John McCain RIP

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

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