Lindsey Graham looks like a frightened man.

[madaboutharry]

They just showed a clip of him om MSNBC talking about Joe Biden and that he (Graham) was just "doing his duty" in the Senate by opening an investigation into the Bidens. He also claimed to "love" Joe Biden and Biden "tore the bark off" John McCain and Sarah Palin in 2008 and Joe Biden was friends with John McCain, so there!

He looks so pathetic. There is a backstory that will one day be told that will lead to an understanding of Graham's atrocious behavior.

[dewsgirl]

1. It's got to be beyond bad.

[alterfurz]

9. can't be just the rubles laundered through the NRA to his campaign...

...because they've all done that. Can't be just the gay, either...unless there are minors involved?

[dewsgirl]

12. That's what I'm thinking.

[2naSalit]

18. I think a lot of them

either were or became members of the Epstein club either as participants in the raping or as funders/enablers in which they ended up with the slime on them too. And if it isn't the Epstein club it's the pootin club where they are participating in some other criminal organization.

When it comes to Lindsey, I'm sure it the Epstein club.

[obamanut2012]

21. I think it has to be minors

Probably male.

One golf meeting with Trump and he flips? Yeah, he was told something.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

32. Anybody remember Mark Foley ???

Republican congressman from FL . . . he and Lindsey were friends.

[Mr. Ected]

2. All the GOP Congressmen and -women with pinwheel eyes took dirty Russian oligarch money

Funneled via the NRA into their coffers. The Party itself is awash in the Motherland's cash.

They're being blackmailed, every single one of them. You can see fear in their eyes (behind the pinwheels spinning); Nunes isn't a tough guy, he's scared shitless, so is Graham, and they're not afraid of Trump like we so readily theorize.

Want a clue? Remember on the 4th of July when all those GOPPers went to Moscow? You think THAT wasn't to send a message? All of them were getting their marching orders and a "premonition" of what would happen if they swayed off course.

[captain queeg]

8. Yep

[smirkymonkey]

13. +1000

[2naSalit]

19. +100000000000000000000000!!

[dchill]

27. We can all agree with that!

Oath of office? Oath of office? Anybody? Anybody?

[Siwsan]

3. What ever is in that dossier, that I suspect trump* has on him, must be beyond scathing

No doubt everyone whose opinion on trump* has done a '180' is in the same situation.

[onetexan]

7. For sure putin has blackmailed the GOP members to remain loyal to the Useful Idiot

He set in place.

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. You can bet Putin shared his intel on Republican leadership.

Just helping out his puppet.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Tore the bark off of McCain and Palin?

What's that supposed to mean? That he exposed them for what they are/were? Nope. They did that to themselves. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.

[mr_lebowski]

31. Think it just means him and obama whupped their ass in the election ... (nt)

[Mike Nelson]

5. The media always let him...

... play nice on TV while being nasty for his Deplorable voters.

[GeorgeGist]

6. Underage Boy or Girl?

[dchill]

28. Not that it matters, but my guess is boy(s.)

[FM123]

10. Are we still calling him a man?

He seems to have regressed from what he was (and that's not saying much)

[Bucky]

15. He lost his surrogate daddy when McCain died

And then gravitated, along with the rest of the Republican herd, like a lost puppy dog in the rain following whoever throws him a scrap of food

[Grammy23]

11. He is clearly being controlled by someone. The sweat on his face whenever he

goes on camera is pretty telling. Whatever it is they have on him has him firmly in line, stuck with his lot in life. But he lives in eternal fear that the truth will eek out. So he continues to behave by the rules of whoever has him under their thumb.

I’m not young anymore. If I get my wish, I’ll live long enough for this whole conspiracy to be unraveled and we’ll know the whole story. Every detail. And Lindsey, the little worm, will have to deal with what he has done. Face to face. What a lowlife. I’d hate to think if this is how he treats someone he “likes”, how does he treat his enemies??!

[Bucky]

14. "There is a backstory..."

The backstory is that quislings travel in herds.

Lindsey Graham, while IQ-wise a pretty smart fellow, is the kind of guy who loves following a strong man. When John McCain was alive, he recognized the real thing and trotted after McCain like a lost puppy dog.

After McCain died, Graham quickly found a new strong man to be craven over. Or technically he lacked the moral center and to resist falling in line behind Trump like all the other quislings in the Republican Party.

I don't know if he arrived in Washington DC like that, or if being around the center of power for so many years it just exacerbated that quality in him. But he has always put his considerable talents toward nuzzling up to the strongest man in the room.

If you're looking for the psychological background that created this sort of personality flaw, read his biography. Both his parents died when he was a teenager and he had to raise his much younger sister on his own. That altered his life plans at a young age and probably created some of that puppy like anxiousness to please whoever can give him emotional shelter.

[MLAA]

16. All that you said plus some kind of criminal behavior is being held as blackmail.

In my opinion it is such criminal behavior that it wouldn’t just be embarrassing but could land him in prison.

[Bucky]

24. What makes you think it's criminal behavior?

[MLAA]

25. If it were merely embarrassing and not criminal....

I would think he would go public and not allow himself to be blackmailed resulting in a loss of all integrity and most recently his mental health.

Just my guess.

[dchill]

29. Yes, he's a born idolator. But I think there's more to it.

One round of golf was all it took to completely reverse Lindsey's emotional condition? Enough time, I guess, for TrumPutin to show Lindsey his very own dossier.

[chowder66]

17. Graham has no compass. McCain seemed to be that for him.

Once McCain couldn't "be there" for him he started looking for his next compass and he found it in Trump. I think it's as simple as that.
He's bereft in all things and we are seeing a very flawed man hitching his bandwagon to a nightmare - which is Trump.

He could have, in a way, created his own legacy in Congress easily. Continuing McCain's work and stance to a degree.
Graham wouldn't ever reach the same reverence as McCain but he could have been a "Maverick"; instead he ran from it and became the
lackey for a madman. I think that's why you see all of these crazy swings from Graham.

The man is lost.


Or....... they have some nasty dirt on him. Who really knows?

[pnwest]

20. There's such a desperate quality to their

defense of trump. I can’t believe they’re ALL so stupid as to believe the crap coming out of their mouths, and it comes out with such ugly fierceness, like “Please believe me! See?! Look how serious and passionate I am about this!” I love the “spinny eyes” someone else mentioned.

Talking with the boyfriend one day, I surmised it has to be something so much worse than we imagine. I cannot understand why they are so willingly trashing their reputations, credibility, futures...I said most people, after SO much public rejection and anger directed at them, would say screw it, it’s not worth THIS level of stress to try to keep something like an affair or being gay from coming to light.

It said it feels like we’re at the point in the movie where the bad guy has nukes pointed at the country, has an itchy trigger finger and is threatening to blow up the world if he doesn’t get what he wants. Which made me wonder if the threat IS something THAT serious. Wayyyy beyond blackmail. Maybe Putin has revealed capability of taking down our entire electrical grid, or taking down the entire banking system with a virus - or even nukes. Their desperation to be seen as remaining loyal to trump, and by default his pro-Russian agenda, feels to me anyway, much heavier than blackmail, more like their - and our - lives depend on it.

I remember when the 2008 financial crisis happened, there was a report that in September of that year, of a very strange and alarming sudden drain of billions and billions of dollars from our financial system in some way, late on a Friday I think. It was mentioned briefly by one guy, and then we never heard about it again. I think back to that, and the understanding of what an utterly fragile thing stock market speculation and our entire system of finance is, and wonder if our entire nation and way if life is being threatened in this kind of grave manner.

[Aristus]

22. He's not a frightened man.

He's a frightened little boy. A perfect example of the party made up almost exclusively of frightened little boys. They are so terrified that people are going to start treating them they way they've been treating everyone else in the country since Eisenhower left office.

[csziggy]

23. This article from September 2018 pretty much covers Lindsey Graham

Sept. 16, 2018
The “Little Jerk” Once defined by his loathing for Trump, Lindsey Graham is now all-in for the president. Why?
By Lisa Miller Illustration by Philip Burke

as a politician ever debased himself more in public than when Lindsey Graham eulogized his friend John McCain? Bleary-eyed from grief, the senior senator from South Carolina took his place at the lectern on the Senate floor and insisted on his own inferiority. He was the Great Man’s mascot, his funny little buddy — his “wingman,” he said — lucky to have walked in his shadow and blessed to have been loved by him. McCain, who used pejoratives as endearments, called Graham “Little Jerk.” Recalling this, Graham looked up from his notes, seeming to be considering its meaning for the first time. “You’ve all got your names,” he said darkly. “And you earned them like I did.”

It is tempting to imagine that in that moment, Graham was reflecting on all the ways he had betrayed his friend. McCain hated Trump with all his tenacious strength and banned him from his own funeral, yet as McCain lay dying, Graham went golfing with the president. Later he helped wangle an invitation to the funeral for Ivanka and Jared.

<SNIP>

Yet a couple of days before McCain died, Graham was on Fox, giving Trump cover for potentially firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the midterms — a move that could have catastrophic political and constitutional effects should a more malleable AG find a way to end or curb the Mueller probe. Earlier this month, Graham clarified his position again, saying any new AG nominee would have to protect the investigation.

This waffling, from a politician who has always presented himself as a stalwart protector of the rule of law, made Democrats who had imagined in him a conscience or a plausible rebel turn away in despair. Even some of Graham’s erstwhile friends in the GOP reminded him of what he’d said just last year, that if Trump fired Sessions, “there would be holy hell to pay.” Bill Kristol, the conservative pundit and former ally of Graham’s, shamed him on Twitter: “History will record that @LindseyGrahamSC went out of his way to court favor with Donald Trump at precisely the moment … his enablers needed to hear a message of resistance.”

More: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/09/what-happened-to-lindsey-graham.html

[oasis]

34. Leningrad Lindsey has slid even deeper into the deplorable quagmire. nt

[spooky3]

26. I don't think it's blackmail. I think it's money. Many of the

Republicans have likely received payments. And, they see the polls showing their base is still backing Trump, so if they want to keep their income and power, they go along to get along.

[not_the_one]

33. two things...

Leningrad Lindsey is a weakling, a follower. He NEEDS an alpha dog. Too bad he lost John McCain.

Leningrad Lindsey went to Moscow. Moscow is like Las Vegas. What happens in Moscow stays in Moscow. And Putin allowed Leningrad Lindsey to live out his wildest dreams. OF COURSE Pootie Poot taped it. Duh!