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edhopper

(37,460 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 11:53 AM Thursday

Fucking NY Times headlines on the VRA

Talk about downplaying the Voting Rights ruling and taking the Conservative side.

headline:
Some Black Southerners Say Voting Rights Ruling ‘Missed the Mark’

Missed the Mark! WTF! And "Some Black Southerners??? Try everyone in the country who is not a bigot.
and the subheading:
Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in Black representation in the region.
A bleak end to Rights is not missing the mark.

headline:
In Narrowing Voting Rights Act, Conservative Justices See Progress on Racism
A blatantly racist ruling is "progress on racism"?
and the sub heading:
The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.
The majority lied and ignored the Constitution.

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Fucking NY Times headlines on the VRA (Original Post) edhopper Thursday OP
The Dancing Supremes canceling US Constitution Amendments Farmer-Rick Thursday #1
John Roberts... GiqueCee Thursday #2
Thomas is a money loyalist lame54 Thursday #5
WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK! choie Thursday #3
Time to remove those Stop Signs... lame54 Thursday #4
You should probably cancel your NYT subscription maxsolomon Thursday #6
Right. Voting Rights Act 'no longer needed.' B.See Thursday #7
"progress on racism" moondust Thursday #8

Farmer-Rick

(12,762 posts)
1. The Dancing Supremes canceling US Constitution Amendments
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:45 PM
Thursday

Two at a time. Bye, bye 14th and 15th Amendments. They have the exact same decades-old data" and "eradicated practices" that justified "extraordinary" federal intrusion into state affairs.

I heard the Supremes are going to rewrite the preamble to the Constitution too. Instead of, "We the People of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union," they are going to change it to, "We the white, men of wealth in Order to control All citizens,".

It comes from that Project 2025 plan. There's also a clause in the plan to require bowing to US royalty such as the President and the Supreme Court Justices.....just saying, you got to read between the lines. The US is in a rush to go back to feudalism.

GiqueCee

(4,570 posts)
2. John Roberts...
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:46 PM
Thursday

... should get some packing boxes, because he is going to get impeached, and he will deserve it. Alito and Thomas should be next.
I've said it a thousand times over the course of several decades, Every judge and justice must, by law, abjure any political affiliation whatsoever. The grotesque corruption we see today has been enabled by partisan jurists like Roberts, Alito, Thomas, et al., who put party loyalties before loyalty to the Constitution and the rule of law.

maxsolomon

(39,014 posts)
6. You should probably cancel your NYT subscription
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:30 PM
Thursday

so you don't get so upset. It's not worth it.

B.See

(8,703 posts)
7. Right. Voting Rights Act 'no longer needed.'
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:40 PM
Thursday

That's why the MAGA Gop are running around disappearing even ELECTED Black officeholders via redistricting and other underhanded shenanigans.

Klansmen (plus Stephen) in black robes. Only thing missing are the pointy hoods.

moondust

(21,333 posts)
8. "progress on racism"
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 06:47 PM
Thursday

I believe that was the bullshit excuse Roberts used in his first gutting of the VRA in 2013: Look! A black guy was elected and then re-elected President! Racism is over!

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