Sunny Hostin complains about Lindsey Graham's sister taking his position, but you will not believe why

The View remains the place where daytime television goes to remind everyone that ignorance and self-righteousness make a perfect pair. This time the panel turned its mighty intellect to the news that South Carolina had appointed Darline Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, to finish out his term. 

Sunny Hostin, whose given name is evidently an oxymoron, found the whole arrangement deeply offensive to the cause of womanhood. The ladies then proceeded to demonstrate, once again, that they have no idea what the words they throw around actually mean.

Here is how the discussion unfolded:

SUNNY HOSTIN: I don't love it. I don't love it. You know, she'll be the first woman to be a U.S. senator in South Carolina in the history of the state. And I think that that's just fundamentally wrong that South Carolina just couldn't elect a woman and this is the only way that it was done.I think the experience does matter. And while she is a certified optician and while she has done great work in that field, I don't think that she should be representing the people of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. I just don't. [Sunny would rather a Democrat woman be the first woman senator in the state.]

JOY BEHAR: Is this the very definition of a DEI? [Actually, it isn't. It might be considered nepotism, but D.E.I. is a horse of a different color, and the ladies of "The View" should be familiar with horses.]

SUNNY HOSTIN: Correct! Correct! It's everything that the Republican Party stands against! Everything! Everything! It's DEI. Nepotism. All these things thrown in together. And, you know, at this very same time Pete Hegseth blocked more promotions for women in particular for women of color to become admirals. And so this is happening. I feel like our government is fundamentally broken and I just disagree. I disagree with this. [And Darline is a Republican.]

BEHAR: I agree with you. It's not like taking over your mother's job at McDonald's.

HOSTIN: Yeah, it's not.

BEHAR: You're running

HOSTIN: It's the U.S. Senate.BEHAR: You're in government. You have to know what you're doing.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: You guys are putting too much stock in who's currently in Congress.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah, you got a point. 

Hostin also invoked the solemn testimony of Steve Schmidt to establish that Lindsey Graham had been a bad man all along. On "The View" this counts as serious evidence. 

The panel nodded along as though Schmidt were some neutral historian rather than the usual angry Never-Trumper whose opinions happen to match the room. What the ladies managed to miss, as they always do, is that none of this qualifies as DEI, as I mentioned above. 

DEI is the practice of handing out positions according to race and sex checkboxes while pretending merit is still in the room. Filling a vacant Senate seat with a family member is simply how representative government has worked for most of its history. Brothers, sons, widows, and sisters have stepped in when needed. The republic did not collapse the first dozen times it happened and it is unlikely to collapse now.

The real offense, apparently, is that South Carolina chose continuity over the approved method of holding a special election just so a woman could be elected the approved way. That this woman happens to be the sister of the man who held the seat is treated as some novel scandal rather than the ordinary business of politics. 

The panel then used a Strawman argument and compared the situation to blocking promotions in the military, as though one has anything to do with the other. The geniuses concluded that the government itself is broken [whatever that actually means] because Republicans refuse to play the identity game on command.

It was the usual performance: loud, empty, and entirely untroubled by either history or logic. The ladies of "The View" once again proved that when you start with the conclusion that everything conservatives do is wicked, the facts can be arranged to fit afterward. 

No actual thinking is required and this is what they excel in.

What do you think? I know it's controversial, but it's only temporary if Ms. Graham doesn't win in November's midterm elections.

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New York Professor, Ibrahim Zabad, Celebrates Lindsey Graham's Death, Then Discovers Compassion Before Breakfast

One of the more revealing features of modern academia is not merely its ideological conformity, but the astonishing confidence with which some of its members mistake moral outrage for moral seriousness. The latest example comes from St. Bonaventure University, where political science professor Ibrahim Zabad briefly demonstrated that for certain intellectuals, even death is not enough to suspend political tribalism.

According to Campus Reform, a social media account identified as belonging to Zabad published a late Saturday evening tirade celebrating the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., before deleting it less than 12 hours later.

Graham, who died Saturday at the age of 71, was described by the professor as "a certified anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bloodthirsty bigot. He personified belligerence and evil. He supported every savage war Israel launched against the Palestinians and the Lebanese and the Syrians and the Iranians and the Iraqis and the Yemenis."

The post continued with an even more extraordinary denunciation.

"He genuinely endorsed Israel's genocidal war and unabashedly supported the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their native lands. He wholeheartedly and passionately supported the project of Greater Israel along with all the massacres, occupation, dispossession and savagery and barbarism that this entails. He was a merciless warmonger and bigot. Rest in Hell."

One is entitled to disagree with a senator's foreign policy. One is even entitled to despise it. What ought to concern any civilized society is how readily some academics abandon the elementary standards of decency that they so frequently insist everyone else observe. It is difficult to lecture students about empathy while publicly rejoicing at another person's death.

By 5:09 a.m. the following morning, according to Campus Reform, the post had disappeared. In its place was an apology.

"I want to sincerely apologize for the post regarding the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham. My words were inappropriate and disrespectful and failed to show compassion during time of loss and grief. I regretted the post and the words I used."

Whether this represented genuine reflection or simply an appreciation for the consequences of public exposure is something only the professor himself can answer.

St. Bonaventure University, to its credit, did not attempt to defend the remarks under the fashionable banner of free expression or academic freedom. Instead, the university made clear that the professor's comments violated the institution's principles.

"We are aware of the post and subsequent apology by Dr. Zabad. His post about Sen. Graham was clearly not aligned with our university mission and values and we will be addressing the situation with him to ensure that Franciscan values are maintained and lived out at St. Bonaventure."

The incident serves as another reminder that America's universities face a crisis extending well beyond politics. Increasingly, institutions entrusted with cultivating wisdom produce people who confuse ideological fervor with intellectual rigor, and personal hatred with moral courage.

Meanwhile, Washington continued mourning Graham's passing. The longtime South Carolina senator died Saturday evening at age 71. An autopsy performed Sunday suggested he died from an aortic dissection caused by arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, although officials said further toxicological and microscopic testing remains pending before a final cause of death is certified.

A statement from Graham's office noted, "The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized, and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death."

In the end, the most striking aspect of this episode is not that an academic harbored intense political views. Universities have always been homes to passionate disagreement. Rather, it is that a professor entrusted with educating future citizens publicly celebrated the death of a political opponent, only to rediscover the virtues of compassion once daylight, and public scrutiny, arrived.

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GOP stands with Trump over Senate challenge regarding Operation Epic Fury

Senate Republicans closed ranks on Wednesday, delivering President Trump a solid victory on his use of force against Iran, This came despite the usual lingering questions about America's role in the Middle East mess.

The Senate decisively shot down a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that sought to limit Trump's military actions in Iran. This followed days of speculation about whether any Republicans would break ranks, as some have done in the past, to slap the president on the wrist.

The administration went all-in to rally support for Operation Epic Fury. They held multiple briefings with Congress to lay out the case. It worked, at least for the moment. It convinced some wavering Republicans to stick with continued military action against the regime.

President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

Only Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted for Kaine's resolution. On the flip side, Sen. Jon Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the lone Democrat to cross over and support the president's position.

Democrats tried to frame Trump's moves as yet another case of him blowing past Congress's authority on military force. They complained about no clear strategy ahead and accused him of breaking another campaign promise.

"It's time for the president to keep promises, not break them," Kaine said ahead of the vote. "That's why I'm so glad that we're going to put everybody on the record … Nobody gets to hide and give the president an easy pass or an end run around the Constitution."

Democrats also hammered the administration for refusing to take ground troops off the table."They refuse to take off the table the insertion of ground troops," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). He warned the conflict could balloon beyond air and naval ops. "This is going to make the operations in Libya look like child’s play."

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a war powers resolution to rein in President Donald Trump's military action in Iran.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who once backed a similar resolution to curb Trump's war powers in Venezuela, made it clear he opposed this one.

But like before, he noted that any ground operation would need congressional approval."I’ve always said that committing ground troops would be something I think would require immediate congressional authorization, but that doesn’t appear to be on the immediate horizon," Hawley said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the administration kept moving the goalposts, which he called proof positive that "a strategy is missing."

Republicans fired back that the president was squarely within his constitutional authority as commander in chief. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dismissed the War Powers Act as "an unconstitutional shift of authority from the president." He pointed out that Congress can always pull the funding plug if it really disagrees with the action.

"We don’t need 535 commanders in chief," said Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), tearing into the legislation.

There was also clear fatigue in GOP circles over Kaine's habit of repeatedly pushing these congressional power plays in every conflict.

Republicans huddled privately on Tuesday to hash out the strikes and the looming war powers vote. This came ahead of their briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan "Raizin" Caine, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on during a meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 9, 2026.

A source familiar with the closed-door session told Fox News Digital that some Republicans who might have been persuadable were fed up with Kaine's nonstop use of the Senate floor to limit Trump's war authorities.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) highlighted that this was Kaine’s fifth resolution targeting Trump’s war powers since he returned to office last year. That tally accounts for nearly half of all war powers resolutions in U.S. history.

"These resolutions have been used only 11 times in 50 years," Barrasso said. "The senator from Virginia alone accounts for nearly half of them. Yet Senator Kaine introduced zero war powers resolutions when Barack Obama and Joe Biden were president."

Rubio told reporters after Tuesday's all-senators briefing that the administration had complied with the War Powers Act, even though it views the law as unconstitutional. He added that congressional leaders got notified before the strikes.

Rubio had earlier floated that the U.S. acted in Operation Epic Fury because Israel was set to strike first, though he later dialed that back.

"If you tell the President of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president is going to go first," Rubio said. "That's what he did. That's what the president will always do."

Meanwhile, U.S. forces have hammered more than 2,000 targets in Iran so far, zeroing in on the regime’s air defenses and missile stockpiles. Six American service members have been killed in the operation, along with nearly 50 top Iranian leaders.

The Iranian government claims at least 1,045 people have been killed across the country during the campaign.

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Ex-FBI agent reveals Afghan vetting screwups: "Ticking time bomb"

 Rahmanullah Lakanwal,

Listen, folks, if you ever needed a neon-lit, flaming-red billboard screaming "Biden’s Afghanistan bug-out was an unmitigated disaster," here it is, gift-wrapped with a bow made of National Guard blood.

Two West Virginia Guard members are fighting for their lives after getting ambushed just blocks from the White House by some guy named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who somehow waltzed into America courtesy of Joe Biden’s "Operation Allies Welcome." You remember that one, the humanitarian clusterfrack where we airlifted tens of thousands of Afghans out of Kabul, slapped a participation trophies on them, and called it "vetting."

Former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker, who actually worked the mess on the ground, just dropped the mic on Fox News Digital:

'They said it is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode because we've just allowed all of these people into our country… Initially, it was a free-for-all and no one was being vetted… Many times it felt like anyone was allowed to come into the United States from Afghanistan, regardless of who they were… What happened to our National Guard service members is a direct result of their lack of vetting… America is full of people we do not know. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what sleeper cells are here."

Free-for-all. Ticking time bomb. Sleeper cells. Merry freakin’ Christmas, America.

Parker says FBI agents and DoD contractors flagged people who absolutely should not have come here, only to watch the Biden State Department override them like it was a game of diplomatic Red Rover. "There were individuals that were not being recommended to come to the United States, yet they were being overridden by the Biden State Department," she said.

The DHS Inspector General basically wrote a 50-page "We told you so," documenting rushed "lily pad" staging bases, missing records, and vetting so sloppy it makes TSA look like the Mossad. A separate Pentagon IG report found at least 50 evacuees with "potentially serious security concerns" got waved through anyway, and officials lost track of dozens more who pinged the terror watchlist bingo card.

Even U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro (yes, that Jeanine Pirro) unloaded: "This is what happens in this country when people who are not properly vetted are let in."

And newly minted FBI Director Kash Patel said: "This individual is in this country for one reason and one reason alone, because of the disastrous withdrawal from the Biden administration and the failure to vet in any way, shape or form this individual and countless others."

Remember when Alejandro Mayorkas, with a straight face, swore up and down that "well over 99 percent" of evacuees were properly screened? Yeah, about that, when Lindsey Graham reminded him he was under oath and asked if he could guarantee no terrorists slipped through, Mayorkas mumbled, "No. No, I can’t speak to that."

Of course he can't. Because the directive straight from the top was "fill the planes, ask questions never." Senator Josh Hawley uncovered an August 2021 email literally telling officials to "err on the side of excess" and let people board even if their paperwork was, shall we say, creatively incomplete.

So here we are: two American heroes in critical condition, a suspected Afghan shooter who drove cross-country with his wife and five kids to allegedly play jihad near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and a vetting process that was apparently run by the same people who designed Healthcare.gov.

Thank goodness there's a new sheriff in town.

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ISIS terrorists crossed our border and GOPers demand answers

Islamic State terrorist have crossed into the United States through our southern border. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC) and Rand Paul (KY) are demanding to know why and seek additional information from Homeland Security [an oxymoron] Alejandro Mayorkas after a number of these jihadis came here through our border with Mexico. A number of arrests were made in major cities last week.

The terrorists were processed through the asylum system and paroled into the country rather than being deported back to where they came from.

Sen. Paul serves as the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Sen. Graham is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“We, as the Ranking Members of committees with jurisdiction over immigration and national security, are writing to request additional information concerning the recent apprehension of several individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State. According to media reports, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently arrested multiple individuals with suspected ties to ISIS on immigration violations in various cities across the country, including New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, following their entry into the United States through the southwest land border," Paul and Graham wrote in a letter to Mayorkas Monday.

“The circumstances of these arrests have highlighted significant potential vulnerabilities within our border security and immigration screening processes. Given the serious national security implications of these deficiencies, it is imperative that we receive detailed information to fully understand the scope of these issues and to ensure that our border infrastructure and national security systems are adequately safeguarding against such threats," they continued.

The senators are requesting a series of documents and communications about the situation by June 28. If they do not receive them by this deadline, nothing will happen and the show will go on.

The effeminate Mayorkas was impeached in April by the U.S. House of Representatives over his deliberate failure to secure the border.

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Republicans attack Graham's attempt to pass resolution to push Ukraine's admission into NATO

Vladimir Putin

It's likely that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is secretly working for the vast military complex or perhaps a weapons manufacturer, which is basically the same thing. The one main bargaining chip Ukraine has with Russia is the NATO issue and if somehow Graham succeeds in getting Ukraine into NATO, that could spell World War Three--and that isn't hyperbole.

Republicans in both the House and Senate are livid that Graham would push such a militaristic scheme of passing such a bipartisan resolution. Putin would have no choice but to go guns-a-blazing and one cannot even blame him.

Graham tweeted that he thinks there is "overwhelming" support for his proposal in the Senate. He claimed that Ukraine's membership in NATO is "vital to the future security of Europe and the world."

"I will be working with Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to pass a resolution urging the admission of Ukraine into NATO," Graham said of the effort. "The best way to prevent future wars and promote peace is to create security guarantees that make aggressor nations think twice before starting wars."

On the contrary--Ukraine's membership in NATO, at the very least, is a deal-breaker for peace in the region.

"Ukrainian NATO membership is vital to the future security of Europe and the world. I believe there is an overwhelming majority of Senators supporting this proposition," the hawkish senator added.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went after Graham's proposal in a Friday evening tweet, insisting that it is "exactly wrong" and warning that it has the potential to lead the United States into a war with Russia. Rand is correct.

"Absolutely not. This is exactly wrong – as usual – and could very well lead us to war with Russia, something no one should want," Paul said in response to a tweet from Graham.

Not Vladimir Putin

Graham also drew backlash from House Republicans.  Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), tweeted: "I'm sure Lindsey Graham knows this, but this would mean American troops on the ground in Ukraine."

"Dangerous rhetoric from warmonger Graham, whose foreign policy track record means you'd be well advised to do the opposite of what he proposes," Mollie Hemingway posted in a tweet.

But Graham's boots stay home while his bank account grows.

An ardent supporter of Ukraine's defensive efforts and a stolen valor liar, Graham traveled with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) to Kyiv last summer.

During the meeting on the 134th day of the war, Zelenskyy,[wearing his favorite John Fetterman-inspired gym attire], "called on senators to back the decision on providing Ukraine with modern air defense systems," according to his office.

So called President Biden read the teleprompter this week saying that he believes now is not the time for Ukraine to join NATO. But everyone knows that Biden couldn't find it on a map. Hell, he probably couldn't find his butt with both hands.

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Doocy pounds KJP over abortion: she can't give an honest answer or she'll expose what the administration really wants

In the world of incompetence, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rules. She acts as if the American public consists mainly of fools when she doesn't answer the questions she's asked, but even some of the fools on the Left are beginning to see through the smoke she's trying to blow. Sometimes she avoids answering the question she's asked, sometimes she answers the question that's in the jasmine of her mind. But she's black and a lesbian, so that qualifies her by Democrats' standards.

Nobody is fooled by KJP and her leftist colleagues.

Peter Doocy of Fox News asked her about Sen. Lindsey Graham's abortion restriction proposal that bans killing babies beyond 15 weeks except in cases of rape, incest, and dangers to the life of the mother. This happens to be the restriction that most Americans favor, in spite of the fact that many conservatives, especially religious conservatives, know that life begins at conception and would totally restrict baby-murders altogether.

However, the incompetent KJP characterized Graham's proposal as simply a "nationwide ban" on abortion, which it clearly is not, and she refused to acknowledge the 15 week portion of the proposal.

So Peter Doocy asked her about the proposal:

DOOCY TIME: Does…Biden favor any limits on abortion?
KJP: We've been very…clear here…I was talking specifically about Sen. Lindsey Graham–
Doocy: And your position on his plan is…15 weeks is unacceptable?
KJP: I was speaking to…what Republicans are trying to do. 

Doocy: “A limit at 15 weeks, right?”

KJP: “It’s a national ban, which will take us backwards & will put at risk the health of women…We’re talking…privacy…contraception…marriage. That is what extreme [GOP] officials are trying to do. I’m not going to get into specifics.” 

First of all, how does not killing an unborn baby put a mother's "health" at risk? 

KJP's refusal to get into specifics would tell the public the truth about the proposal and would have to spell out specifics of what the Left is proposing. They say Republicans are being too extreme, but they won't say what it is they believe is their acceptable abortion cut-off time would be. In truth, it would be up to and probably after the birth.

To his credit, Doocy kept at her and demanded to know what Biden's proposed restriction would be or if he even had any restrictions at all on abortion. She tried blowing more smoke by mentioning Kevin McCarthy, who had nothing to do with Doocy's question.

Doocy: Why not get into specifics? The Republicans are saying we don’t want abortion after 15 wks. Why can’t you say how many weeks [Biden] thinks the limit is?
KJP: As you know, Kevin McCarthy put out the GOP agenda
Doocy: I’m not asking about [him]. I’m asking about Joe Biden 

Jean-Pierre kept deflecting, but Doocy wouldn’t let it go.

Doocy: “How many weeks?”

KJP: “I’m answering your question. What Republicans are trying to do is take us backwards. They’re trying to take away the rights & freedoms of Americans. That’s what we’re calling out…We should really listen to what [they] are trying to tell us.” 

Then she outright lied, insisting she had answered his question when, of course, she hadn’t.

Doocy: We are all covering the Republican plan…[W]hy can’t you say how many weeks for Biden?

KJP [to another reporter]: Okay, go ahead.
Doocy: No.
KJP: No…I answered your question.
Doocy: You did not answer my question.
KJP: I did. I did.
Doocy: Why can’t you say–

And KJP went to another "reporter."

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Say what you want about Fox News, but they seem to be the only mainstream media outlet that is standing up for the American public and asking the tough questions with follow-ups. Based on what was said, it seems clear that the Left has no plans to restrict the killing of the unborn at all.

It's amazing how Biden, Pelosi and the rest of these clowns pretend to be religious Christians.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham caught on audio praising Biden on Jan. 6

The Compromised News Network (CNN) released an audio on Tuesday in which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is heard singing the praises for Joe Biden on January 6, 2021, the day the Capitol was inundated with Republicans and undercover FBI agents egging them on, if you believe the rumors. Graham was telling an unidentified person that Biden was "the best person to have" at that time in history. “He’ll be maybe the best person to have, right? I mean, how mad can you get at Joe Biden?”

Turns out Graham was referring to a babbling house plant who can't even read a Teleprompter. Oh, how embarrassing that must be for Lindsey.

The audio, aired on “Anderson Cooper 360” Tuesday night, and was viewed by literally hundreds of air travelers. It was obtained by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, so-called 'reporters' for the New York Times. The pair collaborated on a book entitled "This Shall Not Pass," about the 2020 election and how certain GOPers turned on then-President Trump after the January 6th event, which was as much an insurrection as Biden is in control of the presidency.

Two top congressional Republicans -- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) -- discussed the notion of getting Trump out of the political arena, and McCarthy even asked about invoking the 25th Amendment and evicting Trump from the White House even before his term in office expired.

Meanwhile "Cocaine Mitch" [a sobriquet given to McConnell  by a GOP  businessman Don Blankenship who was running for a US Senate seat for West Virginia and attacked him and his wife Elaine Chau with racial slurs] spoke of being "exhilarated" about Trump's loss to Biden.

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In spite of the attacks on Trump, both McCarthy and McConnell had nothing to say about the guy who drove an 18-wheeler, put Corn Pop in his place, was congratulated by Angelo, a deceased Amtrak conductor, all while holding down a teaching position at a college.

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Democratic party leader wished she hadn't wished death on Sen. Lindsey Graham from COVID-19

A  horrible top Democratic Party official in Rhode Island faced backlash for wishing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) die of COVID-19 after he announced Monday that he had contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. This Democratic leader in the state wished death upon a person with whom she has political differences. 

Graham said that he experienced "mild symptoms" and praised the vaccine, saying he'd probably feel much worse had he not been vaccinated.

"I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days," Graham said. "I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now. My symptoms would be far worse."

But the execrable Kate Coyne-McCoy of the Rhode Island Democratic Party responded to Graham's diagnosis by wishing he would die from the virus. How lovely of her.

"It's wrong to hope he dies from Covid right? Asking for a friend," Coyne-McCoy said, adding the hashtags, "#COVIDISNOTOVER" and "#LINDSEYGRAHAM."

The witch quickly deleted the shameful tweet after she discovered that normal people took offense to it. She caught hell online because while she deleted it, the internet is unforgiving.

Coyne-McCoy is not a normal political strategist, nor is she a normal individual. The Rhode Island Democratic Party said about her in March that she would "develop and implement programs that will modernize the party and position Democrats to win from the top to the bottom of the ballot." Her Twitter bio says she's "leading" the state party, which says a lot about Rhode Island's Democrats.

Coyne-McCoy posted an apology Tuesday morning, saying she regretted exercising "poor judgement."

"I made a mistake. I used poor judgement which I obviously regret," she said.

That isn't poor judgment--it's poor upbringing and a disgusting, dark soul. Her biggest regret is the unexpected backlash she received from the public. She thought she was being clever when, in fact, she was being an a-hole and more than a thousand responses affirmed their belief of the same sentiment.

"It's not a mistake when you think it through enough to type it out. Come on! You've been around long enough to know that you were going to get called out on it. The only regret you have is getting caught," one response said.

It's mind-blowing to think that a person with such a nasty mindset can be put in such a position of power, but let us not sell the Democrats short on nasty.

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His Holiness Fauci does a Kamala Harris with the border crisis

His Holiness the venerable very Reverend Dr. Anthony Fauci who tells us that washing our hands is an important way to fight the coronavirus, is washing his hands of taking responsibility over the surge of illegal migrants coming across the border bringing along COVID-19 in about 10 percent of the ones who are being tested.

Fauci says he has "nothing to do" with the situation at the border after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) challenged him to visit the border to see the "super-spreader event" that's going on there.

"Lindsey Graham, who I like -- he's a good person, I've dealt with him very, very well over the years -- [is] equating me with things that have to do with the border. I have nothing to do with the border," Fauci told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on "Your World" Friday. But of course, when you consider how Fauci has self-described as the go-to guy for all coronavirus revelations and the man who will protect the nation against the dreaded scourge, going to the border and assessing what's going on there is sure as hell his business.

"Obviously, it is a very difficult situation at the border. We all know that. The administration is trying as best as they can to alleviate that situation," the White House chief medical adviser said. "Having me down at the border. That's really not what I do."

But why isn't it what he does? 

Surely the problem with the massive surge of unvaccinated migrants with a significantly high percentage of COVID-19 should be relevant to his task at hand.

"Paging Dr. Fauci: You need to go to the southern border and witness in person the biggest super spreader event in the nation – President [Biden's] immigration policies," Graham tweeted Friday.

Fauci is obviously too busy blowing his own horn on national TV and humble-bragging about his work with the coronavirus.

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DNC chair Jaime Harrison who lost to Graham in November calls him out over his gun rights

DNC chair Jaime Harrison on Monday accused Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of "embarrassing" himself and South Carolina after the senator said that he would use his constitutional right as described in the Second Amendment to defend him home with his AR-15 if necessary.

Harrison lost soundly to Graham for his Senate seat by 10 points even though he raised a record amount of money to lose. Graham raised $108 million and Harrison $130 million according to his campaign, which would never tell a lie.

Mehdi Hasan guest hosted MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes." 

On Monday, Mehdi Hasan, the guest host of MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes," played the clip of Graham's appearance on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.

"I own an AR-15. If there is a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops can't protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to because I can defend myself," Graham told Wallace.

"At the end of the day if you think an assault weapons ban is what the country needs, bring it to the floor of the United States Senate and vote on it. I welcome that debate," Graham said.

His comments come amid renewed debate of owning assault weapons following last week's supermarket shooting in Boulder that left 10 people without weapons dead.

"Lindsey Graham lives in central South Carolina. You have a population probably less than the block that you live on. The only gang that Lindsey Graham's gonna see in central is probably at the Walmart standing in the one line that is open," Harrison ignorantly said.

"It's ridiculous, Lindsey is ridiculous. And he just needs to be quiet and his folks just need to tell him to stay off-camera because he's embarrassing himself and the state of South Carolina," the sore loser whined.

Harrison, who is Black, seems to be ignorant of the fact that Black folks were historically not allowed to have guns until after the Civil War in which roughly 620,000 people died. He is oblivious to the notion that people have the right, not only to defend themselves against a criminal element, but against a criminal government that would seek to make the masses impotent to stop them.

Our rights are not given to us by government megalomaniacs on the left who want the power to control the people--our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable. We have these rights at birth and the government has no right to take them away. 

But they continue to try, and try, and wear away at our rights one little piece at a time. And we give in, one little piece at a time.

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Lou Dobbs wants you to vote for Democrat challenger to Lindsey Graham

Fox Business' Lou Dobbs does not want South Carolinians to vote for the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Election Day. He would rather the GOP give up a senate seat than reelect Graham because he believes the senator "... has betrayed the American people."

“Well, just to be clear, I don’t know why anyone in the great state of South Carolina would ever vote for Lindsey Graham,” Dobbs said. “It’s just outrageous. This is the guy who keeps saying, ‘Stay tuned.’ He said he was going to get to the bottom of Obamagate with the Judiciary Committee, which has been a year-and-a-half—actually longer—of absolute inert, inert response to these pressing issues of our day.”

“And this is what, by the way, Donald Trump said of Senator Lindsey Graham back in 2016, while he was campaigning for the presidency in South Carolina,” Dobbs continued. “I believe the president’s words about the senator then apply today.”

The Fox Business News host referenced a Trump quote the president made while competing as a candidate in the SC primary against Graham:

"I think Lindsey Graham is a disgrace, and I think you have one of the worst representatives of any representative in the United States. I don’t think he could run for dog catcher in this state and win again. I really don’t. Other than that, I think he’s wonderful. He’s one of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen … The guy is a nut job."

Does anyone really believe that Trump believes his own words about Graham? President Trump goes for the jugular on his opposition all the time and does so with hyperbole.

Dobbs accused Graham of betraying President Trump and the country. "Graham has betrayed President Trump at almost every turn. He has betrayed the American people and his oath of office. He’s done absolutely nothing to investigate Obamagate, except to tell everyone, ‘Stay tuned.’ Time and time again: ‘Stay tuned.'”

“Senator Graham needs to be tuned out in South Carolina,” Dobbs said.

The senate race in question is against Jaime Harrison (D).

“A political action committee founded by national Democratic operatives to help Harrison’s campaign—Lindsey Must Go PAC—recently spent more than $133,000 on mailers highlighting former Constitution Party candidate Bill Bledsoe, who has dropped out of the race and thrown his support behind Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. The mailers say Bledsoe is ‘the only true conservative on the ballot,’” the outlet reported.

Bledsoe dropped out of the race weeks ago when his campaign failed to raise so much as a dime.

Harrison's campaign launched ads supporting Bledsoe, a tactic he used before.

“The ads call Bledsoe ‘the only Senate candidate who stood with President Trump on day one’ and note that he ‘opposes all abortions’ and ‘believes that any gun-control law infringes upon the Second Amendment.’ The ads also link to a website paid for by the South Carolina Democratic Party, which calls Bledsoe ‘pro-Trump,’ ‘pro-gun,’ and ‘anti-abortion,’” the Free Beacon reported. 

Harrison is anti-Trump, pro-gun confiscation and pro-baby killing. 

If Harrison wins, the Senate will have one less Republican vote and somehow that's okay with Lou Dobbs. 

Fox News and Fox Business ain't what they used to be.

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Biden scared over Graham's document request

Joe Biden has come out of his coma to fume at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over his request for Hunter Biden documents.

The former Vice President said Friday that he's "embarrassed" for Graham over the documents regarding Hunter's involvement with Ukraine. But more likely, he's scared as hell that his scumcrumpet of a son is going to be revealed to be a worthless, talentless piece of human shoe goo and Joe will be exposed as well as helping him make millions from the Ukrainian company for which he "consulted."

Biden also criticized President Trump during an interview with CNN's execrable Don Lemon, claiming Graham cannot break with the president for fear of losing his Senate seat in 2020.

Or maybe Graham simply wants to get to the bottom of the corruption allegations lodged against Hunter. It turns out that Joe's son got a 26-year-old Alabama woman pregnant last year and is the father of a baby girl. He denied paternity but DNA results proved conclusively that he is the father, making Joe Biden the proud grandfather.

Hunter was also having an affair with his dead brother's wife while still married to his own wife,

Lemon told Biden that Graham once called him the "nicest person" and recalled how the two worked together for many years.

Joe probably is a nice person, but even nice people can be corrupt and break the law.

After a pause, Biden turned to Lemon and said, "They're asking Lindsey Graham. They have him under their thumb right now. They know he knows if he comes out against Trump he’s got a real tough road for reelection."

So it's Graham who's the fraud, not Joe and Hunter. See how that works?

Graham, who is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the release of all documents related to contacts between Joe Biden, his son and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. 

The letter was released on the final day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry. It asked Pompeo to release a number of documents and transcripts of conversations between Biden and Poroshenko in 2016 regarding an investigation into Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company, and specifically, Hunter Biden's role on its board of directors.

In an interview with the Compromised News Network (CNN), Biden said he is "quite frankly... angered" by Graham's move. But it's likely he's more scared than angry if truth be told.

"He knows me. He knows my son. He knows there's nothing to this," Sleepy Joe said.

He claimed Trump is "essentially holding power over him [Graham] that even the Ukrainians wouldn't yield to."

"Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he's going to regret his whole life," he said threateningly. Then he addressed Graham directly: "Lindsey... I'm just embarrassed by what you're doing -- for you -- I mean, my Lord."

In other words, Biden was like yo.

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Former Dem staffer pleads guilty to doxxing Republicans during Kavanaugh hearing

Jackson Cosko
Photo: Tennessee Star

Jackson Cosko, the former Democrat House staffer accused of posting private information of GOP senators during then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh hearings for uncorroborated sexual assault that was alleged to have taken place over 30 years ago, has pleaded guilty to his crimes.

Cosko, at that time, was a fellow in Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) office. He pleaded guilty on Friday to doxxing the senators and threatening a senate staffer with whom he previously worked after the staffer witnessed him using one of the office’s computers to post the information.

The Washington Post reports that Cosko pleaded guilty to “two counts of making public restricted personal information and one count each of computer fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.” 

Jackson Pollock
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Cosko, a veritable bottom-feeder, admitted to his crimes as part of a plea deal he reached with prosecutors a week earlier.

Cosko admitted in his plea agreement, according to the Post, to posting the private information of Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). In October, Cosko contested the charges against him and faced up to 20 years in the slammer for his crimes.

In a statement to the Post, Cosko’s attorney Brian Stolarz blamed his client's actions on drugs rather than the fact that Cosko sucks.

“Mr. Cosko takes full responsibility for his actions [as if he has a choice] and is sincerely remorseful [due to the fact that he got caught.] Sadly, Mr. Cosko’s ongoing struggle with drugs contributed to a regrettable course of conduct. He is committed to rehabilitating his life, his reputation, and addressing his addiction,” Stolarz said. 

Interesting that Cosko could work in government and get away with his alleged addiction.

As the Daily Wire previously reported, Cosko entered the office of his former boss, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) in order to use a computer to publish the private information. A staffer in Hassan’s office recognized him and reported him. Cosko then sent that staffer a threatening email saying that if they told anyone he would “leak it all.”

But that wasn't him--it was the drugs talking.

“Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children’s health information and socials,” Cosko wrote while stoned out on drugs.

Cosko reportedly had terabytes of information stolen from the senate while he was stoned, some of which was sensitive. When investigators searched his home they found cocaine, methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia. They also found several computers, phones, tablets and senate letterhead he had taken from Hassan’s office. He had previously been dismissed by Hassan for unspecified reasons, but it's a good chance that it was for coming to work stoned and being mistaken for a socialist.

The Post reported that Cosko was “angry” for being fired from Hassan’s office last May, so he “engaged in an extraordinarily extensive data theft scheme.” He copied network drives, including sensitive information, to use in the future.

Jackson Browne
Photo: Billboard

But it wasn't like it was planned because it was really the fault of the drugs.

For admitting his guilt, Cosko will face only 46 to 57 months in prison, instead of the 20 years he was facing. Sentencing will take place on June 13. The Post reported Cosko has already served four months in jail.

Missing from the Post article is information regarding Cosko’s family connections. 

Cosko’s daddy is the CEO of the hugely successful construction company, Hathaway Dinwiddie. His father also has ties to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), whose office was contacted by Christine Blasey Ford when she made the allegations against Kavanaugh. 

It is not known whether Jackson Cosko tried to have intimate relations with Ms. Ford while on drugs, but if we wait 30 years, it's sure to come out in the wash.

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Trump goes after Lindsey Graham over Syria pullout

President Trump went after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday after he criticized the president's decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria. And while Graham has been an ardent supporter of the president, this wasn't an issue Trump was going to let slide. In fact, there are basically no issues President Trump lets slide when it comes to any criticism of his actions.

Trump tweeted on Thursday:

“So hard to believe that Lindsey Graham would be against saving soldier lives & billions of $$$. Why are we fighting for our enemy, Syria, by staying & killing for them, Russia, Iran & other locals? Time to focus on our Country & bring our youth back home where they belong!” 

The military should not be referred to as "our youth," because it makes them sound like poor, defenseless kids who don't want to be there. On the contrary, this is why patriotic Americans enlist in the armed forces and why our nation has the most lethal military in the history of the world.

Another point:  ". . . our youth back home where they belong" is not where they signed up to be. They belong defending our country wherever in the world they are needed.

The president’s comments come after Graham slammed his decision to remove 2,000 troops from Syria, calling the move “Obama-like.” And where Graham is clearly correct is the fact that Trump, like Obama, announced the withdrawal publicly, and for which he criticized Obama.

“My theory is that by pulling 2,200 out in Northeastern Syria, that’s going to boost ISIS’ ability to come back,” Graham told Fox News on Wednesday. “But even more than that, the Kurds in Syria, who came forward when nobody else would to help us fight ISIS, fought bravely and died in large numbers, they’re going to feel abandoned.”

That's because we are abandoning them!

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Saudis explanation of Khashoggi's death pathetic

Jamal Khashoggi is officially dead.

The Saudi government is trying to get the U.S. to believe that Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post living in the United States, was accidentally strangled in a kerfuffle with 15 Saudi henchmen from the national security services and military on October 2nd in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul [which was once called Constantinople]. I guess Khashoggi thought he could kick the stuffings out of those 15 guys.

The deputy director of Saudi intelligence [apparently that has become an oxymoron] and his top communications adviser said they arrested the entire hit squad and three others for Khashoggi's death. [They didn't actually call the crew a "hit squad" but you don't "accidentally" choke someone to death if you're a professional bad guy for the king.]

The kingdom [to which former President Obama deeply bowed to the former Saudi king] appointed that same crown prince to head up a committee to review the incident and restructure the country's intelligence agency, all to keep their Saudi-U.S. ties intact--for no other reason.

President Trump said the arrests are "a great first step" and wants to talk more to the Saudis about the incident. The White House issued a statement of condolences to the Khashoggi family over the "tragic" incident.

The Saudi announcement came over the weekend, in the dead of night, when even the camel milkmen were still asleep. Many people not mentally disabled, see the announcement as a pathetic attempt to salvage the U.S.-Saudi relationship and exonerate the guy directly or tacitly responsible for the murder--Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Bin Salman [aka: MBS or "Mr. Bone Saw"] claimed Khashoggi was drugged and dismembered at the consulate in a very horrible fashion. Supposedly he was cut up into fifteen pieces, but that is just speculation.

The Saudis have been killing people for decades and we have not said anything about it. However, they may succeed in fixing their relationship with the Trump administration and save the young crown prince from his screw up. The president doesn't want to lose the weapons deal he just made with the Saudis and to a large degree, that is understandable because Iran may step in and do their own deal.

However, the Saudi's explanation of how Khashoggi was killed, after 18 days of insisting he left the consulate alive and in one piece, is as believable as Stormy Daniels having an orgasm, or Michael Avenatti claiming he never had an intimate moment with her.

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted: "To say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr. Khashoggi is an understatement." He is also threatening to go over to Saudi Arabia and "kick some Arab butt."

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called Khashoggi's disappearance "not credible," because he hadn't yet learned the word "incredible."

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