Enough with the "Lindsey was a good person" stuff!

[imanamerican63]

I’m sorry he passed away, not because of him. Anyone who passes away, I feel bad for those around him.

But the “Lindsey was good person” montage is not what he was! He was a sniveling little man who blew the way the wind blew! He used friends to get what he wanted which gained him fame, popularity and fortune.

He was vile and arrogant! He knew nothing but hate and discontent for those who were not in his class of people.

I know it is wrong to speak of the dead, but his way of treating others was a joke.

So, his eulogy will be unbearable to anyone who knows that he was a terrible person! That goes for many GOBers who will be leaving this world sooner rather than later.

I will pray for his family, but it is hard to pray for such a vile horrible person.

[dalton99a]

1. No one should pray for the Trump family when he dies

The entire Trump family is filthy criminal trash - every damn one

[YodaMom2]

33. Mary gets a pass.

She’s good people.

[Dave Bowman]

2. He was a horrible person and is responsible for a lot of suffering. I would happily pee on his tomb.

[FakeNoose]

3. He was a good friend to John McCain

Everything about Lindsey changed after John passed away. That's the only good thing I can say about him.
This is probably the last time that I will share my favorite Lindsey Graham gif:

[KS Toronado]

8. Love your GIF, gonna copy & paste it into his cartoons I posted today.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221377148

[FakeNoose]

12. Sure, it's a great collection you posted

I'd be honored if you include this one. I can't remember where I found it, probably on Imgur.
It looks like it was created by Comedy Central, but once it's on the internet, everyone owns it.

[SCantiGOP]

25. I made a comment in our local (Columbia SC) paper

In the article on reaction to his death, I posted that “They buried Lindsey’s integrity with John McCain.”
The comment was taken down, then re-instated and had several dozen Recs.

[irisblue]

30. Grahams being a blood sucking tick on McCains semi evil butt is a truth

[Buckeyeblue]

4. The problem with Lindsey is that he was never the cool kid

But that's desperately what he wanted. He grew up poor in South Carolina so he was never going to be accepted in certain circles. But he wanted in. And he was always willing to do whatever it took.

[PatSeg]

14. Excellent point

He was the annoying little sidekick to the more fearsome school bully. Absolutely never the "cool kid".

Some people grow past that stage of their life, but others go to their grave still trying to please and impress the powerful.

[dflprincess]

21. I once heard someone refer to him as a barnacle

First he attached himself to McCain then Trump.

[YodaMom2]

35. He was the living embodiment of a beta.

He attached himself to powerful men to bask in their reflected glory, to borrow their power and influence. No shade, but given his…”predilections”…there may have been a touch of submissive eroticism involved as well.

[Martin68]

32. But a good person would not have stooped to the levels of callousness and hypocrisy that he descended in the service of

donald Trump.

[Emile]

5. Lindsey who?

[dalton99a]

7. +1. "What would Lindsey do?"

Well, who has the bigger ass?

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Couple of thoughts . . . . .

First, your life's mistakes aren't erased by your death and you're canonized.

Second, I reference Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby, namely "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After he is dead, I have nothing to do with it." Trump washed his hands of Lindsey the next day by selecting his sister, Darlene, who has absolutely no experience in politics and governance.

[lonely bird]

10. I do not disagree however

Bernie Moreno was elected senator for Ohio with absolutely no experience in government.

People assume success in the private sector in general and business in particular somehow causes political expertise to descend from above. The minimal requirements for assuming positions in government especially higher positions are incredibly small.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Point respectfully taken

[twodogsbarking]

9. I don't ever recall anyone saying he was a good person but sometimes I don't listen.

[PatSeg]

15. I can't recall either

Even in death, I'm not hearing anything positive about him. What a sad pathetic life.

[Shrek]

27. Not hard to find

Link to tweet

[twodogsbarking]

36. Figures.

[Crowman2009]

11. To myself, he was nothing but a cheerleader for mass murder.

There was never a war he didn't like.

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. I don't care what anyone says

To say something nice about someone who recently passed is giving comfort to their friends, family and loved ones. Nothing wrong with that. People need to stop with their silly purity tests.

[Montauk6]

18. THANK YOU!!!!!

I'm glad that there are mature Democrats STILL willing to be the adult in the room among a sea of feral, snaggletoothed, twice-held-back kindergarteners.

Again, THANK YOU SD61!

[dflprincess]

22. So we'll all just pretend he was a great guy

And forget about the harm he did and the people he hurt.

[SocialDemocrat61]

24. No

But no need to hurt his loved ones during their time of mourning

[themaguffin]

17. There is nothing to gain by being rude etc, BUT not noting his calls to GA to "find" votes is BS. That's his legacy.

[AverageOldGuy]

19. Mark Twain said it all.

“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

[Auggie]

20. I've wished some guys dead. Given time, those wishes always come true.

[MineralMan]

23. I prefer to say nothing about him.

[SCantiGOP]

26. He did have one redeeming feature

He was the strongest Ukraine supporter on the R side of the Senate. He had made 10 trips there since Jan 25, and likely influenced Trump’s limited efforts to help Ukraine resist Putin.
Of course he negated any true respect for that position by simultaneously supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.

[Aviation Pro]

28. Lindsey was a sniveling, little lickspittle

Who was compromised as fuck.

[PatrickforB]

29. Yes, Lindsey was a coward, yellow through and through. Fear ruled him and like a windsock at an airport, he went the

direction the wind blew. And yet, his body knew what he was doing was wrong - it experienced constant stress and high blood pressure that in the end caused his heart event.

What was it Shakespeare said,
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

The epitaph of a political wind sock.

When Trump is out of the picture, we will not be able to go back to business as usual. We need real, and I mean REAL reforms - an amendment overturning Citizens United, impeachment for at least two of the 'justices' on the Supreme Court, complete release of the UNREDACTED Epstein files so we can go after these modern billionaire robber barons, a change in the rules of corporate governance that puts worker interests, consumer interests and the welfare of the earth itself EQUAL in weight of fiduciary responsibility to shareholder profits. What we have now (MI Supreme Court, 1919, Dodge Brothers v Ford) holds shareholder profits above human life and the habitability of the planet itself. This is why our system encourages and rewards sociopathic behavior.

This is only part of it, of course, but lest you say, well, this is a laundry list - it is not. It is a checklist to taking back our republic and making our government once again a government of, by and for the people.

See, I paid over $18K in taxes last year to the federal government, and am literally getting nickel and dimed to death in turn - high healthcare costs, high energy costs, high water costs, high grocery costs, my Social Security in danger. Not to mention that everything the GOP has done has been to steal money from the treasury to line the pockets of Epstein class billionaires.

This country is getting to be a powder keg, and I'm seeing lots of repostings of the Declaration of Independence, 1789 and guillotine memes, so when Roberts (CEO of Heritage Foundation) told us in 2024 that the coup will be bloodless if the left lets it be, he wasn't thinking of John Q Public. He was thinking of Congress, the Judicial System and the Executive branch all being focused on enriching more of the Epstein class jokers and keeping up huge profits for defense companies, prison companies and the corporate media.

People are sick of it.

[Martin68]

31. Graham was a deplorable human being.

[WorseDayEver]

34. Lindsey Graham was a piece of GOP shit and knew it

delved in it, loved it, died in it