Farmers Plead 'Stop Our Fields Flooding' as Trump Opens Dams

[In It to Win It]

Local officials in California have revealed that President Donald Trump nearly flooded the region’s farms when his administration tried to send an excessive amount of water south, a feat he bragged about on Friday.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory!” Trump gloated in a Truth Social post.

Over the last month, the president has often pushed for more water to be directed to southern California to help fight the fires that have devastated the area.

Behind the scenes on Friday, though, officials told Politico that they had to talk down the Army Corps of Engineers after they were alerted on short notice about a sudden—and excessive—influx of water.

The Army Corps was set to turn two reservoirs to max capacity, a decision the agency later told Politico was in response to Trump’s directive that the federal government “maximize” water supplies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/farmers-plead-stop-fields-flooding-224516014.html

[Tumbulu]

1. let alone that this water is needed in the summer for irrigation - every drop of it!

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And now it is gone- thrown away by the lunatic in chief- and the terrified workers at the Army Corps of Engineers who followed the bad orders. Proof that we cannot depend one minute on anyone in the military following any laws should this cabal order them to break laws.

[jeffreyi]

2. Nope.

Why should any Army Corps of Engineers employee light himself/herself on fire?

[stillcool]

4. yup. no one should light themselves on fire

but they could say no, or give a heads-up to somebody, or say I'm sorry,...or say, and do nothing. Until it's them that gets screwed. Me and mine. All that matters. It's human nature.

[Tumbulu]

10. Because professionals have codes of conduct

And they should achieve refused, but this proves that professionals cave just like everyone else.

[jmowreader]

3. That's kind of the point of doing this

By flooding the fields now which will take away the farmers' access to that water during growing season he can decimate California's agricultural economy and hurt all those hippie liberals in "Commiefornia."

What Trump doesn't seem to realize is 6,081,697 Californians - many of which are the people he is fucking over with his water crap - voted for Trump. That is the entire population of Wyoming, Alaska, both North and South Dakota, Montana and West Virginia combined - with about 125,000 Idahoans thrown in for good measure.

[dsc]

8. actually that is the GOP part of California

the inland empire is GOP dominated and has been for years.

[Retrograde]

5. I don't know if it's the pettiness, the cruetly, or the sheer stupidity

that bothers me the most. Did Donnie look at a map, notice that the reservoirs were all north of LA, and therefore "reason" that the water would flow south to put out the fires (which were already under control by that time)? Maybe he should have tilted the map up so the water would flow faster.

Water management in California - and the West in general - is a touchy and complicated topic. People who live where water falls out of the sky most of the year have a hard time grappling with the concept that in some other places it's a limited resource - there's enough to go around, but it needs to be managed carefully. While I think a lot of big farms can make more efficient use of the resource, just dumping it without a plan makes as much sense as building a big fire because you found a gasoline depot.

[underpants]

6. This is turning on the hose and walking away.

[kacekwl]

7. Why would the Army Corps of

Engineers follow an order from a moron instead of doing the right thing. I don't know which one is dumber.

[Norrrm]

9. The Corps did not know this?

"Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away..."