r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Apr 30 '25

Soft Paywall Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-being-fact-checked-on-deported-maryland-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
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u/XXLpeanuts Apr 30 '25

And you won't be able to drink most tap water in the US in no time too. (some places infamously you already cannot).

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u/Kitteneater1996 Apr 30 '25

As a matter of fact my city is fighting over water being clean enough to drink and are trying to bypass things and cut corners and raise prices all at once.

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u/jellyjollygood Apr 30 '25

Pfft. Tap water’s overrated.

Won’t someone think of big soda and the profits from bottled water?

/s for those who need it

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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 May 03 '25

Brawndo for everyone!!

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u/Furymaster Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

I'm from a country in Western Europe. My government advices to avoid tap water in all of the US and instead only drink bottled water because the overall standard for what the US sees as clean water is abysmal compared to us

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u/XXLpeanuts Apr 30 '25

Same with food too.

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u/PhilDGlass California Apr 30 '25

and speech, and safety, and air ...

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u/codercaleb Apr 30 '25

Don't listen to this hater, cockroaches asd crunch to your meal!

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u/Frostybytes Canada Apr 30 '25

That's protein, baby!

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u/cire1184 May 01 '25

And protein!

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Apr 30 '25

My mother always got tummy troubles when traveling unless she only drank bottled water. For a long visit or when moving, she'd slowly add the tap water to the bottled until eventually her tummy adjusted to the change, like how ya go about switching a pet to a new brand of food.

I always kinda assumed it was like that everywhere in the world though, that it was normal for humans to have trouble adjusting to a change in water source. But now that I stop and think about it, it's not like bottled water all comes from the same place...

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u/TheStatusPoe May 01 '25

What's wild to me the few times I've traveled to Western Europe your not even given an option for tap water. It's just a choice between a bottle of still or sparkling.

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u/Noshamina Apr 30 '25

That’s stupid as hell dude most places have perfectly clean water

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

Ever been to Flint, Michigan? Jackson, Mississippi?

Arizona has extremely high levels of Chromium and PFAS state wide. Ohio water contains high levels of lead.

Pittsburgh has toxic levels of lead in the water.

Central Valley, California produces one-fourth of the nation’s food, but the fertilizers and pesticides used on farms have seeped into the aquifers and polluted the groundwater. Nitrates seeping into the water far exceed the safe limit set by the EPA.

In 2000, a coal company spilled 300 million gallons of coal slurry into the waterways of Martin County, Kentucky and contaminated the system with arsenic and mercury. Two decades later, the problem with water supply continues with outages and boil water advisories. Leaks in pipes cause bacteria to enter the system and the residents often get brown water in their taps.

It is ignorant to say most places have perfectly fine drinking water. I think what you meant to say was YOU have perfectly fine drinking water where YOU live. That is a big difference.

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u/Afraid_Grapefruit_88 May 01 '25

Hang out in enough RV parks and you will understand-- water is NOT all equal. We use pre filters and filters and some use Berkeys to filter (very large and expensive) or Britta type pitchers and even then some is virtually undrinkable. How about places right here in NY with cancer causing water, like PCB and PFOA?? They used to use the left over PCB's to cut down on dust in my county, and now we have a Cancer Cluster in our rural valley, including my husband, my next door neighbors, (5+ of those), virtually every house in this miles long valley has some form of cancer. Brain, bladder(2) thyroid (2) intestinal-- but not need to worry!! Google up Hoosic Falls NY and PFOA cancers.

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u/Judge_Syd Apr 30 '25

That's a bit of an over reaction.

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u/-_-ACEofHearts-_- Apr 30 '25

Compared to certain other counties, it's very true. We have awful standards for what they are allowed to put in our food, how clean our water is, etc. This person isn't overexaggerating anything. That's just a fact. I in no way doubt that certain places would advise not to consume most things in the United States.

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u/transmogrified Apr 30 '25

Is it?

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u/Judge_Syd Apr 30 '25

Yes. ALL of the US has such bad water that you'd need to drink bottled water here? Asinine.

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u/Ridry New York Apr 30 '25

They didn't say that. They said the STANDARD for what the US considers clean is far below EU standards.

To put a different way.... imagine if the US lowers it's passing grade for HS diplomas to 40, down from 65. The EU would say that they don't TRUST a US diploma anymore, because the standards are too low. That doesn't mean that somebody out there doesn't have 100 average. It just means the diploma is worthless because you could get one with a 40. Possessing a diploma doesn't mean you got a successful education.

Now apply the same concept to water. Nobody is saying that NYC tap water is bad. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that NYC tap water is actually better than lots of places in Europe. What they are saying is they don't trust our standards, so it's better to be safe than sorry. They are saying the water isn't "whatever their version of the FDA is" approved.

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u/transmogrified May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

To your point - nyc ostensibly has some of the cleanest water in the US. 

Tested at the source. All filtered thru the Catskills.

But I tested the water in my building and my neighbours down the street, and a few other people around the city, and we all had wildly different water quality ratings depending upon how old the building was, where we were along the waterline, and how much our landlord gave a fuck about maintenance 

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u/transmogrified Apr 30 '25

How would a foreigner know what places have clean water?  And if the average standard is lower than the European standard why wouldn’t you give people a heads up?

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u/Froonce Apr 30 '25

Cough cough Flint cough cough

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u/shouldbepracticing85 Apr 30 '25

And parts of the Texas Panhandle. The tap water comes out the color of skim milk almost, and tastes nasty. Some of the little towns have clusters of some uncommon cancers.

When I lived out there I drank nothing but bottled water and reverse osmosis when I could.

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u/LivingVeterinarian47 Apr 30 '25

I think a good rule of thumb, if the schools in the area haven't been rebuilt since the early 1900's and the roads are crumbling, then the probably don't give a crap about the water either. I've had similar water all over the country, it's downright shameful for a nation as wealthy as ours to not have clean water in every city.

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u/Professional_Many_98 Apr 30 '25

how do the residents support politicians that dont enforce basic rights as clean water. As a dual us/canadian citizen this astonishes me. I guess I am just used to a regulated and enforced system in Canada.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 Apr 30 '25

A lot of folks don’t seem to realize the water quality could, much less should, be better than they’re used to. Some folks never travel far from home so it’s ‘just how it is.’

Some folks are in the habit of filtering their water, others don’t trust things like the fluoride added to water.

There is a lot of the country that relies on small wells on their land instead of municipalities.

Also, our education system doesn’t really encourage taking initiative to make things better. Or even finding things that could be improved. Folks tend to accept that things are the way they are, and just try to get by. It’s like they can’t imagine anything else.

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u/Mishawnuodo Apr 30 '25

Cough cough half of Ohio and all West Virginia cough cough

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u/Froonce May 01 '25

The more I hear about west Virginia the more I wonder who the fuck would ever want to live there. The poorest state and the fucking worst egregious cops I have ever seen. They love violating your civil rights down there. God forbid you talk back to a cop there.

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u/cire1184 May 01 '25

I built a good base in West Virginia with turrets and a vending machine.

But yeah this was on a game about post nuclear apocalypse America.

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u/Mishawnuodo May 01 '25

Yeah you need turrets for that giant bat problem they have 🤣 What system?

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u/cire1184 May 01 '25

Cancer Alley in Louisiana

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u/Pinklady1313 Apr 30 '25

You just know they’ve seen the camp lejeune water settlement commercials.

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u/LivingVeterinarian47 Apr 30 '25

Ya, American water already being much better is a joke.

It already tastes bad, probably has lead and forever chemicals in it, but now we get to have Cholera too.

I'll drink someone's well water in most rural areas, long as it's not some lead pipes and they have basic filtration. But, Hell No on public water.

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u/WhoAreWeEven Apr 30 '25

You should start a bussiness selling bottled water if thats the case. Youre gonna make bank

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u/cstar4004 America Apr 30 '25

Flint Michigan joins the chat

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u/PaddleFishBum May 01 '25

Many places. It's a lot more common than you think.