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Lindsey Graham DGAF is a photoshop meme and image macro series featuring an image of Lindsey Graham, the senior United States Senator from South Carolina, wearing a smug expression and adjusting his tie while being followed by a protester opposing the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination.

Origin

On October 5th, 2018, Twitter user @bennyjohnson posted two pictures of Graham adjusting his tie while a woman can be seen yelling in the background, referring to the photos as "thug life" (shown below). Within 72 hours, the tweet received more than 14,000 likes and 3,500 retweets.

Shortly after, various photoshops and object-labeled image macros were posted in response to the tweet (shown below).

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That day, Kiwi Farms^[1] member CWChange submitted a thread titled "Lindsey Graham DGAF Memes," featuring one of the Graham pictures, referring to the image as "memeworthy". In response, several members replied with photoshops of Graham superimposed over a variety of different base images (shown below).

That same day, Paul Joseph Watson posted a photoshop of the Graham image with the caption "You f**ked up so bad, you made Lindsey Graham into a cool meme" (shown below). Over the next 72 hours, the tweet garnered more than 6,700 likes and 1,800 retweets. Also on October 5th, Redditor lagspike submitted the original photo to /r/The_Donald,^[3] where it received more than 15,800 points (91% upvoted) and 850 comments within 72 hours.

The following day, YouTuber Rakata Films uploaded a "Thug Life" remix of Graham's exchange with the protester (shown below). On October 7th, a "Lindsey Graham General" thread was submitted to 4chan's /pol/ board, featuring several photoshopped examples of the image.^[2]

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