It is said that it’s bad form to exult in anyone’s death. This is obvious nonsense, of course. No one really practices it.
They do practice hypocrisy. If it is politically correct, they will exult. For example, the death of the tall bearded geek who supposedly attacked our freedoms on that fall day almost 20 years ago. People cheered when a SEAL supposedly put a bullet between his eyes.
John McCain, on the other hand, actually did attack our freedoms – and on many days, both before and after that evil day. And they are talking about re-naming buildings after him. He will get a state funeral, be eulogized most unctuously. His wife is being talked about as the inheritor of his Senate seat.
Not even Reinhard Heydrich enjoyed such honors.
I prefer a more honest send-off. I hated the bastard. Hated everything he was and everything he stood for. I do not cheer his death, but mourn it?
Why would I? I don’t mourn the death of cockroaches, either.
He was a War Hero? Well, so was Hitler. So what? Physical bravery – and I will give him that – is not synonymous with moral admirability. Too many people confuse that issue – and people like McCain exploited this weakness many people have. It is the same weakness that makes them reluctant to criticize cops, who are after all are nothing more than armed government workers and not serving or protecting anyone except themselves.
And McCain was not admirable.
He was a federal thug. A lying, grifting, tax-feeding, war-mongering parasite. One of the army of cretins who have somehow acquired immense power to meddle in our affairs and make us pay for it. And who expect us to admire them for it.
Fish heads for them all, cold and crunchy.
Where to start . . .?
How about the Big One.
It was McCain who voted to make sure that the Affordable Care Act – arguably the most freedom-effacing law to come out of Washington since the Patriot Act (which McCain also staunchly supported) was not repealed while there was still a chance of getting rid of it – before it became cemented in place.
His vote was critical to its survival – and the old mummy, already near death, expended perhaps the last ounce of his evil life force to make sure it would outlive him by crawling back to Washington to cast the decisive vote – lecturing those who tried to rid us of this abomination as he did so.
Unforgivable.
It is also because of McCain that Barack Obama became president – the necessary precursor to passage of the Affordable Care Act. His doomed, egocentic campaign – a third Bush Decidership but with McCain as the front man – was too much for the public to choke down after years of flag-humping war-mongering and so we got the Community Organizer.
And then we got Obamacare.
Without McCain, it never would have happened. The loathing of the Decider transferred to McCain, who was more of the same – and everyone knew it. Including him. But his vanity and lust for power prevailed, as it always has. In the end, he lost for the same reason that she did, two years ago.
“Conservatives” ought to loathe him as much as liberals do her on account of who is president today. Instead, they lionize him as a latter-day Washington. If they could, they’d pickle his corpse and put it on display. The Huffington Post called him “one of a kind” and a “legend.” Think about it. The appalling Jeff Flake pulled a Jimmy Swaggart, onion-fueled tears streaming down his cheeks, upon hearing of the demise of Republican Party’s version of Ted Kennedy.
Well, at least McCain didn’t rape anyone or drown anyone. I will give him that, too.
But it is because of McCain that I and millions of others are being dunned by the IRS for a “shared responsibility payment” – $700 and change, so far in my case; soon to be $1,400 and change – as punishment for not handing over money to the health insurance mafia, which McCain served so very well.
Further punishments are on deck.
Because Obamacare has assured us of unlimited government. A government that has been empowered to micromanage everything because there is nothing at least potentially outside the scope of “health” – and Obamacare made that a coercive collectivist mandate. It is no exaggeration to state that McCain ruined America – because America, uniquely, was a place where at least your “health” was your own business, instead of the business of a bureaucracy of busybodies, armed and empowered to make you do what they say.
And, pay.
He has turned doctors and nurses into parasites by proxy – and us into prey. We must now fear the medical profession – which will narc us out to men with guns for having guns (another thing McCain did not much like) if those docs decide we are “depressed” or “recalcitrant” for not obeying their orders. That is just for openers. More is coming.
Obamacare plus the Patriot Act have literally erased the relative freedom Americans once enjoyed vs. the ear-tagged cattle of the rest of the world.
This is McCain’s bequest.
And I hate him for it.
And am glad he is gone – because at least he can’t do any more damage now.
If you mourn freedom’s loss – you should be glad, too.
A North Korean-style Dear Leader funeral is now on deck. It would be healthy if millions of Americans turned their backs – or better yet, gathered friends together for a cookout to celebrate. Not the man’s death.
But that his death renders him powerless at last
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Lengthy but sounds completely accurate re the USS Liberty. mcains traitor father was part of the coverup
“The court’s charge was narrow: to determine whether any shortcomings on the part of the Liberty’s crew had contributed to the injuries and deaths that resulted from the attack. McCain gave Kidd’s investigators a week to complete the job. “That was a shock,” recalled retired Navy Capt. Ward Boston, the inquiry’s counsel, who said he and Kidd had estimated that a thorough inquiry would take six months.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.html
As an aside McStains coward admiral daddy is the one who refused help for the USS liberty while israel was trying their damndest to sink it. an act of pure treason.
I’d pin that on LBJ and McNamarra, not Adm. McCain. As I understand it, planes were dispatched and on their way to help the Liberty, but they were recalled IN FLIGHT! The on-scene Admiral sent help, but he was overruled and ordered by Washington to recall the aircraft. It’s an unwritten rule in the Navy that you help your shipmates, and I think the on-scene commander tried to do that. The decision to leave the Liberty unprotected came from Washington, not anyone in the Navy.
Admiral mccain did this. i could try to pull up relevant links but he did. like father like son.
I thought I saw one of the former Liberty crewman say that the decision came down from Washington. As a Navy vet, it’s hard for me to believe that a fellow Navy man wouldn’t at least TRY to help out his mates…
MM, it did come down from Washington, from the Commander in Chief.
Not only that, but another Admiral George Morrison (rock star Jim Morrison’s father) vigorously protested Lyndon Johnson and McNamara’s refusal to send help for the USS Liberty (GTR-5). Lyndon Johnson was in on the “fix” as he “did not want to embarrass an ally” (israel). If I had my way, israel would have been turned into a “glass parking lot” on 9 June 1967…and Johnson and McNamara would have been tried and convicted of TREASON.
I assume then that you would have no problem with Iran turning the United States into a “glass parking lot” in retailiation for Iran Air Flight 655.
You are very eager to mete out death and destruction to children in their cribs for the actions of a rouge military unit. Of course that’s pretty typical with aryan warrior chuckleheads.
Jason, the Israeli’s would do it to you. That doesn’t make it right, it just shows what they think of everyone else.
There is a SWAT team competition every year in the US. A few years ago it was held in Commiefornia and the Israeli team won.
When asked why they killed the innocent children and everybody in the house, they said they were just saving time and effort since they’d have to kill the children eventually anyway. That’s Zionist think for you…..no mercy.
Oh, I have no particular love for them. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of the aryan warrior mentality where atrocities committed by Israelis are to be met with nuclear destruction of an entire nation and its people while atrocities committed by Americans are whitewashed. We have plenty of good White Christians right here in America who would not hesitate to kill babies in their cribs.
Jason, I get it and agree. I know if almost any other country in the world thought they could remove the scourge of the US hegemony war machine and live to tell about it, it would be us…..toasted. It’s a hell of a deal when you know this and can’t disagree with their need for revenge.
It got worse all through my life but the Shrub and Cheney hit the old freedom and liberty out of the park so to speak. That’s another couple I’d climb over your back to choke.
And now we have a young, Hispanic Bush with his eyes on the legislature and no doubt, the governorship. As the Brits would say, God save the Queen.
Yeah 8, basically all governments are criminal gangs. Some are just more obvious about it than others.
The Israeli government is criminal. The U.S. government is criminal. The Chinese government is criminal. The Russian government is criminal. Heck, probably even the Luxembourg government is criminal.
All of them would squash you or I, or anyone, like bugs without even giving it a second thought. (Probably not even a first thought.)
Jason, no argument here.
The Arab countries that possess nukes are not stupid. They KNOW that any nuclear device detonated does not respect borders and would be hazardous to their own populations. Arabs have nukes because Israel has nukes AND has threatened the world with nuclear annihilation if its “feelings are hurt”. Israel is the most dangerous country on the planet as it does whatever it wants while daring other countries to intervene.
Look up the “samson option” which is a threat by Israel to detonate a nuke in any city around the world, No delivery systems are needed as Israel’s nukes are already “in place” in cities around the world. Israel’s choice of “targets” will be Chicago, Los Angeles, or internationally Rome or Brussels. This is the main reason why Israel will not allow inspection of its nukes. It could not produce them as they are scattered around the world.
Let’s not forget that Israel has blackmailed the world with its “Samson Option”.
If a nuclear device is “lit off” in an American or European city, it will have Israel’s fingerprints all over it. Israel is desperate to keep the American money spigot running, as well as sabotaging the Palestinian “peace process” that the world wants it to take seriously.
In fact, if a nuclear device is “lit off” anywhere in the world, it will have come from Israel’s secret nuclear “stockpile”.
The “power outage” in Atlanta was a convenient excuse for Israel to perform a logistical “sleight of hand”, as an Israeli plane was allowed to land and take off during the “power outage” without receiving customs clearance or inspection. This is one of many Israeli companies that possesses a “special exemption” granted by the U S government that frees it from customs inspections. Just maybe another one of Israel’s nukes was just being pre-positioned or nuclear triggers (tritium) were being renewed, getting ready for “the big one”. As most Americans are tired of all of the foreign wars being fought for Israel’s benefit, another “incident” on American soil would be enough to galvanize the American public, once again, (just like WTC 9-11) to support another war for Israel’s benefit. Israel’s “samson option” is a real threat to “light one off” in a European or American city, if Israel’s interests are not taken seriously.
Israel refuses to abide by IAEA guidelines concerning its nukes as they are already distributed around the world. Israel would not be able to produce all of them as most of them are not in Israel, proper. No delivery systems are needed as Israel’s nukes are already in place. Look for another false flag operation with the blame being put on Iran or Syria. You can bet that some Iranian or Syrian passports will be found in the rubble.
Israel has also threatened to detonate nuclear devices in several US cities. Talk about total INSANITY; the so-called Samson Option is it.
American foreign aid is prohibited from being given to any country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (the Symington Amendment)or refuses to abide by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) guidelines regarding its nuclear devices. Guess what?? Israel does not abide by EITHER and still gets the majority of American foreign aid. This prohibition also applies to countries that do not register their agents of a foreign government with the U S State Department. Guess what?? Israel (again) with its American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) still gets “foreign aid” in contravention of American law..
There are forty or so congressmen, senators and thousands of high-level policy wonks. infecting the U S government who hold dual citizenship with Israel. Such dual citizenship must be strictly prohibited. Those holding dual citizenship must be required to renounce said foreign citizenship. Refusal to do so should result in immediate deportation with loss of American citizenship. Present and former holders of “dual citizenship” should never be allowed to serve in any American governmental capacity.
In addition, any American citizen who serves or has served in Israel’s military (Israel Defense Forces) should automatically lose their American citizenship and be immediately deported to Israel.
When Netanyahu addressed both houses of congress, it was sickening to see our politicians slobber all over themselves to PROVE that they were unconditional supporters of Israel. Just who the hell do they work for? Certainly not for the interests of the American people and the United States,they should renounce their United States citizenship and be deported to Israel.
More stupid, fictitious aryan warrior bullshit.
I have to particularly laugh at the “dual citizenship” crap that you numbnuts keep spewing.
Do holders of this so-called “dual citizenship” – which is unilaterally declared by Israel – pay Israeli taxes? Are they compelled to service in the Israeli military? Are they subject to Israeli law and prosecuted in Israeli courts? Of course not. The only effect of the so-called “dual citizenship” is if they choose to move to Israel they are automatically citizens. No more. No less.
Hi Jason,
I oppose all foreign aid for the same reason I oppose any other form of theft and redistribution. If it’s not morally acceptable to take a dollar from Joe and give it to Mike (an American citizen) it’s just as wrong to take it from Joe and give it to a foreign citizen, or his government.
Once you accept the idea of it being ok to take money from Joe to give to Mike, there’s no longer any logical way to object to giving it to the foreign citizen or his government.
So, it’s the principle redistribution that has to be challenged. Not bickering over whom the stolen money is distributed to.
You also conveniently forget that the U.S. has “blackmailed the world” with nuclear destruction since the end of World War II, and is the only country to actually use atomic weapons and against civilian targets no less.
You’ve outdone yourself, this is one of the smelliest pantloads you’ve unleashed here. Your buddies at the Daily Stormer and Stormfront will be mighty proud, I’m sure. The rest of us will be grabbing some Lysol to chase the stench away.
I stand by my statement. Israel had insight in to 9-11 and had something to do with it. Google “dancing israelis” and “urban moving systems” to see that they were recording the event as it was happening. It was stated that if the worls found out that israel did 9-11, israel wouls cease to exist and no one would give a damn.
You are free to stand by any idiotic statement that you care to.
Anrchyst is right of course mccains dad was involved somewhere but perhaps johnson gave the final order to stand down. the samson option is real. i believe it targets mostly european capitals. Not really necessary now since theyre all being destroyed by soros taxis off of africa. And yes that is true. ive seen it myself.
anarchyst, I stand with you. I wasn’t a child when it happened. I was over 40 years old and literally stayed on the computer and watched tv at the same time for a good week or more.
I recall it was the FBI that picked up the “celebrating Israeli news crew” and obviously somebody higher than field agents intervened since they were whisked back to Zionist land.
Then there’s Larry Silverstein who has recently purchased those buildings and insured them for well more than what they were worth.
The FBI went around and confiscated every CCTV record that could have possibly shown what hit the Pentagram.
Only an idiot could believe a 49 story building could be “pulled down”. That’s idiotic to the nth.
Then there was the fact that two accounting companies were located in the midst of where one “plane” hit the towers. Those companies had records to find out “where” the $2 T missing and spoken of by Donal Rumsfeld just the day before. And the missile that hit the Pentagram was obviously aimed at the computers where the money could have been located.
It was the largest conspiracy in the world and remains so. It’s not a “theory” though, it’s just the govt. has hamstrung everyone tying it all together.
If mccain was involved he was following orders from LBJ.
you can disobey an order. I would have
Great stuff but mccain didnt have any more bravery than his repulsive daughter on the view. He got shot down while murdering civilians and amazingly the vietnamese saved his his life. God i wish they hadnt. He caused the USS Forrestal fire by wet starting his jet and then refused to help put it out. He abandoned his loyal wife on returning from captivity who was severely injured in a car accident for some rich woman. He was the most disgusting roach in US politics. I wish i could send his brain cancer a thank you card. i would love to know where he’s buried so i could piss on his grave. The fact that anyone thinks he’s anything other than pure shit is all you need to know about this country. i will give trump credit for calling him out.
The civilians, who’d been on the receiving end of what our pilots were dishing out, would be in a murderous rage and try to kill any pilot that ejected near them. It was the Vietnamese who’d save the pilots, since they could interrogate them and get info from them. To the Vietnamese military people, our captured pilots were a lot more valuable alive than they were dead.
I don’t see why we should mourn him per se. I mean, there are a lot of people who die that we don’t go out of our way to mourn. I don’t see why McCain, regarding whom I agree with much of what you say, should particularly be mourned. I also don’t see why being a “war hero” (whatever exactly that means) in and of itself should matter (Hitler fought in WWI like you say.)
I still don’t think we should revel in anyone’s death. We shouldn’t *celebrate* Bin Laden’s death and we shouldn’t celebrate McCain’s, whatever we may think of the men in question. At least IMO. We can perhaps celebrate that the harms they are causing are no longer going to be caused (though I don’t see a point in McCain’s case, do we really think statist Republicans and Democrats won’t continue to foster more government on us without his help?) but that seems to be a different thing than actually celebrating his death.
Just my two cents, for the first time in a long time.
Trump received withering criticism for his comment about McCain’s former POW status, saying he preferred people who did not surrender to an enemy, but Trump’s detractors were ignorant of history. Big shock, right?
Only in modern times have those held as POWs been hailed as “heroes”. Before the Vietnam conflict, attitudes were very different, as they still are in some other cultures.
General George Patton, who I must make clear is not any sort of role model, said in his memoirs [i]War as I Knew It[/i] that he regarded any soldier who surrendered to an enemy while he had any ammo left to fight as guilty of treason. His comments undoubtedly reflected military thinking then; that is, he wasn’t the only one who believed that.
As late as the Korean war, repatriated American POWs were segregated from other soldiers on ships returning to the US. The feeling was the POWs were tainted, possibly having been brainwashed by their Communist captors as some famously had been.
Stalin’s regime treated returning POWs brutally, executing some and throwing others in the gulags. Other regimes did similar things.
McCain was a victim of circumstance when he was captured and held as a POW. When the chips are down and your survival is at stake, surrender might be the only option. That doesn’t make you a “hero” for it. In fact, hell, anyone can do that.
Did anyone see the slobbering BJ given to McCain by that creepy old fauxnews twit Judge Napolitano on LRC today? Lew has apparently gotten to the point that his site is just a 4th rate aggregator of pretend libertarian articles.
I think today may be the day I finally pull the paypal donor plug on LRC. It has been wasted money for the past few years.
That piece confirmed my suspicions about Napolitano being a Beltway libertarian.
Morning, Handler!
I was disappointed as well. I’ve admired Napolitano for a long time. He is without doubt very bright and he can write. But he made the mistake in this case of believing McCain was a good man because he did something good. Stalin doted on his daughter. Hitler was loyal to Mussolini. Almost everyone has some good in them, does good things every now and then. But it is not just the balance which must be weighed but the overall intent. Stalin had the kindness of a spider to its egg sac. McCain’s whole life evinces a pattern of opportunism, cynicism, lust for power, vengefulness and corruption.
The fact that he “opposed torture” carries little weight. This man supported much worse, mass torture, mass murder and mass enslavement.
No kidding. I don’t see how a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian could write something like that. I guess it’s true that DC changes people.
Hi Handler,
I think I know why (in re Napolitano)… among the middle-aged (and older) Beltway crowd, there is a kind of collegiality which I never could stomach. If I meet someone and they defend something morally despicable – such as McCain – I cannot abide that person, regardless of their other agreeable attributes.
But I’m an outlier. I never meshed with the Beltway crowd. It’s why I fled the Beltway and now live out in the Woods!
Napolitano admits he & McCain were friends. But his dialogue in the below link does not seem to excuse McCain and the establishment he represented.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/06/judge-andrew-napolitano-metaphor-in-government-founded-church.html
Hi Jimmie,
I don’t know Napolitano personally; I do know he is very bright and so I wonder about his defense of McCain on any grounds. What would a bright man such as Napolitano say about someone who defended Hitler because he did such a great job with the Autobahn and the VW?
Napolitano’s essay on LRC on McCain sounded like a desperate attempt to say something good about the dead when the dead man didn’t have much on offer.
Hi Brent,
I’ll never do something like that… I knew two of the Greats: Joe Sobran and Sam Francis. I’ll be happy to say many good things about them…
Ed, I read it that day. I could write an essay if I repeated everything I thought about it. I suppose if you’d be one of the crowd some semblance of courtesy would be in order in the form of waving from a distance, whole hand or middle finger, but all I could think of was what a cheesy way to give him a bye. Cherry pick, cherry pick, cherry pick. Gimme a break. It just means Napolitano found a can of Ron Popeil’s “hair restorer” to sorta, kinda cover the stripe on his own back.
Eric, you expressed my thoughts and perceptions of the “war hero.”
Let me add the following:
(1) He murdered, with malice aforethought, Vietnamese infants, toddlers, adolescents, and adults in his bombing sorties. None of those Vietnamese were threatening him. His bombing constituted a classic violation of the NAP.
(2) His bombing also constituted a cowardly act. One is not brave for dropping bombs thousands of feet in the air. One is manifestly not a hero for doing so.
(3) The proposition that one is a “hero” for being a POW is but a variation of the contemporary progressive narrative that a victim is a
hero. A corollary, one cannot be a hero if one is donning one of Caesar’s clown costumes (I told you that I would always remember William Norman Grigg – an authentic hero).
(4) McCain – Feingold. Nothing more be said about that.
(5) Barry Goldwater. He did not take to McCain and the war hero couldn’t understand it.
Why can the TSA grope, the FBI can run child porn sites, the police can steal, the NSA can wiretap, the CIA can torture, the EPA can pollute, and the Army can kill, but you can’t?
Why can the government and illegal aliens break the law, but you can’t?
Why can the bankers commit fraud and be rewarded with billion dollar bailouts instead of going to jail?
The only difference between the mafia and the government today is that the government has a flag in front of their office.
Wake up.
Think.
Pass the word.
Hi Libertarian,
Indeed. And the answer lies, in part, in the acceptance by so many people of the Myth of Authority. It is the idea that some people are legitimately endowed with special privileges and power over the rest of us by dint of special titles and costumes and because some other people perhaps voted for them. That myth needs to be shattered before any resurgence of liberty is possible.
Reading Eric’s newest article brought to my mind the writings of Lysander Spooner. I will post a relevant link to this article here, and a different relevant one there. A Letter To Grover Cleveland: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a3c833e4b07c31913e6eae/t/55a524c0e4b01d30adbe941d/1436886208276/A+LETTER+TO+GROVER+CLEVELAND.pdf
Add to his sins that his presidential candidacy in 2008 brought us the Obamanation.
Today’s headline: John McCain is Still Dead.
Anyone know what the Vegas line is on the possibility that he will jump out of the coffin at his funeral?
Vegas line – good one.
I liked Caitlin Johnston’s take on this at LRC. She is correct as correct can be.
Every time that war pig McAsshole’s name is mentioned it should be done so with great derision. He must be mocked, ridiculed, and reviled even unto death. Fuck him and fuck The State he served.
At least now he can rest peacefully knowing he will soon become a registered Democratic voter.
I might even question the “physical bravery” that you grant him. I suppose it requires some degree of bravery to hop in a plane and fly into enemy territory, but as soon as he was shot down he was buddy-buddy with the North Vietnamese for the rest of the war, and long afterwards:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/
http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-when-tokyo-rose-ran-for-president/
McCain was the one sure vote the Democraps could count on with every introduced bill. Even their own party members were not so faithful to the democreeps. I for one am glad this evil man is dead, and my 5 sibs feel the same way.
if i go to hell i hope to meet mccain there
Styxhexenhammer666 posted a video recently with similar sentiments. Keep standing for freedom, limited government, personal responsibility! Good article, as always Eric. 🙂
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NZ2MOYerg7s/
In other news, John McCain is still dead. Updates will be made daily until the media finishes fellating his memory.
Ed, please keep the updates coming but Evil never dies. Some other war pig will take McFuckhead’s place in the “hallowed halls” of that “Great” Institution called the US Gubmint. The McDickhead gear will just be replaced with another McDickhead gear in the perpetual anti-freedom machine euphemistically called Gubmint.
Yep, you’re right. He’ll be replaced on the committees with like-minded (brain dead) senators. We can just be glad that whoever the AZ governor appoints won’t inherit his committee seats or his influence.
I often thought that anyone outside AZ could have won a senate seat by running on the promise to beat the fuck out of McCain on the senate floor. If voting actually mattered such a candidate would have had an easy victory.
“Preston Brooks” the fuck outta McCain! Sell lottery tickets to win a chance to beat McWarpig and put it on PayPerView and apply the profits to the debt. The Treasury would be overflowing!
An idea too late…sigh…
I find it very telling how the media is absolutely slobbering over McCain now that he is dead. In 2008, they smeared him as a senile, warmongering, racist and sexist. But now that he is dead, he is a hero? And they wonder why we call them fake news. McCain surely was a war monger – they got that part right in 2008 – but the irony is that all the main stream media are warmongers too. The only time that they have cheered Trump is when he bombed Syria. Literally the only thing Trump did that they approved of was to bomb a country that did nothing to us. No wonder they are lionizing John McCain. Even McCain admitted in his last year of life that the war in Iraq was a mistake. Well, that isn’t good enough. You don’t get to start a war that caused so much horrific damage to the entire Middle East and to America and then just say, oh, that was a mistake – years later when nothing can be done about it. Not good enough. John McCain is going to have some serious questions to answer when he meets his maker.
One wonders if his maker will just hand him a pitchfork and give him an “attaboy”…
Good one Ernie. You may be right.
He was so a great war hero! Just because he was at war with America doesn’t mean he wasn’t a great war hero. Gotta give him credit for his great dedication and professional skills too. Albeit it was at being a grifter, but you have to admire his commitment, he persevered despite having to pay for his crimes by burning in hell for a long time. A true trooper. He improved everyones’ ability to cope with stress too, albeit by causing it, but hey, his odd methods worked.
Now, everyone in govt, please make sure we do NOT get serial numbers on our ballots, and full transparency of our elections, otherwise we won’t have the joy of saying goodbye to great senators like this anymore.
Hitler ended up being more moral than McStain, because he finished off Hitler! Before someone jumps my case over this statement: a count of the total deaths that McStain directly and indirectly caused during his lifetime should be considered. It might not rise up to 6 mil, but then again maybe it does. I do not know! You should know the answer to that question before you criticize my comment.
Brian, no empirical way to say how many people he killed with legislation and his non-stop warmongering but you can count on it being more than any moral person has ever killed. I have to wonder what sort of legacy his dad really left.
There aren’t enough fishheads left for all those who deserve them and that includes anyone who voted, supported in any way and esp. those who gave that POS money or campaigned for him. Rot in Hell…..every single meatsack who helped him. The people in his district must be 90% Alzheimer sufferers.
8, exactly! When one votes for someone then they are responsible for everything that their “representative” does in their name. Fuck everyone from AZ who put this war pig psycho (redundant I know) in office – for over thirty fucking years!
Skunk, I can’t fault the people of AZ for McCain since I was long ago disabused of the notion that votes are counted and that the one with the most votes win.
That has become a laughable idea to me.
Ed, I think of Mark Twain’s quote about if voting made a difference they wouldn’t let us.
A week or so ago there was the annual hacker’s convention where a 10 year old boy hacked an election representative of a real election in 11 minutes
Several kids did same a bit slower with the youngest being 8 years old
Hating Trump always takes precedence…
Krista, the fact that evil men like McCain can live long lives and cause such devastation argues against there being a “creator”, let alone a just and merciful creator.
Obamacare is pure evil in that enslaves people. It requires people to have this thing that is outrageously expensive (due to government interference) unless they are corporately employed. It is designed entirely to keep people on the plantations and then be leveraged for further control over their lives.
That’s why republicans would not and never will repeal it. They will simply tinker at the edges of it.
On social media, I will be posting “I don’t really give a shit about John McCain.” I’m glad the bastard is gone. George HW Bush is next, hopefully
Good idea. Maybe I’ll try posting “John who?”. That oughta trigger their asses. If we’re making a list of who would be next, let’s not forget Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger.
I watched Kissinger’s eulogy. He looks like death.
Surprisingly, Rumsfeld was not in attendance. I know McCain had disagreements with his murdering strategy during the Iraq takeover.
John McCain was a disaster from day one. He graduated near the bottom of his class at Annapolis, did an aircraft “hot start” as a “stunt” which killed a number of Navy crewmen, personally crashed 3 aircraft, and was never punished for it. You see, McCain’s daddy was an admiral who protected “sonny boy” from repercussions for his stupidity.
Captured in North Vietnam, he turned out to be one of the most prolific “stoolies” which caused untold suffering for his fellow POWs. His POW nickname was “songbird”. You can be sure that he “tweeted” a lot in order to procure preferential treatment for himself.
McCain’s (first) wife, who waited for him for years while he was in captivity was summarily divorced by him as she was disfigured in an automobile accident. McCain dumped her for a mob-connected heiress.
Fast forward to the “savings and loan” scandal, in which McCain was a principle player. Of course, his POW “status” got him out of that one.
McCain is a Democrat masquerading as a Republican. He should have been put “out to pasture” a long time ago . . .
Both John McCain (R-Tel Aviv) and John Kerry (D-Tel Aviv) should be indicted and tried for treason. . . It is no secret that only HALF of our verified Vietnam War POW’s were released to us. The North Vietnamese “held back” HALF of our POWs in anticipation of receiving “war reparations” (which never materialized).
Most people are unaware that both of these cretins cut off the search for POWs in Southeast Asia at a time when there were STILL verified sightings
of Americans held in captivity. These sightings took place by satellite imaging, (“circle-K”) as well as being verified by various “boots on the ground”. McCain and Kerry consigned these brave men to their suffering deaths. . . So much for “leaving no one behind”. . .
In fact, both of these cretins sponsored legislation making it illegal for anyone to pursue live POW claims.
It is interesting to note that John McCain’s “admiral” daddy whitewashed the deliberate Israeli act of war on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967…
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”.
The Israelis did not commit an act of war on the USS Liberty since it was clearly a false flag operation approved of at the highest levels of the US federal government. It was ultimately LBJ and high ranking military and others that planned and arranged for the attack. If it were simply Israel trying to draw the US into the war or a mistake that does not explain the stand down orders and support recall that came from within the US. The US federal government wanted that ship on the bottom but the crew kept it afloat.
I have done extensive research on this act of war by Israel. You are correct that Lyndon Johnson was involved. However, “not wanting to embarrass an ally”, Johnson’s words, and refusal to send help for the ship was an act of TREASON. Even then, Israel was running U S foreign policy in the middle east.
IF the brave sailor had not gotten the antenna operational, the ship and crew would have ended up on the bottom.
According to dispatches available nowadays, the Israeli pilots KNEW that it was an American ship, some decent pilots even questioning their orders to attack.
I hope you are not a member of unit 8200, the Israeli internet disinformation unit of the IDF.
No, I cannot let Israel “off the hook” on this one.
Regards,
Anarchyst, did you see this?
https://www.sott.net/image/s24/485134/medium/McCain_ISIS.jpg
The tree from the same orchard as the Kennedy Dynasty, i’m sure. McStain was the Teddy K. of his clan, and just as odious.
Our old orange tom cat got flatttened by a truck a few days ago. My daughter found him. That, Im sick about. At least death was instantaneous.
Murderin’ John, I won’t even speak ill of, but I did hoist a few in honor of his untimely (way too late) passing. I also might note that his passing was long and unpleasant lending credence to notions of god and karma.
Hoooray! He’s gone!
Won’t be missed.
I had, initially, thought to take “the high road” and not say anything, usually because it’s bad karma.
But then I, like you, recalled it was his lone and sole vote, rendered in a Nero-esque “thumbs down” fashion, that has saddled us with ObamaCare forever.
He can rot in hell, as far as I’m concerned.
Hi AF,
That last vote did it for me, too. I hope he’s actually not dead… that they messed up. And right now, he is in the process of being embalmed.
Eric,
Maddening, isn’t it?
The miserable old mummy never even voted for it the first time around.
https://www.atr.org/senator-vote-obamacare-a7134
On his deathbed, he was petty, small, peevish and petulant even unto the end.
He did not vote it down because of any deeply held conviction, or epiphany in thought…he did it simply as a “fuck you” to Trump.
And in the process condemned millions of Americans to bankruptcy, slavery to the state and insurance mafia and death at the hands of an inefficient and inept medical establishment that, he, McCain, as a lifelong servant of the Empire, did not have to take part in and was exempted from.
A brain cancer diagnosis, for any of us Mundanes, is a short term death sentence, yet Kennedy and McCain lived for a considerable time with it, Biden is still living with it, by virtue of the very best of health care, paid for by our ever fucking tax dollars, health care that would far beyond the financial means of any of us.
Rot in hell you miserable sons of bitches.
Meant to say he did not vote against repeal.
Preach it, AF!
He was a vengeful, miserable and corrupt old bastard. He is lionized by the mainstream press and the “court” in DC because he was one of them. Which made him our common enemy.
In “Man on Fire” an Italian Interpol guy spoke up at a press conference over the killing of two bent cops during a kidnapping. The Judicial Police bigshot had just delivered a pantload about the cops’ devotion to duty and the Italian said,
“No, they were known for being corrupt and are now celebrated for being dead”.
That fits John McCain as well: known for being a traitorous, hateful asshole and now celebrated for being dead.
Ed, I thought the sorry mofo would never die. I couldn’t tolerate looking at him, hearing him or even think of him.
I don’t know who first uttered the words about the Patriot Act, You must vote for it to find out what’s in it, but it seemed to sum up McCain and a huge amount of pols. The Dems voted for it in lockstep since they were such cowards they had no defense of “you have to vote for it before you can read it”.
This is the type of shit that has been served up as legislation to protect this country, the people of this country, when it had evidently been written and shelved just for 9/11. It was/is nothing but a blight taking away liberty en masse.
I hate every person who voted for it as well as the NDAA and every subsequent bullshit legislation since, every bit of it designed to militarize the controllers and remove our freedoms.
So many of the progressives hated Strom Thurmond yet he was the only person to be completely incensed by the Patriot Act and shook and cursed those who voted for it. I guess I hadn’t paid enough attention to who the man really was.
we could use a couple hundred Strom’s right now.
Yeah, it was beginning to look like he would never die. Maybe all those libtards are eulogizing the Songbird because they ain’t sure he’s really dead.
“There is no piety in rejoicing the dead.” – Homer
However, there is no sanctity in praising evil departed.
We all fall short in this world but, praising someone of McCain’s ilk (warmongering, busybody) is not noble, it’s sick. We don’t glorify someone who lives a life of drunken, gluttonous, adultery. Why should we praise the life of someone who sought to kill and steal? At least the sins of the flesh bring damage only to those that engage in it, unlike McCain who sought out innocents to murder and mug.
Rest assured, what rises to the top of the DC cesspool to replace McCain will not be cream.
Trump, at this moment, Huffington Post and others are criticizing the President for not calling McCain a “hero”. But, ten years ago HuffPo wasn’t being as kind either…
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/08/new-book-mccain-once-phys_n_95595.html
It’s been said that if you can’t say something good about the dead, don’t say anything. OK, McCain is dead…good.
Maverick=Useful Idiot
Hi Aljer,
That “maverick” line always made my teeth ache. Maverick? How? The guy was the apotheosis of the DC hack/lifetime politician.
Perhaps it’s an inside joke comparing him to the lead character in the most homo-erotic mainstream movie of all time, Top Gun.
Maverick = piece of shit. Look at John McCain. Look at the Ford Maverick.
Hey, I kind of liked the Maverick. It beat the Hell out of the Mustang 2 at the time… and in the 302 incarnation was a ball of fun.
On the subject of McCain not personally killing (innocent) someone, well, that’s probably not the case either.
Though its a subject of much debate, McCain is almost certainly the cause of the near destruction of the aircraft carrier Forrestal in 1967. He was a hot shot navy pilot, well known for being reckless and as a rule breaker. He didn’t get in trouble as most pilots would, due to his grandfather and father being famous and highly ranked navy people.
But one day his stunts on deck of the Forrestal resulted in a massive explosion that killed 134 sailors and injured another 161 and nearly destroyed the whole ship. It knocked a major ship out of action during a war for months. It resulted in a equally massive coverup that left McCain in the clear.
Rich, “On the subject of McCain not personally killing (innocent) someone, well, that’s probably not the case either. ”
There is no question at all that the war pig McPrick personally killed innocent people – he dropped bombs on them in Vietnam.
Eric is once again spot on. And, I fully agree with him. McCain was/is pure evil. Satan will surely have a true competitor as soon as John arrives.
Thanks, Highplains!
I’m hoping there will be an obvious public turning away from the North Korean-style Dear Leader funeral that is coming…
I haven’t turned on a single main stream news source for years. I’m not going to watch the funeral. I simply don’t care. Fuck anyone who does.
I live in AZ so I can’t turn on the TV for the next 2 weeks. The national media is bad enough but the local outlets are falling all over themselves to kiss his dead ass. It’s the Hero Cop syndrome on nitrous and everyone wants to be counted for sucking up more than their competition. It’s beyond nauseating.
That rat bastard never met a war he didn’t want to send other people to die in. Good riddance, and hopefully Cheney and the Chimp will join him in hell shortly, along with Kissinger.
Thanks for saying what so many are thinking Eric…..
I not the kind of person who would wish death on anyone, but when I first heard the news about McCain’s family “pulling the plug” on him, I didn’t really think much of it.
Glad I didn’t.
I meant to say “I’m”.
Fucker shoulda called it quits 20 years ago.
Glad he’s finally gone too.
Eric, Never have I so wholeheartedly agreed with one of your posts! I only have one correction, and one miscellaneous observation to add.
First, Conservatives will NOT lionize mccain. Only neocons and cuckservatives will. We should take note of those who want to make him a saint. Those that do are our enemies! This is a perfect Litmus Test.
Second, re the Governor naming cindy mccain to take his chair……Dougie Ducey is up for re-election himself, so he needs to be vewwy vewwy careful. Arizona’s Republican Party is pretty evenly divided between cuckservatives vs Trump supporters. If he appoints a replacement who is partisan in either direction, he risks losing a major chunk of his electoral support.
On YouTube videos and online articles where they didn’t disable comments it was running about 95% calling out Johnny Wetstart for the traitorous POS he was. That tells you what the real people outside of the Washington bubble think of that asshole.
Morning, Guerrero!
Indeed. I agree with what Mike said about this being a Litmus test. Anyone in public life who eulogizes McSame is the Enemy. McSame was the apotheosis of what’s wrong with Beltway “conservatism.” It’s just as inbred, elitist, entitled and contemptuous of the average person – and for liberty – as the “liberals” it pretends to oppose. I worked among these creatures for several years and observed them close-up. It is no accident – much less on account of collegiate cordiality – that Chuck Schumer, et al have nice things to say about McSame.
Right after I made the previous post, I types into duckduckgo good riddance John McCain , and here is the results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=good+riddance+john+mccaine&t=canonical&ia=videos . Many people are happy to see him depart to go to Hell if such a place actually exists. I bid him Satan Speed!
Amen, Brian!
The old load is being lionized by exactly the people and outlets that make my point for me. He was – per the Doctor – scum. Good riddance.
I still advocate that we start a tradition of throwing joyous public parties every time the flag is flown at half mast. That is exactly what I would be doing right now if I had some anarchist friends living near by to party with. Partying by ones-self over the death of a parasite does not get any attention. Imagine the reaction of politicians if, every time one of them died, there were hundreds or thousands of joyous public celebrations all across the country. Banning such celebrations would backfire on them.
That’s a glorious idea Brian! Count me in. Name the time and place. Have beer, will travel.
It is a beautiful thought, if the WBC can picket funerals then I don’t see why the rest of us can’t have block parties celebrating the passing of true evil.
Brian, wished I lived near you too!
I am being serious here when I say I cannot wait until someone desecrates that war pig’s grave, especially if he is buried in a gubmint cemetery.
Assholes should never be allowed to rest in peace.
Right there with you in spirit Brian. I’ll tip a Bohemian Black to your Bock…..yeehaaawww!
8 you lucky bastard! I have not been able to get Shiner Black Lager in years. Damn, damn good stuff! Have one for me, will ya!
Skunk, what part of the country do you live
skunk, I know this is a year old but I’m about to shower, chill down and have a Shiner Black. I wish you could have one with me. I’m so glad they haven’t tried to supply the whole world with them. That’s the death knell to quality.
The way the media is honoring that piece of scum is absolutely sickening.
A few days ago….that announcement….”McCain stopping cancer treatments”….the arrogance in making that “announcement” is simply off the charts. Decent people…people that are comfortable in their own skin…mannered, polite…never make something so personal as dying a public deal like this. They would be embarrassed at the suggestion of announcing this.
When it was “announced”, my thought was…Johnny, what in the fuck makes you think anyone gives a rat’s ass about this? Good, decent people do this everyday without grandstanding.
I, too, have an announcement to make. I am also going to quit surviving.. someday.. I mean eventually. Thought y’all should know so you can get #inspired early.
…decent people do this everyday without grandstanding.
Then again, there was nothing decent about that creep, ever! And there is nothing decent about his family. Horse apples, all of them.
Cindy McCain would just be another Murkowski for the next two years and, possibly, beyond, voting out of bitterness over perceived grievances committed by the Republican Party against a family member (McCain’s husband, Murkowski’s father). Lets hope the state funeral is a sign that Trump worked out a deal to prevent Mrs. McCain from taking that seat.
Don’t count on it. I voted for Trump, but have no illusions about the orange puppet. He is all too willing to dip his toes in the swamp, which he views as a hot tub rather than a vile sewer which it is. Actually, that’s an insult to the smell of a sewer.
There is always another parasitic zombie with ink (or is it arsenic) in his veins to take his place. To “serve” the public, is apparently the same as the T.Z. episode “To Serve Man”, for dinner, that is. The flesh-eating zombies don’t look like the ones in the movies. They CAN be found, however, in every legislature, local, state, federal, etc., and branch of “public service”, life-sucking sub-humans who proclaim themselves leaders and protectors of society. No better than tapeworms, these parasites have eaten the heart and soul out of our social structure and our economy. This is just one less parasite from a host of thousands that still feed on the productive members of society, good riddance, and may there be more to follow!