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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he isn’t buying all that Democratic “joy” on display at this past week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a Sunday appearance with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.
During their conversation, Tapper brought up the “disciplined” and “well-produced” DNC this week that, as the journalist put it, “conveyed patriotism and unity.” Graham didn’t see it that way.
“Well, I didn’t see what you saw,” Graham told Tapper with a laugh. “If you’re a Republican, you saw a hate fest. You saw a hate fest full of insults.”
“Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”
To bolster his claim, Graham pointed to the gas prices, the state of the border, and inflation during Donald Trump’s presidency when “the world was not on fire.”
He’s either lying or what he said gives us a look into his shitty perspective of the world. Either way such a miserable and pathetic existence.
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What a weird thing to say
Oh, I think it does, in hotel rooms all around the RNC, Miss Graham.
Known by the male escorts around DC as “Lady G”, so I’ve heard.
I would have no problem believing that. I also heard when he… reaches ecstasy, he sounds like Mickey Mouse.
Who knew that a person from a party of lies and doublespeak, a party set on a warpath of subjugating those they don’t like, a party creating hypocrite rules that they themselves don’t follow unless convenient would not want to admit to the existence of happy emotions. They’re so caught up in a web of bullshit that they have no concept of which way is up, right, or good, let alone happy.
What a sad statement from someone it is all too easy to believe actually thinks such a thing.
Lindsey Graham may be the most miserable person in congress.
Putin and Trump have something really, really bad on him. Or least, in the eyes of his constituents. The way he turned on a dime in Trump support after one round of golf tells you everything you need to know.
“Is that you eating a chocolate bar, Lindsey?”
He’s a “lifelong bachelor” 🙄, not allowing himself to experience true happiness with another person of his choosing according to his orientation out of the knowledge that he would be ostracized by his colleagues, voted out of office, and would lose his livelihood. He chose capitalism and power at the expense of his own joy, so he can go ahead and be as miserable as he wants to be for all I care.
He just hasn’t found a woman who has what he wants, which is a penis.
Plenty of women with penises out there.
… maybe none that’d touch Lindsey, but he did that to himself.
I hear they have girls like that in Thailand. A friend told me.
The inevitable result of republican policies.
The state of the border is due to Republican interference on that border bill specifically requested by Trump to keep it an issue this election, gas prices are well below inflation, and Inflation performance was better overall when compared to other Western Nations during Biden’s term and worse than during Trumps.
Lindsey is full of shit.
to be fair, I’ve heard that being in the closet your whole life can really drag you down.
What’s this from?
Joe vs. The Volcano
Very interesting trailer. Of course Meg Ryan. Is it any good as a film?
Tom Hanks in an 80s comedy (came out in 90 close enough) is usually worth it, I only watched it once a number of years ago. It wasn’t overly memorable but I recall enjoying it well enough. There was probably jokes I wasn’t paying attention enough to notice. However when you add Meg Ryan with Hanks you can’t really go wrong.
Doesn’t it have like 3 Meg Ryans in it? Doesn’t she play like three different characters?
One of my favorites, but ymmv.
I saw it in theaters as a kid. It was good, but I don’t really remember the plot since I haven’t seen it since then
yes. there are a few references in it that people should get. all the scenes before joe leaves for the volcano are meme-worthy. me and a buddy still laugh about this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMARnSUCoYY
“dingy!”
So this question kind of made me go down a bit of a rabbit hole, but this really captures my feelings. https://www.rogerebert.com/features/how-we-choose-our-favorite-film-and-why-mine-is-joe-vs-the-volcano
This feels relevant:
First time I have ever agreed with this bastard.
As a guidance, we should just not allow politicians to complain without having a detailed solution in hand. Give the seats to the people who can and are willing to get shit done. If you want to complain in public office, make sure you have the plan, funding, resources etc in place.
Lindsey Graham shouldn’t exist in the real world.
Seems like the problem with the republicans, or any religious conservative for that matter, is that because their rules (that they chose to follow) don’t allow them to have fun, or that theyre dead inside as a result of those rules, no one else is allowed to live a live outside of those rules.
“Puritanism — The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H L Mencken
true, if you’re Lindsey Graham
Also true if he is talking about Joy the character from Pixar’s Inside Out
Hopefully! 🤞
The problem with this corrosive, inflexible conservative narrative, is that these joyless assholes try and impose themselves politically and on everybody.
Errrrrrr…………………
^somebody get this man out of the building^
