He’ll fix the problems with all the dead crops
by Tom Sullivan
Interspersed with Dave Weigel’s dispatches from the Libertarian National Convention in Orlando, a clip from Idiocracy came across the Twitter feed yesterday and for some reason it wouldn’t get out of my head after that. From Think Progress:
Speaking to an audience in California on Friday, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump told the crowd “there is no drought” in their state.
Trump claimed there isn’t a real water shortage. Instead, he said, state officials are intentionally denying water to farmers in the middle of the state — choosing to reroute the water to the ocean to protect an endangered California fish called the delta smelt.
“It is so ridiculous where they’re taking the water and shoving it out to sea,” Trump said. “There is no drought. They turn the water out into the ocean.”
TPM continues:
Trump said that if he were president, he’d have a simple solution.
“If I win, believe me, we’re going to start opening up the water so that you can have your farmers survive,” Trump said according to USA Today.
“Believe me.” (Have we ever seen a candidate with a more obvious “tell”?) Trump is going to surround himself with the very best people. TOP people. He’s got this guy, Not Sure. He’ll fix the problems with all the dead crops and the dust storms.
Trump presidency is the setup for Kanye West 2020, then president Camacho 2024 #idiocracy https://t.co/WBA0MJ2IT2— DJ Neil Armstrong (@djneilarmstrong) May 19, 2016
We entered the era of post-truth politics years ago. According to fact checkers, 91 percent of what Trump says is nonsense, but really? And Trump has Sarah Palin as his opening act:
Proving once again that she is not merely laughable but deeply disgusting, in another speech in San Diego warming up for Trump, Palin criticized President Obama for going to Hiroshima this week, calling his visit an “apology lap.”
“You mess with our freedom,” Palin bellowed, “we’ll put a boot in your ass. It’s the American way.”
The crowd lapped it up, chanting, “USA! USA! USA!”
How long before one of them pulls an automatic weapon from behind the podium and fires a burst into the air for emphasis?