Rep. John Lewis dies

[Pauls' Revere]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgdhp

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the renowned civil rights leader who served as a symbol of the movement throughout his more than three decades in Congress, died Friday at the age of 80.

[sparebulb]

Regardless of whether they were D's or R's, good or bad, I'm always pleased when a government pension comes to an end.

Unless spouses can collect the pensions.

In which case, my same rules apply.

[Pauls' Revere]

Regardless of whether they were D's or R's, good or bad, I'm always pleased when a government pension comes to an end.

Unless spouses can collect the pensions.

In which case, my same rules apply.

I believe they do, but its discounted? I may be wrong.

[jkob]

I honestly thought he was already dead

[eleganz]

I honestly thought he was already dead

lol same.

[Valli6]

I honestly thought he was already dead

You’re probably thinking of Elijah Cummings. He died last fall

John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940– July 17, 2020)


Elijah E. Cummings (January 18, 1951 – October 17, 2019)

[jkob]

You’re probably thinking of Elijah Cummings. He died last fall

John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940– July 17, 2020)


Elijah E. Cummings (January 18, 1951 – October 17, 2019)

Apparently I'm not the only one LOL



they did look a lot a like, even more so than the picture you posted

[Swordsmyth]

Good riddance.

[enhanced_deficit]

Good riddance.

Never seen such wide divergence between stances of a POTUS and his supporters on so many issues like civil rights, BLM, LGBTQ, gay marriage/DOMA, DACA, USMCA , big gov spending, foreign aid, national debt, masks,tax payers funded vaccinations and list goes on.


Trump praises Rep. John Lewis as civil rights icon, White House lowers flag at half-mast to commemorate Rep. Lewis' death

[Anti Globalist]

Would I be liable for his death since I'm always wishing stage 4 cancer on every politician?

[Sammy]

Good! He was a communist race baiter.

[KEEF]

Did the COVID do him in? Or are they chalking him up as a COVID death at least?

[Anti Globalist]

Did the COVID do him in? Or are they chalking him up as a COVID death at least?

He died from stage 4 pancreatic cancer. If he wasn't a politician, they most likely chalk him up as a coronavirus death.

[jmdrake]

I met John Lewis once. I asked him about impeaching Bush over the Iraq war. While he was sympathetic to the idea he just didn't want to go that far. I am glad John Lewis was on of the 12 of 38 Congressional Black Congress members to vote against the 1993 Clinton/Biden/Gingrich crime bill. For the haters...haters gonna hate.

[Swordsmyth]

I met John Lewis once. I asked him about impeaching Bush over the Iraq war. While he was sympathetic to the idea he just didn't want to go that far. I am glad John Lewis was on of the 12 of 38 Congressional Black Congress members to vote against the 1993 Clinton/Biden/Gingrich crime bill. For the haters...haters gonna hate.

He was a commie and the world is better off without him in spite of the few good things he might have done accidentally.

[jct74]

Rest in peace John Lewis. Thank you for your bravery in fighting for civil rights!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBY6gkpbTg

[jmdrake]

He was a commie and the world is better off without him in spite of the few good things he might have done accidentally.

ou are entitled to your opnin as stupid as it is. His goal was to end segretation and we are better off without it.

[jct74]

[Sammy]

Well the left is never going to like him.

[jmdrake]

Bless you Rand Paul! John Conyers was a great man and will be missed. Segregation was a statist cancer that needed to be abolished.

[Valli6]

Kelley and I would like to give our condolences to the family of John Lewis. He was a monumental figure of the civil rights movement. RIP.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 18, 2020

Well the left is never going to like him.

No $#@!! You guys see those twitter responses?! What a bunch of sickos!

I'm glad Rand was respectful without adding on any crap which ignored the fact that John Lewis was quite a hateful person and lied rather frequently.

Sounds like he took some real chances for his cause as a young man, but afterwards?! They're gushing that he had a "Love conquers all!" way about him, yet he was too bitter to show up for Trump's inauguration and has never minced words about the level of contempt he felt for the president - not much of a virtue.

[Sammy]

No $#@!! You guys see those twitter responses?! What a bunch of sickos!

I'm glad Rand was respectful without adding on any crap which ignored the fact that John Lewis was quite a hateful person and lied rather frequently.

Sounds like he took some real chances for his cause as a young man, but afterwards?! They're gushing that he had a "Love conquers all!" way about him, yet he was too bitter to show up for Trump's inauguration and has never minced words about the level of contempt he felt for the president - not much of a virtue.

Yeah I saw the leftist weirdos celebrating violence against rand paul.
More sickening is the response from some Libertarians like Spike Cohen.
https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/s...50959256023045

[Danke]

“Civil Rights Icon” John Lewis Is Finally Dead
July 18, 2020Hunter Wallace

ohn Lewis is dead.

By the way the media has reacted, you would think one of the Apostles had just passed away. Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington calls him “justice in the flesh.” Joe Biden says “we are all made in the image of God, and then there is John Lewis.” Stacey Abrams calls him “a griot of this modern age.” Elizabeth Warren calls him a “giant” and a “moral compass.” The New York Times calls him “a human saint.”

For what is John Lewis deserving of such lavish praise? It is not for his accomplishments during the 33 years he served in Congress representing Atlanta. It is for one thing. It is for leading a mob in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL on March 7, 1965. After being ordered to disperse, John Lewis refused to do so and the mob was repulsed by Alabama State Troopers. The event was labeled “Bloody Sunday” by the media. It became part of the narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. It made John Lewis a “civil rights icon” and was a key event that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the naive days of the television era, White Americans swallowed this narrative as it was presented to them.

In this sacred narrative, John Lewis was transformed from a mere human being made in the image of God into a saint and a civil rights martyr who advanced the cause of “equality,” “justice” and “progress” through civil disobedience against state and local authorities. The Edmund Pettus Bridge became a symbol of a heroic struggle. Religious pilgrims from across the world trickle into Selma to this day to see the relic which has become a modern equivalent of a Medieval shrine. Selma ceased to be a city in Alabama were people live and work and took on national significance. In 2014, the movie Selma was released which glorified MLK and John Lewis. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards.

In my lifetime, I knew Rep. John Lewis mainly as a civil rights dinosaur who was a throwback to another era who was fond of calling Donald Trump a racist and illegitimate president. I also knew him for coming back to Selma every year for the holy pilgrimage in which he would reenact his march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that made him famous. Every year in early March out of state progressive liberal politicians like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and the media would parachute into Selma for a photo op on the bridge before leaving town and coming back a year later to reenact the same cynical ritual. By marching across the magic bridge, even the Rev. Al Sharptons of the world became righteous and holy!


There is another darker side of the legacy of John Lewis. Selma and the surrounding region never really ceased to be a place where people live and work after 1965. It just ceased to matter in anything but the symbolic sense to the elite media. After John Lewis left town, the cameras left, the marching stopped and civil rights legislation was signed into law, the people who lived in Selma and the Alabama Black Belt had to go on living under the new order. Black majority rule came to “Historic Selma.” History moved on and in the 55 years that have elapsed since “Bloody Sunday” the practical result has been that Selma has become the poorest city in Alabamaand the ninth poorest city in the entire United States.

This symbol of “equality” is now one of the worst and most unequal places to live in the country. This symbol of “justice” is now unjust to anyone unfortunate enough to be born there. This symbol of “progress” is a blighted and abandoned television prop. The Voting Rights Act succeeded in establishing black majority rule. In doing so, it obliterated civilization because Whites didn’t want to live there anymore or invest in the community. As for “Bloody Sunday,” no one died on that day, but now Selma is the most dangerous city in Alabama and one of the most dangerous cities in the country.

In the Game of Thrones series, The Doom of Valyria destroyed Valyrian civilization. Go to Selma in 2020 and you will see that John Lewis brought a similar Doom which has settled like a black cloud upon the city. Selma is now a cursed place which is sinking into ruin and being reclaimed by the wilderness. It is an American version of Pompeii that was destroyed by John Lewis. It is also a place that tells us a lot about the mindset of progressive liberalism – the moral certitude and self righteousness, the disregard for established norms, the impractical fanaticism that bends reality to abstractions and the lack of interest in the real world consequences – which made Selma into the dystopia that it is today.

Note: The ghost of John Lewis will likely continue to haunt Selma in the afterlife.





http://www.occidentaldissent.com/202...-finally-dead/

[Anti Federalist]

Routinely voted against the very first civil right: the right to defend yourself.

[Anti Globalist]

Willing to bet everyone that attended his funeral won't be quarantining themselves for two weeks.