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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: marktwain

As is his chunky daughter.


61 posted on 09/01/2018 6:50:47 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: ResistorSister

According to the media, McCain will be buried tomorrow and rise from the dead on Monday.


62 posted on 09/01/2018 6:53:32 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: JennysCool

Maybe it’s the same Esquire nerd who recently wrote “I’m coming to take away all your guns!!!”.

Yes, all by himself he’s going to be banging on doors shouting “Hand them over, NOW!!!”

;^)


63 posted on 09/01/2018 6:53:50 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: UCANSEE2
I pray POTUS does the following: ...taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16
64 posted on 09/01/2018 6:54:41 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: oldbill
Good one, oldbill
65 posted on 09/01/2018 6:58:09 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: chuckee

We have to make sure that the History Books written in the future are of the truth, and that we haven’t lost the country to the fascistic Left, who WILL put American history down the memory hole. Remember, they just eliminated the most iconic moment of the Apollo moon landing in the movie.


66 posted on 09/01/2018 7:01:24 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: clearcarbon

The war of globalist thugs to destroy freedom.


67 posted on 09/01/2018 7:07:05 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Yes. The the War Council’s performance at the funeral was return fire for Trump’s sobering inaugural address where he tarred the Bush’s, Clinton’s, the Swamp and the whole mixed multitude.

Trump, while not letting on, knew they had tried to set him up and take him down even as he was giving that address.

Strange that now....a year and a half later, most of the makeup has been removed from that pig. It’s plain to see what kind of bullet America dodged when DJT was elected.

Need some enlightenment? Read the latest offering from Sundance. Can’t make this crap up.


68 posted on 09/01/2018 7:09:15 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: marktwain
John McCain is in death as he was in life, small, vile, war mongering, back stabbing shadow of a man loyal only to his ego. Just ask his first wife and three children who he abandoned to go looking for a rich wife. Were they at the funeral?
69 posted on 09/01/2018 7:09:46 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: ResistorSister

Declaring war on a sitting president is sedition at a minimum.....treason for those of us who think trying to overthrow the duly elected government to be treason


70 posted on 09/01/2018 7:10:55 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ResistorSister

EVIL IS ALWAYS REWARDED here, God warned us of this in the latter days! If ever there was an example of evil being exulted it was at mcVAIN’s and Aretha Franklin funerals! PURE EVIL!!


71 posted on 09/01/2018 7:12:51 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: ResistorSister

The gathering of the proponents of war and the military industrial complex.


72 posted on 09/01/2018 7:17:18 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: DarthVader

Reminds one of the spectacle produced by the Nazi elites upon the “demise” of Reinhardt Heydrich. Not comparing John McCain to Heydrich, mind you, just the over the top funeral production.


73 posted on 09/01/2018 7:17:47 PM PDT by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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To: taxpayerfatigue
Reminds one of the spectacle produced by the Nazi elites upon the “demise” of Reinhardt Heydrich.

A better example would be Paul von Hindenburg's funeral. Von Hindenburg was the enemy of the Nazis and despised them, and the Nazis despised him too. But they still staged a massive funeral for him as a "War Hero".

74 posted on 09/01/2018 7:21:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RoseofTexas
Job 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble, reap it.
75 posted on 09/01/2018 7:27:31 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

Of course Meghan McCain, GW Bush and Barry Obammunist make unkind insinuations about Trump. Plump Meghan hates Trump because he rightly pointed out that McStain was a RAT loving RINO who screwed up and got captured. W hates Trump because he publicly neutered his cuck brother in the primary. Finally B.O. hates Trump because he has all but completely annulled his Presidency and has outperformed the incompetant Kenyan in every way.


76 posted on 09/01/2018 7:39:10 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: elcid1970
"'Pigressive'

Love it! Add that to the glossary. Please allow me to use it.


Pigressive is a expression I was able to search back to use on FR. It seemed appropriately descriptive but under used


77 posted on 09/01/2018 7:44:26 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: ResistorSister

So far it’s been a pathetic excuse to trash President Donald J. Trump.

It hasn’t embellished the John McCain record we know all too well.

FAIL!


78 posted on 09/01/2018 7:49:03 PM 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: ResistorSister

The McCain funeral was a gathering of Swamp creatures mourning the loss of one of their own.


79 posted on 09/01/2018 7:53:49 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

...and there’s the rub.


80 posted on 09/01/2018 7:54:26 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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