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Reuters: "US Supreme Court under Roberts takes 'wrecking ball' to Voting Rights Act"

Started by Rod Kaufman, 04/30/2026 03:19PM
Posted 05/26/2026 05:45PM | Edited 05/26/2026 05:47PM #40
Originally Posted by James Lacey



Operation Epic Folly


I suspect that things are at the point where Trump and team know they have to reopen the Strait, since our ability to absorb the shock of the closure will diminish rapidly as the world's emergency stockpiles are depleted, and other coping adaptations are strained to their limits. It will still take who knows how many months to untangle all the mess, and let's hope in the meantime a hurricane doesn't hit one of our refineries.
In addition to the epic economic cocka, the idea that we can "trust & verify" what the Iranians say they might do about their uranium production is another epic hallucinatory pipeline .

Watching Al Jazeera on cable is an eye-opener if you can get past the constant anti-Israeli propaganda. If you saw the Iranian underground tunnel systems where their drones and ballistic missile production occurs on a daily basis, you'd understand where all their oil money is going. This is some next-level engineering that've got down there, and nothing like the sewer suites of tunnels under Gaza or those in the movie "The Great Escape". (Think the Disney monorail underground or "The Jetsons)." My guess is that even Brian, our engineer here, would be impressed. 

Trump's constantly changing positions have now morphed from the Iranian's uranium will be removed and transferred to the USA, to, as of last night, being transferred to a third party-nation to be named later,  OR being somehow destroyed in Iran under the supervision of the atomic energy commission. How realistic is any of that?
Posted 05/26/2026 07:08PM #41
Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Here, let me just sum it up for the unhinged Loons here, Rod, Lacey, Moscheck, Carroll, James Brown, and any other leftist fool reading and writing their threads these days:  

The Socialist Democrat party for the last several decades has manipulated their states' redistricting maps so they can win elections by any means necessary, including their unconstitutional district mapping by race.  

Now, the Socialist Democrat party is whining that the Supreme court has reversed and thrown a monkey wrench into the Socialist Democrats' SCHEMEs for the last 40 years or more.

It is not a "wrecking ball" to the Voting Rights act, it has simply stopped the corrupt Socialist Democrat party from any further bastardization of the laws and the US Constitution.

The intention of the Voting Rights act was not created to simply Let Socialist Democrats win by any corrupt means necessary, it was intended to do what the name says, secure voting rights for all American citizens, the key word there being "citizens".

Now, let the whining, moaning, and crying  by the corrupt Socialist Democrats continue. 



I will check back next week to see just how the unhinged Brain Trust here has reacted to the facts.  I'll bring my popcorn!  smile

There are many problems with your "facts," but the most glaring one is that both parties gerrymander, even by race, when they get the chance, so acting like this is only a Democrat issue ignores reality.

I have never commented on the Voting Rights Act in this thread, but your characterization that it was a "Socialist Democrat Party bastardization of the laws and the US Constitution, whose only purpose was to allow the Socialist Democrat Party to draw district maps based only on race" is clearly little more than a one-sided, emotionally charged, political diatribe. The real argument here is where the fine line should be between protecting minority representation and using race too heavily in politics. And you acting like only Democrats have ever pushed the limits on where that line is, for political gain, is a ridiculously ill-informed view of history.
Posted 05/26/2026 07:15PM #42
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

In addition to the epic economic cocka, the idea that we can "trust & verify" what the Iranians say they might do about their uranium production is another epic hallucinatory pipeline .

Watching Al Jazeera on cable is an eye-opener if you can get past the constant anti-Israeli propaganda. If you saw the Iranian underground tunnel systems where their drones and ballistic missile production occurs on a daily basis, you'd understand where all their oil money is going. This is some next-level engineering that've got down there, and nothing like the sewer suites of tunnels under Gaza or those in the movie "The Great Escape". (Think the Disney monorail underground or "The Jetsons)." My guess is that even Brian, our engineer here, would be impressed. 

Trump's constantly changing positions have now morphed from the Iranian's uranium will be removed and transferred to the USA, to, as of last night, being transferred to a third party-nation to be named later,  OR being somehow destroyed in Iran under the supervision of the atomic energy commission. How realistic is any of that?

It's pretty hilarious how, in the last 24 hours, Trump snatched defeat from what was supposed to be a peace deal, using social media, once again. I can only conclude that, yet again, there was never a peace deal even close to being agreed upon. The peace deal is about as real as his health care plan. You would think that at some point he would realize his diplomats and negotiators are incompetent, but then again, he is the leader of the clown show, so what can you expect?
Posted 05/27/2026 11:12AM | Edited 05/27/2026 11:13AM #43
Originally Posted by Richard Davis



LOL!
Excuse the typo. As if you've never done it. 

Please go crawl back under the rock you've been hiding under. You add nothing to the discussion. except taunts and lies, just like your hero.

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Posted 05/27/2026 01:51PM #44
Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Excuse the typo. As if you've never done it. 

Please go crawl back under the rock you've been hiding under. You add nothing to the discussion. except taunts and lies, just like your hero.

When Rich has been absent for weeks, if not months, and then pops in to post one of his ridiculous, biased, closed-minded, and partisan rants laced with taunts and lies, it just makes you realize how desensitized we had all become to his normal posting. I mean, his last post is pretty tame by Rich standards, but still, it certainly makes you realize just how nutso he truly is, since you haven't seen one in a while.
Posted 05/27/2026 05:25PM #45
Originally Posted by James Lacey


When Rich has been absent for weeks, if not months, and then pops in to post one of his ridiculous, biased, closed-minded, and partisan rants laced with taunts and lies, it just makes you realize how desensitized we had all become to his normal posting. I mean, his last post is pretty tame by Rich standards, but still, it certainly makes you realize just how nutso he truly is, since you haven't seen one in a while.
My guess is that you probably won't hear from him for awhile. He's probably moving to Texas so he can vote for Paxton...
Posted 05/28/2026 12:59PM | Edited 05/28/2026 01:10PM #46
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

My guess is that you probably won't hear from him for awhile. He's probably moving to Texas so….
Changed my mind
Posted 05/28/2026 01:09PM #47
Originally Posted by James Lacey


There are many problems with your "facts," but the most glaring one is that both parties gerrymander, even by race, when they get the chance, so acting like this is only a Democrat issue ignores reality.

I have never commented on the Voting Rights Act in this thread, but your characterization that it was a "Socialist Democrat Party bastardization of the laws and the US Constitution, whose only purpose was to allow the Socialist Democrat Party to draw district maps based only on race" is clearly little more than a one-sided, emotionally charged, political diatribe. The real argument here is where the fine line should be between protecting minority representation and using race too heavily in politics. And you acting like only Democrats have ever pushed the limits on where that line is, for political gain, is a ridiculously ill-informed view of history.
Great points.   I’ve posted several times about the VRA.   I think Russ nailed it.   The conservatives on the Court believe the VRA is limited by the 14th amendment to ban gerrymandering to give to racial minorities an affirmative advantage or a disadvantage.   The liberals on the Court disagree vehemently because they believe the principles of fairness and justice underlying the 14th Amendment and the VRA mandate minority majority districts or other steps beyond free and open elections to foster equal representation.   It is my sincere hope that everyone except Richard sees that these are both defensible positions and that neither is Constitutionally “wrong”.
Posted 05/28/2026 01:50PM #48
Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

My guess is that you probably won't hear from him for awhile. He's probably moving to Texas so he can vote for Paxton...

Paxton's win may backfire against Trump, because many believe he is far more vulnerable to Talarico than Cornyn would have been. Primaries are low-turnout elections where only party fanatics, and mostly older people, vote, so Paxton's huge win over Corny is not indicative of what will happen in the general election. Trump's core base of supporters love these firebrand, populist conservatives, and corruption doesn't matter, as long as they see the candidate as someone who will aggressively challenge liberal ideas and go after what they see as progressive agendas that are ruining the country. There is no doubt that Paxton has the Trump-supporter vote and a lot of the rural vote. Still, Texas is becoming more urban and purple by the day, so it will be interesting to see if he is truly competitive in the general election. My instinct is that it will not be a repeat of the Cruz-Beto matchup of 2018, since Texas has become even more competitive than it was then, and Cruz only narrowly won.
Posted 05/28/2026 03:40PM #49
Originally Posted by James Brown

Changed my mind
Dude, we were talking about Rich, not you!