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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans in CA are running out of water
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The water shortage felt to some like another kind of retaliation.
How do you not give farmers water when they feed everybody unless youre trying to put them out of business? asked Scott Netherton, owner of Coalingas lone movie theater and executive director of its chamber of commerce.
It feels like were being singled out, small towns, he said. Its like theyre trying to force them out to where youve got to move into the bigger cities.
yankee87
(2,181 posts)As always, Qpublicans claiming thee victim card
Johnny2X2X
(19,193 posts)It's uncanny, all they do is air whining.
On Nextdoor, lady pointed out how someone had run over the political sign on her lawn with their vehicle. No sidewalks there so there wouldn't have been a curb hopped. I knew immediately she was a Con by her assuming that it was on purpose because of her political sign, and that she also hash tagged it with: #freedomofspeech!!! She showed a pic of the sign, and yes, the candidate was a far right extremist running for school board. But I didn't have to know it, only a Con would take to Nextdoor to claim victimhood when in all likely hood her sign got run over by a drunk or careless driver. Her local school board isn't some recognizable name people would know was of one political party or another. And freedom of speech? Really? This is what they've reduced freedom of speech to, rich white lady's lawn signs. Taking to a public application to whine about something as trivial as someone driving carelessly, that's pure Con victimhood.
These people have never had their real rights challenged. Their privilege is their defining characteristic. If they ever had to have their actual rights treated the way minorities and LGTBQ folk do on a daily basis in our country, their heads would explode.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)I don't care if brown people die of dehydration in the cities. I want to use as much water as I need growing my water-guzzling cash crops.
lapfog_1
(29,228 posts)California also provides 99% of the pistachios grown in the U.S. These delightful snacks are just as thirsty as almonds, requiring 1.1 gallons per nut.
Every time I drive down I-5 I see the tractor trailers parked near the freeway and used as billboards...
"End the Pelosi created drought"
Usually with a huge amount of land behind it with almond or pistachio trees.
I didn't realize Nancy Pelosi was so omnipotent that she could make it rain.
jimfields33
(16,018 posts)They are not needed and take up tons of water.
hunter
(38,337 posts)That cruel industry uses the most water for every gram of protein produced.
Cheap milk and hamburger are not necessities.
Unfortunately that industry is sacred in the U.S.A..
People can't even imagine shutting these factory farms down to conserve water.
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Dairy farmers in WI were hit pretty hard by low milk prices for the past 10 years.
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Looking at the rainfall the last decade, Coaling is a genuine in your face desert.
NickB79
(19,276 posts)Pay top dollar for your water. Stop suckling on that socialism government teat and go full Ayn Rand.