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There is so much about this that borders on the surreal. Why is it that even low IQ magats don’t see the problem with this move by the Army Corps?

OK, never mind.

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I suppose Woke is in the eye. You don't get to call the black man otherwise because he's left the room.

Do unto me and we shall share our reward.

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Trump has been on this since before the fires. It is clear he's talking about the Columbia River, with tributaries that drain parts of BC. Of course that water would have to go up the Willamette Valley and over the Siskiyou Mountains etc to get to California. The man is daft, we knew that already.

I am his age and often his fantasies ring a gong from my youth. and this seems an echo of the brewhaha over the California Water Project, a legacy project of Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, taking water from the San Juoquin Delta and sending it by canals and pumps to Los Angeles. It was expensive but it works even today. Of course there are "environmental concerns."

So that was a giant "Fish vs. People" fight which was apparnantly part of the prompt of the Trump Chatbot.

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You missed the punchline, which is that nearly all of the southern Central Valley farmers, who are either getting flooded right before a major rain event or who will lose out on water when they actually need it later this year, are huge Trump supporters.

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they will blame biden

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That photo there is at most about 100 cfs, and also too not sure how water flowing down rivers prevents fires, but I'm not a stable genius needless to say.

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Yeah, looks like an okay swimming hole, not the kind of wide-open thousands-cfs flow (or a 50K cfs flow if Trump wanted to perpetuate the idea that he'd just let loose something in the Pacific NW; I think the Eel has already topped 100K this winter) that might plausibly illustrate a California river running high.

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This guy still stuns me with how fucking stupid he is. Amazing.

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And yet, the rubes keep buying the bullshit.

On the subject of tariffs, a classic rube analysis goes something like this:

"If tariffs cause us to have to pay more, that will be offset by Trump eliminating the income tax."

But, how will we pay for the military if the income tax goes away?

"Canada will pay for the military."

But, what if they don't want to?

"We will invade them, and Canada will become the 51st state."

Well, then they won't be paying for the military. We all will.

"Fuck off with your logic."

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Gosh I do hope that southern California residents remember when the drought is worse later this year that Trump sent reserved water down the rivers just to feed his always hungry narcissism.

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Hopefully TBS puts Groundhog Day on a loop this year. Goes great with shots. Looks like AMC channel has me covered!

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Ta, Gary. To quote Greta Thunberg (at that Thing, not you!), How Dare You!

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We live in a basically insane simulacrum, and yes this fanfiction is our future. There is no bottom to the well of stupidity in President Klan Robe.

Beware, your young and hip favorites for the next election better have a strategy for this fanfiction fast or they're going to end up like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (and Hillary Clinton before them) did.

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As the news scrum at the daily Two Minutes Hate - I mean Presidential News Conference - is now allowing "alternate news outlets" to get press passes can someone sneak Dok into one of them and have him loudly ask "WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF IDIOTIC BULLSHIT IS THIS!!!" so that at least it gets turned into a meme and bounces around the interwebs forever?

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"Oh, Sir! Thank you so much, Sir!!" said a large man with tears in his eyes.

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Large and bulging.

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Those weren't tears, it was fresh water from the dams!

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