A few weeks ago, the presumed Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, did something pretty awful. (Well, he's always doing something awful, but this was awful even for him.) He made reference to Senator John McCain in a speech, saying that McCain was "not a war hero" because during the VietNam war, McCain "allowed himself to be captured."
Remember, if you will, that Donald Trump's military experience consists of whatever he may have learned at a military-type academy for troubled rich kids. He probably learned how to march in step, make his bed and peel potatoes and not a whole hell of a lot else.
I felt pretty bad for Senator McCain. I thought that it was a terrible, horrible thing to say about another human being; that Trump was completely clueless about how his remarks would feel to a man who spent years in a grim captivity by an unsympathetic enemy. The fact that these remarks came from a man who was ostensibly the leader of his party must have made them sting all the more.
Cut to today. After today, I wouldn't piss on Senator McCain if he was on fire.
We are currently in the aftermath of a horrible mass killing. Some demented dirtbag who will not be named by me killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a club for LGBTQ people. It was a Latin Night party at a gay club in the theme park capital of the world, which, as John Oliver said on his program, is proof of the greatness of America -- that we have Latin Night at a gay club in the theme park capital of the world.
The country is grieving. The LGBTQ community feels threatened. Terrible things are being said by the Christian Right, one preacher in San Diego going so far as to say that Orlando was now safer because 49 pedophiles had been killed. Liberals want gun controls restored so that we no longer sell semiautomatic weapons, weapons which have no purpose other than the murder of as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. Conservatives are stinging over the threat to their gun rights and to their notions of traditional morality, whatever the hell that is.
And then Senator McCain comes out with this filth:
McCain Says President Obama Responsible for Orlando Killings
Go ahead. Click on the link. According to the Washington Post article, McCain said in a speech that President Obama is directly responsible for the 49 deaths because the Islamic State came about on his watch as President. This is an ugly, hideous, horrible, awful thing to dump on another human being. It is also obviously untrue. If anyone other than the actual murderer bears any responsibility, one might argue that the blame falls squarely on all of the congresspeople who allowed the ban on assault weapons to lapse back in 2005 -- years before Obama became President. But you, Senator, were squarely in your seat representing Arizona, and you let it happen.
I blame you, and all your do-nothing cronies who are too afraid to give up the tens of thousands of dollars in blood money that you receive from the NRA. I frankly consider your remarks to be treasonous. They are certainly poisonous, and unfair.
It's time for you to retire, Senator McCain. And maybe to have your head examined. You may have been a hero once, sir, but no longer.
No longer.
Remember, if you will, that Donald Trump's military experience consists of whatever he may have learned at a military-type academy for troubled rich kids. He probably learned how to march in step, make his bed and peel potatoes and not a whole hell of a lot else.
I felt pretty bad for Senator McCain. I thought that it was a terrible, horrible thing to say about another human being; that Trump was completely clueless about how his remarks would feel to a man who spent years in a grim captivity by an unsympathetic enemy. The fact that these remarks came from a man who was ostensibly the leader of his party must have made them sting all the more.
Cut to today. After today, I wouldn't piss on Senator McCain if he was on fire.
We are currently in the aftermath of a horrible mass killing. Some demented dirtbag who will not be named by me killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a club for LGBTQ people. It was a Latin Night party at a gay club in the theme park capital of the world, which, as John Oliver said on his program, is proof of the greatness of America -- that we have Latin Night at a gay club in the theme park capital of the world.
The country is grieving. The LGBTQ community feels threatened. Terrible things are being said by the Christian Right, one preacher in San Diego going so far as to say that Orlando was now safer because 49 pedophiles had been killed. Liberals want gun controls restored so that we no longer sell semiautomatic weapons, weapons which have no purpose other than the murder of as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. Conservatives are stinging over the threat to their gun rights and to their notions of traditional morality, whatever the hell that is.
And then Senator McCain comes out with this filth:
McCain Says President Obama Responsible for Orlando Killings
Go ahead. Click on the link. According to the Washington Post article, McCain said in a speech that President Obama is directly responsible for the 49 deaths because the Islamic State came about on his watch as President. This is an ugly, hideous, horrible, awful thing to dump on another human being. It is also obviously untrue. If anyone other than the actual murderer bears any responsibility, one might argue that the blame falls squarely on all of the congresspeople who allowed the ban on assault weapons to lapse back in 2005 -- years before Obama became President. But you, Senator, were squarely in your seat representing Arizona, and you let it happen.
I blame you, and all your do-nothing cronies who are too afraid to give up the tens of thousands of dollars in blood money that you receive from the NRA. I frankly consider your remarks to be treasonous. They are certainly poisonous, and unfair.
It's time for you to retire, Senator McCain. And maybe to have your head examined. You may have been a hero once, sir, but no longer.
No longer.
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