Lindsey Graham warns GOP after Cassidy loss, urges strikes on Iran
On Meet the Press, Senator Lindsey Graham said Bill Cassidy's recent defeat proves "there's no room in this party to destroy" Donald Trump's agenda and warned "This is the party of Donald Trump." Graham urged the GOP to coalesce behind Trump-aligned priorities and explicitly recommended striking Iranian energy infrastructure to pressure Tehran. That stance matters because it signals a harder foreign-policy posture that could raise risks of military escalation, reshape Republican primary dynamics, and influence global energy markets.
I see folks like Todd Blanche, Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham on Sunday shows. There's plenty of evidence that they use such platforms to lie constantly. Giving them a megaphone to spread their lies is the opposite of journalism which is about seeking the truth. It's irresponsible & damaging.
"Christian nationalists, including Johnson, 'are zeroed in on defeating democracy,' Rep. Jared Huffman added. 'Violence is a feature, not a bug, of this movement and we need to take it very, very seriously.'" huffman.house.gov/media-center...
I quit watching Sunday shows about 20 years or so ago. Just made me enraged, so I stopped.
I’d be curious how many times these guests are fact checked in any given interview. My guess is that the ratio lie vs fact check is pretty awful.
We just can't get George, Kristen and Jake to understand that so I never watch them anymore. I watch Velshi.
Boycott CBS and all other who air them
Sunday shows have been turned into a platform for lying. It’s almost laughable that the media is so complicit in this farce.
The only solace I find is that the Sunday am talking head show ratings are dropping. We’re on to ya MAGAts. Meanwhile YouTube, Substack, et al are gaining followers of truth.
That's why I boycott them. I don't want to hear their racism, bigotry and lies.
These appearances have nothing to do with journalism. They are campaign contributions in kind (free air time) from the mass media conglomerates that run network news divisions. Pay those shows no heed. Very few voters do.
I agree. Put on a Rock and Bullwinkle instead
Media KNOW this. But they're all addicted to the circus. They KNOW they played a HUGE role in putting FELON/Adjudicated RAPIST Donald J. "Bone Spurs" Trump into OUR White House. Our media KNOW our nation is now being run by mobsters. And yet, media willingly continue to platform those monsters' lies
Why are you watching it? That only helps them continue. Watch the indie media. Share what they say and write. Turn of the fascist media.
And this has been going on for nearly 20-yrs, pre DJT. I railed at the TV as C Todd allowed GOP’ers to turn NBC’s MTP into a sewer, with repeated, & mostly unchallenged, LIES from Senators & more of the GOP. No shame. All couched in allowing GOP liars “equal time” to pervert democracy. It worked!
Van Hollen: "You heard Lindsey Graham. He said 'this is the party of Donald Trump.' It's a personality cult. We need checks and balances, a personality cult of rubber-stamps."
With respect sir, the checks and balances need to be rewritten, because they aren’t working now. Start with eliminating that memo where a person in the Oval Office cannot be indicted!
Rubber stamps and the theft of billions of dollars for the whole Trump family and friends. Lock all of their families up. Bondi, Nutlick, Trump, Miller, every member of their family.
Whether they get the majority or not, Van Hollen should be the senate Dem leader. It’s way past time for Schumer to take a seat.
Clarification of his comment "we need checks and balances, NOT a personality cult of rubber-stamps."
trump obtained deep kompromat on Lindsey from the Mike Pompeo led CIA. He turned Lindsey during a golf outing and next day Lindsey came out pro-trump and loyal since.
It’s a death cult of greed and punitive horseshit.
That's a clever twist on cults. Rubber-stamps, indeed. Checks and balances are what's missing.
Van Hollen checks all the boxes of a successful democratic presidential candidate
We need more people saying this and fewer people like Mayo Pete and Pelosi saying "we need a strong Republican Party"
Lindsey Graham: "Those who try to destroy Trump politically, stand in the way of his agenda, are gonna lose…Bill Cassidy lost because he tried to destroy Trump…This is the party of Donald Trump."
What an incredibly small and WEAK man Lindsey has become.
This is the party of Donald Trump’ is an amazing confession. That’s not conservatism, it’s a personality cult. When a senator boasts that loyalty to one man decides winners and losers, he’s admitting the party has surrendered ideas, policy, and accountability.
Dems should play that last quote on repeat in the fall
He just admitted it’s Trump over good policies for Americans
And if Cassidy were able to run as an independent he’d win overwhelmingly. Had Louisiana not gotten rid of jungle primaries for Senate, Cassidy would have won. Landry rigged the system and carved out fed primaries as closed. First time. 800,000 no party voters in LA. Beware what you wish for, GOP.
This is insane. Yes Cassidy the Republican who voted for almost everything Trump wanted and voiced the meekest, weakest concern about RFK and he was out to “destroy Trump” These people are mentally ill
Gotta give it to Lindsey….he has stamina! Never stops kissing Trump’s ass!
And the “Trump Party” is trying to destroy the country - and YOU Lindsey are aiding and abetting him!
SC needs to elect @drannieandrews.com and send graham home!!
The kompromat Trump holds over Graham must be career ending, life over, going to prison kind of bad.
Graham shits on the memory of his old friend John McCain everyday, for relevance. Not power, he is powerless. Just to remain relevant. McCain remains relevant, and powerful due to living his life with foundations of duty, honor, and empathy.
What a shameful lil troll
Someday, we WILL find out what Putin & Trump have on Lindsey Graham. Cleary, Graham is hoping he's dead by then. But what a clearly evil and spineless fool.
Graham is boosting the Sultanism of Trump. Sultanism is a form of authoritarian government characterized by the extreme personal presence of the ruler in all elements of governance
I cannot believe my state keeps Graham in power when he should be in a rocker on his front porch yelling at teenagers.
Look up “sold your soul” and you get a picture of this compromised POS. What a sad excuse of a human being 🙄
This is the loser a majority of South Carolina want to be a reflection of him? A spineless, unethical, immoral loser? Is that you, South Carolina?
I remember when this guy attempted to stand up to Trump and caved within a couple of days
“This is the party of Trump.“ Yeah, we know. Linds is speaking as if he’s one of Trump’s family members. 🤨
This is why every last one of them are traitors.
Find someone who loves you the way our 💩 political press loves platforming shameless Republican liars
The GOP knows Trump is a train wreck. They are just trying to suck every dollar they can out of American’s pockets before it all collapses.
You heard it from the weasel himself. No longer the Republican Party.. now just the party of Donald Trump. Come on folks… we must do better than this. Trump is literally the worst of us
Lindsey Graham yelled the quiet part out loud: Essentially, the Republican Party is dead. It’s been replaced by the ‘Cult of Trump.’ Trump, his cult, and billionaire donors built an apparatus that aims to punish those who try to hold the ‘Dear Leader’ accountable. This is un-American and... 1|🧵
And if Trump dies, people die, what do they have other than a collection of sycophants and wannabes? They have no convictions or morals to fall back on.
Lindsey Graham is going to be defeated (if not destroyed) by his extreme Trump sycophancy. And he will deserve it.
How long will the mad king be allowed to ruin America?
Roll the tape from Jan. 6.
🤣😂And Republicans proclaim that Democrats are the problem ...
This is why Lindsey kisses his ass because that’s what you do when you can’t do the job you’re paid to do.
This is what selling your soul looks like