Benjamin Netanyahu reminisced today that when Congress was deliberating the size of a pending Israel appropriations package, Lindsey Graham would often astonish him by “outbidding the Prime Minister of Israel” — that is, by demanding an even larger pro-Israel sum than Netanyahu himself had the temerity to ask for.
Graham was an awful, terrible person and along with people like Rumsfeld and Limbaugh, the world is a better place with him gone. We still live in hell but one more demon is gone now.
The world is a better place with Lindsey Graham dead. He was a profoundly evil man, the walking embodiment of a chickenhawk, ever ready to send his countrymen (other people's loved ones, that is) to death or dismemberment, all in the service of US Imperialism run amuck. Fuck him all the way to hell.
Lindsay Graham was in a position of power for over thirty years and he used that power to create a high profile, glib persona who religiously promoted war and cruelty to people he lumped together as terrorists. He dodged every confrontation that questioned his motives and, as far as I could tell, wasted no time on introspection or compassion.
Whatever his private life was he kept it private, gay, straight or neutral. He always seemed to me to be a man who channeled all his energy into ambition and self-promotion, latching on to anyone or any cause to remain close to power. But whatever — he’s dead and his spot on Meet the Press will be quickly filled.
- Thr jewish-ness (or not) of SC had nothing to do with it. What did was the majority of Evangelical Christians in SC, who believe that they will inherit the earth-after "The Rapture", when ISR is destroyed in the Middle East & the rest of humanity is converted into pillars of fire. Zero out of 10 on that one, MT.
- Stupid Neo-Con idiots like Graham were/are the worst things for the USA in the long term. 1) For driving RUS into the arms of CHI, surely the biggest strategic blunder of any country in the 21stC. 2) For wasting $trillions on hyper xpensive weapons systems which don't work (Patriots, anyone?) & aren't mfr'ed in sufficient quantities anyway to make a bit of difference, except for compelling RUS to arm up & produce weapons that DO work (Kinzhals, anyone?) and in sufficient quantities for global war. 3) The opportunity cost of this, which is A)
preventing the USA's energy transformation, surely THE most important agenda item in the new millenium. B) The other part of this is preventing aid to developing countries, which, were it to happen, would generate more goodwill for the USA than anything else. Just ask China, which is doing this exact thing in SE Asia, South America & Africa. Zero out of 10 on this as well.
- Finally, Graham's sick penchant for war, which has made the US the most reviled country on the planet, and, over decades, will probably lead the US to blow up the world when the depths of its fall from primacy becomes evident to its blundering 'leadership caste' & elites. A perfect trifecta of Zeroes!
The one hiccup in the Graham-Trump relationship Michael glosses over is “Jan 6.”
Graham on the day: “Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president. All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”
Jan. 6 gave Graham his delayed “Access Hollywood” moment (“Thank god this nonsense is finally over”), but soon realized it would not be any more of a silver bullet than the original had been.
I think if someone had shot Graham up with scopolamine (assuming it works the way it does in the Alistair MacLean books and movies), they would have found his true feelings about Trump were not positive (not that that puts the situation very far outside of normal politics).
I don't know about nihilist Americans but the world counts on American's hegemonic expansionism. World order needs a solid axis. Given the choices, let it be an American one. For a long time to come. Lindsey Graham understood this deeply. The world is worse off with him being gone.
"the world counts on American hegemonic expansionism"? What world is this, in which you expound such nonsense? The rest of the world is actively engaged in dismantling American hegemonic expansion.
What you write in this piece is contradicted by the actions of the US, especially when it comes to peaceful transfers of power. Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa until the US came along and reduced it to a Failed State with open-air slave markets. Remember Hilary Clinton: "we came, we saw, he died?" Iraq was on the level of Italy before the US backed Saddam Hussein in a war against Iran (whose people had just overthrown the tyrannical torture state of the Shah, which itself had its origins in a US/UK coup that overthrew a moderate parliamentary democracy); later the US sanctions and invasions reduced Iraq to a Failed State. We have the joys of Afghanistan. The billions spent backing headchoppers in Syria to overthrow a secular government (whatever you may think of Assad, the US has no scruples about aligning with tyrannical regimes: see Saudi Arabia). The tens of billions backing expansionist apartheid Israel, up to and including genocide. The current war against Iran. All these are examples from just one part of the world that quickly come to mind. Can't forget the starvation sanctions (thoroughly bipartisan) against Cuba, the support for death squad governments in Central America and South America, the blatantly colonialist kidnapping of the head of Venezuela followed by control of its finances, as if US rule over Haiti in the 1920's is some kind of model to be emulated. Then there's the definitely provoked war against Russia, which has already led to the deaths of millions. Go back a little further to the US invasion (that's what it was) of Indochina, and the resulting deaths of millions.
No sir, this is not an example of hegemonic expansion leading to solid world order. It is the antithesis.
Then you'd better explain what you consider to be "the larger picture." China, Russia, Iran, and many others are intent on putting an end to America's hegemonic expansionism, precisely BECAUSE that drive to maintain hegemony actively demolishes any solidity to world order. Just look at the carnage US sanctions, coups, bombings and invasions have caused in this century alone. Basta!
I believe the US hegemonic expansionism at this point is a desperate attempt to remain solvent, consequences be damned. The US dollar must continue to reign supreme or the whole house of cards comes down. Just wait until peoples' welfare and social security checks will not even cover the rent. So it will continue to bomb, sanction, and assassinate as acts of desperation. So sad. Over-promised, over-extended, and lashing out like a dying animal. The world can see it. The US cannot even open the Strait that it caused to be closed.
No, it reads like an accurate account of what is happening, unlike the fantasy of US benevolence that you portray. The US is an empire in decline, whose thrashings place the entire world in danger.
I don’t know what kinds of happy pills you have been nourished on, but after 9/11 there is no room for illusions about solidity of our world order. We are in the midst of a World War that isn’t anything like the previous. And like in the previous one, so in this one I want for America to win. I don’t know how it is where you live, but elsewhere, winning really matters.
Lindsay Graham was an Airforce judge right around the time an Airforce study proved that OVER 60% of military w0e-MEN have LIED about rape! By their own admission! Only accusers who admitted they lied were counted as FALSE. 60%! This study was the subject matter of a discovery channel/A&E documentary with Sam Donaldson. That douche bag Victoria Toensing poo pooed the study and... ALL the beta cucks backed down including Lindsay Graham. >60% of military w0e-MEN have lied about rape! And NOTHING was done about it!
And to spite Lindsay Graham being an Airforce judge at the time, HE SAID NOTHING! He did NOTHING to protect MEN from w0e-MEN.
NO morality or principles. If so... he would have sounded the alarm as to what a trojan horse woe-MEN are in the military. GOOD RIDDANCE!
Common Mickey you gotta do more digging we need to know!
What if Lindsey was the First Ever Asexual? Was he semen-maxxing? Maybe it helped him with the Israel thing? Makes lots of sense, stale semen-->big hurtful balls-->pro Israel fanaticism. Science!
Or, was he just smashing bussy left and right? But nobody squealed?
This is almost tender, Michael.
Well done.
Of course it is. He’s a Republican.
Congratulations on ridiculous conclusion of the week.
Graham was an awful, terrible person and along with people like Rumsfeld and Limbaugh, the world is a better place with him gone. We still live in hell but one more demon is gone now.
I might lean toward maybe seeing your point on Rumsfeld. But not Rush. Definitely not Rush. Rush was the GOAT!
The world is a better place with Lindsey Graham dead. He was a profoundly evil man, the walking embodiment of a chickenhawk, ever ready to send his countrymen (other people's loved ones, that is) to death or dismemberment, all in the service of US Imperialism run amuck. Fuck him all the way to hell.
Lindsay Graham was in a position of power for over thirty years and he used that power to create a high profile, glib persona who religiously promoted war and cruelty to people he lumped together as terrorists. He dodged every confrontation that questioned his motives and, as far as I could tell, wasted no time on introspection or compassion.
Whatever his private life was he kept it private, gay, straight or neutral. He always seemed to me to be a man who channeled all his energy into ambition and self-promotion, latching on to anyone or any cause to remain close to power. But whatever — he’s dead and his spot on Meet the Press will be quickly filled.
- Thr jewish-ness (or not) of SC had nothing to do with it. What did was the majority of Evangelical Christians in SC, who believe that they will inherit the earth-after "The Rapture", when ISR is destroyed in the Middle East & the rest of humanity is converted into pillars of fire. Zero out of 10 on that one, MT.
- Stupid Neo-Con idiots like Graham were/are the worst things for the USA in the long term. 1) For driving RUS into the arms of CHI, surely the biggest strategic blunder of any country in the 21stC. 2) For wasting $trillions on hyper xpensive weapons systems which don't work (Patriots, anyone?) & aren't mfr'ed in sufficient quantities anyway to make a bit of difference, except for compelling RUS to arm up & produce weapons that DO work (Kinzhals, anyone?) and in sufficient quantities for global war. 3) The opportunity cost of this, which is A)
preventing the USA's energy transformation, surely THE most important agenda item in the new millenium. B) The other part of this is preventing aid to developing countries, which, were it to happen, would generate more goodwill for the USA than anything else. Just ask China, which is doing this exact thing in SE Asia, South America & Africa. Zero out of 10 on this as well.
- Finally, Graham's sick penchant for war, which has made the US the most reviled country on the planet, and, over decades, will probably lead the US to blow up the world when the depths of its fall from primacy becomes evident to its blundering 'leadership caste' & elites. A perfect trifecta of Zeroes!
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The one hiccup in the Graham-Trump relationship Michael glosses over is “Jan 6.”
Graham on the day: “Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president. All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”
It didn’t last long; he voted to acquit at the second impeachment, and by May 2021 he was saying: “Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no. I’ve determined we can’t grow without him.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/lindsey-graham-quotes-trump-iran
Jan. 6 gave Graham his delayed “Access Hollywood” moment (“Thank god this nonsense is finally over”), but soon realized it would not be any more of a silver bullet than the original had been.
I think if someone had shot Graham up with scopolamine (assuming it works the way it does in the Alistair MacLean books and movies), they would have found his true feelings about Trump were not positive (not that that puts the situation very far outside of normal politics).
I don't know about nihilist Americans but the world counts on American's hegemonic expansionism. World order needs a solid axis. Given the choices, let it be an American one. For a long time to come. Lindsey Graham understood this deeply. The world is worse off with him being gone.
"the world counts on American hegemonic expansionism"? What world is this, in which you expound such nonsense? The rest of the world is actively engaged in dismantling American hegemonic expansion.
This might give you a sense of where I’m coming from https://wodekszemberg.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-george-washington-americas
What you write in this piece is contradicted by the actions of the US, especially when it comes to peaceful transfers of power. Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa until the US came along and reduced it to a Failed State with open-air slave markets. Remember Hilary Clinton: "we came, we saw, he died?" Iraq was on the level of Italy before the US backed Saddam Hussein in a war against Iran (whose people had just overthrown the tyrannical torture state of the Shah, which itself had its origins in a US/UK coup that overthrew a moderate parliamentary democracy); later the US sanctions and invasions reduced Iraq to a Failed State. We have the joys of Afghanistan. The billions spent backing headchoppers in Syria to overthrow a secular government (whatever you may think of Assad, the US has no scruples about aligning with tyrannical regimes: see Saudi Arabia). The tens of billions backing expansionist apartheid Israel, up to and including genocide. The current war against Iran. All these are examples from just one part of the world that quickly come to mind. Can't forget the starvation sanctions (thoroughly bipartisan) against Cuba, the support for death squad governments in Central America and South America, the blatantly colonialist kidnapping of the head of Venezuela followed by control of its finances, as if US rule over Haiti in the 1920's is some kind of model to be emulated. Then there's the definitely provoked war against Russia, which has already led to the deaths of millions. Go back a little further to the US invasion (that's what it was) of Indochina, and the resulting deaths of millions.
No sir, this is not an example of hegemonic expansion leading to solid world order. It is the antithesis.
If US-led modernist thrust of History is not to your liking, then there is nothing that I can do for you. What kind of an America do you want?
I think you are missing the larger picture
Then you'd better explain what you consider to be "the larger picture." China, Russia, Iran, and many others are intent on putting an end to America's hegemonic expansionism, precisely BECAUSE that drive to maintain hegemony actively demolishes any solidity to world order. Just look at the carnage US sanctions, coups, bombings and invasions have caused in this century alone. Basta!
I believe the US hegemonic expansionism at this point is a desperate attempt to remain solvent, consequences be damned. The US dollar must continue to reign supreme or the whole house of cards comes down. Just wait until peoples' welfare and social security checks will not even cover the rent. So it will continue to bomb, sanction, and assassinate as acts of desperation. So sad. Over-promised, over-extended, and lashing out like a dying animal. The world can see it. The US cannot even open the Strait that it caused to be closed.
This reads like a nihilist’s wet dream scenario.
No, it reads like an accurate account of what is happening, unlike the fantasy of US benevolence that you portray. The US is an empire in decline, whose thrashings place the entire world in danger.
I don’t know what kinds of happy pills you have been nourished on, but after 9/11 there is no room for illusions about solidity of our world order. We are in the midst of a World War that isn’t anything like the previous. And like in the previous one, so in this one I want for America to win. I don’t know how it is where you live, but elsewhere, winning really matters.
Lindsay Graham wa a BETA/CUCK. Good riddance!
Lindsay Graham was an Airforce judge right around the time an Airforce study proved that OVER 60% of military w0e-MEN have LIED about rape! By their own admission! Only accusers who admitted they lied were counted as FALSE. 60%! This study was the subject matter of a discovery channel/A&E documentary with Sam Donaldson. That douche bag Victoria Toensing poo pooed the study and... ALL the beta cucks backed down including Lindsay Graham. >60% of military w0e-MEN have lied about rape! And NOTHING was done about it!
And to spite Lindsay Graham being an Airforce judge at the time, HE SAID NOTHING! He did NOTHING to protect MEN from w0e-MEN.
NO morality or principles. If so... he would have sounded the alarm as to what a trojan horse woe-MEN are in the military. GOOD RIDDANCE!
The post midterm results are in and they show he had an aortic tear that burst. That means relatively instant death.
“post midterm results” lol. That’s what he’ll never have now
Wait, he never had a girlfriend?
Common Mickey you gotta do more digging we need to know!
What if Lindsey was the First Ever Asexual? Was he semen-maxxing? Maybe it helped him with the Israel thing? Makes lots of sense, stale semen-->big hurtful balls-->pro Israel fanaticism. Science!
Or, was he just smashing bussy left and right? But nobody squealed?
Maybe he had a private thay ladyboy dungeon?
Mickey we need further investigating!!!
You are so low bedbugs excrete on your head.
Common Georgie, why the anger? Nobody said anything bad about your hero!
We're not celebrating a death here, at all. We're simply theorycrafting!
Wait a second! Are you... Jewish?!? You love the Bari Weiss era? WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!!
All my niggas love Bari Weiss!