United States Senator Darline Graham of South Carolina stunned a debate audience when she declared, “I’m not that informed on national security.”
No shit.
It is curious that so many seem to have such high expectations for a rubber stamp.
She differs from her brother in this regard.
Lindsey, utterly lacking principles and easily manipulated, was also a rubber stamp, but it wasn’t nepotism that carried him to the United States Senate.
It was his pluck and talent for surviving as a small fish in a world of man eaters. He was a remora — a parasite of sorts — hovering near his host, and hoovering its detritus. Whether noble or filthy that was his true gift.
Lindsey was a warmonger and a professional mascot like his sister, the new senator. The closeted Senate cherub was shallow, ignorant and superficial as a national security practitioner. He was wrong more often and more times than any other politician of the era when it came to the gravest matters of state.
He was a spectacular know-nothing who didn’t read, didn’t listen, and didn’t really care about what it was that was happening all around him — so long as he was on the merry-go-round making it happen. History will recall his vandalisms with scorn.
The derisions will all be too modest for the monkeys with guns and missiles who sent Jared Kushner into their brave new world to make peace with a bag of Bitcoin and Saudi cash.
Lindsey was the neediest of small and lonely men.
What filled his days was a sick game and peripatetic travels, where his delusions told him that these were chapters in great events, as opposed to insignificant moments in the life of a meaningless man when it comes to an accounting of standing for right against wrong.
Only in Washington, DC, do the narcissistic fulminations of a deranged personality get treated like evidence of statesmanship, as opposed to symptoms of a psychiatric illness. Lindsey Graham reportedly said this to some confidants hours before he died:
I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization.
It is fitting in this age of malice, perfumed with the stench of MAGA’s corruption and Trump’s incompetence, that Joint Base Charleston is now named Joint Base Lindsey Graham, while Palm Beach International Airport has been renamed — temporarily — President Donald J. Trump International Airport with the FAA designator DJT.
Five hundred and 20 miles apart, the runways link an invisible monument of nothingness — empty air — connecting master and pet. It’s a fitting memorial to the vicious men who obliterated the lives of so many with their schemes, delusions and games leaving nothing behind, but the empty spaces of stolen lives.
The first time human beings witnessed the moment of conception where the human sperm and egg connect occurred in April 2016, when researchers at Northwestern University filmed the miracle of life for the first time.
Think about that incredible moment and the path of human progress that made it possible to witness.
Think about this photograph from 1946:
It’s the first image of Earth from space. It was taken from a captured Nazi rocket, its war head replaced by an American camera.
It is the prelude to the following two photographs.
Here is a photo from the James Webb space telescope, which may be the greatest scientific instrument ever built by mankind. This image is from the beginning of time, at the birth of the universe. It is as extraordinary as it is incomprehensible:
The last photograph from the Webb telescope from April 2026 is a peak back to the very beginning of time itself:
Eighty-one years ago, this September 2nd will mark the end of the war that remade the world that endured until now. Today, lesser men than those who saved it, redeemed it and fortified it have torn down what was a trust for them to preserve, rather than an inheritance to squander like reprobate royals, but alas, that’s what they have done.
World War II killed 80 million people across the globe. While aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, after two atomic detonations, this is what General MacArthur, US General of the Army and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, said:
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at Peace. The Holy Mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way. I speak for the un-named brave millions homeward bound to take up the challenge of that future which they did so much to salvage from the brink of disaster…
A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of Victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the War potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concept of War…
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balance of power, Leagues of Nations all in turn failed leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blots out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advance in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh…
And so, my fellow countrymen, today I report to you that your sons and daughters have served you well and faithfully with the calm, deliberate, determined fighting spirit of the American soldier and sailor based upon a tradition of historical trait, as against the fanaticism of an enemy supported only by mythological fiction. Their spiritual strength and power has brought us through to victory. They are homeward bound - take care of them…
Lindsey Graham did not.
Darlene Graham will not.
Together, they are two sides of the same hollow and vapid coin. They are constitutional miscreants and ignorant children in a world on edge.
Through all of history, there has been war, but until now, the moment of conception when old men sentence the young to brutal death has never been seen.
It has never been preserved. Never captured.
The spark of war has been described but never seen, until now, and that is what the looming documentary “Lindsey’s Game” will show.
Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham have entangled America in a lost war of choice against Iran in which American men and women are killed, and the Trump boys cash in as drone contractors.
Sunday after Sunday for decades, Lindsey Graham would show up on a TV network spouting banalities, propaganda, hollow slogans and dubious theories.
It was a theater of the absurd that called itself “journalism” at a moment when politics became show business, and posturing became as important as a model’s pose. What we have is a Senate of ‘Zoolanders.’
Let’s not pretend. The day-to-day reality of America in 2026 has long signaled danger to the republic from the hollow men who chose cult over country.
In the end, Darline Graham’s job isn’t to think or know anything.
Let’s be clear about that.
She is her opponents’ identical genetic match in that regard.
Her job is to shut the f*ck up and do whatever Stephen Miller tells her Trump wants her to do.
That is what they all stand for, and by the way, what binds MAGA is their ignorance.
The national media has no damn right to act surprised.
Cup of Attorney General Todd Blanche, anyone?
Please.
Let’s meet the world where it is, and at least have the dignity to see it as it is.
Darline Graham is an ignorant clown just like the ignorant clown who raised her.
Surprised?
I’m not.
Here’s a better idea: Dr. Annie Andrews for the US Senate.
The choice does not get any easier than this, in a state that is home to one of the largest measles outbreaks in United States history. The vaccine for measles has been safely in existence since 1962. The outbreak does not respect state borders and will harm many. Thank you, South Carolina.
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