Somebody tell me if history was or was not made in South Carolina this afternoon. As you read here earlier, Senator Lindsey Graham took the stage to introduce people at the Trump rally and he was resoundingly booed. It was an Elmer Gantry moment, as I said. And but for the fact that the crowd didn’t throw rotten eggs, it would have been life imitating art exactly.
Graham slunk away and sat down. Then Donald Trump got up and revived the hostilities. He had no reason to reopen this fresh wound but he did, so he could play big shot and do some faux forgiveness of the senator. This is batshit. And to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time a former president has publicly humiliated a sitting senator, much less in the senator’s home state and in the county he grew up in.
I don’t know what Trump has on Graham but it has to be something big. I can’t imagine anybody with any self respect standing still for this.
My god this is humiliating and embarrassing. I genuinely don’t understand why and how Sen Graham subjects himself to this. https://t.co/vNWMaGB63p
— Ayman (@AymanM) July 1, 2023
“When I need some of those liberal votes.” Graham is a “liberal” now? Okey doke.
The rest of the Trump rally really is not worth you wasting your time on because you’ve seen and heard it all before. We know all about Joe Biden’s “crime family” and the kazillion boxes in Chinatown and how Jack Smith is a “thug” and all of it. There was not one original thought all day.
This is how Trump closed. I presume this is the close because there’s music playing. And again, he strikes out at the free press as the “enemy of the people” bla bla. I don’t know why his cult loves to show up and listen to this but they must because, obviously, they are there.
Trump said the press is “the enemy of the people” and he “has done absolutely nothing wrong.” pic.twitter.com/VwrAsmSRzy
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 1, 2023
Now here is some comic relief. God knows we can use it, after this.
🤣😅🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/NNGLm7cNvK
— 🇺🇸 Geo Is Still Pissed 🇺🇦🏳️🌈⚧️🌊🐕💉🌎🍷🌿 (@Geo_Is_Pissed) July 1, 2023
You can’t make it up. Maybe God wanted to show them a pride rainbow. I have no idea. This whole Trump cult and everything associated with it is way beyond me.
I simply hope that Lindsey Graham grows a pair and breaks free from the thrall of Trump but I am not holding my breath.
When former guy no longer has a water boy, when no one in politics/the legal prof./family/friends (not sure he has any) what exactly does he think he’ll do? Eventually even Graham is going to have to say F.U. to former guy-he’s got to have some pride…even if it’s just a teeny bit. Yeah, there will be some of the admin’s has-beens (miller and the kracken come to mind) but I think even he would know they are not even F-listers, more like Z-listers.
I’ve stopped asking W.T.F. is he doing. I’ve gone to what is he going to do when everyone is gone. I don’t care how much of the gop base he has in his itty, bitty hands, he still needs staff. Elections don’t get won without staff.
Maybe the question of what he will do is actually what chores they may assign to him in prison … Scrubbing floors, sobbing and crying until all the tears are gone, like the infant he always was and still is …
Prison has the tendency to lay bare your social skills disability, old timers can be VERY cruel, using a newcomer’s weaknesses as a weapon to reduce the new guy to a puddle of despair that can be tormented to the delight of the whole prison population, finding ANYONE to be his guardian would be virtually impossible, they will know more about him than he does when he gets there, in another comment I mentioned that his nickname might be “Cue Ball”, after they shave off that horrible hair …
Lindsey Graham is a lost cause. Trump can treat Graham worse than Mitt Romney’s dog, and Graham will keep coming back for more, because Tre45on has kompromat on Graham thanks to Drumpf’s patron Vladmir Putin and his hackers.
I swear, Lindsey must be sitting on a swivel chair, one way he gets red faced and curses Dems for how they are treating an obvious beer man, (during Congress’s probing questions about his history), in law school, how dare them!! [One of Trump’s ill-gotten SCOTUS members] …
Then, on visiting, (The View) team on ABC, he could be almost normal and sedate in conversations …
It seems he has the Republican method down pat, scold the interviewer for such terrible treatment of the person under the gun, without one iota of the message and question in the air, to the point of red faced screaming … A true showman of fierce take down of our Dems asking the questions … they had him in their sights, so bad, he was going through those bottles of water, like a man coming in off the desert …
Too bad OUR Grassley kept the over 40 voluntary witnesses mute, that knew him well as fellow students in his school … Grassley, had said, “We will give the FBI another week to interview those former students, [How many did they interview?], ZERO …
Well, we know who the FBI was working for at the time, so the fix was in … Grassley has said in a home town meeting, he supported Trump unconditionally, how he fawned over Trump when he was here in Iowa, was embarrassing and sickening …
I guess I’m under-informed, but this the most esoteric comment ever on PZ. It’s just word-salad to me.
About this: “When I need some of those liberal votes.” Graham is a “liberal” now? Okey doke.
That could actually be suggesting that Graham managed to “win over” wavering “liberals” (probably the likes of Manchin and Sinema) rather than suggesting that Graham himself is a liberal.
Excellent point. I had no idea what Trump was talking about. And I never would have figured it out because Sinema and Manchin are hardly liberals either. But that’s probably what Trump was alluding to.
or he is just snidely suggesting that Graham’s presumed LGBTQ status will draw liberals.
Noh Pho King Wei.
I’ve often referred to Graham as “Lamprey Lindsey” because a Lamprey is an aquatic parasite that requires a large host to survive. Techincallly they aren’t eels but for all intents and purposes they are, or at least sure as hell look like one. Lampreys are distinctive because of their large mouths, with many rings (one behind the other) of small sharp teeth that keep them firmly attached to their host. Politically Graham has always been one. It was for so long the late john McCain but as McCain was dying Graham saw a chance to detach early and latch on to Trump.
Except Trump no longer will tolerate his parasite Graham. Trump wouldn’t have the guts to rip the Lamprey away but he’d go to a doctor to do it. Say Ronnie Jackson who likely botched the job and the wound is leaking. Hence that stain on Trump’s suit jacket!
Both – Trump and Graham – are most likely individuals that due to their own individual and shared – dominant and submissive – circumstances, are not well. Trump must have done a thorough and proctologist procedure on Graham to hobble Graham into his 180 position of submission and ultimate ridicule. BTW, a Q: in this particular proctologist based relationship, what’s at either end of the colonoscope? A: an arsehole.
Links to the dead bird site are not working any there are some, like me, who are no longer welcome there (I was caught up in one of muskrats early sweep of ridding his site of liberal voices). So we miss a lot when the links are all to twit. Thank you.
Elon threw you off of Twitter? Seriously? I’m not sure how to deal with this. I reached out today to a guy I do advertising with on Twitter to see if he had some advice. Some tapes are on YouTube but others are exclusive to Twitter. I don’t know what we’re all going to do if Twitter goes the way of the Titanic.
It has been said that Lady G is the closest Donald Trump has ever come to owning a dog.
Now the MAGAts hate him and the non-MAGAts never liked him in the first place.
Maybe he can run as Mike Pence’s VP on the “snowball’s chance in hell” ticket.