John McCain Diagnosed With Brain Cancer

[Swordsmyth]

Days after John McCain had a blood clot removed from his eye, on Wednesday afternoon his office announced that the Senator has been diagnosed with brain cancer. According to a statement from the office, the tumor was revealed after surgery to remove blood clot, adding that "scanning done since the procedure (a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision) shows that the tissue of concern was completely resected by imaging criteria."
The office added that "the Senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team. Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation."
The statement also notes that "the Senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent."
Full statement below:


STATEMENT FROM THE OFFICE OF SENATOR JOHN McCAIN

"On Friday, July 14, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot.

"Scanning done since the procedure (a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision) shows that the tissue of concern was completely resected by imaging criteria.

"The Senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team. Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.

"The Senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent."

The office of Senator John McCain also released the following statement:

"Senator McCain appreciates the outpouring of support he has received over the last few days. He is in good spirits as he continues to recover at home with his family in Arizona. He is grateful to the doctors and staff at Mayo Clinic for their outstanding care, and is confident that any future treatment will be effective. Further consultations with Senator McCain's Mayo Clinic care team will indicate when he will return to the United States Senate."

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-19/john-mccain-diagnosed-brain-cancer

In Memorium:https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F11%2FEmperor-Palpatine-meme-from-Star-Wars.jpg&f=1

[agitator]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?513088-John-McPain-s-Days-are-numbered

[invisible]

Wow, I didn't know that he had a brain! Obviously the best course of action here would be a lobotomy.

[RJB]

Wow, I didn't know that he had a brain! Obviously the best course of action here would be a lobotomy.

He does. It's just controlled by someone else.

ETA: Dang it! I was going to go by the "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all," rule.

[Swordsmyth]

He does. It's just controlled by someone else.

ETA: Dang it! I was going to go by the "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all," rule.
Dumb rules were made to be broken.

[AZJoe]

Wow, I didn't know that he had a brain! Obviously the best course of action here would be a lobotomy.

Doctors still aren't clear whether McCain is suffering from a cancerous tumor growth, or the tumor is suffering from a cancerous McCain growth.

[RJB]

Dumb rules were made to be broken.

They also say, never speak ill of the dead, but hell, if someone was a son of a bitch alive, death won't change that.

[Swordsmyth]

Doctors still aren't clear whether McCain is suffering from a cancerous tumor growth, or the tumor is suffering from a cancerous McCain growth.
That poor tumor, it should get a medal for service to it's country above and beyond the call of duty.

[AuH20]

Meeting with ISIS may have forced the cancer into overdrive.

[euphemia]

So sorry for his illness.

[Cleaner44]

The world will be a safer place once he is dead.

[tommyrp12]

I hope he pulls through but does not return to work in politics.

[KEEF]

As much as I cannot stand McCain, his policies, his non-stop thirst for blood and war, his undying support for the War on Drugs and War on Terror, I wish him and his family then best. Cancer sucks DICK regardless of who gets it!

[tod evans]

Couldn't happen to a more deserving rat-bastard.

[RJB]

I'm sure that the orphans in countless countries affected by the foreign policy that he helped orchestrate wish him a speedy recovery.

[sparebulb]

I hope he pulls through but does not return to work in politics.


As much as I cannot stand McCain, his policies, his non-stop thirst for blood and war, his undying support for the War on Drugs and War on Terror, I wish him and his family then best. Cancer sucks DICK regardless of who gets it!

Plus rep for you guys.

I have not figured out a way to neg-rep my own instinctive likely response to this topic.

[angelatc]

Couldn't happen to a more deserving rat-bastard.

He's beat cancer a few times already. His freaking Mom is still alive FFS.

[Schifference]

Tumor humor can grow on you.

[twomp]

I don't know what has killed more people, McCain or cancer.

[Matt Collins]

The Governor of Arizona is about to be under intense pressure

[asurfaholic]

I thought you had to have a brain to get cancer there...

Oh well. I don't care for McCain but I couldn't wish this on anyone.


Mmahhh shit who am I kidding.

[Working Poor]

Maybe he will retire now.

[Jamesiv1]

a twitter handle coming soon: JohnMcCainsTumor

[Cleaner44]

The Governor of Arizona is about to be under intense pressure

I hope he can appoint Kelli Ward

[specsaregood]

As much as I cannot stand McCain, his policies, his non-stop thirst for blood and war, his undying support for the War on Drugs and War on Terror, I wish him and his family then best. Cancer sucks DICK regardless of who gets it!

Just you watch, they will use this to get trumpryancare passed.

[openfire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

[H. E. Panqui]

I hope he can appoint Kelli Ward

:mad:

...ugh..she sucks too!..republicans ALWAYS SUCK unless their name is RON PAUL!...get real!

[Influenza]

about time

[Swordsmyth]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Cleaner44 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=6499831#post6499831)
I hope he can appoint Kelli Ward




:mad:

...ugh..she sucks too!..republicans ALWAYS SUCK unless their name is RON PAUL!...get real!


Dr. Ron Paul endorses Dr. Kelli Ward:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/06/ron-paul-endorses-kelli-ward-to-replace-senator-john-mccain/

"As a physician, you have seen first*hand how ObamaCare has reduced our liberties in just a few short years. During your time as state senator, you have fought to reduce the size of government and restore the liberties of Arizonans. We need to elect more people into the U.S. Senate to stand alongside my son, Rand Paul. Because of your dedication to smaller government and restoring more of our personal liberties, I am proud to endorse your campaign for the U.S. Senate."

[sparebulb]

I would like to express my sympathies to Zippy.

Johnny Wetstart must be like a father to him.

[heavenlyboy34]

Kurwa. :( Hope he pulls through so he can be tried for war crimes one day. These lizard people usually live a really long time...

[Swordsmyth]

Kurwa. :( Hope he pulls through so he can be tried for war crimes one day. These lizard people usually live a really long time...

He will be judged.
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. g1UAbSII_feORMEzq3hS-AEsDh%26pid%3D15.1&f=1

[Anti Federalist]

With access to "health care" light years beyond what is available to us Mundanes, look for him to eke out another ten or twenty years.

[donnay]

Hopefully he gets right with God.

[Swordsmyth]

With access to "health care" light years beyond what is available to us Mundanes, look for him to eke out another ten or twenty years.
By my reckoning he used those up on his last 10-20.

[DamianTV]

Couldnt have happened to a nicer asshole!

[donnay]

With access to "health care" light years beyond what is available to us Mundanes, look for him to eke out another ten or twenty years.

Teddy Kennedy and Arlen Specter went out the same way.


Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90645054


Mr. Specter had previously fought Hodgkin’s disease and survived a brain tumor and heart bypass surgery.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/us/politics/arlen-specter-senator-dies-at-82.html

[euphemia]

Um, folks, McCain may not be every libertarian's cup of tea, but he is a human being with family and friends who love him. The tacky comments are not cool. What happened to the nonaggressive principle?

[Matt Collins]

but he is a human being No, politicians lose their humanity.

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deFDXYdF2g4

[Swordsmyth]

Um, folks, McCain may not be every libertarian's cup of tea, but he is a human being with family and friends who love him. The tacky comments are not cool. What happened to the nonaggressive principle?
The world will be a better place without him, that makes me happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z1SsqZgiGE

[enhanced_deficit]

Some of the comments seem cold. His politics can be crazy sometimes but he was also one of the early champions of Operation Iraqi Freedom that has provided freedom for millions of people of Iraqi race at huge cost to America and Americans.

[Swordsmyth]

Some of the comments seem cold. His politics can be crazy sometimes but he was also one of the early champions of Operation Iraqi Freedom that has provided freedom for millions of people of Iraqi race at huge cost to America and Americans.
Who can resist a guy who sings BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN?
I bet the Beach Boys loved him for that.

[Swordsmyth]

"It's a very aggressive tumor," said Gupta. He explained that average survival for malignant glioblastoma tends to be around 14 months with treatment. In McCain's case, additional therapy, including radiation, could not begin until the incision heals, which would be in the next three or four weeks.
Still, one 2009 study (http://www.abta.org/brain-tumor-information/types-of-tumors/glioblastoma.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/)reported that almost 10% of patients with glioblastoma may live five years or longer, according to the American Brain Tumor Association.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/health/gupta-mccain-glioblastoma/index.html

[Iowa]

Who can resist a guy who sings BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN?
I bet the Beach Boys loved him for that.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg

[Suzanimal]

He's beat cancer a few times already. His freaking Mom is still alive FFS.

Obviously some black magic going on there.

I don't generally take pleasure in anyone's misfortune BUT I have to admit, I wasn't broken up about McCancer's illness.

I wonder of he could get reelected in AZ with brain cancer...Honestly, it wouldn't shock me.

[Todd]

Um, folks, McCain may not be every libertarian's cup of tea, but he is a human being with family and friends who love him. The tacky comments are not cool. What happened to the nonaggressive principle?

I agree. However, he should take a retirement and get medical help, get well and live a long happy life as a private citizen. Win Win for everyone.

[Suzanimal]

So sorry for his illness.

I'm not. He's evil.

[Suzanimal]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFJc5fAXYAApCyv.jpg:large

[Suzanimal]

Doctors still aren't clear whether McCain is suffering from a cancerous tumor growth, or the tumor is suffering from a cancerous McCain growth.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFJfYYHWsAAwnKu.jpg:large

[specsaregood]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFJc5fAXYAApCyv.jpg:large

Don't count him out just yet:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2FKqhGUAAABOy1.jpg

[shakey1]

I won't miss that POS... perhaps when he passes he could have Lindsey Graham buried alive with him.

https://i.imgur.com/AOaLaZE.jpg

[Ender]

I agree. However, he should take a retirement and get medical help, get well and live a long happy life as a private citizen. Win Win for everyone.

My POV, exactly!

[nobody's_hero]

With access to "health care" light years beyond what is available to us Mundanes, look for him to eke out another ten or twenty years.

I think Dick Cheney has been near death many times in the past but seems the more evil they are, the longer they live.

[Suzanimal]

Um, folks, McCain may not be every libertarian's cup of tea, but he is a human being with family and friends who love him.

He's also an evil man who promoted policies that killed millions of innocent people.


The tacky comments are not cool.

I don't think it's cool to well wish evil doers.


What happened to the nonaggressive principle?

How do tacky comments violate the NAP?:confused:

[Schifference]

I envision future Senate votes taking place where they go live to McCain in a hospital bed all hooked up to the gadgets seeking his vote and input.

[juleswin]

Well, today I learned that the man who stole from me, burned my house down, raped by wife and kid in front of me before killing them just got diagnosed with a terminal cancer. Can you please join me in praying for his speedy recovery. And even though he destroyed my life, he is now living a long, happy, prosperous life with his wife, kids, and property intact, I pray that he gets well.

Well meaning nice guy

If you heard someone say that wouldn't you think the person has gone mad?

F*ck him, I really hope he suffers immensely before dying, that the maggots start eating him from the inside before he dies. The man has promoted policies that have caused great harm and misery to millions of humans. I do not have any sympathies left to spare for him. The only gift I have for him is me coming over to his hospital bed and choking the life out of him and thereby sparing him the pain and misery that comes with knowing your life is about to end and I would gladly do it for free.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. My only issue with this good news is that it came 80 years too late.

[goldenequity]

I am hijacking this thread. :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqK4bvLJU78

[Chester Copperpot]

I know McCain isnt a popular person for us here but lets try and have a modicum of decency at least and not wish bad things to a person who's seen more than their fair share of adversity in his life. May we all never have to go through the things McCain has in his life.


EDIT: I cant argue with some of the anti-McCain logic here. Sigh well libertarians on break everyone do whatever the hell they want.. 1,2 break..

lol

The way I look at it is well.. Ive never believed in making fun of somebody for somthing they cant control.. so like I wouldnt make fun of this guy for his cancer or the way he looked or that he was old etc.. However, the way he votes is something he can control and I understand the ire we have for him.

I also dont kick people when theyre down.

Thats just me.

sorry for the verbosity

[Matt Collins]

Hopefully he won't suffer for very long

[kcchiefs6465]

Lol.

[fisharmor]

I also dont kick people when theyre down.

Ok, but McCain does.

He's not going out like Ceausescu or Mussolini. Nobody is getting to literally take vengeance on him, no matter how much he deserves that.

McCain isn't going to hear any of this. He's going to be surrounded by worshipers until his last day. He's going to have all the comfort and all the medical care that is possible.

There is zero chance that this turn of events is going to make him stop and think about his life, and whether or not he caused anyone suffering.

If he does, I'll come back and eat my words.

It ain't gonna happen. Not in his echo chamber.

Death by disease is the only hope we have to be rid of this man's insanity. I don't hold it against anyone for finding joy in the fact that we are escaping him in the only way possible.

[Wooden Indian]

The man has done great evils... may The Lord's will be done.

[Lamp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuf0McZ1-PM

[H. E. Panqui]

The man has done great evils... may The Lord's will be done.

.... i will note that mccain's voting record is very very similar to many republicrats!..so anyone who hates mccain for his [truly stinking] voting record should also hate the rest of these stinking republicrats!...right?...let's be consistent!..;)

[Clinton Body Count]

This explains his incoherence during the Comey hearings.

He'll get the best possible selection of harvested organs...er, I mean best possible care at the Mayo Clinic.

[juleswin]

.... i will note that mccain's voting record is very very similar to many republicrats!..so anyone who hates mccain for his [truly stinking] voting record should also hate the rest of these stinking republicrats!...right?...let's be consistent!..;)

There is a difference between McCain and the rest of the republican or even democrat pro war pols and that difference is that McCain is a proactive supporter of war, he is a cheerleader, a spokesman and I wouldn't be surprised if he is involved in the planning. The man is a death merchant and his dead plus funeral will hopefully bring about a momentary relief to millions of people

That is a big difference from the go along to get along dem/rep pro war pol and I am not saying those aren't bad people, they just happened to be a lesser evil than McCain.


“If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.”

Not sure what this quote got to do with the OP but I first thought of it when I saw this story. This should be a celebration that nature has finally decided to reclaim one of the many abominations it created. Thank you mother nature.

[AZJoe]

https://i.imgflip.com/1sstzi.jpg

[Lamp]

Good riddance.

[jllundqu]

This explains his incoherence during the Comey hearings.

He'll get the best possible selection of harvested organs...er, I mean best possible care at the Mayo Clinic.

THey can't harvest a new brain for him though!

[jllundqu]

Between Flake getting primaried in 2018 and McCain one foot in the grave, AZ politics just got very interesting.

[dannno]

The two Captain Save-a-ho posts in this thread were entertaining, thanks.

[Cleaner44]

:mad:

...ugh..she sucks too!..republicans ALWAYS SUCK unless their name is RON PAUL!...get real!

I have come to terms with the fact that 99% of politicians suck. My state will have 2 senators and I would prefer them to be very different than McCain. Kelli Ward looks like an improvement even if she falls short of a Ron Paul standard.

[Jamesiv1]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFJfYYHWsAAwnKu.jpg:largelol

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

This explains his incoherence during the Comey hearings.

He'll get the best possible selection of harvested organs...er, I mean best possible care at the Mayo Clinic.


I would like to recognize this funny user name. "Clinton Body Count." LOL

[Cleaner44]

I think everyone here owes my some thanks... once a week, every week since Oct 1, 2004 I have been wishing brain cancer on John McCain. Now here we are and it has finally worked... 666 weeks ago. Coincidence?

Your welcome!

[helmuth_hubener]

regardless of who gets it!

Nay, it matters a lot,
For the wicked should rot.

[nikcers]

I think everyone here owes my some thanks... once a week, every week since Oct 1, 2004 I have been wishing brain cancer on John McCain. Now here we are and it has finally worked... 666 weeks ago. Coincidence?

Your welcome!

Here I was thinking I caused it, thanks for taking away my guilt.

[sparebulb]

Here I was thinking I caused it, thanks for taking away my guilt.


I think everyone here owes my some thanks... once a week, every week since Oct 1, 2004 I have been wishing brain cancer on John McCain. Now here we are and it has finally worked... 666 weeks ago. Coincidence?

Your welcome!

The night before the Johnny Wetstart news, I couldn't sleep because of a pain behind my right eye. I had considered that this was caused by a brain tumor.

I was wondering whether I was responsible a few hours later when the news about Johnny W. came out.

If I knew it was this easy, I would have sent him out to the cornfield years ago.

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/2/26/Punition.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100504140926

[specsaregood]

I can't believe I'm the only one that finds it questionable that McCain comes down with a serious medical emergency on the eve of the big healthcare vote causing it to be delayed at the very least. Just wait until the argument is made that every American has an inherent right to the same level of care that he gets, gratis.

[sparebulb]

I can't believe I'm the only one that finds it questionable that McCain comes down with a serious medical emergency on the eve of the big healthcare vote causing it to be delayed at the very least. Just wait until the argument is made that every American has a inherent right to the same level of care that he gets, gratis.

Thread winner.

I thought the same thing although my first thought was that he was going deep underground, Ken Lay/Roger Ailes style down on the Bush Ranch in Paraguay.

[nikcers]

I can't believe I'm the only one that finds it questionable that McCain comes down with a serious medical emergency on the eve of the big healthcare vote causing it to be delayed at the very least. Just wait until the argument is made that every American has an inherent right to the same level of care that he gets, gratis.

The only conspiracies I find plausible are ones based on the recent leaks regarding the US arming ISIS and the recent change to stop arming moderates in Syria.

[KEEF]

Nay, it matters a lot,
For the wicked should rot.
To each their own, I just cannot see myself as the judge.

[Swordsmyth]

To each their own, I just cannot see myself as the judge.
1 Corinthians 6:2 (https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Corinthians-6-2/) | View whole chapter (https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Corinthians-Chapter-6/#2) | See verse in context (https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Corinthians-6-1_6-3/) Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?

[heavenlyboy34]

https://scontent.fphx1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/11996914_10212411262211047_979376407244492359_n.jp g?oh=8c192a1fb86986205d0d8e09026c687b&oe=59EF6A86

[Cleaner44]

The night before the Johnny Wetstart news, I couldn't sleep because of a pain behind my right eye. I had considered that this was caused by a brain tumor.

I was wondering whether I was responsible a few hours later when the news about Johnny W. came out.

If I knew it was this easy, I would have sent him out to the cornfield years ago.

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/2/26/Punition.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100504140926

Its real good that this has happened, real good.

[nikcers]

Its real good that this has happened, real good.
America just got one notch greater today. I really needed this too, the other day the federal government announced they can steal through some new civil asset forfeiture on steroids.

[r3volution 3.0]

O shucks...

...

...

[Suzanimal]

I would like to recognize this funny user name. "Clinton Body Count." LOL

Indeed. I noticed it the other day.:D


This is weird. So I look at who's online and I notice someone called Clinton Body Count :D and I'm curious - who wouldn't be?:confused: When I go to profile stalk him/her (I'm really hoping for a great sig line. Maybe, a quote from Peter Smith, NO FOUL PLAY) I get this vvvv notification. Are people blocking me from profile stalking?:confused::eek::(

http://i.imgur.com/nGkN6Lu.png

[euphemia]

I can't believe I'm the only one that finds it questionable that McCain comes down with a serious medical emergency on the eve of the big healthcare vote causing it to be delayed at the very least. Just wait until the argument is made that every American has an inherent right to the same level of care that he gets, gratis.

It would explain a lot of his, um, irregular behavior. And it might be related to head injuries suffered during his captivity. This seems to be a very aggressive form of cancer. I hope he will do the right thing and just focus on his treatment and recovery. He is likely sick enough he doesn't need to think about finishing his term in the Senate.

[UWDude]

He is an old man, he has brain cancer, big deal. Cancer happens to old people. Old people also die.
McCain is a war criminal, and a bloodthirsty moron. I'll be damned if he skirts by in the history books blaming all his stupidity on his brain cancer.

He deserves to be tortured to death for what he has done. Brain cancer is merciful. It is a shame he can only die once. there will never be justice for all who were murdered under his orders, and against the interests of the United States.

Worthless crony.


May we all never have to go through the things McCain has in his life.


Like getting the world handed to you on a silver platter, getting to be a fighter pilot, even though you are about dead last in every class, but your daddy is a Navy Admiral, so you get to crash planes to show off, be stupid, and basically poop on everything handed to you?

McCain is the epitome of selfish, incompetent evil.


Hopefully he won't suffer for very long

Hopefully he gets painful diarrhea that backs up and starts spewing out of his mouth and eyeballs, while suffering massive migraines that get more painful from the stench of his own butt-slop and vomit.

[unknown]

I don't know what has killed more people, McCain or cancer.

http://i.imgur.com/DKQMyp3.gif

I dont wish cancer on anyone but this prick should have been kicked out of office long ago.

[unknown]

http://i.imgur.com/3YIdmA1.jpg

[unknown]

https://i.imgflip.com/1sstzi.jpg

FUCKING LEGIT.

[inthehall]

I don't wish bad luck on too many people. I guess I really don't think about it. Thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer every day. Unless you're his family, you're not going to care much about him. His colleagues will express thoughts because they work with him.

I just think about the present. McCain is still in the senate. He track record sucks. He sold himself as some kind of independent back in the day. He was anything but. He's a fucking war mongering asshole. He's always had a hard on for Iran and a bunch of other countries. His policies are mostly all neo-con. He has a hard on for Rand because Rand is younger, smarter, and better looking. Rand is everything McCain couldn't be. He works with Graham. McCain does everything he can to discredit the Pauls. His constituents believe him because they're a bunch of old fucking coots in Arizona. Basically fuck John McCain.

[Lamp]

I don't wish bad luck on too many people. I guess I really don't think about it. Thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer every day. Unless you're his family, you're not going to care much about him. His colleagues will express thoughts because they work with him.

I just think about the present. McCain is still in the senate. He track record sucks. He sold himself as some kind of independent back in the day. He was anything but. He's a fucking war mongering asshole. He's always had a hard on for Iran and a bunch of other countries. His policies are mostly all neo-con. He has a hard on for Rand because Rand is younger, smarter, and better looking. Rand is everything McCain couldn't be. He works with Graham. McCain does everything he can to discredit the Pauls. His constituents believe him because they're a bunch of old fucking coots in Arizona. Basically fuck John McCain.

+rep

[fisharmor]

Like getting the world handed to you on a silver platter, getting to be a fighter pilot, even though you are about dead last in every class, but your daddy is a Navy Admiral, so you get to crash planes to show off, be stupid, and basically poop on everything handed to you?

I think he should get special mention for coming home from Nam to find out his wife got in a life-threatening car accident which affected her looks, whereupon he dumped her and got a younger and hotter wife.

[sparebulb]

Hopefully he we won't suffer for very long

fixed

[H. E. Panqui]

There is a difference between McCain and the rest of the republican or even democrat pro war pols and that difference is that McCain is a proactive supporter of war, he is a cheerleader, a spokesman and I wouldn't be surprised if he is involved in the planning. The man is a death merchant and his dead plus funeral will hopefully bring about a momentary relief to millions of people. That is a big difference from the go along to get along dem/rep pro war pol and I am not saying those aren't bad people, they just happened to be a lesser evil than McCain.

...interesting view...i see it differently:...most/all of these repubiicrat puppet$ are pro war/intervention...but mccain, for whatever reason$, is a media darling so you got to hear a LOT from him...he's not the only one...chuck schumer, lindsey graham, rand paul, and many others are 'media darlings,' microphone hogs, etc...

...mccain's insane, intolerable, goddamned, cretinous brand of warmongerism/interventionism infuriates me no more/less than most/all these republicrat warmongers/interventionists, zionist apologists, etc. assorted stinkers galore...

[Schifference]

McCain diagnosed with brain cancer? He should seek a second opinion.

[fisharmor]

Xpost for those who are interested....

Hey to be totally fair, I work 30 feet from a guy who is fighting a glioblastoma for the last several months.
It's been really aggressive - last thing I heard is that two smaller tumors have combined into one large tumor.
He's doing regular rounds of chemo, too.
Point is, the guy is a computer programmer, and I haven't heard any comments about his output flagging.

What I mean to say is, any issues from John McCain are because he's a worthless sack of shit to begin with, and not because of brain cancer.

[pcosmar]

Brain Cancer..

Yeah That's the ticket.
http://s.quickmeme.com/img/85/8563b1b90da4c64b280d9383b9f3f6d3741bf6e2f8169d305c 1c56ff33311c55.jpg


Blame it on the cancer, or use it for sympathy..
or both.

[AZJoe]

This was published just two days before the announcement of brain cancer ...

Please Fucking Die Already (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/please-just-fucking-die-already-acb3a879656e)

I sincerely, genuinely hope that Arizona Senator John McCain’s heart stops beating, and that he is subsequently declared dead by qualified medical professionals very soon. I don’t wish him a painful death, I don’t wish him a slow death, I don’t wish him an unnatural or violent death; I only wish that he becomes incapable of facilitating the merciless slaughter of any more human beings. …

This evil man has supported every US military bloodbath in his obscenely long lifetime, and has been actively involved in both promoting and manufacturing support for every single despicable act of military invention throughout his entire career. ... McCain has sincerely pushed for military escalations in countries not even the insatiable US war machine has gone for. …

This man has such a hardon for World War 3 he went so far as to publicly accuse Rand Paul of “working for Vladimir Putin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4To74ZZ9A)” in March for opposing NATO expansionism. On the Senate floor. In real life.

Eighty years is a long time. John McCain has led a good, long life [unlike so many victims of his deeds], had a lot of grandkids, gotten a lot of people’s guts ripped out with cluster munitions. He can take it easy now. There’s no reason anyone should still be going to work at 80 years old. He can die a proud, happy man. And he should. Like, yesterday. …

McCain has been leading the charge on escalations with Russia, because of course he fucking is. Like all neocons have done since the advent of neoconservatism, McCain promotes a very hawkish, anti-detente position toward Russia, which he has been advancing like a good little horseman of the apocalypse at every possible opportunity, from Syria to sanctions to NATO provocations. …

And now we’re on the brink of a world war (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/if-this-tweet-bothers-you-its-because-you-re-a-piece-of-shit-de0f0cec0e1f) with a nuclear superpower and its allies because these Democratic neocons and Republican neocons formed an alliance to advance what Paul Craig Roberts calls “the most dangerous ideology that has ever existed.” These horrible people inflicted this on our species, and may very well end up handing us our extinction in the very near term. …

So yeah, if John McCain could go ahead and die sooner rather than later, that would be awesome. Or retire if he can recover from his addiction to human blood; that would be fine too. Whatever gets his horrible inner demons as far away from America’s steering wheel as possible.

[AZJoe]

This was published just two days before the announcement of brain cancer ...

Please $#@!ing Die Already (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/please-just-$#@!ing-die-already-acb3a879656e)

I sincerely, genuinely hope that Arizona Senator John McCain’s heart stops beating, and that he is subsequently declared dead by qualified medical professionals very soon. I don’t wish him a painful death, I don’t wish him a slow death, I don’t wish him an unnatural or violent death; I only wish that he becomes incapable of facilitating the merciless slaughter of any more human beings. …

This evil man has supported every US military bloodbath in his obscenely long lifetime, and has been actively involved in both promoting and manufacturing support for every single despicable act of military invention throughout his entire career. ... McCain has sincerely pushed for military escalations in countries not even the insatiable US war machine has gone for. …

This man has such a hardon for World War 3 he went so far as to publicly accuse Rand Paul of “working for Vladimir Putin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4To74ZZ9A)” in March for opposing NATO expansionism. On the Senate floor. In real life.

Eighty years is a long time. John McCain has led a good, long life [unlike so many victims of his deeds], had a lot of grandkids, gotten a lot of people’s guts ripped out with cluster munitions. He can take it easy now. There’s no reason anyone should still be going to work at 80 years old. He can die a proud, happy man. And he should. Like, yesterday. …

McCain has been leading the charge on escalations with Russia, because of course he $#@!ing is. Like all neocons have done since the advent of neoconservatism, McCain promotes a very hawkish, anti-detente position toward Russia, which he has been advancing like a good little horseman of the apocalypse at every possible opportunity, from Syria to sanctions to NATO provocations. …

And now we’re on the brink of a world war (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/if-this-tweet-bothers-you-its-because-you-re-a-piece-of-$#@!-de0f0cec0e1f) with a nuclear superpower and its allies because these Democratic neocons and Republican neocons formed an alliance to advance what Paul Craig Roberts calls “the most dangerous ideology that has ever existed.” These horrible people inflicted this on our species, and may very well end up handing us our extinction in the very near term. …

So yeah, if John McCain could go ahead and die sooner rather than later, that would be awesome. Or retire if he can recover from his addiction to human blood; that would be fine too. Whatever gets his horrible inner demons as far away from America’s steering wheel as possible.

And here is the post cancer diagnosis follow up response to the outcries of the PC thought police demanding respect for the murderous criminal agent of death ...

Good (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/good-600a38e0c75d)

Know what I find to be in poor taste? Pushing for senseless acts of bloodshed in functionally defenseless nations at every opportunity. Children’s guts getting ripped out by cluster munitions. Charred corpses. Shredded bodies. All the death, destruction, suffering, chaos, rape, slavery and exploitation which necessarily occurs whenever the US topples a government in a country that it has no business involving itself in at all. Deliberately escalating tensions with a nuclear superpower and threatening the existence of all terrestrial life. That’s what I find to be in poor taste. …

If you are saddened to learn that John McCain has been rendered incapable of returning to the Senate by a disease to which he will almost certainly succumb, it is only because you have found a way to compartmentalize away from truly comprehending the reality of what this man is and what he has done to the world. In order to avoid the cognitive discomfort of deeply recognizing the unspeakable horrors that the US war machine has unleashed upon the world with McCain’s devoted assistance … Dissociating from the products of John McCain’s blood-saturated career has been more psychologically comfortable for you than facing the truth. …

Defenses of McCain tend to include the phrase “war hero”, which is a nonsensical concept … For a time in Vietnam, John McCain was a war victim, a victim of a war that should never have happened. He then spent the rest of his life finding ways to victimize others, from Iraq (https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D02CACCE-63C1-4E12-86FD-5378F44CE221) to Afghanistan (https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=86AD2AC3-0AAA-42E7-9C76-8592CC31EF28) to Syria (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/05/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html) to Libya (http://www.salon.com/2011/03/22/john_mccain_libya/) to Kosovo (https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=513b4a8a-7e6a-4bd7-a0e1-4dd9f54df22c) to his cartoonishly virulent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4To74ZZ9A) NATO expansionism to his attempts (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-29/putin-a-bigger-threat-than-islamic-state-mccain-says/8570158) to escalate tensions (https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140197/john-mccain-spitting-mad-trumps-russia-policy-hes-bark-no-bite) with Russia (https://www.thenation.com/article/mccain-talks-tough-as-the-war-in-ukraine-continues-without-end/). …

The thought police would have you believe that hoping for the death of a tyrant makes you worse than the tyrant who has spent his life helping to kill hundreds of thousands of people. This a poor distinction. It’s good to hope a murderer dies of natural causes before he murders more people. It’s not good to murder people. See? Distinctions. They’re important.

John McCain loves death, and very soon he will get his wish. McCain has spent his political career pushing for the deaths of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. I simply hope that stops. Why would anyone pray for that to continue? Why would you wish health and recovery for that? Why would you offer your lifeforce for this agent of death to continue his grisly work?

Death is John McCain’s answer to every problem. Death is his thing; it’s his will, and if it’s an option he wills death at every opportunity (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/john-mccain-world-attack-map-syria/). … So I will not mourn the end of his reign. I have a small hope that his leaving us will give us a chance to turn this earthship around and point it toward life. …
This is the man whose push for escalations in Syria (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mccain-makes-secret-trip-syria-meet-us-military/story?id=45680390), Ukraine (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/31/mccain-visits-frontline-ukraine-troops-anti-putin-gesture/96036782/) and the Balkan (https://www.voanews.com/a/mccain-montenegro-nato-russia/3807446.html) states (http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/senator-visits-balkans-to-boost-us-nato-ties-04-10-2017) could easily engage the US in direct conflict with Russia. In the blink of an eye. He would have us all killed to sate his bottomless bloodlust and finally have it out with those damn Ruskies. So let’s be clear — an alive John McCain may mean the death of you, your family and everyone you love. …

John McCain has brain cancer. The brain tissue that has spent its entire existence scheming toward death and destruction is now self-destructing and pointed toward death. Good. May man’s self-destructiveness self-destruct. May the will toward death be turned in on itself. May those who love death receive what they love. May death get its wish. May death die. Let death die so that life may live.

[Swordsmyth]

To all the Care Bears who are soft on McPain:

2 Chronicles 19:2 “And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.”

King James Version (KJV)

[Dr.3D]

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[dannno]

https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http:%2F%2Fi2.cdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext %2Fdam%2Fassets%2F160810165247-trump-quote-two-mccain-super-169.jpg&sp=51210c41ee63cb965cfff925f1e20d88

I still can't believe he said this and won the GOP primary.

[Jamesiv1]

the bad news is that nature and the MIC abhor a vacuum. When McCain leaves the stage, it will be milliseconds before a new cheerleader emerges.

[DamianTV]

Lets remind everyone what kind of guy he was back in 2008:

Republican Charlotte Iserbyt blows the whistle on John McCain
May 7, 2008 by George J. Dance

Last week, Republican Charlotte Iserbyt of Dresden, Maine, sent a letter to all 1500 of her fellow delegates attending the state convention.

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (Isser-bay) is the author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (Conscience Books, 1999) a Barnes & Noble #1 bestseller in its category. A co-founder of Guardians of Education for Maine, she became a senior policy advisor of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement during the first Reagan administration, but was fired for whistleblowing. (Her webpage profile calls her the “consummate whistleblower.”) Full disclosure: She has previously endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination.

The following is Iserbyt's letter to the state delegates:

—————————————————
Why you need to meet the real John McCain

(A message from Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, Sr. Policy Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Education during the Reagan Administration)

As a delegate to our state convention this coming weekend we have a solemn obligation to know the truth about the man who has been anointed the “presumptive nominee” of our party. Our job is not to be a rubber stamp for anyone else's agenda, no matter how “nobly” the cause is presented. The Republican establishment in Maine is counting on us not having the documented information on this sheet. It is counting on our willingness to be told what to think in the same way that the mainstream media has been telling us what to think throughout this entire election cycle. We are expected to suspend any other concerns we may have in the name of “party unity”.

The truth is that a patriot who loves his country also makes it an ultimate priority to be well-educated about the decisions he or she must make. Unless we have come to understand how dominated by the leftist military-industrial complex America's major media has become, and done some research, we are not prepared to do our duty at the convention.

This letter, supported by many delegates to the Republican Convention, is literally about saving the party and the nation from a maniacal neoconservative war monger, who supports a United States presence in Iraq for 100 years, and who is not really even a Republican.

“War hero” image is a media creation not supported by the facts.

McCain graduated 894th of the 899 cadets in his class at the Naval Academy. Google It. Why would we want someone who was a failure and took his responsibilities so flippantly as our commander-in-chief?

McCain was an irresponsible pilot who crashed 6 planes, and started a major fire on an aircraft carrier through negligent action. Why would we want someone this reckless in the most-important office on the planet?

McCain collaborated with the enemy, was given “soft” treatment because his father was an admiral, and is known as “Songbird McCain” by those who were imprisoned with him. He is the MIA/POW family's worst enemy for his constant attempts to belittle their concerns and stifle their inquiries while serving in the Senate.

McCain ditched his ill wife to marry an heiress when he returned from Vietnam.

Is this the type of morality we Republicans condone? Is this type of heinous lack of loyalty we want in a President?

He also has a track record of shocking verbal abuse including screaming profanities against his Senate Republican colleagues. Senator Thad Cochran, MS, says “The thought of his being President sends a cold chill down my spine.” Other Senators relate times when McCain screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room, like Dick Shelby, Rick Santorum or Jim Imhofe. “The man is unhinged,” one senator said. “He is frighteneningly unfit to be commander-in-chief.”

The truth is, John McCain is not even a Republican. He is a phony stalking horse who is a liberal in disguise. He not only can't win this fall because he is so out of step with the majority of Americans and with the principled stands of Republicanism, but if we support this person for our nominee, he will likely destroy our party. Consider:

- He was intimately involved in the “Keating 5” Savings & Loan scandal
- He has been endorsed by the liberal/leftist New York Times
- He is a big advocate of the extreme “green” global warming scare, and the economically horrific “solutions” being proposed by people like Al Gore.
- He has promoted illegal amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
- His McCain-Feingold bill has destroyed much of the rights of people to take part in the political process the way they see fit. This bill remains un-Constitutional and a major affront to the First Amendment protections on the right of free speech.
- He is a big-time gun grabber who is an extreme advocate of restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights.
- He opposes repeal of Roe v. Wade, and opposes a Constitutional amendment to protect all life.
- He is no fiscal conservative, and he supports raising taxes on Social Security benefits.
- He continues his aggressive support for the Iraq War, which costs the U.S. taxpayer $12 billion a month, even though only 34% of Americans support the war. 4,538 Americans have died in the war. 29,780 have been wounded. 300,000 soldiers are suffering from major depression, and 320,000 received brain injuries, all as a result of this unconstitutional and immoral war.

We will hear much about “unity” at the Maine State Convention. However, it is very important that we understand that to unify behind this man is tantamount to nominating a Democrat. We can vote our consciences or abstain from voting.

John McCain did poorly in our Maine caucuses. By most estimates he got fewer than 20% of the delegates to the State Convention coming out of our caucuses and was soundly trounced by both Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. McCain did not win a single county in the straw poll, with 15 counties going to Romney and one going to Dr. Paul. McCain has little support nationally … there are never huge rallies for McCain, unless people are paid to show up. In short, he is a media creation and the darling of the Trotskyite neoconservative warmongers who have hijacked our party. He does not support our own platform!

Former Romney supporters who receive this info sheet DO NOT have to follow the “uncalled for” advice of the Massachusetts governor that you go over the cliff with support for this unstable man.

DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF OR YOUR VOTE TO BE PROSTITUTED IN THE NAME OF PARTY UNITY. PUT YOUR COUNTRY FIRST!

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and for being such an important part of our representative form of government – the envy of the world!

[Mike4Freedom]

This man will live another 10 years at least. Remember, as puppets who sold there soul, the puppet masters know that death is the thing they fear most so they will be giving him the real cure. Or a much better treatment that us common folk are not allowed to try. B17? Vitamin C?

[heavenlyboy34]

I still can't believe he said this and won the GOP primary.
The guy literally wrote the book on bullshitting your way to the top (https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J-ebook/dp/B000SEGE6M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500693831&sr=8-1&keywords=donald+trump). I highly doubt it was a fluke of any kind.

[sparebulb]

I still can't believe he said this and won the GOP primary.

It seemed like he paused for a second and it seemed to me that he was about to drop a bomb about McShame and then decided not to use it and say something stupid instead.

Or maybe I was just projecting what I would say.

[UWDude]

The guy literally wrote the book on bullshitting your way to the top (https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J-ebook/dp/B000SEGE6M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500693831&sr=8-1&keywords=donald+trump). I highly doubt it was a fluke of any kind.

Oh, I get your problem now, you don't see salespeople as deal makers, you see them as vipers.
You know, that whole outlook comes from a very selfish point of view, and usually from impoverished family lines with no real economic sense.
He wrote a book on deal making. When making a deal, you have to be tough.

[nikcers]

Oh, I get your problem now, you don't see salespeople as deal makers, you see them as vipers.
You know, that whole outlook comes from a very selfish point of view, and usually from impoverished family lines with no real economic sense.
He wrote a book on deal making. When making a deal, you have to be tough.
So that's why Trump is being tough on the Iran deal. He doesn't want war with Iran, he is just being tough to make a deal.

[devil21]

So this means everything he has voted on is null and void, right?

Tinfoil hat says it's bs though. The bs ISIS narrative is falling apart, which McCain was one of the pointmen on, Trump is apparently stopping "rebel" funding and now McCain has a brain tumor? Suuuuure.

[Swordsmyth]

So this means everything he has voted on is null and void, right?

Tinfoil hat says it's bs though. The bs ISIS narrative is falling apart, which McCain was one of the pointmen on, Trump is apparently stopping "rebel" funding and now McCain has a brain tumor? Suuuuure.
I have seen plenty of evidence in his behavior for quite some time to believe this, my guess is that this has been secretly known for some time and that is why the "rebel" funding is going away, but things have gotten so bad they have had to announce it to the public now.

[heavenlyboy34]

Oh, I get your problem now, you don't see salespeople as deal makers, you see them as vipers.
You know, that whole outlook comes from a very selfish point of view, and usually from impoverished family lines with no real economic sense.
He wrote a book on deal making. When making a deal, you have to be tough.
:rolleyes: Just had to go for the not-so-subtle insult, eh? I didn't say anything negative about him in that specific post, express or implied. Not sure why you've got your panties in a twist.

[donnay]

To all the Care Bears who are soft on McPain:

2 Chronicles 19:2 “And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.”

King James Version (KJV)


Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

[Swordsmyth]

Matthew 5:44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
GOD does not change, there is room for some of both that is why he gave us both messages, in my opinion McPain used up the sermon on the mount a LONG time ago.

[UWDude]

DP

[UWDude]

:rolleyes: Just had to go for the not-so-subtle insult, eh?

It's not an insult. Am I right, or am I right? You see sales people as fast talking slicksters out to drain your wallet. You think everything is cheaper on the internet. You're the guy who brags about how cheap you got your watch, and how it tells time just fine! (Just kidding, I am sure you don't wear a watch, after all, you have a cell phone... ..probably an old flip-phone from 2010).


I didn't say anything negative about him in that specific post, express or implied.

Oh, this was a compliment? Reads like an express insult to me, (it is beyond implied).


The guy literally wrote the book on bullshitting your way to the top

[heavenlyboy34]

It's not an insult. Am I right, or am I right?
Wrong on both counts

You see sales people as fast talking slicksters out to drain your wallet. Some are, some aren't
[
]You think everything is cheaper on the internet. Not always.

You're the guy who brags about how cheap you got your watch, and how it tells time just fine! (Just kidding, I am sure you don't wear a watch, after all, you have a cell phone... ..probably an old flip-phone from 2010). We already established that I use a phone instead of a watch. It's only a year or 2 old, actually. I require a "smart" dohickey for work and getting around.




Oh, this was a compliment? Reads like an express insult to me, (it is beyond implied).
No it isn't an insult in this context. I also call much of what he does trolling and don't mean it in a negative way. I personally think he's brilliant at manipulating audiences and routinely say so. It's an art and not everyone can do it. :cool:

[UWDude]

We already established that I use a phone instead of a watch.

LoL. When?



No it isn't an insult in this context.

Quit trying to bullshit me, slick.


I personally think he's brilliant at manipulating.....

Let me guess, you do not consider this an express or implied insult as well.


It's always the ones with the astronomical post counts that are the worst.

[Swordsmyth]

A Complete History Of John McCain Calling For War Around The World
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-22/complete-history-john-mccain-calling-war-around-world

[tod evans]

John ‘Songbird’ McCain Exposed By Vietnam Vets And POW’s As A Liar And A Fraud

http://truthuncensored.net/john-songbird-mccain-exposed-vietnam-vets-and-pows-liar-and-fraud-video/

Veterans voice their disgust for John “Songbird” McCain who spilled his guts to get out of being tortured. There is evidence that McCain received ‘special’ medical treatment from a Soviet physician and other ‘considerations’ to avoid being tortured just so he could come home.

No one disputes that McCain was a Vietnam POW, he spent 5½ years in captivity in North Vietnam when he was shot down in his Skyhawk dive bomber on Oct. 26, 1967, and was taken prisoner with fractures in his right leg and both arms.

Despite the notoriety he received upon his return he has been the subject of damning articles, and criticism by other veterans, and for good reason. McCain has a lot to hide, and has gone to great length to keep what happened in Vietnam a secret.

He voted against a bill that was otherwise unanimously passed that would have released sealed records that would have revealed what happened in Vietnam, presumably because those records would have confirmed his dishonorable actions.

The severely wounded McCain was thrown on the back of a truck and hauled to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp. Immediately, his captors began to interrogate him using sadistic methods they had perfected on hundreds of captured U.S. servicemen before him.

As they did with most prisoners of war, his interrogators demanded military information. When he refused, his guards kicked and pounded him mercilessly.

McCain admits that three to four days after he was captured, he promised the Vietnamese, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”

McCain also admits that the Vietnamese rushed him to a hospital, but denies he was given “special medical treatment” because of his promise.

He claims he was given medical care normally unavailable to captured Americans only because the Vietnamese learned he was the son of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific including those fighting in Vietnam, Wayne Dupree reports.

The Vietnamese figured that because POW McCain’s father was of such high military rank that he was of royalty or the governing circle in the United States. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured “the crown prince” and treated him as a “special prisoner.”

Less than two weeks after McCain was taken to a hospital, Hanoi’s press began quoting him giving specific military information, including the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, numbers of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight, information about location of rescue ships and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place.

There is also evidence that McCain received “special” medical treatment from a Soviet physician.

After he was out of the hospital, McCain continued cooperating with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. He made radio broadcasts for the communists and met with foreign delegations, including the Cubans. He was interviewed by at least two North Vietnamese generals one of whom was Vietnam’s national hero, General Vo Nguyen Giap.

On June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service story headlined “PW Songbird is Pilot Son of Admiral,” reported one of McCain’s radio broadcasts: “Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of the United States commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praises medical treatment he has received since being taken prisoner.

“The broadcast was beamed to American servicemen in South Vietnam as a part of a propaganda series attempting to counter charges by U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that American prisoners are being mistreated in North Vietnam.”

McCain says he violated the Code of Conduct only when the North Vietnamese brutally tortured him. He further claims that he was so distraught afterwards that he tried to commit suicide. He has never explained why his “aid to the enemy” continued for more than three years.

Even though there are no reports in the public record from other POWs who witnessed McCain’s claims of torture and heroics or his attempted suicide, the American media has accepted his version of events word for word, no questions asked.

Yet, the same press that transformed the admiral’s son into an “incredible war hero–an inspiration to all Americans,” vilified the two grunts.

Comparing the incidents surrounding the fates of three POWs,’ who collaborated with the enemy, makes one question why two faced possible execution for treason, while the third won acclaim as a hero fit to be President of the United States.

[Dary]

Um, folks, McCain may not be every libertarian's cup of tea, but he is a human being with family and friends who love him. The tacky comments are not cool. What happened to the nonaggressive principle?

He drew first blood.

[pcosmar]

Um, folks, McCain may not be every libertarian's cup of tea, but he is a human being with family and friends who love him.

I am free to question his humanity,, as I have seen little evidence.

I feel sorry for those that have been inflicted by his evil.

[Wooden Indian]

I was sleepy and cranky. I apologize.

[heavenlyboy34]

LoL. When?




Quit trying to bullshit me, slick.



Let me guess, you do not consider this an express or implied insult as well.


It's always the ones with the astronomical post counts that are the worst.
Ugh, this is just plain awful even by webbernet standards and you should feel bad. You're like Ronin Truth except you didn't have to have a stroke to get this way.

[UWDude]

Ugh, this is just plain awful even by webbernet standards and you should feel bad.

Absolutely not. Calling someone manipulative or a bullshitter are both certainly express insults, (not even implied). So don't even act like you are the victim here of some great misunderstanding. You are blatantly lying in your posts.

In one post you cast clear insults, then in the next post you actually try to spell out that you did not make an insult.

So either you are lying, or just completely numb to what a lying little troll you have become.



Dude's posts are so cringy.

I don't give two squirts p about you.

[heavenlyboy34]

Absolutely not. Calling someone manipulative or a bullshitter are both certainly express insults, (not even implied). So don't even act like you are the victim here of some great misunderstanding. You are blatantly lying in your posts.

In one post you cast clear insults, then in the next post you actually try to spell out that you did not make an insult.

So either you are lying, or just completely numb to what a lying little troll you have become.



I don't give two squirts p about you.
Welcome to my ignore list.It is extremely rare a poster is so exceedingly bad that they make it to this list,so pat yourself on the back.

[UWDude]

Welcome to my ignore list.It is extremely rare a poster is so exceedingly bad that they make it to this list,so pat yourself on the back.


Dude, you have 56,163 posts. I am sure you have added literally dozens if not hundreds of people to your ignore list all over the internet. I am sure every time you use the old cliche "welcome to my ignore list" too.

And what made you mad?

Because I called you out on your blatant lies. TWICE!

Oh, and I know you will read this. Because trolling online is clearly your life. You just have to know. You are addicted to the anger.

[UWDude]

Ok, so this is crazy.

I just checked heavenly boy's profile and posts, and apparently, not five hours after a thread was started elsewhere about wristwatches, I posted about him not wearing wristwatch, not buying retail, etc etc.

I DID NOT SEE THAT THREAD OR READ IT FIRST.

BUT I KNEW I WAS RIGHT ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY.

NAILED IT!

[Mach]

He's retired, whether he's admitting it or not, the tumor is a Glioblastoma, even if they cut out the main chunk there are growing links of cells webbing out and digging in, McCain has been forced out.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblastoma

Glioblastoma, also known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is the most aggressive cancer that begins within the brain.[5] Initially, signs and symptoms of glioblastoma are non-specific.[1] They may include headaches, personality changes, nausea, and symptoms similar to those of a stroke.[1] Worsening of symptoms often is rapid.[2] This may progress to unconsciousness.[2]

Despite maximum treatment, the cancer usually recurs.[3] The most common length of survival following diagnosis is 12 to 15 months, with fewer than 3% to 5% of people surviving longer than five years.[2][3] Without treatment, survival is typically three months.[9] It is the most common cancer that begins within the brain and the second most common brain tumor, after meningioma.[5][10] About 3 per 100,000 people develop the disease a year.[3] It most often begins around 64 years of age and occurs more commonly in males than females.[2][3] Immunotherapy is being studied in glioblastoma with promising results.[11]

[RJB]

How did this go from a discussion of compassion for a war criminal to wristwatches?

[heavenlyboy34]

How did this go from a discussion of compassion for a war criminal to wristwatches?
The majick of the webbernets plus a line(or 4) of cocaine up UWDude's nose? #justguessing

[UWDude]

How did this go from a discussion of compassion for a war criminal to wristwatches?

Heavenly boy claimed Trump wrote the art of bullshitting. (but claimed it wasn't an insult) Which to me signaled he didn't like salesmen. So I called him out on the lie, and predicted his personality. I chose watches and sales because both are topics I know well. I also know the ignorance on the subjects. Turns out there was a thread about watches a few hours earlier in hot topics, (which I never read) that confirmed exactly what I wrote about Heavenly Boy. In short he knows nothing about sales, and quite simply, he just doesn't "get it". People that don't "get it" are haters. They hate success, they don't understand it, they don't understand sales (aka deal-making), and especially do not understand "frivolous" luxuries like watches. So they consider salespeople "bullshitters" and "manipulators" (two things he called Trump, while claiming not to be insulting trump, expressly or implied).

Quite frankly, a lot of the Trump hate here is nothing but success hate. (A lot of it is ideologically warranted, but there are quite a few, obviously poor people here who hate him just because he is rich, and does rich people things).

[Wooden Indian]

Heavenly boy claimed Trump wrote the art of bullshitting. (but claimed it wasn't an insult) Which to me signaled he didn't like salesmen. So I called him out on the lie, and predicted his personality. I chose watches and sales because both are topics I know well. I also know the ignorance on the subjects. Turns out there was a thread about watches a few hours earlier in hot topics, (which I never read) that confirmed exactly what I wrote about Heavenly Boy. In short he knows nothing about sales, and quite simply, he just doesn't "get it". People that don't "get it" are haters. They hate success, they don't understand it, they don't understand sales (aka deal-making), and especially do not understand "frivolous" luxuries like watches. So they consider salespeople "bullshitters" and "manipulators" (two things he called Trump, while claiming not to be insulting trump, expressly or implied).

Quite frankly, a lot of the Trump hate here is nothing but success hate. (A lot of it is ideologically warranted, but there are quite a few, obviously poor people here who hate him just because he is rich, and does rich people things).

No. The "Trump hate" as you call it has to do with certain principles held by many on this forum in regards to LIBERTY and a general disdain towards those here and in Washington that seek to undermine it.

You and your ilk, with what strangely appears to be the blessing of the moderators here, work tirelessly to promote that thug while chasing off those that stand against your agenda.

I apologize for what I said last night, based on the rep comment you left, it probably hurt your feelings, and that was wrong of me. But one thing you should know- you will not win. Your day in Trump sun will end, and those chickens will come home to roost. Yes, sir. The Devil will come a knocking and your zealous worship of an authoritarian liberal snake will cost you and those you love.

Good night.

[UWDude]

No. The "Trump hate" as you call it has to do with certain principles held by many on this forum in regards to LIBERTY and a general disdain towards those here and in Washington that seek to undermine it.



A lot of it is ideologically warranted, but there are quite a few, obviously poor people here who hate him just because he is rich, and does rich people things


I apologize for what I said last night,

No you don't.


based on the rep comment you left, it probably hurt your feelings,

Hurt my feelings? I don't trust any sock puppets on this forum or their intentions one bit.

and that was wrong of me.

What the hell are you talking about?


But one thing you should know- you will not win. Your day in Trump sun will end, and those chickens will come home to roost. Yes, sir. The Devil will come a knocking and your zealous worship of an authoritarian liberal snake will cost you and those you love.


You and your ilk, with what strangely appears to be the blessing of the moderators here, work tirelessly to promote that thug while chasing off those that stand against your agenda.

I do not hide my agenda. I never have. I have stated I am pro-union (and I still am) I do not like racism or Islamophobia. (I Still don't), and yes, I Occupied Seattle for three months. Trump has turned many like me who was ready to embrace communism back to capitalism. In fact, I bet if Hillary had won, I would soon be unfurling a communist flag in my room. Not for the economic philosophy. I really don't care about the economic philosophies. But for the pure sake of a bloody revolution, without a care about what happens next.

This government, its corporate masters, its constant warmongering, and most importantly, its lying media, must be destroyed. That is my agenda.

I can not fight the government, for I have no army. I cannot fight the corporate masters, for I do not have the money. But i can fight the media, because I have a keyboard and a mind, and now, an ally in the white house. That is my agenda. It has been my main agenda my whole life, ever since I saw the lies of the media start with the first gulf war, back when I was quite young.

And not only will "I" win. I am winning. We are winning. The media is being destroyed. It's hapless shills everywhere have become jokes. Jokes are funny again, and PC, to quote Joe Rogan, "took a missile to the d***".

You can't tell me I "won't win" when I have already seen massive humiliation of the media. I already have won. It's a glorious time to be alive. I see a young generation rejecting socialism, embracing Trump, and laughing at liberal lunacy. I see feminism being shoved back right back to where it belongs, in angry college lesbian classrooms.

...and let's not forget. John McCain, this forum's obvious general election choice in 2008, has brain cancer. That's a win.

[Dary]

John McCain, this forum's obvious general election choice in 2008...

What?

[bunklocoempire]

Some thieves on crosses facing their own fate are humbled, and some are not.

[Ender]

What?

Same response......????????

[specsaregood]

Same response......????????

clearly somebody that wasn't here for the many Baldwin vs Barr threads.

[RJB]

Some thieves on crosses facing their own fate are humbled, and some are not.
Yeah. I have prayed for his repentance.

[heavenlyboy34]

What?
My advice-don't bother. The guy iscompletely unhinged. Based on his inability to grasp nuance and highly irrational, charged posts, I'll SWAG autism.

[UWDude]

What?

I remember it here. It's why I left. A ton of people were giving the old "McCain is better than Obama" Spiel (nobody was saying Obama is better than McCain). Racism was rampant. It's why I left for two years. I seem to remember the same sentiment about Romney.

[sparebulb]

I hope that the medical team really pull out all the stops to deliver standard care for Johnny.

[Dary]

My advice-don't bother. The guy is completely unhinged. Based on his inability to grasp nuance and highly irrational, charged posts, I'll SWAG autism.

I tried but I just can't let that go unchallenged.

[Dary]

I remember it here. It's why I left. A ton of people were giving the old "McCain is better than Obama" Spiel (nobody was saying Obama is better than McCain). Racism was rampant. It's why I left for two years. I seem to remember the same sentiment about Romney.


What I remember is going to see Ron Paul in SC and sharing a hotel room with 6 other Ron Paul supporters that I had never even met until that day with 6 more in the room next to us.
The Ron Paul food drive in SC
The amazing Ron Paul Iowa speech
The Ron Paul Air Force in Tampa
Painting the town Ron
Ron Paul Black ops
Ron Paul record breaking fund raising events
Ron Paul radio
The Ron Paul speach in Tampa
Ron Paul meeting us at the bar in Orlando
The Jacksonville Ron Paul event
The Ron Paul blimp
The Ron Paul full page newspaper advertisment
The Ron Paul letter writting campaings
The Ron Paul sign waving events
The neighborhood Ron Paul literature bombardments
The Wanted Posters
The Fred Tompson forums
Flower bombs

I probably could go on if I thought more about it.

Most of these things were organized or were in someways brought into being through theses forums.

The one thing that I DON'T remember is John McCain EVER being this forums obvious general election choice.

[specsaregood]

I remember it here. It's why I left. A ton of people were giving the old "McCain is better than Obama" Spiel (nobody was saying Obama is better than McCain). Racism was rampant. It's why I left for two years. I seem to remember the same sentiment about Romney.

You've got it backwards. There were a few people her saying Obama was better, but I can't recall anybody promoting McCain. And I recall things fairly well.

[pcosmar]

but I can't recall anybody promoting McCain. And I recall things fairly well.

There were some. I even met one McCain supporter while promoting Ron. only one.

Some were pushing party vote here. widely ignored..

but but some GOPers were.

[UWDude]

What I remember is going to see Ron Paul in SC and sharing a hotel room with 6 other Ron Paul supporters that I had never even met until that day with 6 more in the room next to us.
The Ron Paul food drive in SC
The amazing Ron Paul Iowa speech
The Ron Paul Air Force in Tampa
Painting the town Ron
Ron Paul Black ops
Ron Paul record breaking fund raising events
Ron Paul radio
The Ron Paul speach in Tampa
Ron Paul meeting us at the bar in Orlando
The Jacksonville Ron Paul event
The Ron Paul blimp
The Ron Paul full page newspaper advertisment
The Ron Paul letter writting campaings
The Ron Paul sign waving events
The neighborhood Ron Paul literature bombardments
The Wanted Posters
The Fred Tompson forums
Flower bombs


I remember all that too... .....that's called the primaries.

I especially remember the blimp, and the first "money bomb" where half the forums thought calling it a money bomb was a bad idea, because Glenn Beck had called Ron Paul supporters terrorists. I also remember a bunch of people calling the blimp organizer (Travis?) a fraud, and claiming he was only doing that, and other things for the money. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those haters still post here today.


The one thing that I DON'T remember is John McCain EVER being this forums obvious general election choice.

After Ron suspended his campaign, these forums started to talk about the general. I left about 2 weeks before the actual election, and vowed never to come back after the racist dog-piling and McCain apologists started running rampant.


You've got it backwards. There were a few people her saying Obama was better, but I can't recall anybody promoting McCain. And I recall things fairly well.

I don't think so. I know I didn't quit because of Obama adulation here. I know why I quit coming here. It was all the McCain justifications and the racism. It is the same reason I stopped listening to Alex Jones for a couple of years (about 2013 - 2015). I know Alex Jones has a latent racist streak, and he always would talk about how race issues are "divide and conquer", but he never seemed to take a copicided black man's side. Basically saying "This is all divide and conquer folks! Don't fall for it! Believe in the cops!"


And in 2012, I was here, but I didn't pay any attention to the election, and do not remember posting here much. I do remember people here again arguing Romney was the lesser of two evils vs. Obama. I don't remember anyone arguing Obama as the lesser of two evils. To be fair, most were arguing not to vote at all or vote for Castle or Baldwin or something like that. By 2012, I was swinging left pretty hard, (but still very anti-interventionist, which has never changed).

[Dary]

I remember all that too... .....that's called the primaries.

The reason that all of that work was done during the primaries was because Ron Paul was this forums general election choice.

If the forums choice for the general was McCain, then we would have been working for McCain during the primaries.

There have always been varying opinions on this board.

But just because a few people expressed their opinions on who should be elected after the primaries were over in no way could possibly be interpreted as this forum being pro McCain for the general.

To claim that it was is simply false.

[devil21]

The reason that all of that work was done during the primaries was because Ron Paul was this forums general election choice.

If the forums choice for the general was McCain, then we would have been working for McCain during the primaries.

There have always been varying opinions on this board.

But just because a few people expressed their opinions on who should be elected after the primaries were over in no way could possibly be interpreted as this forum being pro McCain for the general.

To claim that it was is simply false.

It's UWDude posting so expect the contents to be false. Anyone that was here in 2008 knows that McCain was in no way the choice of this forum after the primaries were over.

[Swordsmyth]

Sen. John McCain just contradicted his own healthcare vote in a speech
July, 25, 2017: Mark it down as one of the strangest days of John McCain's entire, lengthy time in the Senate.
The senator flew to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday — days after being diagnosed with brain cancer — just in time to cast a vote that, moments later, he appeared to ridicule in a speech on the Senate floor.

McCain's vote helped Senate Republicans pass a motion to proceed to debating a possible bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare). Senate Republicans, by and large, don't know what's in the bill, because the Republican leadership hasn't told anybody. McCain voted in favor of the motion to proceed despite being aware of this, but then decried the secrecy he endorsed in a speech moments later.

"I know many of you will have to see the bill changed substantially for you to support it. We tried to do this by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors, in consultation with the administration, then springing it on skeptical members, trying to convince them that it's better than nothing," McCain said, speaking with a gash over his left eye, the result of a recent surgery to remove a blood clot. "I don't think that's gonna work in the end, and probably shouldn't."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-john-mccain-just-contradicted-211014907.html

[Swordsmyth]

John McCain gives stirring speech against Obamacare repeal bill – but votes for it twice in one dayhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/john-mccain-gives-stirring-speech-073100806.html

[Anti Federalist]

I stayed out of this, knowing full well the immediate and karmic consequences of wishing ill on somebody.

Fuck that now.

Drink bleach and die you piece of shit.

Maybe with luck somebody will be appointed that will not fuck the AmeriKunt people as badly as you just did and we can get rid of the nightmare that is ACA before 2018.

[William Tell]

I stayed out of this, knowing full well the immediate and karmic consequences of wishing ill on somebody.

$#@! that now.

Drink bleach and die you piece of $#@!.

Maybe with luck somebody will be appointed that will not $#@! the AmeriKunt people as badly as you just did and we can get rid of the nightmare that is ACA before 2018.
Lol, I hear you. I almost told people to shut up and leave him alone but man, one does not simply save Obamacare and get sympathy. The bastard is literally goading us into cussing his maggoty old carcass and doing a good job of it.

[Swordsmyth]

I stayed out of this, knowing full well the immediate and karmic consequences of wishing ill on somebody.

$#@! that now.

Drink bleach and die you piece of $#@!.

Maybe with luck somebody will be appointed that will not $#@! the AmeriKunt people as badly as you just did and we can get rid of the nightmare that is ACA before 2018.

McPain long ago crossed the threshold where it is good karma to wish his death, it will bring relief to millions of victims to be, from foreigners that may not get killed to Americans who may not lose as many rights.

[Swordsmyth]

John McCain hospitalizedUS Senator John McCain, who is fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer, was in a military hospital Wednesday to treat "normal side effects" of his therapy, his office said.

"Senator McCain is currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center (in Bethesda, Maryland) for normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy," his office said in a statement.
"As ever, he remains grateful to his physicians for their excellent care, and his friends and supporters for their encouragement and good wishes," the statement added.
"Senator McCain looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible."
A day earlier McCain received an MRI scan at the National Institutes of Health, also in Bethesda, his office said.
He will continue to receive targeted radiation and chemotherapy treatments at NIH "while maintaining a regular work schedule in the United States Senate," it added.

Should McCain's return be delayed, prospects for the tax overhaul would narrow substantially.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/cancer-battling-us-senator-john-mccain-hospitalized-224345982.html



Is it "normal side effects"?

Is he trying to obstruct the tax bill by faking it?

Is he getting worse?

[Swordsmyth]

McCain To Miss Critical Tax Vote, Returning To Arizona After Chemo Treatmenthttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-17/mccain-miss-critical-tax-vote-returning-arizona-after-chemo-treatment

[Swordsmyth]

It's getting closer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNIUX617RuU

[Anti Globalist]

He needs to retire and spend some time with his family.

[sparebulb]

I think that he has it in him to screw us over several more times before he leaves for the Bush ranch in Paraguay.

[Swordsmyth]

John McCain, who is battling brain cancer, was in stable condition Monday after undergoing surgery to treat an infection, an aide said, adding that Senate colleagues have made frequent visits to see him."On Sunday, Senator McCain was admitted to Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and underwent surgery to treat an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis," spokeswoman Julie Tarallo said.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/cancer-stricken-mccain-stable-undergoing-surgery-002411449.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHrOegiF10

[pcosmar]

John McCain, who is battling brain cancer, was in stable condition Monday after undergoing surgery to treat an infection,, and underwent surgery to treat an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis,

Proof his brain is in his ass.

[nobody's_hero]

Is Dick Cheney sharing his secrets on how to be evil and live forever?

[wizardwatson]

Ha ha. Real funny guys. As evil and destructive as brain cancer may be, having to suffer through John McCain isn't a joke.

[Swordsmyth]

Meghan McCain returned to Arizona this week to be with her ailing father, Sen. John McCain, who is battling a deadly form of brain cancer (https://azc.cc/2vpUAXW) and has been in the hospital after surgery.

After the news of McCain's hospitalization earlier this week, his wife, Cindy McCain tweeted he was "doing well." She wrote the couple was anticipating a return to their property in Cornville, Ariz., near Sedona.

It is unclear whether the senator, or his family members, will attend the McCain Institute for International Leadership's annual Sedona Forum. The McCain Institute is part of Arizona State University.

More at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/20/john-mccain-health-meghan-mccain-returns-arizona/536751002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVJzibVS2YM

[tod evans]

Why won't that piece of shit just die already?

[Danke]

Curse you two. I clicked on this thread under "New Posts" hoping for good news.

[Swordsmyth]

Curse you two. I clicked on this thread under "New Posts" hoping for good news.
I think it's all downhill from here, he may not be dead yet but I think won't be going back to D.C. anymore.

[angelatc]

I think it's all downhill from here, he may not be dead yet but I think won't be going back to D.C. anymore.

His freaking mother is still alive. He's got another 20-30 years left.

[Swordsmyth]

His freaking mother is still alive.
Does she have brain cancer?


He's got another 20-30 years left.
No way.

[Swordsmyth]

Arizona lawmakers are debating legislation that would keep John McCain’s Senate successor off the ballot in November’s midterm elections, should the seat become open before the end of next month.

The bill (https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/70776?SessionId=119), which could come up for a vote this week, would change the state’s process for replacing members of Congress who resign or die in office. Though Democrats are expected to block the measure, the effort has renewed speculation about McCain’s health.
McCain, a six-term Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was diagnosed last summer with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. The 81-year-old has been with his family (https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/986660667498336258), absent from Washington, since December.
State Democrats accused Republicans of playing politics with the bill by trying to eliminate the possibility of two open US Senate seats in a year when the state could determine control of Congress. Nationally, the historic unpopularity of Donald Trump is fueling talk of sweeping Democratic gains.

Arizona Republicans are already defending the seat that will be vacated by retiring senator Jeff Flake. The battle to replace him is expected to be one of the fiercest – and most expensive – midterm races.
“Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” Democratic state senator Steve Farley, the assistant minority leader, told the Guardian. “The effect of this bill would be to allow a Republican to serve in that [US] Senate seat without standing for election in a year when things aren’t looking like they’re going well for Republicans.”

Republicans say that is not the their intent. Steve Yarbrough, the Arizona senate president, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Guardian. But he recently told (http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/384015-arizona-gop-tinkers-with-election-rules-with-an-eye-on-mccains-seat) the Hill: “I think everybody was just trying to make this process fair. I think it’s unfortunately probably much ado about little. It’s not like this is going to create some advantage.”

Debate on the issue erupted this week, when Republicans moved to amend the legislation one day after McCain’s office announced (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/04/19/meghan-mccain-am-going-home-arizona-john-mccain-health-update/534923002/) that he had undergone surgery related to an intestinal infection.

In the event McCain’s seat becomesopen, Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican also up for re-election this year, will make an appointment. The seat would appear on the next general election ballot.

The Arizona secretary of state’s office has said that if the vacancy occurs before 31 May, voters will elect a new senator in this year’s general election. If the seat opens after that date, the appointee will serve through 2020.

By introducing an “emergency clause” to the bill concerning succession to vacated congressional seats, state senate Republicans proposed changing that deadline to 150 days prior to a regular primary election, or 31 March of this year. That would ensure that McCain’s seat did not appear on the ballot in November.
Without the emergency clause, the legislation would not take effect in time to impact the 2018 election.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-republicans-seek-law-change-110021651.html

[Swordsmyth]

John McCain's son-in-law, conservative pundit Ben Domenech, tweeted Saturday night that the senator, who is battling a deadly form of brain cancer, asked him to take care of his daughter, Meghan.
McCain, a six-term Arizona Republican, was released from the hospital last week. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/04/16/john-mccain-surgery-mayo-clinic-condition-called-stable/975441001/) He had been in stable condition at the Mayo Clinic, according to his family and Senate office, following surgery for an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis.
McCain, 81, has been recovering at his family's retreat near Sedona, a tweet from his wife, Cindy, suggests (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/04/23/john-mccain-wife-cindy-mccain-home-cornville-hidden-valley/544552002/).
Ben Domenech's tweet was posted at 8:16 p.m. Arizona time. It is unclear what prompted the message. He subsequently deleted the tweet sometime before 10 p.m.

More at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/04/28/mccains-son-law-john-hugged-me-tonight-he-asked-me-take-care-meghan/562544002/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8x3LCnYZw

[Anti Globalist]

I was thinking about this the other day. Did Trump really vote for McCain in 08 or did he write in himself? Just because you endorse someone publicly doesn't mean when election day comes you have to vote for them.

[Pauls' Revere]

He's beat cancer a few times already. His freaking Mom is still alive FFS.

DAM! what is she 200?

Wow, she was born in 1912.

Roberta McCain (born February 7, 1912) is the widow of Admiral John S. McCain Jr. and mother of the Republican Arizona Senator and two-time Presidential candidate John S. McCain III.

that makes her 106 yrs old.

[Raginfridus]

Good stock. Too bad he's scumbag.

[Suzanimal]

If I were Trump, I'd go.


McCain doesn’t want Trump at his funeral


Sen. John McCain loathes President Trump so much that he plans to diss him from beyond the grave.

The ailing Arizona Republican, who has brain cancer, is organizing his funeral – and close associates have told the White House that Trump will not be invited.

Instead, Vice President Mike Pence, who served with McCain in Congress, will be asked to attend the service, the New York Times reported Saturday. The ceremony will be held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

....

https://nypost.com/2018/05/05/mccain-doesnt-want-trump-at-his-funeral/

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgiJ0OS9LwU

[Raginfridus]

McCain cucked you bro? I would demand immediate satisfaction, then divorce your waifu.

[Swordsmyth]

McCain cucked you bro? I would demand immediate satisfaction, then divorce your waifu.

haha.

[Wooden Indian]

I picture Cancer coming in the front door of his middle-class home in surburbia...shaking his head slowly, face forlorn, eyes glistening, cheeks dampened with grief.

His wife, comes around the corner to greet him when she stops cold, and upon seeing his face she knew how the scan went. She knew the prognosis. She knew.

Her loving husband of 39 years was diagnosed with John McCain. And nothing is worse than John McCain.

[Suzanimal]

993135263479205888

[dude58677]

I picture Cancer coming in the front door of his middle-class home in surburbia...shaking his head slowly, face forlorn, eyes glistening, cheeks dampened with grief.

His wife, comes around the corner to greet him when she stops cold, and upon seeing his face she knew how the scan went. She knew the prognosis. She knew.

Her loving husband of 39 years was diagnosed with John McCain. And nothing is worse than John McCain.

LOL

[Suzanimal]

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[Swordsmyth]

On Monday, Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch revealed that Arizona Republican Senator John McCain is not expected to return to the U.S. Senate.

"That's what I've been told," said the 84-year-old Hatch, who is serving in his final year in the Senate before retiring. "I don't know. I hope he does, I hope he can."

Hatch said that McCain should reconsider inviting Trump to his funeral, saying that McCain making a big spectacle out of making sure that Trump does not come is "ridiculous."
"Well, he's the president of the United States and he's a very good man," Hatch said. "But it's up to [McCain]."
When asked if McCain should change his mind and invite Trump, Hatch replied: "I would."

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John McCain Wants Mike Pence to Attend His Funeral Instead of Donald Trump: Report (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?521961-John-McCain-Wants-Mike-Pence-to-Attend-His-Funeral-Instead-of-Donald-Trump-Report&)

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Mark Salter, U.S. Sen. John McCain's former chief of staff and longtime co-author, provided a rare update on the ailing senator's health Sunday.
During an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" to promote McCain's recent memoir (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/05/16/5-takeaways-sen-john-mccains-new-memoir-restless-wave/600666002/), Salter said the Arizona Republican was doing physical therapy while battling a deadly brain cancer.
“He’s doing all right. He’s hanging in there, he’s working on physical therapy, trying to get stronger, and staying engaged with his staff. But he's doing — doing well,” Salter said.
He said McCain was staying on top of current events by reading the newspaper and watching the news.
"I suspect he's watching this today, so I am a little nervous," Salter joked.

"He's working on physical therapy, trying to get stronger and staying engaged with his staff. But he's doing -- doing well," longtime @SenJohnMcCain (https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) aide @MarkSalter55 (https://twitter.com/MarkSalter55?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) tells @margbrennan (https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)#FTN (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FTN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)https://t.co/BLKgVnzJdVpic.twitter.com/g6rBi3G0zT (https://t.co/g6rBi3G0zT)
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 1, 2018 (https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1013474832170868737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)


McCain, 81, has been absent from the Senate since he was diagnosed with glioblastoma last July (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/07/20/mccain-cancer-glioblastoma-aggressive-tumor/494576001/).
Officials haven't provided a formal update on McCain's health since April, when he underwent surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix to treat an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/04/16/john-mccain-surgery-mayo-clinic-condition-called-stable/975441001/).

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I question whether he is really still alive.