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These Assholes Are Making Me Thirsty

October 9, 2023

The sprawling $128 million Dilkon Medical Center on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, was completed more than a year ago. It has an emergency room, pharmacy and housing for more than 100 staff members. The new hospital was cause for celebration in a community that has to travel long distances for all but the most basic health care.

Sounds wonderful, right? Just one catch; there hasn’t been enough clean water to fill the facility’s storage tank, so the hospital sits empty.

Though Utah (yes, that Utah) and New Mexico have made peace with the Navajos over water, the (not-at-all) great state of Arizona has worked tirelessly to deprive the Navajos of access to the water they need, the water they are entitled to. I think somebody needs to go back where they came from.

No water for you!

In response to the Navajo appeal to right this wrong, the Extreme Court in a 5-4 decision, ruled against the Navajo Nation over claims that the federal government has failed to assert the tribe's desperate need for water access. Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Clowny Barrett and Kavanaugh told the Navajo Nation – drop dead. Fuck you. Fuck your shiny new medical center. Go back where you came from if you don’t like it here. Next case.

Writing for the malignant majority, Boof Kavanaugh wrote that “it is not the judiciary's role to rewrite and update this 155-year-old treaty.” Yeah, because treaties entered into between the United States and sovereign tribes are considered sacred and unbreakable for what Oneida/Iroquois comedian Charlie Hill described as “as long as the grass grows, the Sun shines…or 30 days, whichever comes first.” According to the Court’s majority, the 1868 treaty does not require the U.S. to take affirmative steps to secure water for the tribe on a reservation. So there.

Apparently, the Roberts court is only in the business of overturning 50-year-old established laws, like those allowing women control over their own bodies, or laws protecting the voting rights of minorities.  

The Roberts Court: a Jewish woman, a Black woman, A Hispanic woman

and six racist, misogynistic, fascist clowns

To be fair, maybe Kavanaugh is angry because he still hasn’t found his very own billionaire sugar daddy. Instead of drinking $1000/bottle wines he is stuck with his BFF, beer. He likes beer, he really likes beer, but I bet he’s willing to try flying on private jets to exotic locations and sip, guzzle or boof very fine wine.

FLASHBACK: a clip from the Kavanaugh hearing

I. Mangrey, member of the Dia Tribe.

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