"There Is No Valve" - Shitstain's Belligerent Ignorance Of Western Water Will Be On Full Display When He Visits LA

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Ahead of his inauguration, Trump blamed Newsom for protecting an “essentially worthless fish” instead of sending more water to Southern California for the fires. In a Day 1 memo titled “Putting People over Fish,” Trump directed his deputies to “route more water” away from the delta to other parts of the state. But with Southern California’s reservoirs above historical levels, a lack of water from upstate wasn’t why some firefighters struggled to find water during the blazes. Hydrants ran dry instead because of spiking demand that made it difficult to refill them. John Buse, general counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, said Trump is “scapegoating” the fish. “There’s literally no real connection between the fires in Southern California and delta smelt protections,” he said.

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In recent days, Trump has also talked about the vast supply of meltwater pouring down from Canadian mountains and the ability to turn a “very large faucet” that would help California. Water experts in the West dismissed Trump’s suggestion that Canada could solve California’s water problems or that water from the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest could be diverted there, as no such canal or pipeline exists. “That idea is completely far-fetched and detached from reality,” said Miles Johnson, legal director at Columbia Riverkeeper, an Oregon-based nonprofit that seeks to protect and restore the water quality of the Columbia River.

A pipeline, he said, “would be insanely complicated to create, and I think create a huge amount of friction in the American West where fighting over water is basically our national pastime. “Beyond the logistics of it, which are probably prohibitive, taking that water out of the Columbia River, means taking hydropower off the grid,” he said. “That’s the trade-off that no one is talking about.”

Some 85 percent of the Columbia River watershed is in the United States, so if Trump intends to send its water to California, he would probably take it from the U.S. side, said Tricia Stadnyk, Canada research chair in hydrologic modeling at the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/01/23/california-water-trump-valve-la-fires/

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1. He is an utter moron spewing BS that any halfway

Intelligent person can tell by listening to him. He always sounds like a student who never even opened the book bluffing his way through an oral book report.

His vocabulary is rudimentary for any adult, especially a POTUS.

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2. tfg's lies are fun to laugh at

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