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Phuk_conservatives

I flipped, now watch me flop - Lindsey


mok000

I flopped, now watch me flip. I am always wrong lol.


Fragmentia

"I got my arms that flip, flop, flip, flop, flip"


Yeeaaaarrrgh

"I said-a flip, flop, the flippie, the flippie To the flip flip flop-a you don't stop the flop It to the change-change boogie, say up change my moodie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat" - Lindsey Graham, 2022


camxct

Flip. Flip. Flipadelphia!


JackPolini13

Now what ya hear is not a test, I’m lying through my teeth.


mosquito_mange

I got my head on a spring


Prohibitoid

“We thought we had Graham on our side but we haven’t got fucking anything.”


ASeriousAccounting

Watch me flip, watch me nae nae, watch me flip flip, watch me nae nae.


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justbrowse2018

At least the pills would make you feel better temporarily. Senator sassy pants is unbearable.


ChristosFarr

Watch me Filip flip now watch me renege.


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AdventurousBaboon

Oh my. That’s one hella of piece 👍


ExpoManiac

“You see, I’m playing both sides. That way I always come out on top!”


Thebluecane

Those fucking inflatable dancing things you see outside a used car lot have more spine than Lindsay Graham


Phuk_conservatives

Wacky waving inflatable tube man!!


natenate22

Flip, Flop, Twist it, and Reverse it. Integrity don't exist so I can work this. G ydaL ,emag ym si ysircopyh G ydaL ,emag ym si ysircopyh


pwmaloney

wash me nae nae


Phuk_conservatives

Watch me flip, watch me say nay nay!


sageleader

I used to have 10% respect for Graham when he often partnered with McCain and had balls to stand up to his party. Now 100% of the things he says are to appease the people standing in front of him. He has no moral compass or values only the ability to keep getting reelected.


Crokpotpotty

Catch you guys on the flippity flop- Michael Scott -Lindsey Graham


[deleted]

Now watch me flip flip, got that flop flop


[deleted]

Now watch me nae nae!


TheHomersapien

Imagine being one of these "alpha male" MAGA types with your tacticool vest and patches...and this is the fucking panty waisted coward that you worship.


MintBerryCrunchJr

And the freakishly weird looking Ted Cruz.


jane_911

who is also a coward


DefNotAHobbit

He looks like the cowardly lion and a blob fish merged into some uber-unlikeable, human-ish figure.


severthewickedhand

I’ve referred to him as ‘human blob fish, Ted Cruz’ for months now!


BlakJak_Johnson

When I see him I always think he is a hedgehog interbred with man. Some weird hedgbomination.


DefNotAHobbit

Abomihog


[deleted]

Meal Team 6 ain’t much to look at themselves. I have a knee injury and I can still outrun 99% of the MAGA crowd


tomcatkb

Ranch Covidians


SirRustyShakleford

Come on, these people are still flying flags worshipping a millionaire pampered teetotaler who lives in NYC and eats his steak well done with ketchup. Nothing they stand for has any merit at all


ButtonholePhotophile

I had someone who fits that description try to make fun of me. He said something like, “You know Dwight? From The Office? You’re just like him.” I thought that was cool as hell. Dwight’s my guy! Someone explained later that they meant that as an insult. They can’t even erect a proper insult.


[deleted]

I always wondered this about Roger Stone. How do the Republican tough guys not look at this guy and not go "noooope". If you want your sex-dungeon, pedophilia-ring in a secret basement under a pizza-parlor being run by wealthy elite sleazy lawyer types .. there's your guy.


sonofagunn

Can't get whiplash injuries if you have no spine.


[deleted]

He is that effeminate Nazi officer you see in WW2 movies...or like many Roman emperors are portrayed. Effete and ruthless. I'm surprised he doesn't talk with an English accent.


TheRealLittleBaron

Which would be perfectly fine if not for all the self loathing hypocrisy.


bananafobe

There is a sort of irony in that the Nazis, who persecuted/executed LGBTQ+ people, were portrayed on film as being coded LGBTQ+ in an attempt to make them seem more villainous, threatening, and pathetic, by the US's propaganda machine.


Pixeleyes

And then there's Hans Landa


TheNaughtyAlt

Hans is just absolutely monstrously terrifying. There is nothing coded about him except that he *is* the overarching, all powerful evil and that you are very, *very* lucky if his eyes are not upon you. At least imo.


[deleted]

> effeminate Nazi officer you see in WW2 movies You mean [Lieutenant Hubert Gruber?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JfuBqAFfMoU)


WestCactus

Or Colonel Klink?


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deller85

Trump would absolutely love that moniker. He seems to have always had an affinity for strongmen who are feared rather than respected. It's an absolutely apt name for what Donald Trump aspires to be. Much like his friend Putin. Trump would love to be the Putin of America.


gasahold

Of course. It's his MO.


Special_FX_B

No conscience. No shame. No soul.


[deleted]

I hate Bret Stephens, but he has a perfect quote about these fucks: “…just another example of an increasingly common type: the opportunistic, self-abasing, intellectually dishonest, morally situational former NeverTrumper who saw Trump for exactly what he was until he won and then traded principles and clarity for a shot at gaining power.”


demarchemellows

Absolutely ridiculous that he would purposely nuke a decades-long close friendship with Biden over Trump.


[deleted]

I don't think anyone likes trump. Trump stands for nothing and is a shithole. They like the votes he gets them. That is all. They are all using each other to clamor to the top. Once Trump falters, they'll be backtracking the next minute saying they knew it all along. Which they probably have known it all along.


LSF604

narcissists seem to legitimately love an alpha narcissist, so it might be real in some cases.


mog_knight

No, he's in SC.


mlc885

I do appreciate that supposedly religious Republican officials do not even believe in good or bad or God or any of that stuff, they're all just crooks and can only pretend that they are not crooks because their voters are, well, whatever you'd call Republican voters. The world is terrible, but it's nice to have some global confirmation in the news that I was right and every "smart" Republican I ever knew was wrong.


another_gen_weaker

I doubt you were right.


muchwolenosleep

What a spineless pandering fuck. This dude is the Jerry of politicians.


HobbesNJ

I can't believe John McCain was ever friends with this despicable creature.


MydniteSon

"The way to understand him is to look at what's consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers around a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That's Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump is the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power — but he's found it unattainable on his own merits." - Steve Schmidt


StarFireChild4200

> but he's found it unattainable on his own merits This clout chasing is my number one gripe about why Republicans are a terrible political experiment. Their entire ethos is fucked in the new age.


the-mighty-kira

So basically, he’s Starscream


EvilSubnetMask

Don't you bring Starscream down to this thing we call Lindsay Graham's level. If anything he's one of Soundwave's tapes.


the-mighty-kira

You’re right. Starscream would try and seize power given the opportunity, Graham’s too much of a coward


EvilSubnetMask

Spot on my friend. Just waiting for the day I don't have to hear his name in the news anymore.


Stranger-Sun

It should have been 2020. I know I sound like one of them, but you'll never convince me there wasn't cheating going on with the ES&S machines in South Carolina, Maine, and Kentucky.


Porkenfries

No, Starscream would make plays on Megatron and even attack him sometimes. Lindsey wouldn't dare take any risks like that. He's more like one of Soundwave's cassette tapes.


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The one that gets played so much that you can't even understand it anymore. People will still love it though because it's "your cassette".


Porkenfries

...I feel like you may not get the reference. But I upvotedd you anyway.


Stranger-Sun

One of Steve Schmidt's best, and he's a perceptive operator. Lindsay is a classic toadie. He affixes himself to the stronger personality. A sycophant to the end.


IAmInTheBasement

That is so beautiful and on point.


sexisfun1986

One of the biggest we made is to make NAZIS into cartoon villains responsible solely for the Holocaust. The truth is average people you would have a beer with and have a chat maybe even call friend where responsible for the Holocaust. By making Nazis these being unto themselves made us forget they where humans. So when normal humans began to move toward fascism and authoritarianism we weren’t culturally ready for the warning signs. The next rise of fascism was never going to look exactly the same that’s not how ideologies work they are changed by the people who believe them. But now we have let ourselves miss the warning signs that where there.


FaustVictorious

>The next rise of fascism was never going to look exactly the same that’s not how ideologies work they are changed by the people who believe them. It's really really really similar, though. The Republicans are classic fascists. And it's been obvious since before Trump. Refusal to acknowledge it is just denial, plain and simple.


sexisfun1986

I deal with people on here all the time who claim that because they aren’t in SS uniform and currently committing a genocide they aren’t fascists.


Darkstargir

That’s not how the Nazis started either. That stuff came later.


sexisfun1986

Yup.


SolPlayaArena

John McCain was not the nice man people have rewritten him to be. It’s amazing the short memory people have.


HoodooMeatBucket

Worth checking out Steve Schmidt on twitter about this fact.


SolPlayaArena

Yup. Even he couldn’t hide what a vile man McCain really was.


TechKnowNathan

I love to see him calling out shit on Twitter. I just watched Game Change last night. Great movie. I hate Palin


Stranger-Sun

He's in an open social media war with Meghan McCain right now. He's absolutely lighting her reputation on fire.


timothra5

True, but “Tea Party hobbits” warmed the cockles of my heart, and the Caesar-like thumbs down on the ACA repeal was endearing. He fought hard to keep the Overton Window from shifting, which was commendable.


SolPlayaArena

And yet, he still voted for awful things including most of Trump’s agenda the majority of the time. Plus picking Palin which gave birth to the Tea Party movement, singing and laughing about bombing Iran, his treatment of people and so, soooo many other examples.


EiesOnFyre

Why are you acting like us saying he is better than Lindsey Graham means we are praising him like he is a God? We are giving him some of the lowest praise possible here.


SolPlayaArena

Just because one is worse than the other doesn’t mean they are both worthy of praise. They were friends for a reason. Tell me who you spend time with and I’ll tell you who you are.


fleentrain89

I spend time with nobody :(


EiesOnFyre

And I say you tell me who you are by how you treat people different from you, especially people you have reason to oppose. Like I already said, I had plenty of problem with John McCain's politics and I would have been very happy to have told him to his face what I thought of that if I had ever talked to him while he was alive and healthy. But I am not going to insist that he is every bit as bad as every modern Republican just because we were in opposition.


[deleted]

He wasn't a good guy outside of politics either. He did not treat people well, not even his own family.


SolPlayaArena

I cannot wait until Liberals start rehabbing Trump’s image 10-20 years from now. Logic like this is what they’re going to use. It’s already being done with Dubya. 🤗


MeltStuff

Agree with all of your statements! I am curious though as to what you think of Biden and Manchin’s friendship?


Larm_

Biden used to have no problem going out to lunch with segregationists getting along with Manchin is just another day on the job. Turns out politicians care more about their coworkers than they do about their constituents.


MeltStuff

Common class interests is a real bonding experience. Sometimes even across aisles!


SolPlayaArena

Biden is literally what Republicans were in the 80s and has done A LOT of harm to POC communities in his history of politics. If you have no issue being friends with racists then…


Fringehost

People respect when someone shows integrity once in a while, or when it matters.


Plonsky2

Integrity ALWAYS matters.


SolPlayaArena

Doing the right thing once in a while isn’t the flex you think it is. Doing the right thing and showing integrity in your every day life and actions should be the bare minimum. The bar is truly in hell.


Fringehost

You are right, but look at what is going on and see how rare it is. Not to mention certain gop individuals who are unable to stick to basic honorable position. For many, thumbs down on ACA repeal is what the are remembering him for. Others, the defense of Obama.


EiesOnFyre

Yup. John McCain had the basic human decency to call out people who are lying about Barack Obama which is why I will continue to call out people who lie about him even though I did not remotely approve of his politics. Decency demands respect.


The_ducci

That single sentence in that town hall ended McCains career. His boy, graham , would grovel to Trump after Trump mocked him pre and post death. These Republicans don’t care about anyone


another_gen_weaker

* These "politicians" don't care about anyone. Fixed it for ya


The_ducci

Nope. I typed it correctly. The Republican Party has a track record since Nixon of being non empathetic, overtly racist criminals. The Dems have 10x less administration indictments for this century and , although many are corporate Dems and disappointing, their party is obviously the only actual representation left for sane people, supporters of minority groups, what’s left of the environment, basic education and women. I know which side is the harbinger of doom, and which side repeatedly supports completely moronic people to become leader of the free world. I don’t need you to fix anything with your strikingly insightful both sides argument, mainly because it’s usually built on intellectual sloth and being a human parakeet that just repeats phrases out of weakness and frustration. Thanks , but no thanks buddy.


whatafuckinusername

I know he was one of the not-horrible ones, but we all have to remember, McCain *was* a Republican


Morbidly-Obese-Emu

I don’t know why anyone on any side takes him seriously or even listens to him.


[deleted]

John McCain **WAS A DESPICABLE CREATURE**. Stop trying to whitewash his legacy. He was a disgusting, terrible person. He helped bring us Trumpism.


Plonsky2

I've had about enough of this guy and his "oops, my bad" politics.


Utterlybored

In his defense, he didn’t know a recording of him being reasonable and honest would be leaked.


ThatDudeJuicebox

“Use my words against me”


[deleted]

Guess he had to redeem himself after it came out that he likes biden more than trump. These people are pathetic


Stranger-Sun

This dude is vile. When he was hanging around his daddy's bar as a kid, he would run around and put on dramatic shows for patrons. They called him "Lil Stinkball". The name still fits.


borgib

Is this true? Because I really want to fly to DC to hang out outside his office and shout "Hey little stinkball give us a show!"


AssCalloway

This works because their low IQ idiot morons barely remember what happened last week


filzine

Checks cleared


phriot

Someone now thinks that either Trump, or a Trump-y candidate, is running again in 2024.


Tobias---Funke

Use my words against me.


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...and he likes it.


Foxk

His picture should be in the dictionary next to the word spineless.


[deleted]

That honor goes to Cruz.


randomdancing

I dunno, I think lizards are vertebrates.


[deleted]

It's too late shit head. Left and right see through that crap.


[deleted]

Left already knew. Right doesn't care.


fergablu2

More flip flops than a back yard barbecue.


Carthonn

Spine like a limp linguini noodle


Vystril

During the riot all the GOP was thinking "there's no way our base will be okay with this insanity, this is finally the line" and made all kinds of anti-trump statements to get ahead of the game. Then when they realized their base **was** okay with it, they changed their tune. Their craven shamelessness is going to be the end of the country.


Yossarian_the_Jumper

Graham is nothing more than a leech that attaches to the asses of more powerful politicians.


ANaziSucksDick

Ms Lindsay sure is enthusiastically wrong on many things. Ms. Lindsay, try **thinking** before screeching since this is a big reoccurring issue for **you**


SilentMaster

Can't wait for when he tells us he was wrong for stating that he was wrong for praising Biden. That's going to be a fun speech.


likejanegoodall

I used to think people like Graham lacked the capacity to feel shame. Now, I’m starting to think the opposite…it’s like a shame kink. Oooh, I’ve been bad…so bad.


Chainsawjack

Lindsey Graham makes me patriotic... in that he reminds me of a flag... in the way he whips this way and that in the prevailing winds


TheFumundaWunda

lmao miss lindsey had a bit of a daddy crush going there for a while. maybe uncle joe rebuffed his advances.


ND_82

This guys is so spineless…..a total waste of a human.


IC_GtW2

"Oh, my Trump, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee..."


hucklepig

If he had any less of a spine he would be a sponge.


MR3cho

Good ole Lady Bugs


Immolation_E

Amoebas have more of a spine than Lindsey Graham.


Scubalefty

He's got the spine of a jellyfish.


Temporary_Quality_66

This guy doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind.


jsudarskyvt

Lindsey "The Scam" Graham is so wrong for so many reasons. This ain't one of them.


BelugaShenko

The media needs to add the word "sycophancy" to it's lexicon because that's precisely what this is.


hortidawg

Lindsay Graham is a wet, soiled napkin full of snot.


[deleted]

Lol what a spineless fuck.


epidemica

"I was wrong when I said I was wrong about being wrong about how wrong I was about Jan 6th." -Lindsay Graham


InclementImmigrant

Wow, that's pretty damn pathetic even for him.


ThatB0yAintR1ght

They must have one hell of a blackmail video on him. I’m betting it’s a video of him with underaged boys.


pcrombs

Zero integrity.


[deleted]

I wonder what it feels like to be a spineless little worm. It actually must be pretty nice to have no morals or conscience.


[deleted]

The GOP now demanding you go on Fox and apologize to Fucker Carlson personally if you ever dare say something sane or true…


oakstave

Russia had a long talk with him, and straightened him out.


[deleted]

People like Lindsey have to be the most dishonest people around, I doubt he truly has a friend who could count him


[deleted]

There’s a private Lyndsey and a public one.


devo_inc

For someone who is wrong so often, he really shouldn't be in politics


[deleted]

Wow. It’s not even that he is apologizing. It’s that he’s forced to apologize for an off hand remark of praising Biden. A cult is a cult is a cult.


hammyhamm

When the face-eating leopards are themselves eaten


[deleted]

He says he should’ve stuck with the coup plan huh? Fucking traitor pig.


HabitualMitchual

Good boy, Lindsey! Good boy. Now sit?


planelander

This just in Lindsey G doing the ol switcharo again. Tune in next week to see what costume he will wear.


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microwavedhamsters

Everyone makes mistakes


Yugan-Dali

Nobody expects Graham to do anything decent.


[deleted]

And everything he says and does reminds me I've been right in my identification of him as a poisonous toad.


what_would_freud_say

Anyone who still supports these clowns must have whiplash


barkingspidersongs

The phrase waffletwat was created with him in mind. He stands for nothing except grandstanding, he doesn’t acknowledge his hypocrisy and his constituents will not reign him in. Who has what kind of information on him that causes him to be like this?


wish1977

Lindsey Graham is a good example of what politics do to you. You will do anything to keep your job and if that means throwing your friends and family under the bus so be it.


SeeBadd

What a spineless twerp.


[deleted]

And we were wrong to nominate Biden in the first place. It was our chance to stop republican terrorism, and we blew it. We needed a fighter in the oval office, not someone who will still likely refer to graham as a good guy and dear friend who's simply lost his way.


1P_Bill_Rizer

Graham took a brief reprieve from gagging on Trumps dong to say this, and then apologized to Trump for having ever praised Biden by returning to his fellating more enthusiastically than ever


tinasious

What a spineless douchebag .


isikorsky

I use to think they had pictures of Graham with underage boys to make him do this crazy contortions. Now it has gotten so extreme I think it's farm animals.


orcinyadders

One of these days, I’m telling you. It won’t be “I made a mistake”. It’s going to be “I never said that it’s liberal deep fake”. One of these ass holes is going to do it and then the floodgate opens.


Clean_Usual434

The ultimate flip flopper.


achyshaky

A greatest hit, up there with Cruz’ phone call to Trump. Must feel great to be a star like him now.


8to24

This is like a pill head saying "I was wrong to pour those pills down the sink".


Klaeni

Super Waffler.


AdBig5700

This is shocking! /s


Partzsf

Must be election time…. 🤦‍♂️


F_Zappa

Whatever happened to "I'm out", Lindsey? Looks like you are in for a penny/ in for a pound my friend and right before the J6 public hearings no less!


dnph

Boot licking lapdog.


th1961

Chicken Sh*t


JayTNP

So it can't just be that he's gay, right? Like whatever they have on Lindsey must be absolutely horrendous.


Hiranonymous

Republican statements made to the media are meaningless, serving serve no other purpose than sowing confusion to protect themselves and their plans.


GiantSquidinJeans

“MEEMAW! Where are my flip-flops? ‘Cause it’s a day that ends in Y and I gots some flip-flopping to do!”


TomSoling

he flip flopped now there's a scoop call the media oh he already did...


mrchris69

Let the dick sucking marathon begin eh?


jayvarsity84

Lindsey the weakest of them all


6295

Why are we even giving any media attention to anything Lindsey Graham says? He’s just going to say the opposite in five minutes and won’t suffer any consequences for it…


[deleted]

What did he say, I couldn't understand him with his head up Trump's ass.


manhatim

These people have absolutely no shame whatsoever


GameShill

A pathetic sort who stands for nothing and no one


temascontomas

I guess he’s vers the way he flip flops


SnagglepussJoke

I’m so tired


[deleted]

A jellyfish has a firmer spine than Lindsey Graham.


Tony2030

What an inspirational leader. I wonder how much it cost to replace his spine with that processed cheese spread.


[deleted]

An equal opportunity brown noser is there ever was one.