2026-11-06 15:09 UTC
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@Malica@lemmy.zip 2026-11-06 23:52
Next time we primary her transphobic ass, but for now it’ll have to do.
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@SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2026-11-06 21:42
What the fuck? Strom Thurmond was in office at 100 years old? Am I reading this right? EDIT: “A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Thurmond completed the longest single-person Senate filibuster, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.” Would you look at that… He was something of an expert at overstaying his welcome EDIT 2: Thurmond died from complications of old age in his sleep at 9:45 p.m. on June 26, 2003, at a hospital in his hometown of Edgefield, South Carolina. He was 100 years old. After lying in state in the rotunda of the South Carolina State House in Columbia, his body was carried on a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, at which then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware delivered a eulogy,[319] and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he is interred.[320][321] Thurmond died on the same day that the United States Supreme Court handed down its Lawrence v. Texas decision, which legalized gay sex across all U.S. states.[322] Folks, if you didn’t know this guy, you gotta read his wiki. It’s hilarious. It’s like he lived only to see everything he hated happen before his eyes.
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@NoDignity@lemmy.world 2026-11-06 16:26
Strom Thurmond is basically the prime example of needing age limits for elected office, that shithead didn’t retire from the senate until he was 100 then died a few months later. He was pro segregation and pro jim crow laws while claiming he wasn’t racist just a supporter of “states rights” just like other lowlife white supremacists and still somehow kept that senate seat until freaking 2001. By the end there he was basically a way more evil crypt keeper making sure to do as much damage to humanity as he could on his way out.
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@GreenBean@lemmy.today 2026-11-07 04:27
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
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@psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2026-11-07 01:51
What is that thing on the right!?
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@Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2026-11-07 01:31
Holy shit, Strom was worse than Moscow Mitch.