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G L's avatar

There are thousands of Lindsey Grahams waiting in the wings to replace him. The core evil of the US is the system that constantly produces Lindsey Grahams

longletters's avatar

And that's one reason we must not and cannot allow the nervous nellies of the petit bourgeoisie with their mincing sense of propriety force us to play at mewling, hushed-parlor pieties in re Graham’s demise.

It is essential that his replacement have a different perspective on war, and to accomplish that, we need to talk unceasingly about how vile and dangerous Graham was.

Another reason we shouldn't ever repeat nonsense such as "it's not good to speak ill of the dead" is because that's a wagonload of superstitious claptrap and we should root out such paranoid impulses wherever they exhibit.

It is good to learn from history and 49.9% of people are worse than average. We must be able to discuss this and their death id exactly when to do this, as that's when the impulse to keep their ideas alive rears its conserving head.

David Baird's avatar

Bloody oath, GL. Besides which, it's not speaking 'ill' of the dead. It's speaking the unvarnished, undeniable truth. He was a prick. He was so far up the Orange Lard Butt you could barely see his toes. He lied as and when it suited him. He actively supported the thick layer of scum at the top of the Repugnant Party (the other mob are as crook, mind you). He sucked up to the genocidist-in-chief, Mileikowski (N'yahu) and his NaZionist mates. He was the smiley-faced embodiment of evil. The crocodile tears at his demise are a fucking joke.

longletters's avatar

And the ones on that side of the aisle shouldn't remain unlobbied: his views were so far against America's best interests, he was a traitor and he violated his oath to the Constitution daily. They should be able to care about that and if they can't, they have to go.

Hannoshobazz NEOLMECH's avatar

NOPE. 🤭

That Graham-Cracker was KILLED IN KIEV. 🤫

Nice MISSILING Vlad !!! 😌

G L's avatar

Indeed. The thing is that there are always assholes like him seeking power. The judgement of a system is whether it can prevent people like him from gaining power and if they did, the ability of the system to self correct them out. Hundreds of years of western style democracy has shown that system simply could not do it, and the underlying reason is always the corrupting influence of liberal capitalism. Democracy and capitalism do not mix.

David Baird's avatar

Right, GL. Plutocracy is the inevitable result, with an increasing chasm between the top 1-10% and the rest.

martin's avatar

margaret thatcher and 'ding, dong the witch is dead' come to mind. i dare to say we managed to shock them for a while. they did seem to care somewhat about how they'd be remembered in the people's history.

longletters's avatar

You make excellent points.

I’m seeing from this old news article, BBC was so ruffled, they had to censor most of the song even though it was high on the charts and should therefore have been played. It seems England’s been having some free speech problems for a while. https://abcnews.com/International/margaret-thatchers-death-irreverently-marked-ding-dong-song/story?id=18939709

The mewling nellies aren't motivated by kindness even if they try to use “be kind” and “you're mean” to impose their desires as norms. They're motivated to keep the electorate’s true opinions stuck behind the starting blocks.

Beverly's avatar

Ah..Don't listen to anyone who disagrees with your response to a death? In fact, demean them by calling them names?

longletters's avatar

Which meanie name would that be, then?

Catherine Lydia's avatar

We can start by eating the rich and STOMPING OUT Zionism and capitalism. That would be fun. 🧨

Catherine Lydia's avatar

And Netanyahoo can fuck all the way off to hell.

Peter Sawchuk's avatar

What a pleasant thought, Graham and Bibi both in Hell smoking a turd. There is not enough suffering in the world that people like this don't deserve rather than an easy death. May they all burn in Hell.

Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

Catherine, I know that's just a saying, "eat the rich" but think about it. Another saying is, "you are what you eat". Do you wanna be that?? How about we give them their own little treasure Island, like in "Lord of the Flies" and see how they fair without us plebs doing all the dirty work for them. Just saying.

Catherine Lydia's avatar

But it would be glorious to have our labour be for the good of humanity rather than for the rich to steal for their own wealth—which they use against us. You’re right, I doubt they’d fare well without us. And yet here we are, buying things and paying taxes, as usual 😒

Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. John Steinbeck

I wonder what would happen if we all refused to pay taxes.

TS's avatar
Jul 13Edited

Socialism never took root in the U.S. because every vested interest in the country warred against every aspect of it down to the very word with unremitting wide-sourced passionate and deeply funded attention.

They banned and burned Grapes of Wrath.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

We need to be more organized to do this--but why shouldn't we all refuse to pay taxes? The freakin' American colonists didn't pay the tea tax back in 1776... Why can't we do similarly?

John Cosmo's avatar

Not to quibble, but this phrasing is a misattribution. It is actually a paraphrase written by author Ronald Wright in his 2004 book, "A Short History of Progress."

Steinbeck's original quote came from a 1960 article published in Esquire magazine titled, "A Primer on the '30s," about his experiences with political movements during the Great Depression. He actually wrote:

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist."

Catherine Lydia's avatar

lol. That is the very definition of a quibble, sir 😄

Catherine Lydia's avatar

Hahaha. It’s not that literal, it’s from the French Revolution 🤣. “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich” (anyone in power).

Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

🤣🤣 I know, it's just the imagery, Catherine. It's like cannibalisms becomes the plight of the poor. Can you imagine, the pitch forks lined up in front of the castles where the "rich" are hiding out. I kinda like the Robin Hood character, take from the rich and give to the poor.

David Avenell's avatar

No! Don't eat them.

They're highly toxic.

Carol Neilands's avatar

That’s true. LG was created, and the system creates many more each day.

Helga Fellay's avatar

and he let it. The system tries to create countless Lindseys, but no one and no system will ever turn me into another Lindsey, all it will do is dislike the system even more.

Freedom Fox's avatar

https://x.com/ZforVendetta1/status/2076280074815553955

...and...

Word has it that Lindsey Graham got the latest 'booster' shot at Andrews AFB before he went overseas.

And that he is grateful for the protection, it could've been worse.

grahamlyons's avatar

That's right, FF, he would have died harder without it.

TS's avatar

There is no "latest booster shot". Your information is incorrect. The next updated covid vaccine will not be available until the fall.

Freedom Fox's avatar

Sure. Leave it to someone who can't wait for theirs to "correct" information. Who has the date circled on the calendar.

...Fear no evil, your Science™ is with you. The needle and the elixir they comfort you.

Jasara merrill's avatar

WTH.He had free will to think , believe and act.AI can't be blamed for his existence...that is the new excuse for abhorrent humanity.

Basil Rathbone's avatar

But few are as outspokenly evil as Graham, with the exceptions of Netanfuckyou, Ben Gvir, Smotrich and that monstrous clique. And of course Trump, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Fetterman, and a few dozen other swamp creatures. May they all revel in their sins in hell. If only.

Helga Fellay's avatar

Thank you, Basil. Finally a proper and correct name for the Zio: Netanfuckyou. I used to think Bibi was good, because it sounds like PeePee. But it's weak. Netanfuckyou is so much more appropriate.

Evelyn Craig's avatar

Buthcher Bibi what he's

Martin C. Fredricks IV's avatar

While that is true, it doesn't mean Graham and his ilk were (are) any less evil or despicable.

Levi Tate's avatar

Guess what ?!

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***** Trump speaks to dead people! ******

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Trump claimed that he spoke to Graham after Graham completed his trip from Ukraine.

Trump: “He said he just landed from Ukraine. I said, ‘That’s a long trip to make,'” Trump said of their conversation."

President Donald Trump said he spoke to Lindsey Graham by phone around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 11.

The **earliest** Graham could have arrived was 11 pm (hours after he is reported to have died.

See the timeline:

https://sonar21.com/the-lindsey-graham-timeline-does-not-work-he-died-in-kyiv/

Chico's avatar

This is the "Shared Value" between 'izrael' and the US. 'izrael' produces monsters 24/7.

ChatterX's avatar

Exactly.

It’s too convenient to shift the blame onto a particular person, to divert attention from the very Imperialist system that enables and empowers such psychos

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"Garbage IN, garbage OUT"

- George Carlin

youtube.com/shorts/qBwfSmUrJ04

Slightly Lucid's avatar

Yes, but Ladybug excelled at being a monster. Whoever is waiting in the wings has got big chaps to fill.

Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

But who will become the new/latest US Senator to Tel Aviv?

Saint Jimmy's avatar

Just pick somebody. If you offer Americans enough money, they'll do it.

Guy Schell's avatar

Thanks for GL, for bursting my few seconds of jubilation balloon. According to Peter Phillips book Titans, there are around 40 mil. people involved in the global domination gambit. For now, there is always someone to step into a vacated lead role, but we have to start some where. 99.99% of the rest of the global population has our back! Nuremburg the anti-humans!

Rex's avatar
Jul 13Edited

GL

How right you are...and there's the rub

There is also a whole electorate who, based on their previous long time record, will find someone to replace him, funded and supported by Israel and who will go on to become just as bad as Graham was. No one could possibly be worse than Graham, an Israeli stooge by any measure. Not a real American..

Come on, South Carolina. Grow up and review what you allowed to happen in your state.

Glad to be back with all you rational commenting heroes ......and Caitlin and Tim, of course..

Indu Abeysekara's avatar

G L, Yes! Makes me think if there are any sane people at all in the US establishment.

martin's avatar

let's let them know what 'eulogy' awaits them when they leave.

Beverly's avatar

I am curious about what "system" is your reference? Capitalism ? Democracy? Republicanism? Right Wing politics in general? Just to let your know, I am very old and have always been either a Left Liberal, or a Liberal left. (In my country I have the luxury of being able to vote for a decidedly Left Wing somewhat Socialist party and sometimes do.)

John Cosmo's avatar

It's like a game of Whack-a-Mole.

Templeton Peck's avatar

Yep. May they see well the revelry!

Shaista Aziz's avatar

Although it is not good to speak of the dead, one can make certain exceptions if the deceased was evil to his very core and had no redeeming qualities.

Tom High's avatar

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." - Clarence Darrow

Ginnie's avatar

why is it not good to speak of the dead? People speak ill of the dead all the time including many historic figures. Would anyone ever say that about Himmler? Just because someone died, it doesn;t mean their life and legacy cannot be discussed, especially if it is was a public servant whose decisions and actions had such dire and horrific consequences for hundreds of millions of people.

People need to be judged for their actions. He was a war monger who advocated for nuking Gaza and celebrated the massacre of the 160+ school children in Iran and repeatedly endorsing the destruction of entire populations and societies. Those aren't footnotes - they are central to his public legacy.

I understand the instinct for decorum, but this isn't genuine decorum. It serves no one. Let's not whitewash someone's legacy just they are dead or even suggest as much in gest. It asks people to soften or sanitize the record of someone whose actions and rhetoric caused extraordinary harm simply because they're dead. That's not respect - it's historical whitewashing. If we can't speak honestly about a person's legacy after they die, then accountability becomes meaningless.

Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. - Voltaire

Shlomo McFuckface's avatar

Nice pull on the quote !

Shaista Aziz's avatar

I must agree with you 100%. You have put my point much more articulately. Thank you

MissRuth~'s avatar

Speak evil of the dead. Why the hell not?

Shlomo McFuckface's avatar

I too used to believe that old adage….then Dick Cheney died and i 🤮 at all the glowing obits praising the architect of the Iraq illegal invasion killing 200,000 - 1 million people depending upon who’s study you believe. So i will not praise, nor withhold criticism of a wicked person just because he is sitting at Lucifer’s right hand, right now (Dick Cheney is on the left which is considered a higher honor).

Mary's avatar

I won't celebrate until 'Israel' falls. Spectacularly, completely and permanently.

But, it's a start.

Lars Hanson's avatar

That’s the goal. Is it a coincidence that McConnell and now Graham are gone?

Maybe the toilet is starting to flush. These events sometimes happen in threes. If so fingers crossed!

He was a warmonger his entire career. It made him feel like a man. He had to be attached to a strong man like McCain. Trump was chosen after his masculine identity figure died. Trump served this need so well. Alone he was a eunuch so to speak.

The support of Israeli genocide says it all. Sexuality is not relevant except to explain to my brain his linking to strong men. .

unwarranted's avatar

Is McConnell already dead, and that information is being suppressed? If so, that is a measure of regime tenuousness and its repressive power. We can expect only more of the same in the near future.

Lars Hanson's avatar

Good point. If not dead he likely will be soon. I was making an assumption. My bad.

My presumptive diagnosis is that he is in a vegetative state… anoxic encephalopathy. If so it could take a few days for this to play out.

unwarranted's avatar

I didn’t infer anything, but I have wondered about McConnell. I’m hopeful that the growing public awareness of Zionism and AIPAC will make it more difficult for extremist candidates to become political careerists on Capitol Hill.

Lars Hanson's avatar

I just saw a picture of a living McConnell. They said he fell. From his expression I wonder if there’s the anoxic encephalopathy. Anyway though maybe non functional he may be more functional than Senator Feinstein.

We have a zombie Congress.🤑

Evelyn Craig's avatar

Trump strong are you joking .Guys as weak as they come

Lars Hanson's avatar

Trump may not be strong. My assertion is that Graham perceived him as strong.

I checked Pugh polling presidential elections 2017, 2020, and 2024. The percentage of white women voting for Trump was 47, 53,and 52. Am assuming some of those millions saw Trump as strong vs a wet noodle. And so Lindsey Graham did too.

I don’t get it. What do so many white women find Trump attractive?

Jasara merrill's avatar

Are you actually saying there is a poll( that means nothing but gibberish) that asks if white women find Trump attractive? specifically physically attractive? sorry ,throwing up at the mere thought...

Nancy's avatar

According to poll results I read, Trump won the votes of a majority of white women who: 1) lacked a college education; and 2) claimed affiliation with religious institutions. “Religious” men were also more likely to vote for Trump. Make of that what you will.

However, religion and patriarchy are closely aligned. I happen to think the former is mostly justification for the latter.

Lars Hanson's avatar

Sorry It’s Pew not Pugh.

And for Black women 4% 5% and 10%.

Thank you Black women!

Chico's avatar

Mary, I second that! Spoken straight from my heart.

jamenta's avatar

Lindsey Graham finally did something good for America

JennyStokes's avatar

Thank heavens we will not see his sneering face again.

There are quite a few others who should join him. Victoria Nuland.

Michael's avatar

Maybe there’s a new pandemic that only kills war mongers?

JennyStokes's avatar

OH........I do hope so.

Saint Jimmy's avatar

He stood for world war, genocide, bigotry, greed, increased poverty, and community decay.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Really difficult to match his "accomplishments". Will be remembered as one of the greatest americunts.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Cardiac arrest had right to defend itself against unprovoked terrorist attacks from Lindsey Graham.

jamenta's avatar

How can a person have a heart attack if there’s no heart to attack?

Nick Douglas's avatar

He had a blood/cardiac pump masquerading as a heart.

Hannah West's avatar

That’s the question, isn’t it?

Indu Abeysekara's avatar

😂🤣 for jamenta.

Feral Finster's avatar

Shortly after Mr Nixon’s death, an editor at Dr Dobb’s Journal wrote this piece of doggerel:

Richard Nixon, scum of the earth

Buried with honours in the land of his birth.

Isn’t it time that somebody said

That it’s not always wrong to speak ill of the dead.

The name "Lindsey Graham" can be snowcloned with equal effect.

A.M.F. Lindsey Graham

jules nymo's avatar

This made me think of an old classmate from college who shamed me for protesting a man from California living Israel who came to my campus to promote a trip to Israel only months after Oct 7. She was more upset at the fact we flipped him off, shaming his group of attendees rather than the fact there was a man here for Israel propaganda right after its intensified genocide of Gaza. Liberal manners are deeply rotten.

Feral Finster's avatar

For liberals, propriety is everything.

Cynic's avatar

And soon Mitch McConnell will be joining him. Hell is having a party and nope, they won’t the ones enjoying it. They are the ones served as canapés.

Gay Chung's avatar

From your mouth to Satan's pointy ears.

jamenta's avatar

Tell Mitch we said "hi".

Sue's avatar

Caitlin’s comments are so accurate & she has covered LG ‘s character & actions so Flawlessly for the vile warmongering , violent psycho path that he was … one less psycho in the White House…

Nick Douglas's avatar

But it is a master asshole system that produces asshole offspring.

Evelyn Craig's avatar

Up to the people to not vote these AIPAC bought politicians.

Alex Sachs's avatar

May he have suffered a lot before passing away!

unwarranted's avatar

This sounds like a thirst for justice unquenched.

Chico's avatar

100% agreed. He's dead. His biggest achievement in a rotten life. - Not to speak ill of the dead, I scream "Fuck you, Graham!" "Burn in eternal hell, with the collective pain of your victims!"

Fedup Sheep's avatar

Finally, some good news. Though we all know there's a waiting list of candidates eager to crawl so far up Israel's arse all you can see are the toes wiggling. But let's enjoy these brief moments and celebrate for at least 1 minute.

Vin LoPresti's avatar

I picture Lindsay and McCain in hell plotting to invade BeelzebubLand and subjugating the minor demons there to the service of some imperialist fantasy that only they'd have the twistedness to conjure.

Rex's avatar
Jul 13Edited

Vin,

Good to read you again and all the other loyalists to Caitlin and Tim. It is like 'old home week' for me, victim of...............just one guess.

Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Vin LoPresti, Wasn't John McCain the one who was shot down when he was on a killing spree in Vietnam... The Vietnamese patched him up and sent him back. Did he show any gratitude...