Caitlin Johnstone<\/p>\n
Reading by Tim Foley<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscribe-widget is-signed-up\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidget\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-reset button-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-justifyContent-center pc-reset\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The only positive thing about the Iran war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/12\/iran-attacks-five-gulf-nations-shuts-hormuz-after-us-bombing-all-to-know\">heating up again<\/a> is that Lindsey Graham won\u2019t be around to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>The bloodthirsty South Carolina senator breathed his last on Saturday, succumbing to what <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/2076185414721847673\">his office describes<\/a> as \u201ca brief and sudden illness\u201d after a political career dedicated to promoting wars, airstrikes and proxy conflicts at every possible opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>People have long poked fun at the hypocrisy of Lindsey Graham living as an obvious closeted gay man in a political party with a virulently anti-LGBTQ platform. I personally have always found Graham\u2019s sexual attraction to men a lot less interesting than his sexual attraction to acts of mass military slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the death of Graham\u2019s dear friend John McCain, nobody on Capitol Hill has been able to match his gleeful enthusiasm for the shredding of human bodies using high-priced war machinery. Wherever there was any debate about dropping bombs, launching missiles, toppling foreign governments, arming proxy forces, or imposing starvation sanctions, you could always count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice arguing in favor of more death and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Graham has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/04\/lindsey-graham-interview-iran-00809951\">personally taken credit<\/a> for persuading President Trump to begin the war with Iran. In the months leading up to his unexpected demise, the senator had advocated for direct US military interventionism in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/disclosetv\/status\/2008206247808700734\">Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/204939\/lindsey-graham-salivates-trump-potential-next-targets-venezuela\">Cuba<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=5ED86595-06BC-4D01-A3BF-5F70761472FA\">Venezuela<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2025\/3\/graham-i-continue-to-support-all-members-of-president-trump-s-national-security-team\">Yemen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/11\/04\/genocide-boko-haram-radical-islamic-groups-threat-to-humanity-senator-graham-tells-trump\/\">Nigeria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sAcwMdvHB_A\">Lebanon, and Palestine<\/a>, and had <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/12\/europe\/ukraine-reaction-nato-lindsey-graham-intl\">just returned from a trip<\/a> to Kyiv promoting the US proxy war against Russia. He was literally pushing for more war and military expansionism until the very end of his life.<\/p>\n<p>All the world\u2019s worst people are publicly expressing their grief about the loss of their beloved war slut, from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2076211412112670839\">Trump<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/netanyahu\/status\/2076209061897334872\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/itamarbengvir\/status\/2076191208691396932\">Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/2076276763458453572\">Tom Cotton<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovMikeHuckabee\/status\/2076234198369665116\">Mike Huckabee<\/a>. Meanwhile, everyone who\u2019s not a warmongering psychopath is having a splendid day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-72402\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HNAtGqzWAAAjbej-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HNAtGqzWAAAjbej-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HNAtGqzWAAAjbej-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HNAtGqzWAAAjbej-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HNAtGqzWAAAjbej.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course we\u2019re seeing imperial narrative managers like Piers Morgan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/2076288335350243357\">wagging their fingers<\/a> and chiding their audiences not to speak ill of the dead, but the hell with them. We\u2019re not doing that. Politeness is not more important than Lindsey Graham\u2019s victims. The liberal desire for propriety and nice feelings does not outweigh the importance of naming and shaming Graham\u2019s frenetic scramble to murder as many human beings as he possibly could throughout his evil, miserable life.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Graham is dead, and it is good that he is dead. May his omnicidal ideology soon join him in the arms of the cold, cold ground. May the insane, insatiable god he worshipped cease to gain recognition on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Graham is dead. At least that\u2019s one good thing. No matter what else happens today, they can\u2019t take that away from us.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/well-at-least-lindsey-graham-is-dead?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=206702033&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6kf4xr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/well-at-least-lindsey-graham-is-dead?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72405,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72400\/revisions\/72405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}