California, come join your Northern brothers in Cascadia. At this point I would literally enlist in a militia at nearly 40 to make this happen.
For now I’ll learn how to make drones.
My Cascadia Comrade! Join me as I get https://slrpnk.net/c/cascadia going!
So glad we have absolute chaos and complete disregard for rule of law or common sense under donvict.
Big shout-out to the self-righteous holier-than-thou fools that not only threw away their vote, or sat out, but openly lobbied others to do so as well, because obviously Kamala would have been just as bad.
Given your concern about third-party voters, surely you’re working toward replacing the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system in your state. The election is over, and now is the time for the necessary changes. With a more representative voting system, people could vote outside of the two-party system, knowing their votes would still be counted against the Republicans if their preferred candidate didn’t win. States control their own voting systems, so we don’t need a miracle from Congress. We can change how we vote and allow third parties without worrying about a spoiler effect. Some states have already made this important reform.
For example, Alaska recently held a referendum on whether to return to FPTP from Ranked Choice Voting, and it didn’t pass. Republicans were upset when Sarah Palin lost to a more moderate conservative under Ranked Choice Voting and tried to eliminate it. Democracy shouldn’t be about “vote for my choice, or else.” That’s a hostage situation and should be recognized as a crisis. The American people aren’t truly represented by the limited options in the voting booth. This is a crisis!
Yet, the Democratic Party hasn’t abolished FPTP in many of the blue states they control. They prefer safe states and easy elections, avoiding tough questions—even if it means giving Republicans an advantage. Democrats have lost their “only ones resisting Republicans” narrative. They should have lost that privilege long ago, but we kept giving them chances. No more chances, no more safe states or seats. If Democrats truly believed what they say about Republicans, they’d welcome everyone into the electoral process to help defeat them.
The United States of America is more important then the Democratic Party.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
Given your concern about third-party voters, surely you’re working toward replacing the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system in your state. The election is over, and now is the time for the necessary changes.
They won’t, they wanna punch left and act like the ones with a black eye are to blame.
Yet, the Democratic Party hasn’t abolished FPTP in many of the blue states they control. They prefer safe states and easy elections, avoiding tough questions—even if it means giving Republicans an advantage. Democrats have lost their “only ones resisting Republicans” narrative.
Like my governor: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-vetoes-bill-to-allow-ranked-choice-14535193.php
They like being the default good option, it gives them unearned votes and good funding.
Shout out to kamala for being such a bad candidate she lost to this and shout out to biden for denying us a primary.
Shout out to Biden for being a “one term” president, and doing nothing to stop Trump so we’re stuck with him as dictator!
So we can all understand what is happening, I mapped it out. The dams empty into Tulare Lake. The fires are in LA and contained. The article notes that there has been no plan released to transport the water from Tulare Lake to the fires (that are contained and have sufficient water). Historians will laugh at how stupid this is.
Indianapolis: After weeks of efforts, we have contained the fire and have things under control.
Trump: I got this. Force Chicago to have more water!! Done 👌
historians?
Where we’re going, we don’t need historians.
Funny part is how much farmland is up there… They may not have enough left in the dam after this to endure the very long hot summers.
I bet that’s the plan.
Well it is a good thing we have strong trade relati…shit.
Why are federal shitbags allowed to tamper with state dams? Isn’t their whole thing about “states’ rights?” No, wait, that was actually about owning people. My bad.
I actually have no problem with dams being controlled as federal resources by the Army Corps or Engineers. Rarely does a waterway or its water table effects start and end in one state. My problem is that we have evil dipshits at the helm.
No no no, States Rights was never about owning people.
The CSA constitution outright said states couldn’t make laws stopping people from owning people.
States Rights came up post LBJ with the Republican Southern Strategy to tell all the former dixiecrats ‘You should vote for us because the national government took away your states rights to legally be racist shitbags’
They want to waste the water so they can create a drought in the late summer.
What a complete and utter moron. He’s just wasting water to try and make some kind of political point.
“I don’t know where this water is going, but this is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs. It’s vitally important that we fill our reservoirs in the rainy season so water is available for farms and cities later in the summer,” Gleick said.
“This is going to hurt farmers,” Vink said. “This takes water out of their summer irrigation portfolio.”
I guess we won’t need those migrant workers to pick crops if the farmers can’t grow them in the first place. What a stable genius.
I think these moves are planned, calculated even.
- California wants independence? Oops you have no water and agriculture anymore … your fault for voting democrat.
- Testing the integrity of the system. Experts who speak up? Who will stop him? Checks and balances?
Farmers, that’s your summer water going downstream.
I pass your signs complaining about Democrat’s policies or praising Trump. I’m keeping an eye out this summer knowing this happened.
The faithful in the qon qult find a way to blame anyone else but donvict and the Republicans. They ALWAYS do.
They gonna blame Newsom. Trump wants to undermine the governor so he doesn’t get reelected in 2026. So he can install a crony.
He can’t be reelected anyway, Cali has a 2-term limit for governors and this is his second term
He can’t be, we have term limits and he’s on his final term.
The San Joaquin Valley drought will also be blamed on liberals, Democrats, and DEI.
Soon: All those Mexicans (sic) stole that water and refuse to work! Thats why you have no food!
/cueBalersfieldFoodRiot
Bakersfield would riot over anything that invovles not being the worst city in california anymore.
God I hate Bakersfield…
My thoughts exactly. Releasing water before the growing season begins makes zero sense. They said it wasn’t to make capacity for an upcoming storm either so just pure dumbassery all around.
Are there any federal officials left with any integrity? Like everyone is just doing any damn thing this fuckhead wants. Are those dams even federal property?
any dam thing
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Sorry
Exactly! That pos has the attention span of a potato. Just tell him “yes sir, all done” and he’ll forget all about it
It was not immediately clear how or where the federal government intends to transport the water
Ok then.
Classic Trumpism, making symbolic gestures that are not just pointless, but also actively harmful.
I mean there will be more water down stream for a few days and then absolutely none until they close the dam and let it build back up over a few years…
They don’t need the water now. It’s for farmland, but this isn’t the time of year they need it.
So what you’re saying is it’s an investment in draining off the needed water for the future. Meaning in a few years when they are running low on reserved water for crops California will lose revenue on crops, and food prices will increase across the U.S.
Try later this summer. We stock up rain during our rainy season, which is now. He’s trying to tank our economy because he hates California.
What I’m finding weird about this wave of Trumpisms is how Californians are apparently content being abused by Trump like that. I mean you’re the biggest economy in the Union so act like it.
What are we supposed to do?
Secede!
Truly my dream, but I don’t think Sacramento’ll go for it, sadly. I can’t believe we Californians don’t have a Bernie or AOC-like person representing us at our state capitol. Lot of socially liberal/fiscally conservative people out here who pander to the rich
I mean not that they accomplish anything on their own, but I’d expect protests at least. Not just vague anti-Trump protests, but ones with concrete goals like “stop withholding our FEMA money”. If that doesn’t work then put pressure on state officials to stand up to Trump’s abuse of your state, or maybe go on strike, there are a lot of things you can do to make the federal government stop treating you like a punching bag. What I’m finding strange is that nobody is doing anything at all, or at least anything that’s making the news.
I work for a non profit and don’t own a car, so personally my options are limited when it comes to the idea of going on strike or going to a specific location to protest. I do call my representatives but unfortunately they’re mostly just talk and no action. I share your frustration though, my question of what to do was genuine because as one person, it’s hard to feel like I can do anything when so few people care or take interest in what’s going on. For what a buffoon trump is, he certainly has perfected the art of spreading fatigue and apathy among the liberal half of americans.
it’s hard to feel like I can do anything when so few people care or take interest in what’s going on
I guess in the end that’s what’s confusing me. Setting aside the more abstract stuff about Trump and his ilk destroying the country, does the average Californian not feel any indignation at the idea of being exploited by the Federal government for tax money and then left out to the wolves or outright sabotaged? This feels like a violation of the core idea of the Union. But then again as you said, I guess the GOP won’t face much in the way of resistance if everyone is either on their side or simple tired.
I’d argue that the most meaningful action an individual can take is to stop buying from corporations. That would disrupt the oligarchy and put money back to the local community, assuming you then shop local. Everyone I talk to about this idea says they can’t do it because it’s too expensive, and then they go on vacation four times a year to extravagant places. People will bring their own bags to the grocery store and shower for five minutes instead of six, but that’s about it. Disrupting pleasure and luxury is not an option for 99% of people it seems.
38.3% of California voted for this.
Destroying America one State at a time, exactly what putin hired him to do.
exactly what putin hired him to do.
Stop repeating this nonsense. It’s extremely unlikely he’s being paid by Putin. Blackmail is much more likely.
Going after the very most important state first, too, it seems. California is easily the state that matters the very most. It’s really our crown jewel if we are to be honest.
Extra crazy points racked up for the stupid base because they tend to be very jealous of California if they live in a shithole red state.
Destroying the big Denocrat votong blocks.
Californian droughts are simple, just turn open those big taps that those dummies have turned off for some reason
What a stable genius you guys have elected
You just don’t understand his brilliance, he’s clearly playing 5D tic tac toe
This is a states rights issue if there ever was one
So… his initial complaint was that there was not enough water being released to fight the wildfires, right?
But they’re not out of control any more, are they?
So the reason for doing this is, I guess, if you keep everything wet, there won’t be a fire?
It’s to waste water so California is hurting come summertime
I don’t think there’s much thought process.
Trump, meanwhile, shared a photo on X of water pouring from a dam, saying: “Photo of beautiful water flow that I just opened in California.”
“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 wrote. “I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!”
I suspect he’s thinking that releasing more water would keep everything lush and green.
His point is either thatand/or that the fires wouldn’t have happened if he had been president because just look at how much water he’s making flow now. It really is that dumb
Oh I see, floods are just something that happen in the Bible. I get it now.
