The senator made the comments in response to the DNC “love fest” during an appearance on CNN's “State of the Union.”

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.

      • @NegativeInf@lemmy.world
        16•4 months ago

        Be the thing that drives them to extinction. Way to make me explain the joke there buddy. Literal interpretation is not the only interpretation. Vote. Organize. Inform. Educate. Have compassion when those in your life change their minds.

                • @NegativeInf@lemmy.world
                  11•4 months ago

                  Ok. I wasn’t going to respond again, but it seems you have a real issue with figurative language.

                  The original comment mentioned wanting “these dinosaurs” to go extinct, referring to the outdated, controversial politicians who say anything to get attention. I extended the metaphor by suggesting people should be the “asteroid” that drives these “dinosaurs” to extinction, referencing Gandhi’s philosophy in a humorous way.

                  When I say “be an asteroid,” I’m obviously not advocating for the extinction of all life or suggesting people should commit violence. If that’s what you took from it, that interpretation reflects more on you than it does on me.

                  The Gandhi paraphrase I used is “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” which aligns with his teachings of non-violent protest.

                  The point is simple: if you don’t like these people being in power, take action—vote, organize, inform, and educate. Change comes through engagement, not literal destruction.If that’s too hard to grasp, then perhaps this discussion isn’t for you.

          • @jj4211@lemmy.world
            1•4 months ago

            A comment likened Republicans to dinosaurs, and being eager for them to be extinct, since dinosaurs are extinct. One possibility is saying they are mostly old and waiting for them to die, another is that they have outdated ideas, even the ones not that old, and to go extinct just means they don’t have power and don’t matter.

            Dinosaurs were made extinct by an Asteroid in the Yucatan. So to contribute to that latter half, work toward making them irrelevant, voting and chosing your media engagements appropriately.

            At this point, I would not presume someone is advocating literal lethal violence against the entire GOP, if nothing else that is wildly infeasible and as it stands much more reasonable actions are available to minimize their influence…

            • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              1•4 months ago

              Thanks. I just didn’t get it. Felt cryptic to me but I probably also was just tired. “Be the meteor” just had a pretty messed up sound to me.

      • @Zachariah@lemmy.world
        5•4 months ago

        Woah, woah, woah!…

        One of those is the natural outcome of forces set in motion—and the other killed poor innocent dinosaurs.