I hope this is widely read for people to understand that Mr. Graham was opportunistic and duplicitous, no friend to the nation and certainly not to his former comrades. Hopefully his passing will remove a mouthpiece for promotion of the unitary executive among many other plots.
A couple key examples of who he had become when he died and what he said that illustrates his duplicity.
“In July of 2015, when Donald Trump insulted John McCain by saying that being captured did not make a man a war hero, Graham — McCain’s closest friend in the Senate and, as of Saturday, the last survivor of what Graham, McCain, and Joe Lieberman had called the Three Amigos — went on television and called Trump “a jackass.” Then, on CBS the next morning, he called him “the world’s biggest jackass.” Then, in December of that year, after Trump proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States, Graham went on CNN and said, in one of the more direct sentences an American senator has delivered on camera:
“You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell. He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.” “
“He was right. That is the difficulty for his tributes. These were the settled judgments of a man speaking deliberately. He identified precisely what Donald Trump was, in public, on national television, in the sentences of a man who understood what he was seeing and understood the danger and had the words available to name it. He called Trump a demagogue. He called him unfit for office. He said, on the day Trump effectively secured the nomination in May of 2016,
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it.” He said conservatism as a movement would take generations to recover from Trump’s damage. He said, in the primary that year, that choosing between Trump and Cruz was like choosing between being shot and being poisoned. He said, of the possibility that he might be Trump’s running mate, that it would be “like buying a ticket on the Titanic.” “
He was morally craven opportunist only too happy to sell out evidenced positions he had held and clearly expressed in public forums.
This was not an ignorant man who didn't understand the implications of what he was saying. He was a qualified attorney trained to pick his word carefully. And he did - for his own political advantage.
For those who have not yet encountered it I recommend
The Vicar of Bray - Lyrics
1. In good King Charles' golden time, when loyalty no harm meant,
A zealous high churchman was I, and so I gained preferment.
To teach my flock, I never missed: Kings are by God appointed
And damned are those who dare resist or touch the Lord's annointed.
(Chorus):
And this be law, that I'll maintain until my dying day, sir
That whatsoever king may reign, Still I'll be the Vicar of Bray, sir.
2. When royal James possessed the crown, and popery came in fashion,
The penal laws I hooted down, and read the Declaration.
The Church of Rome, I found, did fit full well my constitution
And I had been a Jesuit, but for the Revolution.
(Chorus)
3. When William was our King declared, to ease the nation's grievance,
With this new wind about I steered, and swore to him allegiance.
Old principles I did revoke; Set conscience at a distance,
Passive obedience was a joke, a jest was non-resistance.
(Chorus)
4. When Royal Anne became our queen, the Church of England's glory,
Another face of things was seen, and I became a Tory.
Occasional conformists base; I blamed their moderation;
And thought the Church in danger was from such prevarication.
(Chorus)
5. When George in pudding time came o'er, and moderate men looked big, sir
My principles I changed once more, and I became a Whig, sir.
And thus preferment I procured From our new Faith's Defender,
And almost every day abjured the Pope and the Pretender.
(Chorus)
6. The illustrious house of Hanover and Protestant succession
To these I do allegiance swear -- while they can hold possession.
For in my faith and loyalty I never more will falter,
And George my lawful king shall be -- until the times do alter.
And of course he is/was far from alone - other turncoat opportunists include, for example, Marco Rubio. (another attorney)
February 26: Rubio called Trump a “con artist who is telling people one thing but has spent 40 years sticking it to working Americans and now claims to be their champion.”
February 26: Rubio questioned Trump’s most basic qualifications, including his ability to spell words. “How does this guy—not one tweet, but three tweets—misspell words so badly?” he asked. “And I only come to two conclusions. No. 1, that’s how they spell those words at the Wharton School of Business, where he went, and No. 2, just like Trump Tower, he must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.” Zing!
February 27: He said Trump is a “a lunatic trying to get ahold of nuclear weapons in America.”
February 29: He implied Trump has a small penis. “He’s like 6’2″, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2″,” Rubio said. “Have you seen his hands? They’re like this. And you know what they say about men with small hands?” Rubio paused, then added, “You can’t trust them!”
March 12: He went after Trump for encouraging violence at his rallies, accusing him of “[feeding] into language that basically justifies assaulting people who disagree with you.” The same day, he called Trump “rude and obnoxious and offensive—deliberately offensive for the purposes of driving media narrative.”
Absolutely! They passed on the info to Trump - remember how Graham used to smartly change his tune after being summoned to Mar-a-lago for a ‘friendly’ round of golf?
Wilde was correct: "Some men improve the world only by leaving it."
Glad to see it being told like it is- dying doesn’t make you a hero
DEFINE IGNOMINY!
Lindsay scuttled his own moral judgement.
Graham and Mconnel rotted within from their sellout subservient treachery to the Republic.
May all the treasonous GOP follow.
The man was always drunk. The body gives up after awhile
Excellent, and necessary. Thank you
I hope this is widely read for people to understand that Mr. Graham was opportunistic and duplicitous, no friend to the nation and certainly not to his former comrades. Hopefully his passing will remove a mouthpiece for promotion of the unitary executive among many other plots.
A couple key examples of who he had become when he died and what he said that illustrates his duplicity.
“In July of 2015, when Donald Trump insulted John McCain by saying that being captured did not make a man a war hero, Graham — McCain’s closest friend in the Senate and, as of Saturday, the last survivor of what Graham, McCain, and Joe Lieberman had called the Three Amigos — went on television and called Trump “a jackass.” Then, on CBS the next morning, he called him “the world’s biggest jackass.” Then, in December of that year, after Trump proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States, Graham went on CNN and said, in one of the more direct sentences an American senator has delivered on camera:
“You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell. He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.” “
“He was right. That is the difficulty for his tributes. These were the settled judgments of a man speaking deliberately. He identified precisely what Donald Trump was, in public, on national television, in the sentences of a man who understood what he was seeing and understood the danger and had the words available to name it. He called Trump a demagogue. He called him unfit for office. He said, on the day Trump effectively secured the nomination in May of 2016,
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it.” He said conservatism as a movement would take generations to recover from Trump’s damage. He said, in the primary that year, that choosing between Trump and Cruz was like choosing between being shot and being poisoned. He said, of the possibility that he might be Trump’s running mate, that it would be “like buying a ticket on the Titanic.” “
I completely agree.
He was morally craven opportunist only too happy to sell out evidenced positions he had held and clearly expressed in public forums.
This was not an ignorant man who didn't understand the implications of what he was saying. He was a qualified attorney trained to pick his word carefully. And he did - for his own political advantage.
For those who have not yet encountered it I recommend
The Vicar of Bray - Lyrics
1. In good King Charles' golden time, when loyalty no harm meant,
A zealous high churchman was I, and so I gained preferment.
To teach my flock, I never missed: Kings are by God appointed
And damned are those who dare resist or touch the Lord's annointed.
(Chorus):
And this be law, that I'll maintain until my dying day, sir
That whatsoever king may reign, Still I'll be the Vicar of Bray, sir.
2. When royal James possessed the crown, and popery came in fashion,
The penal laws I hooted down, and read the Declaration.
The Church of Rome, I found, did fit full well my constitution
And I had been a Jesuit, but for the Revolution.
(Chorus)
3. When William was our King declared, to ease the nation's grievance,
With this new wind about I steered, and swore to him allegiance.
Old principles I did revoke; Set conscience at a distance,
Passive obedience was a joke, a jest was non-resistance.
(Chorus)
4. When Royal Anne became our queen, the Church of England's glory,
Another face of things was seen, and I became a Tory.
Occasional conformists base; I blamed their moderation;
And thought the Church in danger was from such prevarication.
(Chorus)
5. When George in pudding time came o'er, and moderate men looked big, sir
My principles I changed once more, and I became a Whig, sir.
And thus preferment I procured From our new Faith's Defender,
And almost every day abjured the Pope and the Pretender.
(Chorus)
6. The illustrious house of Hanover and Protestant succession
To these I do allegiance swear -- while they can hold possession.
For in my faith and loyalty I never more will falter,
And George my lawful king shall be -- until the times do alter.
And of course he is/was far from alone - other turncoat opportunists include, for example, Marco Rubio. (another attorney)
February 26: Rubio called Trump a “con artist who is telling people one thing but has spent 40 years sticking it to working Americans and now claims to be their champion.”
February 26: Rubio questioned Trump’s most basic qualifications, including his ability to spell words. “How does this guy—not one tweet, but three tweets—misspell words so badly?” he asked. “And I only come to two conclusions. No. 1, that’s how they spell those words at the Wharton School of Business, where he went, and No. 2, just like Trump Tower, he must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.” Zing!
February 27: He said Trump is a “a lunatic trying to get ahold of nuclear weapons in America.”
February 29: He implied Trump has a small penis. “He’s like 6’2″, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5’2″,” Rubio said. “Have you seen his hands? They’re like this. And you know what they say about men with small hands?” Rubio paused, then added, “You can’t trust them!”
March 12: He went after Trump for encouraging violence at his rallies, accusing him of “[feeding] into language that basically justifies assaulting people who disagree with you.” The same day, he called Trump “rude and obnoxious and offensive—deliberately offensive for the purposes of driving media narrative.”
I could go on...
These people are shameful because THEY KNOW.
Lindsay Graham KNEW.
And that is inexcusable.
"The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with..." Lindsey.
Once you enter the world of “old,” you realize 71 is on the young side to die.
A sudden, nameless illness sounds…odd
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-knew-better-he-chose-worse?r=f98dn&utm_medium=ios
So what? He died a good death. No repercussions.
How much did he demand as reparations for the FBI checking his phone log for January 6?
Sometimes progress comes one funeral at a time.
The KGB and Mossad had the Kompromat on Graham and used it.
The KGB and Mossad had the Krompromat on Graham and used it.
Absolutely! They passed on the info to Trump - remember how Graham used to smartly change his tune after being summoned to Mar-a-lago for a ‘friendly’ round of golf?
He died a good death! Thats all it matters. There was no 'karma'. He didnt live to see any damages if he believed in them.
Trump will be the same. No repurcussions, a good ending, family all set, pardoned, etc.
Do not for a second believe your country men had no say in it, they had all the say.
Forest Gump Trump will leave 1600 in handcuffs and or a straightjacket.
In your dreams.
I think such criticism is good: https://intellectualdorkweb.substack.com/p/lindsey-graham-was-horrible-and-im