Jesse Helms is dead.
FINALLY!!!!
He died in Raleigh, NC, at 1:15 am EST of natural causes, said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton. “He was very comfortable,” Broughton said.
This is proof that there is no God. If a kind, loving God looked out over the world and saw Jesse Helms, He would have struck him down instantly. At the very least, He would have had Helms finished off with a chainsaw enema.
Jesse Helms was a miserable motherfucker, who used race and fear to keep himself in office. He was proud of fighting the forces of moral decay: civil rights advocates, AIDS victims, people who thought smoking caused cancer, etc.
“I shall always remember the shady streets, the quiet Sundays, the cotton wagons, the Fourth of July parades, the New Year’s Eve firecrackers. I shall never forget the stream of school kids marching uptown to place flowers on the Courthouse Square monument on Confederate Memorial Day,” Helms wrote in a newspaper column in 1956.
It speaks volumes about Helms that he would equate the Fourth of July with Confederate Memorial Day. As a side note, since he opposed desegregation, those school kids would obviously be all white.
History will recognize that Helms was on the wrong side of virtually every major issue in which he acted. Truly, I long for the day when Jesse Helms will be publicly recognized for the bigot and asshole that he was. Sadly, that day is far off.
“America lost a great public servant and true patriot today,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.
Fuckers.
