re: #12 jaunte

What’s with these little fish that need water?

I think it’s a leftover meme from a few years back when California was in a drought: Devin Nunes and a bunch of CA GOPers were whining and bitching about water allocations for their agricultural districts - fair enough complaints, but of course (being GOPers) they cast it in classic anti-environmentalist terms: “necessary” (for them) water being “wasted” by America-hating left-wing hippie eco-freaks because of some “little fish” in the SF Bay.

Needless to say, California’s water-allocation issues were (and are) considerably more complex than the simple-minded RW narrative, but I guess a good hippie-punching stereotype is too useful to let go of.