Lindsey Graham's Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran

[demmiblue]

As Lindsey Graham tried to sell Donald Trump on bombing Iran, he liked to play a little word-association game with the president.

“I say Franklin Roosevelt, what do you say?” the Republican senator from South Carolina asked. The correct answer: “You have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

As he ticked through memorable presidential phrases, Graham asked Trump what his phrase would be. Trump said he didn’t know, Graham recalled. “Keep protesting, help is on the way,” Graham suggested, referring to Trump’s social-media post in January urging Iranians to confront their government.

Few people lobbied Trump to undertake the riskiest gambit of his presidency as effectively as the hawkish and persistent Graham, who over a decade has held a sometimes close, sometimes tumultuous relationship with Trump.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lindsey-graham-trump-iran-fa5f54f0

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

— David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein.bsky.social) 2026-03-07T16:25:12.342Z

[Walleye]

1. I assume Lindsey has no children? So he doesn't care about the future.

He just needs to please his orange god

[sboatcar]

3. I think Lindsey prefers the company of men to women

So there's no children, nor possibility of them.

[Jvp]

2. Lindsey Graham is an active alcoholic

As with any drug addiction, judgement is impaired, yet we continue to elevate these people into positions of power where they make life important decisions for us? (see Hegspeth) (are addictions to greed included?)

[SheilaAnn]

4. That scotch isn't gonna pay for itself ya know...n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

5. RFK Jr. It's staggering (pun intended) how many addicts we have at the wheel.