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[SpecX]

Even on his death bed this man chooses party first.

 

[ScottSullivan]

I'm sure this has been mentioned, but the brain cancer probably explains the random run on sentence from the comey testimony last month...

 

[SparkleMotion]

I've always respected McCain even if I didn't always agree with him. He never seemed petty...



... like this guy

Easy Stance Alert.

 

[uncredited male]

I can see him laying in his deathbed, eyes about to close for the last time and a smile crosses his face, "I did it. I fucked them all."

One last middle finger to the future.

 

[fauxtrot]

I've always respected McCain even if I didn't always agree with him. He never seemed petty...



... like this guy

You realize you're talking about the John McCain that sang, at a campaign stop while running for president, a parody version of a Beach Boys song with "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" as its only lyrics, right? The guy who unleashed Sarah Palin onto the national stage? The guy who wants to ensure thousands and thousands of preventable deaths by taking away Americans' health insurance while he is being treated using insurance that the government provides to him for free? My statement may have been blunt, or tacky, or classless, but it is NOTHING compared to the things he has said and done during his career as a politician.

 

[Big Baybee]

Burgess Everett @burgessev

Cornyn says they are trying to get doctor approval for McCain to come back tomorrow for healthcare vote (!)


That would be something if he comes back to vote to repeal Obamacare.

Yea, guess he still doesn't give a fuck about anyone else but himself. Dude is about to potentially kill himself just to get a chance to vote to fuck over millions of people.

 

[LucidMomentum]

The man has brain cancer, trouble forming coherent sentences, and people are still trying to make him vote on this?

Man the GOP just don't care, do they?

 

[crisdecuba]

My statement may have been blunt, or tacky, or classless, but it is NOTHING compared to the things he has said and done during his career as a politician.

I agree with your assessment of McCain. Your comment wasn't any of the things you mentioned as much as it was callous, cold, or indifferent to human life. We ought not go there, even in response to other people who are callous toward human suffering as McCain was with regards to his policies.

 

[Lil'DigiOp]

Why the fuck is this man voting on ANYTHING with brain cancer......

You should be removed from office with such a condition. he's not in a state to make decisions....

 

[norm9]

I agree with your assessment of McCain. Your comment wasn't any of the things you mentioned as much as it was callous, cold, or indifferent to human life. We ought not go there, even in response to other people who are callous toward human suffering as McCain was with regards to his policies.

Fuck John McCain. He's used up his POW points. He owes the American people an apology for being a spineless piece of shit that will leave the country worse off than when he started.

 

[Autodidact]

I agree with your assessment of McCain. Your comment wasn't any of the things you mentioned as much as it was callous, cold, or indifferent to human life. We ought not go there, even in response to other people who are callous toward human suffering as McCain was with regards to his policies.

Quoting a brilliant yet underappreciated post I made in the other McCain thread to respond to your Compassionate Moderate ass:

"Give him a chance!" you cry. "For there exists good in even the blackest heart, and I have witnessed it with mine own eyes. Once, as a child lay dying on the street [because of the health care bill for which McCain voted], he happened upon its wretched, writhing form and stopped. Reaching into his pocket, he produced a silver coin and flicked it onto the waif's heaving, laboring chest.

"As he strode away, he uttered words tinged with such grace and kindness that I knew him to be not of this mortal plane: 'Start yourself a health-savings account, kid. Bah humbug.'

"The child, gratified by the generosity of his betters, alighted to heaven the free market. His family considered using the silver coin to pay for a burial, but they instead opted for a Christmas goose, as their exorbitant premiums had forced them to endure a period of prolonged fasting and chimney sweeping.

"God bless us, everyone - and God especially bless the misunderstood moderates who mask their loving humanity with a convincing display of cruelty and selfishness...

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Tacky.

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And please don't make the Compassionate Moderates come back. Their fingers stay ready to be wagged.

 

[whytemyke]

Tacky.

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And please don't make the Compassionate Moderates come back. Their fingers stay ready to be wagged.

Yeah. Lets keep them away. The rest of the left is clearly doing great without them.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Quoting a brilliant yet underappreciated post I made in the other McCain thread to respond to your Compassionate Moderate ass:

Calling your own posts brilliant and underappreciated.

 

[Lois_Lane]

Yeah. Lets keep them away. The rest of the left is clearly doing great without them.

I mean we went your route and America said fuck you so. . .

Edit:

I mean the phrase "when they go low we go high" legits triggers me on a visceral level. My mind goes straight back to Nov. 8 and I want to hurl.

 

[whytemyke]

I mean we went your route and America said fuck you so. . .

Meh. Ok lol.

I mean I disagree completely but this isn't the thread for that conversation so I'll shut up I guess.

 

[Autodidact]

Calling your own posts brilliant and underappreciated.

How can you not appreciate my simultaneously serving you Dickensian realness and snarkily lambasting those people who'll rush to praise piece of shit just to show how broad-minded and wonderful they are?

I put work into this goddammit.

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I also love irony.

 

[Iolo]

Burgess Everett @burgessev

Cornyn says they are trying to get doctor approval for McCain to come back tomorrow for healthcare vote (!)


That would be something if he comes back to vote to repeal Obamacare.

I wonder if "they" is John McCain and family, or just panicking Republicans repeatedly calling the hospital.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

How can you not appreciate my simultaneously serving you Dickensian realness and snarkily lambasting those people who'll rush to praise piece of shit just to show how broad-minded and wonderful they are?

I put work into this goddammit.

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I also love irony.

I think if it added value to the conversation it would be different. Or if it was funny.

 

[TumblingHippo]

I hope he doesn't make it.
To the vote, I mean.

 

[everyday math]

He's coming back

BREAKING: SENATOR JOHN McCAIN TO RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE TOMORROW

 

[jmdajr]

He's coming back

What a hero! And by hero I mean Terminator.

From part 1.

"Listen. Understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop.Ever. Until you are dead."

 

[crisdecuba]

Fuck John McCain. He's used up his POW points. He owes the American people an apology for being a spineless piece of shit that will leave the country worse off than when he started.

I agree with all of this, AND I believe what I said in the post you replied to.

 

[crisdecuba]

Quoting a brilliant yet underappreciated post I made in the other McCain thread to respond to your Compassionate Moderate ass:

Not sure how this addresses me at all. You think I'm a moderate? You think I praise McCain? Pshaw! Good day, sir.

 

[Sweeney Tom]

In light of his just-in mavericky vote, I regret no post I made in this thread or the "lack of sympathy" I and others had, and in fact double down on All Of It.

 

[FunkyMunkey]

too bad the old fuck didn't drop dead on his way to the vote. guy has become an actual human piece of shit in his later years

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Ah yes how's the ol war hero maverick turning out for those super worried about people calling him a piece shit

 

[gutter_trash]

Receives Medical Care... then goes off " Fuck You Got Mine"

Republicans in a nutshell

 

[jmdajr]

Wonder if the brain tumor has killed the part of the brain that has empathy. It's just unconscionable, .

 

[Melkezadek]

Honestly, just reading the thread title took my breath away.

Horrible news. I can't say I'm optimistic about a recovery from this, but I do hope he lives out his days with as little pain as possible. Best wishes to him and his family.

You're a naive baby back little bitch.

Go to hell, McCain.

 

[Hindl]

I now await the response from all the people crying to show McCain compassion and empathy for his sickness after he voted to move the bill forward

 

[Mammoth Jones]

You're naive baby back little bitch.

 

[FinaruDensetsu]

I now await the response from all the people crying to show McCain compassion and empathy for his sickness after he voted to move the bill forward

Why would you expect them to say anything different? Doesn't matter what you do, if you get terminal cancer it absolves everything.

If Trump wants his approval ratings to shoot up immediately, cancer would be a quick and effective solution.

 

[platocplx]

Fuck John McCain. That is all.

 

[Lesath]

I'm somewhat glad we'll all die someday, because as tragic as it is that death takes the good and the gentle from us, it also takes from us the evil and the reprehensible.

 

[Azuran]

I hope McCain drops dead tonight. I guess we were too kind to that evil and hypocritical motherfucker in this thread.

Hero my ass.

 

[Steel]

McCain is spitting fire and saying he won't vote for any bill that isn't bipartisan and wants to return to regular order.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

McCain is spitting fire and saying he won't vote for any bill that isn't bipartisan and wants to return to regular order.

Yea. I'm finding it hard to disagree with that general premise. Whatever gets done needs to be bipartisan. Shit is broken as it is now.

 

[JustenP88]

You're naive baby back little bitch.

Go to hell, McCain.

LMAO, I too regret the knee-jerk empathy I had upon hearing this news.

I'll save that for when bad things happen to good people.

McCain is spitting fire and saying he won't vote for any bill that isn't bipartisan and wants to return to regular order.

I feel like we've been down this road before.

 

[shadow_shogun]

You're naive baby back little bitch.

Go to hell, McCain.

Since when do we allow this sort of abuse on GAF? Hope you get banned!

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[ahoyhoy]

McCain is spitting fire and saying he won't vote for any bill that isn't bipartisan and wants to return to regular order.

Why vote to debate a bill that not one Democrat supports?

Why Mr Maverick?

Whyyyyyyy

 

[Jackpot]

I've always respected McCain even if I didn't always agree with him. He never seemed petty...

Then you didn't see his performance after US Generals told him allowing LGBT members to serve in the military would be fine.

 

[Dartastic]

Yea. I'm finding it hard to disagree with that general premise. Whatever gets done needs to be bipartisan. Shit is broken as it is now.

Maybe then he should have voted no and gotten norms to be respected then instead of allowing whatever THIS is to proceed. Fuck John McCain.

 

[CitizenCope]

This isn't the worst speech.

 

[platocplx]

McCain is spitting fire and saying he won't vote for any bill that isn't bipartisan and wants to return to regular order.

He could have voted no and said why after. Why vote yes??

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Maybe then he should have voted no and gotten norms to be respected then instead of allowing whatever THIS is to proceed. Fuck John McCain.

That's one way to look at it. I do agree this shouldn't go anywhere and Dems and Repubs need to fix the system that exists.

I don't agree with dumping people off healthcare. It needs to be a right. We need to figure out our way to pay for it properly. Personally I'd prefer single payer.

Honestly I never cared for the guy, but it still sucks to hear about his current situation with Brain Cancer. Also it is commendable that he decides to continue to work in spite of his current situation as well.

With all that said, the man has been long overdue in terms of retirement, and you'd think that with this current circumstance that he would want to step down and enjoy what time he has left. He is a good man in his own rights depending no what you want to discuss, but he does need to retire.

I completely agree with this.

 

[Steel]

Why vote to debate a bill that not one Democrat supports?

Why Mr Maverick?

Whyyyyyyy

He could have voted no and said why after. Why vote yes??

There's an argument to be made that the motion to proceed needed to go through for the bill to finally go up in flames and return to regular order.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

This isn't the worst speech.

It sure as fuck is after what he just did.

 

[mas8705]

Honestly I never cared for the guy, but it still sucks to hear about his current situation with Brain Cancer. Also it is commendable that he decides to continue to work in spite of his current situation as well.

With all that said, the man has been long overdue in terms of retirement, and you'd think that with this current circumstance that he would want to step down and enjoy what time he has left. He is a good man in his own rights depending no what you want to discuss, but he does need to retire.

 

[ERotIC]

Since when do we allow this sort of abuse on GAF? Hope you get banned!

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It's really baffling what is and isn't considered bannable here.