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Trump's orders, officals released water from two California dams
- netfortius 2y ago[flagged]
- sg47 2y ago[flagged]
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- le-mark 2y agoDefinitely the leader we deserve!
- kawera 2y agoKim Jong Trum
- rich_sasha 2y agoWhat will be very interesting to see is how/whether the US institutions will constrain Trump. Right now, 2 weeks in, he appears to be omnipotent. His word is law. But so much ink was poured to say that the entirety of US political system is constructed to make tyranny impossible - as the US was born as a rejection of the UK monarchy. So... What's up? Was that all a myth all along? Does Trump have support everywhere, and the people who are supposed to stop him won't? Or is it just early days, and soon he will hit a wall.
- thejazzman 2y ago> the people who are supposed to stop him won't i believe we've been watching that intentionally/actively make progress for the last 9+ years they are currently executing a thoroughly prepared plan and they're moving as fast as possible because the recent election gives new president a LOT of leeway in making dramatic plays we're watching history. i hope not to suffer too much.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y agoAs I understand it, most of what Trump has been doing since he took office is perfectly legal. The problem is that Congress has kept giving more and more power to the President, and Trump is very willing to keep limit testing. For law nerds this will probably be a very interesting four years, as a lot of legal hypotheticals are getting played out.
- tharmas 2y agoThere seems to be a loop hole. He just has to declare a certain thing an emergency and then he can tackle it however he wants. No more checks and balances.
- rich_sasha 2y agoFine - but that suggests this whole anti-tyranny never worked. All you had to say was the magic word ~abracadabra~ emergency and off you go.
- drweevil 2y agoThe magic word gambit works great when the opposition party cowers in abject surrender. Note that Omnipotent Trump is operating in the same system that Democrats claimed made them powerless. Going back to a farcical incident early-on in the Biden admin: Does anyone in the Republican camp gaf about what the parliamentarian thinks? The current Democratic leadership--if it can be dignified with that term--are incapable and politically incompetent. As long as they remain in control of the opposition party we'll be in for a rough ride.
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- Sindisil 2y agoThis is going to be hell for the farmers in the region this growing season, not to mention for those buying groceries.
- shrillhnpsycho3 2y ago[flagged]
- soganess 2y agoI was just thinking this. The central valley produces something like 25% of the USA's edible food and 40% of it's nuts using maybe 1% of USA's farmland. It only rain like 2 weeks out of the year there. If we don't have a plan in place for the water come growing season, the entire country will see higher prices at the supermarket, not just those in the region.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894708
- william45123 2y agoI love Chinatown (1974)