Officials in California have revealed that President Donald Trump nearly flooded the region’s farms when his administration tried to send an excessive amount of water south, a feat he bragged about on Friday.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory!” Trump gloated in a Truth Social post.

Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away, and could have been useful to farmers months from now as irrigation.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle
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    917 hours ago

    Only Trump can get away with ruining the land of the cotton barons (wealthy elite) to restore the natural ecosystem. I may not agree with how it’s being done, but this one had the right spirit. I hope he keeps it up and gives the great central swamp of California some time to recover. That would help wildfire resilience, and probably improve groundwater stores for the future. No human alive knows this ecosystem, they’ve just been living in its grave. As the husk dries, it’s prone to burning. Let’s regrow the wetlands.

    • AnIndefiniteArticle
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      517 hours ago

      With the loss of our major cotton fields and high tariffs on imports, clothing will be hard to come by.

      Q-tips. Medical gauze.

      We need a better relationship with clothing.

      Death to fashion. Let’s build something new.d

      • @[email protected]
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        411 hours ago

        No it wont create clothing shortages. There’s enough fast fashion crap already made to keep us modest and warm for decades. I will be rocking that Ocean Pacific t-shirt from high school for another decade at least.

        The medical concerns are somewhat based but cotton comes from many regions.

        But if I smell what the rock is cooking, a nude protest would make for a fun news cycle.

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          28 hours ago

          I doubt a crop rotation plan is in place.