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John McCain was an honorable man and a war hero. Even though Trump disagrees.

New book reveals that Donald Trump refused to lower the flags to half-mast to honor John McCain’s death until John Kelly warned him that “when you die, the public will come to your grave and piss on it” if he didn’t lower the flags.

I keep forgetting that Trump likes veterans "that weren't captured".
Vin53 · M
*Whew* That last sentence I thought you were going to say "..forgetting that trump likes to get pissed on."
@Vin53 What...he's here?
Vin53 · M
Its not hyperbolic to state that this may narrowly make it on the 100 Most Heinous Acts of potus 45 list.
Doomflower · 36-40, M
Joke's on Kelly, the public is still going to be making his grave into a urinal anyway.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
I remember saying to my brother when Obama and McCain got the nominations in 2008, "for the first time in my life I can't lose in a Presidential election, or have to settle for the least objectionable candidate". My brother, who had actively campaigned for Perot in his run against Clinton and Bush (and felt betrayed by Perot when he took a hiatus in mid campaign), said "how do you think I feel?" And perhaps that partially explains the tremendous backlash against Obama and the fertile ground for Trumpism .
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
@dancingtongue i didn't like mccain's policies as i generally don't like republican policies. But I felt free to express myself and vote third party. I would have been disappointed if mccain had won, but I was not afraid of him winning.

Seems the republican party has begun kicking out anybody I might say that about though. Very hard to be a moderate there right now.
@dancingtongue
I can't believe it was all racist.
The biggest facet of it provably was. The "birther" issue would’ve never come up, otherwise.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@bijouxbroussard I have no doubt that racism was the major factor. It is the magnitude that surprised me. But then, again, it was like a second wave coming after the perplexing backlash against the Clinton presidency when he actually was achieving some of their stated goals in balancing the budget and reducing the budget (and what they did finally impeach him on pales to the sexual escapades and hush money spread by Trump). But then, that Hillary actually ran against Trump, was like a third wave: Misogyny is not far behind racism when it comes to roiling the political waters.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
Wow. An intelligent politics post on this site. Well done. I am mostly in agreement here. Personally, I think Trump is a reaction to a whole bunch of inevitable economic and social changes that happened late 1990s and early 2000s. The "Trump Voters" (formerly Tea Party) saw the world and norms they grew up with slipping away, and blamed those in government for that change (or at least for not stopping it). Obama's skin color (and his name sounding like Osama, plus mixed race heritage) was a visualization of all this inevitable change embodied in one person.

Trump talks to those people, who want the America of the 1980s again, when it was more accepted that white, English speaking Christians were in charge.
@trollslayer I mostly agree, but the elephant curve has hit the US middle class pretty hard.

Also, the Republicans want to return to the 1950s, not the 1980s.
People will do that anyway.
Wiseacre · F
Why did he get a star?@LeopoldBloom
@Wiseacre For his role in "The Apprentice." He's technically an actor.
Wiseacre · F
Yeah, that’s true for all psychopaths!@LeopoldBloom
It figures that someone had to suggest how it might affect him before Trump changed his mind. It’s not like he had a sense of decency Kelly could appeal to.
ididntknow · 51-55, M
John McCain was a warmonger
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@ididntknow


I voted for Hillary in the primary. I voted for McCain in the general. I campaigned for Hillary in the primary, campaigned for McCain in the general. Would have been pleased had either won in 2008. And our country would be better off had either of them won.

McCain believed in American exceptionalism, as do I.


We are asleep in our echo chambers, where our views are always affirmed and information that contradicts them is always fake. We are asleep in our polarized politics, which exaggerates our differences, looks for scapegoats instead of answers, and insists we get all our way all the time from a system of government based on compromise, principled cooperation and restraint. It’s time to wake up.

- Sen. John McCain, speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in 2017.
ididntknow · 51-55, M
@beckyromero anyone that voted for Hillary, must be fast asleep
beckyromero · 36-40, F
HEROES that weren't captured, I believe.

Yes, he was & is an ass.
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General bone spurs.
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trollslayer · 46-50, M
@TrashCat For real? Yikes. Doesn't get much more slimy than that.
TrashCat · M
@trollslayer yep...the email with stipulations is presented for your inspection.

 
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