Lindsey Graham, Trump ally who opposed LGBTQ+ rights and consistently denied being gay, dies at 71
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That's a great headline, BTW.
An evil heart and a lust for power meant even as society changed he never lived a single day of freedom. It'd be sad if he wasn't, y'know, evil.
It’s still sad. Don’t get me wrong, fuck that guy. But it’s a tragic story that repeats too often. I hope for a day where no one lives it again.
In the words of Radiohead
You do it to yourself, you do And that's what really hurts
"You won't believe what happened to this old celeb we won't name on the until you read the main body (gone sexual??)"
The is no HIPAA regulations on Grindr releasing it's database on how many hookups Lindsay did per month.
grindr would lose so much business if they started snitching on conservative politicians
Maybe just the dead ones then.
Even then. If I want a secret kept, I don't want my death to release the secret to the public
Don't be a public servant.
(no! Public service is great! But your point is valid)
I had to verify that was fake. You can't miss it if a corpo actually tweets something like that
Another skeleton in the closet
and nothing of value was lost
How dare you.
Now the ladybugs will never be seen again.
Fucking hell.
This made me laugh for two reasons: first, because fuck him and I hope he burns in hell; second, because just a day before I said to a friend, "Mitch McConnell is as alive as Lindsay Graham is straight."
Sometimes the universe just delivers
Now imagine we find out Mitch got hospitalized after overdrinking at a gay-bar or such.
*Dies gay, at 71."
Ftfy
Unfortunately the website I have only works on dead mormons and they ain't dead dunked him yet
Good. Fucking. Riddance. Rot in hell you lady bug child fucking shit bag.
You should probably not accuse a man you’re insinuating was gay of also fucking children with zero evidence. The only man who has ever even publicly claimed he had sex with him said he did so as an adult (he was already a porn actor). Since accusing gay men of being pedophiles is an incredibly old homophobic stereotype, maybe don’t do that. Especially since there’s a slew of shit he actually did to criticize him for.
I won't accuse the late senator of either sexually abusing children or being erotically attracted to them.
But he was a consistent Republican vote for shitty Republican ideas. So, yeah, he definitely fucked America's kids.
He's a MAGA so he's automatically a Pedophile. If he didn't rape children himself, then he protected those who do, and you know what they call a person who protects pedophiles?
A Pedophile.
Lindsey Graham was a Pedophile. He'll have plenty of company where he's going.
He only needed 1 golf game with trump to change his views by 180 degrees. I wonder why.
I also why Sasha Riley mentioned him specifically when talking about his experience with Epstein?
Those who voted for him are generally are those associating pedophilia with being gay, but there is also link with it of rich and powerful that we learned what was released about Epstein.
You got me, thought that was super plausible.
And a warmonger
If he was NOT gay then my gaydar was broken.
if hes wasnt, then there are several boyotys in sc that are very confused.
"Who are", for sentient beings. I bet they've been objectified enough in their work, so let's not treat them as objects here.
'That' can be an acceptable relative pronoun to refer to people, depending on the sentence structure and context.
You don't know what their pronouns are.
Boytoys sure sounds like fun. What age group are they for?
Old white men? NEVERMIND.
its an open secret miss lindsay
hashad... friends.. in charleston and columbiaI'm an old white man, and my boy toys are guitars.
One goes down and is not around... 99 Senators are left on the floor.
99 Senators sit in the hall...
99 Senators sit..
I know his shoes were off, and there was no oxygen, and they weren't in a hurry, but my government wouldn't lie to me, would it?
They vibe coded the song.
I have bad news for you, which is that he posted a statement and a photo with Elaine in his hospital room. It sounds like he had a mini stroke or something - he fell, they've done a "battery" of tests "trying to find out what caused the fall", and then caught a "mild" case of pneumonia due to hospitalization.
Even at 84, you don't take up a hospital bed for three and a half weeks just from a fall and pneumonia.
That's quite an escalation. What would be that sudden? Drug overdose? Suicide after the cognitive dissonance finally became overwhelming?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/see-map-tracking-spread-of-explosive-diarrhea-illness-across-us/ar-AA27FAjr
Or at least, this is what I want it to be and what I will tell anyone who asks did it.
I do really hope he shit himself to death.
They’re probably not announcing the cause of Lady G’s death because RFK might show up to try to eat the body if he thinks his decisions at the CDC contributed.
“It’s legitimate kill! Let me stick him in my trunk!”
You did mention roadkill . . .
A heart attack is a brief and sudden event...
If that's what happened, they're going to be hesitant to say it because that's what happened to McTurtle, and they're trying to stall till the normal election so it won't be a special election
If Mitch wasn't being kept alive by machines in a brain dead state, they'd have said Lindsey had a heart attack
There was a report of something happening a week or so earlier there too it’s very common for heart issues to happen in clusters like that
I found a news report that it was a tear of the aorta.
Can't wait for Candace to tell us it was really an exploding microphone that killed him.
In his ass
Will he be buried with his favorite butt plug?
No, sadly trump is still alive.
@LadyMeow @SnarkoPolo I call that a checkmate on me. You totally win. Encore.
👏
So?
Bury him with him, Egyptian style.
@Rivermoonwolf @LadyMeow Why? Egyptians carried worldly goods to the afterlife. He's going to carry super glue with fake gold but they won't have enough room for all the stolen documents (along with one supporter who likely kept him out of jail - Eileen Cannon).
Who wants to celebrate? Drinks on me, or edibles if you want that instead
There is no afterlife for those who have no soul.
Lemmy: I’m going to ignore that.
This guy: should we give him a pass since he may have been a closeted homosexual?
Burn him harder for making them look worse.
No. Double down on the gay jokes. Hedeserves it.
A lot of people are really tribialized around gender/sexuality which is especially crazy because both are made up social constructs and no matter the number of categories we invent, not everyone will fit in cleanly.
But for a lot of people, anyone that touches one of their in groups, automatically because someone above reproach.
Because they share an in-group, everything is fine. Anyone that doesn't share an in group though, is treated as "them".
It's a very dangerous social phenomena, and online communities where all users share a type of in group experience it to some extent. When the Admins actively encourage that attitude, it scares off or changes everyone who doesnt.
I need to know more about where you stand on gender/sexuality so I can decide whether to upvote or downvote you. /s
If not repeating literal homophobic libel is “giving him a pass” then yeah, man. I want to give every queer person a pass by thinking it’s fucked up to say they raped children without evidence.
Interesting how you skimmed right by the part of my comment about criticizing him on the heinous shit he actually did.thought this was a reply to a different comment. Regardless, if the only way [general] you know to criticize Graham is through homophobia, it just means you’re a fucking homophobe.That's predicted in the belief your opponent isn't an open hypocrite...
Lindsey had no shame about political things, and I feel like you need to read up on his role in the last decade of SC picks if you feel differently.
One of the few things he did feel shame about, was his absolute passion for sucking cock.
It's literally one of the few things that got to him, made him flustered, and distracted him from the evil he was doing.
No one gave Lindsey shit for sucking cock because sucking cock was bad.
They gave him shit for being ashamed of sucking cock.
That is a huge difference that you just can't seem to grasp, if Lindsey was still around he was a master of grabbing anything hard near him, he could have helped you out.
The punchline isn't that he was gay, it's that he was too much of a coward to admit it, and caused the deaths of thousands of people pushing military actions to appear macho.
Fuck that closeted piece of shit, and ignorance of how shit works doesn't give you an excuse to defend him.
Unfriendly self-hating hypocrites make up a huge number of people who make other people's lives miserable. His nickname on capital Hill was Lady G, it was an open secret. He would have loved to know that LGBT and allies were twisting themselves in knots over his love of cock.
The right doesn't like that they crash grndr every time they gather en mass in the US. It's not homophobic to make fun of them for being a bunch of cock hungry cowards. The cock hungry isn't the problem, the cowardice is.
Whether gay or straight, the man was a homophobic bigot that spent decades making the lives of gays and other vulnerable groups' lives less safe. If he were also gay that would not only mean that he was a self-hating bigot, it would mean that he also enjoyed protection due to his position and due to his homophobic policies from the consequences of said policies while others suffered, which makes him a selfish hypocrite.
It is not homophobic to suspect that he was gay in an of itself, as many people do, myself included. The fact that he would take that accusation as an insult is what is homophobic, and the fact that that would make him a selfish hypocrite as well as a homophobe is icing on that cake. I am more than willing to let his own self-hating homophobia be a source of discomfort for him in his life and taint on his legacy in his death.
Our hatred of this man is not because he was gay. It is because he was a homophobic monster and a warmonger at minimum, gay or not. But him being gay does make it worse for the betrayal and duplicity. He was likely a hypocrite that enjoyed safety and security with an active homosexual sex life that he also tried to denied others, like an asshole. Fuck that guy, gay or not, but doubly fuck him if he was a hypocrite too.
What I thought I was replying to was a different subthread where someone claimed Graham raped children, that’s the homophobic libel I was referring to. I’ve also seen a post on a different .world community speculating he died of AIDS, which is just overt homophobia.
Criticize him for the bigoted shit he did, I’ve probably been at it longer than most people celebrating this have since I grew up near the fucker. What’s disgusting is using this as an opportunity to unleash homophobic remarks (like the ones I was referring to above) at someone that ‘deserves’ it. He’s not going to see it: he’s fucking dead. The only people that will see it are living queer people who just get another slap in the face of homophobia, and cis het people who are seeing homophobia more and more normalized.