President Joe Biden Lies Again. It Won't End Well For Him. - 19FortyFive
By: Georgia Gilholy (FortyFive)
And the delusions continue..................
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Joe Biden dropped a political bombshell this week, claiming he single-handedly convinced the late Senator Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act when he would have been just 21 years old.
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Georgia Gilholy
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32 seconds agoFormer Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaking with attendees at the 2020 Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) Legislative Conference at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Joe Biden Claims 'Literal' Role in Civil Rights Act - President Joe Biden dropped a political bombshell this week, claiming he single-handedly convinced the late Senator Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act when he would have been just 21 years old.
Speaking at the 60th-anniversary celebration of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law at the White House, Biden declared, "Pause for just a moment. I thought things had changed."
Then, with a dramatic flourish, he announced, "I was able to — literally, not figuratively — talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died."
"And I thought, 'well, maybe there's real progress,'" he added. "But hate never dies, it just hides. It hides under the rocks."
But here's the jaw-dropping fact-check: Biden was born on November 20, 1942. The Civil Rights Act passed the Senate on June 19, 1964. That means the President would have been a mere 21 years old at the time and nowhere near the Senate seat he eventually won at the age of 29.
During this period, Biden was a student in History and Politics at the University of Delaware in Newark.
Not to mention that Strom Thurmond, who once held the record for the longest filibuster in Senate history against civil rights legislation, didn't die until June 2003, nearly four decades after the Civil Rights Act passed.
The White House tried to smooth over this whopper by telling Fox News that Biden was instrumental in getting Thurmond's vote for the Voting Rights Act 1980. But the President's claim about the Civil Rights Act remains baffling.
Biden's comments came in the wake of an incident in Jacksonville, Florida, where a 21-year-old white male shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General store.
Segregationist Ties?
Joe Biden's past praise of senators who supported segregation has previously garnered him criticism.
During the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination, then Senator Kamala Harris criticized her future boss for speaking positively about senators who built their careers on racial segregation and for working with them against busing.
Biden defended himself by stating, "I do not praise racists." However, fact checkers note that Biden does have a history of praising senators who supported segregation, although he has claimed that many of them changed their positions on civil rights over time.
For instance, Biden praised Thurmond, who ran as a segregationist candidate in 1948, by comparing him to Confederate General Robert E. Lee during Thurmond's 90th birthday celebration in 1993.
Similarly, Biden referred to Mississippi Senator John Stennis, a staunch segregationist, as a "hero" and "the rockbound integrity of the United States Congress" in the 1980s. He also called Stennis "a hell of a guy" in 2008.
To be fair, however, Biden has maintained that both Stennis and Thurmond evolved in their views on racial segregation. Upon Thurmond's death, Biden expressed his belief that the senator was not fundamentally racist.
In his Senate farewell address in 2009, Biden explained that despite their differing views on civil rights, he developed personal friendships with senators like Eastland, Stennis, and Thurmond, who initially played a significant role in motivating him to join the Senate to advocate for change.
Georgia Gilholy is a journalist based in the United Kingdom who has been published in Newsweek, The Times of Israel, and the Spectator. Gilholy writes about international politics, culture, and education.
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Clueless......................
When he gets to 31,000 in 4 years, get back to us.
Biden doesn't KNOW he's lying........................and you are dangerously close to off topic.
Can't find it, but didn't he also claim to have marched in the Selma March?
That was Bernie Sanders but as it turns out, the guy in the picture that was supposedly him was debunked. He never actually claimed it. That was someone else. And they guy had a strange resemblance to Waldo of "Where's Waldo" fame LOL. As does Bernie on the right.
Whenever you hear:
Whatever follows is a lie!
I can’t make heads or tails of this story.
Near as I can tell, there was no such thing. There was legislation in 1982 to renew certain provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were due to expire. And Thurmond did vote for it. But yeah, that was 82, not 80. Which, by the way, means that President Reagan signed it. Had it been 1980, it would have been President Carter. Also, nearly every Republican voted for it. It wasn’t very controversial.
Ok, well he died in 2003. So this is a bit like saying I had lunch in 1980 before I died. Everything I do is before I die. But when you say it like this, most people think the event happened shortly before death - and was maybe even a choice compelled by that impending death.
So I’m prepared to let the old man slide on confusing “civil rights” with “voting rights.” He is old, after all, and the difference between the two is not vast.
Saying he did it before he died, though, is an attempt to bullshit us into believing Biden did something greater than even he thinks he did.
And if the White House really said “Voting Rights Act of 1980,” I can’t forgive that, unless I - a mere civilian - am just dead wrong on the legislative history.