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K “I could not respect him. He is departed. Let everyone review his record and determine his legacy. In life, he was disdainful of diplomacy and a diehard cheerleader for death.”
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K “‘Respect’ is an admixture of ‘Fear’ and ‘Admiration’ of a person, thing, or institution. Taking away the ‘Admiration’ leaves one not with ‘Respect’ but with the residual ‘Fear’. I feared what Lindsey Graham could do and what he did, but I did not ‘admire’ him and thus . . . I did not ‘respect’ him.”
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J “And then there is the Platner caper. Something is not copasetic. From my perspective, neither L. Graham nor Graham P. were in imminent danger of being canonized.”
K “Whether Platner was right or wrong, the Ruling Class feared him and dispatched and disappeared him with alacrity.”
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[See the piece “The Graham Platner Affair” by Thomas Neuburger in “God’s Spies” on July 10, 2026 and the comments to “The Graham Platner Affair” by Yves Smith, the recipient of the Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022), at “Naked Capitalism” on July 11, 2026; see “Well, At Least Lindsey Graham Is Dead” by Caitlin Johnstone, the recipient of the Fourth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2019 (April 15, 2019), at “Caitlin’s Newsletter” dated July 12, 2026 and “Lindsey Graham Bites the Dust” by Conor Gallagher in “Naked Capitalism” dated July 13, 2026.]
[See the e-commentary at Lindsey Graham: Recipient Of The Prestigious John McCain – Madeline Albright Rancid Vermin Award! Oh, And Happy May / Law Day! (April 29, 2024) and On Respect, Fear, Admiration and Irreverence (December 17, 2007) (“Respect (R) is a mix of Fear (Fe or F) and of Admiration (Au or A). Marine Corps Drill Instructor: R=Fe8Au1. Minister: R=Fe4Au4. Den Mother: R=Fe1Au8. When the A evaporates, however, the residue is F.”)]
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Respect (R) is a mix of Fear (Fe or F) and of Admiration (Au or A). Marine Corps Drill Instructor: R=Fe8Au1. Minister: R=Fe4Au4. Den Mother: R=Fe1Au8. When the A evaporates, however, the residue is F.
“Well, At Least Lindsey Graham Is Dead” by Caitlin Johnstone:
Ever since the death of Graham’s dear friend John McCain, nobody on Capitol Hill has been able to match his gleeful enthusiasm for the shredding of human bodies using high-priced war machinery. Wherever there was any debate about dropping bombs, launching missiles, toppling foreign governments, arming proxy forces, or imposing starvation sanctions, you could always count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice arguing in favor of more death and destruction.
Graham has personally taken credit for persuading President Trump to begin the war with Iran. In the months leading up to his unexpected demise, the senator had advocated for direct US military interventionism in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Yemen, Nigeria, Lebanon, and Palestine, and had just returned from a trip to Kyiv promoting the US proxy war against Russia. He was literally pushing for more war and military expansionism until the very end of his life.
All the world’s worst people are publicly expressing their grief about the loss of their beloved war slut, from Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu to Itamar Ben-Gvir to Tom Cotton to Mike Huckabee. Meanwhile, everyone who’s not a warmongering psychopath is having a splendid day.
Of course we’re seeing imperial narrative managers like Piers Morgan wagging their fingers and chiding their audiences not to speak ill of the dead, but the hell with them. We’re not doing that. Politeness is not more important than Lindsey Graham’s victims. The liberal desire for propriety and nice feelings does not outweigh the importance of naming and shaming Graham’s frenetic scramble to murder as many human beings as he possibly could throughout his evil, miserable life.
Lindsey Graham is dead, and it is good that he is dead. May his omnicidal ideology soon join him in the arms of the cold, cold ground. May the insane, insatiable god he worshipped cease to gain recognition on this planet.
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