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A funeral for a world that never was
Asia Times ^ | 9-3-18 | Spengler

Posted on 09/04/2018 10:10:47 AM PDT by Romans Nine

Funeral services are not for the benefit of the defunct, who is beyond our praise or condemnation, but for the living, who know before long that they will follow the honored dead into a cold grave.

Senator John McCain’s funeral was the most ostentatious that Washington has accorded except for a president, and much grander than the 2006 funeral of Gerald Ford, for example. The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; funeral; johnmccain; mccain; mccainfuneral; senate; spengler; strawberries

1 posted on 09/04/2018 10:10:47 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Romans Nine

A room full of hypocrites, lacking both a moral compass and a sense of shame.


2 posted on 09/04/2018 10:17:14 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Scooter100

Did your read the article? I promise it is worth your time.


3 posted on 09/04/2018 10:19:22 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Romans Nine
The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.

The "establishment," to which you refer, are those prominent in a contemporary pursuit of fantasy, which is like nothing so much as that captured by Hans Christian Andersen in his classic fable of the Emperor's New Clothes; unless, perhaps, a gaggle of ostriches, with their heads buried deeply in the sands of self inflicted ignorance.

4 posted on 09/04/2018 10:21:28 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Romans Nine

Video of Trump at the funeral...

https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/9cr313/lets_let_trump_have_the_closing_words_on_no_name/


5 posted on 09/04/2018 10:22:23 AM PDT by Beagle8U (A Muse once bit my Sister.)
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To: Romans Nine

Pretty good article. Thanks.

McCain, the establishment, both had funerals...

Adios!


6 posted on 09/04/2018 10:22:26 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Romans Nine

I’m sorry, my statement stands.


7 posted on 09/04/2018 10:27:50 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Romans Nine

The showiness of the funeral is sometimes in inverse proportion to the actual importance of that personage to the sum and flow of history.

John McCain never at any time exerted much power in Washington, except in a negative manner, the power of “No”. Or maybe in deference to McCain’s personality, “Oh, HELL, no!”

By being used as a foil to propel other even more negative views of America, McCain managed to drive down the savings & loan industry in the US (the Keating 5), diminish the power of the First Amendment (the McCain-Feingold campaign “reform” bill), propelling both George W. Bush and later Barack Obama into the Presidency by his own lackluster campaigns each time, never pushing back, and his final apostasy, the failure to repeal Obamacare outright.

There never were “good old days” in the Senate while McCain was there.


8 posted on 09/04/2018 10:32:18 AM PDT by alloysteel ("No" is a complete sentence. On so many levels.)
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To: Romans Nine

‘Trump is hated because the American people elected him to bury the Establishment. Last weekend the Establishment obliged by conducting burial services for itself.’


9 posted on 09/04/2018 10:33:38 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Scooter100

I wasn’t disputing your statement, it was true. I was just wondering if you read the entire article.


10 posted on 09/04/2018 10:35:00 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Romans Nine

Great Article!


11 posted on 09/04/2018 10:37:19 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: Romans Nine

He’s six feet under now and will be forgotten in a month....he will not be back....that’s the important thing to remember!!!


12 posted on 09/04/2018 10:51:11 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Romans Nine; et al

Congratulations democrap libturds, you buried a Rino and your party in one fell swoop.......Bravo


13 posted on 09/04/2018 11:04:53 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: Romans Nine; Liz; SunkenCiv
Trump’s style has been obstreperous and sometimes rowdy, and he eschews the air of regal noblesse oblige that some of his predecessors brought to the Oval Office. But the hatred he elicits from the Establishment has nothing to do with style, or indeed, with any of his shortcomings: Trump is hated because the American people elected him to bury the Establishment. Last weekend the Establishment obliged by conducting burial services for itself.

WOW Whoever ' "Spengler" is - he 'gets' it... Amazing post. Read the whole thing...

14 posted on 09/04/2018 11:13:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (ANYONE asking YOU to be violent is an FBI undercover cop or thug from the SPLC - YOU are warned...)
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To: Romans Nine

McCain’s funeral further exposed the deep state and their smoke and mirrors ways. The adulations that were spewed for three days were a complete fabrication. The emperor had no clothes, but the deep state wanted the peasants to see a lie.


15 posted on 09/04/2018 11:19:25 AM PDT by robel
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To: Romans Nine
Not quite. Funerals may be for the living rather than for the deceased. But the Funeral Mass, and the prayers, are definitely for the deceased.
16 posted on 09/04/2018 11:45:46 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Thailand, 1962 - 1963.)
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To: Romans Nine

The New World Order dreams of the Bush family are what the establishment is mourning.

Trump has given the citizens the chance to keep our country that the establishment had tried mightily to deny US.

Our freedoms and sovereignty are what stand in the way of their vision of that New World Order.

If we do not replace all Bush League Republicans, this will be a brief reprieve.


17 posted on 09/04/2018 11:45:51 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: GOPJ; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ..
The rant-n-ravers at both funerals somehow managed to nail their own lids shut from inside their own coffins. Thanks GOPJ.

18 posted on 09/04/2018 11:58:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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