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This is why I have genuinely no respect at all in the world for Trump voters and supporters. If you're smart enough to understand that this is bullshit, then you're with him because he's enriching you at the cost of everyone else or because you actively want his bigoted policies to hurt innocent people just for the sake of it.

If you're not, then you're not only a complete fucking idiot, but you're willfully a complete fucking idiot. "Complete fucking idiot" doesn't even begin to describe it, though; it's too generous. There aren't words in an English dictionary to capture it. I could say "brain-damaged", but I would genuinely expect someone who just awoke from an insular ischemic stroke to be a better critical thinker. "Brainwashed", I mean I guess that's the closest thing there is, right? Straight-up cult behavior. But it even somehow feels dumber than a traditional cult.

It's like necrotic chunks of grey matter are sloughing off their brain in real time. Their stupidity is bottomless because they'll believe literally anything when they're told to, and after that it's impossible to amass enough evidence to talk them out of it because they're not just too braindead to understand the evidence; they're too braindead to understand the concept of evidence. Flat Earthers have more respect from me as critical thinkers and as human beings. I would trust a group of 500 unmedicated, severely sleep-deprived paranoid schizophrenics to decide on policy before I would 500 Trump supporters.

and yet the polls say it's like 48-49 because voters are morons and eligible non-voters don't care

It's more like a third rather than half. But our busted system gives outsized representation to people who live in sparsely populated states.

The latter.

There have always been despicable people like Trump, and I'm certain that, as horrible people go, he's not even in the top thousand of horrible people alive today.

It's far more sad that so many people in the US are willing to overlook his faults; even if you discount his rabid base, it's especially sad that close to another 20% of Americans who are more or less centrists (for Americans) are willing to overlook the fact that he admits that he's working toward a dictatorship. This is the most depressing thing, for me.

Half of voters*

Trump never won the popular vote and he's more unpopular now than he's ever been. Never has half of this country voted for him, not even close, and it isn't true now either

Hey now, he's a very stable genius.

At least someone cares, because we know a large swath of the current US voter base doesn’t. Show up and vote people, like your lives depend on it!

Only question is, why do they pick his third election and not his first?

We could supply the residents with water.

Irrigating all that desert to grow monsoon crops is harder.

Or Vote for me and Project plowshare is back! I will use nukes to build canals! They were paid with your tax dollars gotta use then!

You know I'm super shocked Trump has not said it yet. Like really shocked. He'll nuke a hurricane but a canal? Noo.

Pretty much all water shortages are caused by irresponsible water use for farming. And yet that never gets addressed.

Jon Oliver has a piece on that issue. IIRC Farmers have to use all the water they are allocated or they could lose the rights to it, so they have to plant crops that require a lot of water. It's a policy issue that the farmers had to adapt to

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Only people already ~~smart~~ not stupid enough to vote for him

Does he think water rolls downhill on the map from north to south?

Turn them all on now. You must flow, to let Cali grow!

(p.s. I may own shares in utilities and benefit greatly if everyone took this action. Just saying. Turn those taps. Oh look over here, a dead cat!)