Joyless Lindsey Graham: Democrats’ Joy ‘Doesn’t Exist in Real World’
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The Republican senator made the comments in response to the DNC “love fest” during an appearance on CNN's “State of the Union.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19046110

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he isn’t buying all that Democratic “joy” on display at this past week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a Sunday appearance with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.

During their conversation, Tapper brought up the “disciplined” and “well-produced” DNC this week that, as the journalist put it, “conveyed patriotism and unity.” Graham didn’t see it that way.

“Well, I didn’t see what you saw,” Graham told Tapper with a laugh. “If you’re a Republican, you saw a hate fest. You saw a hate fest full of insults.”

“Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”

To bolster his claim, Graham pointed to the gas prices, the state of the border, and inflation during Donald Trump’s presidency when “the world was not on fire.”

He’s either lying or what he said gives us a look into his shitty perspective of the world. Either way such a miserable and pathetic existence.

  • ChowJeeBai@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    3 months ago

    Seems like the problem with the republicans, or any religious conservative for that matter, is that because their rules (that they chose to follow) don’t allow them to have fun, or that theyre dead inside as a result of those rules, no one else is allowed to live a live outside of those rules.

    • brianary@startrek.websiteEnglish
      181·
      3 months ago

      “Puritanism — The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H L Mencken

  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    54·
    3 months ago

    It’s almost like many conservatives are psychopaths who are literally incapable of emotions (well, other than hatred anyhow.)

    Oh wait, they are:

    sources

    We found eleven significant correlations between conservative [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad – [narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy,] all at significance level of p<.00001 – and no significant correlations between liberal [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad. We believe that these results raise provocative moral questions about the personality bases of moral judgments. In particular, we propose that because the Short-D3 measures three “dark and antisocial” personality traits, our results raise some prima facie worries about the moral justification of some conservative moral judgments

    I ran a follow-up study testing the Dark Triad against conservative and liberal judgments on 15 additional moral issues. The new issues examined include illegal immigration, abortion, the teaching of “intelligent design” in public schools, the use of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the war on terrorism, laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and environmentalism. 1154 participants […] Twenty-two significant correlations were observed between “conservative” judgments and the Dark Triad (all of which were significant past a Bonferonni-corrected significance threshold of p = .0008), compared to seven significant correlations between Dark Triad and “liberal” judgments (only one of which was significant past p = .0008).

    In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent either left-wing or right-wing political policies. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism were associated with right-wing political orientation, whereas narcissism and psychopathy were associated with political extremism. Moreover, the relationships between personality and right-wing political orientation and extremism, respectively, were relatively independent from each other.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    3 months ago

    That explains the republican mindset so well. If joy doesn’t exist in the world, you’re not taking it from others when you spread your misery.

  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    46·
    3 months ago

    Lindsey, just because being in a hotel room with another man feels like a fantasy world, does not mean joy does not exist in the real world.

  • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
    30·
    3 months ago

    The state of the border is due to Republican interference on that border bill specifically requested by Trump to keep it an issue this election, gas prices are well below inflation, and Inflation performance was better overall when compared to other Western Nations during Biden’s term and worse than during Trumps.

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    Lindsey is full of shit.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yeah. I dunno about LG, but I often reflect on the fabulous drag queen show that would kick off an age of prosperity if a bunch of closeted conservatives could relax and stop bullshitting themselves.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      516·
      3 months ago

      Lindsey Graham is a he? I’d heard the name, and always assumed it was some blonde haired bimbo who wears glasses to give the apperance of an intellectual without anything of value to actually say.

  • santa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    And how can you change that as a lawmaker?

    Edit: Of course this is meant to be a joke, because that’s the exact opposite of GOP. Capitalize on hate and drive hope into the bowels of hell.