The Onion: Lindsey Graham on the Run

By dianeravitch

January 27, 2017 //

If you enjoy the humor of The Onion, this is a good laugh.

Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, has occasionally stood up to Trump. The consequences?

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drext727 says:

January 27, 2017 at 3:31 pm

Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education and commented:

Diane,

I love that you are sharing humor from the Onion.

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GregB says:

January 27, 2017 at 3:58 pm

Rumor as it that the dogs are following the trail of little shreds of Lindsay O’Hara’s petticoats in the Carolina swamps and woods. He keeps having to stop in order to recover from bouts of the vapors. The few witnesses who have seen him claim he keeps muttering “I do declare” and “fiddle-dee-dee.” Conflicting claims about his spine having been found are inconclusive.

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Lloyd Lofthouse says:

January 27, 2017 at 7:46 pm

If I knew where he was hiding, I’d empty my weapons safe and attempt to rescue him. Once he was safe, I’d go hunting for someone with a pack of dogs, cotton-candy hair, really thin skin, tiny, tiny hands, who was wearing a red hunting jacket.

I’d even jump up and down shouting, “Over here! Over here! Come and get me. Littlefingers lost the popular vote and women hate him.”

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- bristolbayblog says:
  
  January 27, 2017 at 10:05 pm
  
  I’ve read your comments for several weeks now, and feel it’s time to respond to a fellow Vietnam combat vet. Since you usually preference your remarks with your dates and unit of service, here’s mine. January 68-February 69. I Core, Phu Bai and Nui Ke. Speak 3 dialects and was attached to the 101. Commercial fished for 3 years to counteract. Suggest you find a similar alternative, and hold your ranting to a minimum, until then. Chris Dlugokenski
  
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  - booklady says:
    
    January 28, 2017 at 5:14 am
    
    CD, Lloyd taught high school English and journalism for decades, so he was immersed in many good works to counteract. The frustration of tirelessly teaching in a high-poverty school and seeing our society still overlook what needs to be done may stimulate Lloyd’s comments.
  - Lloyd Lofthouse says:
    
    January 28, 2017 at 12:52 pm
    
    What you say is correct.
    
    Before I went into teaching in my 30s, I voted Republican and even listened to Rush Limbaugh and swallowed that bilge.
    
    But after a few years of teaching in a high poverty school with a student population that was only 8-percent white, I started to question what Limbaugh was telling his ditto heads and I started to use what I was taught while earning a BA in journalism to fact check his allegations, and everything I fact checked was wrong, lies, manipulating lies.
    
    The last republican I voted for was Ronald Reagan the first time he ran for governor of California. I was teaching then, and he lied to California’s teachers. He said he’d support us and fully fund public education. What did Reagan do, he released the misleading and fraudulent “A Nation at Risk” report and declared war on the public schools.
    
    Rush Limbaugh repeatedly told his easy to fool followers that we didn’t have to think because he’d do our thinking for us and he called us Ditto Heads, his ditto heads, until I decided to think for myself and that changed who I voted for; that changed how I vote. Now I fact check the candidates I vote for and go with the ones closest to what I think.
  - Lloyd Lofthouse says:
    
    January 28, 2017 at 12:44 pm
    
    Did you take your clue, and courage, from Steve Bannon who told the media to shut up?
    
    I will continue to publicly rant, what you call ranting but I call fact-based thinking that says what the facts support, until Littlefingers Donald Trump takes away our 1st Amendment Rights and blocks our access to the Internet. But even that won’t stop me from thinking for myself instead of letting someone else think for me.
    
    You seem to think that you speak for veterans and if you do, you are wrong. No one speaks for all vets, and I only speak what I think and what I think is based on real data and facts and not alternative facts, better known as lies.
    
    Everyone who served and fought for this country, even in wars based on lies (Vietnam and Iraq), does not think the same; does not worship the same; does not vote the same.
    
    I know we often hear that the military votes republican but Time magazine questioned that belief.
    
    “The nation’s 24 million troops and veterans account for about 10% of the nation’s potential voters, but they’re not the monolithic bloc many believe. …
    
    “The officers by and large are more conservative (what kind of conservative?),” says an Army sergeant just back from Afghanistan. “But the enlisted tend to be more liberal.” Of course, with fewer than one in five of those in uniform an officer, there’s a lot more enlisted voters. …
    
    “A Pew survey released last year showed post-9/11 veterans’ political leanings are the reverse of the public they’re serving: 36% describe themselves as Republicans, and 21% as Democrats; 34% of the public said they were Democrats, and 23% Republican. Six in 10 vets say they’re more patriotic than the average American. …
    
    http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/05/does-the-military-vote-really-lean-republican/
    
    The Election is testing the Republican Loyalties of Military Voters
    
    “An NBC News/Survey Monkey poll in mid-August found that Trump was leading Clinton by 10 points — 51 to 41 percent — in military households, even after he angered many veterans groups by feuding with a Gold Star Muslim family that had lost a son in Iraq. …
    At this point in the cycle, John McCain had a 22-point lead among veterans in 2008, and Mitt Romney was up 24 points in 2012.”
    
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-impact-will-the-military-vote-have/
    
    For those who honor the 1st Amendment, we agree to agree or disagree and respect that we each have the freedom to think what we want even if we don’t respect/like what someone else might think.
    
    When, and not if, Trump tramples the 1st Amendment and probably other portions of the U.S. Constitution, will you support Trump and his minions or the U.S. Constitution? I suspect you will line up to support Bannon and Trump.
Lenny Rothbart says:

January 27, 2017 at 11:31 pm

After being skewered a few times on the Daily Show, Graham actually appeared as a guest, while the Republican primary race was in the last throes of its clown car incarnation. I had to admire his courage for being willing to venture into what, for him, was the belly of the beast. Trevor Noah confronted him about his recent endorsement of Ted Cruz, after having made a public statement to the effect of, if someone were to shoot Cruz on the floor of the Senate, no one would be indicted. His response: “That tells you everything you need to know about Donald Trump.” Though I don’t agree with many of his views on the best direction for the country any more than before, since that appearance I’ve had new respect for his conviction to stand for his principles. Hope he keeps it up.

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booklady says:

January 28, 2017 at 5:19 am

Dr Ravitch, Thank you for reminding us of The Onion. When the election news and Bridgegate trial coverage became so farcical last fall, I’d forgotten to read it.

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Professor Smartass says:

January 28, 2017 at 12:16 pm

This made me realize Trump would be a good Simon Legree (except Legree was physical tough and an actual self-made man, not a trust fund baby).

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