Gutting
This is the third time that Chief Justice John Robert’s has overseen a Supreme Court ruling on a challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that most observers have described as a gutting of the law’s powers to protect Black and minority participation in American democracy.
I detect a pattern. If I had a nickel, etc, etc.
This week’s cartoon comes one day before the end of the month. That was not planned. My original plan was to work on the last cartoon of the month over the past weekend. But then a massive migraine attacked me, bringing on exhaustion and fatigue. I finally recovered yesterday when the ruling came down and I responded viscerally — with evisceration!
Confused by the unlabeled caricatures? Here they are in order of appearance: Martin Luther King, Jr; Lyndon B. Johnson; a young John Roberts; a murderous John Roberts; Peter Thiel, a Klansman, Roberts again, and that dithering idiot rapist pedophile whom 33% of the country reveres as the next Jesus.
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A four panel cartoon.
Panel One: Martin Luther King, Jr. talks to Lyndon Johnson.
Narration: 1965: AFTER DECADES OF FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION AT THE POLLS, BLACK AMERICANS WON PASSAGE OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
MLK: DON'T SCREW THIS UP ...
LBJ: NO PROMISES.
Panel 2: A boy stands in a yard. He holds a magnifying glass over a burning ant hill. Next to him a dolls head is mounted on a stake.
Narration: THAT DAY, A YOUNG WHITE BOY IN INDIANA MADE A SOLEMN VOW:
John Roberts, the boy: I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER ...
TO GUT THAT ACT LIKE A FISH !!
Panel 3: John Roberts celebrates, waving around a bloody knife as he kneels over the blood spattered corpse of the Bill on Capitol Hill character.
Narration: 61 YEARS LATER, HAVING ALREADY EVISCERATED THE VRA IN PRIOR RULINGS, THE BOY-NOW-CHIEF JUSTICE MADE ONE LAST CUT.
John Roberts: I DID IT! THE ACT IS DEAD!! AH HAHAHA HAHA
Panel 4: Peter Thiel, a Klansman, and Donald Trump congratulate him.
Thiel: GOOD JOB, BUDDY!
Klansman: WE'RE RIGHT PROUD OF YA!
Trump: Y'KNOW -- MY DADDY WAS KLAN.
Trump would have been klan too, but he had those bone spurs you know.