Tiedrich: elderly golfer blithers about a giant faucet in Canada

[geardaddy]

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfer-blithers-about-a-giant

last week, Donny held a press conference at one of his California golf motels — mainly so he could lie about Democrats and brag about his own amazing imaginary accomplishments.

the crowning moment of batshit was Donny’s answer to a question about water management in California. strap in, folks, and get ready for the verbal roller coaster ride of your life.


“and the reason you have no water, you have the canals, the reason you have no water is because Gavin ‘Newscomb’ didn’t want to do it. I had it all done. I had the Department of Commerce at the time, believe it or not, they’re the ones that rule on this particular issue. so you have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north, with the snow caps in Canada, and it all pouring down. and they have essentially a very large faucet. and you turn the faucet, and it takes a day to turn it. it takes one day to turn it, it’s massive. it’s as big as the wall of that building right there behind you. and you turn that, and all of the water goes into the— aimlessly into the Pacific. and if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles. they wouldn’t have to have people not use more than 30 gallons and 32 gallons. they want to do that, you know. they’re trying to do that. and you have so much water. and all those fields that are right now barren, the farmers would have all the water they needed. and you could revert water up into the hills, where you have all the dead forests, where the forests are so brittle.”

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there’s no doubt that years ago, some hapless administrator at the Commerce Department was explaining to Donny all about California’s complex system of rivers, aqueducts and reservoirs — and at some point along the way, described water management as “think of it as a big faucet.” but whoever that was forgot about the part where Donny is a fucking idiot who has no idea what metaphors are.

so you can add “turn the big-ass faucet” to “rake the forest,” “water-bomb the cathedral,” “nuke the hurricane” and all the other crazypants fever-swamp notions that sluice about in the rancid gray goo inside Donny’s thick skull.

[riversedge]

1. So, will Canada turn on the Trumpy faucet??

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Every time he opens his mouth he proves he's an idiot

Unfortunately, there are a lot of idiots who believe him.

[SCantiGOP]

3. MAGA to the rescue

Turn on the giant mythical faucet, rake the forests, problem solved.

[Martin Eden]

4. Actually, there is a giant faucet at work here

But it's not controlled by Canada or the Commerce Dept.

The faucet can only be turned by Tiny Hands Donnie. When he twists the knob, out comes a torrent of verbal diarrhea.

The only Californians who drink that fetid waste wear red maga caps, a distinct minority in America's most populous state.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Did he mean Canadian liquor during Prohibition?

That's his mental time frame

[twodogsbarking]

6. Is the giant faucet in the room with us now?

[geardaddy]

10. LOL

[pat_k]

7. Sane-washing Trump's Giant Faucet

I posted this before. In case you missed it:

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It's incredible.

He pulls something out of his ass and smart people look at the nonsensical stream of unconsciousness and try to make sense of it, ultimately reading into it things that are simply not there, and then suddenly they're talking about projects and costs and feasibility of something that probably has nothing to do with what he just pulled out of his ass.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/not-that-simple-trump-drags-canadian-river-into-california-s-water-problems-1.7040126

. . .
According to Stadnyk, Trump is talking about the Columbia River, which gets its water from Columbia Lake, located south of Invermere, B.C.

The river eventually drains into Oregon before ending up in the Pacific Ocean.

"It provides water to both countries from B.C., from our snow dome glacier or Athabasca Glacier, down into the U.S.(opens in a new tab)," she said.
. . .
"There is not a lot of water in any system just sitting there to be had. We are over-allocated in almost all our systems, for the increases in population that we have and the demands and uses of our water supply, both in Canada and the U.S.," she said.

The consequence would have everlasting impacts on the ecosystem, according to Stadnyk.

She also says a project would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

"We can't just be taking water and diverting it and sending it somewhere else. Besides that, every time that we're asked to do that, it's a sign that we're living outside of our means," she said.

Stadnyk was perplexed when Trump mentioned a "giant faucet."

She thinks he was referencing the headwaters of the Columbia River, which is fed by a snow dome.

" (The snow dome) is the only one in the world that actually drains to three oceans," she said.

[3Hotdogs]

8. That faucet would be a national historic site, bigger than the Hoover Dam, except that Kamala doesn't want you to see it

It is turned to just a dribble, so's Biden can charge California for water. It is a tax that doesn't look like a tax. So nobody knows they're being taxed.

Democrats do a lot of things that get covered up by the lame stream media. For instance, how many of yiz know about the Bowling Green Massacre? If it wasn't for me, ya wouldn't'a heard about it.

[KS Toronado]

9. "you could revert water up into the hills"

With lil donnie in charge water will magically run uphill, or maybe it's scared of getting close
to him.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

11. Whut?? "A day to turn it"??

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