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Biden: "I was able to literally, not figuratively, talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died"(twitter.com)

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NetweaselContinuing the struggle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

Does anybody remember just how "non compos mentis" Strom was, in the few months right before he died?

"OK Strom, now you just push this 'yes' button" was all it would have taken to "literally, not figuratively, talk Strom into voting for" something at the time.

All that would have been necessary was to be in the right place at the right time to say it.

[deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

Biden is a racist Dixiecrat. Does he not understand that lies like this are easily disputable? Thurmond never voted in the affirmative for a civil rights act.

risistill me 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

Biden: "I was able to literally, not figuratively, talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died"

Which begs the question: What the hell would "I figuratively talked Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act" even mean?

Also, aren't the words "before he died" surplusage? Or are we thinking communicating with Thurmond during seances? Of course, the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964 and Thurmond famously lived until 2003.

Most importantly, Thurmond most certainly did not vote for the Civil Rights Act. Not only that, but Thurmond finally left the Democrat Party 2 months after the Act became law.

Strong opposition to the bill also came from Senator Strom Thurmond, who was still a Democrat at the time: "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals [sic], which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

NetweaselContinuing the struggle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

Most importantly, Thurmond most certainly did not vote for the Civil Rights Act.

Does he still hold the record for Longest Filibuster? IIRC, his record was against the Civil Rights Act.....

risistill me 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

No idea. Also filibustering was Fulbright, Bubba's benefactor/mentor since high school.

unagisongsBurn down Reddit! 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun 9 months ago

...and a bald eagle swooped in and landed gently on Biden's shoulder. It shed a single tear for justice.

MyOther_UN_is_Clever 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun 9 months ago

Bald Eagles are opportunistic carrion eaters, so I could actually see one landing on Biden.

CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun 9 months ago

Maybe the eagle will pull out a few hair plugs and fly away 🦅

Centaurea 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

After pooping on Joe's shoulder. (And bald eagles are big birds.)

MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

And is there a better word for a Biden, or any politician really, than kleptoparasite?

fugwb 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

He definitely fits the bill for being a kleptoparasite. Now we need to work in the lying part.

Pathological lying was first identified in 1891 by psychiatrist Anton Delbrück. He gave it the Latin name pseudologia fantastica (sometimes spelled phantastica). Pathological lying is also known as mythomania and morbid lying.

Edit: Mythomaniac kleptoparasite - a lying thieving leech.

risistill me 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

My vote is for "pyschopath."

3andfro 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

The media have been framing his lies as "gaffes" throughout his political career.

risistill me 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

Ironic, since the most (in)famous definition of "gaffe" is a politician accidentally telling the truth.

Maniak🥃😾 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

Already a lie at the third word.

MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

My first question:

How would you figuratively talk someone into voting for anything?

 

My second question:

Everything else.

 

Charles R. Smith🔹

Biden was born on November 20, 1942. The Civil Rights Act passed the Senate on June 19, 1964.

Biden was not in the Senate at age 21 and Strom Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act.

risistill me 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

Fist bump. Before reading the thread, I made a similar post. However, I did not mention Biden's not being in the Senate at the time since one can (in theory) talk a US Senator into something without being a US Senator.

Centaurea 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

And Strom Thurmond served in the US Senate until 2003. Thurmond died in June, 2003, 40 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed.

MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

I considered mentioning that, but then I thought we're lucky when this crumbling zombie accidentally slurs out his lies in what's at least a logically possible chronological order. There was a 50/50 chance of Biden saying he talked Strom Thurmond into doing something he didn't do after he died.

CaelianPost No Toasties 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun 9 months ago

Biden: "I was able to literally, not figuratively, talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died"

That's a seriously split infinitive 😺

3andfro 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun 9 months ago

Something up with which I will not put!

CaelianPost No Toasties 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun 9 months ago

From the Texas wing of the Old Jokes Home:

A Texan is visiting Harvard. He's wandering through the campus admiring the ivy-covered buildings. His friends told him that he should see the Library -- a beautiful old building with an unimaginable number of books.

The Texan sees a group of Harvard men in tweed jackets smoking pipes and earnestly discussing their theses. He approaches them and asks: "'scuse me, can y'all tell me whar the Libry's at?"

One of the Harvard men looks down his nose and replies: "Here at Hahvahd we do not end sentences with prepositions."

The Texan says: "Wall in that case, can y'all tell me whar the Libry's at, asshole?"

CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun 9 months ago

Biden was born on November 20, 1942

Whoa, Scorpio!

— H/T Ken Russell's 1991 movie

risistill me 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun 9 months ago

From a distance, Biden seems unlike any Scorpio I know.

sdl5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 9 months ago

He's on that cusp, which does major damage to the Scorpio public vibe- and his rising sign would be useful to know too...

EDIT OMG His Mercury Mars Venus are all in Sco too 😶 And his Asc is barely in Sag, which along with his Sun on the cusp explains his appearance and outwards image.

Then you have his Saturn and Uranus in Gemini... To say he has a flexible sense of right and wrong, can justify anything in his mind, and is a very disruptive unpredictable influence is an understatement- And add in they oppose almost exactly his Sun and Mercury, and you see where the public wild stories and verbal gaffes his entire life come from.

risistill me 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

Does any of that explain plagiarism, proxy wars or pedophilia? (Yep. I went for alliteration.) Or his proclivity for behaving inappropriately toward adult women when he knows it will be captured on camera?

CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun 9 months ago

Now Hillary...

risistill me 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun 9 months ago

Her too. I don't want to insult any other signs by saying which I would have guessed for her, but it would not have been Scorpio. I also would not have guessed that she and Biden were born under the same sign.

BTW I just went to wiki to check her birthday and noticed her signature for the first time. it doesn't copy and paste, so I can't show you. But I do wonder what a handwriting analyst would make of it.