Welp, they say all good things must come to an end, and after its week-long dominance of the trending on Twitter top spot #MoscowMitch is giving way to the richly deserved moniker #LeningradLindsey.
Though Graham has been working hard to earn this designation, completely reversing course and pledging fealty to TsarevichTrump after a round of golf during which only FSM knows what sort of kompromat was discussed, he really cemented his hold on the title yesterday when he advanced his master’s white nationalist (read Russian) agenda by breaking four rules of the Senate, shutting down Democrat’s right to speak before calling for a vote to pass a bill authorizing the continued kidnapping of migrant children at the border.
“The hashtag “LeningradLindsey” trended on Twitter Thursday after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) forced a controversial asylum bill through committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced a bill to overhaul U.S. asylum laws, waiving committee rules to force the bill through to the full Senate, where it likely won’t get the 60 votes it needs to pass.
But Graham’s move to push the bill through the panel outraged Democrats who say the South Carolina senator broke the rules on how lawmakers take up legislation in order to move a partisan bill along.
Hundreds started using the hashtag invoking Leningrad — the Soviet-era name of the Russian city of St. Petersburg — slamming Graham for the move.”
Senator Patrick Leahy was causally vocal on this flagrant violation of prototypical.
Chairman Graham just broke FOUR committee rules in order to advance Pres. Trump’s bill to lock up immigrant children INDEFINITELY. Rules every Republican voted for 6 months ago. Rules I always respected as chairman.
They might as well rip them up. So I did it for them. pic.twitter.com/SCjnFLSOtE
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) August 1, 2019
And so a hashtag was born.
This is why #leningradlindsay broke process rules in Congress today. To defend an immoral policy he broke rules that govern us to impose his way on the country. Think about that. https://t.co/F4VJBilI5e
— Mike McGuire (@oldvaulthunter) August 2, 2019
So #LeningradLindsay got $800,000 from Russian oil companies. #MoscowMitch will be jealous… https://t.co/361QdK29qv
— Theater of the Absurd (@KarlShatterhand) August 2, 2019
Well, #LeningradLindsay, how many of those babies and families were caught Smuggling Drugs or Trafficking Human Beings?
When was the last time ANY Refugee even had an Asylum Hearing?— sandi baise (@sandibaise1) August 1, 2019
#LeningradLindsay now feels powerful enough to break the most obvious rules. #MoscowMitch must have given him the new playbook.
— HHS (@szajdablue) August 2, 2019
Truth hurts and it’s clear he and #LeningradLindsay @LindseyGrahamSC are under the influence of something best described as un-American!
— Johnathan M. Dunn (@JohnathanMDunn1) August 2, 2019
#LeningradLindsay #MoscowMitch This is how they did it in the Soviet Union, I’ll bet. Omg what do they have on Miss Lindsay?
— I’m Your Auntie Mame ?️? (@SFGayMom) August 1, 2019
So, who will be next?
With all the Russia rigging going down in Florida, I’m betting on #RostovRubio
#LeningradLindsay is using orange spray and dying his hair now…. next thing Marco Trumpio will as well. pic.twitter.com/k1rHokf5r2
— observe_ct (@CtObserve) August 2, 2019
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Holy Cow, this is devastating …. is EVERY place holder in Congress as a Republican on board with this?
The clean out has to begin TODAY!!
Shit and Shinola BS from trump is bad enough, explosive outrage, (usually a sign of being terribly wrong on something), then, as the dust settles everyone forgets what the hell the question was to start with …
Graham has crossed over the creek between a man that used to be semi reasonable to the freaking dumb ass he has become … did Trump mention his very strong connections to the MOB and how he thinks, since he IS the ultimate man, he could easily order a hit on anyone or their family and get away with it …?
Graham was not just yelling, he was at full wild terror levels, red faced down to his shoulders, a full spit-til rage, knowing his job was to break through the close at hand possible squash of the drunken new member of the SCOTUS … the circus was, at once annoying and, with two raging lunatics at the same meeting, my self-defense siren went off, the one that says, here again is Republican clan in full color, being the most dangerous, one sided Congress Senate … EVER !!
Here in Florida we call him (Rubio) Blondie.