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submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Fresh off his primary win, Lindsey Graham lavished praise on Donald Trump, calling him “not far behind God” and casting him as the Republican Party’s undisputed kingmaker.

The four-term South Carolina senator made the remarks during his Tuesday night victory speech, after fending off five challengers and winning more than half the vote.

“I want to start with a bunch of thank yous. I want to thank the big guy, God. Trump comes later,” Graham told a crowd of supporters, while laughing. “Mr. President, you're not far behind God, but we’re gonna start with him.”

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[-] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago
[-] MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago

I wonder how many little boys Graham has fucked that they have proof of?

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Lindsay. Toadiest toady that ever toadied (in the last 10 minutes). He knows he’s only there for as long as he’s useful because he’s what they hate. He probably has so much dirt in everyone he’ll fall out of a window before he ever has a chance to leave.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Lindsay, you stupid whore, did you not see his post? He is literally Jesus Christ. That is who he is to you, anyway, and any other followers of his.

(to everyone else, he is simply a doctor)

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago

God ---> Jesus ---> Felon Rapist Pedophile

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 8 points 8 hours ago

God is a notorious egomaniac who’s committed multiple genocides, glassed middle eastern cities, knocked up a teenager who was someone else’s fiancé, sent his goons to threaten her fiancé to accept his cucking, then dipped on child support and let his kid get torture-killed. Hate to say it, Lindsay is correct; Trump is a very God-like man.

[-] Epp@lemmus.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Especially the Mormon version, who threatened women with destruction for refusing to spread their legs for Joseph Smith.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 78 points 14 hours ago
[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Honestly, he should have been right. But here we are.

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 37 points 13 hours ago

It's almost as if they don't have a spine.

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 16 points 12 hours ago

I maintain that based one his behavior since then that Lindsay Graham had to have done something like murdered someone(probably a child) in the middle of a sexual act or something like that, his 180 is too jarring for the dirt to not be the most atrocious

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

His 180 is a simple case of tribalism. The good of the party outranks the good of the cause. Hell most Republicans talked shit about Trump before he was elected, including his own VP.

Same reason some Republican group took down a bunch of rebukes of Ken Paxton immediately after he beat Cornyn.

[-] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

He should have been voted out in a primary a while ago, this is all just to not show off how he's not actually a modern republican.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

South Carolina is an ES&S state. It is also a state where miraculously, every time Graham has a real challenger for his seat, like with Jaime Harrison in 2020 when there was a huge and overwhelming drive to get the vote out down there, at the very last second just enough votes come in to keep Graham in his seat.

This is why Lindsey Graham believes in god. Not the ethereal Divine, and certainly not the orange chancre, but for all the times ES&S voting machines have miraculously delivered for him.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 48 points 13 hours ago

Okay kevin. No matter what you do he will never respect you.

[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

And for a final year, we have a season of the boys that was so absurd when it was written, you're shocked anyone greenlit it, only for the Trump admin to make it look like a normal thing.

[-] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 6 points 13 hours ago

I think he was going for an Andrew Tate vibe.

[-] mystik@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

If he not that far behind God, I'm not sure I like that God. That's not the God I was taught about.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago

Maybe God is a 12 year old girl

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

No, then he'd be right in front of God

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 43 points 13 hours ago
[-] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 9 points 10 hours ago

These dinosaur politicians see Trump as a benefit the same way CEOs see AI as a money machine. They don't care what the mechanisms are, or what has to be abandoned/contradicted to use it. They want "number go up."

And that's why we need new folks in Washington (and fewer CEOs).

[-] Ozzy@piefeed.com 19 points 13 hours ago

cult
noun

  1. a relatively small group of people having beliefs or practices, especially relating to religion, that are regarded by others as strange or sinister or as imposing excessive control over members

Example: a network of Satan-worshipping cults

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

I like how they include "relatively small" so mainstream Christianity wouldn't fit the definition.

Once you had a certain size I guess we just call it religion.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

One distinction I've heard is that in a cult, the people who started it and know it's all bullshit are still alive.

[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Wait until he comes out of the closet

[-] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago

This is just so utterly pathetic

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