Graham is damn near hysterical on MSNBC now.

[Solly Mack]

Attacking the victim. Suggesting she is a paid operative.

Graham would be the type of cop who would ask a rape victim what she was wearing.

ETA: Homophobia is an extension of sexism. One blends effortlessly into the other.

Gay men are attacked as less than men usually by insults which highlight how a sexist sees women.

As less, as weak, as not a man. As not strong. As fragile.

Gay men are men. They are male.

Insulting someone you think is gay is also an insult to women. Insulting actual gay men is the same. And it is wrong in and of itself.

As a woman, please, don't think you're supporting women when you attack a man in the same terms a sexist uses to insult women.

Don't like what I just said - leave the thread. Put me on ignore.

I don't care.

Just stop with the insults to gay men AND women.

[lkinwi]

1. He is quite pissy.

[PNW-Dem]

69. Now just hold on a damn minute, are you implying that Graham is gay?

How dare you!

[Flo Mingo]

2. BRING ME MY FAINTING COUCH

[DinahMoeHum]

72. . . .AND THE SMELLING SALTS. . .

[JPK]

3. Sorry, you are correct....Senator Graham.....

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….is taking to his bed with a fit of the vapors.

[Solly Mack]

8. Nah. Don't do that. Graham's a man.

[miss-nasty]

25. He's no man

Today he seems to be an obnoxious bafoon

[Solly Mack]

49. No, he's a man and far too many men behave just like him.

Sexist.

[mythology]

52. A piss poor excuse for a man, but yes a man

[Solly Mack]

53. Piss poor excuse for a human.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

84. It's not that he's gay that's the problem.

He's a hypocrite and THAT'S the problem.

I could care less that he's a gay man. It is his staggering level of hypocrisy that appalls me.

[NurseJackie]

19. Exactly.

[demmiblue]

61. Oh FFS.

Why is this post still here?

[obamanut2012]

62. Stop this homophobic, misogynistic stuff

[marble falls]

75. I'm shocked it needed to be said here on DU.

[Tipperary]

85. These comments are all over the board tonight.

In many threads. Looks like we have our own bigots right here on du.

A shame.

[JaneQPublic]

4. Definitely has his knickers in a twist.

Trump must've told him that if BK's confirmation goes down, Lindsey's file comes out.

[madaboutharry]

5. Someone needs to remind Sen. Graham that this is not a court of law

and that it is not about meeting a legal standard.

Graham is making a fool of himself.

[Solly Mack]

47. He does all the time.

[ProudLib72]

6. Do you suppose a doctor of psychology might do a profile in the next few days?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. Had to put TV on mute.

[Solly Mack]

45. I should have

[NurseJackie]

23. Yes. Yes I do.

[Solly Mack]

42. Why do that? Graham is a man.

With so much fodder to go after Graham with, don't insult women by pretending Graham is a woman.

Even if he was gay, it wouldn't make him any less a man.

[Duppers]

83. Blackmailed?

Yes. Remember Russia hacked his email.

Plus, he's hoping TRE45ON will choose him to replace Seasons, after he's canned.

[PaulX2]

10. Sad

Poor Lindsey can't handle watching his party die before his eyes.

[Solly Mack]

40. Graham does not like being challenged. Never has.

[Snake Plissken]

11. they hired a prosecutor to attacker Dr. Ford so they did have to be seen doing it

And the prosecutor is not doing that, so Graham is having a complete meltdown, because Trump keeps calling him and screaming at him like an unhinged lunatic because this is falling apart on him right before his eyes .

[Solly Mack]

37. Probably. (the constant text messages, most likely, from Trump)

[Cha]

76. Interesting.. I didn't see any of it. So Rachel Mitchell

didn't "attack" Dr Ford? Thanks!

[miss-nasty]

12. He obviously feels

That BIG BLUE WAVE!!!

[NurseJackie]

39. A parasol will not protect him from the wave that's coming.

[handmade34]

13. said elsewhere

he is interviewing for AG position.....

[Solly Mack]

21. Probably

He said he didn't want the job but well...he is liar.

[R B Garr]

55. Ooooh, that explains a lot. nt

[Honeycombe8]

73. Ohhhhh...there you go. Now everything makes sense. Bingo.

July 2017: "Sen. Lindsey Graham vows 'holy hell to pay' if Attorney General Jeff Sessions is fired"
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/lindsey-graham-holy-hell-jeff-sessions/index.html

August-Sept 2018: "Graham says Trump-Sessions relationship is 'beyond repair'"; But now, Graham says "we need an attorney general that can work with the president." This past week, he even alleged on CBS News that Sessions "blindsided" Trump with "zero-tolerance" family separations — as though that policy wasn't a Trump signature; "“The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in, somebody that’s qualified for the job, and I think there will come a time, sooner rather than later, where it will be time to have a new face and a fresh voice at the Department of Justice,” Graham told reporters."

[Amaryllis]

14. He keeps repeating the same things over and over.

[Solly Mack]

35. It's his chosen talking point for today.

[C_U_L8R]

15. Oh dear, he's got the vapours

Now don’t get hysterical, Lyndsey.

[JPK]

16. Oooooh....

….I could give you such a pinch.

[2naSalit]

56. LOL

[NanceGreggs]

17. What he (and the other Repubs) ...

... keep harping on is that this is all Feinstein's fault - as though that's relevant to what happened to Professor Ford three decades ago.

It seems to be all they've got at this point.

[Solly Mack]

34. Yep. Cronyn did the same. Blamed her.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I finally reluctantly turned him on.

Someone literally is holding his relatives hostage or they will meet a bad fate unless he "gets out there" and defends Kavanaugh.

[Solly Mack]

32. Or this is his true self and the other self is what he uses to hide behind.

[BumRushDaShow]

46. I really think

that some of this may be his inability to cope with the loss of his "other half" - McCain. McCain seemed to be Graham's "moral center" (however far the GOP manages to actually have "morals" ) and now that he is gone, Graham is all over the map like a spinning top.

It's just like when Clarence Thomas lost his joined-at-the-hip partner Scalia, he is (they are) floating in a netherworld.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. What the hell has happened to him?

I've never liked him but he used to be at least intermittently reasonable. It's not just that he's been sucking up to trump in the most disgusting way; it's more like he's actually become possessed by Trump.

[Solly Mack]

26. I've always seen him as the person he is showing now.

So, to my thinking anyway, nothing has happened to him other than he can't hide his true self right now.

[BumRushDaShow]

51. OMG that is the PERFECT term!

"Possessed".

[haele]

67. I think he's one of those people who need to be an executive officer.

Has nothing to do with being gay, has everything to do with having a subordinate's personality. Lots of those type of guys in the military, especially in the Officer's corps.
You find them on the second and third rows of the Org. charts. If not acting independently, they typically won't actually lead more than a small group of people - in fact, most of them, while enjoying the perks of being "in charge" and "respected", are unable to take the amount of responsibility to be actually in charge of much more than a platoon or office division; but - you can count on them to be fiercely loyal to whomever actually is in charge...

Before, he had John McCain to be his C.O. buddy. Once it was clear John wasn't going to be around for very much longer, he found Trump to be his C.O. buddy.

So, what you see is a Jr. Executive channeling his new leader.

Haele

[DeminPennswoods]

22. If ever there was a

closeted gay man who deserved to be outed, it's him.

[Solly Mack]

30. It doesn't matter if he is gay or not.

[NurseJackie]

31. Many people share your feelings.

My son and his husband are among those who feel the same way.

[GeorgeGist]

44. More likely he's ...

a pedophile. IMO

[Sancho]

24. Lindsey is making an ass out of himself...

the women reporters are looking at him with daggers!

[Solly Mack]

27. They are

[Turbineguy]

28. Can you say....

"Kompromat"?

I knew you could.

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[sandensea]

50. And in Lindsay's case, said kompromat probably looks a lot like the kind the mafia had on J. Hoover

[FSogol]

29. Can the vapors be fatal?

Please, please, please...

[NurseJackie]

33. Ha!

[onlyadream]

36. But she's a nice lady!!!

OMG, I want to scream. He's so WRONG!

Get an expert that can spell out that victims of these type of things do not remember the details outside of the attack. The attack eclipses the day, week, month, what you had for dinner, etc. I lived this (same year, same age), so I know.

[GeorgeGist]

38. His AG job out the window?

[superpatriotman]

48. On the contrary

He is acting for an audience of one (maybe two if you count Putin) and his reviews will be a rave.

[sandensea]

41. "She's as much a victim of this as Brett Kavanaugh"

[SunSeeker]

43. He's mad because he knows this was a disaster for the GOP.

[Cousin Dupree]

54. "Buffy" Graham needs smelling salts. Get him over to the fainting couch until the vapors pass

[obamanut2012]

63. Why are you calling him Buffy?

[Tipperary]

86. Buffy?

Wtf?

[kwassa]

57. Lindsey Graham has gone over to the dark side.

He has always been wildly inconsistent in his positions, now he is consistently bad.

[Solly Mack]

59. I've never liked him. I've always seen him as the dark side.

Never trusted his supposedly reasonable face.

[Leghorn21]

58. Patton Oswalt speaks for many of us, I believe, when he writes:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck you @LindseyGrahamSC fuck you
fuck you fuck you. Fuck you, Lindsey. Hey, Lindsey!
Lindsey, over here! Hey man! Fuuuuuuuuuuck you.
Fuck, You. fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou
FUCK YOU LINDSEY GRAHAM

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

60. Very much so!

[NoMoreRepugs]

68. Patton Oswalt....UDAMAN.

Lindsey Vapors Graham...... notsomuch.

[Politicub]

64. My dog started howling because

His voice was so high-pitched.

[workinclasszero]

65. Whop womp Graham

[Xipe Totec]

66. He reminds me of my brother's obnoxious Chihuahua. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

70. I can't get that show but are any hosts replaying clips from back in Clinton's impeachment?

Where even the hint of impropriety in Clinton was a grave danger to the country. Someone who only has influence for eight years, while a justice of the SCOTUS has a lifetime.

[Solly Mack]

71. Not that I've seen.

Sorry.

But excellent point!!

[Sancho]

74. Graham and tRump and Kavirginaugh...get rid of the whole bunch!

The next time someone says that women are too emotional, play the tapes of the three assholes in Sept. 2018!

[pdsimdars]

77. "If you're looking for a fair process . . . . ."

That's what he was saying . . . and he is right THIS charade that the GOP is putting on is definitely NOT a fair process. The fair process is the FBI and that is the one they refuse to have.
I think hissy fit is the term that comes to mind.

[Solly Mack]

78. I agree. Nothing fair about the GOP controlled process.

[a kennedy]

79. Talking head on MSNBC said Graham wants to be Attorney General......

so it was kind of a show for that.

[Solly Mack]

80. I think so too.

[Trueblue Texan]

81. Forgive my ignorance if I don't understand why the OP is an example of gay bashing...

...I could use the term hysterical to describe Graham's spitting and hissing myself. Only to me it seems well beyond hysteria -- more like a rabid dog frothing at the mouth....oh the venom coming out of that man. Somebody get him a valium!

[Solly Mack]

82. The OP isn't.

[Tipperary]

87. I think the op was referencing the rampant homophobia

being exhibited all over du tonight.

It is not new for this board, but it seems to have sunk to new depths today. Disgusting.