Valuetainment - May 01, 2026


＂The Midterms MAY NOT Matter＂ - Redistricting Ruling BOMBSHELL Re-writes 2026 Election


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Supreme Court strikes down a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities so long as they do it under the guise of partisanship rather than explicit racial bias.

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00:00:00.000 So one of the things that happened that's massive, you see the tweet from President Obama,
00:00:04.660 I brought this up to Governor Westmore, we were talking about it, and all of a sudden,
00:00:09.760 you know, the phone starts blowing up that Obama just tweeted this.
00:00:13.300 What did he tweet?
00:00:14.440 He tweeted about, you know, how massive this is, how horrible this is for America, and
00:00:19.880 when Obama says something like that, obviously the people that are, you know, on the complete
00:00:25.000 opposite side, they're like, if Obama's pissed off, that means something good is going on.
00:00:28.240 Rob, just go to his account.
00:00:29.540 Just go to people.
00:00:30.680 All you have to do is go to people.
00:00:31.780 Yeah.
00:00:32.320 So you see, I don't know if it's this one or not, Rob.
00:00:35.940 We had it a couple days ago.
00:00:37.220 Just, yeah.
00:00:38.680 So right there.
00:00:39.640 Okay.
00:00:40.180 So this is the tweet that he puts up there.
00:00:42.400 It says, today's Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act,
00:00:46.420 free a state legislator to gerrymander legislative district to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities
00:00:54.980 so long as they do it under the guise of partisanship rather than explicit racial bias.
00:01:01.580 And it serves as just one more example of how the majority of the Supreme Court seems
00:01:05.360 intent on abandoning its role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy.
00:01:11.640 Anyways, the good news is that we can come back and pop up, pop up, pop up by winning
00:01:14.560 elections, by winning midterms.
00:01:15.740 So he's kind of using this as that.
00:01:17.440 Why is this such a big deal?
00:01:18.800 If you go to the actual article, Rob, and show what it did on the redistricting side, which is absolutely massive, absolutely massive.
00:01:31.100 Supreme Court ruled for it.
00:01:34.720 So what do you mean Supreme Court ruled for it?
00:01:36.500 Supreme Court ruled for it.
00:01:38.360 Six to three.
00:01:39.280 And this Supreme Court that ruled for it allows, if this goes through, okay, 6-3, Louisiana's 2024 mid-decade redistricting that produce a serpentine district represented by this, calling it an illegal racial gerrymandering while Obama argued the decision weakened a Voting Rights Act.
00:01:57.460 Do you have that image, Rob, of shows all the states of what the plus minus is?
00:02:01.240 You know the one that we showed a couple days ago?
00:02:04.360 The Northeast?
00:02:05.140 Oh, my God.
00:02:06.020 No, not the Northeast.
00:02:06.900 The Southeast, I think, is the one.
00:02:09.280 Yeah, we just showed it a couple days ago.
00:02:13.600 Vinny, have you seen this?
00:02:14.680 I haven't.
00:02:15.180 It is unbelievable.
00:02:17.500 We just showed it two days ago.
00:02:18.660 It was the one that I saw in the middle.
00:02:19.640 It was all the way in the middle.
00:02:20.880 It was cut out.
00:02:21.580 I think it's the first row.
00:02:23.300 Yeah, if you zoom into this one.
00:02:25.360 Okay, is it an image or is it a video?
00:02:30.260 See if you can zoom in.
00:02:31.460 There's one of them.
00:02:32.020 We showed it a couple days ago.
00:02:33.220 Anyways, let me just read this and then Rob will find it.
00:02:37.100 Well, Tom, I'll come to you here.
00:02:38.580 Why is this such a big deal?
00:02:39.580 Rob, I'll find it and send it to you.
00:02:41.740 Right.
00:02:42.120 It's such a big deal because something that was good becomes bad in the hands of government.
00:02:49.840 Like once upon a time, your money was good.
00:02:51.460 As soon as they get it, they spend it twice and put you in debt.
00:02:54.740 So what happened was once upon a time, they had the Voting Rights Act because they wanted
00:02:59.780 to make sure that all people everywhere had the right to vote.
00:03:03.780 Citizens had the right to vote.
00:03:05.440 This is a good thing.
00:03:06.320 But then what they did, and by the way, this has got fingerprints all the way to the Southern Poverty Law Center, ladies and gentlemen.
00:03:14.480 They all said, well, we need a district here that's more like this.
00:03:20.140 We need a district here that's more like that.
00:03:22.840 So they started drawing lines, Pat, to create, well, we think it would be more fair.
00:03:28.320 Well, wait, who's making the decision?
00:03:30.860 We.
00:03:31.460 We who?
00:03:32.840 We are.
00:03:33.520 And Democrats started drawing odd districts rather than territorial districts.
00:03:40.820 Now, each district needs to have a certain number of citizens in it.
00:03:44.620 So most people said, well, why don't we draw these districts so that they have the number of citizens and make them reasonably sized?
00:03:51.580 Why reasonably sized?
00:03:52.920 Well, so that Vinnie as congressman could serve all the people in a given area and that it rains on them the same way, the economy is the same way, and Vinnie can serve them.
00:04:02.280 Instead, they made these bizarre districts, and I'll let you get to this one quick.
00:04:06.780 Yeah, this right here.
00:04:07.460 So if you look at this, Vinny.
00:04:08.440 Okay.
00:04:08.900 This is current, and that's what's going to happen on the right after the Supreme Court ruling.
00:04:13.200 So you see the blue?
00:04:13.900 They call the bottom left, the one on Louisiana, all the way to the left.
00:04:16.940 You see that, how it looks like a snake?
00:04:18.180 Yeah, that's the one that's hot.
00:04:18.460 They call that the snake, yes.
00:04:20.040 So this was racial gerrymandering is what they call it.
00:04:24.240 There's partisan, there's bipartisan, there's racial.
00:04:26.580 They're calling this, the Supreme Court ruled, that this is racial gerrymandering.
00:04:31.260 Democrats held 24 seats in these states.
00:04:34.620 Now, after what just passed, Vinny, Republicans gained 12 more seats, including nine without Section 2 of the VRA.
00:04:43.140 Florida alone picked up four new seats with this new ruling.
00:04:47.480 So the reason why this is very important, even if they win the midterms, it may not matter because you're going to have to beat out more than these seats.
00:04:55.240 That's what caused Barack Obama to get out of bed to tweet.
00:04:58.780 He doesn't tweet like Trump tweeted.
00:05:00.540 His tweets are once a week.
00:05:01.920 He's a scheduled guy.
00:05:02.860 He's got stuff to do.
00:05:03.780 He's very busy.
00:05:04.760 So, you know, the Republicans here are celebrating, saying this could be a massive thing.
00:05:08.940 So now the Democrats are sitting around saying, what are we going to do next?
00:05:12.260 What can we do ourselves?
00:05:13.620 This is the challenge.
00:05:14.380 Tom, go ahead.
00:05:14.840 Continue.
00:05:15.620 Now, Kathy Hochul speaks up.
00:05:18.520 Oh, my gosh, my gosh, my gosh. 0.55
00:05:20.600 But then she gets busted.
00:05:22.360 Rob, show the map.
00:05:24.840 Kathy Hochul helped draw this one in New York.
00:05:27.460 yeah that really makes it easy for a house of representative to serve the people you go all
00:05:35.320 the way down manhattan cross the bridge go on the back side of here go around here make a left and
00:05:40.780 then go down to another group of people this is gerrymandering where they're trying to determine
00:05:45.340 the outcome right because when natural when just natural boundaries of cities areas states were
00:05:53.740 not to their preferences, then what do they want to put? They want to put DEI.
00:05:58.160 What do they want to put? They want to put the gerrymandering. And then remember, rule
00:06:01.820 one, accuse the other guy of what you're doing, of what you're guilty of. 0.55
00:06:06.100 Correct. To cover up the fact that you're doing
00:06:09.900 it anyway. And that's what happened here. And so now the gerrymandering
00:06:13.900 of these bizarre districts goes back.
00:06:17.960 Now, Pat, there's still going to be arguments of, wait, should that square district be
00:06:21.620 two miles to the west of town or two miles to the east.
00:06:25.660 So there's still going to be arguments on this.
00:06:28.200 But when you get more natural-looking districts, look at what happens.
00:06:31.900 The South is inherently conservative.
00:06:34.180 The Northeast will still be liberal.
00:06:36.180 But you won't have this bizarre here because ask yourself a question.
00:06:40.040 Take a look at that, Adam.
00:06:42.060 Do you think that – if you were the congressman in New York, Adam,
00:06:45.180 do you think that map there that he just showed,
00:06:47.680 does that make it easy for you to serve the people?
00:06:50.000 How do you serve the people?
00:06:51.060 It's a long walk, and you've got to make a right-left, and it's very complicated.
00:06:54.500 And all this, all this, all this, because this party has zero leaders, Pat, with any policy.
00:07:01.860 So these are the little games that they have to play.
00:07:04.000 And notice how now the Republicans have to play the game back at them. 0.97
00:07:07.000 But why don't you have a good freaking leader? 0.85
00:07:08.840 Have somebody to step up with policies. 0.96
00:07:10.760 This doesn't even have to worry about this, Tom.
00:07:12.980 Does that make sense?
00:07:14.040 Adam, your thoughts?
00:07:15.420 Look, at the end of the day, the Supreme Court basically said, yeah, enough with the racism.
00:07:20.260 yeah you're you're you're drawing districts and gerrymandering and redistricting and everything
00:07:25.160 you're doing based on race i think specifically black people that's what they're doing now it'd
00:07:30.880 be a very weird situation if everybody in the country had to robotically vote based on their 0.95
00:07:37.480 race the whites vote for this the blacks vote for this latinos vote for this the jews they're 0.77
00:07:42.440 confused they don't know where to go these days but you know who the you know who's loving this 0.96
00:07:46.020 right now one group the nfl why because the nfl has been telling us for years that we need to end
00:07:53.080 racism it's in all the end zones the nba also they're doing the bubble the social justice
00:07:59.560 warriors guys we're ending racism finally methodically so now the whole conversation
00:08:04.460 is going to be about midterms you remember uh four years ago they were talking about the big
00:08:08.480 red wave that was supposedly coming and it was like a red teardrop because it didn't happen now
00:08:14.000 Maybe, just maybe, PBD, is this alleged blue wave that's coming might not come at all.
00:08:19.560 So we'll see here.
00:08:20.200 At the end of the day, it comes down to he who controls the map controls the power.
00:08:25.000 And I think Republicans just said, ah, ah, ah, checkmate.
00:08:28.500 Here's what we got from the Supreme Court.
00:08:29.820 You know what I would say?
00:08:31.320 He who controls the Supreme Court controls a lot of things.
00:08:35.600 Yeah.
00:08:35.880 Six to three.
00:08:37.020 Are you flipping kidding me?
00:08:38.460 You said that in 2020.
00:08:39.180 Say what you want to say.
00:08:39.620 I said the most important thing that has happened is the fact that it's 6-3
00:08:45.800 and one of them is not well right now and it's on the left,
00:08:48.140 so he may even be replaced, that it could end up being a 7-2 before he's done with.
00:08:52.420 That's a very important—
00:08:53.780 Who's on the left that's not well?
00:08:54.540 Who was the one that was not doing well?
00:08:56.100 It's the gentleman that's 73, 74 years old.
00:08:58.300 He had a hospital scare recently.
00:08:59.780 Who, Alito?
00:09:00.400 I think it's Alito, yes.
00:09:01.000 No, but he's full-on conservative.
00:09:04.440 Not Alito.
00:09:05.180 No, not Alito.
00:09:05.840 It was another one that wasn't doing well.
00:09:07.640 Clarence Thomas?
00:09:08.260 Because he's the most conservative.
00:09:09.040 No, no, not conservative.
00:09:10.380 It was somebody on the left.
00:09:11.320 RBG?
00:09:11.960 I don't know who it is.
00:09:12.980 RBG.
00:09:13.660 No, I'm just saying.
00:09:14.420 RBG is the.
00:09:15.200 Rest her soul.
00:09:16.100 I don't recall that.
00:09:17.340 I think the three on the left are Sotomayor and the Supreme Court Justice with a three-record deal.
00:09:20.820 You know?
00:09:20.920 Hitaji, Brown, Jackson.
00:09:21.760 This is a very, very, very big situation here.
00:09:28.540 Very, very big situation.
00:09:29.820 Oh, he was a conservative.
00:09:30.900 Alito was on the conservative side.
00:09:32.000 I thought it was somebody on the other side.
00:09:33.040 Sometimes they vote with the dissenting party.
00:09:35.540 Even if that goes, they're still going to maintain a 6-3.
00:09:39.000 This is probably more than being a president.
00:09:41.520 This control here with Supreme Court is massive.
00:09:44.480 Because if this was the other way around 6-3, what do you think happens right now?
00:09:47.720 Over. 0.69
00:09:48.180 This racial gerrymandering continues.
00:09:50.180 Yep.
00:09:50.700 And it's the whole DEI conversations, fairness, all this stuff.
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