The Last Week Tonight host blasts the ‘absolutely horrifying’ supreme court ruling and digs into the US south-west’s drought
John Oliver got straight to the point on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight: the“It is hard to stomach some of the gleeful responses right now,” he said, pointing to the Texas attorney general’s decision to declare 24 June an annual holiday. “You don’t get a holiday to celebrate the loss of rights for millions of people when you already have one, and it’s called Columbus Day,” Oliver seethed.
“What the supreme court has just done is utterly devastating,” Oliver said. “The message that the supreme court sends is pretty clear: we don’t care if pregnancy kills you, we don’t care if you don’t want to be pregnant, we don’t care about you at all.” Oliver’s main segment pivoted to another urgent US crisis: record droughts in the American south-west, which is having its driest 22-year period since AD800, the farthest back that data goes.
The compact also excluded critical parties – namely, Mexico and Indigenous tribes – and from the start allocated more water than actually existed. A large study from the federal government last decade forced modelers to add “magic water” – extra water that existed only in the computer model – to the data. “Which is just absurd,” said Oliver, “and not only because magic water sounds like a euphemism for urine used only by Björk”.
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