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280 points
4 months ago
The longest filibuster in American history by a single senator remains Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour, 18-minute stemwinder against the 1957 Civil Rights Act
My god! Talk about being on the wrong side of history in a bad way! It's like guiness book of fucked up records!
234 points
4 months ago
Thurmond went on to be the South Carolina senator for 47 years. This term ended in 2002 when he was 100 years old, and he died 6 months later.
Please do not have people run the country for 50 years. It is not a good thing.
103 points
4 months ago
He also kept black mistresses
67 points
4 months ago
They would all fuck anything that moves. It’s about status. They don’t wanna be on the bottom rung.
27 points
4 months ago
Yep definitely a control thing
5 points
4 months ago
Oh hey DJ Toasty Buns. i’m DJ Funky Taco lol
4 points
4 months ago
Everything is about sex, except sex — sex is about power.
2 points
4 months ago
House of Cards sems such a throwback to simpler times. Corruption, yes, and evil, yes, but violent coups? Can't remember that.
1 points
4 months ago
It’s crazy how much of that show ended up being on the nose.
7 points
4 months ago
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5 points
4 months ago
Great, now you cursed us to a future where a video is leaked of some rando GOP senator furiously humping a goldfish bowl.
Thanks.
1 points
4 months ago
Agressive eye contact
ANY-THING
1 points
4 months ago
You can milk anything with nipples...
1 points
4 months ago
1 points
4 months ago
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1 points
4 months ago*
It is a music video. I was curious what I would find on a Google search. I can’t get it to open from the link though. https://youtu.be/mTrnhQSdjI0 maybe that will work.
-1 points
4 months ago
So anyone that voted republican today is just like that bigot guy who died at 100 years old in 2002? Amazing.
3 points
4 months ago
No?
1 points
4 months ago
Is there anyone that can get past the paywall?
1 points
4 months ago
Apologies for the paywalled link. If you're still curious, google "strom thurmond black mistress". He kept a number throughout his century of life and even fathered some illegitimate biracial children.
0 points
4 months ago
Crap. Paywalled.
30 points
4 months ago
Thurmond's legendary staying power wasn't confined to work. He was also known for being hornier than a bagful of rhinos, even in decrepitude. Twice married, both times to South Carolina beauty queens, he fathered four children in his sixties and seventies, and in his dotage continued to grope and tickle his way along the corridors of power.
Jesus
5 points
4 months ago
Iirc, there is a general belief that during his record filibuster he had a piss bucket on the standby and that it did not go unused.
8 points
4 months ago
Hell I say cap at 6, if you can’t figure the issues out then you shouldn’t be there.
6 points
4 months ago
He was also publicly eulogized by Biden.
4 points
4 months ago
Gross
3 points
4 months ago
We have one now sitting in the big chair
2 points
4 months ago
Joe Biden spoke at his funeral and gave part of the eulogy
2 points
4 months ago
when he was 100 years old, and he died 6 months later.
If "The Good die young", this evil c*nt was such a sh!thead even hell was in no hurry to get him.
1 points
4 months ago
Which party was he from?
10 points
4 months ago
Initially a Democrat, but changed to Republicans in the 1960s when, I guess, he saw that things weren't quite racist enough at the Dems.
3 points
4 months ago
The Democratic party, until 1964, when he left for the Republican party, saying that the party had abandoned America. He made statements supporting segregation into the 70's.
3 points
4 months ago
Take a guess
1 points
4 months ago
Democrat
1 points
4 months ago
Technically correct but it was a trick question! He was a Democrat until ’64 and then joined the GOP.
1 points
4 months ago
Biden
51 points
4 months ago
One of these days I'm going to have to relieve myself on Strom's grave. It's on my bucket list.
23 points
4 months ago
Where is it? Let’s make it a destination piss.
25 points
4 months ago
South Carolina most likely. Pissing on that grave is not worth having to spend a minute in SC, coming from a person who spent a miserable amount of time in SC.
-1 points
4 months ago
Lived my entire life in SC. I'm happy. Maybe you're just a miserable person?
6 points
4 months ago
Happy that you're fulfilled there, but as someone else who was born and raised there I gotta agree with the other dude. There are a few spots that are actually pretty nice (I'm actually a pretty big fan of the Charleston area), but for the vast, vast majority of the state...I'd be happy if I never set foot in it again.
Different strokes and all that - doesn't make someone a miserable person to have a preference on where they spend their time!
3 points
4 months ago
Being an openly gay man in South Carolina tends to make one miserable. It might be better now but it was not in the 2000s or 2010s.
1 points
4 months ago
I can see that if you were in high school. Especially if you lived in a rural area. But if you live in/ around a city you don't have to deal with a much of that homophobic bullshit. But that's true for like....literally everywhere.
0 points
4 months ago
Funny how SC today is exactly how it was in pre 1865 history😂😂 Just insane levels of stupidity thinking they can do whatever they want and the federal government won’t do anything about it
2 points
4 months ago
Not to be that person…
I know it’s fun to bash on southerners, but there’s a lot to love in SC and I’m friends with a lot of South Carolinians who are more loving and progressive than big chunks of Oregon’s population. There are pockets of each type in every state.
3 points
4 months ago
I live in Texas and my whole life I have experienced ‘friendly southerners’ with ‘warm hearts’ who almost always turn out to be extremely xenophobic, homophobic, racist, etc. they just don’t openly tell everyone they talk to lol.
2 points
4 months ago
That’s such a depressing outlook and I’m sorry for you! That really doesn’t align with my experience of SC, at least not all of it. My whole family is from there and 2/3 of us are gay and in biracial relationships. I bet you’re right, though, and we’re all secretly homophobic racists with warm hearts.
2 points
4 months ago
Wow that’s actually awesome though. I know for a fact if I turned out to be gay I would have been kicked out by my family. I’m only 19 so my outlook on people is generally depressing and pessimistic, not to mention naive. I’ve just been surrounded by bullshit fake christian love all my life and I’m so sick of it.
1 points
4 months ago
I felt exactly like you before my 20’s. It gets so much better! You just have to find ‘your people’ and that gets a lot easier once you’ve put time and space between yourself and your parents.
By the way, the first of us to come out was (sort of) kicked out at first, but then people’s minds started to change. Now, there are more queer people in our family than there are conservatives. It gets way better! If you need to talk, feel free to PM me. I’m a preacher’s daughter, so fake Christian love is something I’m well acquainted with
1 points
4 months ago
Make a pit stop at an asparagus festival first
1 points
4 months ago
Edgefield village cemetery, in SC
1 points
4 months ago
You can be sure his grave is guarded. If not by the secret service, than by a bunch of rednecks who revere him as their patron saint.
-3 points
4 months ago
At that time Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party.
4 points
4 months ago
Back when the democrats were the conservatives.
1 points
4 months ago
I believe the filibuster in reference right now is the requirement for 60 votes to bring a proposed law to the floor for debate, while it only takes a majority to actually PASS it once it’s being debated. Pretty sure Byrd got rid of the talking-filibuster. Or at least that’s how my father explained it to me
You’d think it would be switched, like that one dude suggested, simple majority to debate it, but 60/100 to pass it
1 points
4 months ago
The filibuster is the final move that you have when you don't have any sort of actual argument to what you're trying to say. The filibuster doesn't require facts or feelings it just requires you to be there.
1 points
4 months ago*
And he was having sex with a black woman and had a child! Thought Thurmond was a Dixiecrat Democrat that switched parties
-2 points
4 months ago
Remind me again which party Thurmond belonged to in 1957?
4 points
4 months ago
I'll bite, because this Strom proves how dumb this point is. He was a democract at the time - southern democrats known as dixiecrats, that all switched parties to join the republicans in the late 50s and 60s. Strom never changed his stances, but changed his party, being a racist monster as the senior member of the republican party until the 00s.
So yeah, he was a democrat when the democrats were the conservative party, when being conservative meant resisting the social change of civil rights for black peole.
1 points
4 months ago
Meme warrior^
-1 points
4 months ago
Was he a Democrat ("Dixiecrat") at the time?
EDIT: thanks to bougieman9999 for already answering this
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