2. To say the funeral was political is not to insult it -- I'd argue the funeral of any major political figure is inescapably political, an occasion for staking out a legacy and laying claim to a heritage. McCain himself designed it that way.
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13. "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" -- Anton Chigurh. That's the question we have to ask the establishment. The rules they followed brought us here, and now they want us to return to those rules.
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14. The American elite really thinks they can subtweet their way out of a fascist crisis. It's not so easy, my friends.
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15. John McCain was admirably blunt & forthright. We owe it to his memory to be no less honest in our appraisal of him. His complex legacy is that he both helped create Trump & resisted him:https://newrepublic.com/article/150895/john-mccain-dead-obituary-nationalist-vision-eclipsed-trumps …
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The good ol' days of illegal Iraqi prisons
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Bailing out of an A-4 Skyhawk
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The point, I gather, is that the elite gathered today are some of the same people who gave us Trump. An appropriate response might include almost anything but more of their dogged insistence on not actually doing anything to unseat Trump.
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