Lindsey Graham Is Dead (And We’re Not Exactly Crying): War Hawks, Forever Wars & Monarchy Fantasies

In this unfiltered, darkly comic episode of Hammer Time 1987, hosts and guest Garrick Wright open with a blunt declaration that Lindsey Graham is dead—and they feel more relief than mourning. The conversation dives headfirst into whether it’s acceptable to celebrate the demise of long-entrenched war hawks who refused to leave power, comparing Graham’s record of endless foreign interventions to the blood on the hands of far more infamous figures. From there, the show ricochets through a chaotic mix of current events: a Maine transgender Democratic candidate and a jaw-dropping Brother Nathaniel tweet, John Fetterman’s rumored party switch, Trump’s push to install Graham’s sister in the Senate, and swirling online speculation that Mitch McConnell is already gone (or brain-dead) while his staff allegedly deploys AI photos to delay a special election. Tucker Carlson clips fuel a scathing look at the expanding Iran conflict, Israel’s influence, and Trump’s inability (or unwillingness) to restrain it, while the hosts muse that America might be better off under an Arab monarch than its current “joke” of a democracy. Side trips include crypto skepticism, The Simpsons’ eerie predictive power and simulation theories, Mamdani’s New York mayoral ambitions, and a lighter close on the Buffalo Bills’ new stadium and urinal memorabilia. Equal parts gallows humor, conspiracy-tinged frustration, and anti-interventionist rage, the episode treats the deaths (real or rumored) of powerful senators as long-overdue political housecleaning in a system that only changes when people die.