@JaimeeUSA@SebGorka From my perspective this has been an open and shut case from the time they identified Tyler Robinson as the suspect. People just don't want to believe a confused young man could carry out such a heinous crime in front of a crowd like that and successfully escape the crime scene.
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RIP Lindsay Graham
The internet will do what it always does: flatten a complicated human being into a villain, a meme, or a collection of his worst clips.
I understand why people disliked him. I disagreed with him plenty. But the man spent more than three decades in Congress and 33 years serving in the Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve.
He deserves a more honest accounting than “sycophant” or “warmonger.”
Graham was a serious public servant.
He came from a working class family in South Carolina, lost both parents while he was young, helped raise his younger sister, and became the first person in his family to attend college.
He served as a military lawyer, retired as a colonel, spent eight years in the House, and more than two decades in the Senate.
That does not make him correct. It does establish that his life was fundamentally organized around public service.
For much of his career, Graham was also the kind of senator people now claim they want. He was clearly conservative, but willing to work with Democrats.
He helped negotiate the Gang of 14 compromise on judicial nominations. He supported comprehensive immigration reform through the Gang of Eight. He repeatedly worked with Dick Durbin on the DREAM Act. He voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan because he believed a qualified president’s nominees generally deserved confirmation.
He took real political risk to solve problems. That matters.
He was also one of the Senate’s most engaged foreign policy voices. He understood alliances, knew foreign leaders, traveled to war zones, supported NATO, defended Ukraine, and believed America had obligations beyond its own borders.
His final public work involved meeting with President Zelenskyy in Kyiv and advancing bipartisan sanctions against Russia.
You can disagree with his worldview. I often did. But he treated foreign policy as a serious responsibility. Q
His shortcomings were also real.
Graham was too interventionist. His default answer to foreign policy failure was often more force, more troops, more sanctions, or more American involvement. He understood the costs of weakness better than he understood the costs of overreach.
His transformation from fierce Trump critic to loyal Trump ally badly damaged his credibility.
The charitable explanation is that he chose access and influence over irrelevance. The less charitable explanation is that he adapted to wherever Republican power moved.
Both are probably true.
Lindsey Graham was not a saint. He was inconsistent, overly hawkish, and sometimes far too willing to trade institutional credibility for political influence.
But he was not useless, stupid, or evil either.
He served his country for most of his adult life. He knew the Senate. He worked across the aisle. He attempted to solve immigration when both parties preferred weaponizing it.
He defended alliances when isolationism became fashionable. He remained engaged with the world until his final days.
My honest verdict is that Lindsey Graham was a flawed but net positive public servant.
A genuine institutionalist who became less institutional over time.
A knowledgeable foreign policy senator whose appetite for intervention often exceeded his strategic caution.
A conservative partisan who still understood that governing requires negotiation.
Criticize him honestly. He earned plenty of it.
But a country that cannot distinguish between a flawed public servant and a worthless one eventually stops producing public servants at all.
I write this to pay respect. Social media has created too many vile content creators who only see the bad. Want clicks. Let the man rest in peace and be honest about it. Hyperbole is just silly.
@end3of6days9@Ilegvm I have! It was pretty amazing! It was probably around 1968 when I was there. I'm sure they do regular maintenance, but now I gotta research a little about the construction. I vaguely remember looking down from the top through windows. I was 12 I think.
@GuntherEagleman Good morning neighbor! The news about Lindsey got me thinking of my own mortality this morning over my coffee. My dad was 71 when he passed as well. I'm quickly approaching that marker. We need to make every day count! Happy Sunday
@deluxe_pepe I noticed they redacted the part pertaining to motive. If there's any conspiracy involved, it's a gang of trans youth. I think Lance and several others probably put him up to it, or at least encouraged it. Anyway CO sure looks like a dope!!
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Thune is holding up at least (47) pcs of legislation, over (33) Judicial appts
He's passed the fewest bills in the modern era, and he won't force a talking filibuster
What kind of Majority leader ignores what (85%) of the American people want passed
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