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‘Ridiculous blunder’: Trump wades into California’s water wars – and strikes some of his strongest supporters (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm sorry, but the lede on this broke me to the point of uncontrollable laughter. This is just so profoundly stupid, I don't think Monty Python at their peak could parody this.

It's also a lot of water to waste in the West, which is unfortunate.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and their kids don’t get to go to school anymore.

This part is actually a feature. You think desperate farmers are going to let crops rot in the field while their kids attend school? And that's just family farms! Just wait until the inner city high schools start getting tapped for factory farms!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I always like to give benefit of doubt that parents want better for their kids. I'm being gracious. ;p