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Joking about John McCain's death is our terrible new normal
CNN ^ | May 11, 2018 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 05/11/2018 9:36:36 AM PDT by Trump20162020

On Thursday morning, a White House aide named Kelly Sadler joked about Arizona Sen. John McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel by noting that "he's dying anyway."

It was the latest in a series of increasingly nasty comments about McCain: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called it "ridiculous" that McCain wasn't planning to invite President Donald Trump to his funeral while a retired general on Fox News on Thursday referred to a debunked conspiracy theory that McCain had informed on his comrades while a prisoner of war during Vietnam.

There's no disputing the fact that McCain has terminal brain cancer and that he is very unlikely to be around at this time next year. It's also indisputable that McCain is a genuine American hero -- who fought and suffered for his country in the theater of war and had decided the better part of the last four decades of his life to public service as a House member, a senator and a two-time presidential candidate.

That even some part of his final days -- or weeks or months -- is consumed by this sort of garbage is maddening. And depressing. And made even more so by the fact that this is, in fact, the new normal.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cia; ginahaspel; haspel; johnmccain; kellysadler; mccain
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1 posted on 05/11/2018 9:36:36 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

But reveling in Barbara Bush’s death was OK.


2 posted on 05/11/2018 9:38:57 AM PDT by caver
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To: Trump20162020
So, is it offensive to talk about folks lining up with full bladders for post interment activities? 🤔
3 posted on 05/11/2018 9:39:07 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Trump20162020

Death should not be a joke or be political.


4 posted on 05/11/2018 9:39:25 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Trump20162020

I want him dead. I’m not joking.


5 posted on 05/11/2018 9:39:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Trump20162020

Songbird’s death is not a joking matter. It is serious, and the sooner this plague is over the better.


6 posted on 05/11/2018 9:39:58 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Trump20162020

To be civil, we should limit ourselves to joking about Republican presidents dying.


7 posted on 05/11/2018 9:40:12 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: Trump20162020
On Thursday morning, a White House aide named Kelly Sadler joked about Arizona Sen. John McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel by noting that "he's dying anyway."

Was she joking or restating known fact? And frankly, why is McCain not retiring from his seat if he cannot serve?

8 posted on 05/11/2018 9:41:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Trump20162020

It’s not funny when watching someone cover himself with s&^t


9 posted on 05/11/2018 9:41:07 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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p01d

"Were you joking? I can't wait myself."

10 posted on 05/11/2018 9:41:16 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Trump20162020

But joking about Reagan’s Alzheimer’s was always a hoot, right, CNN?


11 posted on 05/11/2018 9:41:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Trump20162020

McCain is being treated the same way he treats others. Big F’n deal.


12 posted on 05/11/2018 9:41:45 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I want him dead. I’m not joking.”

Couldn’t have said it better.


13 posted on 05/11/2018 9:42:14 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: Trump20162020

Ahh.... Chris Cillizza and his fake, selective moral outrage.


14 posted on 05/11/2018 9:42:17 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Snipers wanted (Bush)
Trump’s severed head
Scalise almost killed
Rand Paul beaten
McCain dying: That’s just wrong. You people on the right went too far


15 posted on 05/11/2018 9:43:10 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Trump20162020

Nobody was talking about axxhole McCain until he or his people started it by saying Trump was not invited to his stupid funeral.

Who the fxck does that? He and his idiot family can live with the consequences.

I don’t like it much either but here we are.

Drop dead McCain.


16 posted on 05/11/2018 9:43:15 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Trump20162020

McCain started it. Dissing Palin, trumpeting his part in the dossier


17 posted on 05/11/2018 9:44:28 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: Trump20162020
...unless you're Kathy Griffin.

HYPOCRITES!

18 posted on 05/11/2018 9:45:38 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Trump20162020

Not dead yet.....

Hopefully soon......


19 posted on 05/11/2018 9:46:16 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

+1


20 posted on 05/11/2018 9:46:55 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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