• atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Careful what you wish for - younger conservatives have been crazier and have entered politics or grew up in an era where Trump was a politician. At least Graham and other remember a time when the government wasn’t a completely corrupted personal project of the president.

      Things can always get worse.

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        At least Graham and other remember a time when the government wasn’t a completely corrupted personal project of the president.

        And yet he ignored all that.

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        Graham was the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, he (along with McConnell, who was majority leader at the time) was directly responsible for the Republican takeover of the SCOTUS. Merrick Garland never got a confirmation vote because Graham never scheduled hearings. He made up some bullshit excuses for that, and then when RBG passed, he made some bullshit excuses to do a total 180 and get that pick approved before Trump left office.

        He is just as responsible for the state of things today as Mitch was.

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        Reminder these younger republicans are like 50. They’ve experienced plenty of normal politics pre-Trump

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          Which ending? I’d take either that you were hinting at. An Arya ninja move from nowhere, or a Bran the Broken settlement. Either way, at least with reality we’ll be able to see what’s going on at night.

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      Wonderful way to start the day! 🎊🥳🌈. It just gets better from here! I am curious what “brief and sudden illness” this could be? Well, and is it catching?

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    Graham became well-known for his close ties with Trump, whom the senator briefly ran against for the presidential nomination in 2016.

    Their relationship would begin on a rough note, with Graham calling the then-New York businessman “unfit for office.” Graham used a profanity to describe Trump after Trump made disparaging comments about Arizona Republican John McCain, Graham’s best friend in the Senate and a Vietnam War veteran.

    During a campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump read out Graham’s personal cellphone number and continued to belittle him throughout the 2016 race

    Graham, however, shifted significantly once Trump won the White House and emerged as one of Trump’s top allies — speaking with him frequently and becoming a regular presence on the golf course alongside the president

    HAHAHAHA dumb bitch was “best friends with John McCain” and hated trump, but immediately rolled over like the lil bitch he is (was) when the fat fascist fuck came into power. Spineless coward, everything he did was to benefit himself and hurt others. Rot in hell, dipshit.

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    Mitch would HAVE to show up for this, and it’s going to make Weekend at Moscow Mitch way more difficult to pull off

    Fuck yeah, perfect timing