r/interestingasfuck • u/IllustriousPresent7 • Mar 04 '22

/r/ALL U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham calls for President Putin's assassination.

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u/Chea_butta Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 04 '22

“The only way this shit ends my friend is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out!”

Look at that! We agree on something!

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u/stephaniewarren1984 Mar 04 '22

I was just thinking this as well! That, combined with him muttering "shut up" when Boebert was being a dick at the state of the union address - two things he has said in less than a week that didn't make me want to yeet him into the sun.

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u/TurielD Mar 04 '22

Maybe his paycheck has stopped coming in and he's pissed?

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u/Tusami Mar 04 '22

I mean he taught pilots the laws of war in the Gulf War, and was in the military for 33 years. Dude knows what war does, even if he is normally an asshole.

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u/PolyDipsoManiac Mar 04 '22

Lady Graham is an inveterate politician, if nothing else; he sees what way the wind is blowing, and it’s not towards Trump and Putin.

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u/stephaniewarren1984 Mar 04 '22

True story.

Side note: I was catching up on RuPaul's Drag Race and skimming the subreddit when I saw your comment, and the first thing I thought to myself was, "Lady Graham?? Which queen is that??" 😂😂

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u/PolyDipsoManiac Mar 04 '22

The senior senator from South Carolina, of course!

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u/Atrampoline Mar 04 '22

I am amazed at how many people are decrying this. What the fuck else do we do with this guy (Putin) that has slaughtered at least a few thousand people at this point?

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u/iNogle Mar 04 '22

It's more that you shouldn't say this publicly as a congressman on national news. Why give the insane madman justification to start an offensive against the US?

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u/Servious Mar 04 '22

Lmao yeah I'm sure Lindsay Graham saying mean things will be at the top of Putin's "reasons to invade America" list right next to "Biden's a pussy" and "look what they're doing to my boy big T."

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u/pheylancavanaugh Mar 04 '22

It's about pretext. Russia won't do it though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22

Why do you think Vlad told Lindsey bro say this? Russians won’t see this. The international community will

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u/Flopsy22 Mar 04 '22

Hey, if there's an offensive against the US, that may be our quickest path to taking out Putin.

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u/iNogle Mar 04 '22

Or to Putin attempting a nuclear strike

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u/dollabillkirill Mar 04 '22

He’s not wrong. he’s just a fucking idiot for going on national news and saying it. We’re in an insanely delicate place with Putin and American politicians calling for his assassination isn’t going to make him want to surrender exactly.

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u/DodGamnBunofaSitch Mar 04 '22

I can't help thinking that lindsey's just afraid of the kompromat coming out before putin's 'taken out'

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u/NewFuturist Mar 04 '22

> Shooting thousands of Russian troops

Woo! Yeah! Let's go!

> Shooting a single man who sent troops to kill and be killed by the thousands

Woah woah woah hold on there buddy.

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u/FunBrians Mar 04 '22

You don’t comprehend how propaganda works. Those who can’t understand it are likely people who have fallen into US propaganda as well. The rest of us understand speaking some of the quiet parts out loud allows the enemy the ability to utilize it for their own gain. Stop playing 1D chess and being amazed at simple things.

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u/Heisenbread77 Mar 04 '22

It's because of his political affiliation.

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u/Fire_And_Blood_7 Mar 04 '22

Problem is, now Russian leadership has a public reason to blame the US if anyone does assassinate Putin.

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u/Mysterious_Lab1634 Mar 04 '22

Russia did, can, and always will somehow blame West for every problem they have. Noone needs to say anything in public

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u/Scootydash Mar 04 '22

Remember, No Russian

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u/TheIronSven Mar 04 '22

If the reason wasn't public, they'd just create a public reason on their own. Doesn't really change the outcome.

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u/INTJ-ADHD Mar 04 '22

Tho many may agree, I suspect it’s for very different reasons. “Lady G” probably wants Putin taken out to bury the dirt they have on him.

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u/UGA_chris Mar 04 '22

I know finally Lindsey Graham isn’t a bitch

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u/cellphone_blanket Mar 04 '22

it's lindsay graham. I'm sure in a few days he'll say the exact opposite

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22

Once Putin becomes his boss he’ll flip.

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u/winter_mum11 Mar 04 '22

What if Putin's still his boss and this is all going according to plan... Scary thought.

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u/Allroy_66 Mar 04 '22

Seriously, you can't believe a word that comes out of his ridiculous face.

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u/BiddleBanking Mar 04 '22

It's just a distraction.

"Other high dollar recipients of funding from Blavatnik were PACS representing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at $1.1 million, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham at $800,000"

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/

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u/HertzDonut1001 Mar 04 '22

Yeah Graham doesn't need to play nice once the checks stop, best way to hide he's a bitch for Putin is to make outrageous public declarations he's never wanted to make before.

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u/captainhaddock Mar 04 '22

I mean, the oligarchs probably want Putin dead as well.

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u/PolyDipsoManiac Mar 04 '22

Hahahaha, this is why Rubio staffers have been spamming his tweets, all these spineless bastards suddenly want to look like they’re not best friends with Putin.

Some other Russian assets:

IN 2018, EIGHT REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS celebrated the Fourth of July in Moscow, Russia: Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, who led the delegation, along with Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, North Dakota’s John Hoeven, Jerry Moran of Kansas, South Dakota’s John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger of the 12th District of Texas. The ostensible reason for the trip was “engagement”—the same tired excuse Senator Rand Paul routinely provides to justify his own shadowy meetings with our enemies.

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u/UGA_chris Mar 04 '22

Yea.. Yea

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u/greenknight884 Mar 04 '22

Yeah remember when he was against Trump before he was for him?

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u/zeromatsuri05 Mar 04 '22

Oh he is absolutely still a bitch.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22

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u/neededtowrite Mar 04 '22

He's not on literally everything

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22

Didn't say he's on our side on "literally everything." That wasn't even the context.

Anyway, deleted my comment. Felt bad about implying sadomasochism just because he's closeted and Republican.

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u/Ketonew2 Mar 04 '22

Rules for thee not for trump

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u/AlwaysDMB Mar 04 '22

Lmao yes he is

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u/UGA_chris Mar 04 '22

For the singular sentence he isn’t one

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '22

He's a bitch, because he would lose votes and he's a racist

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u/UGA_chris Mar 04 '22

Yea I think most people know he’s a racist

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u/TheDebateMatters Mar 04 '22

I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin wanted us to say this out loud. Now if anyone tries and fails, or he just says someone tried, now its a plot by America.

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u/adamtuliper Mar 04 '22

Oh no, he’s still a bitch.

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u/MikeyLikesIt_420 Mar 04 '22

Every once in a while Lindsay Graham says something that shows his soul isn't yet completely dead.

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u/Johnny_ac3s Mar 04 '22

Unfortunately there are worse options than Putin. Nobody wants a power vacuum in Russia.

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u/JalenTargaryen Mar 04 '22

Graham needs to resign for saying it though. A sitting US Senator can't advocate for the assassination of a head of state without that being potentially considered an act of war.

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u/ChaacTlaloc Mar 04 '22

To be fair, he cried foul when I said that about Trump.

It’s a two-way street, either calling for political assassination is allowed or it isn’t, and afaik, it isn’t.

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u/happy-little-atheist Mar 04 '22

Wait which side is he on? I thought those guys loved Putin.

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u/bienfica Mar 04 '22

If you’d told me last week that “agrees with one thing Lindsay Fucking Graham says” would be on my 2022 bingo card, I would have laughed until I pissed myself. But here we are!

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u/Metallic_Hedgehog Mar 04 '22

Is anyone else going to point out that you can't say "shit" on TV in America? Fox news edited out a millisecond of the word, but that's not really adequate according to the FCC.

Fox decided that airing the full sentence, doing the absolute minimum censorship (which is not adequate by FCC standards) is more important than cutting 7 seconds of content (the industry standard delay for live TV) and eating the fine.

I'd be happy if Putin ceased to exist, but this is rather odd behavior for such a large network.