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By Tom Philp
February 06, 2025 5:00 AM
Agriculture is a form of legalized gambling here in California, our land is prone to deluge or drought. Our farmers, relentlessly adapting, are as innovative as any set of suits in Silicon Valley, learning new ways to grow more
food with less water. As sure as the sun, our farmers have always shared their views of California politics as they relentlessly pursue the water necessary to grow much of the nation’s fruits and vegetables. Yet now, an eerie silence has
begun descending over California farming.
A candidate many of them undoubtedly supported for president, Donald Trump, has shockingly wasted some of their water in a downright dangerous stunt unlike anything in memory.
When I spoke last week before two water conferences in two different states filled with Central Valley farmers, the first question I confronted in Sacramento was basically how to make all this Trump stuff go away. When I theorized at the second conference in Reno that Trump may not know what he’s doing out here, I got no eye contact from more than half the room as we all exited.
When California farmers aren’t vocally fighting for every last drop of water supply, something is not right with our world.
“I don’t think they’re willing to speak out,” said Lester Snow, a water veteran
of the highest order for decades in both Arizona and California. “Farmers not only want more water, they want more certainty.”
[...]
Last Friday, the Corps increased releases from Terminus Dam from 22 gallons a second to about 11,220 gallons. Releases surged from Success Lake as well.
The water never had a way to get to the Delta and the water projects to reach Los Angeles. These rivers end in the Tulare basin. Fortunately, this pulse of high flows caused no damage. . While some of this water will percolate into the basin’s ground, for farmers upstream, this water for them has been wasted. Credit the Tulare County Farm Bureau for speaking up.
Nothing gets California farmers angrier than a government mismanaging water. Had
Newsom tried something similar, tractors would have surrounded the state Capitol
building in protest. “They would be all over the place saying…LA doesn’t need
our water,” Snow said.
Instead, there is mostly a silence from the farming community that thunderously speaks for itself.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article299687669.html#storylink=cpy
And *why* are these welfare queen redneck farmers silent? Because they are 100% Trumpswabs. When I drove from Tucson to San Francisco a couple of times in the last three years (a *long* fucking drive), all along CA 99 and I-5, I saw signs from welfare queen redneck farmers saying "Newsom and Pelosi (???) — stop wasting out dam [sic] water". Right along side them were signs for Trump.
They stupidly thought Trump was going to do something for them, and instead he fucked them up the ass by pissing away billions of gallons of water that was intended for their cropland. Trumpswabs are stupid.
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