It’s Time To Out Lindsey Graham

I read this piece on AmericaBlog and was going to talk about it, but all I could think was that John Aravosis already said it all, and a helluva better than I could. So, I'll just post the entire piece, verbatim. John Aravosis, writing for AmericaBlog:

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IT'S TIME TO OUT LINDSEY GRAHAM

It’s time to finally out Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Graham has had it coming for a while now. Not because he’s a Republican. But because he’s an anti-gay Republican. And while it’s one thing to be gay and a closet case, it’s quite another to be a hypocrite, an anti-gay gay, someone who uses his power to harm others in the name of morality, all the while knowing secretly that he is one of the others.

In this case, Graham’s hypocrisy that broke the camel’s back is immigration reform. I have it on good authority from someone intimately involved in the immigration reform process that Lindsey Graham is the central reason that the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), which would help stop the forced deportation of foreign-born gay spouses, is being blocked from being added to the immigration bill. While other Senators might be bluffing about their opposition to addressing the immigration needs of gay binational couples in immigration reform, I’m told Graham isn’t bluffing.

The obvious question arises as to why Graham is holding gays hostage in the immigration bill.

One theory is that UAFA is Graham’s legislative beard. A beard is a woman a gay man socializes with in order to throw off suspicions that he’s actually gay. In this case, the theory goes, Lindsey Graham is using UAFA in order to throw off the suspicions of the Tea Party voters back home who are challenging him in a high-profile primary. Their suspicions are that: A) Graham is a liberal; and B) he’s gay.

Graham’s support for immigration reform is hardly helping him dispel the closet liberal image.  But his opposition to UAFA, the theory goes, is a two-fer: It let’s Graham oppose something, anything, related to immigration reform (his support for the measure has been a thorn in his side with the far-right back home), and it has the added benefit of bashing gays.  Everyone knows that a closeted gay man wouldn’t bash his own people, right?  So bashing UAFA “proves” that Graham is straight.

Roy Cohn, a closeted gay man who destroyed the lives of other gay men. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.)

And that is why it’s finally time to out Lindsey Graham.

If Lindsey Graham thinks an open discussion about the evils of homosexuality is necessary to further our country’s, or his own, best interests, then let’s have at it.

Lindsey Graham voted against the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, because he believed that gays should not be serving in the US military.  Yet Lindsey Graham himself is a colonel in the Air Force Reserves.  If Lindsey Graham thinks gay are unfit to serve in the US military, and he were in fact gay, then he’d be unfit to serve in the US military by his own definition, would know it, but would still be serving in spite of that knowledge.  That would make Graham a hypocrite, a liar, or both. (And let’s not even talk about the security risk people with dire secrets, and Senatorial security clearances, pose.)

The question facing us is not whether you or I think Lindsey Graham’s sexual orientation is relevant to a public policy debate.  The question confronting us is whether Lindsey Graham thinks one’s sexual orientation is relevant, and he does.  So by the Graham Standard, America deserves to know if Air Force Reserve Colonel Lindsey Graham is gay.

Lindsey Graham celebrating the anti-gay Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.

And the same goes for Graham’s position on UAFA.

And it’s not just those two issues.  Graham has been terrible on gay issues for years.  In the last three Congresses, the Human Rights Campaign scorecardgives him a 0, a 13, and a 15 out of 100.  Graham also famously participated in Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, in order to show solidarity with the chicken-chain’s anti-gay views.

Lindsey Graham clearly doesn’t believe that sexual orientation is a non-issue.

Graham is a queer duck. He’s what I like to call a closet heterosexual: Somehow who avers to being straight, but does so in such a diminutive, and odd, manner so as to lack all credibility.

Straight people aren’t normally shy about being straight.  Usually, they don’t even realize the degree to which they“flaunt” their heterosexuality.  They bring dates to public events, go on vacations with their significant other, and more generally have a public record of people they’ve gone out with.  Everyone does, gay or straight.  So you start to ask questions when you find someone like Lindsey Graham, who’s 57 years old and says he’s straight, but for whom the entirety of his Wikipedia “Personal Life” section reads:

Graham has never married.

It makes a girl wonder.

I don’t know if Lindsey Graham is gay.  But I’m having a difficult time believing that he’s straight (and I’m clearly not the only one). And what’s more, he seems to be having a difficult time proving it, or even explaining it.  Even Graham’s full-throated denial came off to many as incredibly gay:

During a South Carolina Tea Party rally this spring, one speaker created an uproar by postulating that Graham supported a guest-worker program out of fear that the Democrats might otherwise expose his homosexuality. (Graham smirked when I brought this up. “Like maybe I’m having a clandestine affair with Ricky Martin,” he said. “I know it’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men — I’m sure hundreds of ’em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge — but I ain’t available. I ain’t gay. Sorry.”)

Lindsey Graham decided long ago that one’s sexual orientation was fair game for politics, then so be it.  It’s time someone did an in-depth investigation of whether Lindsey Graham is gay, straight, or asexual, because under the Graham Standard, America has a right to know.

If Lindsey Graham wants to make his primary about being gay, then it’s time to click his heels three times and give him his wish.

Miss Lindsey Is Dead

Well, well, well …♪♫ Ding Dong ♫♪ Lindsey Graham is dead. I saw lots of words about it on Facebook yesterday and kinda put it all together and do what he asked of America in 2016 when he said, on camera:

"Use my words against me."

And so these are some of his words … but first the facts: Miss Lindsey died Saturday night at his Washington home of what his office calls a “brief and sudden illness.” He served four terms, chaired the Judiciary and Budget committees, and spent decades as one of the loudest voices in American foreign policy.

First thing Sunday morning the stories came in … Cankles declared Lindsey a "true American Patriot" while fellow war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu said Lindsey was a beloved friend. But now let’s hear Lindsey Graham in his own words:

In December 2015, Graham called Cankles a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot."

In February 2016 he said: "I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy."

Also in 2016 he said: “There’s only one way to make America great again. Tell [him] to go to hell.”

In May he wrote: "If we nominate [him] we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it."

And he refused to vote for him. But then Cankles won the presidency and Lindsey Graham discovered golf and by late 2017 Lindsey was scolding the media for calling the president a “kook.” Not the first time his own words came back at him.

His best friend was John McCain, a man Cankles the Draft Dodging Bone Spur mocked for being captured in Vietnam and kept mocking even after McCain dead. Lindsey Graham wept for McCain on the Senate floor and then kissed the ass of the man who spat on McCain’s grave.

In response to Cankles remarks about McCain, Miss Lindsey said: “I don’t like what he says about John McCain but when we play golf, it’s fun.”

The words he wanted used against came in 2016, when he swore that if a Supreme Court seat opened in an election year, the next president should fill it; in 2018 he repeated the promise and added: "hold the tape." Then, in October 2020, as Judiciary chairman, he rammed Amy Coney Barrett onto the Court eight days before the election.

In November 2020, Georgia's Republican secretary of state said Graham had called him asking about tossing legally cast mail ballots. Graham lied about it and denied it, fought the grand jury subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court, and lost.

On January 6th, with the glass still on the Capitol floors, doors still broken into pieces and insurrectionists’ feces still smeared on the walls, Lindsey Graham announced:

"Count me out. Enough is enough."

He was done with Cankles … but within months he was back at Mar-Illegal.

He cheered the country into war with Iraq and just three weeks ago he was on television promising that if diplomacy failed, Cankles was "going to take the Strait of Hormuz."

Graham infamously and shamelessly and relentlessly defended Cankles during corruption investigations, impeachment proceedings, rape trials, and manner of legal controversies, and was widely known as the biggest brown-noser in Washington.

Now, to be fair Lindsey was, at one time, a fair politician, working with both parties to get things done, and to the very end of his life, he was one of Ukraine's most reliable champions in the Senate. In fact, he died the day after standing beside President Zelensky in Kyiv. He will deserve some praise for that …

Still, during his Senate tenure, South Carolina has routinely ranked among the nation's worst-performing states in education, healthcare, poverty, infant mortality, and overall quality-of-life indicators. Miss Lindsey, long rumored to be a deeply closeted homosexual, was also a staunch opponent of LGBTQ+ rights.

We have Lindsey Graham to thank for that.

But how do you weigh that against a man who saw Cankles for exactly what he was, spoke of him as a bigot and a racist and a kook, watched him denigrate his best friend, even in death, and then spent over a decade bowing and scraping to a racist, fascist, con artist, grifter, thief and sexual predator.

Bless his heart.

South Carolina Could See A Blue Change

In good news for the state, but bad news for Lindsey Graham, his Democratic challenger for US Senate, Jaime Harrison, has been rising in the polls and raising all kinds of money.

To be fair, it’s still kind of a longshot, but … Graham is trending downward and has an historically low approval rating for an incumbent: 35%. In addition, some 58% of South Carolinians say they want someone other than Graham representing them in the Senate. 

Why? Well, maybe it’s because Lindsey Graham backs _____’s trade war 100%, even though he admits that South Carolina businesses will get hurt, and then told those owners to “accept the pain”.

Lindsey Graham defended _____ immediately after mass layoffs at Chemical manufacturer Archroma U.S., Inc. caused by _____’s multiple trade wars.

And while South Carolina is dependent on export income for soybeans, corn, and cotton, and while farming bankruptcies are skyrocketing, Lindsey Graham has done nothing to help.

This past week, Lindsey Graham angered his fellow senators when he pitched a letter pledging total fealty to _____, and promising that the GOP caucus won’t vote to remove him, no matter what crimes might be uncovered. 

But this is about Jaime Harrison, the complete opposite of Graham: the former chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, the first black man to hold that position, Harrison is a Yale-educated attorney who taught high school. He is the son of a single teenage mom, raised by his grandparents so he knows the struggle those who live in poverty; he knows what it’s like for a family to have to choose between paying the electric bill and putting food on the table. Living in a poorer area, he’s seen what happens when a rural hospital closes, or coverage for pre-existing conditions is threatened, the health of all South Carolinians is put at risk.

That’s who he is, and this is how that’s working out for him; he now trails Miss Lindsey by just seven points, but he’s also bringing in money; this quarter, Harrison raised $2.1 million, the largest amount a Democratic Senate candidate has ever raised in South Carolina, and that breaks the previous record of $1.5 million, set by … Jaime Harrison in the last quarter. More importantly, completely unlike Miss Lindsey and her big checks from corporations and the 1% and Russian oligarchs, most of Harrison’s funding comes from small donors with over 60,000 donors giving an average donation of $26.

It’s the people supporting Harrison. But we have work to do down here if we want to send Miss Lindsey home permanently.

Psst? Lindsey Graham Is In A Bit Of Trouble .... Pass It On

I am not much for poles, except for the stripper pole though those days, for me at least are over … but I digress.

We got a hint of good news this morning down here in South Carolina where it’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity, when I learned that Lindsey Graham, Tea Party goose-stepping, war mongering asshat, is falling way down in his approval ratings with his constituents; in fact, he’s as far down as President Obama, whom he loves to chastise and castigate at every opportunity.

Halle-loo!

In fact, head-to-head matchups against his three opponents Lindsey Graham can’t even muster 50% of the votes, and in most polls he’s hovering around 45%--still enough to win, I guess, but not a wide enough margin to keep Lindsey from twisting in his granny panties.

And Lindsey doesn’t have a lot of room to improve upon those numbers because there are two other conservatives running against him. Sure, one of them is Bravo reality star Thomas Ravenel, who was found guilty of cocaine possession and forced to resign as South Carolina State Treasurer; but he’s going up in the polls, ever so slightly, while Lindsey dips. Also not helping is Libertarian Victor Kocher, another conservative causing Lindsey Graham tsouris as more voters question whether Lindsey’s right for South Carolina.

He’s not.

Now, the Democrat running against Graham is Brad Hutto, a 19 year veteran of the state senate, and if he can get the Democrats out to vote — and, seriously, Dems, why aren’t you voting because not voting is a vote for Lindsey — and the all important black vote, he could end up in the mid 40’s making him the leading vote getter.

And here in The SC all you gotta do is win by one vote. One vote; I'd love to think it was mine!

Still, Hutto isn’t well known with most voters and, right now, is polling in the mid-30s range. But since most of the undecided voters are either Democrats or Independents, he could, with some help, and some cash, unseat Lindsey Graham and sent him back to the bogs from whence he came.

It’s not a sure thing, y’all, but it’s a thing, so, pass it on, and let’s lose Lindsey. 

via Blue Nation Review

This Bitch: Russian Hooker Lindsey Graham

Over the last five years, watching Lindsey Graham [Q-SC] go from calling the twice-impeached, one-term loser a “racist xenophobic bigot” who would ruin the Republican party to literally being one of his pet politicians, people talked about what the former president might have had on Graham in terms of blackmail, I often joked that maybe it was Lindsey Graham who was the Russian hooker who peed on the former president.

It was a joke … or was it?

You see, Miss Lindsey appeared on Fox News over the weekend and literally drank the Kool-Aid and then puked it up for Hannity.  Graham stated that the Republican Party officially “belongs” to IMPOTUS, and said he was grateful because the twice-impeached, one-term loser has, ahem, “allowed me to be in his world.”

Seriously. How much of a deeply, mentally bothered human being is Lindsey Graham? That’s a rhetorical question, but still, he goes on:

“I actually like [the twice-impeached, one-term loser]. He’s been very nice to me. He’s allowed me to be in his world. He allows me to give my two cents worth on issues when he was president. [The GOP] is his party. If you don’t get that, you missed a lot at CPAC .”

He's allowed me to be in his world?  What kind of sad sack delusional high school girl desperate for a boyfriend bull shit is that?

And he is seriously happy to get behind, or bend over for, the idea that one man is the GOP, which means Lindsey Graham is less about democracy than he is about a dictatorship. And then he continued humping the former president’s leg by predicting that, if the twice-impeached, one-term loser decides to run again in 2024, “no one” in the whole entire world would be able to beat him:

“I think he’s got a damn good chance of getting reelected again based on what the Democrats are doing to the country. Did you find one person at CPAC that criticized [him]? I thought it was amazing that we have so many people wanting to be president but not one person would say anything bad about him. That tells you a lot about the strength of [the twice-impeached, one-term loser].”

Sounds like someone, or perhaps an entire state of someone’s, should lay hands on Miss Lindsey, or call for a 5150 hold to find out how insane he is; or find out what the blackmail is. I’d be glad to start the movement to rescue Miss Lindsey from the cult and remove her from office.

Trouble is, she is so deep into it she doesn’t want to leave because without the twice-impeached, one-term loser she is nothing at all.

Who Do I Hafta F**k To Get A Decent Senator For South Carolina?

Here in South Carolina, where it’s not the heat, but the stupidity, we have Lindsey Graham as our representative in the United States Senate. And for that I apologize, though I have never voted for the man.

Still, he’s a delusional goose-stepping asshat of epic proportions and the state of South Carolina could do better if we could just “Lose Lindsey” — those are the words on signs along some of the roads around here, and here’s hoping they come true.

See, Lindsey is a moron. Folks say he’s gay, he says he isn’t; I make jokes about him being gay, but the fact is I hope he isn’t just some deeply closeted self-loathing queer who will one day get outed by having anonymous sex at a Chick-fil-A because I don’t want him on my team.

And he makes the most idiotic statements that cause even some within his own party to call him an idiot, like when he linked the crisis in the Ukraine to Benghazi, and then, of course, blamed it all on Obama, by Tweeting:

“It started with Benghazi. When you kill Americans and nobody pays a price, you invite this type of aggression. #Ukraine”

Poor Lindsey. he's tried to link everything from Obamacare to the minimum wage increase to that missing airliner from Malaysia to Benghazi and none of it works. And when even people on the right suggested, and actually said, that he was a foolish old fool, he doubled down on the rhetoric:

“Putin basically came to the conclusion after Benghazi, Syria, Egypt - everything Obama has been engaged in - he's a weak indecisive leader.”

And so, he rails against Obama because Obama won’t instantly go to war with Russia, with Lindsey Graham, our good old homo, er, home boy from South Carolina, saying:

“Well, number one, stop going on television and trying to threaten thugs and dictators. It is not your strong suit. Every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody’s eyes roll, including mine. We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression. President Obama needs to do something.”

Big words spoken form the safety of his Senate offices where a war wouldn’t affect him, considering we’re still engaged in battles in other parts of the world. Maybe Lindsey wants the Old 'W' Days where We The people were lied to about wars and why we were there and when it was over — Mission Accomplished, anyone?

Now, that’s bad enough that Little Lindsey the War Hawk is rattling his saber to get into a battle he won’t personally fight, but let’s toss in some other things about Graham that show what a complete and utter waste of a senate vote he is.

Graham, as a typical Republican nestled deep in the pockets of the National Rifle Association [NRA] opposes gun safety regulations. Gun safety? He’s against it.

During a recent heated exchange at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Senator Dianne Feinstein’s proposed assault weapons ban, Edward Flynn, a Milwaukee police chief, pointedly interrupted Graham’s claims that the federal government is failing to deter individuals from misrepresenting themselves in the background check process by failing to prosecute people who were rejected from purchasing a weapon as a result of their false claims.

Flynn argued that rather than embark on a “paper chase” to punish those who bought guns illegally, law enforcement officials are focused on preventing people from purchasing guns illegally in the first place:

GRAHAM: When almost 80,000 people fail a background check and 44 people are prosecuted, what kind of deterrent is that? I mean, the law obviously is not seeing that as important…. We absolutely do nothing to enforce the laws on the books…

FLYNN: Just for the record, from my point of view, the point of a background check…

GRAHAM: How many cases have you made? How many cases have you made?

FLYNN: It doesn’t matter, it’s a paper thing. I want to stop 76,000 people from getting guns illegally. That’s what a background check does. If you think we’re going to do paperwork prosecutions, you’re wrong. [...] We don’t make those cases. We have priorities. We make gun cases. We make 2,000 gun cases a year, senator, that’s our priority. We’re not in a paper chase. We’re trying to prevent the wrong people from buying guns. That’s why we do background checks. If you think I’m going to do a paper chase, then you think I’m going to misuse my resources.

Flynn is talking to a brick wall because Lindsey Graham suckles the teat of the NRA.

But what to do? Vote him out? Oh, how I would love that. But when you look at the people who are running against Graham, well, then we have other issues.

Last week, four of Graham's announced challengers in the upcoming GOP primary pledged support for each other if any of them end up in a runoff with the Seneca incumbent. It’s four against one. But then, at a news conference announcing their alliance on the State House steps, when Dave Feliciano, one of the other candidates, albeit a rather minor one whose chances of being elected are worse than mine, walked up to the podium and called Graham "ambiguously gay:”

"It's about time that South Carolina (says) hey, We're tired of the ambiguously gay senator from South Carolina. We're ready for a new leader to merge the Republican Party. We're done with this. This is what it's about, all of us coming together and saying, one way or the other, one of us is going to be on that ballot in November."

Wow, so two of our choices for Senator are a War Hawk and NRA lapdog or a homophobe who thinks we need a straight man to stand up for the state.

Like I said in the title …..

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From the 'It's Not The Heat, It's The Stupidity' File: Lindsey Graham and How The GOP Feels About Women

I don’t get Republicans. Oh, not just the party but the people who support them. I mean, how does one explain that some of the poorest counties, and the poorest states, habitually vote for the GOP? How’s that working for you? Ever thought about switching it up and giving the Democrats a try and see if life improves for you?

:::crickets:::

And when the GOP talks about women’s issues, women’s rights, I shudder at the notion that any women would be a Republican much less support a party that claims their anti-abortion measures are about protecting women’s health; that they support a party that does not believe women deserve equal pay in the workplace; a party that voted against the Violence Against Women Act. Of course, I could ask that same question of minorities and The Gays; seriously, what have the Republicans done for you lately?

:::crickets:::

But today we’re talking about the GOP and women, and Lindsey Graham and how, while talking about about a piece of legislation pertaining to the rights women should have over their own bodies Graham basically exposed how little the GOP actually cares about women when he wondered aloud how this bill might turn into an argument over “legitimate rape.”

“I’m going to do more than bring my bill up. I’m going to need your help to find a way out of this definitional problem of rape.” — Lindsey Graham

A “definitional problem” of rape. Rape is rape; a man who forces himself on a woman is raping; a woman says ‘No’ and the man forces himself on her, its rape. Rape is rape, and to think that anyone who claims to want to represent women has a problem with the definition of what constitutes rape is amazing to me.

But then Lindsey Graham is an idiot, so, really, should I be surprised?

Graham is worried about how the GOP would define a “legitimate” sexual assault because, let’s be clear, if a woman wanted an abortion, even in the case of rape, most Republicans don’t believe she should have that right if the rape was, um, "legitimate;" or if the pregnancy resulted from an act of incest ... if the mother’s life was in jeopardy ... much less  because she chooses to have an abortion for her own personal reasons.

In fact, Graham and his anti-women GOP cronies have already pulled a measure in this bill that would have required women who were sexually assaulted to go to the police before having an abortion, and they only did so because some of the more free-thinking female members of the GOP staged a revolt against party leadership.

Let that tidbit sink in: most of the party supported the idea that a woman who was raped must first go to the police before exercising her Constitutional right to an abortion. Why not just chain women to the stove? Problem solved. And to think that it took a small group of female members of the party to raise their voices before the majority of Republicans, male and female, even thought about removing it from the bill.

The GOP doesn’t care about women, they only want to tell women what they can and cannot do, and how much less they deserve to be paid.

And again, it makes me wonder why any woman would support such a party. It makes me wonder why anyone, especially here in South Carolina, would put a check next to Lindsey Graham’s name — or that of any Republican, for that matter — on a ballot.

It must be the stupidity.

via Forward Progressives

Lindsey Graham Held A Town Hall Meeting and It Was Not The Welcome He Expected

A lot of Republicans, and a few Democrats, are not getting a hero’s welcome when they return home for their Town hall meetings, and South Carolina’s Senior Senator Lindsey Graham is no exception.

Oh, sure, he’s come down on the opposite side of a few of _____’s ideas, but, all in all, he’s a typical GOP goose-stepper and his constituents are not happy.

Last Saturday morning at a Town Hal in Clemson constituents lined up hours ahead of time to hear one of Hair Furors biggest critics, but then Miss Lindsey made a misstep when he said:

“I’m going to try to help our president, Donald _____, be as successful as possible because, number one, I agree with him mostly and I’d like to get this country moving again.”

And cue boos; loud, long boos rained down on Graham.

And then he continues, saying he, like some in the GOP, though not all, want “repeal and replace Obamacare” and the booing was louder, with people shouting and others heckling Graham. He tried to back away from the issues, complaining that other Republicans have not included him in the bill-drafting process.

"Can I tell you a secret? I don't even know what the GOP plan is."

Yes, a Republican doesn’t even know what his own party’s plan is, but he’s planning on going along with it. However, it wasn't just Obamacare—and for those of you in South Carolina who don’t yet know, Obamacare is ACA—that had people upset.

Graham was also in the hot seat over the investigation into the _____ campaign's ties to, and conversations with, Russia before the November election. Graham said he’d met with FBI Director James Comey told the crowds that there is "no evidence" of collusion at this point.

At.This.Point. Even though every single day we learn of another member of the _____ team chatting it up with Russia during the campaign, and before the inauguration, and lying about it.

Graham said that a congressional subcommittee, which he chairs, will investigate Russia's interference in the election and insisted Congress would pass a bill strengthening sanctions on Russia as punishment.

"It's my job as a United States senator to get to the bottom of this."

Then do it.

And when the topic of _____’s tax returns came up—you know, the ones he said he’s release before election day and didn’t and the ones he said he’d release before inauguration day and didn’t—Graham said he wasn’t too keen on issuing a subpoena for _____'s tax returns.

"We can subpoena his tax return. I will do that when I believe there's a reason to do that."

But the crowd wasn’t letting the issue just lie there; Graham was asked five separate times about efforts to gain access to _____'s tax returns as a way to see if he has any ties to Russia or other foreign government, and when Graham stumbled his response the crowd shouted: "Russia!"

"I didn't know there were this many liberals in South Carolina."

Oh, honey, we’re here, we’re growing in numbers and we’re disgusted by this president and disgusted by many in the GOP, like yourself, for kowtowing to the party line, when the party is being lead by a mad man.

The resistance is real and South Carolina is feeling it, so people like Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott best pay attention to We The People.

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Who Do I Hafta F**k To Get A Decent Senator For South Carolina? Part Two: Lose Lindsey

When people think, and say that politicians have no moral code by which they live, they need look no further than South Carolina’s own, the so-not-gay, or so he says, Lindsey Graham.

There aren’t many politicians who whore themselves out for cash as much as Graham — to the NRA, for example, who he kowtows to almost constantly — and then instantly turn around and do the bidding of those big donors.

And, well, I imagine Lindsey loves a big … donor.

See, Graham has announced that he will propose legislation, federal legislation, to ban internet gambling and, oddly enough, his proposal is an exact copy of what one of his major backers, billionaire casino owner, Sheldon Adelson, and his Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, want to do.

Oh yeah, and Graham's new proposal comes on the heels of the major fundraiser that Adelson and his wife threw from the Graham campaign.

Prior to Adelson’s big donation, Graham had never made gaming a major policy priority, though he oppose a bill in 2010 to legalize internet poker. But suddenly he’s all about banning all internet gambling, nationwide, which will no doubt throw more coins into the pockets of Adelson so he can buy another Senator when he has another pet project.

And if you didn’t think Graham would sell his office, and his legislation to the highest bidder, know that, prior to 2013 the only significant contribution Graham received from the Adelsons was a $2,300 donation in 2008.

Then, all of the sudden, in May 2013, Sheldon and Miriam each gave $7,800 to the Graham campaign — they were refunded $2,600 because the total exceeded federal limits, but weeks earlier, the Adelsons gave even more help to Lindsay’s campaign when the Las Vegas Sands PAC — the Sands Hotel in Vegas is, surprise, owned by Adelson — gave a $5,000 contribution to Graham.

And in April, the Adelsons hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for Graham at their Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. And although the Adelsons hosted both Graham and “special guest” Senator John McCain, all of the proceeds from the $1,000-a-head event went into Lindsay’s coffers.

That’s Lindsey Graham, selling legislation to the highest bidder.

All of this makes me think that if I raised enough money for his campaign and told him he could have it only if he gave John Travolta a blow job on the Capitol steps, he’d probably do it.

via ThinkProgress

I Didn't Say It ...

Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Representative from Texas, on Cankles obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize:

“This self-obsessed president keeps whining about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but under his administration a father was just killed by ICE. Children are still locked away in detention centers. And this war he promised he’d end? It’s still going [so] spare us the pity party. We deserve better.”

Peace isn’t killing schoolgirls in Iran or Americans on the streets of this country. Peace isn’t starting wars in Iran and threatening to start more wars.

But that illiterate fuck in the White House is too delusional to see that.

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Hunter Biden, on the death of Miss Lindsey:

“When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of [Cankles]. I thought of the time before [Cankles] when he was a brother to Senator McCain. A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father, “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God every created.” This is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after [but] because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love. I will choose to remember the time before [Cankles] because I believe in an America after [him].”

Once again, Hunter is spot on … this time about the fall of Lindsey Graham after hitching his wagon to a traitor.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Representative from Kentucky, on Cankles and the GOP screaming about election fraud:

“It’s ironic that we Republicans control the House, Senate, Supreme, Supreme Court and White House –and we’re lying about election fraud? We won all the damn elections. What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We Republicans are not cracking down on the fraud.”

Seriously, how do you control every branch of governemt if the other party cheated at the election.

Make it make sense.

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Raphael Warnock, Democrat Senator from Georgia, on Cankles perpetual fight to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election:

“[He] lost in Georgia in 2020. That’s not my opinion, it’s a fact. The votes were counted, recounted, audited, and litigated. He lost, he lost, he lost. He’s trying to sow doubt on the integrity of our elections in Georgia a so he can create the pretext to interfere in 2026. This president is a liar, a cheater, and a fraud and he has shown us over and over again that staying in power matters more to him than anything else.”

We’ve all heard the phone call or Cankles demanding Georgia find 11,780 votes so he could win the state. And we all remember Miss Lindsey going after Georgia and being smacked down by every single court, including Scotus.

Do not believe the GOP lies.

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Michael Fanone, former DC police officer attacked on the Capitol on January 6, on Lindsey Graham’s death:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame [Cankles] for January 6^th. When I showed him my body cam footage of that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss, you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a Hell I hope you’re in it.”

Harsh words? I don’t think so, not when you remember that the day after January 6 Lindsey Graham spoke in Congress saying he was “done” with Cankles after the insurrection, and then just a few months later he completely switched his opinion.

Res in Piss, indeed.

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