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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 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago

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

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

get busy...?

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 6 points 2 months ago

I think he was going for an Andrew Tate vibe.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months 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.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Redraw with diaper around his ankles.

[–] Ozzy@piefeed.com 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months 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.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Graham has the machines rigged because he should not be winning shit with how much he sucks.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I mean their god ain't exactly big on the concept of consent.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He already won his primary.

[–] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... 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 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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)

[–] MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] mystik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe God is a 12 year old girl

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

You sure about that?

Might be time for a critical reading of the Old Testament

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago

Trump is the geek biting heads off chickens while the pickpockets work the crowd.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago

Trump is not far from Satan's sulfurous asshole.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump's spirit is extremely skaven-y. So the Great Horned Rat.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Wait until he comes out of the closet

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Dude even the rest of the south hates South Carolina. First to secede.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

This is just so utterly pathetic

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 on everyone he’ll fall out of a window before he ever has a chance to leave.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What is god to an atheist?

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago