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    whenever he talks nonsense like this I think it’s because someone on his staff tried to explain something as they would to a toddler and he was barely listening so he repeats 5% of the words that grabbed his attention and mad libs the rest.

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    The depths of his stupidity and the continual display of his complete lack of knowledge or curiosity about how anything works or ever could work makes me so irritated with his immovable, enabling moronic “base”.

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      Because they themselves are idiots. Either because they hear what he says and believe it, or because they only consume the propaganda that omits this word vomit entirely.

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        I still don’t understand how we got here. My mom is a Botanist by education, with a graduate degree from a respected university. She lives in a small community right in the center or some of the most extreme wildfire risk in the country.

        She brought up one day that if only her Governor would make sure the forests were raked up, the wildfires wouldn’t be a problem.

        It’s so baffling.

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          Wow.

          She’s not a fire fighter, so I can kind of understand her thinking that’s even remotely plausible or effective.

          But as a botanist, she should absolutely know that the undergrowth needs that decaying leaf litter to support the complex ecosystem that keeps the soil fertile.

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        It’s got to be the latter. While I’m lucky that I don’t encounter people who worship at the altar of the orange weirdo, I’ve been wanting to ask them “have you ever listened to one of his speeches?” I don’t understand how you could listen to him and still support him, regardless of your political leaning

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          Yeah. Seems like listening to speeches and debates in their entirety, or a basic understanding of past actions, should be a prerequisite for anyone to hold a strong opinion for or against either side. But we know that’s not the case for the vast majority of people who hold very strong political opinions. And they’re also reliable voters.

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      They don’t believe “the liberal interpretation” of what he says. They “know” what he “means”.

      It’s easier to understand if you have any experience around batshit evangelicals. A lot of Americans do, sadly.

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    Florida just got a freaking shit ton of water from the hurricane.

    Why don’t they just pump it from there?

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    Seems like all the competent people went to finance and justifying war think tanks, and we are left with these type of clowns for politics

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        I don’t know, but I think anyone who cares about progressive ideals should try to make it advantageous for amoral intelligent people to favor those ideals.

        There’s no such thing as doing anything for altruistic or communal prospects just for the sake of it, nothing is turning back that clock on reaping the benefits of capitalism, and we can only work with what we have now.

        I think ultimately everyone wants self-preservation, where family and community may be an extension of the self, that’s a good starting point. Things are super depressing now to say the least, which is why people who believe in progressive ideals need to hold on even harder.

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    I wonder if he’s thinking about that diversion in Chicago that connects the great lakes to the Mississippi and thinks all rivers work that way.

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      Im pretty sure it’s a lot more straightforward than that. There are already pipelines bringing water from the mountains down to Southern California. If there’s a lot of excess water in mountains farther north, how different can that be?

      — someone with no concept of the distances, changes in elevation, complexity of engineering, ridiculous cost, impact on environment, etc

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      Most of Trump’s brain is a neuron firing based on a thing he saw long ago that might be related to the topic in some way. The rest of the conversation is backfill to connect those dots to whatever the main topic is.

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    That he even has a good chance in hell of winning shows how far gone this country is.