I am extremely anti-war.
I would have spit in General Westmorland’s face if I had the chance.
Senator McCain is of the same ilk. So is Hillary Clinton.
I do not give a damn about their alleged “service” killing innocent lives.
Tonight the crocodile tears are flowing from the hypocrites.
Really? What About This?
Flame Lives On
The flame surely does live on, but not in each one us. It lives on in the warmongers, the military vote-buying complex, and in the minds of fools who cannot see how counterproductive US foreign policy is.
In Praise of Fools
Trudeau Praises McCain
Two Peas in a Pod
If ever two people were meant for each other, that was surely the couple, each as despicable as the other.
If you think McCain is a hero, you should be singing the praises of Hillary as well. He wanted Hillary, not Trump as president. They were two peas in one warmongering pod.
Mike “Mish” Shedock
Is there a urinal placed above this traitor’s grave with the piping running directly into his mouth? Or it’s just a piss-free-for-all?
McCaine helped murder hundreds of thousands in the Middle East. He should have been drawn and quartered while alive.
How can you tell if someone voted against McCain/Palin?
A: Because they just posted a majestic tribute to the man on facebook. My head is currently spinning at the concept.
Tengen, thanks for pointing out the Keating Five, surprised Mish missed that.
I picture the little girl running & screaming with her clothes burned off. Multiply that by how much to get a measure of McCain? I’m only sorry he didn’t hang on & suffer longer. He has a special place in hell. War pimp.
He did, as we say, ‘dine out’ rather too much on abject failure.
Where can I send my urine?
If we were a pacifist country then the world would surely be a worse place. We would be ruled by the Japanese or Nazi Germany. Being anti-war is ok but at what cost ?
My God. Your depiction of “pacifism” is not the same thing as being a pussy you fool. Walk softly but carry a big stick! War IS sometimes necessary when someone else is the aggressor against us. But for the past 60 years the USA has been the biggest bully on the planet. If something ain’t broke, we break it so that our elite can go fix it and get paid handsomely to do it using debt that we are on the hook for. It’s the elitist notion of creative destruction.
Additionally, WE can have nukes and WE can even use them in war. But nobody else can? The whole thing is so hypocritical. Nobody should have nukes.
Droning wedding parties where 90% of the dead are innocent men, women and children is fucked up beyond belief but we do this all the time. We do it in my name and using debt that is supported by my taxes and I fucking HATE IT. Call this “pacifism” if you like but it only shows your ignorance. Not being a hate monger bully is NOT the same as being a “pacifist”.
Mish, please remind us of your record of military service or any service to the USA.
In service to the USA!!! The Vietnam War he participated in cost the States over $700 million in 2011 dollars. For WHAT Blurtman? For what? The Constitution starts of with “We the People”. How did “The People” benefit from McCain’s “service”? As long as there are dupes like you who try to glorify a citizen’s participation in the States’ endless illegal and unconstitutional wars the incalculable pain and suffering, as well as the betrayal of the concept and principles of the Constitution will continue.
The endless and massive military spending will bankrupt this country and ultimately leave us weaker and more vulnerable than if we had a true defense force instead of a global empire control force. They talk about our crumbling infrastructure yet the money to fix it is pissed into the open arms of the military industrial complex war machine.
I pay taxes every year, how is that not service? Are military members not paid actual money for their service? How does signing up for a paying gig with the military suddenly make your opinion about any damn thing at all more important? I don’t buy your line of reasoning at all.
Ron, you are right. The military is a job. It is voluntary. Nobody participating in it is automatically a “hero” or of special “service” to the country. What you are witnessing is the result of government propaganda programs that uplift the military (and thus justify endless corrupt, debt based military spending) so that the herding sheeple cannot see the forest for the trees. They hear a slogan and they see money and people moving in that direction and so, being a herding species, they move along with it in order to be part of something larger than themselves, even if the whole thing is a big pile of bullshit. I “served” in the US Air Force for 6 years. I got my DD214. But nobody ever gave up their seat on the bus for me nor would I think such behavior should be expected or appropriate. It was a JOB! I was fresh out of high school and I was young and inexperienced. I was also married. So I needed stability. It was a very reasonable job for me in which I acquired knowledge and skills that I might not otherwise have gotten but it was not some kind of special service.
If someone is hurt or killed saving others, whether military or in civilian life, then they sacrificed self for a good cause and they have my respect. But that is watered down if fake respect is paid out to everyone in a uniform with generic brain washed sheeple statements like “thank you for your service”. That is what some John might tell a hooker if she did a good job.
“Mish, please remind us of your record of military service or any service to the USA.”
I am proud of the fact that I did not drop bombs on innocent Vietnamese. Those who refused to go, like Muhammad Ali were the heroes.
How many innocent people did you kill? Or are you a chickenhawk?
Thanks for asking. NONE. And I am damn proud of it.
Don’t confuse the USA with the US government. They were completely different things to begin with and the USA no longer exists.
Furthermore, there is nothing virtuous about ‘service’ to others unless they’re paying you for it. Serving society for society’s sake was what communism was all about.
General Westmorland was following the democratically civilian leadership of President Johnson (D) per the US Constitution. He had no power to authorize troop increases, attack foreign nations or draft 19 year olds. All that power resides with the President and Congress.
Mish can I help you! He even was a ahole and used his sickness as a crutch to hurt Trump which also hurt the American people. He was a military brat.
And is seems like just yesterday that he was globetrotting to recruit and fund various shinhead nazi groups or fundamentalist Sunni murderers to overthrow this of that sovereign government.
Good point – I will tweet that
All those slagging him now thought he was the messiah when he was running with Palin. Talk about hypocrisy….
Probably shouldn’t generalize like that. I was never a supporter (let alone deifying the guy) and I’m sure there are plenty of others who are the same.
…. until he’s running against a democrat
Last Repub I supported in an election was Dole in ’96, and that’s because I was a dumb college kid raised to be a loyal Red Teamer. Not long after that I jumped outside the red/blue divide and haven’t looked back.
I get why you’re going after Trump’s cheering section, but McCain was odious enough for everyone to have reasons to despise him, regardless of political bent.
Hi Mish. This is my first login and post … I appreciate your work and have been following and learning from your blog for a while. Your work usually seems to be level-headed, objective, and subjective when there is a need. oh, and i like your photography.
Looks like you feel strongly about McCain , and spent a lot of your post presenting the hypocrites as much as your disdain for McCain. Pardon my naivete, but can you spend a little more time or refer me to a link explaining the wrongs McCain has done ? Cheers !
McCain has supported every war that came his way. Iraq, Afghanistan (we have been there at least 15 years). Like Hillary, he supported a no-fly zone in Syria risking conflict with Russia, He backs the murderous thugs in Yemen, he supports US drone policy, all of these things killed innocent people at a cost of trillions of dollars.
Aside from his miserable warmongering record I considered him a dismal human being as well given what he did to his first wife.
This isn’t the best read I have seen on it but it contains pertinent info:
McCain at one time explained this behavior with “I was immature.” But he was nothing more than a shallow, self-centered phony.
He will have to answer to a hogher power for all of his transgressions now.
I agree…I hated the treasonous S.O.B. I was sooooo Happy to hear of his death…G. Soros Next! Too bad the Vietnamese didn’t torch him more…and killed him. It’ would have been better than his BS!
I agree too – 100% It ought to say “War criminal” on his grave stone.
Thank you. I didn’t have the courage to say it. The narratives that our society supports are really stunning. And amoral.
His vote against repealing Obamacare represented nothing more than a personal attack on Trump and showed a blatant disregard for his constituents…He was also alleged to have been part of the entire “dossier” and his relationship with Hillary also showed a different side of the man who really had no party.
The tradition is not to speak ill of the dead — but McCain was not a traditionalist. I would have had more respect for his supposed “public service” if he had done the right thing and resigned from the Senate when he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and could no longer do the job for which his constituents were paying him.
History will not be kind to McCain — for many reasons.
YES! He was mentally unbalanced and promoted war in everything he did. We sure don’t need to name anything after him.
Agreed. The insincere tributes pouring in will be nauseating for the next few days. In a more just society, the Keating Five scandal would have torpedoed his career 30 years ago and cut his incessant warmongering short. Heck, without nepotism he wouldn’t have had a career to begin with.
Caitlin Johnstone was right!
He is exactly the reason for term limits. Wasn’t he responsible for the creation of the Syrian resistance with the CIA and the Saudis. This later morphed into ISIS if I am correct. As much as I despise Obama McCain would have been worse. The world would have been a nuclear waste site by now. I do not feel it is nice to be mean about his death however. I do feel for his family,s loss. BTW the feud between Trump and him started when he called his supporters “the crazies’