4mo ago

Essentially a very large faucet

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The stupid part is not that he said this
The stupid part is that a good percentage of a large powerful country like the United States allows and accepts a political leader like this to speak for them.
Turnip isn't the idiot
Everyone else is for listening to him and keeping him in a position of power
- Except the majority doesn't want this moron. Yes, though, I do agree with your sentiment generally
  
  The fact that anything more than a vanishingly-small minority wants him is an absolute catastrophe and an incredibly damning indictment of American society in and of itself. Trump's nonsensical babbling is literally beyond "schizophrenic homeless dude on the street corner with a 'the end is nigh' sign"-level gibberish.
- Buckle up, here in Australia, every couple of years a political party has the bright idea of damming water in Australia's tropical north and pumping it across 1000km of desert to Australia's farmland regions
  
  I don't know if you remember a couple years ago when they were finding barrels of bodies, guns, and other fun things in Lake Mead (near Vegas)? That was drying up because the river that feeds it has been getting diverted for farm use (and probably Nestlé, too). It's a huge problem in California, as well. Whole ecosystems are disappearing due to damming and diverting of rivers and streams. It's not at all sustainable
- Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the one who follows him?
  Ben Kenobi
  Huquad
  
  Primus - Follow The Fool https://youtu.be/QBGa-V0b9XM?si=Pn77E_JnYCcUrKPX

For someone in BC, hearing America talk about our water like this is kind of terrifying
- trump isn’t America. He doesn’t speak for most of us.
  
  That will be believable if he doesn't win. The fact that it's cloee is absolutely nuts to an outsider.
  
  Yep. Never once has Trump exceeded >=50% of votes or even approval rating.
  Don't you just love our slave era Electoral College...?
  
  He most definitely does not speak for us, but I share your pain that he has a following as large as it is. Years of unchecked indoctrination and the dismantling of the public schools and human nature giving is the authoritarian personality (which seems to be about 30% of people everywhere)
- Except there isn't even a way to get water from BC to LA. They'd be better off getting it from the Great Lakes, at least they wouldn't have to build a pipeline through thousands of miles of mountains.
  He's a fucking idiot. Gravity confuses him.
  
  I'm sorry, are you saying that a pipeline from the great lakes to Los Angeles would have to go through less mountains than from British Columbia?
  gestures vaguely at the entire mountain west *
  
  Not just an idiot - he’s demented as well! And let’s not forget he’s a sociopath, a rapist, a fraud, a colluder, a seditionist - oh so many things.
  
  I think everyone from Columbus hunters to Gary gangsters will make it clear their ain’t trying that
- Ontario here....
  IDK what Trump is trying to say here, but I don't like it.
  
  That would be one huge faucet to take water from Ontario to Southern California …. Plus it would be tough getting around the Great Lakes
- The only thing that can stop us is a wall paid by Mexico.

This dipshit is the most accurate representative conservatives could come up with. He's been re-affirmed as their most accurate representative time and time again over the last decade.
This moron is who conservatives are, and they are proud of it. Remember this when you talk to conservatives in your daily life. They are as profoundly unintelligent as they are evil.
- Conservatives like him because he's racist.
  That's it. It doesn't matter.to them if he doesn't know how rain works. They don't care if he couldn't tell you how hurricanes travel.
  All they care about is that he hates immigrants.
  That's it.
  
  Now, now. To his rich backers, it's not the racism so much as maintaining the status quo of them not getting taxed.
- he's not the most 'accurate'. He can just get people to agree with him. He says everything with 110% confidence. The thing is, he always needs an enemy so people don't realize he's an idiot. Anything pointing out hes not logical is "what the liberals want you to think". He gets people against the Immigrants, the Haitians, etc.

I'm starting to think this Trump guy isn't very intelligent.
- Imagine the intelligence of the people who believe in him. Then realize that's a large portion of the voting population.
  Last step: cry.
  
  Oh I've been on the last step for a few years now.
  
  Think about the intelligence of the average person. Half of all people are as dumb or dumber. On second thought, don't think about it. The world has enough eugenicists.

That he even has a good chance in hell of winning shows how far gone this country is.

He is damn lucky he's rich, because a poor person this stupid would have been dead a long time ago.

The depths of his stupidity and the continual display of his complete lack of knowledge or curiosity about how anything works or ever could work makes me so irritated with his immovable, enabling moronic "base".

We really need to mark if Trump memes are real or made up. I hadn't heard that he said this, but I can totally believe it. I just don't have time to fact check every meme to know if I should be laughing or terrified that there's a potential or former leader who believes stuff like this.
Granted, both options are valid with Trump.
- Here you go. Skip to roughly 1:30 mark for this quote.
  
  Oh, he's making a metaphor.
  OK it takes a day to open the dams and for water to travel.
  Wait, the faucet is as big as that wall? He's talking about an actual faucet.
  I'm out.
  
  I kept scrolling in Lemmy, saw a post in politics talking about it, but thanks. I can't say I'm surprised, but I'm amazed that people are willing to vote for someone so obviously stupid. I understand there's a certain element of anti-intellectualism, but this is gradeschool knowledge we're talking about.

spoken by an essentially very large sewer

So you're telling me:
There's a giant pipe that runs all the way from Canada to Los Angeles, with a massive valve that takes a day to turn. Its current configuration is set to dump all of that water into the Pacific. To solve the water crisis we merely need to spend a day to turn this massive valve, the size of that building behind you, the other way so that the water goes to Los Angeles instead?
Truly very stable genius stuff here.
- Hes talking about the mile wide Columbia river, which meanders through Canada, Washington and Northern Oregon. It's basically on the border of Washington and Oregon. At no point does it even get close to touching California, much less LA, which is in southern California.
  
  To do this would be one the most gigantic and intense infrastructure projects our country has ever undertaken, which would take decade's at an unimaginable cost. Not to mention the drastic shift in the ecosystem of 3 states as that river is "drained" south instead of to the ocean.
  He lists this as "a big valve you just turn." Absolute moron.
  
  He's got to be the most extreme example of Dunning-Kruger effect out there.
  Thinks he's a certified genius, meanwhile all his handlers have to break down concepts for him in such simplistic terms, he ends up literally thinking injecting bleach or putting powerful UV light inside the body are the solutions to COVID, or raking a forest is an actual solution to preventing widespread wildfires.
  
  He lists this as “a big valve you just turn.”
  Even stupider than that he calls it a fucking faucet.
  
  “And Canada will pay for it!”
  
  You give him way too much credit. I doubt he even knows the Columbia River exists. He just says random shit.

whenever he talks nonsense like this I think it's because someone on his staff tried to explain something as they would to a toddler and he was barely listening so he repeats 5% of the words that grabbed his attention and mad libs the rest.
- mad libs
  HUMONGOUS COCK BALLSLY
  
  honestly not that distinguishable from his speeches

He’s a child playing pretend. Take this quote and imagine it’s from a 10 year old kid that then goes on to explain how their favorite superhero can breathe in space.
- Like he said, he hasn't changed much since he was 5. But it's not entirely on him: when my daughter says something like that, I play along for a bit but afterwards I explain to her why it is impossible. When you're constantly surrounded by sycophants, there's no one to call your bullshit out and soon you're convinced you're the smartest person alive.
  
  Oh absolutely! He’s a perfect example of what a person becomes when they have never had to deal with the consequences of their actions.

So I guess he saw a picture of the decoration in the Laurentians and thought it was an actual one?

How is he so fucking stupid?!

Is it just me being bad in English or did you other also weren't able to understand what the fuck he tried to say there?
- See? Even this cow has a better grasp of the English language than trump. "Cows_are_underrated" don't think I didn't see through your pro-bovine propaganda.
- Basically, he's talking about rerouting the water coming from the Rockies that go into the Pacific and moving it into the drought ridden bits of California.... I think.
  He's doing this with the phrasing you'd use to explain how the water cycle works to a toddler, mind you. So, if that's how he's trying to explain it to adults, that would suggest it's the only way he can understand it.

I wonder if he's thinking about that diversion in Chicago that connects the great lakes to the Mississippi and thinks all rivers work that way.
- Most of Trump's brain is a neuron firing based on a thing he saw long ago that might be related to the topic in some way. The rest of the conversation is backfill to connect those dots to whatever the main topic is.
  
  A single neuron.... Are you sure? That seems like a lot given what we've seen and heard from him.
- Im pretty sure it’s a lot more straightforward than that. There are already pipelines bringing water from the mountains down to Southern California. If there’s a lot of excess water in mountains farther north, how different can that be?
  — someone with no concept of the distances, changes in elevation, complexity of engineering, ridiculous cost, impact on environment, etc

I honestly can't tell when things like this are actual quotes from him or just people making fun of him. It's absurd that he has so much power.
- It's an actual quote. The portion used here starts at about the 1:30 mark.
  
  The part that got me was at the end he says something like "well anyways, you'll have water and also illegal immigrants won't kill your family".
  Great segue that. Masterful oration. That must be "the weave" that he keeps talking about. The thing where everything comes together "perfectly". 🙄 /s
- It’s always an actual quote.
- He only has power because people blindly obey him. If they treated him like they treat anyone else, he'd just be some backwards talking schmuck.

The Faucet.
Coming Fall 2026.
Directed by Roland Emmerich.
- Please don't give him any ideas. Though I have to say that sounds intriguing
  
  Still couldn't be worse than Moonfall.

The water will go, bing bing! bong bong bong! bing bing! down to Los Angeles.
- for those who don't know, like me not so long ago, I was missing something big !
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niSLZDVApdQ&t=8

Seems like all the competent people went to finance and justifying war think tanks, and we are left with these type of clowns for politics

Donald 'Dunning-Kruger' Trump. The fact that he says such stupid, incoherent gibberish and doesn't really hear how idiotic he sounds is embarrassing.

Lay off the crack, grandpa.

Series of tubes energy

'A Very New Shape Of Water' /s

Neurosyphilis is wild
- Nah, don't give him, or his voters that credit. Motherfucker has been this dumb his whole life.
  "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." - William T. Kelly, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

Haha..what?
I can’t believe Biden was tapped out but this guy is still talking.

This does make me wonder how expensive it'd be to set up a trans continental irrigation system, basically just moving surplus water in places like the southeast or northwest to drought locations like in california or the southwest to take the pressure off of local water resources.
- Trans? TRANS? Uh no thanks sweetie, you can keep your woke liberal water.
  
  I’m so sick of this crap. I can’t even drive my TransAm any more. I’m gonna change the name on it to ManAm soon so sissies don’t complement me on my wokeness. Yuck.
- As soon as the water has to travel just a little bit uphill, the continuous energy needed makes it unfeasable.
  And that's not even taking leakage into account.
  
  We can't do those aqueduct screw things?
- It's pretty much impossible. Houston gets more rain than Seattle most years, but it's nearly impossible to pump that water up 500ft and 500 miles west to ranches in Texas. A pipeline from the Great Lakes or South East would have to pump water through the Rockies. They can't even build pil and gas pipelines to connect the West Coast to the rest of country, which is worth infinitly more per gallon than water.
  On top of that, we have has abysmal rainfall this summer along the Great Lakes. I live on a river that flows into Lake Erie's western basin and i have never seen the river this low. There are stretches of the rover where i can walk bank to bank without getting my feet wet right now.
- It’d be less expensive to move the farmers.

You can turn the wall of a building in one day?
- That's easy. The hard part is to justify why you needed to permanently flood LA to make a point.
  
  I actually see nothing wrong with that part. From my experience in LA, the flood will quickly be rebranded as a "swim-up bar" and real estate costs will double. And it'll still be less humid and have a more diverse landscape than where I live in Texas...
- bucket of paint and a positive attitude buddy, knock that shit out

I'd like to see Grady's take on this engineering stable genius.
https://youtube.com/@practicalengineeringchannel

Good genes, very good genes.

Florida just got a freaking shit ton of water from the hurricane.
Why don't they just pump it from there?

Has he tried siphoning American water from the ocean? It's much closer and there's lots of it. Could even bottle it directly at the source and slap his logo on it.

He's finally lost it for real this time
- This time?
  
  I feel like he used to seem crazy, but it was like a Tik Tok trend you don't get, but with racism, and there's an audience for it, but ever since he got on that Hannibal Lecter thing... I think NOW it's just crazy

Is there a TLDR?
- Yea. Trump is an idiot.

Ah more of the ol' Hallucinating AI bit eh.

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