John McCain RIP

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!"

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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

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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?

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

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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