John McCain, de-hagiographied on Twitter

Now that the embalmed carcass of John McCain, the Schmuck Talk Express, is most of the way through a posthumous Roman triumph that would have made Marius, Julius Caesar and Pompey blush, with #TheResistance participating fiercely in what one non-member Twitterer called nothing more than a subtweet to Trump, let us indeed turn to Twitter to remember our Wrecker of Airplanes, Monger of Wars, Bomber of Civilians, Hater of Gays in Wedlock (despite his own lack of marital sanctity), Racist toward Middle Easterners and various other things.

First, though, let me remind that #TheResistance team of one thing — that John McCain earned indeed every one of those titles. And yet, in my friends of friends circles and observations, has been Twitter-deified more than anybody since ActualFlatticus.

And with that, off to Twitter! In no particular order, but mainly focused on the DC divinizing demagoguery, here we go, while noting I have a related poll, in case it doesn't embed:

Time for a second poll of the day!#TheResistance is as black-and-white, and as stereotypical, in its thinking about BOTH domestic politics and foreign relations as is the #TrumpTrain.

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

Second, and having Tweeted along these lines more than once, the inside-the-Beltway stenos are responsible for much of this:

Ah, Chris, that's why the Peter Principle runs more rampant in the media than in almost any other profession in America. The inside-the-Beltway stenos are ushers at the #McCainMemorial and #McCainFuneral https://t.co/r3bzPLIVH6

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

Speaking of, this is probably being eyed as a gravy train by said stenos, #TheResistance, or both:

Ed, wait til this entire #McCainMemorial comes out in book form. Somebody from #TheResistance will offer it up for, oh, about $39.95 #snark! https://t.co/1vp1QKQ5aa

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

And, let's throw a particular member of said group under the bus. I've seen her retweeted a lot. Especially after actually looking through her feed, gad she's overrated:

I had no idea until reading through her Twitter feed that that RVAWonk (subtweet) is that nutbar member of #TheResistance. Saluting BOTH John McCain and the White Helmets is Grade A cluelessness. Doing both in 12 hours is heavy shit.

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

It's disgusting enough #TheResistance is turd-polishing John Sidney McCain III. Even worse is the butt-kissing of George Shrub Bush. The necromancing of the Prince of the Living Undead, though, by #TheResistance is simply beyond the pale:

I had no idea until reading through her Twitter feed that that RVAWonk (subtweet) is that nutbar member of #TheResistance. Saluting BOTH John McCain and the White Helmets is Grade A cluelessness. Doing both in 12 hours is heavy shit.

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

Of course, some members of that team have been long-time professional Democrats:

Joe Lieberman tells John McCain mourners at the #McCainMemorial that McCain will indeed get one ardent desire of his fulfilled. He will be cremated and his ashes will be dropped on Tehran to "bomb, bomb Iran."
Mullah over that!

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

That said, shouldn't John Sidney prove, at least to his heiress widow Cindy, that he is in fact now divine, ruling with the other Caesars?

It's been at least three days, right? I am waiting for John McCain to rise from the dead and turn water into Budweiser for Hensley & Co.

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) September 1, 2018

Don't forget that the DC hagiography had a warm-up act back in Phoenix.

I didn't forget on Twitter, after all, using the chance to throw others under the bus. Like JoePa Biden:

My name's Joe Biden.

"I'm a Democrat.

"And I love John McCain."

"And I also love driving you into credit-card induced bankruptcy, then making it harder for you to get out."

"That's a big fucking deal, isn't it?" https://t.co/01nCmr0STG

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 30, 2018

And Westboro Baptist Church:

Hey, did Westboro Baptist show up at North Phoenix Baptist Church for the John McCain funeral?

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 30, 2018

And, yes, that is throwing them under the bus, for apparently being too chicken to extend their level of tasteless out here. After all, Sidney did eventually mellow enough on his anti-gay marriage stance that he should have been a target.

Even before the funeral, of course, the Schmuck Talk Express was lauded as a human rights advocate. Setting aside all the ways I listed up top that he was not a human rights advocate within the US of A, let's look elsewhere.

Like India:

John McCain, friend of Hindu fundamentalists. Human rights supporter, really? https://t.co/9Ftr0iDCvR

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 30, 2018

Famous literati needed to be reminded of this, of course:

.@StephenKing That was the same McCain who, five years after the 2008 campaign, called non-Arab Iranian President Ahmadinejad a "monkey." And, would probably have tried to declare war on Iran if elected. https://t.co/4nMC0uZiwu

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 26, 2018

And lover of the human rights of Ukrainian neo-Nazis he was pictured with:

Wow just holy shit, America.  https://t.co/HUJSLTDL1I

— Kamala Harris is a Cop (@BethLynch2020) August 28, 2018

And remembering further his valiant support for domestic human rights:

What McCain did in 2008 was ugly and wrong. In a live debate, he presented a racist conspiracy theory in which Barack Obama and ACORN were conniving to steal the election and defraud American democracy.

— Zach Carter (@zachdcarter) August 26, 2018

In which Dear Leader, #TheResistance popular vote president emeritus, ultimately joined:

Zack is right about this portion of the racially sleazy legacy of John McCain, on ACORN, on lies vs truth on subprime mortgages, more. At the same time, let us also note that Dear Leader folded his own cards on ACORN when confronted like this, just as he did on Shirley Sherrod. https://t.co/UJRl3VmOwD

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 26, 2018

And with that, let's just tack back to throwing #TheResistance further underneath the wheels of the Schmuck Talk Express:

Hmm, maybe this is WHY #TheResistance is so fond of the War Talk Express, John McCain. https://t.co/WC58n0hkp0

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 27, 2018

And here, via retweet, as I had nothing to add:

I just knew someone would fulfill my prediction of ultimate #Russiagate stupidity

You can always find real nuts on every end of the spectrum no matter what issue pic.twitter.com/fLU8gaZoxN

— Winkle the BernieBro🌹 (@the_bernie_bro) August 28, 2018

And back to the Beltway stenos for good measure:

You know one other good thing about John McCain passing? The inside the Beltway stenographers are being further exposed for their lack of credibility as they suck up to his memory with packs of lies and legends. https://t.co/4nMC0uZiwu

— @realDonaldTrump  🌻 (@SocraticGadfly) August 26, 2018

Had enough? Well, you should be sick of #TheResistance and #TheBeltwayStenos, not me. Besides, I didn't even mention Meghan McCain or Sarah Palin, among others.

If you haven't had enough, follow my blog, follow me on Twitter, or both.

RIP John McCain

John McCain first freely exercised his great American democracy freedom at birth, when he freely chose to be born the son and grandson of US Navy admirals.

John McCain later chose his freedom to prove he was not a copycat clone of his father and grandfather as a military man by freelywrecking multiple US Navy aircraft. Part of exercising that freedom was not learning how to fly better as the son and grandson of admirals, knowing that he didn’t have to fly better, and take "fly better," "fly straight," and "fly right" however you want.

As for his serving his country, the flyboy playboy freely chose to stay in the military, as he didn't have the courage to leave before he got shot down, even though he didn't want to stay in. Resign your commission.

John McCain later exercised his democratic freedom by freely choosing to leave Hanoi, North Vietnam ahead of his Navy comrades, despite being the son and grandson of admirals.

John McCain then exercised his great American freedom to choose his personal life as a heterosexual straight male by freely divorcing his wife.

John McCain continued to exercise this freedom throughout an illustrious democratic Congressional career.

He freely chose to accept money from Charles Keating under the notion it would increase his freedom.

He used his freedom to freely support lies in the name of Greater Democracy as it sought to destroy people resisting its bounteous good, even at the point of war.

He used his freedom to freely support leaving the heartbroken country of Georgia at the altar of NATO bridehood after promising he would respect its democratic valor against the Great Satan of Russia.

He then, in 2008, used his freedom to engage in tokenist faux-feminism by naming Sarah Palin his vice-presidential candidate.

After that, he unselfishly loved Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

He finally accepted the Normalization Freedom Prize from Fred Hiatt for services above and beyond the call of duty.

Fortunately, I had accumulated notes on a Word document for a few months for most the material above.

But, many members of #TheResistance will say, but he was such a decent man. 

Bullshit.

Beyond all the above, he supported government shutdowns, supported not voting on an Obama Supreme Court nominee and other things. The Straight Talk Express of the 2000 campaign was a schtick; already then, he was the Schmuck Talk Express™ and looked "straight" only because he was running against Shrub Bush.

Don't forget that in 2008, he didn't want to deal with the financial crisis. And, he said we should never talk diplomatically with countries that are alleged terrorist supporters. He never would have negotiated Obama's Iran deal. Nor would he, despite his famous visit to Vietnam, have been likely to loosen things up with Cuba.

And, no, he was NOT the "maverick of the Senate." I don't think the Senate has had a real maverick since Wayne Morse. Hell, the Arizona Republic, in its news obit, said, re his Senate time, that he "never was an outsider."

Some people might point to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation as an example of something good that he did. Yeah, but ... did McCain ever utter a word against Citizens United after it gutted what the Supreme Court hadn't previously directly gutted?

Bottom line is that, above all else, McCain was a warmonger. Never forget.

As for his cancer, he didn't vote to save Obamacare; he just voted to delay its execution to try to do it in a more orderly fashion. He never uttered a peep as Trump undercut parts of it (and showed why we need a single-payer system).

Also, let's not forget that he was not enlightened on racial issues. Contra one centrist type on Twitter, if he DID evolve, he evolved from a LOW starting point. And, any evolution was very late, given he was making racist comments just five years ago. (Add in his part in the ACORN scandal, and finding out that Obama could be pushed around on this.) Putting him in the same breath on this as Abraham Lincoln is Grade-A horseshit.

Otherwise, look at his stances on other issues, per Wiki. Patriot Act supporter. Snooping on America supporter. Gun nut. Opposed most gay rights. War on Drugs cold warrior. He did support immigration rights, but, as part of a lever of not making many jobs that immigrants take both safer and better-paying for American citizens.

As for McCain's media fellators, the inside-the-Beltway stenos who have now made themselves even less trustworthy than before? If you didn't write your dreck, people like me might not write this.

And, I tackled the whole McCain funeral deification with a stream of tweets, put into a blog post here.

Update: The Schmuck Talk also had a hand in spreading elements of the Steele dossier. New releases from a lawsuit against Buzzfeed over the dossier, which make clear this was a bipartisan Never Trumper effect, are here.

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Per DeSmog Blog, as for "service to his country," his attempt to pass a climate bill nearly 20 years ago was of more service than bombing Vietnam or mongering other wars.

Is there a McCain gene for petulance?Mc

Joe McCain’s “don’t you know who I am”traffic call to northern Virginia 911 should make use question even more his brother’s mental stability as well as his own. (Voicemail of call here.

Joe, actually, you forgot that you were in communist northern Virginia. “They” know who you were; “they” deliberately snarled traffic. And now, you’ve surrendered to them.

Cindy-Laura Prozac and Claymation makeup questions

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Cindy McCain ‘nonexistent’ half-sister voting Obama

Kathleen Hensley Portalski is pulling the Obama lever. So is her son Nathan, who says:

“I wouldn't vote for John McCain if he was a Democrat I would not vote at all before I'd vote for him.

I question whether Cindy is someone I’d want to see in the White House as first lady.”

Well, I guess YOU won’t be invited to any of Uncle John and Aunt Cindy’s seven houses.

Cindy McCain – drug dealer

That’s the argument of a pot-legalization group, arguing the Budweiser Cindy McCain peddles through her beer distributorship is far worse. (Photo by Raw Story.)

The only question I have is the reward amount. Is there some significance to $420?

Cindy McCain — ‘Preserved in aspic’

That’s the best line yet about Cindy McCain.

I call women like that “claymation women” myself, from the amount of makeup they slather on.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Mitchell is right, on Hardball, then the reason he's "out of it" is most likely the age issue.

Now, unlike McCain raising issues directly against Obama, which Joe Klein noted was strategically stupid, Obama (should he raise this issue) would surely have the brains to do it through surrogates.

Question is.... since oldsters have a high voter turnout AND since Florida is a big swing state... do you raise it? If so, how gingerly?

Schmuck Talk Express™ might be ‘projecting’ his own urges

Why is Schmuck Talk McCain linking Britney Spears and Paris Hilton to Barack Obama?

It’s called “projection.”

Cindy McCain’s getting old.

Britney, and especially Paris, have even more money than her.

It’s a no-brainer!

Cindy McCain makes out like a bandit on Bud-InBev deal

I joked about this yesterday in comments to a post at Washington Monthly, but it’s the real deal!

John McCain’s wife owns $2.5-5 million of A-B stock in addition to being heir to the nation’s third-largest Budweiser distributorship.

The stock has gained almost 50 percent from a February low of $47 to $67 Monday, with InBev’s final offer of $70. So, if Cindy McCain owned “just” $2.5 mil, she just cleared a cool $800,000. If her holdings are at the top of that range, she just gained $1.6 million.

Meanwhile, can Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill get off the wahhmbulance over the deal? It’s not primarily a weak dollar. It’s an underperforming company with crony capitalism management.

Beyond that, get off the hypocrisy of both dollar patriotism, and political exploitation.

Cindy McCain, rich bitch? Barack Obama, at the government teat?

How do “ordinary small-town Republicans” relate to the potential future First Lady melting her American Express to the tune of $150,000?

At the same time, for everybody sniping about Schmuck Talk Express™ getting 58 large a year from the U.S. Navy as a pension, the 25-year-younger Obama is already drawing $50K or more as an Illinois pension for a few years of part-time work as a state senator.

So, watch which way those fingers are pointing, Democrats.

Speaking of disclosing political tax returns …

When are we going to get to see John McCain’s tax returns? And, prenuptial agreements aside, when are we going to get to see Cindy McCain’s tax returns?

Pre-nup aside, as the article notes, she and her family made plenty of contributions to Schmuck Talk Express™ in his first Congressional campaign — so much that the Federal Election Commission made him give some back. For Schmuck Talk to glibly wave the pre-nup in the air as an alleged sign he’s free of money influence-buying, the claim he made during the Keating Five scandal, is bullshit.