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I asked Grok:
How many republican senators are in the US senate at this time who are capable of casting a vote?
Answer:
52 Republican senators are currently capable of casting a vote in the US Senate.
The 119th Congress (2025–2026) has 52 seated Republicans, 45 Democrats, 2 Independents (who caucus with Democrats), and 1 vacancy, for a total of 99 voting members. ballotpedia.org
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I then asked if Grok was counting Mitch McConnell:
51 Republican senators are currently capable of casting a vote.
npr.org
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I then asked if Grok was counting Lindsey Graham:
No — Lindsey Graham is not being counted among those capable of casting a vote. He died suddenly on July 11, 2026 (yesterday) at age 71 after a brief illness (reported as cardiac arrest). His seat is now vacant, and a temporary replacement will be appointed by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, followed by a special primary and election process.
50 Republican senators currently capable of casting a vote.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) resigned in March 2026 after being confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration. This created the vacancy that showed up in the 1-vacancy count before Graham’s death.
Grok
The Republican majority in the US Senate is gone. Thune, Tillis, Murkowski and Collins are effectively Democrat votes. That leave 46 Republican senators.
Graham goes to Ukraine.
Russia monitors his movements.
Graham is taken to a “secret” drone manufacturing facility.
Graham is shown at the drone facility as a photo op.
The drone facility is hit by Russia.
Graham comes back to the US and “dies suddenly”.
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I will say it: Americans won a victory today assuming Graham was murdered. He was an evil man who was responsible for spreading war throughout the world. I remember when he sided with his best friend John McCain against Trump. He put Israel over America, sacrificed our children’s blood and the nation’s treasure.
Here is what real Americans thought of Lady Lindsey:
I wonder who will be selected to “represent” South Carolina.

From Russian channel Military Chronicles:
“Regarding the sudden death of the senator from South Carolina. Lindsey Graham did no small amount of harm to Russia, and his death is, without a doubt, the death of an enemy. But for now there is some uncertainty about the circumstances of his death. It’s known that he died suddenly. Among the theories being discussed are a heart attack and even a blood clot. However, a few days before his death he traveled to Ukraine, where he actively visited defense plants. In those same days, by a remarkable coincidence, the Russian army was actively destroying those very plants. Whether Graham’s death was a direct result of a significant quantity of explosives, delivered by an “Iskander-M” missile, entering his brain, we may never know — and the American side, for its part, is in no hurry to disclose the circumstances of his death.”
… and from Vox Popoli:
Exuent the Ladybug
The political world was shocked early Sunday morning by the sudden and completely unexpected passing of longtime South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. He was 71 years old. According to an official statement released by his office, the senior Republican Senator passed away on Saturday evening, July 11, after a brief, rapid battle with an undisclosed illness. Emergency personnel responded to a call for “cardiac arrest” at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News.
The vaxx, Iran, or natural causes? Regardless, one of the worst fake conservatives is no longer on the political scene. He will not be missed. But it will be interesting to see what effect the absence of one of the leading warmongers in the Senate will have.
UPDATE: Graham had recently returned from Ukraine, per The Washington Post. He visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, July 10, in Kyiv.
So the obvious question is, was the senator alive or was he already dead when he returned?
UPDATE: There is reason to believe that Sen. Mitch McConnell is dead as well.
It could just be a coincidence, but things do appear to be accelerating.

The COVID Reckoning That Never Came… And the Silence That Proves the Psyop
Over the last several years I have been posting nonstop on X about the same nightmares we’ve been living through…the COVID psyop, the experimental mRNA shots, the mandates that destroyed lives, the injuries, the excess deaths, and the relentless propaganda machine that tried to silence anyone who noticed the bodies piling up. I have watched it all in real time: the fear porn, the goalpost moving, the “safe and effective” lies repeated like gospel while real-world data told a different story.
Now we have fresh, documented revelations that should have blown the lid off of everything. Instead? Crickets from the media and, more disappointingly, from the current administration that promised accountability.
Senator Ron Johnson dropped another devastating report and hearing in late April 2026: “Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals.” Internal records show FDA officials knew their VAERS monitoring was inadequate to say least. They had better data-mining tools ready to flag clear safety signals: cardiac deaths, strokes, pulmonary issues, Bell’s palsy but they chose not to use them. Why? To avoid “vaccine hesitancy.”
This was not screw-up territory. It was deliberate. Vaccine-injured people sat across from Peter Marks and other top FDA brass begging for acknowledgment. They got stonewalled. Johnson rightly calls this one of the biggest scandals in his decades in public service. Then in early June he held another hearing exposing potential cancer links to the mRNA shots and the systematic suppression of critical studies. Same playbook: inconvenient science gets buried or attacked.
Around the same time, Tulsi Gabbard, in one of her final moves as DNI, declassified documents laying out Fauci’s role in funding gain-of-function research at Wuhan, the lab-leak cover-up, the intelligence manipulation, and the retaliation against truth-tellers. Millions of taxpayer dollars funneled into risky biolabs, followed by the full narrative-control machine kicking in to blame nature instead of the obvious.
These are not anonymous X threads. This is a sitting Senator with subpoena power and the former Director of National Intelligence dropping official records.
So where is the firestorm?
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