he could not do more harm to this country

Let me pick one way Trump is working to destroy the United States. One petty way, designed to cause long-term harm. One internal way, striking directly at Americans.

Last week, Trump ordered drawdowns of water from Federally-controlled reservoirs in California. On Friday, those drawdowns started.

This is what he was talking about when he lied about the US Army entering California and “turning on the water” to fight the fires.

(He also lied about water flowing from Cascadia south, which literally cannot happen as there are not pipe connections over the mountains separating our watersheds, but that’s a secondary issue.)

Trump opened winter storage reservoirs in California’s San Joaquin Valley to throw a bunch of unexpected water downstream. For no purpose, other than sabotage.

These reservoirs are nowhere near the LA fires. They do not affect water supplies in LA. No one downstream can use the water; in fact, state and local engineers had to rush to avoid damage from the unplanned and unexpected outflow, and convinced the US Army Corps of Engineers to slow the release to this end.

Here’s where they are:

You’ll note that’s northeast of San Francisco, and nowhere even remotely close to LA.

A little of that water will seep into the ground. Not much.

Most will go out to the sea, unused and untouched.

And so, it will not be there in the summer, when it is actually needed, for the purposes for which it was actually being stored – mostly, for agriculture. There will be less water for crops.

Will there be enough?

Maybe. This is in the north, so we’ll hope so. But we don’t know.

This is Trump fucking California, and the citizens of California – an American state – because he can. He will, of course, blame Democrats, and some number of his cultists will believe him. I don’t know how many, but it will be somewhere between “most” and “all.”

There are so many more stories like this. So many more, many of higher priority and importance, and who knows how many more further down the scale.

The breadth of that attack is the point, because his goal is not and has never been to “save America.”

His goal is to destroy it, for personal profit, and own the ruins.

When I say that Trump could not do more to harm this country than if he were a paid Russian agent?

I mean it.

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oh it’s the same tattered playbook

Really, it only makes sense that the most careless, dumbest, desultory fascist fuckhead would run the more careless, dumbest, and desultory version of the Iraq War playbook. Particularly against a country like Panama.

Bush II tried to make his bullshit believable. Really did. It wasn’t if you actually looked at the structural facts – at the realities on the ground – but it fooled even some people who really should’ve known better.

Trump isn’t even trying and doesn’t even care, he’s just checking off boxes before he drops paratroopers.

I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: all those calls with Putin while he was out of office were coaching sessions. Even if he himself didn’t particularly know it – which I admit is quite possible – that’s what they were. And he’s going to make even American refugees incredibly – possibly even violently – unpopular… just everywhere.

Christ, what a nightmare.

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