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John McCain’s Funeral Was a Council of War—Just as He Meant It to Be
Esquire ^ | September 1, 2018 | Charles P Pierce

Posted on 09/01/2018 5:54:27 PM PDT by ResistorSister

...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...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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 247mccainonfr; funeral; kennedtbuttlicker; kennedybuttlicker; kennedybuttlucker; mccain
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To: ResistorSister

Who cares? The important thing is, he’s dead. There will be a few sputters and such for a while, engineered by this evil vindictive traitor, but eventually they will burn out like a used sparkler.


21 posted on 09/01/2018 6:08:17 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: ResistorSister

Burn, Baby, Burn !!!


22 posted on 09/01/2018 6:08:36 PM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: marktwain

“...McCain was egotistical, power mad, vengeful, bitter, and vindictive....”

And he was a very poor loser. And all these political opportunists have been milking his hate for Trump....which if it was not there, none of this would be happening. We would have already returned to the major fraud of Russia by now.

Again the Deep State shows its hand. They know it and they do not care. So far, ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY.


23 posted on 09/01/2018 6:10:43 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: ResistorSister

Wonder how much this display of the nation’s losers cost the US taxpayers? Animal Farm theater. ‘lord’ McCain’s remains should be dumped in an ISIL dump.


24 posted on 09/01/2018 6:12:08 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: ResistorSister
How many people were present at all the memorials and the funeral?

Then take the number of people who were either forced to watch it and got mad or did not tune in.

I reckon the second number is way larger, so that will make for a very lopsided war.

25 posted on 09/01/2018 6:12:16 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: ResistorSister

Charles P. Pierce is so infested with TDS, he belongs on CNN.


26 posted on 09/01/2018 6:13:34 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: Slyfox
I reckon the second number is way larger, so that will make for a very lopsided war.

This is why the Left is so insane about political power. They would use it to destroy those they disagree with. They cannot do that without controlling the government.

27 posted on 09/01/2018 6:14:32 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: ResistorSister

Ex presidents who should be working in Walmart as greeters... wait. Anyway, McCain is conjuring spirits of the political dispossessed thinking that he is now one and they will reek havoc on Trump. The problem with Bush and Obama is their time has come and gone... they mean nothing in the court of opinion. Even the opinion crafters, the jesters and TV anchors mean nothing in the court of opinions. It is all a waste of Democrat money that could have been spent on the poor and the real dispossessed that wander the street without jobs and a future. Trump is putting all these presidents to shame by actually getting things done.

The ex presidents can only suggest — their power is feeble and their ideas overblown and exaggerated. They mean nothing because they have nothing to offer. They are to be greeters of the NEW WORLD ORDER but they now work for Walmart. Too bad, so sad.


28 posted on 09/01/2018 6:15:10 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: ResistorSister
president* . . . administration*

They really do want to annul the Trump Presidency. They don't merely want him removed from office in a kangaroo court; they want everything he has done wipe from the books, including judicial appointments and any laws they don't like. I dreamed when Trump won on Election Day that we might yet avoid a second civil war. As time goes on, I am realizing how foolishly optimistic I was. This is going to get very ugly, and I pray that all decent Americans will be ready.

29 posted on 09/01/2018 6:15:12 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ResistorSister

Bizarre funeral service as well... I’ve never seen anything like it in history. Using a funeral as a platform to criticize your opponent is truly distasteful and disgusting.

The gnashing of teeth during a funeral service. How pathetic!


30 posted on 09/01/2018 6:16:08 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ResistorSister

The thing that’s alarming is that there are people as unhinged as the author walking around loose.

The hate is palpable.


31 posted on 09/01/2018 6:18:02 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: wmileo

Absolutely!


32 posted on 09/01/2018 6:20:39 PM PDT by ResistorSister (Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. I Cor. 16:13)
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To: ResistorSister

McCain lost to.....Obama.


33 posted on 09/01/2018 6:20:39 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: ResistorSister

Well, two as can play that game. Keep poking the blue collar workers, hillbillies, rednecks and hardhats. See where that leads.


34 posted on 09/01/2018 6:21:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Pollster1

It’s beginning to look like Election Day 2016 was just the beginning of the Second Civil War.


35 posted on 09/01/2018 6:21:23 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: ResistorSister

More like The Walking Dead.... which I have never watched BTW.


36 posted on 09/01/2018 6:21:29 PM PDT by MomwithHope
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To: ResistorSister

Yes, bizarre, but intriguing. If true, McCain just suffered another loss.


37 posted on 09/01/2018 6:21:38 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: ResistorSister
He wanted a pageant of everything this administration* has trashed and put up for sale, and that's what he got Saturday

That's cute, but the little shitstain is still dead.

38 posted on 09/01/2018 6:21:46 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ResistorSister

This guy is doing a Monica Lewinsky on John McCain.


39 posted on 09/01/2018 6:23:05 PM PDT by McGruff (No Mas!)
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To: elcid1970

Maybe because it’s Esquire.


40 posted on 09/01/2018 6:23:06 PM PDT by JennysCool
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