John McCain RIP

not really

fuck, don't DO that

i totally believed that

lol

dude.

I understand that he is, in fact, resting peacefully at the moment.

it's the best & bravest thing he could tbh

Is Palin president?

he went out just the way he lived, on his own terms

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d1/30/a0/d130a08e61b23ad1b2b10d4f7f503038.jpg

I came as soon as I heard

Publicly, McCain has angrily railed about his own refusal to rest in peace, calling it an egregious breach of the public interest and unacceptable, but privately, he continues to gobble fistfuls of vitamins and engage in an exercise regimen that should maintain his health for years to come.

quick, someone get the senator a comb

lol darraghmac

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/18/an-article-called-for-john-mccain-to-just-die-already-a-gop-official-responded-amen/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_mccain-111p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6fb43cdb871b

a visionary, shakey

Caitlin Johnstone OTM

mccain is awful but tbh johnstone seems like a nutjob

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/if-this-tweet-bothers-you-its-because-you-re-a-piece-of-shit-de0f0cec0e1f

Really don't get the humor here

(xpost) The writing there is in a voice that most people outgrow by the time they're 20. Regardless of whether she has anything valid to say, it's unreadable.

"A 2014 report published in the journal Earth’s Future found that it would only take the detonation of 100 nuclear warheads to throw 5 teragrams of black soot into the earth’s stratosphere for decades"

good thing we all have way more than that

So much cognitive dissonance will give anyone brain cancer.

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

This world is oh so beautiful, and life is oh so fragile, and our stay here is oh so tenuous. Our species has enough looming hurdles it’s going to have to clear in the near future without having to worry about getting us all killed over some dumbass deep state power struggle. For the love of ever living fuck let’s please get a fucking grip and put this Russia nonsense behind us once and for all.

lmao

'i prefer senators who don't have brain tumors'

"In conclusion, San Dimas high school football rocks!"

X-post

My friend's husband died of glioblastoma in AZ. They wrote a letter to McCain begging for his help. He advised them to move.

— Jessica Roy (@jessica_roy) July 20, 2017

Lol Elvis

what did shakey know and when did he know it

it was in the air

Old-ass men are always making word salad in congressional hearings and then finding worse medical problems during routine procedures. Suddenly Shakey's a precog.

I predict McCain will be dead for real in less than 10 years.

Twenty at the most.

I'm willing to bet the dude wouldn't have made it through his first term if '08 had gone differently. So in a way, those extra years have been our gift to him.

Ugh. Thanks to John McCain's political acumen in picking Sarah Palin to be his running mate, the GOP legitimated a toxic kind of imbecility for which the Republic has been paying for nine years (look at who sits in the Oval Office). Thanks to the authorizations for war that McCain has endorsed, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in the Middle East are dead. Had he won the presidency, he would have bombed Iran. He would bomb Scranton if one of his staff whispered in his querulous ear that terrorists ran the snack shop of a bowling alley. He would have voted for the Millionaires Bailout Act, aka Trumpcare, sending thousands of his constituents into penury. His "maverick" reputation, based on little more than barbeques and shooting the shit with bovine reporters, is one of the more mendacious examples of resumé swelling I've seen this century. The Beltway press abetted the rise of this fraud, and when the press abandoned him for Barack Obama the intensity of his resentment and the depths of his shallowness were exposed. He is an awful senator and unfeeling man.

Didn't he also call his wife a cunt in public? Class act.

He's a bad man. Humanity would be better off if he died 50 years ago.

A+ obituary, Alfred

but still, cancer is awful

I'd prefer he retire than die.

misread that as "then", was thinking "ice cold, wau"

well I hope he dies eventually, seems cruel to wish immortality on his crumbling body

For anyone who thought brain cancer would slow McCain down, he slams WH for halting the CIA arming of Syrian rebels fighting Assad. pic.twitter.com/sDhTR23ZYA

— Jacqueline Klimas (@jacqklimas) July 20, 2017

@pareene
not even cancer can stop his staff from releasing statements attributed to him calling for strategically incoherent war-making without end

So brave

this fucking guy

c'mooooon Grim Reaper

pvmic

Baller badass. The Maverick strikes again

the replies to this are 'touching';

If you're near a TV, watch McCain come to the Senate floor. Really touching.

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) July 25, 2017

mccain to america: "i'm taking you all with me!"

Can't believe it's been a year in this McCainless world.

grrrr stop getting my hopes up

One down

NBC inadvertently gave him the most fitting sendoff possible

NBC solemnly announces death of Sen. John McCain.

Wait for it. pic.twitter.com/xAqZ3HtvHa

— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) August 26, 2018

that is the best thing i have seen

Hard LOL. Very hard.

John McCain dead today

He was eaten by wolves

He was delicious

Woo hoo I just won $40

https://78.media.tumblr.com/7bf2d0a009018efe046a8a7823f80aeb/tumblr_o29u44e24g1qgcqzko1_250.gif

i piss on your grave, Maverick

after reading his press release, let me invite you all to join me in a hearty "fuck Obama"

Christ, man. Anything Obama puts in a press release about McCain is purely ceremonial. Like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Or the hoopla when a Jeopardy contestant picks the Daily Double.

nope, read the fucking slop he released. all these dicks are in the same gang.

II liked Obama's statement

John McCain to Lie in State at Capitols in Washington and Arizona

If this means they’re gonna saw his corpse in half, then thumbs up from me. I hope they do it lengthwise, like a Damien Hirst cow.

nope, read the fucking slop he released.

it's supposed to sound heartfelt and genuine, you ass. you and I will never be close enough to the obamas to hear what they really think about McCain. but whatever it is, the odds are overwhelming it is different, deeper and more nuanced than that press release.

i know. they're liars.

It's the kind of lying that is a social skill, morbs.

i don't give a fuck what any of these gangsters "really think."

there you go confusing pols with humans again.

But you seem to give more than a fuck about what they put into a purely ceremonial press release?

it's what they do, along with breathing and killing babies (napalm for Mac, drones for O)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJ7NmU6lJI

napalm for Mac

tbh, McCain flew fighter escort for B-52s, which dropped high explosives, not napalm. He probably fired very few live rounds at anyone before he copped it from ground-based anti-aircraft fire, because NV had few MiGs and few trained fighter pilots to sally against B-52 raids.

Obama def gave the orders allowing drone strikes that killed babies, but killing babies was not part of those orders, only a concomitant result, which gives him a fig leaf of the sort every military commander arranges. It's how that stuff is constructed to protect the humans who do it from getting paralyzed by conscience. If you asked him if he was happy to kill babies, he'd be shocked you thought that he might be.

You know this, but you fail to grasp it, because it is morally equivocal and you demand firmer ground. Even so, I suspect you excuse your own culpability in thousands of moral crimes of the system we inhabit, as beyond your power to avoid. It doesn't occur to you that the system is also larger than the president, who is also trapped in it.

Morbz u okay boo, seems like death of the Mav got u discombobulated

I don't think Morbs wants to excuse himself of anything. That said, the notion that the average citizen who doesn't participate in atrocities approaches the culpability of the individuals who carry them out or order them smells like horseshit to me. I know, I know, *we live in a society* etc, but lots of people throughout history have refused orders, damn the consequences. McCain followed them and, from all indications, was happy to. And afterwards, never met a war he didn't want to back.

Like, I get that "bloodlust" is an intense diagnosis but it seems to me like a fair one here.

Y’all should be in bed

This is true

Also, I'd forgotten this lovely tidbit

So far Chelsea Clinton hasn’t tweeted anything about McCain’s death, and really who can blame her pic.twitter.com/4wnCdkrjk3

— David Klion🌹🔥 (@DavidKlion) August 26, 2018

him saying Obama was 100% to blame for the Pulse Nightclub shooting "because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama's failures" makes him forever persona non grata in my book, but I'm not really 'good riddancing' or anything tonight

Guy occupied a weird space. Respected by most (not here obv) for military service and as a ~statesman~ of a kind, but wildly inconsistent and frequently just lived to annoy everyone, all sides.

I’m not sure what any of that really accomplished. In the larger scheme significantly less heinous than his R colleagues. Not a death that inspires dancing and/or grave pissing for me.

my part in our collective guilt is among the major reasons i hate myself fwiw

but yeah i'm goddamn Jesus compared to McCain

good mourning!

this is fair to middling mourning at best

Here's my epitaph: He was half principled.

Make it a true Sabbath day of prayer and life away from headlines and commentary. It will be there tomorrow. Oh will it be there!

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) August 26, 2018

Dear Mr Jesus
I just had to write to you

John McCain was boring. He talked way too slow and needed more colorful wigs.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm7HFb3gMOc/?hl=en&taken-by=realdonaldtrump

I like principled people who didn't go to Vietnam

pic.twitter.com/ubYKKRAHki

— Lockheed Martin (@LockheedMartin) August 26, 2018

Tweets of the day:

I think of Teddy Kennedy, there to welcome them with open arms.

McCain and Kennedy:
the two Lions of the Senate.

Always ready to work together for America. Even if they agreed to disagree. Those days are gone.

Congress will never be the same without them. #RIPJohnMcCain

— Impeach Trump NOW 🌊 (@PurlLeslie) August 26, 2018

He's been captured again....this time by Heaven.

— JoAnn Abdenour (@joannabdenour) August 26, 2018

has his remark about his wife being a ‘cunt’ and having makeup ‘plastered on like a trollop’ been posted yet

on the main thread I think, but yes

xposts 'When you saw only one set of footprints leading out of Lake Chappaquiddick, John, it was then that I abandoned carried you.'

Israeli PM Benjamin @netanyahu tweets about John McCain. pic.twitter.com/KzsOPPspdK

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 26, 2018

the only obit that matters

they were playing this stultifyingly smug excerpt from his recent book, read by him, earlier on BBC WS. He was talking about how exceptional the US is + there is great equality for all there + threatening to return as a ghost so he could smell the elderberries on his huge estate or something like that. Total fucking pumper.

RIP Osama Bin Laden. He might have had some bad ideas but he fought the soviets in the 80s. A war hero is still a war hero even if we disagree on some things

— bofa.lol/@NifkinJuice (@drnifkin) August 26, 2018

I don't know much about john mccain but I'm going to assume that analogy holds up 100%

https://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width600/img/darcy/photo/26darcy-mccain3jpg-7a864f956d3b3236.jpg

is that horse licking itself?

wow

I don't even know how to absorb that

poor horse has McCain's Syndrome - it thinks it is made out of chips ice cream.

RIP MAVERIKC

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/bd/34/43/bd3443a04fb56fb8934be90ed757f900.jpg

if u do not understand the symbolasm u r not a true patriat

is that horse licking itself?

its checking its body like a horny pony would
its checking its body like a horny pony would

has anyone checked in on iceman

God is real

https://youtu.be/eJAaFIojJBI

irony, crut

The major reason McCain was against torture was because he'd been tortured. He'd never been bombed or struggled to get by or been called a racial epithet, so he was fine with all that.

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) August 26, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/trump-rejected-plans-for-a-white-house-statement-praising-mccain/2018/08/26/0d0478e4-a967-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html?noredirect=on

As a fucking what pic.twitter.com/4Uc7WjGO93

— mistress misandry (@hannahtraining) August 26, 2018

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/david-foster-wallace-on-john-mccain-the-weasel-twelve-monkeys-and-the-shrub-194272/

Its unfortunate what happened but he was ill advised to walk up into Harlem wearing that sandwich board thing

Obama and Dubya to give eulogies.

What unites them is greater than what divides them.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dlh0M8aWwAEA_Gl.jpg

Obama and Dubya to give eulogies.

What unites them is greater than what divides them.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), 27. august 2018 14:08 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's an asinine argument. Let me show you:

Both Morbs and Trump refuse to pay tribute to McCain

What unites them is greater than what divides them.

piss off, cheese eater

i'm not prosecuting trump's wars, am i, dumbfuck

piss off, cheese eater

when people keep telling you what they are, listen

american ilxors have become that thing that unites european ilxors tbh

Yup. #Banyanks and let the rest of us discuss John McCain in peace.

https://slate.com/business/2018/08/john-mccains-health-care-legacy-did-he-really-save-obamacare.html

What unites us is greater than what divides us.

https://i.imgur.com/KWxbXNG.jpg

you shouldn't have let someone take a photo of you in real life, ben

https://i.imgur.com/wJimoXv.jpg

the threat of the photoshopper, part 2: rise of the clonestamper

anyway, if nothing else john mccain gave us this:

https://i.imgur.com/qICDZQx.gif

no, not that. this

https://i.imgur.com/DeazhNa.gif

https://i.imgur.com/AWkjaQi.gif

he had to repress his anger so intensely that his forehead exploded into dancing pixels

the threat of the photoshopper, part 2: rise of the clonestamper

do IT do IT do IT

small thing in grand scheme of things but this ticked me off hearing about it after I moved to AZ:
He was against limiting number of helicopter tours in Grand Canyon, with the argument that it's the only way for some disabled veterans to see it and we'd be denying that privilege to our wounded warriors blah blah. The proposal would still have allowed for like 4500 flights per year. Teeniest bit of research showed that 90% of the tours were bought by wealthy foreigners. Turns out McCain had gotten campaign contributions from the heli tour operators.

unparalleled decent contributions

btw Schumer has announced his wish to rename the Senate's Russell Building (honoring a segregationist) for McCain (a man who said he'd "always hate the g**ks").

a man who joked that chelsea clinton was so ugly because her dad was janet reno.

oh the decency

It takes a strong man to keep from laughing.

oh MAN. I should poll these pearls:

- Leadership: What is he?

- Ronald Reagan. 1984. Speaking: “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God,” he said, his deep brown eyes flashing leadershiply

- One day in the Senate mess hall, McCain sat down at my table, where I was dining alone on a salad of watercress. “What do a woman and a fire hydrant have in common?” he asked me, his eyes asparkle with magic. Before he had the chance to answer, an aide interrupted him, and he rushed off. On Saturday, that terrible eve, when I heard that John McCain had passed away at last, I thought back to this riddle. It shall remain an unsolved mystery. Like our Constitution, it will be studied by future generations—its subtleties, perhaps, teased out one day by those who today are just children. In class, they sit. Perhaps in Iowa. Perhaps in fields of grain.

- He paused, and took a sip of what I imagined at the time was absinthe, but which may in retrospect have been water.

- With a final wink—and a smile—he was gone, trailing what seemed to be be sparkles.

- And I turned up the volume just in time to hear him say, “I vote yes to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.” I’ll be damned if he wasn’t winking.

While the leadershiply will attract the most laughter, one must stop and marvel at the concatenation of Speaking:, followed by quotation marks and he said, just in case we didn't get the idea.

jfc @ that disastrous prose

I posted leadershiply

After Ronald Reagan—the president whom I worked for, and with—left the White House, where I worked

in case you missed it SHE WORKED IN THE WHITE HOUSE

It has a trick ending!

Roll over, Ronnie, and give de Maupassant the news!

the trick is that it didn't end soon enough

That’s parody I assume.

As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service of Senator John Sidney McCain III, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, on the day of interment.

I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half‑staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-third. DONALD J. TRUMP

now the very online libs can find a new reactionary crusade

hereunto

is it standard practice to list the Year of Independence in presidential orders??

no, the Grifter thought it wd be a nice touch

in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-third.

That's exactly the kind of self-preening the ancient Romans were exceptionally fond of.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-third. DONALD J. TRUMP INDIVIDUAL-1.

fixed

Not for nothin’, but in 2004 the Dem Prez nominee was a Vietnam war hero who devoted the rest of his life to admirable public political service; the right viciously belittled, fabricated, and mocked all of it, including his Purple Heart.

— David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein) August 26, 2018

I don't fully agree with this take, but I'm sharing it for the sake of a comment.

https://splinternews.com/this-is-all-so-stupid-1828634092

"The logical conclusion to this episode is Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer marching into the Oval Office with McCain’s corpse between them Weekend at Bernie’s style, demanding the president show deference to a True American Hero. "

u suggesting donald spend the weekend at bernies?

fuck it was written in the quote thats a pitiable lapse

The pallbearers for Senator McCain’s memorial service Saturday: Warren Beatty, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, William Cohen, Stephen Dart, Rick Davis, Carla Eudy, Russ Feingold, Phil Gramm, Gary Hart, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Tom Ridge, Mark Salter, Fred Smith, Sheldon Whitehouse

— Arlette Saenz (@ArletteSaenz) August 27, 2018

Mark Salter

Couldn't remember who this guy was for a minute; had him confused with the guy from Glee who got busted for kiddie porn and then hung himself.

Feel like they should find room coffinside for Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

OK, Beatty and Hart... I know McCain didn't work for McGovern '72. Were there some ski weekends in Aspen?

Is that Fred 'Sonic' Smith, or Fred Smith out of Television?

how is that list not a parody? and where's AOC?

I always thought William Cohen would have made a good president, but I'm sure you can all set me straight on that.

that's 15 people, how fuckin' big is his coffin?

john mccain pallbearer list or stefon club description

No hunchback with a fidget spinner, no credibility.

I don't fully agree with this take, but I'm sharing it for the sake of a comment.

https://splinternews.com/this-is-all-so-stupid-1828634092

only a journalist could argue that being a petty, mean asshole was just business as usual

Also the "let's not ask questions we know the answers to" idea is maybe not as logical as he thinks it is

apparently it's the Fred Smith who founded FedEx

No hunchback with a fidget spinner, no credibility.

― Blag Blingeeborp (Old Lunch)

i'm busy that day

that's 15 people, how fuckin' big is his coffin?

all that pundit jizz on his corpse adds a lot more weight to the coffin than you'd realise

Rob Reiner loves John McCain. I only wish he'd said that on ALL IN THE FAMILY when it mattered.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) August 27, 2018

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FEYgcWOSFyevTy%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1

BRB, going to register as a Republican real quick so I can be feted in death for having been a slightly less shitty person than most other Republicans.

Dennis Perrin
@DennisThePerrin
Rob Reiner loves John McCain. I only wish he'd said that on ALL IN THE FAMILY when it mattered.

what is this even supposed to mean?

my reading of it is that noted twitter failure dennis perrin wishes that at some point during 1971-1971, rob reiner, in his role as michael stivic on all in the family, should have turned to camera and delivered an impassioned speech in support of vietnam veteran john mccain so that he, noted twitter failure dennis perrin, would have been able to make a more informed decision about the artistic merit of the princess bride in light of its director's political views or some shit

it's possible that it's supposed to be funny, although personally i do not find it amusing or even particularly coherent

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/strength-of-schedule-and-the-pennant-races/

lol, godfuck you and your moronic priorities

sorry, should've read

noted twitter failure

lol, godfuck you and your priorities, morongazzara

it means Rob Reiner's thoughts matter about as much as yours do, bg

... but who are your favorite Twitter successes? The Prez, right?

Don't take it so personally, Morbz, not everyone is going to be receptive to Perrineal droppings.

too busy on twitter

man, the Dem admirers of Mac on my FB feed are really turning it up

McCain's strength of schedule was pretty fuckin' easy the last five years, he should have made the playoffs.

too busy on twitter

you post tweets here constantly

... but who are your favorite Twitter successes? The Prez, right?

not even twitter dot com itself, a notoriously profitless exercise since its inception, is a 'twitter success' so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

but even by any of the usual extremely pointless standards of twitter success (insight and/or wit packaged in a tight bon mot, viral appeal, number of interactions on any given post etc) dennis perrin is very bad at twitter and seems to use it primarily for hurling words straight into the sucking maw, rarely if ever to be commented upon before they disappear, never to be seen again

the man can't even dunk on john fucking mccain properly for crying out loud

OOOOOH YA GOT ME, BRAD. BURNT!

lmao xp

i'm sorry that someone you like sucks, morbs

so very indie of him, bg

so like is Dennis Perrin morbs’ friend or cousin or something I have been afraid to ask

dennis perrin, the beat happening of twitter

the perrin detectives

i posted that bcz i like the beat happening, so fuck everyone

(ok i don't)

(but still fuck everyone)

i'm sorry that someone you like sucks, mark

can we get back to pissing on john mccain's grave itt now pls

I wonder if McCain ever tripped acid with black people?

it was Muslims fwiw

could some of you get some pallbearers real soon?

give it a fuckin rest morbs

I'll see what I can do Morbz as I can hardly bear the pall u r casting itt rn tbrr witchu.

a man can't even joke itt about how the cumulative weight of ejaculate on a terrible senator's corpse mandates the use of additional pallbearers without getting dragged into yet another morbs beef about the merits of dennis perrin ffs

could some of you get some pallbearers real soon?

Go fuck yourself. Today, tomorrow, forever.

longer than always is a loooong, long time....

(glad you self-recognized)

No fair posting McCain's incoherent final words without attribution, man.

i still don't get the tweet though
did he want past rob reiner to break the fourth wall on all in the family and call for the release of POW john mccain?

it was purely about irrelevance, something ilxors should relate to viscerally

I'm not sure how visceral it is but I def relate to u boo.

i'm actually very relevant, verified on twitter AND beefing w/tekashi 69

so... is whoever Ducey replaces McCain with going to be up for re-election in November? I assume the Democrats don't have anyone to run but still.

Appointee would serve until 2020, special election would happen then for the remaining balance of McCain's term.

Lotsa angry ppl here

thx silby - that's what I thought but today's Politico article on Ducey made reference to his appointee having to win in November and I was like what

LOL Kissinger is speaking at McCain funeral. Of course he is.

— #Prisonculture (@prisonculture) August 28, 2018

it was purely about irrelevance, something ilxors should relate to viscerally

do you have a cleaning lady to wipe the spittle off your mirror?

yes, and you're late

gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the John McCain RIP room

Gentlemen, you cannot lapse into paroxysms of spittle-flecked rage in here, this is etc.

love you morbs

pic.twitter.com/XpILakxsSK

— Derrick Carter (@blucu) August 29, 2018

We're through the looking glass, twice or maybe even three times

Prince Andy of NY began his gubernatorial debate tonight by kissing the decaying cock of Big Mac

Apparently his mother is still alive and will probably go to the funeral.

106.

I caught a couple minutes of Biden's eulogy, powerful enough to start boring inevitable demands for him to run in 2020.

too bad trains almost never crash

What

Simon H. is obliquely expressing is hope that Joe Biden meets an untimely end on the Northeast Regional between Wilmington and DC sometime before next spring.

Simon H. had better be drunk

i'm sober and i second that emotion.

fuck all these fuckers. Kissinger's demise might be tolerable compared to this shitshow. I can't listen to the NPR news til Tuesday presumably, when all the gorgeous bipartisan jackin' off MIGHT be done.

If an oleaginous windbag like Joe Biden campaigns for progressive candidates this season, who gives a fuck whether he speaks at McCain's funeral? You can be so dense sometimes.

It doesn't occur to you (or Simon) that, in politics, hacks have their uses. American history is full of people whose careers died at the foot of a larger movement. I'm not suggesting that speaking at McCain's funeral serves any use at all, but if Biden doesn't run yet lends his prestige to campaiging for good leftist candidates who gives a flying fuck whom he eulogizes?

If a laudatory FOX News or CNN appearance inspires Andrew Gillum's people to ask Biden to campaign for him in white strongholds like Hillsborough County or the Panhandle, then it would've been worth it.

sheesh Alfred it's almost as if you actually have something on the line with these "election" things

can you imagine

Biden appearances "helping" is an unsettled question

also the midterms was not my topic, just what digusting ppl these are

you can switch off the blogaroonie circuits sometimes

Well, I can't, because I have a Jefferson Davis Fan Club imbecile running for governor while red tide chokes the west coast and the state is likely going to drown in 50 years.

lol

that's plenty of time, especially given your sunning regimen

cooooommme on pic.twitter.com/z2nOECykMO

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 31, 2018

Crying angels how infantile can you get

wait why would they be crying if it means they get to hang out with John McCain all the time now

tears of joy, duh

I feel like McCain died every day this week. This is seriously still going on?

Republicans aren't dead, they just smell that way

I really do think this is a big ongoing deal bc everyone is trying to use this as a platform to contrast McCain w/Trump and I think that was the intent of McCain and his family. But I hope everyone got deals on their three day passes to this thing, too bad about the rain near the main stage.

rain or shine event!

[in heaven]

XXXTentacion: Hello John McCain
John McCain: I don’t know who you are

— beloved comedy institution “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) August 27, 2018

I am fascinated by the idea that there is a very niche group of highly capable event planning / logistics specialists who organize these things, like the Les Clefs d'Or for VIP funerals. I don't know if it's true. But it seems like once you get to a certain circle, like being a card-carrying member of multiple secret societies etc., you might get a phone call from some folks who want to help you arrange in advance for the rapid interstate transportation of your corpse, and make sure your coffin is exactly where it needs to be, handled by exactly the right people in the right uniforms at the right time, with the right guest lists at each stop.

Alternatively, McCain was a swollen prick so enamored of his own significance that he just had his staff work on this shit and basically nothing else as soon as he got his Stage 4 diagnosis.

....includig the use of a crane to transport the corpse of Kissinger.

xp both are probably true

Meghan McCain married a serial plagiarist I am sure the speeches were easily covered.

https://i.imgur.com/3XKZfy9.gif

wow

Not a great *porrasturvat* score.

i HOWLED, my friends

“So much of our politics can seem small and mean and petty. Trafficking in bombast and insult, phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but is instead born of fear. John called on us to be bigger than that, to be better than that. Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be, but what will happen in all the other days will depend on what you do today. What better way to honor John McCain than follow his example.”

just a Fuck Obama reminder

you are literally the only person who cares

past caring

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/0/09/Lying_Cat_Saga_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150328025426

past caring

There's a time-honored way of demonstrating that you don't care about something, and you are terrible at it.

the i-dont-mind boggles

Thinking about that story about how Nixon probably beat his wife and everyone was too embarrassed to report it out for decades, and also about a recently deceased politician with a history of shockingly misogynist comments and public verbal abuse of his clinically depressed wife

— Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) September 2, 2018

i *do* care about the minimal standards the next Dem president will be expected to meet, ie that dude's.

and God I hate this place

Between the Lines, Obama's "Start 'em or Sit 'em: Week 1" Fantasy Column Is a Stirring Rebuke to Trump

— Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) September 2, 2018

Nixon put his wife in the hospital? How is that not better known?

You know why

two years ago it was right wingers flinging spittle about how Obama wouldn’t say “radical Islam” after Pulse; in 2018 it’s the left vomiting about how Obama wouldn’t say “McCain was a warmonger and a womanizing misogynist” after McCain just died

What could be the common thread here

Sorry that was reductive. Basically Obama’s never been angry enough for a lot of people. Also, too brown, but I’m sure nobody on ILX has ever been dismissive of somebody based on their skin tone.

What would be interesting would be a discussion of some of the rampant paternalistic sexism on display at Aretha’s funeral but I take it almost nobody here watched any of that

personally I don't care about Obama's remarks and it's silly (not only based on his ex-prez status but also on literally everything he's ever said and done in public) to expect any different. it's the totally uncritical veneration among the media class that bothers me and I expect to extend well beyond the mourning period. (there's no reason to be surprised by this, either, but unlike O they don't have a good excuse.)

I mean, really, ffs:

The angels were crying. Here at CNN - just a few blocks away - no rain. Just there. https://t.co/0Pw2xWb90R

— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) August 31, 2018

lol'd at that fantasy football one, also a funny shot at Matthew Berry of ESPN

Sometimes it starts pouring rain right when I am about to leave the house. I wonder what it all means...

McCain made the strategic move of positioning himself as the icon for bipartisanship and traditional Senatorial precedent and decorum by making those 'issues' the centerpiece of his 'nay" vote on Obamacare repeal and the theme of his self-aggrandizing Farewell Letter (as if he were the new Geo. Washinngton or some such figure). This was extra-strength catnip to the DC 'centrists' and mainstream journalists who now can idolize him to the hilt as a way of expressing passive-aggression toward Trump. Bcz real aggression might be bad for their careers.

As a way of surfing a political wave right into the grave, it was moderately brilliant. His place in history is far less certain than his place in MSM anti-Trump agitprop for the next week or two.

anyone on "the left" (ie not Democrats) expected nothing more of Obama than the other war criminals in that Club

it simply needs to be pointed out before ppl wonder why he's not endorsing social democrats

Been having a good time driving McCain worshippers nuts by asking them "Once you take away the marketing/branding, what did McCain actually do all this time he was in office?"

mccain-feingold got pwned by citizens united, and he did the thumbs down thing for obamacare, thats about it right?

as far as possibly good things, that is

he liked barbeque

for real? fuck that guy

he liked barbecuing people in southeast asia and the middle east

he liked charles keating

His favorite Fleetwood Mac album is Penguin

I mean, yeah. It certainly wasn't Bare Trees.

https://i.imgur.com/hCAXKnh.jpg

30 years of being in the Senate and he never got to Mystery To Me? Fuck that guy...

good mourning!

Its mourning somewhere *drinks*

late entrant for the 'worst mccain take'

Just as 9/11/01 galvanized a generation of young people perhaps 9/1/18 (the date of McCain’s funeral) will be the inspiration for another generation of Americans to eschew tribalism and seek common ground in defense of overarching values. https://t.co/bFYb7UZqMU

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 3, 2018

is the sentiment really that galling tbh

I think my biggest takeaway over the past week has been that McCain's talent as an accidental cult leader went sadly unrecognized in his lifetime. It's really been something to behold.

is the sentiment really that galling tbh

...

yes?

oh well carry on so

*doffs cap, continues posting*

Just as 9/11/01 galvanized a generation

U outta touch lady, the leader describes that as “a tiny period of time with a bullhorn.”

Perhaps she’s right tho and it’s better to remember it as “the battle of little bullhorn” in which we rode hard for george custer bush.

this is never gonna end huh

As McCain (R-Ariz.) ascends to heaven on an updraft of praise, Trump’s political hell on Earth will burn hotter. Through the wall-to-wall coverage of McCain’s life, and his memorial and burial that will take place over the next few days, Trump will become a bystander as our nation is given a reminder of the best of what it stands for, and the best of what it can be. The president and the rest of America are about to look in the mirror and see Trump’s opposite.

McCain lived a life of service to country; Trump lives in service of self. McCain exemplified sacrifice; Trump, indulgence. McCain played down his heroism; Trump boasts of imagined rescues into school buildings to save children from gunfire. McCain sought reconciliation with his enemies; Trump thrives on creating new ones. McCain was, in the words of his longtime aide and collaborator Mark Salter, a “romantic about his causes and a cynic about the world.” Trump is a cynic about both.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/08/26/in-death-mccain-shows-an-alternative-to-trump/?utm_term=.ee7b2449341b

McCain sought reconciliation with his enemies

*ahem*

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I mean, look, if we're all in agreement that this ridiculous overpraise of McCain and his 'legacy' is all for the sake of trolling Trump, then I'm happy to play along. Just wish y'all had sent me the memo a little earlier, is all.

We might want to pull the reins back just a touch on going too full-bore Kelly cartoon, though. I think even Trump will start to see through the purple prose at some point.

We’ll go through this all again when we try to square Jimmy Carter, the good Christian peanut farmer, with Jimmy Carter, the nuclear submarine engineer and Admiral Rickover acolyte who changed the US nuclear policy to first strike is his belief that a nuclear war was winnable.

*in* his

there are, famously, no good us presidents but carter at least has spent the last four decades working with habitat for humanity rather than endlessly urging war like mccain did

tbh i'd be shocked if the media gave carter the mccain/reagan/etc great hero treatment when he dies.

elvis t -- do you have a link or a book recommendation w/ more info on carter changing nuclear strike policy? embarrassed to say i had no idea about that

Carter

I’m not at home (and typing this on my phone) so I can’t consult my library, but this is a good overview:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb390/

Worth noting that much of these changes were occurring during the false alarms of 1979-1980
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/

Honestly this is better suited to the Cold War thread because there was more going on politically and technically in a short period of time (the accuracy of the MX, the B-1 cluaterfuck, stealth bombers, cruise missiles, neutron bombs, Afghanistan)

Anyway, fuck McCain.

While I respect Bernie, I disagree with him strongly on this. John McCain was a war hawk who sent American youth to fight and die and never met a problem he didn't think could be solved through invasion or intervention. The real heroes are those who fought for PEACE.#GravelGang https://t.co/a3l6700Vo4

— Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 21, 2019

yup.

there are impressive number of tulsi gabbard trolls.

(i mean i keep seeing them in the responses to tweets that have nothing to do w/ her.)

mccain obviously showed personal bravery, but a "hero"-- how can we agree that the vietnam war was a near genodical disaster and claim that those who perpetrated it (even if they weren't calling the shots) are "heroes." nope, nope, nope.

sorry, i know we all know this, just that military worship is down there with cop worship as one of the great sicknesses of our country.

Turns out the orgasm that made Meghan was his greatest crime.

there must have been some way you could have written that Meghan is an irredeemably bad person whose every television appearance exhibits a remarkable negative-count of charisma that didn't make me want to throw up

2009 in one photo

https://44.media.tumblr.com/d1697f0b37f334d069d74a69a5d78d07/tumblr_p7yuytcwn31sj0oe0o4_400.gif

I get her mixed up with Meghan Trainor a lot

i don't trust megans who sneak an h in there

It’s 2021 and we are all Whoopi. pic.twitter.com/SncHJPxHTW

— Justin Martindale (@justmartindale) March 9, 2021

Meghan McCain advertises her book on her fathers headstone. (2022) pic.twitter.com/Q8IgStY8BM

— crazy ass moments in american politics (@ampol_moment) May 10, 2022

A book that's officially (?) only sold slightly more than 300 copies.

It’s a nice look at what all these godawful books would sell without the bulk purchases that every party-line republican is guaranteed.

maybe he preordered

dog