I'm sure it is, but it's still not like he's bravely standing to the schoolyard bully. We're quibbling over degrees of bootlicking.

What do you want him to do? Switch parties? It's not like that has been much for him to vote on other than nominations.

Couldn't hurt.

He can't die now. I mean the guy is so close to realizing his dream of US bombs raining down on North Korea and Iran. Would be a shame.

Maybe he can talk Trump into letting him take a Major Kong ride into North Korea.

So will he now be for single payer?

I don't give a **** what he does, I'm making fun of the ****ing morons who think he's standing up to TRUMP when in reality he rubber stamps anything other than cosmetic bull****.

That's definitely McCain's problem during this administration. Well, aside from brain cancer. Merely some of his rhetoric is dissenting, when it comes to taking action he's all Trump.

I was thinking Alzheimer's but brain cancer makes sense as well.

Love that the most obvious joke was made almost immediately after the OP.

McCain's story is one that gets you as close as is possible to being given a pardon by SJWs like myself for using racial slurs. My grandfather was a Captain during WW2 and had all sorts of colorful things to say about the Japanese, but like w/ McCain there's grains of salt that are warranted IMO.

'Pardon' isn't the right word I guess. I just understand how the context & experiences they endured shaped their current beliefs, more than I can say about the vast majority of ignorant **** tards who use language like that.

DISCLAIMER: I'm 3 beers deep and now in my 20s anymore, so I reserve the right to renounce this post tomorrow.

How are you pink with 800 posts? You're a mod?

Skyrim creation kit. It can do all sorts of cool ****!

Your grandfather saying things in private is one thing. If he was speaking to the press on his 'Straight Talk Express' tour bus, on which he was touring the country seeking election to the Presidency, that'd be another thing.

And just to make something clear - it's not that I'm glad the man's dying. It's just that I don't much care.

Doesn't this sort of highlight the absurdity of being ruled by a bunch of frail old people?

maybe they've done so in places there's a chance mccain might actually see

https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/stat...70354196283392

She's a Trumper but she has her limits, I guess.

really wish a democrat had gotten brain cancer instead of mccain

Not as absurd as being ruled by people who were chosen by morons.

I think those in the Russian Government are actually pretty smart.

It's much much easier to be smart when laws are meaningless. An idiot like Trump is the exception. Actually, everything about him is the exception.

And they call McCain a maverick.

Seems like a good place for this

http://www.gq.com/story/john-mccain-...t-american-lie

Even the whole 'John McCain fought admirably for his country but is a yes-man for right-wing cruelty' forgets that America's cultural and political fixation with Vietnam War POWs was itself a desperate yearning to find righteous sacrifice in the middle of a highly contentious war; a war of deeply questionable moral justification in conceit and practice. And that's being charitable.

So yet again even in McCain's greatest hour of valor we find multitudes: he was tortured in a war where Americans committed mass murder, fighting in a war the mass public had little appetite for. That is to say, even his sacrifices as a POW contained in them a highly self-interested narrative yarn of a country desperate to find decency in horror, to find righteous self sacrifice in a deeply unpopular war where the totality of sacrifice felt needless. McCain basically seems like the ultimate scion of Baby Boomer America - fraught with all of the human failings of greed and cruelty and desperate to find and create fictions that portray some other reality. He exists in our political zeigeist to assure reflexive bipartisans that the right-wing isn't so bad and contains virtues. He serves almost the exact same purpose in the stories Americans tell themselves about Vietnam.

Any thoughts about the prospect that this whole blood-clot surgery business is just a cover story for the brain implant deep-state operatives installed to quell his maverick instincts?

I especially liked the, "I. WILL. NOT. VOTE. FOR. THIS. BILL. IN. ITS. CURRENT. FORM." right before he voted for the bill in its current form. That was a nice touch by the old brain gremlins.