WatDabney

South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

The dirty little secret here is that Sourh Texas is causing the shortage.

Far and away the biggest waste of water in the region is the government-subsidized South Texas rice farming industry.

Just like virtually everything else in the current US, a relative handful of wealthy parasites and ther politician cronies are directly responsible for the problem, but blame it on poor and not coincidentally disempowered innocents.

It's things like this that make me suspect that the Republicans are actively trying to destroy the US.

If the goal is to benefit the US broadly, and into the future, there's no possible way that discouraging alternatve energy (or EVs) is a sound strategy. It's basically just handing China hegemony in the coming world order.

So it's pretty much either the case that Republican politicians are impossibly stupid, or that their actual goal is to guarantee Chinese hegemony and reduce the US to a bankrupt has-been.

Um.... yeah. We knew that already.

The point obviously never was eliminating supposed waste.

It was, blatantly, a purge, meant solely to get rid of anyone who wasn't a Trump sycophant, anyone who was currently or ever had been involved in investigating the myriad lies, scams and crimes of Trump and his cronies and/or anyone who might stand in the way of their future lies, scams and crimes.

Did you really not know that? Where have you been the last few months?

I would assume that maritime would be much easier, since battery weight would be more easily dealt with, and propellers and screws can be turned by motors more or less as effectively as by engines.

I hadn't really thought about it, but aviation is potentially going to be a challenge. Traditional jets won't work - they'll need to use propellers or rotors or something like a turboprop, which means lower altitudes and slower speeds.

Hmm...

Guaranteed that future histories of the collapse of the US will include the phrase "rampant corruption."

And this is why DOGE gutted the Office for Vehicle Automation Safety at the NHTSA.

Even MTG is more principled and rational than Trump.

...Congress to claw back...

That would require courage and determination, which means it's not going to happen, because those are qualities Congress no longer possesses.

Surely now at least some few of the people in authority who have ignored Trump's grossly obvious unfitness for office will do something, right?

Right?

Then next up is to finish criminalizing homelessness so that those people (and many more) can be converted into slaves to the new generation of robber barons.

Of course, what she actually means is that people have been brainwashed in a somewhat different way than she would've preferred, but at least she's right about the brainwashing part. Since she's incapable of self-reflection, that's not going to mean anything to her or change anything for her, but still... for someone as willfully and angrily ignorant as she is, that's almost sort of impressive.

This illustrates one of the many oddities about Trump.

With any other president, we had policy debates and stated goals and decisions made and implemented.

With Trump, we just have this string of essentially arbitrary threats, promises and rhetoric, and alongside that is a string of essentially arbitrary policies arbitrarily enacted and rescinded and followed and ignored, and there's no necessary correlations between any of it.

It's another of the things that I think Trump does simply because he's a delusional toxic narcissist, a genuinely stupid person, and emotionally a toddler, and another of the things that the would-be autocrats - the billionaires and the CEOs and the religious right and the Republicans and the rest of the greedy and power-hungry scum - take advantage of him doing.