President Donald Trump went off the rails when asked about California wildfires during his first full day in office. He claims city officials are diverting "limitless" water to the ocean through a "massive valve."
    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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      1 hour ago

      People get mad about the word “retard” and I understand that, but holy fuck has it been difficult to spit out a more fitting word than “retard” these days when dealing with anything MAGA. It’s all just so removed. (I see I can’t say it with the ed on the end)

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    3 hours ago

    this is America.

    a zombie state that doesn’t realize it’s already dead.

    and nobody is willing to do what must be done to stop it.

  • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
    662·
    5 hours ago

    He claimed Los Angeles limits residents to just 38 gallons of water a day, and referred to some mythical “valve” that could bring limitless water to L.A., but that officials instead diverted to the ocean.

    “They have a valve, think of a sink but multiply it by many thousands of times the size of it, it’s massive. And you turn it back toward Los Angeles. Why aren’t they doing it? They either have a death wish, they’re stupid or there’s something else going on that we don’t understand,” Trump said.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      52 minutes ago

      Maybe hes thinking of the fact that ~80% of California’s water goes to irrigation for crops instead of to communities.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      83·
      5 hours ago

      or there’s something else going on that we I don’t understand," Trump said.

      He was so close to realization.

    • minnow@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      They either have a death wish, they’re stupid or there’s something else

      You know what they say. Everything that comes out of their mouths is either a confession or projection!

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Stupid does apply here, just not in the way he thinks it does. Also, who is “they”? Is he just referring to liberals?

      • ramble81@lemm.ee
        1·
        15 minutes ago

        I hate “they”. Whenever someone at work says “they” I immediately ask “who?” and don’t get off of it until they actually name a person. Does wonders for stopping the random boogeyman.

    • TommySoda@lemmy.world
      171·
      4 hours ago

      Alright, then how about you go rake the leaves of the nation forest and parks behind my house? You got this. Should be pretty easy from what you’re saying.

    • Rooskie91@discuss.online
      106·
      4 hours ago

      What do you get out of this? Are you some kind of abused dog that accepts negative attention likes its positive attention because it’s never received positive attention? Go to therapy, please, for yourself if no one else.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        He’s alluding to a previous comment during Trump’s first term during earlier California wildfires about how Finland raked their forests.

        https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46256296

        Citing a conversation with his Finnish counterpart, Mr Trump said they spend “a lot of time on raking and cleaning”.

        But President Sauli Niinisto told a Finnish daily he could not remember talking about raking when the two met.

        Firefighters in California are currently battling the deadliest blaze in the state’s history.

        Surveying the damage on Saturday, Mr Trump revisited his claim that poor forest management was to blame.

        “You look at other countries where they do it differently, and it’s a whole different story,” he said.

        “I was with the president of Finland, and he said: ‘We have a much different [sic]…, we’re a forest nation.’ And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don’t have any problem,” he added.