I am not "pro-Trump".
I am not "anti-Trump".
I'm not impressed by anyone's stance on Donald Trump.
I'm completely opposed to the office of "president" existing, just as I am opposed to every other political office. I don't want anyone holding those offices and using them to molest anyone or their liberty. I don't think decent people hold political office. If a decent person finds himself in a political office, they won't stay decent for long. And I'm talking nanoseconds or less. I also believe that holding a government "job", even of the most benign variety, causes ethical (and perhaps, moral) damage to the employee in that "job". I would never wish that on anyone I like.
For these reasons, I get indigestion hearing people going on and on about Trump, either for or against. He simply doesn't matter to me one way or the other. No "president" would.
And this brings me to today's aggravation:
The ONLY reason the dead dirtbag anti-liberty bigot John McCain is being treated like he was some kind of hero is because he was vocally anti-Trump. That's it. If he hadn't come out of that particular closet none of the national mass media proglodytes would have spent the past couple of days praising his corpse's "legacy". In fact, they would probably have taken the position that his being dead is a good thing. But because he was anti-Trump while being "Republican" he is praised. No, his status as a former troop isn't the reason, nor is the fact that he was a POW. Those are used as justifications, of course, but they aren't the real reason. His greatest value was in being anti-Trump. Well, la-dee-dah. Anyone can do that.
The same people and media treating him as a hero now have treated him as a hero for more than two decades at all times with the single exception of the period between his receipt of the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination and the general election.
ReplyDeleteHe was a hero any time he was "reaching across the aisle" on this or that piece of statist legislation, which is something he was always doing.
He was a hero any time he was running for president and was not yet the nominee (2000 and 2008).
So, do the people and media now treating him as a hero have a time machine or something, so that they can go back in time and treat him as hero then just because he was "anti-Trump" at the time of his death?
OK. Maybe. I haven't paid much attention to him. All I remember about him is during his presidential campaign when they hated him and recently during his opposition to Trump when they loved him.
DeleteI still firmly believe if he had been a Trump supporter during the past couple of years they wouldn't be fawning over him now, regardless of his history of helping Democrats. Any of that would have been forgotten and they'd be dancing on his grave. It's still the "ONLY reason", since without that reason they'd be acting completely differently now. They don't need a time machine, they only need selective memory. Do you believe I'm wrong about that?
No, I don't believe you're wrong about that. But that's the equivalent of saying "they're only doing what they've always done because he only did what he always did."
DeleteYour question sounds like it presupposes that both reasons for some people treating him as a hero aren't possible. McCain is respected by some democrats because he disliked Trump and because he was sometimes seen as "bi-partisan" .
ReplyDeleteEither way, he was a dangerous control freak and a politician, but I repeat myself.
My question pre-supposes only what Kent himself claimed in his post:
Delete"The ONLY reason the dead dirtbag anti-liberty bigot John McCain is being treated like he was some kind of hero is because he was vocally anti-Trump. That's it. If he hadn't come out of that particular closet none of the national mass media proglodytes would have spent the past couple of days praising his corpse's 'legacy.'"
I'm assigning the usual meanings to the phrases "ONLY reason" and "that's it."
they hated "songbird",
ReplyDeletebefore he took soros money and was a trusted ally of Hillary and Sotero.
years of hate
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/08/26/left-wing-media-hypocrisy/
Soterobama Care
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/08/27/he-is-gone-and-i-am-glad/
left loves a treasonous turncoat who hates American people
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...left wing media...
ReplyDeletebut then, i repeat myself