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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe we'll get a double dose of good news today, but they're probably gonna keep Mitchy boy on the machine breather until the deadline where they don't need to do the special election.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Good riddance, he was a neo-Nazi supporting sack of shit.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days ago

This is not so much a celebration as it is a pertinent and completely factual statement: Lindsey Graham, like the bulk of drivers in South Carolina, was simply a menace to society.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like it might have been a heart attack and not the "extreme dysentery" he was due.

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[–] Perky@fedia.io 27 points 4 days ago

Mitch McConnell must have been his last horcrux.

How awful. It's a heartbreaking turn of events, sucks to hear that he didn't publicly suffer through a long, protracted illness first.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You mean they aren't going to pretend he's alive but nobody is allowed to see him?

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[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Um, what?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5964793-fbi-assists-in-graham-death/

ME said COD was aortic dissection. That’s basically always fatal. Maybe if you’re already opened up on the operating table they could save you, maybe not. Do Patel's munchkins have nothing better to do with their time?

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Does it come in threes still?

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I had always kinda hoped he'd live long enough to see his prediction of Trump destroying the Republican party fully play out. Can't say I'm upset by the news despite that.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 15 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I know that we're not to celebrate death of Graham so I'll say the nicest thing I can think about him.

Today for breakfast I had two eggs and an apple.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Already found out from the grim reaper playing the claw grab game meme. It's the fastest death news information service.

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[–] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see the rule and I get why it would be written, but some deaths really do deserve celebration.

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