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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Have Old Joe Biden and reality finally formalized their separation and divorce? The alleged president was breathing on Monday, so it comes as no surprise that he was also lying; it would be hard to identify two operations that come more naturally to him. His latest howler is the claim that he convinced South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act “before he died.”
Even among Biden’s innumerable lies, this one sets a new standard for mendacity, as every detail of it is false: the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, eight and a half years before Biden entered the Senate, Thurmond voted against it, and the segregationist senator didn’t die until nearly forty years later. Is it the dementia? Or is it just Joe being Joe? It’s increasingly hard to tell the difference.
Biden sounded even feebler than usual as he spoke to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “Pause for just a moment,” Old Joe began weakly. “I thought things had changed.” He was reiterating his false and destructive claim that America in 2023 is beset by a systemic racism that only socialism and forced redistribution of wealth can cure.
Sounding as if he were on the brink of collapse, he summoned the strength to go on: “I was able to — literally, not figuratively — talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the, the Civil Rights Act before he died. And I thought, ‘Well, maybe there’s real progress.’ But hate never dies, it just hides. It hides under the rocks.” How does someone “figuratively” convince someone else to do something? But never mind, that’s the least of the problems with Old Joe’s latest ramble.
Biden says he “literally, not figuratively, talked Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died.” pic.twitter.com/sUDhrfePg8
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 28, 2023
The Civil Rights Act passed the Senate by a 73 to 27 vote on June 19, 1964. Thurmond and other Southern Democrat senators (Thurmond would later become a Republican) made up twenty of the 27 dissenting votes. Old Joe Biden wouldn’t enter the Senate until Jan. 3, 1973. When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, Biden was enjoying the summer before his senior year at the University of Delaware. There is no indication that Young Joe, 21 years old at the time, knew Strom Thurmond or spoke with him about the Civil Rights Act.
Biden regime wonks in the White House, once again assuming the role of the guy who follows behind the circus elephant with a dustpan and broom, explained that Old Joe “was instrumental in getting Thurmond’s vote for the Voting Rights Act, in 1980.” And while that’s swell, if it’s true, and it probably isn’t, Biden said the “Civil Rights Act,” not the “Voting Rights Act.” If Biden’s vilified predecessor had made such a confusion, he would have been raked over the coals in the establishment media for demonstrating what would have been described as an insensitivity that revealed a deep racism.
Maybe Old Joe meant other Civil Rights Acts; while the 1964 Act has gone down in history as the Civil Rights Act, there was another Civil Rights Act that passed the Senate on August 27, 1957. Old Joe was just fourteen years old then, and Thurmond famously mounted a 24-hour-long filibuster against this Act. So cross that one off the list. On Oct. 30, 1991, Thurmond did vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, but that one came over two decades after Thurmond had abandoned his earlier support for segregation, so it’s unlikely that he had to be cajoled by Joe Biden into voting in favor.
In fact, in 1989, when the senate rejected the nomination of William C. Lucas to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, Thurmond rebuked Democrat senate leadership for refusing to “give this black man a chance.” None other than Joe Biden responded defensively to Thurmond, saying that Lucas was rejected not because of racism, but because he was deemed unqualified for the position. Even in the unlikely event that Biden really did convince Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1991, this was not right before Thurmond died, as Old Joe said Monday: the long-serving senator didn’t die for another eleven and a half years.
Any way you slice it, Biden was lying when he said he convinced Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act. The only thing that’s unclear is whether the increasingly befogged Oval Office corruptocrat actually believes his own tall tales or if he simply has so much contempt for the American people that he figures a large segment of them will believe anything. And considering that there are still multitudes in the land who believe that he got 81 million votes in 2020 in an election that was entirely on the up-and-up, Old Joe isn’t wrong.
C’mon man you can’t deny I’m doing a great job, I even helped Donald Trump with the Abraham Accounts and he didn’t pay up for one of my boys paintings.
The Statue of Liberty stands erect in New York Harbor.
It wasn’t always this way. She used to slouch.
Joe Biden’s first act as a US Senator was to push the Stand Tall America Resolution requiring the statue to assume a more erect posture.
You only have to look at that proud Icon today to see that Joe Gets Things Done!
Now you have the real skinny. Trust me.
I heard on audio clip yesterday on the radio from a reporter stating that an unnamed member of the administration witnessed Joe being told repeatedly that he can’t keep telling this lie (I guess he’d said it before) about flipping Thurmond’s vote…especially since Joe was too young to be in politics at the time and Strom NEVER changed his vote. Joe replied, “Yes, I understand.”
What’s our takeaway? Primarily things we already knew.
1) Joe’s NEVER been in charge. EVER.
2) Dementia has left him so addled that the only thing left in the tank is made-up, self-aggrandizing statements about himself. I guess if Hunter was my only living son, I’d be looking for legacy as well.
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3) He thinks we’re too stupid to know better.
I have known liars like Joe. They actually come to believe their lies are true. They may know in some deep part of their brain that it’s a lie but that part is closed off and suppressed in favor of the lie.
Self-aggrandizement trumps the truth.
All of the above.
BiDung does have a legacy: corruption, lies, and stupidity (even before dementia set in).
This President loes daily and serially
C’mon, man. Joe “came out of the Civil Rights movement.” He can’t be expected to correctly remember every blow for civil rights he struck.
I’ve read two volumes of Robert Caro’s definitive, magisterial biography of LBJ (“Ascent to Power” and “Means of Ascent,” if I recall the titles).
Johnson–undoubtedly a “racist” but a shrewd, tough, very effective arm-twister as Senate Majority Leader (which is why JFK chose him as his V.P.) was the one who “persuaded”–or rather threatened–his fellow Southern “Old Bulls” (who controlled the Senate, as today’s hard-Left, America-destroying Marxists (dba “Democrats”) do) to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The almost-certainly true story is that Johnson invited a group of the most important of them to the Oval Office for “a friendly little chat.”
Johnson said, “Look around, boys. Because if you don’t vote for this Bill, this’ll be the last time you’ll ever see this room.”
And then, with a chuckle, he famously added, “Boys, if we pass this Bill, we’ll have the n*ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!”
Caro’s magnificent work delves into this tortured, conflicted man’s complex personality and motives; and anyone who reads it comes to understand that not everything he did was Evil: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a great accomplishment for Good, even if Johnson’s motives might not have been entirely altruistic. But he got it done.
And it instantly ended “systemic racism”…until present-day Democrats, starting with Obama, began waving that bloody flag to stir up racial hatred (almost entirely black-against-white, not the other way around as in the old days) all over again–for cynical political gain by dividing and ripping our country apart, and setting black against white, to a blazing bonfire that had never before been seen.
Just some important Facts and Real History, that’s all.
Readers of Front Page Mag know that Biden is a serial liar—very likely a psychopath—who attached himself to the old segregationist and racist Strom Thurmond for what benefits there would be in it for him. He very likely was a racist himself from his early years forward, but what Thurmond could providehim was political double-talk how-to and give him access to the other lying hypocrites in Congress.
They lie even when they do not have to. It is like an addiction.
Old Joe’s grip on reality is at best highly tenuous.
This would be the 1964 Civil Rights Act that the demeocommies filibustered. Robert Byrd, that democrap icon, led the filibuster. Republicans voted in larger percentages for the Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting rights act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, than the democraps. The democraps were also the party of Jim Crow, Bull Connor and the KKK.
what is more astounding than his perpetual lying is that his audience laugh at his banality and then are in awe as he enlightens them on his never ending hand in all of american history and all of the vicissitudes of life he has faced . totally ignorant of time and place that he quotes . but then they believe in bidenomics and build back better , so i guess they can be excused . as they say , the electorate deserves the politicians they have voted for . its a shame that they have ruined the country for their children and grandchildren just so they don’t have orange man bad . instead they have lying feckless dolt dementia joe .