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

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[–]NetweaselContinuing the struggle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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 -  (0 children)

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 -  (2 children)

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 -  (1 child)

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 -  (0 children)

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 -  (6 children)

...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 -  (5 children)

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 -  (1 child)

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

[–]Centaurea 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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 -  (2 children)

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 -  (0 children)

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 -  (0 children)

My vote is for "pyschopath."

[–]3andfro 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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 -  (0 children)

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 -  (0 children)

Already a lie at the third word.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (22 children)

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 -  (0 children)

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 -  (1 child)

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 -  (0 children)

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 -  (3 children)

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 -  (2 children)

Something up with which I will not put!

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

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 -  (14 children)

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 -  (13 children)

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

[–]sdl5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

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 -  (2 children)

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?

[–]sdl5 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Pretty much, yeah- all the kind of VERY BAD THINGS those clustered placements can facilitate and be seen as "normal" by them 😶😐😕

[–]risistill me 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't do charts, but I tend to like Scorpios I know IRL. My son has Scorpio rising, or so astrologer said.

I don't like Hillary or Biden,though.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Now Hillary...

[–]risistill me 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

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.

[–]sdl5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh she is VERY MUCH is like a number of female Scorpios born on the same couple days there 😶😐

[–]risistill me 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Anyone I'd know?

[–]sdl5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Prolly not- I am cursed with MULTIPLE closer female relatives with that birth window 😶 and not one of them has much deviation from Hillz in the negatives column... and most have considerably less ability to be rational in the face of pushback than She seems to have- like NEVER CAN and at least H can do it on camera if not off.

Serious YIKES dangerdangerdanger disengage and flee no contact only safe zone survival skills are needed to deal with my seemingly cursed by this birth window female family lines.

Meanwhile, those NOT born then are perfectly sane independent thinkers to average D willfully oblivious voters... even when raised with exactly the same home etc as the dangerous ones above. 💁

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I learned Hillary's sign from her egregious act of hubris on Oct 26, 2016. "Nothing can stop me now!"

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

One can usually find the astrological chart of people as famous as Hillary via internet search. It's just not something I've done, except circa 2008, when I searched for Candidate Obama's. Genealogy chart, too. (Turned out Obama had some Irish ancestors.) I guess it's a way of attracting potential paying customers?

Does she look calculatinig and faintly evil, even at that tender age, or is it only that I have the benefit of hindsight?

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Does she look calculating and faintly evil, even at that tender age?

Consider that she chose this photo because she looks really evil in all the others 🦖

[–]risistill me 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

shudders