Amazing that she is alive, but that is the worst thing in this world, for parents to outlive their children.
He is much worse than a toddler.
In my mind I'm 17, but my body feels like it's 71./r/quityourbullshit
i've met you. you're 17,
My dad's not religious at all.Both my parents do. Smart, well-educated and traveled, decent, kind people in almost all aspects. Except... somewhere along the way they mixed up their religious and political beliefs, corrupting both at the same time. They’ve never really recovered, as they have to fall in line with the right wing party line no matter what because it is so inextricably bound up with their religious beliefs that they’d sooner twist their religious beliefs to fit their politics than vice versa. And they consider themselves to be deeply religious people.
My dad's not religious at all.
Honestly? It's Fox News and conservative talk radio. That's what did it, and I would venture to guess did it for a lot of people in my dad's she bracket.
So McCain died and there was a mass shooting today yet the POS of the United States tweets about his approval ratings and mentions he is our favourite president. You can’t make this stuff up!
And now even his jailer in Vietnam has kinder words than the president of the United States. Pathetic.Washington Post is reporting that Trump rejected a WH plan to put out a statement praising John McCain. What a surprise.
This guy sucks.Omg, the flag at the White House has already been raised. It's traditionally kept lowered until after burial.
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I've already had somebody point out to me that the only thing that's required is 24 hours - as if somehow John McCain is worthy of the bare minimum.And the GOP will say nothing. Trump attacks one of their own, a war hero, and for a while the face of their party.
All this over some petty feelings
I dunno. Easy to praise McCain or Bush or whatever or whoever (count me out on Reagan). I don’t even remotely like them as politicians, but it’s sort of akin to being a good sport. McCain had some awful initiatives and views, but he played by the rules and committed to our system and generally honored truths. I think there is due respect for anyone like that, especially given current times.
that's a lovely, idealistic notion and one that i would have probably agreed with only a few years ago. take the high road and all. if you show respect and courtesy you can expect the same in return, etc.
but let's imagine if he was the same guy but had a D next to his name instead of an R - you and i and all of us here know for a fact that everyone to the right of obama would already be dancing and shitting on his grave. they wouldn't be expressing anything close to due respect, they'd be *celebrating*. they would already have candidates lined up ready to try to take his seat at the first opportunity. there would be nothing respectful about it - it would just be a political opportunity there to be seized. they're already using it that way, as i've read already that right-wing politicians bitching about the democrats and how they're not being "respectful" of a war hero while completely ignoring that their dipshit-in-chief is the worst offender of all in that regard.
simply put, the GOP would not give a single genuine fuck about john mccain if he were a democrat. it's nice to think that we should give "due respect" but while the democrats are trying to take the high road and avoid pissing anyone off, they are, as usual, convincing no-one and accomplishing fuck-all.
I wasn’t approaching this as taking the high road. I was suggesting, once again, there’s an acceptable type of politician from the fallout of this new age of politics that is welcome in what I imagine and hope to be the “new right” of the future - the current democrats. I accept folks like McCain or Bush, because they do not produce the levels of dysfunctionality, hatred, or bigotry by this new way of doing things (disinformation and hype).
This new Trumpian era hasn’t even scathed its potential. The next term or predecessors of this “movement” have the ability to wreak much more havoc, causing chaos for their own future desired harmony.
Folks like McCain were not about that. They respected the shitty game that they played. And for the political landscape moving forward, I hope those people can stay and represent what I hope is the new right, and a new left emerges out of it. Respect for the system even when you’re not in charge is critical to a thriving system. One would argue that growing obstructionism by Democrats during Bush led to immense obstructionism by repubes during Obama, and folks like Nancy Pelosi also share a responsibility in the tribalism we have to this day. By that thought path, I think anyone who doesn’t partake in that nonsense is honorable in some right.