When I awoke early Sunday morning the last thing on my mind was that 71-year-old Lindsey Graham would beat 84-year-old Mitch McConnell to the grave.
When I learned the news, I thought it was a misprint, that they meant to write “Mitch McConnell is dead.” Nope, it was Lindsey. The Grim Reaper has a sense of humour. Or is it the Graham Reaper?
The next shocker was to find out that Mitch McConnell is allegedly alive and kicking. Expect all kinds of conspiracy theories to grow up around that.
Even though both men were members of the same fraternity of human scum that made Donald Trump possible, it boils down to timing, reputationally speaking. Had McConnell died he would have done so hating Trump. Lindsey died in the full throes of abject Trump sycophancy.
Thanks to all the death in the air, there’s a famous quote attributed to Bette Davis that’s making the rounds again. It goes something like, “My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” I think that line is particularly relevant today, but not for reasons you might think.
First, Bette Davis never uttered those words. The line is a complete phoney, invented from whole cloth and slapped on the Bette Davis legacy without her permission. Second, Bette Davis was a member of that baffling constellation of women who became gay icons, such as Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Cher and so on.
Lindsey Graham died a phoney, and he was almost certainly gay. I hasten to add that being gay is a perfectly normal thing for any human to be. I don’t condemn Lindsey Graham in the least for being gay, of course.
But I do condemn Lindsey Graham for denying he was gay and being a member of a deplorable cult of disgusting bigots who condemn homosexuality and want to make gay marriage illegal.
You might say that one of the skeletons in Lindsey Graham’s closet was the closet itself.
That is only the beginning of my condemnations of Lindsey Graham.
I condemn Lindsey Graham for being a member of another deplorable cult of disgusting bigots. The cult that threw away their lives of once-honourable public service, relatively speaking, in order to worship at the filthy feet of Donald Trump.
I can think of no other person who more completely erased his life by falling more abjectly on the disreputable Altar of Trump than Lindsey Graham.
Shakespeare had men like Graham in mind when he wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”
When Trump first ran for the presidency back in 2015, Graham characterised him as a “jackass,” a “kook,” and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” His most famous quote at that time was, “If we nominate Trump [as Republican candidate for president], we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it.” Lindsey certainly got that part right.
I further condemn Lindsey Graham for the fact that by 2018 Graham discovered the advantage, the power, the dominion and the downright glory of completely selling out to that fascist conman, the human scum Trump. Graham was happy to humiliate himself in order to touch the hem of Trump’s garment and be a part of his loathsome inner circle. Graham helped Trump by delivering the rapist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Then came January 6th, and Lindsey Graham saw the light that he always knew was there. Graham denounced Trump in the strongest terms for provoking the insurrection. He enunciated the ultimate heresy to the MAGA cult when he declared long and loud that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lawfully won the 2020 election.
Lindsey Graham then averred that he and Trump were finished once and for all.
Not so fast. A later quick trip to Mar-a-Lago and a game of golf, in which he probably let Trump cheat, was the price of bringing Lindsey back into the fascistic Trump fold. From that day to his dying breath, Lindsey Graham remained a fanatical Trump cultist. All it took to bring him back one last and final time was just another payout of 30 pieces of silver, so to speak.
I condemn in the strongest terms Lindsey Graham for being a warmonger. He unreservedly supported Trump’s stupid war of choice against Iran, up to and including advocating the use of nuclear weapons against innocent human beings doing nothing to anybody beyond living their lives.
I express the same condolences to Lindsey Graham’s remaining family that Lindsey himself expressed to the 150 Iranian schoolchildren whose lives Trump destroyed. That is to say, nothing.
The same goes for the 13 members of America’s military who died in Trump’s stupid war. The same goes for the tens of thousands of Iranian civilians who needlessly died. The same goes for the lives of Nicole Good, Alex Pretti and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. And so on.
Nothing.
Michael Fanone, the Metropolitan Police Officer who was present on January 6 heroically defending the members of Congress at the US Capitol against the Trump mob during the attack, had this to say about the death of Lindsey Graham:
“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you’re in it.”
I would like to echo Mr Fanone’s sentiments by paraphrasing that quote falsely attributed to Bette Davis. My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Lindsey Graham is dead. Good.
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