Tag: Lindsay Graham

Death Of A MAGA-ite

Graham is dead…..replacement found….flags at half mast…..now it is time for the crazies to come out and play….

Let the conspiracy theories fly…..

Conspiracy chatter moved almost as fast as the tributes. Within hours of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden death, social media feeds filled with claims he’d been poisoned, targeted by foreign enemies, or killed overseas—theories advanced without evidence but amplified by algorithms and partisan influencers, reports the Washington Post. Officially, preliminary findings from the DC medical examiner point to an aortic dissection; authorities have not suggested foul play, and a death certificate is pending. The same mistrust hit the release of a hospital photo of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, which some users insisted was AI-generated or old, despite metadata and a digital forensics review indicating otherwise. A look at the Graham chatter:

  • Far-right activist Laura Loomer: “Was he poisoned by a foreign adversary either abroad or upon returning to the US?” she posted on X. “It’s not like I’m just making random claims,” Loomer told the Post. “I don’t understand why everybody wants to call it a conspiracy. I think there is more than enough evidence there for probable cause.” Of the McConnell photo, however, she posted: “Why does the text on the newspaper McConnell’s staff claim he’s holding look AI generated?”
  • Ex-congressman George Santos: “I believe foul play could have been at play here.”
  • Making things worse: The swirl only intensified when FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X that “the FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available.”
  • One popular post: “Graham inspected a drone factory in Ukraine yesterday,” read the LibertyLockPod post on X, per the AP. “Russia blew up that facility today. Then, tonight, it is announced that Graham is dead of a ‘sudden illness.’ No more details. I’d say there is a decent chance that Russia blew up Lindsey Graham.”
  • Even Russian media: A tabloid ran an article headlined, “The Kiss of Death: Senator Graham’s Death Linked to Zelensky,” claiming that the death of Graham, who fervently supported Ukraine, was tied to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
  • From Senate Majority Leader John Thune: “There’s so much noise in the world today.” He continued: “I hope that people can calm down and just mourn the loss.”
  • From President Trump: Asked about conspiracies in an interview, he said: Asked during a Newsmax interview Monday night about Graham’s cause of death, Trump said: “To answer the conspiracy theory out there, I, I’d love to say yes. But I think he he had some problems. His father died just about at the same age,” said Trump, adding that Graham had “some problems that were a little bit deep-seated and not easy to find.”

I love this stuff….every idiot with half a brain has an idea and a theory.

Did I miss any thing?

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We Have Our Winner!

The news of the death of South Carolina’s senator started a whole panic to quickly pick a person to replace him….the GOP needs his vote in the Senate…..the front running was Graham’s little sister…..and so it shall be…..

Darline Graham Nordone, who was appointed Monday to serve the remaining months of the Senate term that her late brother, Lindsey Graham, left behind when he died over the weekend, hasn’t been in office before. But through her brother’s decades of public service, Nordone has been by his side, supporting him in speeches, appearances, and even campaign ads, the AP reports. Besides being a frequent attendee at Graham’s political events, Nordone is woven deeply into her brother’s personal and political biography. After both of their parents died in just over a year, Graham, then age 22, became legal guardian for his 13-year-old sister.

Now, after South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster tapped Nordone to serve in Graham’s seat until January, Nordone is heading to Washington, tasked with representing the interests for which her brother advocated with passion. Sources tell the AP that Nordone will be sworn in Wednesday. She will be the first woman to represent South Carolina in the Senate. A special primary held next month will sort out which Republican moves forward in the general election to face Democrat Annie Andrews in November.

  • While Graham was in his early 20s, his life—and that of his sister—was turned upside down. Their mother died in 1976 after battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Fifteen months later, his sister, then 13, discovered their father after he suffered a heart attack in his sleep and died. Graham was just beginning law school at the University of South Carolina. With both parents gone, he pivoted, saying that his chief goal was to ensure his sister was cared for.
  • Making regular treks from school in Columbia to Seneca, where his sister was being looked after by relatives, Graham kept tabs on his sister from then on and became her legal guardian. After he became a military lawyer in the Air Force, he adopted her, to ensure that she would receive his military benefits.
  • Graham, who never married or had children of his own, once joked as he ran for president in 2016 that his sister could be among a “rotating” cast of White House hosts standing in as first lady. But the bond between the two, aside from being integral to Graham’s own biography, was evident in their public appearances. When Graham filed his candidacy paperwork in March for this year’s election, Nordone was by his side, along with her children and grandchildren.
  • “What have I learned in this life I’ve led? I take nothing for granted. I count every blessing, every day,” Graham said then, going on to recount how he and his sister forged through life together from that point. “I understand what a blessing my life has been and the only way I can pay you back for the blessings I’ve received is to be the most thoughtful, relevant, aggressive senator.”
  • Nordone has worked with people with disabilities. Since 2019, she has been Commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, “where she has worked to expand opportunities for South Carolinians who are blind or have low vision to achieve employment and independence,” Gov. Henry McMaster’s office said in a statement announcing her appointment. Talking to C-SPAN in 2015, Graham said of his own life that his sister’s success “is the highlight of it, by far.”
  • Bob McAlister, a former consultant to Graham on several campaigns, reflected on how the difficulties in their growing up bonded the siblings in a way that most would not understand. “He grew up with nothing … and I think the way he and Darline grew up just had an indelible impact on him, and for some reason, it gave him the drive that he had to do what he did,” he said, adding: “A lot of people have different ideas about Lindsey from what they’ve seen on TV and all that, but everything about him can be traced back to his boyhood, the way he grew up, the way he took care of his sister.”

Will we move on from this now?

Will she be a MAGA acolyte?

We shall see.

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“lego ergo scribo”

OMG! Mouth Of The South Is Dead!

+++I delayed posting on this story to see if there would be more information coming out+++

Yesterday I was awoken to the sounds of MAGA weeping profusely….one of Donny’s staunchest fans has passed into the great unknown.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina a long time cheer leader for Donny is gone.

Stunning news out of Washington, DC: Sen Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at age 71. The office of the South Carolina Republican said only that he “passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” reports Politico. The Washington Postreports that emergency responders were called to his Capitol Hill home to treat a man with chest pain about 8:30pm. Responders said after arriving that they were performing CPR and that the man was in cardiac arrest. In a Truth Social post, President Trump called Graham, one of his staunchest allies on Capitol Hill, “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known,” and labeled him “a true American Patriot.”

Graham, first elected to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002, became one of the GOP’s most visible figures on foreign policy and national security. He was in Kyiv on Friday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he pushed for new sanctions on Russia, and he was scheduled to appear on Meet the Press Sunday. Once a Trump critic who ran for the GOP nomination himself in 2016, Graham later emerged as a key defender of the president, opposing both impeachment efforts. He did break with Trump at times, notably with his vote to certify the 2020 election results and with his criticism of the mass pardon for Capitol rioters.

South Carolina’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, will appoint someone to serve out Graham’s term, which runs through January. Graham fended off five challengers last month to win his primary in a bid for a fifth term, notes the New York Times. In the meantime, Graham’s death trims the GOP’s majority in the chamber to 52-47.

Guess what?  The quickness of his death has the MAGA conspiracy machine working overtime….

Libertarian talk show host Clint Russell told his nearly 300,000 followers to “get your tinfoil ready” before he suggested, without evidence, that Russia was somehow to blame for Graham’s death in Washington, D.C.

Graham was in Ukraine as recently as Friday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reports show.

“I’d say there is a decent chance that Russia blew up Lindsey Graham,” Russell wrote in a comment liked more than a thousand times.

https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-2677207649/

This is the story so far……

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death appears to have stemmed from a major heart complication, according to preliminary findings released by his office. The District of Columbia medical examiner identified the cause as an aortic dissection linked to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease—an aortic dissection is a tear in the inner wall of the body’s main artery that can rapidly become fatal, Politico reports. The New York Times adds that the type of disease referred to involves weakening and hardening of the arteries over time, and the Washington Post notes that such tears typically occur in people with high blood pressure. The medical examiner’s office is still conducting toxicology and microscopic tests, and Graham’s death certificate will remain listed as pending until that work is complete and the manner of death is formally classified.

That bit of info will not silence the conspiracies.

Not to worry I am sure that the appointment will be another closed mind racist of the MAGA brand.

Speaking of closed minds…….Donny has a choice for a replacement…..(already)….

The race to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on South Carolina’s primary ballot is about to move quickly, Politico reports. President Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he already has a preferred contender in mind but declined to name the person, saying it was “too soon.” State law calls for a special one-week filing window for GOP hopefuls starting July 21, followed by an Aug. 11 primary and, if no one tops 50%, an Aug. 25 runoff. The winner will then be on the general election ballot in November for a full six-year term beginning in January.

In the meantime, Gov. Henry McMaster will name a temporary replacement to serve out the year. There’s no legal deadline for his decision, but governors typically fill Senate vacancies rapidly. McMaster can either pick a short-term placeholder who agrees not to run for the office or hand the job to an active candidate—potentially giving that person an edge heading into the compressed primary fight. The Democratic nominee is Annie Andrews, a doctor who expressed her condolences in a statement after Graham’s death, per WYFF, saying he’d “proudly served our nation as a JAG Officer and Colonel in South Carolina’s Air National Guard.” The state’s other senator said on Meet the Press that he doesn’t have any clues about McMaster’s choice. It’s “hard to swallow that life moves so quickly, and the party doesn’t stop, ever,” GOP Sen. Tim Scott said.

Possibilities: Among the South Carolina Republicans thinking about running is Rep. Nancy Mace, per Politico. who challenged Graham in the 2014 Senate primary. She still has federal campaign cash on hand after an unsuccessful campaign this year for governor. Rep. Joe Wilson posted on X that he won’t be a candidate after speaking with Trump. NBC News was told Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette has received “dozens of phone calls and texts” encouraging her to run. She received a last-minute endorsement from Trump before the primary for governor, then lost a runoff to state Attorney General Alan Wilson. Mark Lynch, a businessman who lost the primary earlier this year to Graham, also said it’s too soon to say whether he’ll run. “While we had our political disagreements, today is not a day for politics,” he said.

Donny needs a ass kisser to replace Graham….he needs the Senate to keep his assault on Democracy.

Any thoughts?

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“lego ergo scribo”

Is Bombing Mexico The Answer?

Recently I wrote a post about Graham suggesting that the US should invade Mexico……

Read my post from a month ago…..

Let’s Invade Mexico (Again)

It seems that the whole party, not just one idiot member, is suggesting some sort of military action against parts of Mexico…

A growing number of prominent Republicans are rallying around the idea that to solve the fentanyl crisis, America must bomb it away.

In recent weeks, Donald Trump has discussed sending “special forces” and using “cyber warfare” to target cartel leaders if he’s reelected president and, per Rolling Stone, asked for “battle plans” to strike Mexico. Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said he is open to sending U.S. troops into Mexico to target drug lords even without that nation’s permission. And lawmakers in both chambers have filed legislation to label some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move supported by GOP presidential aspirants.

“We need to start thinking about these groups more like ISIS than we do the mafia,” Waltz, a former Green Beret, said in a short interview.

Not all Republican leaders are behind this approach. John Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser who’s weighing his own presidential run, said unilateral military operations “are not going to solve the problem.” And House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mike McCaul (R-Texas), for example, is “still evaluating” the AUMF proposal “but has concerns about the immigration implications and the bilateral relationship with Mexico,” per a Republican staff member on the panel.

But the eagerness of some Republicans to openly legislate or embrace the use of the military in Mexico suggests that the idea is taking firmer root inside the party. And it illustrates the ways in which frustration with immigration, drug overdose deaths and antipathy towards China are defining the GOP’s larger foreign policy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fentanyl-00091132

Is this stupidity real the answer to the problem?

Why is the only answer for the GOP is always some sort of military action?

Apparently someone with deep pockets is telling them what should be done.

Personally I do not see this as an answer to the situation they are concerned about….it will lead to more problems than it solves.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

I Miss Those Days

****Warning Strong Opinion To Follow****

Deja vu all over again!

I have not heard a rant like this for decades.

Lindsay Graham has proved what a clueless, out of touched, ignorant douche bag he truly is.

We all know about the rant that that racist prick in the Whiten House has been spewing about a couple of Comgresswomen……now Graham the good little lap dog he has become has shown his age in stupid remarks……

“Well, we all know that (New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country,” Graham said during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.” “They’re calling the guards along our border, the border patrol agents, ‘concentration camp guards.’ They accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins. They’re anti-Semitic. They’re anti-America.”

Graham added that if the group of lawmakers are made “the face of the future” of their party, “You will destroy the Democratic Party.”  (Would that be the same as the destruction of the GOP that Graham and his ilk are doing?)

(CNN)

Hahahaha!  This shows just how far out of touch what is left of the GOP truly is…….this is all these stupid lumps of manure have is to insult and lie…..a typical day for the GOP.

Does my old radical heart good to hear that type attack once again…..Thanx Lindsay for showing that nothing has changed in the GOP over the decades.

When a party has NOTHING to offer the voter then they resort to lies and bullshit….and what works for OLD FARTS is the “S” word……

I keep hearing a lot about “socialism” these days, mainly from Donald Trump and Fox News, trying to scare Americans about initiatives like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, universal child care, free public higher education, and higher taxes on the super-wealthy to pay for these. 

Well, I’m here to ask you to ignore the scaremongering.

First, these initiatives are overwhelmingly supported by most Americans.

Second, for the last 85 years, conservative Republicans have been yelling “socialism” at every initiative designed to help most Americans.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/10/same-old-scare-tactic-about-socialism

THen there is the assholes in the media that are condemning the words by Graham yet they use the same sort of rhetoric when interviewing progressives.

God I have missed the “Love it or leave it” crowd…..the ignorance of that statement shows the ignorance of the supporters of the GOP….worthless lumps of manure.

Cowards LIE!  The GOP lies!  Ergo GOP are cowards!  It is that simple!

****Exit from strong opinion here****

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