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Today's Tiedrich rant: incompetent imbecile sabotages California's water supply
Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/incompetent-imbecile-sabotages-californias
Donny Convict believes a lot of stupid shit. for instance, that magnets stop working when they get wet. seriously, here’s a thing Donny actually said while campaigning last year. “all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”
that’s just unbelievably idiotic, and so easy to disprove — but just try talking Donny out of it. you could walk up to him and stick two wet magnets together, right in front of his big, dumb pumpkin face — and it wouldn’t make a dime’s worth of difference. Donny knows what he knows, and fuck you if you think you’re going to change his mind. last Thursday, two of Donny’s favorite misconceptions came together to spectacularly fuck up Central California’s water supply.
here’s what we’re dealing with: first, there’s Donny’s nonsensical insistence that there’s one ginormous building-sized faucet somewhere that controls all of California’s water. secondly, there’s Donny’s childlike belief that the Army Corps of Engineers is a combat outfit. make no mistake, they’re not. while the ACoE is technically part of the Army, they’re about 96% civilian — and they don’t do combat. the Corps does infrastructure shit. they deal with roads and bridges, and maintain water distribution systems.
but don’t try to explain any of that to Donny. all he sees is the word “army” is in the title, and right away he imagines the big strong soldiers with the tears of gratitude and the massive biceps. the reality is that they’re a bunch of civil engineers in hardhats. but when Donny directs the ACoE to do something, he literally believes that he’s sending in GI Joe and his commandos to fuck shit up.
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that’s just unbelievably idiotic, and so easy to disprove — but just try talking Donny out of it. you could walk up to him and stick two wet magnets together, right in front of his big, dumb pumpkin face — and it wouldn’t make a dime’s worth of difference. Donny knows what he knows, and fuck you if you think you’re going to change his mind. last Thursday, two of Donny’s favorite misconceptions came together to spectacularly fuck up Central California’s water supply.
here’s what we’re dealing with: first, there’s Donny’s nonsensical insistence that there’s one ginormous building-sized faucet somewhere that controls all of California’s water. secondly, there’s Donny’s childlike belief that the Army Corps of Engineers is a combat outfit. make no mistake, they’re not. while the ACoE is technically part of the Army, they’re about 96% civilian — and they don’t do combat. the Corps does infrastructure shit. they deal with roads and bridges, and maintain water distribution systems.
but don’t try to explain any of that to Donny. all he sees is the word “army” is in the title, and right away he imagines the big strong soldiers with the tears of gratitude and the massive biceps. the reality is that they’re a bunch of civil engineers in hardhats. but when Donny directs the ACoE to do something, he literally believes that he’s sending in GI Joe and his commandos to fuck shit up.
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Happy Groundhog Day my friends! It's cold, gray and cloudy here in Pittsburgh, and I'm pretty sure our groundhogs slept in this morning.
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