Graham: "I'm trying to move to a strong America and he's [trump] the vehicle to get us there."

[IcyPeas]

so they see him as their "vehicle"

Graham: If you think Trump is bad for the party, I disagree with you… Trump has gotten people who wouldn’t give me the time of day. They believe he is on their side… I’m trying to move to a strong America and he’s the vehicle to get us there..

Link to tweet

also Graham:

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Moron

And to think that guy graduated from colege.

[raccoon]

2. What a fucking idiot. Still supporting a creep who tried to overthrow the election results. Nt

[sanatanadharma]

3. The bully and the bullied

Trump was born with bull- bile in his belly.
Graham was likely bullied in boyhood.
Now they both think bullying is strength.

[spanone]

4. How many senators like lindsey is trump blackmailing?

[RKP5637]

7. Excellent Question!

And, how many does Trump in general have under his control. FFS, every time Trump gets near accountability, he slithers away. Can't believe this crook and failure is pretty much on the campaign trail.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Someone rattled his skeletons.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. He's correct in one respect.

Trump brought in people who hadn't previously sided with or voted for Republicans. The thing he's leaving out is that those people are mostly extremists and white supremacists who previously believed that the Republican Party wasn't extreme enough.

That's what Graham is proud of in this clip.

[Martin Eden]

8. "Strong" equals Fascist?

It wouldn't be "America" anymore.

[FalloutShelter]

9. He's always been the Trojan Horse

For the lunatics… and let’s not forget the Russians.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

10. Kompromat...

is a motherfucker.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

19. I'm thinking

it could be Epstein related.

[GoodRaisin]

11. Partisan opinions of a liar and hypocrite. nt

[hibbing]

12. "They believe he is on their side"

Well, that pretty much clears that up. Yes, they all think he's on their side, just like my health insurance provider is looking out for my health.

Peace

[Ocelot II]

13. Yeah, that's what Hitler was trying to do for Germany way back when,

after Germany got its clock cleaned in WWI; the Thousand-Year Reich and all that. I'll bet there were plenty of people who thought Hitler was the "vehicle" for creating a stronger Germany.

And no, I didn't violate Godwin's law; it's become painfully obvious that it is now reasonable to compare Trump to Hitler and the GOP to Nazis.

[Maeve]

14. Lindsey is a windsock--empty, but can indicate wind direction

However, the wind is dying and he hasn't noticed...(also, wind changes by altitude and relying on a simple device can mess you up on a flight)

[Brainfodder]

15. Sen. Graham, so just ignore all the criminal stuff piled up in the corner the size of Mt. McKinley?

Looking especially forward to your perp walk sir.

[Norbert]

16. He is right. After all that ketchup on the wall ferments...

The smell will be very strong.

[ananda]

17. "Strong America" must be Nazi/Confederate/Pseudo-xtian code language.

It's always *something*.

[Ocelot II]

18. Lindsey is a parasite who's afraid of losing his important, powerful host.

He's a remora who swam over to Trump and latched onto his huge orange ass after McCain died. If Trump loses power he'll have to swim to another host like DeSatan, but unless DeSatan actually wins the presidency (God help us), Lindsey's new host won't be as big and important, which will give Lindsey a sad.

[Vinca]

20. Proof positive that love is blind. And deaf. And brainless.

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Trump's the best thing to ever happen to the BFEE.

As he couldn’t pretend not to be evil, he could never belong to the “Money Trumps Peace” crowd, other than in its most literate sense.



Sending a conspiratorial wink to the dictator of Russia.

[Funtatlaguy]

22. His macho talk is a cover to distract from his not so secret

sexuality.
He’d be such a happier person if he’d quit politics and come out of the closet.
Everyone in DC knows he’s gay and nobody cares.
Only he cares about trying to perpetuate a macho man image to his state and the nation.
He is a pathetic excuse for a human.

[gratuitous]

23. So America can be strong only through bullying and subterfuge, Senator?

That sounds more like how a weak country conducts its affairs, bellicosity and lying. The United States is strong through the philosophy Emma Lazarus described in The New Colossus:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

That is how the United States stays strong. Not through a cult of personality surrounding a frightened little man.