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Banji Lawal's avatar

I keep getting disappointed by school they decide is worthy of consideration

Banji Lawal's avatar

That's the thing democrats won't even defend themselves abs each other against Republicans who don't want them to exist. How can we trust them to defend us

bjkeefe's avatar

>> He was 71, which is about 120 in South Carolina-diet years.

LOL! Yes. I remember someone making a joke about him being killed by the explosive diarrhea bug and I wanted to ask, "Does this look like the face of a man who ever ate fresh vegetables?"

Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

Whew that was a read. Well done.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Thank you Stephen, for reminding us of the truth, especially your last paragraph.

My reactions to the social media posts of Congress critters and adjacent family members like Klobuchar and Booker and yes, Hunter Biden start with annoyance and move on up to anger. They're on the national stage and they think they're adept players in The Game. Instead, they come across to this reader as pathetic, weak, and in need of either a wake up call or a yeeting out of office. I'm one of millions of voters who are fed up and want smart fighters who can lead the charge against RW fascism. They still don't get it, and they're happy to communicate that. BAH!

ArgieBargie's avatar

I doubt there will be many (or any) streets, buildings, bridges, or schools named after Lindsey Graham, even though the only reason he kept getting elected was because of Republican name recognition in a red state. He wasn't even particularly liked or trusted by members of his own party, Trump included, who immediately chose to exploit his death to push the doomed "SAVE" act.

Lindsey Graham got the chickenshit death he deserved.

Mary Ann's avatar

Love that you worked a perfect Voltaire quote into this!

Old Man Shadow's avatar

He was a careless and vapid man. A liar and coward who could not even live as who he really was. He chose power and influence instead of honesty. A toady, a small bully who hid behind larger men for protection. A remora attaching itself to predators and basking in the fear of the predator's victims.

He had no principles. No character. No substance. Lindsay Graham will be easily replaced in the Senate for there are millions of empty voids like him. Hollow men and women who will gleefully spend their brief period on Earth smashing things and then retreat forever into darkness, their memory forgotten quickly.

llamaspit's avatar

I saw the following comment posted, and I can't improve on perfection.

“Sure, Mitch McConnell was evil, but don’t forget that Lindsey Graham did everything he did, only backwards and in high heels.”

SethTriggs's avatar

Murc's Law does demand grace from Democrats, and remember that Democrats are not to get grace in return. The next time a Democrat dies, we all know what America's Pilonidal Cyst is going to do, so just be prepared for it.

Sherry's avatar

Graham sold his soul to the devil. However he may have started, much like Blanche who was once a respected lawyer, he chose the last chapter of his life to kiss up to a tyrant to save his own ass.

llamaspit's avatar

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

Truer words were never spoken. Lindsay Graham was an amoral, power-mongering, lying piece of shit, about whom I have only one good thing to say. He's dead, good!

Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

On Saturday evening, Donald Judas Trump received an important reminder...

Melinda G Young's avatar

Excellent commentary on Graham! I just find it sad that Graham started adulthood as a laudable young man, raising his young sister after their parents died, but his later years showed such a complete lack of moral fortitude. Power corrupts.

Linda1961 aka Pollyanna's avatar

Graham was a monster, because he enabled other monsters to ascend to power. He was my senator, and I'm not sorry that he's dead. McMaster will probably appoint someone just as bad, if not worse, to finish his term, and SC repubs will probably nominate someone just as bad, if not worse, to run in the election against Dr. Andrews in November. I think that she can win - she had a chance against Graham, and maybe an even better chance against another maga without the name recognition.

Dave Zimny's avatar

The pusillanimous reactions of Boomer Democrats to the passage of Lindsey Graham is just another reminder that the party needs new blood -- not soon, not tomorrow, but RIGHT NOW...

Late Blooming's avatar

Ro Khanna (age 49):

"We had significant differences on foreign policy, but I respected his bipartisan work on immigration and honor his service to our country."

And yada yada.

Late Blooming's avatar

This is why I have no faith that Democrats as currently constructed will be the ones to lead us out of the wilderness, they are nearly mindless bots.