Jon Stewart taught a generation that snark is an argument; that you can refute someone by mocking them while making a face. The world would be a better place if he had never been born.
…yah, if his court jester bit is still intended to influence, look at the evidence. I get why Stewart is still popular with people that ohpleaseohpleaseohplease hope he’s influential…
I agree with Begley, the guy is just not funny. Listening to the audience laugh revealed to me the audience doesn’t laugh at his jokes. They laugh at his facial expressions. Where does his audience come from? Mystifies me.
That was cheap. Have you ever heard a comedian eulogize another comedian? Or a politician eulogize another politician? Or any good eulogy of anybody? You make them human by relating foibles and disagreements, and then tell everyone how the person was really, deep down, a great friend.
…point of order- there was this thing called obamacare what somehow passed that caused everyone’s health insurance to get fucked up…central planning always fails. So does revisionist history when it’s so easy to obtain receipts…
…if you’ve ever been in a studio audience there’s always a person or an act that comes in to warm up the crowd. Usually they instruct everyone to laugh like crazy even if the jokes aren’t funny. Sometimes they edit the laugh track, substituting a laugh garnered from somewhere else…
X Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno "At some point were Americans asked, would you like to turn the most prosperous, most secure, freest society humanity has ever known into an oppressive third world shithole?
I mean, technically, every two to four years, that's exactly what Americans are being asked. Just not in so many words."
Wealthy untouchable Stewart(D) is all in - as long as he isn't bothered by it.
The Reflecting Pool is empty now and there is no 300 yard long gash that’s been peeled up. That line running down the middle is for drainage and was there before
oil jumped ~9% yesterday- since yesterday evening, stations buying gasoline have been paying much more- but there's a lag- stations will have waited 12-24 hours before they *start* to move higher, even then, they're already behind. Look for ~$3.90/gal maybe today, then $4 soon. https://bsky.app/profile/gasbuddyguy.bsky.social/post/3mqmazu6kxc2s
Jon Stewart is so even handed, attacking Trump and Fox News. And mitch mcconnell. Not that I like those last two.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of funeral Goober will get. Trump says it will be "Special" but i doubt he will lie in state at the Capital. Graham wasnt in the Senate leadership, his only run for the Presidency got 1 percent, and though well-liked he wasnt responsible for a lot of legislation.
In fact, while people like me knew him (and dislike him) I wonder how many average voters outside SC or DC even knew who he was.
If you listen to Trump's remarks in their entirety its not as bad as Stewart makes it out to be. Trump was the last person to talk to Graham before he died. Miss Lindsey tried to golf/talk to Trump as much as possible since he was trying to influence him on foreign policy.
From what Ive read, Graham usually supported Trump on domestic issues and he would give him the inside scoop on what was going on in the Senate. He was a big supporter of the SAVE act, not because Graham cared about it, but because Trump wanted it.
Places like South Carolina are so weird. Graham made it clear it didn't really give a damn about South Carolina. Campaign years excepted, he went back as little as possible, and went overseas more often than to home state. Ten trips to Ukraine since 2022. And 2-3 to Israel every year.
And South Carloinians didn't care. They never do. I suppose as long as Miss Lindsey voted $$ for South Carolina and was vaguely conservative he was their guy.
I learn from Twitter that even those who disliked Graham admitted that his constituent service was amazingly good. So much for "it [now Graham's an 'it'?!] didn't really give a damn about South Carolina".
As for "Miss Lindsey": anyone who calls him that when he just died is an absolute stinking asshole - and a fool not to know that he should keep it to himself.
Re. "good eulogies", I don't know what defines "good" but I get calls to "say something" at memorial services of people I knew and barely knew, at all.
The Rule: It's not about the dead guy. It's about the audience.
Some genuine grief. Also respect, humility, familiarity, friendship, forgiveness and, of couse the need to be seen there (but, hopefully, not for too long).
Acknowledge the deceased and the specific importance of the main grievers to him/her.
Say something to everyone ON BEHALF of the deceased (some of them want to turn around and see if he's somewhere among them - smirking).
Say something unexpected and quirky that catches 'em off-guard and sounds "just like him". Make them Laugh Out Loud.
Then, the universal truth of death - no matter any spiritual consciderations - To the living, the deceased is GONE; never to touch or talk with or laugh with or argue with again. I convey our collective longing for "one more time" with him.
I am genuinely moved by this recognition and have some difficulty in speaking. There is visible and audible sorrow even among those attending out of social obligation.
Finish on behalf of the deceased: Thanks for being here for me and my family. Enjoy every minute of your precious lives. I hope we meet agian somewhere down the road - I'll save you a seat at the table...
7/14/26, 10:09 AM Dr Weevil said... I learn from Twitter that even those who disliked Graham admitted that his constituent service was amazingly good. So much for "it [now Graham's an 'it'?!] didn't really give a damn about South Carolina".
As for "Miss Lindsey": anyone who calls him that when he just died is an absolute stinking asshole - and a fool not to know that he should keep it to himself
Something surprising that I didn't know about Graham is that he didn't get rich off of all those years in Congress. His net worth is estimated at < $1million - $3 million. I always thought his pro war stance was courting defense contractors, but I guess not. Good for him.
"…if you’ve ever been in a studio audience there’s always a person or an act that comes in to warm up the crowd. Usually they instruct everyone to laugh like crazy even if the jokes aren’t funny. Sometimes they edit the laugh track, substituting a laugh garnered from somewhere else…"
Back in the late 90s, the water polo team in my HS had a fundraiser where you just had to be in the audience for a wheel of fortune taping (the studio was just down the road). I had a friend on the team so I went. Interesting experience. They film several in a row. One of them happened to be an April Fool's episode where Alex Trebeck hosted and Pat Sajack and Vanna White played (for charity). That was a neat experience. But by the end of the last taping, we had all gotten bored (the high school group) and if someone made a mistake or landed on lose a turn or bankrupt, we were making a very loud and annoying 'AWWWWWWWWW' sound. As I recall, that actually did make it on air.
During breaks, the announcer guy would come out of his little booth and make small talk with the audience.
The people who seem to think everything is a Jewish conspiracy or bleed for Gazans while completely ignoring Nigerian Christians are tiresome.
You want to help Gazans? I'll tell you the only way to do it. First, kill a huge number of them. The all in Hamas leaders, the truly observant Muslims, the true Allah worshippers. Shut down the mosques, ban the koran, etc.
next, mandatory Christianity being preached in schools. Mandatory classes in the Old Testament. Preach the gospel of Peace.... with a whole lot of the Gospel of Charles Martel. They want Muslims to look up to? Preach the good side of Saladin. There are a few good Muslim leaders in world history: maybe talk about them. Preach hell and why militant Islamists go there.
Do that for 20 years, with public hangings of various "backsliders". The Charles Napier strategy.
Then, maybe, Gazans will be worth something. It'll take something like this. We had to do roughly the same to the Imperial Japanese: how many millions did we kill of the kind of people who were brainwashed enough to do a banzai charge, or throw their wives and children off a cliff in Saipan? We used Nukes on them and it still took their "god" the emporer, to do surrender.
How did the Spanish get rid of the Aztecs? Brute force and killing millions of them, whether directly or via disease. That's how you'll fix Gaza, sadly.
(Note that this method is how the scriptures preach Jesus will usher in the promised millenium too: by killing off the wicked in fire. So don't be screaming this is unchristian, this is precisely the method Jesus Himself is going to use,)
Stewart had to use a lot of F*cks to make that one work. The signal to his audience that we are all now going way beyond the rules, baby, f*ckin far out.
I laughed at a couple of his double-takes. Fraudulent use of the basic material, yes, totally; but Trump makes for a Big, as in bigly big, Target. So, funny if you just don't care at all about a man's life and death.
Graham was worth several million when he died. Not bad for a guy who spent his whole life in the military and public service.
But Lindsey Graham was never motivated by money. He spent the 80s in the US Airforce in JAG, then was a city/county attorney, and in 1992 got elected to public office. Like McCain, he cared nothing about the economy, budget or regulating Business.
He was obsessed with war, Foreign policy, and immigration. He was a champion of "free trade" because he saw it as a carrot/stick the US could wield over foreign countries.
He said he wanted to accomplish 3 things before he died, and all 3 were about foreign affairs.
Ive always been immune to Stewart's comedy. His raising his eyebrows causes some people to collapse with laughter - not me. I was always struck how unfunny he was without a script and a telepromter. I never watch him, unless Althouse posts about him. But your milage may vary.
I'll give him this, he's much better at hosting the show then the clowns who replaced him. But that's a low bar.
yah my drivers license says I live in South Carolina and the politics is icky. One failed candidate said it best in his ads- its a red state run like a blue state. Income sales property tax competing with top rates except ca and ny. Excise, fees- you betcha. Not much service to show for it except layers of bureaucrats. State government corruptible- no chance of buying a car dtc here. Hendricks makes sure of that…Pam Evette ran on turning SC to the FL model…calmly showed the exit…
Yes maybe he saw the Marco spiel about a month ago and its not what you can legally do(although that really never seemed to bother him before) SEE Marco on CHARGING TOLLS IN THE STRAIT, or any international waters.
I expect he will enact a service fee for insuring these tankers. There is no reason that we should secure the strait for nothing, While Lloyds of london takes their cut via insurance fees. We should take that business.
The lack of compassion and human sympathy is what bugs me about Stewart and the so called compassionate people on the Left. Apparently there are a lot of people on the Left who believe they are being smart when they mock people they don't like, even in death. Stewart he can't stop himself from attacking Trump even at a moment like this, he's got a fetish over Trump, like an addiction. I don't know Trump anything about Trump's relationship with Graham, I didn't know Lindsey Graham but every human being knows the deep emotional and psychological shock of a sudden, unexpected passing of someone you know closely. Stewart is not quite a human being imo. If the stages of grief were to be applied to Trump in this situation, I would estimate from this clip he's in the denial phase.
As I've pointed out more than once, if you do know what you're doing, you try to make sure your enemy doesn't. Perhaps the most basic principle of war, and politics. IEE hasn't figured out that he doesn't know what Trump is doing because Trump doesn't want him to know, because he is one of Trump's enemies. Will he ever understand? If he does, will he ever admit it, or will he keep repeating his anti-Trump propaganda even after it's refuted?
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been a senator since 1984. 15 He has an estimated net worth of $66.04 million. Most of McConnell's wealth is reported to be held in a Vanguard 500 index fund. The bulk of his wealth comes from a gift from his father in 2008. He and his wife, Elaine Chao, also reported a gift of between $5 million and $25 million from her family in his 2008 disclosure.
In mine either, Rosalyn. Stewart also looks like a wornout old Jewish guy, trying hard not to wear out any faster, or show it His own shtik is boring him ("pause"). There's a lot of Matt Lauer in there, and Stewart may well have one foot in the grave himself. IMO. Hardy har har. [flips pen semidextrously]
Unfortunately, the "net worth" stats ignores the money held by other relatives including Children, Parents, etc. And it represents the money dislosed by the Senators and Reprensentatives. How honest are they?
And of course in addition to the 174k a senator gets, they take privately funded and publically funded trips overseas and get more less free health care. Don't know about meals and other expenses.
I'd have to say that Colbert, Kimmel and a host of other entertainers are worse than Jon Stewart. The problem with Stewart (and with many of the others) is that his moment has passed. His shtick has worn out. All that jumping around and shouting became boring. I guess he's back on TV because he got tired of sitting around and letting his beard grow like Letterman does.
So, math illiteracy is not a new problem? Even someone with a mid-5 figure income, and congress critters earn more, can easily accumulate $1.5 million over 50 years of life. And much more if they invested in an index or equivalent fund or real estate in much of the country.
"As long-term Senators go, Graham was impoverished."
He clearly didn't prioritize wealth accumulation. I've done better on considerably less income, and I'm no financial wizard. To claim $1.5M is evidence of corruption is laughable.
People pee and moan about Graham - but he was intelligent and well spoken. The real deal, really. Fair minded. Able to adjust. As Bagoh points out - didn't use his office to get rich.
The brain drain in the house and senate is a disaster for our nation. The left just gave us Platner. and meant it. The left recruit insane radicals and lip-stick models (all wealthy) to fake their 'poor me' "I really care for the little guy" BS - as they pimp communism.
Whatever you think of his politics, Graham had a great reputation for constituent services, and he's one of few legislators who worked constantly and also honorably refused to enrich himself in office. He adopted his sister and raised her after his parents died, just as Ted Cruz, at a young age, took financial and personal responsibility for his nephew, whose mother was a drug addict.
I thought Trump's words about Graham would have amused Graham a great deal. They grew quite close.
"Don’t look very far and you can see a stream of vile and hateful commentaries that exploded after the death of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. His detractors try to sell it as thoughtful or clever commentary. But what they express is simply hate."
"Ana Navarro said on the progressive dominated TV show, “The View” that something’s really wrong in our culture.
“First thing I want to say is, I saw a lot of posts online this week kind of celebrating his death and rejoicing,” Navarro said. “But it’s inhumane and lacking empathy. And the dead person is dead and can’t hear you and can’t read your posts. But his family, his sister who he adopted when she was 13 because both of their parents died, is alive, and is hearing it. And so, I think that for the benefit, for humanity, for having, you know, a normal decency towards the family of the dead, that just has to stop.”
i turned on the TV and a bunch of hate-filled pigs were saying mean things about St. Lindsey Graham, the greatest, most gentlest man who ever lived. I cried myself to sleep over their nastiness.
Sure Lindsey chortled over the deaths of Russians, Lebonese, Iraqis, Iranians, Gazans and J6 protesters. But he was a GOOD MAN. How dare anyone say anything bad about him!
Why some say he was a Christian and went to Church once a year. Or maybe it was synagogue - i cant remember which. But anyway he was a GOOD MAN.
Why the last picture of St. Lindsey of Graham was holding a drone used to kill Ruskiees with a big smile on his face. Cause he was a GOOD man, and a GOOD christian or Jew or whatever.
Cause like the good book says, Kill em all let God sort em out. Thats why I'm so upset at all the mean things said about him. That and he owes me ten dollars.
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In context, Trump was recounting the type of humor he shared with Graham.
Jon Stewart(D) - Fuck that guy.
Jon is not as smart as he thinks he is or was.
Trump called Graham the greatest. I heard the clip.
Stewart is an ass.
Jon Stewart taught a generation that snark is an argument; that you can refute someone by mocking them while making a face. The world would be a better place if he had never been born.
Jon Stewart is, IMO, the most tiresome, annoying and unfunny lib comedian around.
Yah the settles it - I’m switching to the communists 🙄
I saw Stewart's face there, and thought precisely the same thing.
Stewart has schtick. Trump has a schtick. Nice…
Stewart(D) and Kathy Griffin(D) belong in the same hack-basket of deplorables.
…yah, if his court jester bit is still intended to influence, look at the evidence. I get why Stewart is still popular with people that ohpleaseohpleaseohplease hope he’s influential…
I agree with Begley, the guy is just not funny. Listening to the audience laugh revealed to me the audience doesn’t laugh at his jokes. They laugh at his facial expressions. Where does his audience come from? Mystifies me.
God, I loathe that screaming.
Jon Stewart - Man of the Year 2008.
That was cheap. Have you ever heard a comedian eulogize another comedian? Or a politician eulogize another politician? Or any good eulogy of anybody? You make them human by relating foibles and disagreements, and then tell everyone how the person was really, deep down, a great friend.
…point of order- there was this thing called obamacare what somehow passed that caused everyone’s health insurance to get fucked up…central planning always fails. So does revisionist history when it’s so easy to obtain receipts…
…if you’ve ever been in a studio audience there’s always a person or an act that comes in to warm up the crowd. Usually they instruct everyone to laugh like crazy even if the jokes aren’t funny. Sometimes they edit the laugh track, substituting a laugh garnered from somewhere else…
X
Northern Barbarian
@xnoesbueno
"At some point were Americans asked, would you like to turn the most prosperous, most secure, freest society humanity has ever known into an oppressive third world shithole?
I mean, technically, every two to four years, that's exactly what Americans are being asked. Just not in so many words."
Wealthy untouchable Stewart(D) is all in - as long as he isn't bothered by it.
My favorite Lindsay Graham quote is about the Gazans, “Nobody cared that we starved the Germans!”
The Reflecting Pool is empty now and there is no 300 yard long gash that’s been peeled up. That line running down the middle is for drainage and was there before
oil jumped ~9% yesterday- since yesterday evening, stations buying gasoline have been paying much more- but there's a lag- stations will have waited 12-24 hours before they *start* to move higher, even then, they're already behind. Look for ~$3.90/gal maybe today, then $4 soon.
https://bsky.app/profile/gasbuddyguy.bsky.social/post/3mqmazu6kxc2s
If only we had a comedian who could do political satire on TV. We don't have any now.
The Marxist Rulz:
The left can be as awful, rage-fueled, death-happy, murder-happy as needed.
If Trump ever says anything negative about anyone - the same Neo-Marxists will bitch and moan.
Jon Stewart is so even handed, attacking Trump and Fox News. And mitch mcconnell. Not that I like those last two.
It'll be interesting to see what kind of funeral Goober will get. Trump says it will be "Special" but i doubt he will lie in state at the Capital. Graham wasnt in the Senate leadership, his only run for the Presidency got 1 percent, and though well-liked he wasnt responsible for a lot of legislation.
In fact, while people like me knew him (and dislike him) I wonder how many average voters outside SC or DC even knew who he was.
Hamas/Iran theocratics starve their own, kill their own, and will never allow an official Palestinian state. leftists lie.
If you listen to Trump's remarks in their entirety its not as bad as Stewart makes it out to be. Trump was the last person to talk to Graham before he died. Miss Lindsey tried to golf/talk to Trump as much as possible since he was trying to influence him on foreign policy.
From what Ive read, Graham usually supported Trump on domestic issues and he would give him the inside scoop on what was going on in the Senate. He was a big supporter of the SAVE act, not because Graham cared about it, but because Trump wanted it.
Places like South Carolina are so weird. Graham made it clear it didn't really give a damn about South Carolina. Campaign years excepted, he went back as little as possible, and went overseas more often than to home state. Ten trips to Ukraine since 2022. And 2-3 to Israel every year.
And South Carloinians didn't care. They never do. I suppose as long as Miss Lindsey voted $$ for South Carolina and was vaguely conservative he was their guy.
Stewart lost libbie credibility when he pooh poohed the wet market Covid theory. He needs to get some back so that he is invited to the right parties.
I learn from Twitter that even those who disliked Graham admitted that his constituent service was amazingly good. So much for "it [now Graham's an 'it'?!] didn't really give a damn about South Carolina".
As for "Miss Lindsey": anyone who calls him that when he just died is an absolute stinking asshole - and a fool not to know that he should keep it to himself.
Re. "good eulogies", I don't know what defines "good" but I get calls to "say something" at memorial services of people I knew and barely knew, at all.
The Rule: It's not about the dead guy. It's about the audience.
Some genuine grief. Also respect, humility, familiarity, friendship, forgiveness and, of couse the need to be seen there (but, hopefully, not for too long).
Acknowledge the deceased and the specific importance of the main grievers to him/her.
Say something to everyone ON BEHALF of the deceased (some of them want to turn around and see if he's somewhere among them - smirking).
Say something unexpected and quirky that catches 'em off-guard and sounds "just like him". Make them Laugh Out Loud.
Then, the universal truth of death - no matter any spiritual consciderations - To the living, the deceased is GONE; never to touch or talk with or laugh with or argue with again. I convey our collective longing for "one more time" with him.
I am genuinely moved by this recognition and have some difficulty in speaking. There is visible and audible sorrow even among those attending out of social obligation.
Finish on behalf of the deceased: Thanks for being here for me and my family. Enjoy every minute of your precious lives. I hope we meet agian somewhere down the road - I'll save you a seat at the table...
Four minutes. Tops. Not a scond more.
Agreed
7/14/26, 10:09 AM
Dr Weevil said...
I learn from Twitter that even those who disliked Graham admitted that his constituent service was amazingly good. So much for "it [now Graham's an 'it'?!] didn't really give a damn about South Carolina".
As for "Miss Lindsey": anyone who calls him that when he just died is an absolute stinking asshole - and a fool not to know that he should keep it to himself
Something surprising that I didn't know about Graham is that he didn't get rich off of all those years in Congress. His net worth is estimated at < $1million - $3 million. I always thought his pro war stance was courting defense contractors, but I guess not. Good for him.
The average net worth of U.S. Senators including new ones is $4.5 million.
“All roads lead to Rome” Alain de Lille
“All posts lead to Jerusalem”. Jaq
Allons enfants de la patrie, yadda yadda.
"…if you’ve ever been in a studio audience there’s always a person or an act that comes in to warm up the crowd. Usually they instruct everyone to laugh like crazy even if the jokes aren’t funny. Sometimes they edit the laugh track, substituting a laugh garnered from somewhere else…"
Back in the late 90s, the water polo team in my HS had a fundraiser where you just had to be in the audience for a wheel of fortune taping (the studio was just down the road). I had a friend on the team so I went. Interesting experience. They film several in a row. One of them happened to be an April Fool's episode where Alex Trebeck hosted and Pat Sajack and Vanna White played (for charity). That was a neat experience. But by the end of the last taping, we had all gotten bored (the high school group) and if someone made a mistake or landed on lose a turn or bankrupt, we were making a very loud and annoying 'AWWWWWWWWW' sound. As I recall, that actually did make it on air.
During breaks, the announcer guy would come out of his little booth and make small talk with the audience.
The people who seem to think everything is a Jewish conspiracy or bleed for Gazans while completely ignoring Nigerian Christians are tiresome.
You want to help Gazans? I'll tell you the only way to do it. First, kill a huge number of them. The all in Hamas leaders, the truly observant Muslims, the true Allah worshippers. Shut down the mosques, ban the koran, etc.
next, mandatory Christianity being preached in schools. Mandatory classes in the Old Testament. Preach the gospel of Peace.... with a whole lot of the Gospel of Charles Martel. They want Muslims to look up to? Preach the good side of Saladin. There are a few good Muslim leaders in world history: maybe talk about them. Preach hell and why militant Islamists go there.
Do that for 20 years, with public hangings of various "backsliders". The Charles Napier strategy.
Then, maybe, Gazans will be worth something. It'll take something like this. We had to do roughly the same to the Imperial Japanese: how many millions did we kill of the kind of people who were brainwashed enough to do a banzai charge, or throw their wives and children off a cliff in Saipan? We used Nukes on them and it still took their "god" the emporer, to do surrender.
How did the Spanish get rid of the Aztecs? Brute force and killing millions of them, whether directly or via disease. That's how you'll fix Gaza, sadly.
(Note that this method is how the scriptures preach Jesus will usher in the promised millenium too: by killing off the wicked in fire. So don't be screaming this is unchristian, this is precisely the method Jesus Himself is going to use,)
Stewart had to use a lot of F*cks to make that one work. The signal to his audience that we are all now going way beyond the rules, baby, f*ckin far out.
I laughed at a couple of his double-takes. Fraudulent use of the basic material, yes, totally; but Trump makes for a Big, as in bigly big, Target. So, funny if you just don't care at all about a man's life and death.
Graham was worth several million when he died. Not bad for a guy who spent his whole life in the military and public service.
But Lindsey Graham was never motivated by money. He spent the 80s in the US Airforce in JAG, then was a city/county attorney, and in 1992 got elected to public office. Like McCain, he cared nothing about the economy, budget or regulating Business.
He was obsessed with war, Foreign policy, and immigration. He was a champion of "free trade" because he saw it as a carrot/stick the US could wield over foreign countries.
He said he wanted to accomplish 3 things before he died, and all 3 were about foreign affairs.
Ive always been immune to Stewart's comedy. His raising his eyebrows causes some people to collapse with laughter - not me. I was always struck how unfunny he was without a script and a telepromter. I never watch him, unless Althouse posts about him. But your milage may vary.
I'll give him this, he's much better at hosting the show then the clowns who replaced him. But that's a low bar.
yah my drivers license says I live in South Carolina and the politics is icky. One failed candidate said it best in his ads- its a red state run like a blue state. Income sales property tax competing with top rates except ca and ny. Excise, fees- you betcha. Not much service to show for it except layers of bureaucrats. State government corruptible- no chance of buying a car dtc here. Hendricks makes sure of that…Pam Evette ran on turning SC to the FL model…calmly showed the exit…
Trump says US to abandon proposed Strait of Hormuz cargo fee ~ FOX News
If you don't know what you are doing, neither does your enemy ~ Don Tzu
Trump showing the business acumen and sharp intelligence that led him into multiple bankruptcies.
Yes maybe he saw the Marco spiel about a month ago and its not what you can legally do(although that really never seemed to bother him before) SEE Marco on CHARGING TOLLS IN THE STRAIT, or any international waters.
I expect he will enact a service fee for insuring these tankers. There is no reason that we should secure the strait for nothing, While Lloyds of london takes their cut via insurance fees. We should take that business.
^^ Trump replacing one fantasy for another
"Graham was worth several million when he died."
The number I've seen is $1.5M.
Which anybody at his income level can achieve, especially if they don't have kids.
The lack of compassion and human sympathy is what bugs me about Stewart and the so called compassionate people on the Left. Apparently there are a lot of people on the Left who believe they are being smart when they mock people they don't like, even in death.
Stewart he can't stop himself from attacking Trump even at a moment like this, he's got a fetish over Trump, like an addiction.
I don't know Trump anything about Trump's relationship with Graham, I didn't know Lindsey Graham but every human being knows the deep emotional and psychological shock of a sudden, unexpected passing of someone you know closely. Stewart is not quite a human being imo.
If the stages of grief were to be applied to Trump in this situation, I would estimate from this clip he's in the denial phase.
As I've pointed out more than once, if you do know what you're doing, you try to make sure your enemy doesn't. Perhaps the most basic principle of war, and politics. IEE hasn't figured out that he doesn't know what Trump is doing because Trump doesn't want him to know, because he is one of Trump's enemies. Will he ever understand? If he does, will he ever admit it, or will he keep repeating his anti-Trump propaganda even after it's refuted?
Several million vs. 1.5 Million
Gotcha!
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been a senator since 1984.
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He has an estimated net worth of $66.04 million. Most of McConnell's wealth is reported to be held in a Vanguard 500 index fund. The bulk of his wealth comes from a gift from his father in 2008. He and his wife, Elaine Chao, also reported a gift of between $5 million and $25 million from her family in his 2008 disclosure.
--- Stewart is not quite a human being imo.
In mine either, Rosalyn. Stewart also looks like a wornout old Jewish guy, trying hard not to wear out any faster, or show it His own shtik is boring him ("pause"). There's a lot of Matt Lauer in there, and Stewart may well have one foot in the grave himself. IMO. Hardy har har. [flips pen semidextrously]
Unfortunately, the "net worth" stats ignores the money held by other relatives including Children, Parents, etc. And it represents the money dislosed by the Senators and Reprensentatives. How honest are they?
And of course in addition to the 174k a senator gets, they take privately funded and publically funded trips overseas and get more less free health care. Don't know about meals and other expenses.
"Gotcha!"
Are you really going to argue that 1.5 qualifies as several?
In point of fact, that figure is evidence of the baselessness of your insinuation. Apparently, the man was honest.
I'd have to say that Colbert, Kimmel and a host of other entertainers are worse than Jon Stewart. The problem with Stewart (and with many of the others) is that his moment has passed. His shtick has worn out. All that jumping around and shouting became boring. I guess he's back on TV because he got tired of sitting around and letting his beard grow like Letterman does.
As long-term Senators go, Graham was impoverished.
So, math illiteracy is not a new problem? Even someone with a mid-5 figure income, and congress critters earn more, can easily accumulate $1.5 million over 50 years of life. And much more if they invested in an index or equivalent fund or real estate in much of the country.
"As long-term Senators go, Graham was impoverished."
He clearly didn't prioritize wealth accumulation. I've done better on considerably less income, and I'm no financial wizard. To claim $1.5M is evidence of corruption is laughable.
Which is why the argument had to be inflated with the word 'several'.
People pee and moan about Graham - but he was intelligent and well spoken. The real deal, really. Fair minded. Able to adjust. As Bagoh points out - didn't use his office to get rich.
The brain drain in the house and senate is a disaster for our nation.
The left just gave us Platner. and meant it.
The left recruit insane radicals and lip-stick models (all wealthy) to fake their 'poor me' "I really care for the little guy" BS - as they pimp communism.
If not for our hostess, I wouldn't even know Jon Stewart exists.
Whatever you think of his politics, Graham had a great reputation for constituent services, and he's one of few legislators who worked constantly and also honorably refused to enrich himself in office. He adopted his sister and raised her after his parents died, just as Ted Cruz, at a young age, took financial and personal responsibility for his nephew, whose mother was a drug addict.
I thought Trump's words about Graham would have amused Graham a great deal. They grew quite close.
*Stewart he can't stop himself from attacking Trump even at a moment like this, he's got a fetish over Trump, like an addiction.*
They ALL do. It's the very definition of TDS.
10k a year for 30 years in SPY or QQQ would yield 1.1 to 3.6 million. His 3 million is literally having put it in the bank.
He may be the most honest senator in congress.
$1.5 million? At 72? Graham apparently wasn't planning on retiring any time soon.
Well when you consider that Jon Stewart LOVES Nazi rapist communist Senator wannabes...
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/29/politics/elections/graham-platner-jon-stewart-weekly-show-podcast/
Seems apropos
"Don’t look very far and you can see a stream of vile and hateful commentaries that exploded after the death of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. His detractors try to sell it as thoughtful or clever commentary. But what they express is simply hate."
(same link)
"Ana Navarro said on the progressive dominated TV show, “The View” that something’s really wrong in our culture.
“First thing I want to say is, I saw a lot of posts online this week kind of celebrating his death and rejoicing,” Navarro said. “But it’s inhumane and lacking empathy. And the dead person is dead and can’t hear you and can’t read your posts. But his family, his sister who he adopted when she was 13 because both of their parents died, is alive, and is hearing it. And so, I think that for the benefit, for humanity, for having, you know, a normal decency towards the family of the dead, that just has to stop.”
When Ana Navarro is the voice of deceny…
leftists - most are evil demons.
Genocide going on in Sudan.
No one cares because they cannot blame "the jooos"
i turned on the TV and a bunch of hate-filled pigs were saying mean things about St. Lindsey Graham, the greatest, most gentlest man who ever lived. I cried myself to sleep over their nastiness.
Sure Lindsey chortled over the deaths of Russians, Lebonese, Iraqis, Iranians, Gazans and J6 protesters. But he was a GOOD MAN. How dare anyone say anything bad about him!
Why some say he was a Christian and went to Church once a year. Or maybe it was synagogue - i cant remember which. But anyway he was a GOOD MAN.
Why the last picture of St. Lindsey of Graham was holding a drone used to kill Ruskiees with a big smile on his face. Cause he was a GOOD man, and a GOOD christian or Jew or whatever.
Cause like the good book says, Kill em all let God sort em out.
Thats why I'm so upset at all the mean things said about him. That and he owes me ten dollars.
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