Dying doesn’t automatically erase a person’s track record, no matter the circumstances. But you can tell how little the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) truly meant to Donald Trump simply (stressing that “simp” part) based on the “eulogy” the president posted on Truth Social.
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Not only did he make Graham’s death all about himself, but he also used a photo that identified him as the “Acting President of Venezuela,” because Trump has to make literally everything about himself — even someone else’s death.
Trump also didn’t waste any time making sure Lindsey’s Senate seat didn’t remain empty for long, especially with his favorite pet, Todd Blanche, being grilled like a cheap Trumpsteak by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump’s co-conspirators and paid shills sent out flowery messages of MAGA propaganda that praise Graham for *checks notes* never speaking out against the Dear Leader.
MAGA is also fine with Trump’s fellow war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, not only praising Graham, but returning to the United States to attend Graham’s funeral.
Poor Lindsey’s body was still warm when Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appointed Graham’s younger sister, Darline, who has precisely zero years of government experience, to serve in that seat until the midterm elections.
Why no, that’s not normal in any way, but when was the last time our lives felt anything like normal? Trump went from zero to president, so why not zero to senator? He needs that vote to secure Blanche as Attorney General, but since Republicans are actually breaking ranks, her vote may not even matter.
Graham’s death has nearly fallen out of the news cycle, replaced by Mitch McConnell’s not-at-all proof-of-life photo op and Trump’s Biggest Lie Ever speech on Thursday night. But the initial response to his sudden demise and an “investigation” by the FBI as a response has set off the online conspiracy theorists, which is just par for the (golf) course when it comes to the way death is handled on social media.
Nobody can just die of natural causes anymore. Graham was said to have been complaining about not feeling well on Saturday night. But he didn’t want to miss his chance to praise Netanyahu yet again on Meet the Press Sunday morning, so he reportedly told staffers he would get medical attention after the interview.
“I can’t die now,” Graham is said to have joked. “I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization.”
The Trump regime’s version of “normalization” is pretty far from normal, but few were willing to point that out when talking about Graham’s death.
Still, there are tactful ways to talk about someone reprehensible that you had to work with, for example, as former President Joe Bidendid.
Leave it to Joe Cool to always set the standard for keeping it classy. A lot of Democrats did a lot of tightrope walking with this one, calling Graham “their friend” that they “often disagreed” with. Nobody with proximity to power wants to lose that proximity, as Charlotte Clymer sharply pointed out on Facebook on Wednesday.
As for me, I shared the same three screenshots of Graham that have been living on my phone for as long as Lindsey has been compromised.
There was a time when Lindsey Graham told the truth about Trump, but then he got an invitation to play golf that he definitely should’ve turned down, because he sealed his legacy on a putting green.
The official cause of death was “Myocardial infarction related to heart disease,” and self-recrimination for 10 years is hell on the ticker. Self-hate sure does rot you from the inside out.
I’m not sorry for any of the energy I spent criticizing everything about Lindsey “Friend of Israel” Graham, from his hawkish tactics to always voting against the LGBTQ community. Anyone who tweeted anything less than a glowing post about “Leningrad” Lindsey Graham got the full clutched-pearl version of MAGA, who took projection language to another level whenever they talked about the way we were talking about him.
It’s ridiculous for them to keep pushing multiple false narratives at once, because they can’t keep up, but the notion that death makes someone a saint really doesn’t work when their Dear Leader sets this kind of an example.
Telling the truth about our elected officials, both living and no longer living, will remain an act of resistance until Democrats are back in power, especially when the GOP refuses to ever acknowledge the truth about Graham, Trump, the Epstein Files, or anything else.
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