so while Graham is still dead (and has not been resurrected yet, did someone push the stone away from his grave yet? Because I am half expecting it).
Then Mitch the Bitch— the walking filibuster, the man who bricked up a supreme court seat for a year like a gargoyle guarding an empty chair — crawls out of a hospital bed to announce he's still technically alive. Which I don't believe for a second.
That photo screams fake. His complexion and general appearance are too hale compared to how he has looked for at least a couple of years; why is he not wearing a hospital gown; the blue side of the "bed" to his left looks more like a chair; where are the mechanical devices on the wall behind him usually seen in hospital rooms, notably the oxygen source; and as Jeff pointed out, if he had only had a fall, why the 911 call saying that CPR was in progress? Of course, if it turns out that McConnell's handlers, Thune, Barrasso, and Jennings have lied, I expect no repercussions since the Guardians of Predators party lies continually and with aplomb.
I have read that the picture of Mitch with that shirt, was actually taken in 2023, during a hospital visit then--which would be why he looks younger and rested after a 'fall that knocked him 'briefly unconscious' and then a quickie bout of pneumonia. I call BS.
It's a photo of Chris Hacopian while he was playing for the Aggies. It matches the version that is on the Wapo internet page from Sunday, along with an article about him. https://wapo.st/4fbEvaW
Yeah, that photo was attributed to the July 12, 2026 WaPo, so at least if it's a faked photo they got the date of the newspaper correct. But it still looks contrived.
I don't think that photo is more believable than anybody else, but the interesting issue to me is this is turning us all into conspiracy theorists, and I'm not really sure how I feel about that.
At some level it really doesn't matter to me what condition McConnell is in, none of this is going to get the SAVE act passed which is important, and Trump seems to be moving to plan C for screwing up the midterms.
But as far as old Mitch, either he is going to take another wheel chair ride into the Senate at some point, or he'll have a "massive downturn" because obviously nobody is intent on telling us what his current condition is.
What are the odds on Polymarket at the moment, and why does it seem strange to me no news source has bothered to ask since they are generally keen on the subject...
I know what you mean about the conspiracy theory adjacency. But in this case, it's all too fishy and deliberately obscured. And whenever it's the GOP, you know there's malfeasance and ulterior motives involved.
This is part of the problem with being ruled by narcissists, because in the end they challenge you to believe them or your own lying eyes. Also like narcissists in general, they lie like they breathe in order to keep control. And "fog of war" is also an exceptional means of control.
If there had been truthful accounts about McConnell's condition from the get go there wouldn't be any conspiracy theories proliferating. The stories and (imo) blatant lies pedaled by the malfeasant GOP e.g. 20 minute conversations, doctored up photos etc.have been so incredulous that it's no wonder. The media's inexcusable lack of vetting these claims has only added fuel to the fire.
They're claiming "rehab center," so it won't look like a hospital room. I don't believe the photo either, but if he's somewhere for "rehab," that is more like a nursing home. I wonder when his wife came home.
You're right. More like sweat pants or gym shorts and tshirts. Things that are easy to get on and off and allow easy movement during therapy. And he should look worse, not younger and well-rested, if he has just recovered from pneumonia.
But that m’effer has enough money to rehab at home or at a luxurious place. That photo is fake. His handlers want to keep their jobs and get paid with our money. I read where his daughter deleted all of her social media accounts. They are all liars.
yes, with his first wife, who was actually a fairly nice lady who he divorced when the chance to marry big money came along with Chao. I hope the first Mrs. McConnell took him to the cleaners and discovered that she is much happier without the ol' turtleface.
“The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family’s philanthropic endeavors,” a spokesperson for Chao, the former U.S. Transportation Secretary, said in a statement. She returned to the United States from China on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
Chao left for China on June 12, two days before McConnell was hospitalized. The fact that she didn’t return sooner sparked conspiracy theories online.
I saw a post this morning from Demark that showed the Picture of McConnell with his wife sitting in their backyard the only thing different was his wife's hand on his arm, and the hospital background. Why can't someone blow this farce our of the water before Aug. 3?
IME, rehabilitation centers don't have all that stuff. And people are generally in clothes not gowns. That said, I don't believe this photo or the claim that his is out of the hospital and in a rehabilitation center. This party lies too much for any statement to be taken at face value.
I had three AI's check out the picture and all three said there was no watermark on them that would indicate they are AI's. But they also said there could be other programs used. They all said it's inconclusive.. but.. we all know they love those doctored pictures.
I searched the exact picture and just the faces. Nothing came up. I'm sure it's fake, but there is no indication from the layperson's point of view that it is. But, that said, I think the government has programs that can bypass any search we might do.
Now knowing that he looks younger in that pic of him in the hospital bed, I'm going "HUH?"
Given Murc's Law and the deference in the political and legal systems to the unreconstructed, these people have complete license to play in our faces. They lie like they breathe. I won't accept anything less than McConnell doing a live press conference.
"look, I just got off the phone with Lindsey Graham. we chatted for about 20 minutes." And Miss Lindsey promised me a joint press conference with Bitch-Glitch-Mitch was scheduled for this afternoon! Elvis will be doing the interview, if his flight from Atlantis - with Amelia Earhart piloting - lands on time.
Gotta love this sentence: “Biddeford Police Chief JoAnn Fisk told Maine's Total Coverage that this was not her department's investigation and that her department was only investigating.” 🤔
I’m from Maine, graduated from Biddeford High School in 1976- so this really hits home! I know exactly where this senseless murder took place- not that far from the Police Station!
This is too much to comprehend- we were glued to find out more information from Minneapolis and couldn’t believe this was happening in the U.S.- but yes it’s only getting worse - detention centers ad sending people to other countries… Susan Collins better get involved in this latest murder- that’s what it is!
When it hits home- the feelings are totally different- I am just sad‼️
Time to abolish ICE. We managed without them before 2003 and we can manage without them now. We need carefully vetted, well trained border security, but no ICE whatsoever.
I’m so sorry, Diana. It’s a sad and unacceptable situation no matter what but when it’s a place you’ve called home, it changes everything. They invaded a neighborhood in Chicago last fall that I frequented growing up and I still have family who live there. It makes you think about all the times your feet were on that pavement and now they’ve tainted it.
That apartment building at 74th. and South Shore Drive was in my neighborhood, one block from the corner where my sister and I hung out. If you look south from our overlook on Lake Michigan, you can see it. I'm still seething about that.
WTF?! How long are we expected to believe DHS’s bullshit that the person "weaponized the vehicle” as an excuse for ICE to commit murder in broad daylight?!!
Unfortunately, after Minneapolis we know that firing into a moving vehicle been proven over and over to be the wrong response.
Just abolish ICE and rebuild sane immigration control through the Border Patrol. We do not need a gestapo surging into interior cities sweeping up pe0ple.
That was probably a typo. The local police was only doing traffic control around the crime scene. The investigators are the Maine State Police and the Attorney General, along with federal investigators, for whatever that’s worth.
That’s exactly what I was thinking: the theory of gradualism. Is Miller now issuing a few “kill” orders in preplanned areas just to ease into this administration’s end game of a sadistic and cruel dictatorship?
I was just going to suggest that even though it's rather old news now, you mention the City of Houston as a hero of the day. I've called Houston home for nearly 40 years, and the city is the very antithesis of Texas (one of the most liberal places I've lived -- and therefore often a target of our abhorrent state government). From US representatives to city officials to the people marching in the streets (in unbearable heat and humidity -- I've escaped to the mountains of NM), everyone is demanding justice. Salgado's murder has had me bummed for nearly a week and now the great people of Maine get to experience the anguish.
Yeah and ICE used the same damned excuse that they ALWAYS use...the person "weaponized" the vehicle and tried to ram the ICE vehicle. Yeah right. And then it turns out that the guy who was shot (who came from Colombia with the correct paperwork that allowed him to work) wasn't the person that ICE was seeking. They shot a man who was legally employed, leaving a young wife and a child. WHEN are we going to be able to get rid of this entire department of gun-happy bullies and idiots and start fresh?
The thing about Lindsey Graham’s legacy is that the punchline was never really the death. It was the long public autopsy that came before it. Here was a man who could correctly diagnose Trump as a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot, then somehow spend the next decade acting like the diagnosis came with a loyalty oath. He was not a statesman. He was a weather vane in a navy suit, spinning toward the nearest strongman, donor class, camera, or grand jury exit sign. So yes, cue the Monty Python parrot routine. But the real ex-senator was moral courage, and it died in Lindsey long before Lindsey did.
I remember him as one of the House managers of the Clinton impeachment and how he was in tears when the Senate acquitted him. I never associated him with "moral courage."
Someone pushed through an autopsy on Lindsey Graham. He died Sunday, and I’ve already seen reports of a definitive cause of death (aortic dissection, a tear in the aorta). I guess they really wanted to stem speculation that Iran or Russia were involved.
LIndsey Graham never wasted an opportunity to waste an opportunity. He could have made this country better. He could have made the lives of millions better. He chose golf with the Fuckwit. Fuck you, Lindsey. I hope John McCain is kicking your ass from one end of the universe to the other.
Miss Graham was never interested in making the lives of anyone else better. His whole reason for existence was to serve himself. I will play armchair psychiatrist and theorize that, in order to protect his closeted life, he sought to ally himself with any power, using that associated power and his influence with it to hide whatever deep, dark secrets he was hiding.
It does seem like politicians that own up to being gay are better people. Right now one of the women tied for #1 most progressive in the House is a lesbian (Becca Balint). Interestingly of the 11 people in the most progressive top 10 (there's a tie at #10 too), 10 of them are women. (The only exception is the amazing Max Frost out of Florida, who is also the House's youngest member at 29. See, not everything in Florida is bad!)
Did you see where his tireless efforts finally got Alligator Alcatraz closed? They refuse to give him credit but local news mentioned how often he went there to shut it down.
He is tireless! He deserves a lot more credit than some showboaters I could name but he works so hard. I follow him on Instagram and his posts are so information. Another great person to follow is Melanie Stansbury out of New Mexico. She is on the Epstein case like a dog with a bone.
Jeff, DC has very competent law enforcement which includes detectives, investigators and medical examiners. Detectives who specialize in at home deaths, deaths that occur naturally at home such as folks with long term issues such as cancer or let’s say a history of heart issues. DC detectives also specialize in murders- homicides in various degrees. All this to say DC has a very competent law enforcement team ….My question….Why involve the FBI? What can they accomplish that Metropolitan Police Department cannot? IMHO it seems that FBI is present at the scene to “clean up on isle 1”. Clean up any sordid details that are located in Graham’s residence.. a black book or a list off Grinder or wipe his computer… It’s all rather strange, but no stranger than the way Mitch’s health event is being described. Best to All Fellow Travelers..
My father died of an aortic aneurysm: I can verify to you that it is not solely an internal event. And his situation was not as catastrophic as the description is of Miss LG's.
I did not read the description of Graham's event. I suppose if chest compressions are performed, blood would extravasate through the mouth. I have no firsthand knowledge and yield to your experience.
If it's a brain aneurysm that doesn't seal itself (as mine did), it comes out the ear, Arne. For an aortic rupture, though, I'm not sure, but there would have been a lot of vomit.
No worries. I'm used to it now. But remember when John Ritter died of an aortic aneurysm? He thought he had the flu because he was vomiting continually.
Seriously. Trump took the occasion to make Lindsey's death all about himself, but what happens now to the "formula for peace between Ukraine and Russia", the plan worked out with Zelensky that Graham was beaming about? Into the crapper?
Under dopey’s flooring there was a fucking gold mine of yummy stuff, so incredible they don’t know what to do so you never know about what might be under the floorboards.
Oh! More Monty Python. Thats such a brilliant piece and this is a perfect use for it here!
I can imagine they're keeping Mitch locked up in a cooler somewhere until the time is right to say, ohhhh Poor Mitch. he succumbed to his injury last night. The blatant lying and corruption in our government is off the charts. 🙄
And yeah, I need to see him actually speak cause the photo is fishy as hell.
Well, if you go to school, you can get a free sex change, so it can't be too difficult for a hospital to turn back the hands of time. Although--teachers can do gender reassignment surgery in a single afternoon, so AM Johnny can go home as PM Sally; I wonder why it takes a full hospital staff a whole month to chip a couple of years off Moscow Mitch.
He could actually be on life support. In which case, his wife would have to agree to take him off it. Hence the fast getaway to China, I'm sure paid for by concerned colleagues.
Robert Reich did list a few. He supported a path to citizenship for Dreamers; in 2013 he supported a bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate and failed in House; and he strongly supported Ukraine against Trump's buddy. He didn't vote for Trump in 2016, and he spoke against Jan 6. But he has no backbone, and he ended up supporting Trump in this term while the most egregious things were happening. So on net he was very, very bad.
That was Graham 10 years ago. Whether it was his pickled brain or his bromance with Trump, searching for good deeds by Graham is a non-starter. When a murderer is caught, the family tries to put a good spin on his life. The rest of us look to the latest deed. Graham had 10 years of bad deeds. That culminates his life.
Same happened to Rubio, He supported immigration reform and was part of a bipartisan group working on a bill. Then when he ran for president in 2016 and it was obvious the xenophobes were ascendant, he claimed he had "made a mistake." No, he hadn't. His mistake was supporting Trump going forward and selling his soul. You can see it on his face in every photo where he looks like he wishes the ground would swallow him.
As a Florida senator, he was a toad who never had time for his constituents and went out of his way to avoid being available in local office often canceling because he knew he’d have to face angry people.
Now he’s enabled to be a mini me and I can’t wait to watch him trip into an open pit wearing those Florshiems
Thank you, the only good thing he did was be on the ground very quickly at the Pulse nightclub massacre. Voldemort of course, couldn't be arsed to lose any beauty sleep and showed up once he absolutely had to.
Uncle Jeff, a quick search of that picture turned up this:
The photo of Senator Mitch McConnell in a red plaid shirt with his wife, Elaine Chao, was originally taken in March 2023 during his recovery and physical rehabilitation for a concussion and rib fracture
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Well we certainly can’t believe anything we see from the “media” these days. Every report looks to be a doctored up lie-as you infer! Can we please get some sanity back in America??? Claudia looks very relaxed and lovely. ❤️. Hope everyone has a peaceful week…….(sure Jan!) 🤷🏻♀️
Even those pricks at Meidas Touch were acting like that photo was legit as I fucking launched a string of profanities at their reporting. How fucking hard is it to say we're looking into the authenticity of this report put out by his office. Fucking Republicans lie about EVERYTHING!
And just in case you missed it, Michael Fanone had this to say about Lindsey Lyndsey.
"Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you're in it."
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
oh look, ICE just shot and killed another person in Maine.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/significant-police-presence-pool-street-biddeford-maine/71917201
fucking ghouls
so while Graham is still dead (and has not been resurrected yet, did someone push the stone away from his grave yet? Because I am half expecting it).
Then Mitch the Bitch— the walking filibuster, the man who bricked up a supreme court seat for a year like a gargoyle guarding an empty chair — crawls out of a hospital bed to announce he's still technically alive. Which I don't believe for a second.
Fuck him, he and Graham can go hang out.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-mcconnell-ai-image-released-lindsey-graham-still-dead
Jeff, keep resting, some of us can do the lifting too.
That photo screams fake. His complexion and general appearance are too hale compared to how he has looked for at least a couple of years; why is he not wearing a hospital gown; the blue side of the "bed" to his left looks more like a chair; where are the mechanical devices on the wall behind him usually seen in hospital rooms, notably the oxygen source; and as Jeff pointed out, if he had only had a fall, why the 911 call saying that CPR was in progress? Of course, if it turns out that McConnell's handlers, Thune, Barrasso, and Jennings have lied, I expect no repercussions since the Guardians of Predators party lies continually and with aplomb.
Saw where newspaper photo was analyzed and it was a Boston Red Sox photo from 2024.
Internet sleuths, do your thing
Someone posted on a chat yesterday, "two down, one to go."
2 down, dozens more to go!
Perfect.
I have read that the picture of Mitch with that shirt, was actually taken in 2023, during a hospital visit then--which would be why he looks younger and rested after a 'fall that knocked him 'briefly unconscious' and then a quickie bout of pneumonia. I call BS.
It's a photo of Chris Hacopian while he was playing for the Aggies. It matches the version that is on the Wapo internet page from Sunday, along with an article about him. https://wapo.st/4fbEvaW
Yeah, that photo was attributed to the July 12, 2026 WaPo, so at least if it's a faked photo they got the date of the newspaper correct. But it still looks contrived.
It was PROVIDED to the WaPo....not taken by one of their photographers. Not unless he had a wayback machine. Was his name Sherman?
Now I'm just confused.
I thought it was a picture of Mitch McConnell - and he looks nothing LIKE Chris Hacopian.
Different color eyes, for a start. . .
lol, and like 100 years older
We’re referring to the photo in the newspaper that he is supposedly holding, of the baseball player
Me too
I don't think that photo is more believable than anybody else, but the interesting issue to me is this is turning us all into conspiracy theorists, and I'm not really sure how I feel about that.
At some level it really doesn't matter to me what condition McConnell is in, none of this is going to get the SAVE act passed which is important, and Trump seems to be moving to plan C for screwing up the midterms.
But as far as old Mitch, either he is going to take another wheel chair ride into the Senate at some point, or he'll have a "massive downturn" because obviously nobody is intent on telling us what his current condition is.
What are the odds on Polymarket at the moment, and why does it seem strange to me no news source has bothered to ask since they are generally keen on the subject...
I know what you mean about the conspiracy theory adjacency. But in this case, it's all too fishy and deliberately obscured. And whenever it's the GOP, you know there's malfeasance and ulterior motives involved.
This is part of the problem with being ruled by narcissists, because in the end they challenge you to believe them or your own lying eyes. Also like narcissists in general, they lie like they breathe in order to keep control. And "fog of war" is also an exceptional means of control.
If there had been truthful accounts about McConnell's condition from the get go there wouldn't be any conspiracy theories proliferating. The stories and (imo) blatant lies pedaled by the malfeasant GOP e.g. 20 minute conversations, doctored up photos etc.have been so incredulous that it's no wonder. The media's inexcusable lack of vetting these claims has only added fuel to the fire.
They currently have a team from Boston Dynamics working on that problem. . .
They're claiming "rehab center," so it won't look like a hospital room. I don't believe the photo either, but if he's somewhere for "rehab," that is more like a nursing home. I wonder when his wife came home.
Thanks for the clarification. Although even in a rehab facility the patients don't wear blue jeans and button down shirts
You're right. More like sweat pants or gym shorts and tshirts. Things that are easy to get on and off and allow easy movement during therapy. And he should look worse, not younger and well-rested, if he has just recovered from pneumonia.
And like he's had his hair colored, a facelift and cheek fillers.
But that m’effer has enough money to rehab at home or at a luxurious place. That photo is fake. His handlers want to keep their jobs and get paid with our money. I read where his daughter deleted all of her social media accounts. They are all liars.
The turtle spawned?
yes, with his first wife, who was actually a fairly nice lady who he divorced when the chance to marry big money came along with Chao. I hope the first Mrs. McConnell took him to the cleaners and discovered that she is much happier without the ol' turtleface.
“The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family’s philanthropic endeavors,” a spokesperson for Chao, the former U.S. Transportation Secretary, said in a statement. She returned to the United States from China on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
Chao left for China on June 12, two days before McConnell was hospitalized. The fact that she didn’t return sooner sparked conspiracy theories online.
Somehow I think that translates to bringing bribes to the fentanyl suppliers, that her shipping magnate family deals with.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10244532125466927&set=a.10235172975374024
It was in the news Saturday that she'd flown back to the States.
https://www.newser.com/story/392655/as-rumors-keep-swirling-on-mcconnell-chao-returns-to-us.html
She was reported back in the US on July 7th.
I saw a post this morning from Demark that showed the Picture of McConnell with his wife sitting in their backyard the only thing different was his wife's hand on his arm, and the hospital background. Why can't someone blow this farce our of the water before Aug. 3?
IME, rehabilitation centers don't have all that stuff. And people are generally in clothes not gowns. That said, I don't believe this photo or the claim that his is out of the hospital and in a rehabilitation center. This party lies too much for any statement to be taken at face value.
Totally fake. What Bullshit
Of course it's fake! He looks at least ten years younger, if not twenty!
He's too pink. Yeah, where is the oxygen?
It is a crock.
Add to the list: Right hand middle finger - no finger nail.
Totally agree!
I had three AI's check out the picture and all three said there was no watermark on them that would indicate they are AI's. But they also said there could be other programs used. They all said it's inconclusive.. but.. we all know they love those doctored pictures.
It's an actual photo. It's just that it's OLD. Like 10-12 YEARS old.
I searched the exact picture and just the faces. Nothing came up. I'm sure it's fake, but there is no indication from the layperson's point of view that it is. But, that said, I think the government has programs that can bypass any search we might do.
Now knowing that he looks younger in that pic of him in the hospital bed, I'm going "HUH?"
Given Murc's Law and the deference in the political and legal systems to the unreconstructed, these people have complete license to play in our faces. They lie like they breathe. I won't accept anything less than McConnell doing a live press conference.
"look, I just got off the phone with Lindsey Graham. we chatted for about 20 minutes." And Miss Lindsey promised me a joint press conference with Bitch-Glitch-Mitch was scheduled for this afternoon! Elvis will be doing the interview, if his flight from Atlantis - with Amelia Earhart piloting - lands on time.
😂😂😂 Darn. I thought Elvis might hitch a ride on the Jersey Devil or Mothman.
Paula 😆
they’ll hire Disney mock up a fake AI interview.
Absolutely Wendy! Agree!!!!! DAR vote was great news as your heroes section!
It's an AI photo, I'll bet anyone!
Someone noticed the newspaper Mitch was holding is from 2016. No wonder he looks 10 years younger.
Gotta love this sentence: “Biddeford Police Chief JoAnn Fisk told Maine's Total Coverage that this was not her department's investigation and that her department was only investigating.” 🤔
I’m from Maine, graduated from Biddeford High School in 1976- so this really hits home! I know exactly where this senseless murder took place- not that far from the Police Station!
This is too much to comprehend- we were glued to find out more information from Minneapolis and couldn’t believe this was happening in the U.S.- but yes it’s only getting worse - detention centers ad sending people to other countries… Susan Collins better get involved in this latest murder- that’s what it is!
When it hits home- the feelings are totally different- I am just sad‼️
Time to abolish ICE. We managed without them before 2003 and we can manage without them now. We need carefully vetted, well trained border security, but no ICE whatsoever.
I’m so sorry, Diana. It’s a sad and unacceptable situation no matter what but when it’s a place you’ve called home, it changes everything. They invaded a neighborhood in Chicago last fall that I frequented growing up and I still have family who live there. It makes you think about all the times your feet were on that pavement and now they’ve tainted it.
That apartment building at 74th. and South Shore Drive was in my neighborhood, one block from the corner where my sister and I hung out. If you look south from our overlook on Lake Michigan, you can see it. I'm still seething about that.
I hope all the people who participated in that despicable and preposterous crime are prosecuted.
She will wring her hands, and profess concern, and turn around and take a bribe to ignore it.
Windham High School Class of 1979. They tore it down, but I still dream about it.
Yeah me too - life was so simple then too!
*sigh*
You are so right, it really does. I’m sure Senator Collins is concerned.
How awful.
WTF?! How long are we expected to believe DHS’s bullshit that the person "weaponized the vehicle” as an excuse for ICE to commit murder in broad daylight?!!
Unfortunately, after Minneapolis we know that firing into a moving vehicle been proven over and over to be the wrong response.
Defund ICE and its murderers!!
Just abolish ICE and rebuild sane immigration control through the Border Patrol. We do not need a gestapo surging into interior cities sweeping up pe0ple.
Syntax. Word choice. These are things that don't matter anymore.
OMG! You beat me to it. WUT??
Kay, that is just rich also Mitch got new glasses for the coffin picture I guess.
The king is dead. Long live the king!
That was probably a typo. The local police was only doing traffic control around the crime scene. The investigators are the Maine State Police and the Attorney General, along with federal investigators, for whatever that’s worth.
Mother fucking militia
Untrained, violent, moronic, racist sadists handed a massive arsenal and told to get busy indulging their filthy fantasies.
A years-long Kristallnacht
By an army of Kyle Rittenhouses.
Thanks for putting it that way, Doc. A relative of mine was killed in Kristallnacht. The Nazis broke in and threw him down the stairs.
We cannot be guilty bystanders now. I'm getting new protest signs ready for GOOD TROUBLE (thank you, John Lewis.)
Oh this is so troubling. How can this EVEN be our country and why is no one stopping this insanity?
Voter apathy, stupidity, selfishness, xenophobia, racism, etc. Seen before too many times. Now it's here and it's us.
trump's private....
Wonder how many executions Miller put in his quota
That’s exactly what I was thinking: the theory of gradualism. Is Miller now issuing a few “kill” orders in preplanned areas just to ease into this administration’s end game of a sadistic and cruel dictatorship?
Heavy emphasis on Blue states of course
MURDERED, not killed.
I was just going to suggest that even though it's rather old news now, you mention the City of Houston as a hero of the day. I've called Houston home for nearly 40 years, and the city is the very antithesis of Texas (one of the most liberal places I've lived -- and therefore often a target of our abhorrent state government). From US representatives to city officials to the people marching in the streets (in unbearable heat and humidity -- I've escaped to the mountains of NM), everyone is demanding justice. Salgado's murder has had me bummed for nearly a week and now the great people of Maine get to experience the anguish.
Low-rent Sturmabteilung wilding out like the millions of Americans wanted...they are doing the ethnic cleansing America's Pilonidal Cyst promised.
Whoa!
Someone please explain how his wife returned so quickly from China and why she went there in the first place.
If the picture is AI, then modest congratulations are in order for rendering a hand with five finger. Sentience is close at hand. /s
She's been back since July 7th. And that is not AI nor is it photoshopped. It IS, however, an old photo. Neither of them look like this now.
🎯
Thanks!
He looks kind of alive. I counted his fingers and there are 5. So there's that...
Mitch looks brain-dead, even in the enhanced/fake rosy image. The 3,000 mile stare.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile but that smile does not look genuine.
Murder. They are literally getting away with... murder.
There is no statute of limitations on murder. None of their crimes will be forgotten when this regime falls.
Buh-bye Lindsey!
"Body cameras were not on the agents" because of course they weren't.
When will ICE receive its karma?
Yeah and ICE used the same damned excuse that they ALWAYS use...the person "weaponized" the vehicle and tried to ram the ICE vehicle. Yeah right. And then it turns out that the guy who was shot (who came from Colombia with the correct paperwork that allowed him to work) wasn't the person that ICE was seeking. They shot a man who was legally employed, leaving a young wife and a child. WHEN are we going to be able to get rid of this entire department of gun-happy bullies and idiots and start fresh?
I'm home in Maine. We are in mourning...again.
Gestapo thugs out hunting human beings while the barbarians cheer them on.
The thing about Lindsey Graham’s legacy is that the punchline was never really the death. It was the long public autopsy that came before it. Here was a man who could correctly diagnose Trump as a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot, then somehow spend the next decade acting like the diagnosis came with a loyalty oath. He was not a statesman. He was a weather vane in a navy suit, spinning toward the nearest strongman, donor class, camera, or grand jury exit sign. So yes, cue the Monty Python parrot routine. But the real ex-senator was moral courage, and it died in Lindsey long before Lindsey did.
Lindsey Graham died of chronic, untreatable hypocrisy!
I remember him as one of the House managers of the Clinton impeachment and how he was in tears when the Senate acquitted him. I never associated him with "moral courage."
Yes, his tears over Clinton’s crimes was way over the top. Each vote against gay rights upped his hypocrisy meter to 11.
Someone pushed through an autopsy on Lindsey Graham. He died Sunday, and I’ve already seen reports of a definitive cause of death (aortic dissection, a tear in the aorta). I guess they really wanted to stem speculation that Iran or Russia were involved.
Meanwhile, many FBI agents are crawling all over his house. Why? Hiding evidence? Planting evidence? What is the purpose?
Seeing if he had any blackmail material on DJT or others?
Ignoble poltroon indeed Virgin… sycophantic behavior, and evil war hawk was his game. The only good he ever did., was support Ukraine.
Well said!
LIndsey Graham never wasted an opportunity to waste an opportunity. He could have made this country better. He could have made the lives of millions better. He chose golf with the Fuckwit. Fuck you, Lindsey. I hope John McCain is kicking your ass from one end of the universe to the other.
Miss Graham was never interested in making the lives of anyone else better. His whole reason for existence was to serve himself. I will play armchair psychiatrist and theorize that, in order to protect his closeted life, he sought to ally himself with any power, using that associated power and his influence with it to hide whatever deep, dark secrets he was hiding.
All the while pickled in alcohol. Sad person, sad life, bad news for the rest of us.
It does seem like politicians that own up to being gay are better people. Right now one of the women tied for #1 most progressive in the House is a lesbian (Becca Balint). Interestingly of the 11 people in the most progressive top 10 (there's a tie at #10 too), 10 of them are women. (The only exception is the amazing Max Frost out of Florida, who is also the House's youngest member at 29. See, not everything in Florida is bad!)
Did you see where his tireless efforts finally got Alligator Alcatraz closed? They refuse to give him credit but local news mentioned how often he went there to shut it down.
He is tireless! He deserves a lot more credit than some showboaters I could name but he works so hard. I follow him on Instagram and his posts are so information. Another great person to follow is Melanie Stansbury out of New Mexico. She is on the Epstein case like a dog with a bone.
He was in love with Trump. Whether Trump reciprocated, we will never know unless there is a Graham Diary waiting to be found in his estate.
If there is a Graham Diary, the FBI will disappear it.
Ugh. I don't want to think about that!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Yes, something big happened on that golf outing that turned Graham into a trump ball licker. Must be something kompromat related.
Graham cracker, we knew ye too well
Bending over for trump was your tell
You didn't even disdain
When he insulted McCain
Enjoy your MAGA-fueled Hell
Agree....the blackmail musta been really good. And there was plenty of it, I'm sure.
His NDA's are no good anymore. I'm wondering if all the rumors were true. We shall see.
He didnt need blackmail, he just needed to see which way his constuents' wind blew.
And who he blew
You bet. Stories will be coming out. So to speak.
So they sent in Ka$h to do a cleanup of all the incriminating evidence. How pathetic
Doc …..Graham Cracker… man, that’s f***ing gold..👏🏻 you win the internets today my friend… gold I tell ya…🫨🫨🫨
Donnie must have many pictures of people with their pants down.
Must be with children because being gay just isn't very shocking.
Excellent
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Jeff, DC has very competent law enforcement which includes detectives, investigators and medical examiners. Detectives who specialize in at home deaths, deaths that occur naturally at home such as folks with long term issues such as cancer or let’s say a history of heart issues. DC detectives also specialize in murders- homicides in various degrees. All this to say DC has a very competent law enforcement team ….My question….Why involve the FBI? What can they accomplish that Metropolitan Police Department cannot? IMHO it seems that FBI is present at the scene to “clean up on isle 1”. Clean up any sordid details that are located in Graham’s residence.. a black book or a list off Grinder or wipe his computer… It’s all rather strange, but no stranger than the way Mitch’s health event is being described. Best to All Fellow Travelers..
Hmmm, the flooring in the residence is being changed or already has been by now. Why?
Most likely because he bled all over the place--when the aorta bursts, it's a bloody event.
That was attributed to Graham. And usually a burst aneurysm or a dissection of the aorta is an internal event.
My father died of an aortic aneurysm: I can verify to you that it is not solely an internal event. And his situation was not as catastrophic as the description is of Miss LG's.
I did not read the description of Graham's event. I suppose if chest compressions are performed, blood would extravasate through the mouth. I have no firsthand knowledge and yield to your experience.
Oh, where does the blood come out? Don't they just bleed into the stomach?Asking for a friend.
If it's a brain aneurysm that doesn't seal itself (as mine did), it comes out the ear, Arne. For an aortic rupture, though, I'm not sure, but there would have been a lot of vomit.
YIKES! I'm glad you're ok, Joanne.
Sorry for asking. It's pretty gross. I'm so glad that your aneurysm healed itself. I hope my question didn't trigger bad memories.
No worries. I'm used to it now. But remember when John Ritter died of an aortic aneurysm? He thought he had the flu because he was vomiting continually.
Removing all traces of man chowder
Snort. Chortle. 😜
Vodka and blood , hard to clean up
FBI is posturing. Patel got called to the whitehouse late last week
He was on the tarmac going to watch his “girlfriend “ in a concert or something similar.
He is doing the cya, see how impotent I am routine. No not a typo.
Wow, Teresa, missing that "r" really changes the definition!!! haha!!
After having rewatching Michael Clayton recently, I sure hope they check the spaces between the late lamented senator's toes.
Seriously. Trump took the occasion to make Lindsey's death all about himself, but what happens now to the "formula for peace between Ukraine and Russia", the plan worked out with Zelensky that Graham was beaming about? Into the crapper?
Great movie!
Need to see it again
Tom Wilkenson & Clooney were great!
For those of us who haven't seen it, what was between his toes? Thanks.
Needle marks from where the assassins injected a prescription drug into a character. Made it look like a suicide.
Ah, I see. Thank you.
I wondered about the FBI too.
They went into confiscate the ballgags and S&M gear
And all the pictures of young boys.
And clean up the Astro Glide and amyl nitrates.
Under dopey’s flooring there was a fucking gold mine of yummy stuff, so incredible they don’t know what to do so you never know about what might be under the floorboards.
Lindsey and Mitch are responsible for Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
May they rot in peas
As well as many other aspects of our current shitstorm..
Oh! More Monty Python. Thats such a brilliant piece and this is a perfect use for it here!
I can imagine they're keeping Mitch locked up in a cooler somewhere until the time is right to say, ohhhh Poor Mitch. he succumbed to his injury last night. The blatant lying and corruption in our government is off the charts. 🙄
And yeah, I need to see him actually speak cause the photo is fishy as hell.
I would gladly check myself into the hospital if doing so would take three years off my appearance. It would be a bargain.
Well, if you go to school, you can get a free sex change, so it can't be too difficult for a hospital to turn back the hands of time. Although--teachers can do gender reassignment surgery in a single afternoon, so AM Johnny can go home as PM Sally; I wonder why it takes a full hospital staff a whole month to chip a couple of years off Moscow Mitch.
😂😂😂 Ah yes...science is doing remarkable things! HA!
Joyce, excellent!!
Ever see the movie "Seconds?"
He could actually be on life support. In which case, his wife would have to agree to take him off it. Hence the fast getaway to China, I'm sure paid for by concerned colleagues.
Was thinking the same thing
Thank you Jeff.
Let me reflect on all the good things Graham did over the past few years.
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Now waiting patiently for Schrödinger’s Mitch.
Robert Reich did list a few. He supported a path to citizenship for Dreamers; in 2013 he supported a bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate and failed in House; and he strongly supported Ukraine against Trump's buddy. He didn't vote for Trump in 2016, and he spoke against Jan 6. But he has no backbone, and he ended up supporting Trump in this term while the most egregious things were happening. So on net he was very, very bad.
That was Graham 10 years ago. Whether it was his pickled brain or his bromance with Trump, searching for good deeds by Graham is a non-starter. When a murderer is caught, the family tries to put a good spin on his life. The rest of us look to the latest deed. Graham had 10 years of bad deeds. That culminates his life.
Too many skeletons rattling around in Lindsey's closet.
The problem is, he supported the Trump regime and never took a real stand after Trump won office.
Same happened to Rubio, He supported immigration reform and was part of a bipartisan group working on a bill. Then when he ran for president in 2016 and it was obvious the xenophobes were ascendant, he claimed he had "made a mistake." No, he hadn't. His mistake was supporting Trump going forward and selling his soul. You can see it on his face in every photo where he looks like he wishes the ground would swallow him.
As a Florida senator, he was a toad who never had time for his constituents and went out of his way to avoid being available in local office often canceling because he knew he’d have to face angry people.
Now he’s enabled to be a mini me and I can’t wait to watch him trip into an open pit wearing those Florshiems
A pit of alligators, since it is Florida. Boy, do you have your cup runneth over with lousy politicians in Florida!
Thank you, the only good thing he did was be on the ground very quickly at the Pulse nightclub massacre. Voldemort of course, couldn't be arsed to lose any beauty sleep and showed up once he absolutely had to.
And he may have been swallowed by the criminal elect’s gifted Florsheims.
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Uncle Jeff, a quick search of that picture turned up this:
The photo of Senator Mitch McConnell in a red plaid shirt with his wife, Elaine Chao, was originally taken in March 2023 during his recovery and physical rehabilitation for a concussion and rib fracture
THANK YOU! Google Images? I was going to go there next!
I just googled the description of the pic and that's what came up...I had read yesterday that the pic was confirmed to be from a few years ago
Thank you. Only 3 years ago? Why does he look ten years younger?
maybe his conscience finally caught up with him
Oh you joker, he had a surgically removed
Mitch is dead. These people are rapacious liars and can fuck directly off. Hell is getting crowded, but I’m sure they can squeeze in one more.
When you're finally dead, asshole Mitch
Go straight to Hell without a hitch
You wielded your authority
To harm every minority
And only help the rich
Great poetry!!🎖
“Lyndsey” was one of Trump’s most loyal puppets until he wasn’t, then he was. I wonder who was manipulating those strings.
Chief Panty Sniffer Mace should run just to lose again.
She should run to lose...cant that bitch take hint? Good grief. 🙄
I’m shocked that Mace did so poorly. Apparently, being able to add “Capitol bathroom attendant” to one’s resume isn’t the flex we thought it was.
She's just so crazy... she comes across as way too over the top.
I was surprised also. She came in fifth.
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“Chief Panty Sniffer”… lol
Boy, you ladies are really piling on her! Good job!
If the panty fits... I always refer to her as the genital inspector police.
TO THE TUNE OF "OKLAHOMA..."
Mar-a-Lago
Where corruption bounces off the walls
And a Botoxed face
Gets a warm embrace
With secrets hidden in the stalls!
Mar-a-Lago
Where Junior inhales all his coke
And Donny deems
His rancid schemes
Will make everyone but him go broke!
The place smells of feces and dead feet
And run by an obese orange cheat
So when we say FUCK!
A yippee yip eye yay!
FUCK!
PLEASE GO TO HELL!
MAR-A-LAGO
Oh F-U-C-K Y-O-U
MAR-A-LAGO
FUCK YOU!
This is the original song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGXu0j6QDJ8 The tune starts about 40 seconds in.
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A parody most excellent
Of MAGA bull excrement
And shallowness, treason, and scams
Frosty, you're lit
This would be a hit
Broadway resistance jams!
HA! You two need to go on the road! So good! 👏👏👏👏
Yes, your agents can be
Bialystock & Bloom
Thank you!
Doc! We have to write a musical!
Thanks for letting me know what the tune was. It helped me sing along with it.😀
You're welcome, Susan!
😆
Bravo!
Wonderful [modified for the situation] quote: “Sure, Mitch McConnell was evil, but don’t forget that Lindsey Graham did everything he did, only backwards and in high heels.” Originally said about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Attribution: https://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-article2.htm
Well we certainly can’t believe anything we see from the “media” these days. Every report looks to be a doctored up lie-as you infer! Can we please get some sanity back in America??? Claudia looks very relaxed and lovely. ❤️. Hope everyone has a peaceful week…….(sure Jan!) 🤷🏻♀️
That photo is obviously AI. Why do all the news outlets report it as if it's real? Oh, why ask why?
Even those pricks at Meidas Touch were acting like that photo was legit as I fucking launched a string of profanities at their reporting. How fucking hard is it to say we're looking into the authenticity of this report put out by his office. Fucking Republicans lie about EVERYTHING!
No evidence it's AI. Some evidence it's older.
And just in case you missed it, Michael Fanone had this to say about Lindsey Lyndsey.
"Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you're in it."
Bravo.
Amen Michael Fanone!