Voting Rights Are On The Chopping Block
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@pimpernelsmith3798
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
You can kiss racial gerrymandering goodbye, you can kiss Humphrey's Executor goodbye, you can kiss birthright citizenship goodbye, and after what democrats did under Biden, they should never ever regain power. In fact, the democrat party should be declared a lawless terrorist organization.
@think_for_yourselfff
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
I appreciate and agree with everything you're saying so much. However, lately I've taken on the unpleasant hobby of trying to understand and empathize with MAGA's perspective. It's nauseating, but my reason is because we desperately need to find common ground with these people. And I also think that MAGA wouldn't exist if that group of people didn't feel so marginalized. (Whether or not their feelings are valid.)
One thing I will mention is that focusing on race CAN perpetuate racism… giving focus to the ways in which things are uneven/unfair helps most black people, but there is a small percentage that just seems to feel victimized and use it as an excuse not to try. You know?
Also, sometimes black culture can be racist. Not just to whites but even to other blacks. I understand why- they're voicing the things white people will not. To some extent it does need to be said. But after a certain point you're no longer speaking of past inequality, but further perpetuating it in the present day.
I think liberals do need to start empathizing with white defensiveness a LITTLE. Because what happens happens if you don't? MAGA.
I'm not saying we should give in to that defensiveness- just acknowledge their feelings come from a valid part of human nature. Validate them first, and THEN explain why despite how it makes them feel, progress needs to continue.
I'm not sure if there's any realistic way to get around these issues. Seems like it's just human nature for any group. Tell them they are oppressed, and they may act more oppressed.
Just food for thought cuz I think in order to truly heal and get closer to equality, we do need to understand all the nuances of both sides.
@Chuckakhan
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
John Roberts will go down as the worst chief justice since Roger B Taney.
@Mwm-x3n
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
we can thank cancoon cruz for the start of gutting the voting rights act in 2013
@profoundpronoun4712
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
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@nextleveljourney6612
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
š Democrats šš¼ š- Register as Republican YET VOTE Democrat later ā WHY ?? To skew their primaries and we can upend their candidate choices and confuse them
Then VOTE Democrat anyway in actual elections
@sktreble
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
You make a lot of good points here, but thereās important context missing. Racism didnāt āendā after the Civil War ā it just changed shape. Many freed people had no land, no education, and no safety net, and were forced back into dependency under systems like sharecropping. The structures of control didnāt disappear; they evolved ā from slavery to Jim Crow, to mass incarceration and economic exploitation.
The 14th Amendment may have promised equality, but itās been used selectively ever since, more as a symbol than a safeguard. And when communities of color did find ways to rise, the system found new ways to suppress them. A clear example is how cannabis was criminalized ā not because of public health, but because it, along with jazz, was bringing Black and white people together in shared culture. That scared the white men in power. They targeted Black jazz musicians, demonized their art, and used racist propaganda to divide people who were finally starting to connect through music.
That pattern ā punishing unity, monetizing division ā never stopped. Itās just taken different forms over time.
@dracorexion
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
At this point they need to just hurry up with turning this country into a dictatorship. This slow burn is much more torturous.
@jan-pi-ala-suli
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
why do you blink at the exact points in a sentence where a 2020 tiktok star would do that voice at
@1001Hobbies
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Whoa……please take a look at how the blue States have been gerrymandered into oblivion…..and you said nothing while that took place, but as soon as someone else does what the Dems had done NOW it's a problem. Let's have some consistency here now….
@PostprandialTorpor
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Iād be interested to hear your thoughts on California special election to basically allow gerrymandering as a battle tactic against Republicans because obviously itās a fine line between June politicians too much power and independent citizen, elected boards to control the lines interested to hear or take on how to weigh the proposition
@WoodyWerewolf
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Thank you
@skarscalp8157
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Give us picture ID voting and in person voting and maybe we will let you keep the 1964 voting "rights" act
@brianlawrence8314
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Trump 2028
@dm8189
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
That was hard to watch. Jesus, you're on YouTube. Have a personality!
Sorry. But Obama won the presidency, twice. At some point we have to be honest here. Therr will always be racists in the democratic and republican parties. But we can't have laws that favor a specific race over another. That's not constructive or fair. 200 years ago. Sure. Not in 2025.
@ellieminnow
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Race? Rather not say from here on.
@ellieminnow
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
We need to start refusing to do the census.
@andsobeit
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
As a lawyer, your preamble shows your lens through which you view the courtā¦ and itās not impartial. Instead of enlightening your audience, youāre loading your audience – but hey, to each their own
@williamwadsworthjr5107
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
You are one of my favorite content creators and who I go to for a lot of my news. Iām from Louisiana and Iāll let you know itās pronounced cah-lay. Thank you for covering my state we are fucked
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October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
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@Penny_Pirate
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
My trust of white people is dubious at best.
@Penny_Pirate
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
I did not ask to be born.
@Penny_Pirate
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
We have advanced the science of Slavery to that of the Salary Slave, The Pension Slave, The Wage Slave, etc.
@Penny_Pirate
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Slavery is the origin of writing.
@Penny_Pirate
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Women are forever blind to their superior privilege.
@Penny_Pirate
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Aren't you the leader of the: Women Don't Owe You Sh/t Movement? Can you not be a racist?
@davidowens1424
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
I'm so glad that Democrats championed Voting Rights legislation like they said they would when they had control of the House, Senate, and POTUS 2020-2022. Oh wait … they did nothing. So much for saving democracy.
@ChillyOutside
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
New Jim Crow era here we go. ā¹ļø
@mrp9507
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
She tore this one up. lol. great job explaining all of this
@badbabybear1
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Watching from New Orleans. Thanks for covering.
@franbran6426
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Geez, who can say how they will rule? It is a complete mystery.
@KC-Mitch
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Btw, if they remove Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, it's possible for Dems to hypothetically carve out 350 seats across the country for a glorious Super Majority and they absolutely should. If you use DRA2020, using most recent data they have for population and voting records by precinct, you can make every district blue in the following states: CA, NY, IL, WA, OR, NV, NM, NJ, VA, MD, MA, ME, CT, RI, MN, CO, & HI.
And these states are all districts but one: AZ, PA, WI, MI, NC, GA, & NH (currently both Dems, but data itself is too conservative for both seats to skew Dem).
Some states seem ludicrous or surprising (like GA and NC), but that's how skewed in favor Republicans have made them out to be. Even Texas could have a glorious 29-9 skew in favor of Dems.
But Dems are cowards who will capitulate to anything so as not to be deemed a hypocrite šš. A phobia of hypocrisy is just a fatal weapon for your enemy's benefit.
@ethanjohnson2849
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
If you people wanted too win elections you wouldn't hate on my people and would try to win their vote instead. Just a suggestion.
@cl8804
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
i like black trans people
@cl8804
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
JEWTOPIA
@JonathanGray0124
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Home of Jefferson Davis Parishā¦ should tell you everything you need to know
@gregorysouthworth783
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
If the Supreme Court does essentially gut the Voting Rights Act further, could advocating for multi-member legislative and Congressional districts with rank choice voting (and open primaries regardless of party) be a way of bringing potential minority voters back into the mix? Those "reforms" don't specifically address race (thereby denying MAGA lawyers an argument that the multi-member districts as race-based), but the net effect would be to empower minorities as the top 5 vote-getters would win in a multi-member district and that might even include a new party focused on empowering people of color and their representative. Sort of steals MAGA thunder, eh? It also dents the power of big money to control elections.
@SkippingToTheEndOfHistory
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
You should look into the abuse of the H1B visa system. Turns out itās re-legalizing slavery. The Biden administration tried to reform it, and the Trump administration has undone the reforms. And this obscure law that people who arenāt farmers donāt pay a lot of attention to maybe be the exact reason why farmers supported Trump.
@bradredford4846
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Early American Bible: Love thy neighbor
Early America: Slavery
@Simp4Gwyn
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
I love these videos and staying Informed but even though these are things that actively affect me, I have had to take breaks from it. How do you read and write these videos without dying inside?
@alansmithee419
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
MAGA rise up!
(Make America Gay Af)
@tianag8513
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Whats all this with districts? Why is it not popular vote in the entire country? One person = one vote. Everyone would then be equal
@FlawlessP401
October 15, 2025 at 11:14 am
Imagine making these slop lying claims about my country. Imagine lying about the purpose of the amendments when we have every word of debate on the congressional record. It was about individuals always was. So you trying to import your slop collectivist lens is unamerican and dishonest.
This is your brain on critical legal studies.
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