# Only speak good of the dead. Lindsey Graham is dead. Good **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619 "2026-07-12T12:01:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/1 "2026-07-12T12:01:57Z")
Fuck that dood. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/2 "2026-07-12T12:04:05Z")
He’s the best kind of Republican. Dead. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/3 "2026-07-12T12:18:42Z")
Sudden illness? Maybe he had a spine suddenly growing up, but his body rejected it. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/4 "2026-07-12T12:57:19Z")
> _I Did Not Attend the Funeral, But I Sent a Nice Letter Saying I Approved of It_ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/5 "2026-07-12T13:14:48Z")
Lady G! Showing Mitch how it’s done! 🍾 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/6 "2026-07-12T13:54:22Z")
> [@Senator Lindsey Graham has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-lindsey-graham-has-died/1031618/45): > > As you’d expect, loons on social media are spreading conspiracy theories about his death. Some are claiming that Graham was killed by a Russian missile strike in Ukraine. Laura Loomer thinks the Russians might have poisoned him. > > Lurid details of a woke murder plot in the U.S. are bound to surface. _[I’m putting my rude, tacky reply here instead of the P&E Graham death announcement thread]_ What?? No one is blaming this on Hillary? She has already gotten away with one murder \<_shrug_\> so what’s another one. The first one is the hardest, they say. And what about Joe? If he’s too weak and frail, he could have sent DR. Jill to do it. Use your imaginations, sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/7 "2026-07-12T14:01:56Z")
Thanks Lindsey for kicking off the rule of threes, who is next of his ilk to meet their maker? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/8 "2026-07-12T14:15:12Z")
@Chela Surely McConnell is next. How’s Susan Collins looking these days? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/9 "2026-07-12T14:19:20Z")
The loathsome remora fish has sloughed off its last shark. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/10 "2026-07-12T14:19:33Z")
The thing about Lindsey Graham was that I’m pretty sure he knew better. He knew Trump was bad, but saw him as a means to an end. Power must be a helluva drug. Special place in hell for that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/11 "2026-07-12T14:27:01Z")
Yes! I am hoping for the Trifecta of Death to strike any number of these hobgoblins. Perhaps we could escalate to multiples of 12. Or larger. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/12 "2026-07-12T14:39:23Z")
Since he was unmarried, will Erikkka Kkkirkkk step in as the designated monetizing merry widow? It was a lovely Sunday morning surprise. But I will say one nice thing about Lindsey- were it not for him, it might be that DJT would have entered the Ukraine-Russia war on the side of Russia. He was a strong supporter of NATO (except for supporting an anti-NATO presidential candidate) and an enemy of Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/13 "2026-07-12T14:57:48Z")
Ukraine lost one of its most vocal supporters in Washington this weekend following the death of US Sen. Lindsey Graham, **which came just hours after he returned from a trip to Kyiv.** My bolding. Am I the only one who is a bit suspicious about this timing? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/14 "2026-07-12T15:07:29Z")
They say he died of an unexpected and sudden illness, not that he fell out of a window. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/15 "2026-07-12T15:09:44Z")
Has anyone checked him for Polonium-210? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/16 "2026-07-12T15:17:24Z")
Seen elsewhere: The turtle The queen Now take the tangerine ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/17 "2026-07-12T15:38:44Z")
According to AI, not speaking ill of the dead dates back to the philosopher Chilon of Sparta in the 6th century BC. Well, fuck him too. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/18 "2026-07-12T15:43:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > which came just hours after he returned from a trip to Kyiv. Did he bring back a souvenir umbrella? ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/19 "2026-07-12T16:20:26Z")
Tainted Poppers? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619/20 "2026-07-12T16:26:28Z")
My money is on deep vein thrombosis. Maybe the pilot of his plane was a Democrat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-speak-good-of-the-dead-lindsey-graham-is-dead-good/1031619.md?page=2)