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MVP said:
Orange turd still thinks he opened water in Canada. Lets see what excuse for his demented brain magats will find now. Come on, A-O, find dam or canal in Canada orange clown is talking about, I dare you.

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The scary thing isn't what he believes, it is what he gets his cult followers to believe. My wife had an unbelievable "discussion" about this topic on facebook and it is shocking how many people who I otherwise always viewed as reasonably intelligent actually believe he "opened the water" and that the democrats were pusposely "holding back the water" from the pacific northwest and even into Canada. When asked how, what was the mechanism of this action to hold back the water no one had any answers, but they doubled down on the stupid. Several even echoed the claims made during the hurricane season last year saying "well we have proof they can manipulate hurricanes to attack republican cities so obviously they can control the rain". Like, what the actual ****? I wish one journalist would latch onto this like a dog on a bone and dig deep with Trump himself as to how exactly he opened the water, get him to give them a method for doing this. Where are the faucets? What is the tool used to turn the faucets? Who, as in a name of a person, actually turned said faucets?

Again, @Bucknutz , any response from the reasoned part of the MAGA cult? How the **** does anyone believe this let alone justify it? Nothing?


**crickets**
 
MVP said:
Orange turd still thinks he opened water in Canada. Lets see what excuse for his demented brain magats will find now. Come on, A-O, find dam or canal in Canada orange clown is talking about, I dare you.

View: https://x.com/atrupar/status/1887550156163240083?s=46&t=LUnkpUKOFZIIIo_VUz40LQ
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It's funny that he says the water is coming in millions and millions of barrels.
Might want to use an actual term of measurement dumbass. How big are the barrels? If they only hold a drop of water each then it isn't really much water at all that is coming down from the northwest (another vague, means nothing term. How about mentioning a specific waterway? Again, he is a dumbass)
 
MVP said:
Orange turd still thinks he opened water in Canada.
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LogGrad98 said:
The scary thing isn't what he believes, it is what he gets his cult followers to believe. My wife had an unbelievable "discussion" about this topic on facebook and it is shocking how many people who I otherwise always viewed as reasonably intelligent actually believe he "opened the water" and that the democrats were pusposely "holding back the water" from the pacific northwest and even into Canada
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  • During a visit to Los Angeles last week, Trump vowed to increase pumping of water in California.
  • Federal data show that pumping actually had lessened for several days last week, apparently to allow for routine maintenance at a federal pumping facility.
  • Despite Trump administration claims to the contrary, the amount of water now flowing in the federal system in the Delta is about the same as it was under the Biden administration.
When President Trump visited Los Angeles last week, he pledged to “open up the pumps and valves in the north” and “get that water pouring down here.”

But records show that the day he made that announcement, the federal government’s pumping facility in Northern California was delivering less water than usual, apparently because managers had reduced pumping for several days of routine maintenance.

The records indicate that the day after Trump’s announcement, on Saturday, the federally managed pumping plant resumed regular levels of water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the aqueducts of the Central Valley Project.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s daily pumping data for the Jones Pumping Plant shows that on Jan. 21, the amount of water pumped decreased to about 1,900 acre-feet, down from about 6,900 acre-feet the day before. Pumping continued at reduced levels of about 1,800 acre-feet each day from Jan. 22 through Jan. 24, when Trump visited Los Angeles.

The pumping returned to higher levels on Saturday, Jan. 25, delivering 5,300 acre-feet of water that day, or about 1.7 billion gallons.

On Monday night, Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER,” a claim that state officials promptly denied.

The California Department of Water Resources responded in a statement: “The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days.”

https://archive.ph/o/YuvgI/https://...a/story/2025-01-27/la-me-trump-water-military

Gov. Gavin Newsom responded at a news conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
“There were no military sent to the Central Valley. That was reported but wasn’t in evidence,” Newsom said.
He said the federal government was doing maintenance on the Central Valley Project from Jan. 21 to Jan. 24.

“Between the 21st and 24th, the federal government was doing maintenance on their system. It’s maintenance that is well coordinated with the State Water Project that does not end pumping,” Newsom said.

For four days, maintenance work on power transmission lines prevented operation of another pumping plant south of the Delta near San Luis Reservoir, which led managers to reduce pumping at the Jones Pumping Plant.

“On the 24th, that maintenance ended, and they started turning back on the pumps,” Newsom said. “It takes a few days to get the pumps back to 100%, and perhaps that was what they were celebrating.”

The Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the Central Valley Project, did not respond to requests for information about the maintenance that temporarily reduced water deliveries.

The unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, which Trump plans to consult for recommendations on cutting government spending, said in a social media postthat it congratulates the administration for “more than doubling the Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California.”

According to the government data, the Trump administration has not yet increased pumping above the levels that the federal facility was drawing from the Delta under the Biden administration earlier this month. (On Tuesday, the pumping plant delivered nearly 6,900 acre-feet. On Wednesday, that decreased somewhat to about 5,100 acre-feet, and on Thursday, pumping returned to more than 6,800 acre-feet.)

Water experts have pointed out that Trump made several inaccurate statements on social media and during his L.A. visit. For example, he said he was opening up the flow of water “from the Pacific Northwest” and “parts of Canada” — from where California has no aqueducts, pipelines or other avenues for water flow.

He also said he intended to increase the flow of water to Los Angeles, even though urban areas of Southern California are supplied not by the federally managed Central Valley Project but by the State Water Project, the other main north-to-south water conduit in the region — which hasn’t been directly affected by his executive orders.

“I don’t think he’s interested in water. I think he’s interested in other things — for which this is perhaps a rhetorical vehicle,” said Jay Lund, a UC Davis emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering.

Lund said he thinks one aim of Trump’s statements might be “keeping other people off balance,” including political adversaries in California.

“He likes to occupy space, it seems,” Lund said. “He’s not doing things that would actually provide water. He’s setting up some rhetorical conditions for perhaps other things he’s interested in accomplishing.”
 
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fishonjazz said:
It's funny that he says the water is coming in millions and millions of barrels.
Might want to use an actual term of measurement dumbass. How big are the barrels? If they only hold a drop of water each then it isn't really much water at all that is coming down from the northwest (another vague, means nothing term. How about mentioning a specific waterway? Again, he is a dumbass)
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Maybe you are just being funny, but just in case you didn't know, Barrel is unit of measure. 1 Barrel = 31.5 Gallons.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Maybe you are just being funny, but just in case you didn't know, Barrel is unit of measure. 1 Barrel = 31.5 Gallons.
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Our water supply is not typically measured in barrels. I usually hear it measured in cubic meters or cubic feet.

Using barrels is as odd as using pounds to measure a volume of water.
 
Red said:
Bannon’s shotgun approach has worked so far….
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It is statements like this and new articles of impeachment being filed that convince me Democrats are completely unable to adapt.

Trump has a guy who built PayPal, built Stripe, built Tesla, built SpaceX, rebuilt Twitter, and built StarLink. You think it is Steve Bannon's plan, except according to your video, there is no plan, and Project 2025 is the plan, but there is no plan, and STEVE BANNON ...

It is endlessly amusing to watch Democrats flail, try all of their old tricks that now are totally useless, and not know what to do or who to look toward to lead them other than the obvious of being led by Trump to get their marching orders to do the opposite even if it means marching off a cliff to their own doom. Go, dog. Go!
 
BabyPeterzz said:
just targeting “liberal programs” is attacking some Americans and not others. **** that.
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ROFL Giving away the game a bit, aren't you? Musk is trying to shut down whole divisions, and you say that is "targeting liberal programs". If an entire division is a "liberal program", that is a problem and it should be shut down.
 
Red said:
Anti-Science is a given with Trump 2.0….Anti-science to the hilt. MAGA celebrates human ignorance. Trump, and so many Americans who support the man, exhibit the Dunning-Kruger Effect.


Staff members at a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been told this week to stop all contact with foreign nationals, including on international treaties and seafood catch limits, stoking confusion and fear among government scientists as the Trump administration begins to shape its vision for their work.

The orders came from leaders of the National Marine Fisheries Service in all-staff meetings this week, according to multiple staff members, who spoke with The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from the new administration. And the change has put some agency work — including efforts to set annual quotas on seafood harvests — on hold for the foreseeable future.

At other branches of NOAA, international contact is facing heavy scrutiny, staff members said, raising questions about how easily they could carry out everyday efforts to monitor weather and atmospheric conditions — such as working with other countries to track tsunami risks across the Pacific Ocean, key to ensuring safety along the West Coast. NOAA produces government weather forecasts, conducts long-term climate monitoring and research, and manages the nation’s fisheries and marine mammals.

At NOAA Research, an office focused on foundational earth science, an email sent to staff Wednesday and reviewed by The Post said they would now need to submit any “international engagement” for approval, including travel, face-to-face meetings or gatherings of international organizations. As for whether that includes emails with colleagues of different nationalities, the guidance said: “Not at this time.”

Some details about the new orders to NOAA staff were first reported by WIRED on Wednesday, including that the ban on foreign communication also applied to an agency branch that oversees satellite-collected environmental data.

The turmoil has created an atmosphere of fear and confusion across the agency of 13,000 employees. At all-hands meetings convened in NOAA offices across the country this week, staffers raised questions about whether the integrity of NOAA science is at risk.

There have been few clear answers.
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They should learn to code.
 
www.mediaite.com

Elon Musk Demands Firing of ‘Disgusting and Cruel’ WSJ Reporter Who Uncovered DOGE Employee’s Racist Tweets

Elon Musk suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee's racist tweets should be fired on Friday.
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Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee’s racist tweets should be fired on Friday.

In a story published on Thursday, the Journal‘s Katherine Long revealed that a “key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central-payments system resigned Thursday after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics.”

From Long’s report:

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old who is part of a cadre of Elon Musk lieutenants deployed by the Department of Government Efficiency to scrutinize federal spending, resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.

After the Journal inquired about the account, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that Elez had resigned from his role.
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Now that Elez has been removed from his post at DOGE, Musk appears to be on a mission to punish Long for discovering his foul views.

Replying to a tweet pointing out that Long had once been the author of a piece headlined “The Videogame Industry Still Needs to Reckon with Its Lack of Diversity,” the billionaire asserted that “She’s a disgusting and cruel person.”


View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887857977677205649
 
Red said:
www.mediaite.com

Elon Musk Demands Firing of ‘Disgusting and Cruel’ WSJ Reporter Who Uncovered DOGE Employee’s Racist Tweets

Elon Musk suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee's racist tweets should be fired on Friday.
www.mediaite.com www.mediaite.com

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee’s racist tweets should be fired on Friday.

In a story published on Thursday, the Journal‘s Katherine Long revealed that a “key DOGE staff member who gained access to the Treasury Department’s central-payments system resigned Thursday after he was linked to a deleted social-media account that advocated racism and eugenics.”

From Long’s report:


Now that Elez has been removed from his post at DOGE, Musk appears to be on a mission to punish Long for discovering his foul views.

Replying to a tweet pointing out that Long had once been the author of a piece headlined “The Videogame Industry Still Needs to Reckon with Its Lack of Diversity,” the billionaire asserted that “She’s a disgusting and cruel person.”


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Another page straight from the Nazi playbook, control the media with threats and then later with outright violence. Musk is well on his way to becoming Hitler 2.0
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Maybe you are just being funny, but just in case you didn't know, Barrel is unit of measure. 1 Barrel = 31.5 Gallons.
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Not in terms of flow in natural water ways however. When measuring an amount of water flow in a natural water way you use a term like CFS (cubic feet per second)

But lets humor trump for a minute. So 1 barrel = 31.5 gallons. Millions and millions (we will go conservative here and just say 2 million) would be 63 million. So 63 million gallons of water is flowing from where to where exactly by what water way? Also according to google a barrel has a range from 31.5 to 42 gallons for liquids.
Googles also gave me this answer when asked "how many gallons in a barrel of water?": A "barrel" of water is typically considered to be 42 gallons in the United States, as this is the standard measurement used in the oil industry, where "barrel" is most commonly used; meaning a barrel of water is equivalent to 42 gallons. Maybe you were just being funny I guess.

Maybe he was thinking that millions and millions of barrels of oil (oil industry uses barrels for units of measurement) were flowing from somewhere north to somewhere south. Who knows? Dude is an idiot.

In actuality he had no idea what a barrel of water is or how much water is in a barrel and was just using the word for the hell of it. He is an idiot.
 
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fishonjazz said:
Not in terms of flow in natural water ways however. When measuring an amount of water flow in a natural water way you use a term like CFS (cubic feet per second)

But lets humor trump for a minute. So 1 barrel = 31.5 gallons. Millions and millions (we will go conservative here and just say 2 million) would be 63 million. So 63 million gallons of water is flowing from where to where exactly by what water way? Also according to google a barrel has a range from 31.5 to 42 gallons for liquids.
Googles also gave me this answer when asked "how many gallons in a barrel of water?": A "barrel" of water is typically considered to be 42 gallons in the United States, as this is the standard measurement used in the oil industry, where "barrel" is most commonly used; meaning a barrel of water is equivalent to 42 gallons. Maybe you were just being funny I guess.

Maybe he was thinking that millions and millions of barrels of oil (oil industry uses barrels for units of measurement) were flowing from somewhere north to somewhere south. Who knows? Dude is an idiot.

In actuality he had no idea what a barrel of water is or how much water is in a barrel and was just using the word for the hell of it. He is an idiot.
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It really does boil down to just how uneducated/uninformed Trump is. He talks confidently about things he doesn't know.

That is a quality that I hate in any person I see it in.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
ROFL Giving away the game a bit, aren't you? Musk is trying to shut down whole divisions, and you say that is "targeting liberal programs". If an entire division is a "liberal program", that is a problem and it should be shut down.
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Just looking for fairness. If we’re going to **** over poor people, at least do it equitably.


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Sardines said:
It really does boil down to just how uneducated/uninformed Trump is. He talks confidently about things he doesn't know.

That is a quality that I hate in any person I see it in.
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Ya he has to speak on anything and everything it would be better if he stayed in his own lane a bit and let experts in their respective fields handle some of the talking points.

This is an appropriate place to post this again.....
View: https://youtu.be/sR3f95BGIiA?si=ysCy_poR94I3zsur
 
fishonjazz said:
Millions and millions (we will go conservative here and just say 2 million) would be 63 million. So 63 million gallons of water is flowing from where to where exactly by what water way?
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63 million gallons was a good guess, but the actual number was over 2.2 billion gallons. The water came from reservoirs Kaweah and Success. Carry on.
 
I was actually proud of trump today when I saw a reporter ask him if he had any comment on the time magazine cover photo of Elon Musk sitting at trumps presidential desk and he simply answered "no"
I knew he could actually shut up. Just had to be asked the right question.
He did look pretty sad though.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
They should learn to code.
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They will find other jobs. While insufferable, they are damn good at complicated work that requires technical skill, patience, and passion. This is a massive brain drain for the federal government. People get MPA’s, MPP’s, all kinds of advanced degrees to work in government. Not to mention the engineers and tradesmen. All are sweating it right now.

Speaking of coding, how are all your coal mining best friends doing? Trump sure has their back doing absolutely jack **** for their future. Good job?


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BabyPeterzz said:
Just looking for fairness. If we’re going to **** over poor people, at least do it equitably.
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For all the noise, this is nothing but an audit. DOGE is nothing more than an independent auditing firm. They don't fire government works or shut down anything. They look at data, report findings, and make recommendations. They are auditors, and they will look at everything they have access to. right leaning, left leaning, whatever. Give them access and they'll audit it.

All of this outrage over Elon Musk being this or doing that, only shows how bad everyone involved knows things are. They are hand-waving as furiously as they can to take attention away from what they know the auditors will find. It did not escape my notice that you voiced your support for the books being audited. I applaud that and join you sentiment that I hope they look at everything equally.
 
fishonjazz said:
Ya he has to speak on anything and everything it would be better if he stayed in his own lane a bit and let experts in their respective fields handle some of the talking points.

This is an appropriate place to post this again.....
View: https://youtu.be/sR3f95BGIiA?si=ysCy_poR94I3zsur
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I love when it is obvious Trump just had something explained to him that he previously knew nothing about and then he goes before the press and says "I know more about that than anybody... and a lot of people don't understand it." He thinks people don't understand it because he doesn't understand it, even though most people are familiar with the subject.
 
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