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louis c

(8,652 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:00 PM Mar 2019

Only a Sick Man Would Continue to Bash a Dead Man

John McCain; A war hero and a statesman. During his career, I have certainly disagreed with him, but never disrespected him.

The President* of the United States, of the same party, chooses to denigrate a man who is no longer here to defend himself. What a piece of shit he is. But, I'm wondering what Trump's new lackey, Lindsey Graham is thinking?


Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump

Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier “is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain.” Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel. He had far worse “stains” than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!

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4:46 PM - Mar 16, 2019


Link to story of tweet one hour ago:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-attacks-john-mccain-over-obamacare-repeal/ar-BBURFaB?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP17

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Only a Sick Man Would Continue to Bash a Dead Man (Original Post) louis c Mar 2019 OP
Trump needs to get a real life! n/t JoeOtterbein Mar 2019 #1
t-rump is beyond sick . . . Iliyah Mar 2019 #2
Has he done anything except tweet today? BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #3
He played virtual golf on his new toy. Kingofalldems Mar 2019 #9
Before or after eating his healthy bucket of chicken? BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #13
I keep hoping he chokes on a chicken bone. roamer65 Mar 2019 #23
If he were to choke in the middle of a group of BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #31
trump wants to be the "darling favorite" of the repubs and wants no competition. Most people monmouth4 Mar 2019 #4
Trump is severely sick AND evil. dalton99a Mar 2019 #5
+1 n/t area51 Mar 2019 #25
I knew what the topic was before clicking on your link Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 #6
It's another authoritarian tactic marylandblue Mar 2019 #7
Wow. Thanks. NT enough Mar 2019 #10
Graham stopped thinking some time ago. Sneederbunk Mar 2019 #8
I'll say the same thing I said right after McCain mercuryblues Mar 2019 #11
True! True Blue American Mar 2019 #35
What a twisted excuse of a human being. smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #12
He can't see............ MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #14
Graham thinking? Really? rickyhall Mar 2019 #24
Hopefully Mother Nature catches up with him.... Historic NY Mar 2019 #15
Donnie of Little Smarts Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #16
McCain never denied having True Blue American Mar 2019 #36
My take always was, Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #42
Yes! True Blue American Mar 2019 #43
McCain Family Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #46
I know True Blue American Mar 2019 #47
True Statesman Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #48
Tweet reveals the real reason Trump hates McCain- McCain was onto his pro-Russian leanings wishstar Mar 2019 #17
Wonder how long it'll take Meghan McCain to shrug her shoulders, check her notes earnestly, Chin music Mar 2019 #18
De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est. Sinistrous Mar 2019 #19
Fuck you Drumpf, you Nazi. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2019 #20
He is the most insecure man I have ever seen. redstatebluegirl Mar 2019 #21
I can't think of one goddamn thing trump is above Blue Owl Mar 2019 #22
I have to disagree somewhat lakercub Mar 2019 #26
What This Says is that Trump Must Never Have Any Peace with the Things from the Past that Eat at Him dlk Mar 2019 #27
Most Narisstic People True Blue American Mar 2019 #44
Grump is a classless scumbag Pepsidog Mar 2019 #28
Whats with the whole "stains" thing??? I really mean this question. STAINS??? winstars Mar 2019 #29
Calling Dr. Howard Dr. Fine Dr. Howard lordsummerisle Mar 2019 #30
You Rock!! winstars Mar 2019 #34
First class jibberish grantcart Mar 2019 #32
ALL of his targets dead or alive. & what's the STARR thing, quoting from him?!1 UTUSN Mar 2019 #33
Because Starr agreed with Trump True Blue American Mar 2019 #37
Yeh, the imprint of the jerk is indelible, but did STARR *say* it, where's the quote besides SHITLER UTUSN Mar 2019 #40
Apparently, Trump heard Starr say it True Blue American Mar 2019 #45
I must be sick, then, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2019 #38
you know, I was waiting for that comment after I re-read my OP... louis c Mar 2019 #39
TRUE words a SICK MAN here BUT bluestarone Mar 2019 #41

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
3. Has he done anything except tweet today?
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:09 PM
Mar 2019

I guess the answer is, "No, why should today be any different than the previous 700+ days?". I guess he did it during his precious "executive time".

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
13. Before or after eating his healthy bucket of chicken?
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:30 PM
Mar 2019

I shouldn't complain, his lifestyle may be the only thing that will save us. Hopefully he will stroke out by the time I am done writing this sentence. Did I just say that about our dear leader? YES, I did.

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
31. If he were to choke in the middle of a group of
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 12:47 AM
Mar 2019

Dem voters I would hope that they would all conveniently forget how to perform the maneuver at that moment. Oh well...

monmouth4

(9,709 posts)
4. trump wants to be the "darling favorite" of the repubs and wants no competition. Most people
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:10 PM
Mar 2019

regarded McCain as a great guy and trump cannot stand his popularity.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
6. I knew what the topic was before clicking on your link
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:12 PM
Mar 2019

It's 2019. Donny Dotard needs to get over his butthurt.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
7. It's another authoritarian tactic
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:13 PM
Mar 2019

After Charles II restored the British Monarchy in 1660 he exhumed Oliver Cromwell's body, already two years dead, and hanged it on a gallows.

mercuryblues

(14,537 posts)
11. I'll say the same thing I said right after McCain
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:26 PM
Mar 2019

died. Trump is picking a fight with a dead man and the dead man is winning.

MyOwnPeace

(16,937 posts)
14. He can't see............
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:38 PM
Mar 2019
"But, I'm wondering what Trump's new lackey, Lindsey Graham is thinking?"

Lindsey can't see or hear to know what to "think" because his head is too far up IQ45's a$$!
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
16. Donnie of Little Smarts
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:52 PM
Mar 2019

forgot that the Ordinal Steele Dossier was put together as Opo Research for another Rethug Presidential Candidate bought and paid for buy one of the Rethugs heavy hitters. When that person was primaried out,then it was shopped to the DNC folks.

If it had not been for David Corn and Buzz Feed,we most likely would have not seen this.

Donnie is pissed because McCain recognized the Criminality of this Dossier and rather than bury it,and seeing the probable FEC violations,gave it to Comey and Company.

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
36. McCain never denied having
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 07:27 AM
Mar 2019

Last edited Sun Mar 17, 2019, 12:44 PM - Edit history (1)

The Dossier. He turned it over to the FBI, ashe should have.

John also destroyed Republicans trying to kill the ACA!

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
42. My take always was,
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 12:24 PM
Mar 2019

This Dossier was the Rethugs death wish no matter what.

The Manure Spreader of Garbage has been increasing since Nixon and you just knew there would be a day that the Rethugs stepped into that Manure Pile and the Stench would not wash off.

McCain knew from the get go what the out come would be and he wanted no part of any cover up.

Remember he was the only conspirator in Keeting Five to escape prosecution. He knew the drill.

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
43. Yes!
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 12:52 PM
Mar 2019

I remember that and it really embarrassed John.

I never agreed much with him, but the times he was needed he did the right thing. His War record made him a threat to Trump. He is such a spineless weakling he can not help but be morbidly jealous of John.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
46. McCain Family
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 12:58 PM
Mar 2019

Naval Legacy was at stake. And McCain was all about protecting that Legacy. He might have been a screw up in the Navy,but he would never cause a mark on his Family Naval History.

wishstar

(5,271 posts)
17. Tweet reveals the real reason Trump hates McCain- McCain was onto his pro-Russian leanings
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 08:58 PM
Mar 2019

During 2016 before the dossier even became public and long before McCains 's Obamacare vote, Trump started attacking McCain. Real reason was that McCain despised and distrusted him over Trump's pro- Russian stance. McCain knew all about Manafort trying to influence Repub politicians to be pro-Putin because Manafort had unsuccessfully tried to influence McCain to be favorable to Putin's interests.

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
18. Wonder how long it'll take Meghan McCain to shrug her shoulders, check her notes earnestly,
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 09:05 PM
Mar 2019

take a huge gulping draft from her 'coffee' mug, and agree?

lakercub

(659 posts)
26. I have to disagree somewhat
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 10:45 PM
Mar 2019

So many times when I hear Reagan eulogized or his presidency held up as the model for all American presidents, I'll bash until I can't bash anymore from exhaustion. Granted, the bashing is completely true, but I can't let that disgusting man get away with it when he is being praised in my presence. When Cheney, Rumsfeld, W, Powell, Wolfowitz, Perle, Condi, Trump, Pence, and S. Sanders all die, I can promise I will not be kind to their memories either. Horrible people were horrible, even if they're dead now. Being dead, they won't feel the criticism, but their hideous politics, criminal behavior, war mongering, and repression of the less fortunate can never be forgotten lest it keep happening.

dlk

(11,575 posts)
27. What This Says is that Trump Must Never Have Any Peace with the Things from the Past that Eat at Him
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 10:50 PM
Mar 2019

And they seem to eat at him constantly. Trump is obviously a supremely unhappy man. With everything he has, he still obsesses about past slights, real or imagined. He can't let go and move forward. It must be continuous mental torture being Donald Trump.

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
44. Most Narisstic People
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 12:56 PM
Mar 2019

Are the same way. They project their own sins on others to try and make themselves feel better.

winstars

(4,220 posts)
29. Whats with the whole "stains" thing??? I really mean this question. STAINS???
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 10:53 PM
Mar 2019

Calling Dr. Freud...


Calling Dr. Moe

Calling Dr. Larry

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
37. Because Starr agreed with Trump
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 07:32 AM
Mar 2019

Last edited Sun Mar 17, 2019, 10:31 AM - Edit history (1)

You know, the guy who went into Clinon’s sex life because he could not find anything else. Then was fired from his University job for covering up sexual harrassment?

That Starr.

UTUSN

(70,726 posts)
40. Yeh, the imprint of the jerk is indelible, but did STARR *say* it, where's the quote besides SHITLER
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 10:18 AM
Mar 2019

The paragraph, the context apropos of what, the venue/source.






 

louis c

(8,652 posts)
39. you know, I was waiting for that comment after I re-read my OP...
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 09:28 AM
Mar 2019

...of course, implied in any statement like the OP is the phrase "recently deceased". Certainly we can condemn Hitler, Nixon, John Wilkes Booth and the such.

But when a person of character is dead less than a year and anyone wants to debate his actions, that's a different story.

bluestarone

(17,027 posts)
41. TRUE words a SICK MAN here BUT
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 10:25 AM
Mar 2019

Don't forget we have a SICK bunch of RETHUGS, that just sit back and DO NOT utter words of support for this war hero! SAD SAD SAD!

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