Water and Money, California Edition

So the new/old guy posted late last night that he had sent in the US Military to turn on the spigot so that Southern California has enough water. He posted about it on his self-owned social media site.

Now I actually live in California, and I can tell you that every single thing he said is a motherfucking lie.

• Southern California has enough water. The reservoirs are actually full. What got overtaxed was the ability to deliver the water to all of the fires. There wasn't enough plumbing.
• There is no water faucet in the Pacific Northwest to deliver water to Southern California. Their water comes from the Sierra Nevadas. It's CENTRAL California that gets its water from the north.
• There is no fake environmental drama. Sure, the new/old guy focuses on the Delta Smelt, but without the smelt we don't have Salmon. Or the bears who eat the salmon. Everybody has enough water these days. We've been out of the drought for a couple of years now.

So what is he actually claiming credit for? The truth is that this past weekend some generators in the Northern California Water System were taken off-line for maintenance. They were turned back on yesterday. That's it.

Full stop.

The new/old guy is a lying son of a bitch.

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So you might have noticed that in the process of committing more crimes than the previous administrations combined in their first week (which includes an administration of the same people) an awful lot of previously approved funding has just stopped. NIH, WHO, Foreign Aid and so on.

I learned today, thanks to my college attending daughter, this this also includes financial aid for College Students. It's currently on hold.

Fortunately for us my daughter got her disbursement before the free went into effect. She's fine for this semester. But part of that freeze is also the application process, which has specific deadlines and they're coming up fast.

If nothing is done soon an entire generation is about to drop out of college. We're only barely in the top 30 in education around the world now - we might just be about to drop like a stone.

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Medicaid has been shut down in multiple states.

Domestic Abuse Shelters are in the same boat.

And the new Director of the Office of Budget Management is the guy who wrote the Project 2025 manual.

Making

America

Garbage,

Asshole

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