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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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 103 pts · 64d
Lindsey Graham in 2016
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 64d
It's almost as if they don't have a spine.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 64d
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
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 64d
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 · 4 pts · 64d
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.
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 64d
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.
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 64d
Honestly, he should have been right. But here we are.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 63d
Well, get busy, then.
artyom@piefed.social · 1 pts · 63d
get busy...?
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 64d
Okay kevin. No matter what you do he will never respect you.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 6 pts · 64d
I think he was going for an Andrew Tate vibe.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 64d
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.
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 64d
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 63d
Redraw with diaper around his ankles.
Ozzy@piefeed.com · 23 pts · 64d
cult
noun
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 64d
I like how they include "relatively small" so mainstream Christianity wouldn't fit the definition.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 64d
Once you had a certain size I guess we just call it religion.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 64d
One distinction I've heard is that in a cult, the people who started it and know it's all bullshit are still alive.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 64d
All religions are cults.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 64d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 63d
A cult is a small unpopular religion and a religion is a large popular cult. I heard this over forty years ago and its the best way to explain it.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 64d
Graham has the machines rigged because he should not be winning shit with how much he sucks.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 64d
Primaries typically have low turnout. Working people have a harder time getting out to vote so it’s the old and determined racists/homophobes/etc who cast the sway, usually.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 64d
God ---> Jesus ---> Felon Rapist Pedophile
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 64d
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 · 3 pts · 64d
Especially the Mormon version, who threatened women with destruction for refusing to spread their legs for Joseph Smith.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
I mean their god ain't exactly big on the concept of consent.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 64d
He's up for re-election in November. South Carolina needs to do the world a solid and send this asshole packing.
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 64d
He already won his primary.
RobMyBot@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 64d
... Which is why he's up for reelection in November.
If he'd lost the primary, then he would not be in November's election.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 63d
Yes, but the chances of a Democrat winning in South Carolina are not exactly huge. They basically have voted for the incumbent whenever it has been possible since the 1930s. South Carolina senators only change when someone dies or retires.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 64d
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)
MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 64d
I wonder how many little boys Graham has fucked that they have proof of?
mystik@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 64d
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 pts · 64d
Maybe God is a 12 year old girl
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
No, then he'd be right in front of God
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 63d
You sure about that?
Might be time for a critical reading of the Old Testament
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 64d
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).
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 63d
Trump is the geek biting heads off chickens while the pickpockets work the crowd.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 63d
JFC, this guy is utterly shameless.
So thirsty. This is the guy that warned that PEDOnald would be the end of their party, no?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 63d
Trump is not far from Satan's sulfurous asshole.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 63d
No, he's right!
im just not sure if its Tzeentch, slaanesh, nurgle or khorne. He embodies all of them pretty well.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 63d
Trump's spirit is extremely skaven-y. So the Great Horned Rat.
themaninblack@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 63d
Dude even the rest of the south hates South Carolina. First to secede.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d
Wait until he comes out of the closet
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 64d
This is just so utterly pathetic
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
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 on everyone he’ll fall out of a window before he ever has a chance to leave.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
gross
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d
What is god to an atheist?