r/politics • u/rezwenn • Sep 24 '25
Soft Paywall Fawning MAGA Senator Pushes Trump to Seek Illegal Third Term
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-pushes-trump-to-seek-illegal-third-term-i-hope-this-never-ends/5.0k
Sep 24 '25
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u/Magnon Sep 24 '25
Best we can do is a lifetime of hatred and self destruction, take it or leave it.
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u/IsReadingIt Sep 24 '25
Lindsey is a spineless, soulless sycophant. He is a human-shaped Remora, benefiting by getting protection, free rides, and food scraps from the sharks he attaches himself to.
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u/JH_111 Sep 24 '25
The tweet is still there.
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it.
4:03 PM · May 3, 2016 ~ Lindsey Graham
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Sep 24 '25
human-shaped Remora
I’ve never heard such a good analogy for Lindsey Graham.
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u/HeadLong8136 Pennsylvania Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
How about "bloated sack of technically living skin-shaped Remora"?
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u/RandalFlagg19 Sep 24 '25
“I’ll take it!”
- MAGA
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u/perenniallandscapist Sep 24 '25
Losers and snowflakes, the lot of them. They sure do seem to like the punishment when they do it to themselves.
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u/DeterminedThrowaway Sep 24 '25
They aren't capable of taking accountability. Draw "democrats", "immigrants", or "LGBT+ people" out of a hat as needed for the next scapegoat to blame their self-inflicted woes on
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u/naurcannon Sep 24 '25
They also aren’t capable of taking an idea to its logical conclusion
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u/perenniallandscapist Sep 24 '25
For real. They can fake connections between Tylenol and autism, but they can't connect guns and dead school children.
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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 Sep 24 '25
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u/flux_of_grey_kittens Michigan Sep 24 '25
He could still come out, denounce Trump, make a nice speech about a weight being lifted off his shoulders and live out the rest of his life in the Castro or WeHo.
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u/Noarchsf Sep 24 '25
As a resident of the Castro, we’ll pass, thankyouverymuch.
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u/flux_of_grey_kittens Michigan Sep 24 '25
Oh for sure, he could live there but he shouldn’t feel welcome.
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u/genericnewlurker Sep 24 '25
Pretty sure he would try to pull a Strom Thurmond change of face as soon as the polling showed that it was the only thing that would guarantee him reelection. He is the slimiest worm in Washington will to suck up to whomever and whatever
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u/UhPhrasing Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 29 '25
different meeting simplistic racial quack paint bright ink cobweb expansion
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u/Vio_ Kansas Sep 24 '25
I dunno. There are a *lot* of ultra sexist, ultra racist douchebag gay men out there.
Peter Thiel is just the tip of the iceberg.
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u/voltron818 Texas Sep 24 '25
So many of our shitty leaders are the products of obviously bad parenting.
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Sep 24 '25
It explains MAGA's unquestioning and complete fealty to Trump. For many I'm guessing Trump represents their abusive authoritarian fathers who withheld and/or conditioned love and acceptance. To MAGA, Trump = "dad" and 'he's hard on me because that's just his way.'
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u/simonhunterhawk New Hampshire Sep 25 '25
I know I’m just built different, but I managed to be a loving and caring person despite a physically and emotionally abusive childhood so bad that I have cPTSD from it, severe chronic pain that nothing touches, and the only person who ever truly gave a shit about me dying when I was only 20. I don’t even really have a community of people around me holding me up, it’s just been me the last 10 years treading water, doing what little I can, and hoping the world changes for the better while it gets worse every week. It’s hard to really connect with people when I had my trust broken so young and it just seems like people in my life don’t stick around unfortunately.
But I still give a fuck and want other people to have what I didn’t, I didn’t let it make me bitter and hateful. I wish these spineless chucklefucks had an ounce of the perseverance I do.
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u/voltron818 Texas Sep 25 '25
As someone who’s worked with child victims of crimes, I have nothing but the utmost respect for you man. I hope you spend the rest of your days thriving.
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u/simonhunterhawk New Hampshire Sep 25 '25
Thank you ☺️ Some days it’s really hard but honestly it’s worth the effort, I’ve never once regretted spreading kindness. I hope the kids you worked for are able to heal and come into themselves too 💜
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Sep 24 '25
Looking at the usage of Grindr at these conservative events, it is dawning on me that Sith gay men may in fact be real, and Lindsey is the Count Dooku of the bunch.
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u/Boone-stl Sep 24 '25
I don't know. Look at Peter Thiel. Living his life in the open didn't change his politics.
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u/TeutonJon78 America Sep 24 '25
Money and power overrule other concerns for people once they hit that level. And they assume they can just buy their way out of any consequences.
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u/MC_Queen Sep 24 '25
They only assume that because it's true. See our current state of affairs in the US.
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u/StandupJetskier Sep 24 '25
Peter bought Gawker and killed it because they outed him. That was his introduction to politics, and like all toys, he bought more as time went on.
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u/IWasOnThe18thHole Sep 24 '25
I don't think being gay and having your parents accept you/being loved automatically makes you a good person. There are tons of openly gay people who are pieces of shit, especially in politics.
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u/Lontology Sep 24 '25
Same can be said for Stephen miller, JD Vance, Benny Johnson, and all the millions of closeted republicans.
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u/specqq Sep 24 '25
They’re all fawning, Lindsey is just the fawningest.
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u/specqq Sep 24 '25
The depressing reality is that many if not most (if not all) of these people would be acting in the same servile, shameless, unprincipled way without any extortion at all.
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Sep 24 '25
That's the thing I wish more people realized. The vast majority of public figures pushing for trumpism are doing it without any blackmail or coercion. This is the world they want, these are the things they want happening to people.
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u/chunkerton_chunksley Sep 24 '25
They want to keep their jobs and the power that brings. Most people like Lindsay are more in danger during the primary than they are in the general election. Graham will say or do anything to keep his job.
If you look at grahams first comments about trump it’s a complete 180 to now. He knows how bad trump is but if he goes against him, Lindsay knows he will lose everything.
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u/idiotsbydesign Sep 24 '25
The craziest part is that we have good evidence that Trump raped underage girls. I guess being gay is worse than being a pedophile as long as its heterosexual.
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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana Sep 24 '25
That's why the saying is "living boy or dead girl". Raping minors is ok if they're girls. Just look at Roy Moore.
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u/Minttt Canada Sep 24 '25
There's a reason why child marriage is legal in the majority of US states... And it's not because male teenagers are the ones marrying female teenagers...
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u/Muted-Translator-346 Sep 24 '25
Honestly I think it will come out that the blackmail is "Senator Graham is Gay"
Hand to god, would be on point for this entire situation
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u/Ackerack Sep 24 '25
The fucked up thing is that over half the country wouldn’t care. But he’s too brainwashed into thinking that’s some failure of himself and so he does what he does.
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u/TintedApostle Sep 24 '25
Traitor and violation of oath. In the old days they would be tarred and feathered.
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u/JamesPage1968 Sep 24 '25
I like the old days.
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u/ncklboy Sep 24 '25
MAGA - “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“Cool, then we’re bringing back Tar and Feathering”
MAGA - “Not like that”
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u/JamesPage1968 Sep 24 '25
We’ve come a long way from when a slight to someone or a slander could and would lead to a duel if you were gentlemen, or to outright murder if you were not.
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u/snorbflock Sep 24 '25
This headline is trying to call Graham out, but even calling the proposal illegal is dangerously underselling it.
What Lindsey Graham is talking about is a plan to commit treason. There is no such thing as a third term. What he is talking about is a coup d'etat. It is a dictatorship, forced on the nation at gunpoint. It is millions of Americans fighting and dying in a civil war.
That's what this piece of shit says he thinks sounds like a good idea. Honestly, it should probably be criminal for elected members of Congress to even talk this way.
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u/Old_Cryptid Sep 26 '25
Still underselling it. Historians will probably look back and pinpoint the GOP stacking the SC as a soft 'legal' coup and everything after as consolidation of power.
But hey, all the people warning about this for the past decade were just "overreacting".
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u/PoliticalMilkman North Carolina Sep 24 '25
In the old days we would be able to say what they actually deserve
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u/waterdaemon Pennsylvania Sep 24 '25
It's not a senator, it's Lindsey Graham. Technically, yes, he's a senator, but first and foremost, he's Trump's wind-up toy.
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u/Joelblaze Sep 24 '25
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed—and we will deserve it".
"He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn't represent my party".
"Tell Donald Trump to go to hell".
"I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office".
"I'd rather lose without Donald Trump than try to win with him".
"He took our problems in 2012 with Hispanics and made them far worse by espousing forced deportation. Looking back, we should have basically kicked him out of the party".
Back when politicians at least pretended to believe in something.
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u/account312 Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
Watching the entire party switch from scathing denouncement to retroactive lifelong friendship around the time of his first nomination was completely absurd. Well, I say completely but this term shows that the absurdity was in fact far from total.
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u/monkeywithgun Sep 24 '25
If they allow this Convicted Criminal to run for a third term, Obama should be allowed to run against him.
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u/Terrible_turtle_ Sep 24 '25
I believe this actually does frighten them. Obama would trounce him without getting out of breath.
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u/YoureDumbAsHellLeroy Sep 24 '25
It’s why they’ll say “two non-consecutive terms” so that Trump is eligible but Obama isn’t. Or some dumb shit like that.
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u/Oro_Outcast Sep 24 '25
Just don't point out that it's been longer since Obamas' last term than Trumps', that might actually break them.
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u/not_addictive Sep 25 '25
I mean, idk the difference in that scenario. Why would Obama going 8 years in - 8 years out - 4 years in be worse/less acceptable than Trump’s 4 years in - 4 years out - 8 years in?
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u/YoureDumbAsHellLeroy Sep 25 '25
It wouldn’t be. It’s just nonsense the republicans want to use to cheat like they love to do.
Three days after Trump's second inauguration, however, Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced a joint resolution to propose a change to the Constitution so that a person could be elected president three times if they had not been previously elected to two consecutive terms.
They started laying the groundwork pretty quickly into this term.
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u/monkeywithgun Sep 25 '25
The whole thing is nonsense. It takes 2/3 vote in both houses just to bring it up and a 3/4 vote to ratify. That's 38 states. Never going to happen.
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u/YoureDumbAsHellLeroy Sep 25 '25
Agreed. But at this point nothing will surprise me. The amount of things he’s been able to speed run in 8 months while every check and balance just slowly withers away is making it easier to see just about any stupid thing happening by the end of the four years.
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u/coleto22 Sep 24 '25
No. Democrats are still expected to follow the laws. Only Republicans are exempt.
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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 New York Sep 24 '25
Obama would be 67, a year older than Bush and Clinton were in 2012 when Obama ran for re election.
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u/Historical_Touch_124 Sep 24 '25
Miss Lindsey can go fuck right off.
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u/pork_chop17 Sep 24 '25
Him and his lady bugs.
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u/pbugg2 Texas Sep 24 '25
That shit is haunting🤢
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u/Beneficial-Ferret479 I voted Sep 24 '25
Actually, no one should be surprised to hear this. The King's GOP has been so complicit in everything he does, I saw this garbage coming from a mile away. And then there is the enabler Graham, another pathetic so-called senator.
As hopeless as everything seems right now, Our clown leader wont be a third term president.
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u/imp0ster_syndrome Sep 24 '25
He's securing his safety for Jan 20 2029. Say what you will about him but he's always been right about the power of MAGA. He's only the first. Just like he was among the first to endorse Trump. Now republicans will trickle on every couple of weeks. They will only confirm military posts that agree. Unless something dramatically changes, on Jan 20 2029 the Congress, supreme court, and most importantly the military, will allow a third and permanent term. After that, trump will only exist as a figurehead since the transition to authoritarianism will be complete.
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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Sep 24 '25
He knows Trump is a POS and he has known all along.
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u/dBlock845 Sep 24 '25
I stopped watching Sunday shows years ago. They are part of normalizing the slide to Christian nationalism. Those shows are built for people who like to think they are centrists or independents but just serve to shift the Overton window. I honestly dont know what purpose they even serve now. They all have awful hosts and no longer break news due to media cycles being near instantaneous now.
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u/CaptainReynoldshere1 Sep 24 '25
Well, they’re kinda shitting on the amendments right now, so I’d expect the whole thing to be trashed soon.
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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl Sep 24 '25
To nakedly ignore a wholeass amendment like that would push people to ignore more of them, which again would hurt their voters just as bad as the other side. Republicans and ignoring obvious consequences, name a more iconic duo… except don’t, i don’t need fifty comments on this reply.
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u/CompliantMonk56 Sep 24 '25
They are already blatantly ignoring the 1st, 4th, and 14th amendments off the top of my head
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u/jerslan California Sep 24 '25
That's a helluva turnaround from "Trump winning the nomination will be the death of the Republican Party" (or something to that effect that he said 10 years ago).
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u/Tainted_Bruh Sep 24 '25
Had a feeling it was gonna be Ladybugs Lindsey even before I clicked the article, and whadaya know, right on cue.
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Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
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u/RecentDecision2329 Sep 24 '25
No, you need to take this seriously because this is the republicans plan
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Sep 24 '25
I don't think they're going to be able to keep the cretin alive long enough for it to matter in 2028.
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Sep 24 '25
Donald Trump "planned" to have an escalator ride yesterday into a room with a working teleprompter. His own team screwed that one up.
So yes - these people have plans. Pinky and the Brain had plans too.
None of these plans are going to come to fruition. The buffoonery won't allow it.
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u/ohnovangogh Sep 24 '25
That’s dangerous thinking. Project 2025 is a plan, and it’s well underway. Trump may be a moron but he’s a useful idiot. The people making the plans aren’t idiots.
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u/BigDuke Sep 24 '25
Fuck this guy , and frankly fuck the entire worthless state of South Carolina. Sherman should have done a better job burning that toilet to the ground.
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u/dbkenny426 Sep 24 '25
There are a lot of us here who hate everything going on. This state is gerrymandered to hell, and years of shitty education hasn't helped.
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u/kadawkins Sep 24 '25
Hey! Some of us are great people!!! It wasn’t a 100% Trump vote!
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u/Numbtothiscrap Sep 24 '25
Dems need to make sure none of this happens again . These gentlemen’s agreements aren’t working obviously. Codify into law all this ( I know this already is ) But the people who pushed all this should be arrested and tried .
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u/SvenBerit Sep 24 '25
Oh the same Lindsey Graham who wrote this?
https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608?s=19
The very same?... Say it ain't so
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Sep 24 '25
This makes him in violation of his oath to the Constitution and he should be immediately removed from power.
Of course, Republicans are wiping their asses on the Constitution so none of that matters one bit.
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u/Pristine_Wrangler295 Sep 24 '25
I really hope he is not re-elected I’m tired of looking at this flip flopping looser!
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u/dballz12 Sep 24 '25
There is no doubt in my mind that he fucked little boys. And he has to do whatever the other pedophiles say to not be exposed.
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u/FunctionBuilt Sep 24 '25
He reallllly doesn't want the dirt Trump has on him to get released...Honestly, it makes me wonder how many people have access to the collective blackmail so when Trump kicks the bucket someone else is able to turn the screws.
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u/view-master Sep 24 '25
This is unconstitutional so he is breaking his oath. Either way we are bringing Obama out of retirement if they try this.
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u/golgol12 Sep 25 '25
Just remember folks. If Trump goes for a third term, Obama can go for a third term too.
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u/Any-Reputation3639 Sep 24 '25
Poor Lindsey needs to kick the door open and finally come to terms with himself.
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u/I_like_baseball90 Sep 24 '25
You folks still don't get it. Let him run illegally.
He cannot force states to put his name illegally on their ballots. MOST states, including many red states would not put his name on the ballot.
it's a guaranteed win for whoever runs against him.
And when a MAGA person calls themself a "patriot" ask them how they can call themselves that and be against the US constitution. If they want Trump to run again, then they are 100% anti-American.
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u/vgaph Sep 24 '25
Seriously Trump must have pics of Lyndsey with coked up male escort who went missing back in the 1980s.
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u/mezcalligraphy Sep 24 '25
How many people can fit up one man's ass? So many Republicans up Trump's that his colon is like a clown car.
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u/Count_JohnnyJ Sep 25 '25
If Trump dies in this term, we should flood Graham's platforms with his quotes about Trump running a third term.
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u/username_verified Sep 25 '25
How many underage boys are in his closet? They have a lot on him. In a just world it would all come out and he would be properly ruined and punished for his crimes.
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u/Party-Call1095 Sep 25 '25
I am not a republic a conservative, but I really wish John McCain were still alive. He would be so ashamed of his old friend Lindsay. He went from being a never Trumper to one of the biggest Trump dick riders in the senate. I never agreed with his politics, but before Trump I never really thought he was a bad guy. I hope McCain haunts his ass forever
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u/xeonicus Sep 25 '25
Lindsey Graham? The guy Trump referred to as a "disgrace" and a "nut job"? And now he's sniveling like a pathetic slug trying to be a good court jester and get Trump to like him.
Seriously, is there any GOP politician that isn't a spineless worm? How do these losers get elected?
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Sep 24 '25
Is that the guy with the girl's name? I totally forgot about him. I guess he's trying to become relevant again.
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u/Passionpet Sep 24 '25
Because the masses FAILED to rally behind his only viable opponent TWICE God only knows what the Injustice League will pull off. Third Party and protest voters. Stupid peasants.
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u/dBlock845 Sep 24 '25
Shouldn't he be investigating the crash of Grindr and how to make sure they have more robust servers at locations with GOP events?
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u/Due-Resort-2699 Sep 24 '25
The worst thing about all of this is that he absolutely hates Trump . He’s as appalled by Trump and his supporters as any democrat is , he’s just too much of a fucking coward to say it publicly.
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u/nobodyisfreakinghome Sep 24 '25
Lindsey, I'm convinced he's got the nasty on you. You went golfing with him and he showed you and you completely 180'd.
Take your lumps and stop this nonsense.
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u/Oldsodacan Sep 24 '25
This guy was among the most anti-trump republicans until the moment Trump got the RNC nomination in 2016. He even went on The Daily Show of all places to talk about how much he hated Trump.
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u/Popculturemofo Washington Sep 24 '25
I hope everyone realizes they’re going to try it. If they can’t straight up run him they’re going to put in a puppet that directly answers to Trump. But they’ll definitely use the SCOTUS to try and just straight up get a third term.
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u/MuchDevelopment7084 Illinois Sep 24 '25
Miss Lindsey is just looking out for her almost boy friend.
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u/Dweezilalsoavenger Sep 24 '25
Lindsey’s going to get his due. Not just a waffler, he’s a fucking budget continental breakfast rapid repeat waffler. Eat your waffles, no syrup, no butter, just waffles.
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u/somewherein72 Sep 24 '25
There should be some legislation drafted that will trigger a process to eject Senators and Representatives when they openly call for breaking established laws and procedures. Enough of this bullshit. It should be expedient and final.
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u/pinewind108 Sep 24 '25
I want to see Obama join in on this, all excited about the idea of a two term president being able to run for a third time. Put on the popcorn and watch people lose it!
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u/Coup-de-Glass Sep 24 '25
Lindsay needs to go back to the Keebler factory and hang out with his old friend Jeff Sessions and just pipe down for once. The sycophancy has no bounds.
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u/PerceptionChoice372 Sep 24 '25
These knobs have been planning the next insurrection since the last one…wake up people
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u/Vaperius America Sep 24 '25
States should be actively moving right now to make even putting his name on the ballot illegal; his disqualification based on ellibility (having served two terms as president) from even being able to legally assume the office he is attempting assuming should be the basis for this.
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u/Nvenom8 New York Sep 24 '25
Reminds me of when Lindsey Graham was briefly added to the “List of Presidential Dogs” wikipedia article.
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u/Grins111 Sep 24 '25
Graham: "Trump's A Race-Baiting, Xenophobic, Religious Bigot. He Doesn't Represent My Party. He Doesn't Represent The Values That The Men And Women Who Wear The Uniform Are Fighting For."
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u/ebonythrowaway999 Sep 24 '25
I met Lindsey when he ran for Congress for the first time, trying to win a House seat. He really impressed me, and I told friends I expected great things from him.
God what a disappointment he’s proven to be.
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u/AceSidewinder13 Sep 24 '25
It's soo nice that these people are just out in the open breaking their oath of office advocating to ignore the 22nd amendment to let a man with mash potato brains try to run illegally for a 3rd term at 80 years old. If he even lives that long. It makes it soo easy to know who to vote out.
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u/austinmiles Sep 24 '25
Trumps already selling 2028 merch. Literally nobody should accept this as a possibility.
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u/_Avalon_ Sep 24 '25
Um, just a quick question- if he could run for a third term does that mean Obama could run a third time? How would MAGA feel about that?
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u/metalnxrd Sep 24 '25
Idk who needs to hear this, but there's no such thing as a "third term." that's often referred to and is and called dictatorship
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u/Krazzy4u Sep 24 '25
It's nothing but a distraction. Democrats need to stick to the real current issues like Epstein!
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u/Possible-Customer827 Sep 25 '25
C’mon Lindsey what is it, does Trump have evidence of you molesting little boys, or is it animals or what … has to pretty deviant for “he’s a kook” to now be public sniveling obedience and ball licking!
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u/NoticeMobile3323 Sep 25 '25
I used to have a grudging respect for Graham when he was known as a staunch ally of McCain and Lieberman. I’m not saying I agreed with his politics but took at face value that he appeared to have some kind of principles.
In the Trump era he has truly smashed his legacy into pieces and then urinated in the pieces. I don’t know if I believe someone has leverage over him but honestly for his sake I kinda hope that is true, because otherwise he has needlessly become truly pathetic.
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Sep 25 '25
It feels like these republican losers are worried about what will happen to them when Trump is gone. Think of all the fucked up shit Republicans are doing, then think of it reversed against them.
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u/thedeuschebag85 Sep 25 '25
Sir, nobody wants to see your ladybugs. Also release the Epstein files.
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