Posted on 01/08/2025 12:36:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump attacked California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday as thousands of acres burned in a blaze that tore through Los Angeles County. Mr. Trump threatened to take on the state’s water policies when he assumes office later this month.
Mr. Trump raged at Mr. Newsom on Truth Social, pinning the blame for the disaster on the Democrat’s decision to reject a 2019 federal plan that would have increased the water supply in Southern California.
“Governor Gavin Newscum [sic] refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snowmelt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” Mr. Trump wrote.
Mr. Trump also slammed Mr. Newsom over reports that fire hydrants in some areas have run dry, thanks to empty water reservoirs.
The Democrat-run state and city are struggling to battle the spreading blaze, fueled by 100-mph winds. At least 1,000 structures have burned and two people have died as a result of the fires, according to city officials.
Mr. Trump has attacked Mr. Newsom in the past over the state’s wildfire and water management and at least twice threatened to pull federal money.
In 2019, during Mr. Trump’s first term, the federal Bureau of Reclamation proposed pumping more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the state’s two water delivery systems. The plan was backed by federal fishery reports that determined the additional pumping would not harm endangered species.
But Mr. Newsom signed off on modified regulations aimed at protecting Chinook salmon and the Delta smelt, which is largely extinct.
In his Wednesday post, Mr. Trump called...
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Trump has been referring to Newscum for months.
The man is just plain stupid.
Also keep in mind that the Colorado River is subject to international agreements between the U.S. and Mexico. The mouth of the river is in Mexico.
Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution explicitly requires Congress to approve any agreement between two or more states.
Where do you get that? Please quote the "explicit" clause.
Sorry. Pretend I’m a third grader. What the heck are you asking me?
Thank you.
But we’re not talking about an agreement or compact. The issue at hand is water WITHIN the state of CA.
Still, they are the useful idiots and usually the first to go in a revolution.
In 2035 CA will have no more gas-powered vehicles, and they will fight fires with electric golf carts.
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The headwaters of the Colorado River starts in the central Rocky Mountains in the USA, and flows southwest to somewhere around the Gulf of California in Mexico.
I may have misunderstood what you are saying, I first thought you implied that it flowed north to the USA.
Just read that because of the diversion of water, the last 100miles of the river bed is dry, since the 1960’s.
Sounds like there should be opportunities to divert mountain snow melt and rain water in California, and maybe northern Nevada and Arizona to help offset the massive drain on the Colorado River v
We have the knowledge and ability to do this.
I think politics is in the way.
Dry it up, maybe not, but send fecal waste down it? Sure.
Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River into the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, sending their sewage into those communities down river. Missouri sued Illinois, but the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Illinois, stating that there was "no evidence that the water quality in the Mississippi River had been affected."
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/chicago/articles/how-the-chicago-river-was-reversed
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