rep john lewis calling him a warrior

...of peace

???

F*cker of virginity. Torturer of mercy. Seducer of chastity. Glutton of asceticism.

imagine not thinking john mccain dying is great, buncha ****ing losers

I don't care all that much about being unfair to people who volunteered to kill a bunch of peasants because COMMUNISM THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY. But even ignoring that, what I'm saying is quite specific to John McCain and has very little to do with the average GI.

I would guess that there is at least an 80% chance that McCain's replacement is a downgrade.

Never having met him, I am not confident in my ability to plot his counterfactual beliefs, no. Anyway, in the actual world, where he was tortured for fighting on behalf of America, he went well beyond just being opposed to torture like the rest of us and actually passed major legislation against it. This isn't just the bare minimum standard of being against torture that he passed there, but actual action for which he should be praised.

You're not obliged to show him any deference. Death is a sign of our common humanity, even with Republicans. You should give people space to grieve or show respect.

Mods should just start locking these threads. Pure edgelord bait at this point.

Judging by this thread, Russian trolls are going to have a field day.

Right, and if you or I ever attain high elected office, I expect both of us will do at least as well in that regard. Fingers crossed we can avoid agitating for as many utterly pointless wars as he did while we're there. FOH with this faux-naive bull****, you know I know you're smarter than that.

I'm impeding nobody. Show me a friend or family member of John McCain posting ITT and I'm a ghost, I'm gone. Failing that, sorry, the thread devoted to his memory will contain everything about him worth remembering, with no obligation to pretend that everything worth remembering about him is good.

Possibility of his wife which would actually be a slight upgrade from what I've read. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

John McCain Requests Ashes Be Launched Into Iraq

The otatop post was plagiarized from here.

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I actually "plagiarized" it from Wikipedia but I thought it was obvious I didn't write that. Your "source" is also copied from Wikipedia, which you can tell because it still has the bracketed source numbers in it. Derp.

I mean, he's prominent enough to deserve a thread, but such threads usually suck, as this one does, so I'll probably lock it by tomorrow morning.

OK I laughed



https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/stat...49100480901121

Also most of the things people think of him as courageous for standing up for are things that 99% of Republicans vote for and like 10% of Democrats, so congrats at being a moderate Democrat, I guess?

McCain is a piece of ****. ****ing around behind his wife's back while he she was in a wheelchair, getting caught up in the Keating Five scandal, and keeping his mouth shut even as death knocked on his door about how ****ed up the party is right now isn't being a maverick or a person of great character. His decision to bring Sarah Palin into the 2008 election is what triggered the populist movement that eventually led to Trump.

He doesn't get to forget that because he said that Obama wasn't an Arab, but a family man (nice job implying that Arabs can't be family men) and doesn't get it for voting no on a health bill that he eventually help passed through the giant $10 trillion tax cut.

So **** him.

**** John McCain

Has any member of Congress spoke ill of another Congress person when they died? I know operatives obviously do and I'm sure Congress critters do behind closed doors but I don't put any stock in any legislator praising McCain. Its just something that everyone does in Congress.

John McCain died the way he lived: a silent complicit coward who put party over country. This was a guy with the moral conviction to vote for Betsy DeVos’s confirmation. This was a guy who had a terminal illness beholden to no votes for re-election and still couldn’t be bothered to speak out against the biggest threat to the democracy we’ve seen in a long long time who’s served as a mindless (ha!) rubber stamp to the GOP agenda and to his donors

But hey remember the time he thumbs down’d Mitch?!?! What a hero!

Piece of ****

I'm guessing there won't be a particularly notable outpouring of respectful condolences from the right when Pelosi croaks.

will also be cool when nancy pelosi dies tbh

Schumer plz

There is a difference between not being sad that someone died and being glad that he did. The latter should be reserved for monsters or for people who are doing harm as we speak.