John McCain RIP

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.)