“You don’t have the right to take that water,” was the message Sean Brewer, Coalinga’s assistant city manager, said he got from Reclamation officials.

Take it anyway. Don't pay their fines. What are they gonna do? Send in the National Guard to put a stop to people drinking water and irrigating crops? Make 'em do it! Force their hand.

But also, coastal California treats inland California like total shit. It's truly telling, given the former's socialist obsessions.

No. But it's already a bad decision to live in California to begin with so...