Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., clashed over the statistics about detainees released from Guantanamo Bay after Sen. Graham used it in a line of questioning for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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The men going crazy about this but never rant like this when it comes to mass shooting that been happening everywhere in this country (USA) Americans are getting killed by gun everyday that should be fix it
You make a valid point but Graham also made a valid point about Guantanamo. So in my opinion you are both correct.
The men going crazy about this because the Democratic Party releases criminals who do mass shootings! The criminals do the shooting, the guns don’t fire themselves!
@spbg 5378 you have it a point there but all I’m saying is Guantanamo not the only place, there are criminals hiding in plain sight still owning guns that needs to be fix to right
Millions and millions of dollars wasted on keeping these desert rats alive. Forget Supermax…..
how about 3 fishing boats and $1,000 worth of gas to carry them out to sea and throw them overboard?
Use those millions of wasted dollars on the homeless problem and securing the Southern border?
Is that too much to ask?
3,000 people died on 9/11. Graham can’t stop talking about it, or spending on it.
67,203 citizens of NYS alone have died of COVID. He never said a word.
What does he think “national security” means?
Those facts are going to enrage the alt-right.
Actually I think Graham was talking about isis and the people who were beheading other people.
I do not believe this is about 9/11. I personally don’t have much compassion for isis.
That said, I also do not have compassion for the Republican party that thought nothing of sacrificing American lives to covid for the sake of the economy.
Having hard time comparing covid deaths to guantanamo , thought they were two different things., , maybe should ask cuomo bout deaths in ny. or at least ask .your defunked governor, about deaths in the nursing home when he had a hospital ship sent by PRES TRUMP that he refused to use . cuomo still walking round free, right?
and 2000 in irak
@Shannon Skelley The point really is that the Banana Repugnicons have made HYPOCRISY into a new religion and they are all charter members and congregants of the CHURCH OF TOTAL HYPOCRISY.
The people of South Carolina should be better than this.
Pretty good deal, 12 mil to house murderers per year, Biden at his best making every dollar work for Americans
You people defending releasing terrorists , Haven’t had someone murdered by your leftist liberal lawmakers allowing killers back on the street . If you agree with any of this your one sick SOB who I hope are never gets personally involved in any of this .
Can you imagine how useful that $500 million would be paying for public health ,
Like that would happen!!
The damage these terrorists have done and are capable of doing is far beyond $540 million. It’s money well spent (if they are actually terrorists)
Miss Lindsey is a big drama queen.
Lyndsey Graham is one of the worst senators presently in office today
The left is so screwed. Did you all catch it? Graham calls him out and then Durbin absolutely positively confirms it. Caught red-handed trying to fudge a very critical piece of data. Remind you of anything?
What the f*** does the fact that the detainees have been denied any due process or a right to a hearing have to do with the confirmation of a Supreme who was barely out of college when these people were taken prisoners. Just more mental derangement on the part of the “THOUGHT LEADERS” for the Banana Repugnicons. Considering the source, Miss LIndsey, it’s not surprising.
Take ur meds and I don’t mean these chemicals vapor’s y’all using S Graham
No you all killing robbing murdering enslaving etc
You going you the blind criminal
when conservative judges were being appointed, democrat senators/media were acting like rabid dogs smearing the nominee left and right. Yet you’re not seeing that during a democratic appointment…
maybe the way the media portrays the opposite party (left or right) isn’t accurate?
lindsay Graham has no concept of what things cost, no sense of right or wrong, guilty or not guilty – only ME isms. Also, What about the horrors inflicted on those prisoners in those camps with no of hope of survival. What about showing some compassion, let them go back to their families, can’t no worst than some of those American butchers..
You’ve got a bunch of terrorists that thought nothing of beheading people… Seems to me that the only thing the US screwed up on, was not shooting them on the spot, instead of bringing them to Guantanamo.
If we did what we should have done we wouldn’t have this problem today.
Like “she” was advocating? Fricken? Only the Kavanaughs and Grahams could have these childish emotional outbursts. Imagine if it was the nominee.
Kind of like saying “I sense the dogma is strong in you.”? Can’t get more childish than that.
The Republican party really is the enemy of the U.S.
They totally repudiate and deny their oaths of office to make their highest priority be the interest of this country’s democracy and rule of law. Instead, their top priority is political power and creating the best democracy that money can buy. That’s why this country is now riddled with corruption. They’ve allowed a Libertarian Billionaire Oligarchy to take control and ownership of the Banana Repugnicon (aka Trump Cult) Party.
“Did Graham take 🤔 his meds?” You see 👀 where his heads at and he has the nerve 😤 to question Mrs. Jackson in the manner in which he did! (Meds: allegedly)
Well in all honesty, both sides do this to each other all the time. I think it’s unfortunate but that’s the way the political system is. Besides, she’s a smart individual & it looks like she’s holding her own pretty well.
And in defense of Lindsey Graham in this particular issue about Guantanamo I happen to agree with him.
He didn’t question Mrs. Jackson, he questioned the legitimacy of the Durbin’s question and Durbin’s clear clear recruitment of Jackson into the anti-American legal philosophy of deciding cases based on The Democratic Party’s needs rather than the law. You have a lot of nerve using the “meds” slur. How intolerant and bullying.
What did you wanted him to do. Read her a Humpty Dumpty story.
Miss Lindsey Graham makes me sick to hear him speak. Big POS
Turn the channel you won’t hear him.
GRAHAM…..BYE FELICIA 👋
Go Lindsay!!!!! Durbin is a liar!!!
Just keep drinking the cool aide pumped out by the likes of Rupert Murdoch.
39 detainees still in Guantanamo Bay and U.S. govt spent 540 mil per year to keep them there. WOW !!!
Lindsey Graham wants to keep them there. Stupid ??? Too expensive ??? There are other prisons cost less than Guantanamo Bay. Use it.
You’re all terrorist matters who’s president USA 🇺🇸 all destroy Muslim country and African country killing civilians people that’s all history uk 🇬🇧 USA 🇺🇸 Europe
MISS LINDSEY HAS A HISSY FIT….HILARIOUS……………….WHAT A WASTE OF TIME JUST GO FOR THE VOTE…THE MAGA CULT WILL REJECT HER, AND THE DEMOCRATS WILL CONFIRM HER…JUST GET IT OVER
Remember that just because she is the “first” this or “first” that doesn’t mean she was the best.
SHE IS THE BEST NOW..HAVE YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT….ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO THE LAST THREE CONSERVATIVE CONFIRMATIONS WHO ARE ALL UNFIT PARTISAN HACKS
@JOHN SMITH and yet she gave a pedophile 90 days in jail and let them walk. Wtf?!?!
Linda Grame is acting soooooo tough; he is ready to put on dark lipstick and shake those hips and show and tell a thingy to two — hips don’t lie.
It’s laughable that liberals freely joke that Lindsay Graham is a drag queen/flaming homosexual, but when conservatives did the same with Barney Frank they were labeled as “haters” and “homophobic”.
Simplistic!! Treasonous Left-wing Fools Are Always for Killers and Child Predators Etc etc. They Dislike Whites! Latinos the American Flag and of Course they Hate Truth
She’s FAR more qualified than Clarence Thomas was when he was nominated. She served on a Federal bench for 8 years. He served for a little over a year.
She will not deal with the lies and the bigotry that Justice Thomas dealt with because she is a democratic appointee
All of those conspiracies about sexual assault that the liberal media kept pushing against Kavanaugh she will not face theme because Democrats are in control of the media in America.
You guys know she freed 500.000 child molesters. God help us we have no good choices. The whole system is corrupt.
This is true.
@CHiCAGO VASKO So… 500 or 500,000 prisoners? Sorry it is hard to tell exactly what number you are trying to say based on the way you stated the numeral the the thousandths decimal.
@Pamela Bronson if you ask Obama I’m sure he has the exact number.
At least these questions are more relevant than what brett kavanaugh received.
I need a full tank of gas and a dozen eggs.
lock up GRAHAM TOO
in Marra – Laguo
TRUMP RELEASED THOSE DETAINEES
This isn’t about Trump. It’s about the Democratic Party doing anything, including sacrificing USA national security, to win votes, money, and power.
@spbg 5378 While you support a guy who is backing Putin… People that supported the communists back in the cold war would get hung for the way Trump has acted in regards to Putin.
Noooo NOT Colorado!!
Heck yea! You tell them
Democratic leaders are destroying America and the world
Graham is correct !! a little harsh and outlandish, but correct..
@Roger Palmer Oh, I misunderstood what he was saying, I thought he was complaining about money being spent frivolously..
@Roger Palmer but at the same time while spending 15 million a year to keep murderers is lock up, well, the current admin wants to send 30 billion to India to study transgenderism. Sooooo….
@ssdtrain1 Don’t believe everything that you breath
@Roger Palmer no, why not just remove them from the face of the Earth
@Roger Palmer spelling?
Miss G is a real stunt queen.
That’s not very lady like. Tomorrow Lindsey should apologize and say “I’m sorry Ms. Jackson”.
@Jonathan Blaze. I’m giving you points for that.
No apologies here.
For telling the truth?
She is much too weak on crime. Just listen to Sen. Cottons questions. It’s almost like, ” is murder bad? Uh, I don’t know.” We need somebody that will support accountability for their actions and have to face the consequences for their actions. She is Weird when it comes to crime. I hope she is not approved just because she is a female and black.
911 was an inside job. release these innocents and go after the actual perpetrators.
Hey, Graham, what about all the criminals Trump pardoned?
Why is Graham so upset that President Biden didn’t nominate Judge Childs for Supreme Court Justice? If he wanted her to be on the Supreme Court so bad, why didn’t he insist that his golfing buddy Trump pick her instead of Brett Cavanaugh or Amy Coney-Barrett?
@Tylor Streett 3 K’s, actually
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!!!!!!! Sounds awesome!!!!!! Oh and Miss Graham is acting like a jerk.
Really? Does this really need to be explained? Childs is better than Jackson but since they are both Black women, there is chance Biden will pick one of them. Kavanaugh and ACB are way better than both so Trump picked them.
This really isn’t that tough to figure out. progs….
Mom!!! bring me down another peanut butter and jelly sandwich I am in the basement trolling politics!!!!!!!! “Sure honey.” “Keep that up, and by 40 we and your father expect you to find a job.”
The Democrats savaged Judge Childs. As a President, you cannot insist on a nominee. You have to respectfully submit and hope she has the votes to even be considered. The Democrats did not want a black woman who was not a Liberal. Senator Biden, in racist style, chastised President Bush for trying to nominate a Black woman.
Ms. Linsey is at it again, still trumps little bi*ch! Let’s send him home to memaw, it’s time we force him to resign!!🍊🤡💀🔥😈…✝🙏🌹
Amazing the responses! Two thousand of are bothers and sisters died 9-11. And as if scripted, here comes the snowflakes. Touting their narcissus warp philosophy defending Gitmo trash, as if they have constitutional rights. There’re war combatants not American criminals. Put up or shut up, volunteer for the Russian army on the Ukraine front, proving you support whole heartily socialisms.
540 million per year is too much to spend on the American people but not a big deal to spend on incarcerating 29 people… How can any republican complain about child tax credits or bailouts for the poor and middle class, and spending money fixing roads and bridges, and be ok spending this kind of money on 29 people?
On the basis of Linsay’s rational that a lawyer who represents a client assumes their views then he takes responsibility for the views of every Nazi supporter who voted for him. A lawyer is hired to speak on behalf of a client because our legal process does not have individuals speaking for themselves.
The only way these murderers should leave GITMO is in body bags. And pack their carcasses in lard to preserve them for the trip back to the cesspools they slithered out of.
So he is asking her to be responsible for Bush’s government decisions 🤔 I’m glad the facts were read at the end. Graham is somewhere still clutching his pearls or something.
I pray that God has got her back!!!
A good time to remind everyone that Barack Obama released five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the release of one Army deserter. Now those Taliban leaders are running the show in Afghanistan.
He took his soda and went home?
Someone needs to get Lindsay a rent boy so she can relax
I hate Graham 🤮
He’s not wrong.
Imágenes osama Bin Laden by the Grace of Bush
Im osama Bin Laden! The boss
killing them it is
So when TRUMP a Republican had signed the Doha agreement in 2020 with Taliban which set American withdrawal from Afghanistan and also released 5,000 Taliban fighters is OK ? crazy since 9/11 every president and high ranking military officals said ” The US Does Not Make Deals With Terrorist “..Yet TRUMP becomes president and starts making deals…
Just proves that Banana Repugnicons can’t think straight since they’re totally controlled and manipulated by their ID emotions — e.g., hate, fear, anxiety, rascism, etc. They’ve been intellectually lobotomized by their consumption of right wing hate media 24/7. Rupert Murdoch and the other purveyors of the distorted George Orwellian reality are making a fortune feeding these people all the conspiracy theories and lies to fill their lunch pails.
poor ole
the level of corruption in a merica is mind boggling…
Poor Leningrad Lyndsey. I feel so sorry for her. One of her masters is going to be indicted for numerous different crimes and the other is failing to win a war in Ukraine that Miss Lyndsey assumed would be a walkover. It‘s no wonder she gets hysterical and storms out of meetings.
Woody….well put my friend!!!!!!
That Southern Belle Lindsey Graham specializes in pearl clutching, theatrics, and storming out. “Well I never”. he cracks me up faking anger.
Bless his heart
the gop only acts and says these things because they know their racist ignorant uneducated base is listening
Funny how democrats make homophobe statements and don’t get held accountable for saying it.
Actually it’s hypocritical.
@Hardy Harr I am not racist or ignorant and uneducated. You are for saying such a thing, GOD bless you
@Sherrie Adams wow, you seem triggered when called racist, and felt the need to reply…hmm wonder why
LG asks about religion and words of JC.
But forgets love your enemy.
As if he has any.
Mr. Graham’s new favorite word, friggin. Trump’s vast vocabulary during his golf games is starting to wear on poor pathetic Lindsey.
Lindsey thought he was at his therapy session.
Not once did anyone say anything about freeing Gitmo detainees. Just relocating them to a less expensive prison. Pure performance art
You don’t know the law very well, do you? If there are moved inside the USA different rules will apply and they will likely be released.
@Chris Berg That’s why they are called detainees and not prisoners
Ah yes, let’s have someone who thinks you need to be a biologist to define the word “woman.”
Yes, I was laughing hysterically when she was asked the question by Sen Blackburn and she couldn’t define what a woman is. And she is a Supreme Court nominee? God help us if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court. Could not believe from my own ears she said she is not a biologist, therefore she couldn’t give a definition of a woman!
Not sure if you studied law but the law has to be specific with its wording. Even something like term wife has been subjected to legal debate. Also as you can understand there’s a lot of political debate regarding the word woman at the moment. The question was to bait her into picking a side and feeding into the polarisation
It was a setup to bait her into commenting on pending litigation. It’s also red meat for the evangelical hypocrites who support a former president who has more than a dozen sexual assault allegations pending, admitted to adultery with an adult movie star, but somehow believe transgender individuals are immoral. But I suspect you know this already.
@RF Jones whataboutisms are boring
@Anna S THANK YOU!!!! People keep bringing this up not understanding how these things work it’s ridiculous.
Graham do know not all of them were terrorists but do agree those that we’re should never be let out.
He is right
AT 1:29 🤣 Lindsey girl having an angered induced seizure go girl go 🤣 go get your pepto bismol 🤣 💩
If they confirm her God help us.
You said it right. God created man and Woman. If she doesn’t know what a woman is, then by impllication she doesn’t know what a man is either.
Yet! He deflect when his buddy Trump released them. 🤣 What a Hypocrite!!!
He deflect?😂
That was Obama
obama
@Marilee Dent that wasn’t Obama it was Trump
Graham is as childish in his behavior as a toddler
Time for him to go to a playground and get out of congress
@Darrell Franklin she’s not qualified. And it’s not due to her skin color either, like so many of you like to say. It’s due to her rulings in the past. Whatever happened to nominating the best people and not nominating due to skin color? That is above all, the most racist thing you can do. Could you imagine someone being nominated because they were white? Ask yourself that question.
@Joseph Kearney who said anything about the color of her skin. And I’m not racist. I’ve got a lot of black friends thank you very much.
@Darrell Franklin and I have plenty of friends to and I don’t pay attention to skin color
@Joseph Kearney I know if people would get off this racist stuff it would be a lot better.
@Darrell Franklin that would be your side
Wow listening to the pedophiles that were brought to her court room that were raping babies, toddlers and preteen boys and girls by adult men. She said these crimes were heinous, some of the worse she has seen. She sent them to prison for less than half of what is required by law. You people ought to actually watch this instead of letting them pick out what they chose you to watch. Watch the entire thing. And for you folks that believe you MUST like her because she is a Black American and a woman or we must be a racist and sexist I suggest you quit listening to the hating separating, deciding Democrat elite.
Trump released the leader of the Taliban also 5 thousand others from jail before leaving Afghanistan , results there was a bomber that killed alot of people trying to flee at the airport.
How in the world can anybody support another demorat?! Do you not see what they have done to our country? Inflation, energy dependence, food shortages, weakened our Military, killed thousands of innocent Americans, open borders. Wake up people! How far will you allow them to take down our country?
Kudos to Lindsey. It’s obvious the leftist commenters on this site couldn’t care less for American lives and the victims of terrorism.
Sad.
All of you criticizing all the negatives being addressed to her are beyond foolish , blind and lack simple logic.
I say that one of graham’s aides had to tell him where Gitmo is
democrats nominating a pedophile now? deviant and evil.
They’re like children
Why is the chairman always answering the questions???????
Sad, Sad, so sad. Sleepy uncle Lindsey is getting his meds adjusted. (I hope)
Imagine calling yourself the party of fiscal responsibility
Cant wait for SNL to make fun of racist little Lindsey…lol his name also
Deception through obfuscation. She said she didn’t know what a woman was. I was shocked she didn’t say she didn’t know what Guantanamo was because she is not a geologist.
Execute them
AGREE 👍
Lol “we’re at war”
I would love if we treated our prisoners at Guantanamo like prisoners of war, but I don’t think Graham would like that
Get off your high horse. They are treated far better than they deserve. Why don’t you ask Daniel Pearl whether Khalid Mohammed is being treated well enough. Oh I forgot you can’t ask him because Mohammed and his supporters beheaded him for being a Jewish American
Republicans who vote for her confirmation, are signing their own retirement.
Sounds like Lindsey Graham had his panties in a bunch. Literally.
Funny thing is the 500 million is not coming out of his pocket, he doesn’t care
I’m waiting for Senator, Marsha Blackburn to ask KBJ the question regarding who are women.
How did I click on Fake News DNC?
Sen. Graham is absolutely right
america lives in today’s pop culture.
republicans always talk about the past like it was yesterday.
they hold the power in america.
and in 7 months after the midterms
they will take america back there.
Linsey Graham is just dreadful!
How about sending the terrorists who assaulted the Capitol on january 6th to Guantanamo?