Posted On: Monday - July 13th 2026 9:12AM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government The Neocons
We will refrain from the name-calling this post. Neither "Lindsey Grahamnesty" nor "Miss Lindsey" will be used today... except just now. That's who he was though. Peak Stupidity has been through this more than once, and we will again refute accusations about "speaking ill of the dead" with the same point we made here 9 years ago in reference to Juan McAmnesty, the late Senator Graham's former pal in Invading & Inviting.
I can't deny that the recent death of Lindsey Graham is most likely a good thing for South Carolina and for the nation. Some are attributing his death to nefarious causes, assassination - this warmonger was in the Ukraine just a day or so prior - by the Russians or Iranians. I haven't been convinced that Graham's death was anything more than of natural causes. People do die suddenly* in their 70s still. We haven't cured that.
It must be said here that, if an assassination really was the case here, Putin or some raghead really did us a solid. As Peak Stupidity has written before with regard to Ted Kennedy and Juan McAmnesty: It’d be a different story if the guy were retired at his home back in Seneca, South Carolina. I wouldn't feel glad he had died. That isn't the case. If this is what it takes to get this implementer “Invade the World / Invite the World” policy out of power in the Senate, so be it, I'm not sorry.
That’s not gloating. President Trump, way OTOH had this to say:
That's great - he comes across as such a gracious man. It's too bad that Donald Trump, who has used every insult in the book on people even on his side, isn't consistently gracious. He comes up with insults, often useless, meaningless ones, for guys like Conservative stalwart Thomas Massie, just because the latter didn't agree with him on EVERYTHING.
You shouldn't speak ill of the dead - we kind of went over that - but that hasn't stopped Trump before when he's discussed political figures of the past. "He will be greatly missed!" OK, that'd have been enough. Either Trump only knows a couple of Americans and hasn't yet met a good one, or, more the case, he knows 350 million great American people, and Lindsey Graham falls under "one of those greatest." I suppose that's not lying, then...
This is particular Peak Pet Peeve here, the lowering of the flags. I'd thought we'd bid Farewell to Kings was about the lowering of American flags to half-mast for the death of ex-President G.H.W. Bush. In The Shutdown and the Flags, I reckoned the flags were at half-mast because there was nobody being paid to raise them. For whom the flags are lowered, don't even ask...... I don't know, I figured that was for Ace Frehley... not sure...
I suggest yet again that those responsible for flag flying and maintenance lower these poles, cut them in half with saws-alls, and re-mount the half-length poles so that nobody has to bother with this again. Flag up, flag half down, it's a matter of attitude.
I don't have a screenshot, but it's the last and more politically important words out of Trump regarding the late Senator Graham's successor that irk me the most. Note the quotes here don't represent anything more than a close paraphrase, but "We have a great successor in mind. We don't want to tell you who it is yet, but we're working on this."
I'd have been fine hearing that "We want a MAGA senator to replace this
No, Trump and his big ego has him acting as if he just picks Senators now. I wish he'd shut up more.
Speaking of the replacement for Lindsey Graham, I think that does deserve a post before it's old news. The Governor, Mr. McMaster, will appoint someone to fill the half-year left open term. Within one month, another GOP** Primary election will be held - I'm kind of hoping the alleged (long-ago) ex-drug dealer wins this time. By then the man (hopefully!) picked shortly by the Governor will have already a slight advantage, and then more of one if he ends up in the General election.
We will get to that, but in the meantime, against accusations we will append a nice Samuel Clemens, aka, Mark Twain quote I came across today:
I'm not gloating. "While I've never wished a man dead, I've read some obituaries with great pleasure." (h/t, ZeroHedge commenter.)
PS: Here is The Alarmist's take on the death of Lindsey Graham on his substack site.
* For something like a cardiovascular problem, it's those who have been more fortunate, as in, they didn't die from a major problem, who are more likely to not "die suddenly" later. In other words, once the problem has been diagnosed after the severe symptoms, any subsequent death will be seen not as "sudden", but as expected, cause "I told you not to
** Unfortunately one in which voters of either party can vote in, although, AFAIK, not voters who've already voted in the D Primary.
Comments:
The Alarmist
Monday - July 13th 2026 10:20AM MST
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I can’t rule out a heart-stopping clot after all that international travel, but if he toured the drone factory on the 11th, there was little chance he was back in the District of Corruption to bite the bullet later that evening.
https://alarmist.substack.com/p/lindsey-grahamnesty
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I can’t rule out a heart-stopping clot after all that international travel, but if he toured the drone factory on the 11th, there was little chance he was back in the District of Corruption to bite the bullet later that evening.
https://alarmist.substack.com/p/lindsey-grahamnesty
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One excerpt, for readers here.
"The Senator, a former Colonel in the USAF Reserve and a recipient of the Bronze Star despite not having served in a combat zone, was a consistent Warhawk; some would say Chickenhawn. Aside from stridently demanding the US should take on Russia to deny it access to Ukraine’s $10 to $13 Trillion of resources we could use56, he was a RINO squish who tried for years to get amnesty for the millions of illegals before giving up on the cause because the Biden Regime had totally polluted the pool of potential recipients."
I forgot about "The Maverick" thing when I mentioned Juan McAmnesty.
One writer on TUR (and elsewhere) mentioned the timetable, but guys like this don't necessarily travel via normal commercial conveyances. I agree that travel can be hard on you, and that may have been the cause - I guess a Cardiologist could tell you if it otherwise would have happened any day, or any month, or not, if he was always rested.