insisted upon it anyway because he is malicious and intending to destroy.
He can be both malicious and incompetent. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. A competent man with malicious intent in Trump's position would be able to do a lot more damage.
Then when the plants all die because they can’t absorb water he’ll blame fire prevention, which of course is DEI. 175 million people will agree with him and the rest shrug.
In his office a few days ago: "Fire bad. Water puts fire out. More water means more better."
"But Mr President, what about the flo-"
"YOU'RE FIRED. I SAID MORE WATER!"
Fun fact: all those farmers probably voted for Trump, and now they get to experience the devastation he promised them.
Did they thou?
So many farmers got absolutely FUCKED first time around with the Tariff stuff, you would have thought they learned that lesson.
And they voted for him again. And still think he is doing the right thing.
Like, this will probably pivot to be "anti woke " flooding.
I watched a man that owns a trucking company rip apart, bit by bit, some y'all quaeda YouTuber claiming that tariffs weren't going to cause prices to go up and fuel prices would come down. That trucking company owner has no degree but plenty of sense. Would there were more like him.
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/california/
The red parts are mostly farming areas. There are some exceptions, like Napa and Sonoma, but they’re wine counties and tend to attract a different crowd.
They learned the lesson to the same degree that America as a whole did.
But the mega agro corps live to see the little guys suffer.
They did not, and they won’t this time either.
There are fires in Florida? Better flood Virginia.
California is bigger than most people realize.
What a clot... His Project 2025 and billionaire handlers really need to tell him to stop playing with thing he doesn't understand and to confine him to his room.
He isn't making an incompetent mistake. He's making a deliberate choice to fuck over California, and by extension the US.
You get what you pay for.