[Magdalen] Drumpf (@ Fresno): "There is no drought."

[Jay Weigel]

Have you SEEN Healey Baumgarden? (I think that's her name) I can't believe
she's for real, but apparently she is......

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:35 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>*eyeroll*<<<
>
> He makes Fux Newz come across smart.  (The "of course climate change is
> real, man just didn't have anything to do with it" sorts.)
>
> It resonates well, however, with Californians who remember the
> "electricity shortage" of the early 2000s under Gray Davis.  I knew then it
> was bogus, but couldn't articate it well.  "Rolling brown-outs", please!
> Southern California was dripping with the stuff, and was dying to sell us
> some.  Or a lot.  Whatever it took.  I thought, "If you can transport water
> from north to south for over a hundred years, it's mere common sense that
> you can transport electricity via all those damned power lines that web the
> landscape between there and here."
>
> I may be blowing out my ass on that one, I don't know.  It's just how I
> remember it, and I also remember how quickly the problem went away when
> Gray's opponents started screaming re-call.  But one can see how such a
> large, resource-rich, resource-poor, depending on the context, state, could
> respond, even if only from a particular type of voice, to the claim that a
> crippling drought is nothing more than political hooliganism.
>
> As for why he picked Fresno for his decree?  The Central Valley isn't
> known for the color Blue, as those who recall that's where the Diocese of
> San Joachin "was" will make note!
>