John McCain Diagnosed With Brain Cancer
[guest post by Dana]
Prayers for Sen. John McCain and his family tonight:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been diagnosed with brain cancer, the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix said Wednesday.
The tumor was discovered after the senior Arizona senator underwent a minor procedure last week to remove a blood clot from above his left eye.
“Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot,” the hospital said in a statement.
“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.”
If anyone has shown himself to be a tenacious fighter in this life, it’s certainly been Sen. McCain.
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (023079) — 7/19/2017 @ 7:17 pmFor once I’ll be interested in what happyfeet thinks.
harkin (536957) — 7/19/2017 @ 7:56 pmHe’s had a pretty long history with skin cancer, right? This is sad news. As I said about Ted Kennedy however many years ago, if this is the end then I hope he goes quickly and peacefully without prolonged suffering.
JVW (42615e) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:00 pmi question the timing
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:03 pmI am optimistic that happyfeet will be gracious and sympathetic as any of us would be for those with whom we disagree.
Dana (023079) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:03 pmnonono
this is not a vapid and empty occasion for to do mindless virtue signal
it’s just not
what i will say forever and anon is that america is worse off – decidedly worse off – for this man’s “service”
and it’s appropriate that this current event (événement en cours) occasion a discussion of service
cause he did it wrong, and yet you WILL hear so much florid and zaftig prose attesting to the opposite
but he did it wrong
he did not add value
and we all need to think about that
(and we are thinking about that more and more)
we really do
how much acclaim this man has received for adding no value (it’ll be good practice for when Barack Obama kicks it)
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Or, you know, get a job.
Put together the plumbing for a multi-family construction site.
Help secure clean title on a starter home.
Test the gradient on a new pipeline to make sure it’s within spec.
If you must make me eat some turdburger crafted in this man’s honour, I will yet maintain that this man was in no way exceptional.
Did he cash a single paycheck from the private sector his entire life?
I’m sure in the coming days we’ll learn the answer to this question and many more.
But at the opportunity cost of not learning the answers to much more significant questions.
No more John McCains.
If I can ask but one thing of you, America.
No more John McCains.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:19 pmWhen I first heard this news, I’m sad to say that hatefulfeet’s regularly vulgar and childish diatribes against McCain was actually the very first thing I thought of. I’m distressed by that. It means that hatefulfeet has indeed had an impact on me, an entirely horrible one. I had hoped he’d have the grace to just STFU here for a while, but of course that’s way too much decency to hope for from one whose defining characteristic is hatefulness.
I’ve had many political differences with Sen. McCain, but even at my most put out with him, I’ve always acknowledged that the man is well-motivated, and that he served this country courageously by anyone’s lights while in its uniform. Perhaps the most favorable thing I recall having written about him was this long comparison of his and Obama’s basic character as a product of their respective environments, as reflected in their respective autobiographies. I think it holds up reasonably well as an accurate portrayal of both men.
Beldar (fa637a) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:26 pmyou know a dead person what added more value than your John McCain?
Mitch Hedberg
I went back and found this after the David Brooks thing last week – it’s by no means his best work, but i liked that he’d already taken the road less traveled by well before David Brooks made a big socially-relevant to-do about it
I love sandwiches. Sandwiches are easy to eat, but I hate sandwiches at New York delis; too much f*ckin’ meat on the sandwich. It’s like a cow with a cracker on either side. Walk in, order a pastrami sandwich. “Alright, anything else?” “Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!” “What kinda bread?” “Rye. No, f*ck, banana. You got banana bread back there?” “What kinda cheese?” “Cottage.”
“Get the f*ck out! I’m not makin’ a banana bread, pastrami, cottage cheese sandwich! That would severely ruin my reputation!”
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:33 pmoh… my blockquotes got lost
starging with I love sandwiches. that’s all from a Mitch Hedberg show
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:36 pm*starting* i mean
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:36 pmYeah, and there’s another asshole on the previous thread I’m sorry I engaged in a comment, too.
I wish John McCain and his family well. He and they are in for a horrible time and I only have sympathy for them.
nk (dbc370) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:46 pmMr. Beldar have you perused the comments on this zero hedge thread announcing this news today?
Do you have any reason to think this linked comment thread isn’t a valid historical artifact what can attest to this John McCain person’s legacy with accuracy and integrity?
I think this comment thread was both spontaneous and heart-felt.
I think it represents a popular sentiment in regards to Mr. McCain that is both honest and genuine.
As an avid historian, I’m reluctant to avert my eyes from this sort of primary source in favor of mindless virtue-signaling in service of some meaningless and disposable crap du jour narrative.
His legacy will be what it will be… and it will be just so quite apart from what any of us comment on the blogs.
But that doesn’t mean i have to shut the eff up while you get to craft some unchallenged poopy-twaddle.
Or does it?
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 8:48 pmDana, what you do is your business, but it may be appropriate to make comments on this thread subject to moderation and delete some already made. And maybe Patterico could consider something similar for the preceding (This Means War ….) thread.
nk (dbc370) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:05 pmhappyfeet,
You’re a troll and it’s a shame folks like Beldar or Dana actually waste their neurons on you. I, on the other hand, really don’t have anything better to do. You have your own little version of virtue signalling, based on the virtues in the alt-right. Gotta get those reactions. Gotta get your troll on.
John Mccain left his mark on our country, and though he will almost certainly die soon, he lived a real life. He suffered a lot, and will be remembered as a hero. All you can do is leverage that heroism to make an effective series of troll comments. Kinda puts things in perspective.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:05 pmyes yes
he suffered a lot
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:09 pmGood luck healing and recovering.
Should retire immediately for the nation and for his health.
NJRob (7f4bec) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:22 pmGood idea, nk.
I absolutely love Lindsay Graham’s heartfelt comment (in part):
It’s troubling that to some politics supersedes all else. We forget the mere mortals we are, fallible, with regrets, with a few shining moments in between the ins and outs of everyday life, and that is what really matters. McCain has served his country with honor and unfailing commitment throughout his life. He certainly has had his ugly moments, and moments where his weaknesses were painfully magnified, but does that negate the sacrifice of his life? Of course not. He’s not a god. He’s simply a man, full of the frailties and foibles we are all beset with, and yet in spite of this, he has sustained his commitment to serve America. It’s far more than I have done.
Dana (023079) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:26 pmEveryone, we should heed the words of the redoubtable happyfeet, who has seen fit to provide us with a succinct summation of his own commenting career:
On topic, whatever my disagreements with Senator McCain, he is in my prayers tonight.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:30 pmyes yes he certainly had his ugly moments
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:30 pmAnd I second everything Dana said, more eloquently than I could, in #17.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:31 pmI respectfully disagree with your assertion that the Senator has served his country throughout his life. He most certainly did while in uniform. Unquestioned courage then.
Afterwards? It’s been more about what could be done for himself, not the country, in my opinion. His refusal to step down at the end of his previous term is but the latest example.
Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:33 pmIt is OK with me to wall off the POW who endured too much for words, and the Senator who has been a big squishy disappointment.
steveg (e8c34d) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:35 pmAs a Naval officer and a POW, McCain is a hero. That does not change that as of now, as a Senator he is a RINO.
Now may not be the time to say it though.
It is always fun to see people who regularly say mean things about people that THEY don’t like, suddenly get all misted over when someone else runs true to form and says “hey, this is a difficult time for McCain, but he is still a squish and remains a back stabbing asshole”. (not that anyone actually said that.) At least hf is being consistent, unlike some of the more “enlightened” folks who hang out in a satellite and exchange hen house clucks about the vast unwashed who habitate the general comments
i agree with Mr. Rob, in #16
even the good luck part
yes yes
good luck with that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:36 pmSorry about “habitate” instead of “inhabit” The first reminds me of the idiots who say the “we conversated” and for a short time I joined them
steveg (e8c34d) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:38 pm@ steveg, #22:
Three words: Time and place.
There are some few people in this world about whom I literally do not have one good thing to say, not that that’s stopped me from saying plenty about them. But if one of them died tomorrow, I would like to think I’d have the common decency to keep my mouth shut.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:41 pmthank you Mr. g
i tried to point people to the zero hedge thread cause it’s so honest and spontaneous
no artifice there no sir
it’s just the honest first take of a lot of people who are engaged with the day to day discourse
and it’s *not* honest to pretend that it isn’t
there’s no shame in standing against this man
because he was no good
and let’s be real
i engaged him more passionately than anyone here over the years
i read his reaction to things
i puzzled over his bizarre and multitudinous unhelpfulnesses
i googled to see if he’d make an effort on this issue or that, always to be disappointed
who knows
maybe he was just lonely
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:46 pmI told you pikachu was raised by wolves but you thought I was kidding. Yes you know my views on some of his policy and personal decisions, but this a terrible diagnosis.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:49 pm48 hour rule. That’s all.
NJRob (7f4bec) — 7/19/2017 @ 9:59 pmthis a terrible diagnosis
that’s so bogus and untruthful and garish and protruding
if this is a terrible diagnosis whose responsibility is that?
honestly
who exactly decided to be an 80 year old senator
whose only guiding imperative was it to die in office
who was so narcissistic as to think at 80 he was indispensable?
not me that’s for sure, and not Johnny Carson either
or Tina Turner
or J.D. Salinger
ffs how did we think this gorgeously heroic fairy tale was going to end
with a rosy bloom of good health?
come come, Mr. narciso
there’s something cloyingly inevitable about this “terrible diagnosis” isn’t there?
ffs how did we think this gorgeously heroic fairy tale was going to end
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 10:01 pmBeldar says “the man is well-motivated”. How could he possibly say that? All the evidence is, at best, neutral.
I think McCain was a very bad man, from mental laziness and selfishness and hubris. Even so he shall have my endless sympathy, love, and prayer. Because I am also a very bad man, probably worse than McCain. As is happyfeet. And Beldar. And Dana. And all the rest of you.
Fred Z (05d938) — 7/19/2017 @ 10:01 pmBut for the grace of God go we, pikachu.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/19/2017 @ 10:03 pm48 hour rule, Mr. narciso.
talk later
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/19/2017 @ 10:08 pmSincere prayers for Sen McCain and for his family. No matter your political differences with the man, surely you can sympathize with the fear and shock his family must be experiencing. May God bless and comfort and protect them all.
Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah (4dedc2) — 7/20/2017 @ 12:10 am#32
Talk later
Probably the best post on the thread
steveg (c6e6c8) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:15 amSigh. A walk through the ocean of Mr. Feet’s soul would scarce get one’s feet damp.
But not surprising, as Beldar aptly stated.
I think we could all come up with particular terms unique to this troll that could be used to place him in moderation. But no one—particularly Mr. Feet—wants to insist he doesn’t pee all over Patterico’s carpeting here.
Back to the topic.
I’m reminded of my late mother. Like me, she greatly disliked Ted Kennedy, and resented the media’s consistent attempts to turn the overgrown cowardly frat boy into a Great Man.
When she was still alive, I called my mother a couple of times a week. She made it through ovarian cancer for many years before it took her, but was always hurting and exhausted. I would just let her talk.
My mother had heard about Ted Kennedy’s cancer diagnosis. With great venom, she suggested that this was a good thing.
I normally listened to her without judgement, but in this case I spoke up—this was not the woman who raised me. “Ma,” I told her, “that’s a terrible thing to say. What about his family and friends who care about him? Like the doctor told us, cancer impacts everyone, just not the patient.”
She muttered at me, calling me a “debater” (which was high criticism).
“Besides,” I finished, “think of it this way: once he dies, he can never come around to your superior way of thinking. Isn’t that a terrible loss?”
Mom laughed.
For some reason in this sick culture of ours, we have equated tactlessness with honesty, bullying with strength, and crudity with conviction. None of these things are true.
There are things McCain has done with which I have strongly disagreed. But I would never wish him this disease, nor take this terrible occasion to dance upon a grave he does not yet inhabit.
I pray for his health and recovery, and if not that, for peace and grace.
Politics truly brings out the worst in us all.
Simon Jester (a07db7) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:52 amI wish him and his family the best.
mg (31009b) — 7/20/2017 @ 3:06 amHe should resign today.
An undocumented democrat bites the dust. I am not sorry to see him go, but, he could have faded quietly.
jim (5e1e7d) — 7/20/2017 @ 5:35 amThere are people on this thread who are making Barack Obama look like the epitome of class and grace.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/20/2017 @ 7:30 amThis blog could rename itself “hatefulfeet’s toilet” and that would, at least, accurately describe what its comment section has turned into.
I find myself increasingly disinclined to associate with such filth from such nasty people, for whom I have no respect, and with whom no reasonable discussion is possible.
Beldar (fa637a) — 7/20/2017 @ 8:51 amThere are people on this thread who are making Barack Obama look like the epitome of class and grace.
Actually they are making Donald Trump look like the epitome of class and grace.
The Talmud says that when Isaiah told Hezekiah that he was about to die, Hezekiah said “I have a tradition from my fathers: even when a sword is on your neck, do not cease praying for help”. And he prayed, and lived. (That’s the time when the sundial turned back.)
May the Healer of all flesh heal him.
kishnevi (bb03e6) — 7/20/2017 @ 8:58 amI can only speak for myself pikachu has been a jackalope to practically everyone here, the difference between him and say Ben, is a matter of degree not kind
narciso (d1f714) — 7/20/2017 @ 9:05 ambosh and pickles
Beldar i love you more than beans on toast, which I should like to try sometimes with Mr. mg’s butter from Denmark.
But nevertheless, I stand by my opinion of this person. This John McCain.
You can’t cover the sun with one finger don’t you know, and my thoughts return once more to that spontaneous and honest zero hedge comment thread.
(Please to note that nothing I’ve said comes even close to an approximation of the tone and sentiment of the thoughts expressed there.)
It’s a remarkable document.
I understand virtue-signalers gotsta signal that virtue, and i wouldn’t have it any other way.
Signals shiny, signals bright those first signals i saw last night, i saw them here.
And that distresses me not in the slightest.
But I’ll stand by my own thinkings in this matter, thank you very much Mr. Beldar. My own counsel I will keep.
Public service.
If it is to mean anything it first has to mean something.
Public service.
The number of those among our politicians and other elite who would claim to perform this ill-defined but tacitly beneficent “public service” far outnumber those who can truthfully be said to have done so.
It’s a problem.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 9:20 am@ happyfeet, #42:
Spontaneity and honesty are not unlimited and automatic virtues.
Nothing I’ve done in my life comes even close to the deeds of Ed Gein. That statement, in and of itself, is not sufficient to commend me.
Dustin nailed you on this point last night. Your insistence on vocally disapproving of Sen. McCain in the hour of his distress is itself virtue-signalling…a way of saying, “At least I’m willing to speak what I consider the truth no matter the circumstances.”
I sincerely wish you would. This place might be more pleasant in consequence.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/20/2017 @ 10:40 amnope you’re wrong
if I was indulging in any virtue signaling it was only in substantially toning down the manner in which I’m accustomed to speak of this man
and i did that because people here like to find pretexts to get people banned
not all of them, but there are those who fancy themselves to be arbiters of discourse and commentary
they’re cut of the same deplatforming cloth we see so often berobing our friends on the left
it’s kinda gross
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 10:54 amMcCain’s distressing flaw has threaded through his career: poor judgement. A less-than-stellar-aviator who destroyed 5 U.S. aircraft; one of the Keating Five; picking Palin; suspending his ’08 campaign… jesting “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran…” …dodging Letterman… the list of goofs is endless. But McCain’s courage is self-evident and makes a fella like Trump look small. He can laugh at himself and has served his country better than The Donald can ever hope to.
May God finally grant him the strength for one more fight and the wisdom to make the right decision in the twilight of his life to be with his family and let Arizona choose anew.
Stand down, Senator. You have earned it.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/20/2017 @ 12:53 pm@ happyfeet, #44:
You can tell whatever story you like. We both know what you’re doing, and we both know I’m not wrong. As does everyone else here, though some won’t admit it.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:01 pmI second that. The most venal acts have been perpetrated on honorable Vets in and out of office. They’re trashing McCain right now. These people are the worst WoMankind has to offer. As Hunter S. Thompson concluded about Hells Angels MC…”Exterminate the Beasts!”
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:15 pmyes yes I can tell whatever story I like.
You and some other people you ride in here on your phony baloney pony and you make me sound like I’ve been saying the most scurrilous things about the John McCain!
But I have not said anything scurrilous or bad at all.
Scroll up Mr. Demosthenes! Please to tell me what I have said what is so terrible and out of bounds
There’s nothing for you to find! (chimera)
I think you and your fellow virtue squirters are a little disingenuous, which is to say, a lil dishonest.
You want to leave a reader with the impression that I’ve said something inappropriate, but you never actually quote anything I said what was inappropriate.
You are all phony baloney on a pony! And you know that I know that you know, you just won’t admit it.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:21 pmThis blog could rename itself “hatefulfeet’s toilet” and that would, at least, accurately describe what its comment section has turned into.
Perhaps, but it’s still better than the sewer over at Instapundit.
Kevin M (752a26) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:32 pmLet’s stop feeding the troll. This isn’t about him. He wants attention.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:33 pmI wasnt aware you had such feelings happy. I was referring to the geeks of Tweet Street, Just One Minute.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:35 pmJust One Minute is a sturdy little blog Mr. burn.
But I like it best when Mr. Minute really grabs onto a story and sees it through to the end, and I haven’t been getting that vibe over there lately.
He’s one of those dauntless stalwarts what will read the nyt so i don’t have to, and do a darn good job of it.
That’s valuable.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 1:39 pm@ happyfeet, #48:
Not at all? As in, not at any time? Really…
May 26, 2017: “this makes demented torture victim John McCain very very happy, cause it’s another way he gets to stick it to Trump!” (https://patterico.com/2017/05/26/i-might-ask-for-a-second-set-of-forceps-and-pull-off-a-leg-or-two-so-its-not-partial-birth-abortion/)
June 9, 2017: “that’s why the sleazy corrupt fbi turds took doddering torture victim john mccain’s pee pee dossier to a FISA court to get illegal wiretaps authorized”; “President Trump’s done a lot of good work fighting regulation in spite of opposition from sleazy senile torture victim john mccain”; “on amazon turdlord jeffy bezos’s blog they’re trying to rehabilitate Meghan’s senile coward torture victim daddy”; and a couple more (https://patterico.com/2017/06/09/my-reaction-to-the-comey-testimony/)
July 13, 2017: “this Sheldon Whitehouse jackass was just recently palling around with Meghan’s slimy torture-turd daddy on an all-expenses paid anti-Trump strategy session they held in Afghanistan”; “oh for the love of strawberry pop rocks someone please tell slimy brain-addled torture-turd John McCain that centipedes do not in fact have shoes”; “did we know slimy torture-turd John McCain had ’emissaries’ ???” (https://patterico.com/2017/07/13/two-troubling-aspects-to-the-accusations-against-donald-trump/)
And I know there are more, but that’s all I can be bothered to look up.
Oh, I see. What you meant to say was that you haven’t insulted his military service and mental capacity on THIS thread. And that’s true. You haven’t. All you’ve done is to use the occasion of a man’s misfortune to talk about how poorly you believe he has served this country. That does not rise to the level of your usual inappropriateness, but is still inappropriate. But then again, given your (sarc) oh-so-thoughtful (/sarc) link of that terrible thread, you don’t need to say your usual stuff. You can let other people say it, and just talk about how “honest” and “spontaneous” it is…much like a Holocaust denier might drop by a synagogue with a copy of David Irving’s work, ready to start a “dialogue.”
Again, we both know what you’re doing. We both know that you’re being much milder about Sen. McCain than you normally would be, while still saying negative things, in the hopes that you can further troll everyone here into blowing up. Unfortunately, you managed to win even before your first comment, when harkin wanted to know what you thought. So congratulations. You have managed to soil the carpet so deeply and so thoroughly here that some people now anticipate your latest digital piddle.
But just because everyone here knows that’s what you’re doing doesn’t mean you don’t need to be fought.
Demosthenes (09f714) — 7/20/2017 @ 5:26 pm@ Beldar,
This makes me sad. I know that we work very hard to bring something of value to readers when we post. I would say that especially JVW and myself are all too aware of the burden that comes with being guest contributors, as we do not want to diminish in any way, the high quality and solid reputation of the site that Patterico has achieved through his intelligent writing over the years.
Dana (023079) — 7/20/2017 @ 5:53 pmyou did your research good job Mr. D!
yes yes i’ve expressed my feels about this John McCain person very accurately in the past, though I can think of some you missed that I feel were even more illustrative of my unbridled contempt than these ones you’ve chosen
no i disagree with you though – it’s *not* inappropriate in the slightest to note that Senator McCain has a track record of poor service
especially as he shows no sign of retiring, even as his predicament becomes more and more enfeebling
there is much to think about here and discuss
I’ve said for years that it was Senator McCain’s highest ambition to die in office.
And let’s do note as well that there are several others who seem to share this ambition, including the surprisingly and suddenly quite utile Senator Chuck Grassley. (My goodness he’s become quite a good example to the others of late, )
Which is to say, it’s by no means an unlucky accident that we’re confronted with an infirm Senator McCain – this has been the more or less inevitable consequence of his choice not to retire even as he’s become increasingly erratic and enfeebled.
But put that to the side.
The corollary to his choice not to resign is that he’s chosen to remain in office.
This is obvious to anyone who is willing to do the analysis.
As several good people in this thread have gently noted, his choice to remain in office might be more of a self-indulgence than an act meriting praise, and that whatever you may think of the quality of his service, his predicament is such that it will be drastically ameliorated in the coming days.
But put that to the side.
And let’s just say this. There’s nobody in that godforsaken congress what is above the most vituperative criticisms of the American people. We have not been served well, you see. And there’s no reservoir of goodwill for any of them to draw upon, collectively or individually.
We have not been well served. And it’s a noxious lie to pretend otherwise.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:05 pmOH CRAP
i hitted enter too soon
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:06 pm(My goodness he’s become quite a good example to the others of late, )
i was just fixing that comma
it’s supposed to be a period, you see, and I needed to delete that trailing space
nothing for it now I suppose
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:07 pmDana,
Why sad? The proprietor apparently doesn’t see much harm in the POS commenter befouling every single thread. The fix isn’t within your remit.
Rick Ballard (264a24) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:15 pmouch now you’re just being mean
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:19 pmYou are a POS, Pervy Penquin. You always have been and you always will be.
Ask Jeff Goldstein if you don’t believe me.
Rick Ballard (264a24) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:25 pmI disagree. Number one I can’t even recognize myself in this portrait you paint of me.
Number two i think you must be grumpy tonight.
That’s ok it happens to everybody.
Here’s a short horror movie that’s quite well done.
It speaks to the potency of the fear and dread what can grow from a gnawing sense of futility.
I think Americans are becoming to understand this more and more.
The futility of this… increasingly grotesque experiment we call America.
And it’s making people grumpy to where they lash out at winsome little pikachus.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:33 pmI think happyfeet is a she, not a he.
DRJ (15874d) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:39 pmHe’s a he.
nk (dbc370) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:49 pmi think you’re a she
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 6:51 pmOh for Pollyanna’s sake.
Mr Feets, on some topics the best way to persuade is to shut up. Prove you are civil and caring by just saying nothing.
kishnevi (050eae) — 7/20/2017 @ 7:00 pmthat has the sound of wisdom to it Mr. kishnevi
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/20/2017 @ 7:02 pmAnd it’s a noxious lie to pretend otherwise.
Almost as bad as you pretending to be interesting, clever, creative, edgy, provocative, i.e. anything other than the pathetic, annoying, faux-hip pseudo-dissident cretin that you are.
Jack Klompus (e75b0d) — 7/21/2017 @ 6:37 amhi Mr. Klompus happy Friday to you
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/21/2017 @ 6:46 amhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/la-times-reporter-shares-totally-unverified-story-about-john-mccain-turning-away-a-brain-cancer-patient/article/2629243
The LA Times decided to take a dump on McCain. Not surprising since they are the media.
NJRob (7f4bec) — 7/21/2017 @ 7:16 amit’s kinda like how John McCain took a dump on President Trump with his bogus unverified pee-pee dossier
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/21/2017 @ 7:24 am“CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, and White House Homeland and Counterterrorism adviser Thomas Bossert all said they backed the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia carried out a campaign of cyberattacks and fake news to influence the election in favor of Trump. ”
Okay, now…
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 7/21/2017 @ 8:06 amJohn McCain:American
Some — some prefer to build walls and exclude newcomers from our support. Apparently, appeals to patriotism can only be held by card- carrying Republican, and only certain Republicans at that, not the kind of Republicans who might dissent from the soft-money ethics of a tired party establishment. Apparently Republican reformers, independent reformers or Democrat reform — Democratic reformers, any group that might, like the Reagan Democrats of 20 years ago, be attracted to our cause of conservative reform and national greatness are too great a threat to the Washington status quo. That surprises me, that surprises me since the essence of evangelism is to seek converts. My campaign is bringing new people into the Republican Party everyday….political intolerance by any political party is neither a Judeo-Christian nor an American value. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party, and our country.
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 7/21/2017 @ 8:17 amMike Pompeo’s the deluded harvardtrash bimbo who appears to genuinely believe he runs the corrupt rogue CIA
poor man
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/21/2017 @ 8:17 amCongressional
tradition allows
McCain time to
battle cancer
ABC News · 8 hours ago
ABC fake news propaganda sluts get up before the sun for so you can wake up to their blatant propaganda
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/22/2017 @ 10:24 amthis is a truly remarkable post that demonstrates the depth and conviction of the sincere and heartfelt contempt that exists for this John McCain person, and it really drives home how this is a years-in-the-making phenomenon
historians – is there any analog for this in American politics?
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/22/2017 @ 3:55 pmAttention to citation.
“Awarded for actions during the Vietnam War
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Commander [then Lieutenant Commander] John Sidney McCain, III (NSN: 0-624787), United States Navy, for heroism while participating in aerial flight on 26 October 1967 in North Vietnam. While attacking the thermal power plant at Hanoi, Commander McCain, despite extremely heavy and accurate anti-aircraft fire and more than fifteen surface-to-air missiles in the air, pursued the attack until his aircraft was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire. Although his aircraft was severely damaged, HE CONTINUED HIS BOMB DELIVERY PASS and released his bombs on the target. When the aircraft would not recover from the dive, Commander McCain was FORCED TO EJECT OVER THE TARGET. By his exceptional courage, superb airmanship, and total devotion to duty, Commander McCain reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
Action Date: October 26, 1967
Service: Navy
Rank: Commander”
Emphasis mine.
I don’t like the man. But I’m not going to lie about him. He is a bonafide hero. The above is from his write up for his DFC. How many of us commenting or posting here have anything approaching a DFC? McCain earned his.
McCain needed to shut up and go away. But not like this.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:11 pmthe important thing is that HE thinks he’s a hero
and nobody can ever take that away from him
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:13 pmThank you for your post, Steve.
Most adults know that some parts of people are good, and other parts bad. Letting one’s own distaste overshadow the good is…well, immature.
In any event, you can’t stop this troll. That is his history, and who he is. He will always be vulgar and nasty. It’s who he is. It doesn’t even matter that Patterico calls him a troll. The troll will pee all over Patterico’s carpeting, and gleefully at that.
He should have just said nothing, but like his response to me in a moment, the troll can’t help it.
I doubt he really believes in anything, other than being noticed, even in a negative way.
He is like childish vulgar graffiti on a lovely building. Patterico has worked hard to build this place. But that doesn’t matter to him.
Simon Jester (bcb31a) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:31 pmwhat’s exactly the difference between me holding to my point of view about this Mr. McCain person and your rather bizarre infatuation with narrating my comments (none of which have been vulgar or nasty in this thread not even a little – they been real good comments – i been so respectful every since the diagnosis)
ooh i know one difference in one instance I’m commenting about a notably pompous warmongering senator with a dreadful legacy of incrementally shifting failmerican policy ever leftwards whereas your target is a wee lil pikachu what goes on the internet and thinks about stuff and types what he thinks
it’s really icky how you’re so into me
it creeps me out frankly
but anyways i’ve documented here rather voluminous evidence that this Mr. McCain character is not beloved by Americans, even as the CNN Jake Tapper fake news propaganda slut media fabricates story after story suggesting otherwise, and i would submit this is an important thing to note
i’m actually more than a wee bit nonplussed as to who the target is for this pro-McCain propaganda
i’m still thinking about that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:43 pm@76. Doesn’t mention the ‘confession’… “a coerced confession McCain has for years openly written about and discussed. He made the statement after enduring days of beatings and torture.”
But then, he’s John McCain– not “John Wayne,” eh. Doubt any of us could have endured better.
He definitely had the mettle to earn his medals. you don’ have to like him to respect him. Just makes Trump look all the more smaller for his cracks in the campaign.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:45 pmYes but Ben has done worse to people I cared about, He trashed at least one other blog do the proprietor had to fumigate.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:51 pmFurthermore he resembles at least one of the persons we later discovered were involved.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:53 pmOn the swattings, which apparently there is little accountability for.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/22/2017 @ 4:54 pmWhy doesn’t the Contra ask Just One Minute refugees how the wHorde treated them? Take a message to the subhumans.
Ben burn (5645b7) — 7/22/2017 @ 5:02 pmwhat does that even mean
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/22/2017 @ 5:05 pmI have tried to explain it to him, I knew people whose parents were in la causa,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/22/2017 @ 5:16 pmi’m going to el supermercado
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/22/2017 @ 5:21 pmI am torn between the idea of deleting all happyfeet’s comments in this thread, for violating a long and well-known rule of decency — and the idea of leaving them up, to demonstrate for all to see where his character is lacking.
Patterico (115b1f) — 7/23/2017 @ 11:00 am