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― pplains, Saturday, 1 September 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
wow
― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Not a great *porrasturvat* score.
― nonderepressible (Sanpaku), Saturday, 1 September 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
i HOWLED, my friends
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 1 September 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
“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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 September 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
you are literally the only person who cares
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Sunday, 2 September 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
past caring
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 September 2018 08:13 (five years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/0/09/Lying_Cat_Saga_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150328025426
― WmC, Sunday, 2 September 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
There's a time-honored way of demonstrating that you don't care about something, and you are terrible at it.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 2 September 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
the i-dont-mind boggles
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 September 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
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
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 September 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 September 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 September 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
Nixon put his wife in the hospital? How is that not better known?
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Sunday, 2 September 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
You know why
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 2 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
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
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Sunday, 2 September 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
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
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Sunday, 2 September 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
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.)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
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
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
lol'd at that fantasy football one, also a funny shot at Matthew Berry of ESPN
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Sometimes it starts pouring rain right when I am about to leave the house. I wonder what it all means...
― Yerac, Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 September 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 September 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
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?"
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 September 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
mccain-feingold got pwned by citizens united, and he did the thumbs down thing for obamacare, thats about it right?
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 3 September 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
as far as possibly good things, that is
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 3 September 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
he liked barbeque
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 September 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
for real? fuck that guy
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 3 September 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
he liked barbecuing people in southeast asia and the middle east
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 September 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
he liked charles keating
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 September 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
His favorite Fleetwood Mac album is Penguin
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 September 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
I mean, yeah. It certainly wasn't Bare Trees.
https://i.imgur.com/hCAXKnh.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 3 September 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
30 years of being in the Senate and he never got to Mystery To Me? Fuck that guy...
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
good mourning!
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 September 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
Its mourning somewhere *drinks*
― Hunt3r, Monday, 3 September 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
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
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
is the sentiment really that galling tbh
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
...
yes?
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
oh well carry on so
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
*doffs cap, continues posting*
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
Just as 9/11/01 galvanized a generationU outta touch lady, the leader describes that as “a tiny period of time with a bullhorn.”
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
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.
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
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.
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
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
McCain sought reconciliation with his enemies
*ahem*
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― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
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.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
*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
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link