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In 30 or 50 years, the period we are living through now will be remembered as the Great Cowardice. That is how it will appear in our grandchildren’s history books.
“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”
OSSOFF: “.. Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the President’s delusions?”
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
The only thing I'll remember about Lindsey Graham is his mistreatment of Dr Christine Blasey Ford. Acting apoplectic at nonsensical details because he knew the most powerful misogynist in the world was watching him. I've never seen a man debase and humiliate himself so much.
Andy Beshear should just steal mcconnell's senate seat the way mcconnell stole Obama's Supreme Court seat.
Lemme gon’ head and rewatch The Newsroom. This is one of, if not thee first scene of this whole series. 😎
Bernie's Poolside Chill
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Mitch McConnell has released a photo and the first statement on his condition: "I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
True hot take: Policing & scolding people for being glad Lindsey Graham’s reign of terror has ended is infinitely more unethical and immoral than people celebrating ever could be, because knowing what we know about the sheer volume of harm and deaths that man caused, it would be weird if you didn’t
Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...
Lindsey knew better. He chose worse.
Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.
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Dedicated to lindsey graham this morning youtube.com/watch?v=l482...
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BlueSky waking up this morning:
Nicholas Cage's Fabulous Smile
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Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
He's not the dead senator we deserve, but he's the dead senator we need right now.
Lindsey Graham on Trump’s electability and core values:"I believe Donald Trump would be an absolute, utter disaster for the Republican Party, destroy conservatism as we know it... Trump is an interloper and a demagogue of the greatest proportion." (CBS News, March 20, 2016)
“Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention. Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Donald Trump was from the very beginning, and chose him over his country.” - Steve Schmidt
I know the tendency is to say the movie PCU aged poorly. I'm just not sure I agree. "Performative wokeness can be annoying sometimes but the people who hate it most are little Nazi weasels" kinda holds up as a message.
Video games are good, they're so good man. It's very sad that a cabal of money idiots has ruined them for everyone
Thanks for making everyone in the country miserable for our 250th Anniversary you weak prick. Thanks for alienating all our dear friends around the world. Thanks for ripping us off and driving up the cost of living to unsustainable levels asshole. Go away. Leave us the fuck alone. You are done here.