• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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    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.

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    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”.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Now, now. To his rich backers, it’s not the racism so much as maintaining the status quo of them not getting taxed.

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      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.

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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

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      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

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        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

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      Except the majority doesn’t want this moron. Yes, though, I do agree with your sentiment generally

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        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.

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          People keep singling America out here as if right wing fascism hasn’t been on the rise everywhere.

          It’s not damning of American society it’s damning of humanity in general.

          When things get tough a large portion decides to dig their heels in the ground and act like nothings wrong at all.

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      Who’s the bigger fool? The fool or the one who follows him?

      • Ben Kenobi
        • Huquad
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        He lists this as “a big valve you just turn.”

        Even stupider than that he calls it a fucking faucet. Facepalm

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        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.

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