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Trump says all we need to do is turn on a "giant faucet" to solve California drought
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Why the fuck didn't anyone else think of this?
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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All right, there are multiple faucets in my home. Kitchen, two sinks and a bathtub in the primary bath, sink and tub in the guest bath, all running at peak flow. With the insight of the orange bad, we're about to solve this drought issue.
I shouldn't be surprised. He's made a habit of thinking outside the box.
Turn them all on now. You must flow, to let Cali grow!
(p.s. I may own shares in utilities and benefit greatly if everyone took this action. Just saying. Turn those taps. Oh look over here, a dead cat!)
Was he watching mad Max Fury road? Maybe he thought the scene with immortan Joe's aquifer was documentary footage of California.
I don't know what's more sad, that guy or that half of your country is stupid enough to vote him
Half of voters*
Half of the voters indeed, probably more than half the country
Hey now, he's a very stable genius.
It's more like a third rather than half. But our busted system gives outsized representation to people who live in sparsely populated states.
He's polling at about 45%. The third is his base but there are a lot of independents who plan to vote for him, and they're the ones who decide elections.
He’s polling at about 45% (plus or minus about six points), but that 45% only counts the ~66% of people who actually vote. So it’s only 28-33% of the population that actively supports him enough to vote for him.
It's more like a third rather than half.
It's similar to the percentage of Germans who supported the NAZIs back in the 1930s.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Sparsely populated states with a lot of lead in the drinking water
I'm not sure if that makes it sound better or worse
doesn't that technically make him the "DEI candidate"
Trump never won the popular vote and he's more unpopular now than he's ever been. Never has half of this country voted for him, not even close, and it isn't true now either
But I read everywhere that it's close between the two candidates, is that not true?
He was technically less popular at this same point in the 2016 election. He can absolutely still win if things go the same way that 2016 did. Liberals didn’t fucking vote in 2016, (for a variety of reasons), which handed the win to Trump.
It can still be close but that is close between the people that vote. More than half of all Americans do not vote consistently. We don't have mandatory elections, so if half the country doesn't vote and its close between the two candidates, then its close between two quarters of the population, not half. And it seems maybe a little pedantic, but those half of people who don't vote are either disenfranchised or implicitly choosing neither candidate. Half the voting population is not half the population; those non voters are actual people. Maybe if they were treated as an important part of the electorate, they would vote. Maybe they wouldn't vote for a republican or a democrat, in which case it is also in the dems best interest to disenfranchise voters, although that certainly isn't the conventional wisdom, nor is it the mission of the millions of volunteers who work to sign people up to vote on important issues.
Maybe they wouldn't vote for a republican or a democrat, in which case it is also in the dems best interest to disenfranchise voters, although that certainly isn't the conventional wisdom,
Doesn’t mean it’s not true…
nor is it the mission of the millions of volunteers who work to sign people up to vote on important issues.
That’s true, the corruption is mostly at the top.
Signed, —A person who doesn’t want to vote republican or democrat
The latter.
There have always been despicable people like Trump, and I'm certain that, as horrible people go, he's not even in the top thousand of horrible people alive today.
It's far more sad that so many people in the US are willing to overlook his faults; even if you discount his rabid base, it's especially sad that close to another 20% of Americans who are more or less centrists (for Americans) are willing to overlook the fact that he admits that he's working toward a dictatorship. This is the most depressing thing, for me.
Sure, just let me plop down my ACME free-standing sink and plug the drain first.
Why didn't I think of that?!
hey has anyone considered this guy is just delusional ?
Only people already ~~smart~~ not stupid enough to vote for him
Southwestern USA had drought periods lasting hundreds of years in recent history. That's normal for the region. And we think we should pack a few tens of million people there and treating ground water as infinitely renewable.
Solar power + desalination en masse or gtfo ...
We could supply the residents with water.
Irrigating all that desert to grow monsoon crops is harder.
Or Vote for me and Project plowshare is back! I will use nukes to build canals! They were paid with your tax dollars gotta use then!
You know I'm super shocked Trump has not said it yet. Like really shocked. He'll nuke a hurricane but a canal? Noo.
Project Plowshare isn't a bad enough idea for Trump to support.
Meanwhile, farmers in the Central Valley, which would be a desert without irrigation, keep planting more almonds, alfalfa for export, and other cash crops that require substantially higher water inputs than crops primarily intended to feed people. All while complaining that they aren't being allowed to drain rivers to the point of irreversible damage, like salinization, and pointing the finger at residential users who pay much higher rates and consume a fraction of the water.
Pretty much all water shortages are caused by irresponsible water use for farming. And yet that never gets addressed.
Jon Oliver has a piece on that issue. IIRC Farmers have to use all the water they are allocated or they could lose the rights to it, so they have to plant crops that require a lot of water. It's a policy issue that the farmers had to adapt to
And who advocates for the policy to stay the way it currently is?
Kamoulox
Aliens eating cats, a giant faucet that would solve water problems. He's watching cartoons from the early nineties and thinks that's reality.
Did that fucker say we run on Canadian water??
Does he think water rolls downhill on the map from north to south?
Is it the giant faucet he uses to rinse all the orange face paint off? Or does he just paint over the old layer daily. Wind farms give you cancer!!!
I’m a giant faucet, California 😏
Can you turn me on Greg?
Nuke the hurricanes, rake the forest floor and now- turn on the faucet.
Rex Tillerson (his own Secretary of State) said it best, “This guy is a fucking moron”.
This is why time travelers keep trying to kill this mother fucker
Only question is, why do they pick his third election and not his first?
to stop his fourth election
At least someone cares, because we know a large swath of the current US voter base doesn’t. Show up and vote people, like your lives depend on it!
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