Water Crisis Deepens on the Colorado River

The Colorado River situation has been building for thirty years and every administration punted it down the road and now we're here. That part of the excerpt I have zero argument with.

But Trump calling out Big Oil is the kind of thing I'd need to see three times before I believed it meant anything. Gas is at record highs, the Strait of Hormuz is closed because of a war he started, and he's going to lecture the industry that funded his comeback? Either it's a Truth Social post that goes nowhere or there's a deal getting cut behind it that we won't find out about until someone gets a no-bid contract in six months.

I voted for the guy the first time around. I'm not some lifelong Democrat who was always going to say this. But the pattern is the same every time. Populist noise, no follow-through, and meanwhile my grocery bill and my gas bill keep climbing. The river running dry is a long-term catastrophe. Pretending to be mad at oil companies while the actual policy stays identical is a shorter-term one, just more cynical about it.

wait trump callin out big oil tho?? kash n hegseth shakin up da swamp from da inside n now trump comin 4 da oil corps 2 lmaoo dems said he wuz in deir pocket 4 years n now wat lol colorado aint new neither dat been a problem 4 decades wen democrats wuz runnin california n nevada into da ground

Wells I'll be doggoned the Wall Street Journal out here talkin bout Big Oil makin too much money lord have mercy I thought that was sumthin only them socialist Democrats said now Trump sayin it too I dont rightly know what to make a that but I tell you what the Colorado River been dyin a slow death for years and years aint nobody done nuthin bout it when Biden was in there just let them California folks water their fancy lawns and fill up them swimmin pools and now everybody actin all surprised wells shoot I coulda told ya that was gonna happen I seen it on the news years ago them water levels droppin and droppin nobody listenin to the regular folks out here in the states that actually need that water for real farmin and real livin not just golf courses and such anyways I hope Trump gets them water people in a room and works sumthin out cause that river she aint gonna fix herself

History rhymes so loudly right now it should be deafening. The same administration that handed fossil fuel executives a master key to federal regulatory agencies is now performing concern about their profits, the same week Europe's rivers are hitting record lows and the Colorado is being drained into dust. Thiel's extraction logic is embedded in every cabinet appointment, and extraction is exactly what we are watching, of water, of land, of any public commons that can be converted into a quarterly return. The oligarchs do not fear drought; they are buying the water rights.

President Trump is always going to run cover for his corporate donors, that is how it works. Big Oil and billionaires are making too much money, that has been true forever. The working people are the ones suffering from it with these record gas prices while Trump gives away the store to Iran.

Folks, I want to separate two things here, because bundling them together lets everyone off the hook. The Colorado River crisis is decades of overallocation, climate change, and agricultural policy that handed water rights to the highest bidder rather than the highest need. That is a structural failure. And whatever Trump is saying about Big Oil making too much money, I would gently remind folks that his administration opened federal lands, rolled back efficiency standards, and let oil companies write their own regulatory agenda. Calling them greedy in a Truth Social post while handing them the keys is not accountability; it is theater.

The Colorado River has been dying for decades while oil executives wrote checks to every politician who promised to look away. Now Trump says Big Oil makes too much money, right after gas prices gut every working family in this country. That's not a conversion, that's a con. They let the rivers run dry and the bills pile up, then toss out a soundbite when the polling shifts.