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Lindsay Graham has an easy solution to this unnecessary conflict: send your sons and daughters.

This whole administration is such a fiasco.

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I recommend anybody looking at the US land invasion proposal to do that with an altitude map of Iran on the side.

In addition to history, Americans don't really "do" geography. Apparently it's harder than math.

Even Alexander the Great's conquest of Persian was mostly a soft coup. That country is a fortress.

Lindsey Graham is a lying sack of shit.

And I say that with his permission, since he’s on camera asking to be called out if he did exactly what they did with the Supreme Court not four years later.

Thank deities someone else remembers this.

I was not aware of this 'on camera' request. Does anyone have a citation?

They showed it on The Daily Show at least once. Talking the rest of a committee out of entertaining a nomination under Obama. Which they ignored entirely in the same time frame for the next administration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw8SSQHQitg is Lindsay Graham in 2016 defending the Republicans' refusal to consider a nomination to the Supreme Court in the last year of Obama's presidency, and saying "you can use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2A6FDiGEA is about Lindsey Graham in 2020 defending the Republicans' insistence on pushing through a nomination to the Supreme Court in the last year of Trump's presidency. It also includes a clip of Lindsay Graham in 2018 saying that if a Supreme Court vacancy opens once the primaries have started, "we'll wait till the next election".

Wow, WILD to imply that Lindsey Graham is part of this admin. They hate each other. Trump worked with Graham and McConnell first term because Trump does have to work with the establishment but they despise him. He still has to work with Graham who has a little more Koch power now that McConnell is gone-but-not-gone.

I’ll always find it hilarious that progressives manage to hate the GOP and Trump at the same time for the same reasons.

Graham is doing media interviews where he’s backing this war currently.

Also why you find that hilarious instead of expected? Trump is the GOP now. Everyone with more than the barest of pushback to him have been purged from the party and he’s working on getting rid of those people too.

You have no fucking clue what you are talking about at all. Your knowledge of the GOP is what you are told.

    Recess Appointments:
    Reagan: 240
    W. Bush: 171
    Clinton: 139
    H.W. Bush: 77
    Washington: 39
    Obama: 32
    Kennedy: 29
    Trump: 0

The GOP absolutely hates Trump. Trump knows he needs them to do anything.

The clips i saw of him talking looked like hard core brown nosing to me, pardon my french. He sat on Trumps table when Bad Bunnys' half time show was on the screens in Mar a Lago too.

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