McCain planned it all - funeral service was a 'council of war'

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WASHINGTON — In the magnificent, lordly church-house, there were speeches and prayers. There were songs and hymns. There were bands and pipers and choirs and soloists. John McCain was given a national send-off in a National Cathedral and there was a great gathering of emotion that was almost frightening in its intensity because you knew that it was aimed at a solitary, angry, unbalanced man left back at the White House, at someone who nonetheless is the president* of the United States, with all the powers inherent to his office, a man who has created a situation in which he is an object of dislike and disrespect, because that is all that he's given to the world in return.

It was said almost immediately after the conclusion of the funeral ceremonies on Saturday that, for a few hours anyway, we were back in a familiar country with familiar customs and manners and norms, a country with institutions built to last. That may well be true. I felt it, too. But in back of that is the realization that all of us, including the deceased, had taken those customs, manners, norms, and institutions terribly for granted. We thought they could withstand anything, even a renegade president* in the pocket of a distant authoritarian goon. We let the customs, manners, norms and institutions weaken through neglect and now we are in open conflict with an elected president and, make no mistake about it, John McCain's funeral was a council of war, and it was a council of war because that's what John McCain meant it to be.

He deliberately made known to people that the president* was not welcome at any of the services. He deliberately chose the previous two presidents to deliver the formal eulogies. He deliberately created that scene in the Capitol rotunda at which Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Mike Pence, an unholy trio of Trumpist quislings, had to choke down their own cowardice and say how much they loved him and his irascibility. He deliberately created a mirror in which, if they still have an ounce of self-awareness, they could see the rot that has set in on their souls. Even at the end, John McCain knew what he was doing and he was a fearsome opponent. He wanted a pageant of everything this administration* has trashed and put up for sale, and that's what he got Saturday—a morality play shot through with Shakespearian portent and foreshadowing, a pageant of democracy's vengeance....

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22893069/john-mccain-funeral-service/
 
He just confirmed why I hate him

Fuck him and may he burn in Hell

This is a recreation of the Wellstone debacle
 
I'm not a fan of his daughter, but is was a thing of beauty when she ripped the Orange Buffoon a new asshole. I'm guessing they took trump's phone away today, as you just KNOW he's itching to bash McCain as he stole the news cycle.
 
Althea said:
I'm not a fan of his daughter, but is was a thing of beauty when she ripped the Orange Buffoon a new asshole. I'm guessing they took trump's phone away today, as you just KNOW he's itching to bash McCain as he stole the news cycle.
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So it was a trash Trump event not really a memorial service..got it!
 
What a beautiful and stirring bit of writing. May I continue? From your link:
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This is not to minimize the genuine affection and love that was on display. John McCain was a beloved figure to many of the people who came to bid him farewell. But there was so much subtext under the proceedings that the mantle shattered, and subtext became text, plain as the rain that fell and passed while the service continued. This was a funeral with more than one purpose—to celebrate the passing of John McCain and to summon a rebirth of politics that did not so much reek of grift and vodka.

Thus said Meghan McCain:

We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. He was a great fire who burned bright. In the past few days, my family and I have heard from so many of those Americans who stood in the warmth and light of his fire and found it illuminated what's best about them. We are grateful to them because they're grateful to him. A few have resented that fire for the light it cast upon them for the truth it revealed about their character, but my father never cared what they thought and even that small number still have the opportunity as long as they draw breath to live up to the example of John McCain.

The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great.

And here the transcript reads: (Applause).

Thus said George W. Bush, who I believe has a new writer who deserves a raise:

Perhaps above all John detested the abuse of power, could not abide bigots and swaggering. He spoke up for the little guy, forgotten people in forgotten places. One friend from naval academy days recalls John reacted to seeing an upperclassman verbally abuse a steward. Against all tradition, he told the jerk to pick on someone his own size. It was a familiar refrain during the six decades of service.

And thus said Barack Obama, who confessed to being initially surprised at being asked to speak:

John cared about the institutions of self-government, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, rule of law, separation of powers, even the arcane rules and procedures of the Senate. He knew that in a nation as big and boisterous and diverse as ours, those institutions, those rules, those norms are what bind us together. They give shape and order to our common life, even when we disagree. Especially when we disagree.

Make no mistake. Those are not patriotic banalities any more. The current president* has made them dead serious again. They are no longer frothy paeans to the greatness of America. They are compass points on a battlefield. They are no longer heard with half an ear and then forgotten. They are fighting words now. The president* knew it. That's why he spent the morning rage-tweeting and the afternoon playing golf. In dying, and in carefully planning his funeral in the way he did, John McCain has opened a second front.
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(There is much more; hope those interested will read the entire well-crafted piece.)
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
What a beautiful and stirring bit of writing. May I continue? From your link:
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This is not to minimize the genuine affection and love that was on display. John McCain was a beloved figure to many of the people who came to bid him farewell. But there was so much subtext under the proceedings that the mantle shattered, and subtext became text, plain as the rain that fell and passed while the service continued. This was a funeral with more than one purpose—to celebrate the passing of John McCain and to summon a rebirth of politics that did not so much reek of grift and vodka.

Thus said Meghan McCain:

We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served. He was a great fire who burned bright. In the past few days, my family and I have heard from so many of those Americans who stood in the warmth and light of his fire and found it illuminated what's best about them. We are grateful to them because they're grateful to him. A few have resented that fire for the light it cast upon them for the truth it revealed about their character, but my father never cared what they thought and even that small number still have the opportunity as long as they draw breath to live up to the example of John McCain.

The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great.

And here the transcript reads: (Applause).

Thus said George W. Bush, who I believe has a new writer who deserves a raise:

Perhaps above all John detested the abuse of power, could not abide bigots and swaggering. He spoke up for the little guy, forgotten people in forgotten places. One friend from naval academy days recalls John reacted to seeing an upperclassman verbally abuse a steward. Against all tradition, he told the jerk to pick on someone his own size. It was a familiar refrain during the six decades of service.

And thus said Barack Obama, who confessed to being initially surprised at being asked to speak:

John cared about the institutions of self-government, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, rule of law, separation of powers, even the arcane rules and procedures of the Senate. He knew that in a nation as big and boisterous and diverse as ours, those institutions, those rules, those norms are what bind us together. They give shape and order to our common life, even when we disagree. Especially when we disagree.

Make no mistake. Those are not patriotic banalities any more. The current president* has made them dead serious again. They are no longer frothy paeans to the greatness of America. They are compass points on a battlefield. They are no longer heard with half an ear and then forgotten. They are fighting words now. The president* knew it. That's why he spent the morning rage-tweeting and the afternoon playing golf. In dying, and in carefully planning his funeral in the way he did, John McCain has opened a second front.
~~~
(There is much more; hope those interested will read the entire well-crafted piece.)
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The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great.

Really?

Someone needs to tell that to Governor Cuomo and some panelists on MSNBC
 
So according to Esquire, McCain and the other swamp critters in attendance don't like seeing the swamp getting drained. More proof we're on the right track now. DRAIN THE SWAMP :usflag:
 
volsrock said:
Yup the POS was really full of himself!
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Says the piece of rotten, maggot infested garbage.
Teflon Don said:
He just confirmed why I hate him

Fuck him and may he burn in Hell

This is a recreation of the Wellstone debacle
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And you just confirmed why decent, civilized people hate YOU.
Fuck you and may you burn in hell.
volsrock said:
I can see why NK tortured him
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I'm glad the adulation being paid to McCain is torturing you.
volsrock said:
So it was a trash Trump event not really a memorial service..got it!
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So you're a piece of Trump trash and not really a human being. Got it.
volsrock said:
The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great.

Really?

Someone needs to tell that to Governor Cuomo and some panelists on MSNBC
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That's right, Putin-sucker. Really. It was greater BEFORE Trump began dragging it through his own shit than it is now.
Someone needs to tell that to you, preferably while repeatedly booting you in your ass.
Vermin.

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weaponizing funerals now. It doesn't get any lower then that,
McCain planned it all. Naturally Bush and Obama went along for the ride. may maggots infest his eye sockets.

His dumb azz daughter doesn't even understand trade agreements that steal US jobs and GDP.
But she is clear eyed - like her father- on spreading war and regime change
 
Stretch said:
So according to Esquire, McCain and the other swamp critters in attendance don't like seeing the swamp getting drained. More proof we're on the right track now. DRAIN THE SWAMP :usflag:
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So returning to decorum, civility, and protocol = "draining the swamp" to you? WTF. Maybe you can explain to us how having such a high turnover in staff, so many employees pleading guilty and/or being indicted, and even cabinet members resigning in shame for their heinous behaviors and misuse of your tax dollars is "draining the swamp." I can hardly wait to hear this.

Hillary was right. You all *are* deplorable, and that's putting it mildly.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
So returning to decorum, civility, and protocol = "draining the swamp" to you? WTF. Maybe you can explain to us how having such a high turnover in staff, so many employees pleading guilty and/or being indicted, and even cabinet members resigning in shame for their heinous behaviors and misuse of your tax dollars is "draining the swamp." I can hardly wait to hear this.

Hillary was right. You all *are* deplorable, and that's putting it mildly.
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DRAIN THE SWAMP!
 
noise said:
weaponizing funerals now. It doesn't get any lower then that,
McCain planned it all. Naturally Bush and Obama went along for the ride. may maggots infest his eye sockets.

His dumb azz daughter doesn't even understand trade agreements that steal US jobs and GDP.
But she is clear eyed - like her father- on spreading war and regime change
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Shows how little you know about Meghan McCain.
 
noise said:
well I guess you told me off huh?

I've seen her a bit on TV - she's a 1st class interventionist and Russiaphobe.
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Could you point out the segment, she doesn’t trust Russian, but they did hack into our systems. There’s good reason not to trust them.
 
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