#rip john mccain

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Gremlins (1984) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #comedy #gremlins #joedante #Mogwai #gizmo #zachgalligan #phoebecates #HoytAxton #riphoytaxton #coreyfeldman #dickmiller #ripdickmiller #judgereinhold #FrancesLeeMcCain #johnlouie #PollyHolliday #howiemandel #harrycareyjr #hulkhogan #ChristopherLee #RIPChristopherLee #JohnGlover #TomBergeron #kennethtobey #ripkennethtobey #havilandmorris #MichaelWinslow #robertprosky #riprobertprosky #jasonpresson #vintage #vhs #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

[scary-ivy]

Now that we're like 3 Trump assassination attempts in, can I just say it would be so funny if he finally got popped and all the "assassination attempts are a threat to democracy no matter what" liberals immediately switched from calling him a fascist to "RIP John McCain" mode. Just like immediately shifting from from making a gay for Putin joke to getting teary-eyed over a rapist.

[ladykailolu]

I miss the time when US politics actually had class and decent human respect. RIP John McCain, you were one of the last real ones.

[moviefunforeveryone]

100: Fierce Creatures (1997): As the one and only Jesus Christ himself once said 'it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!' and what this 1997 comedic romp presupposes is . . . . he was right.

Bringing back all your favourites from A Fish Called Wanda and adding my favourite Assistant DA from Law and Order, Fierce Creatures is a movie that you just couldn't make anymore, manly because lead actor/writer John Cleese is very busy doing publicly funded documentaries about how you just can't say anything anymore! in the country he's from but doesn't pay taxes in and so he's too darn busy to make a movie that actually DOES confront the mechanisms of power and in my (surely charitable reading of a mostly silly movie) presents the fact that for the workers to receive what is rightfully theirs the mega-rich man (pig) they hand their labour to for pennies, must die. A quick rundown of the plot is as follows, Rod McCain played by Kevin Kline is Rupert Murdoch even while being in the film an adversary of Murdoch. His company Octopus Inc goes around the world buying businesses, mining them for any capital and then selling them for the next new business ready to be shelled for profit. He ends up acquiring a small Zoo in England sends Rollo Lee (John Cleese) to run the ship all while raising profits to the needed amounts for Octopus Inc. Cleese is almost immediately usurped by Jamie Lee Curtis as a former Executive whose original job was erased in a deal just as she signed her contract. 'Don't worry we'll find you a job, there';s always jobs' Rod assures her while ignoring his son Vince McCain, also played by Kline Once all the players are in place we watch as the workers eventually realize they control the means of production, the manager class either gain class consciousness or accept it in order to secure their own means, and in the end everyone is happy or dead. Of course my reading is maybe a little more didactic than the filmmakers, especially considering the final third of the movie is entirely re-written/reshot thus needing two director credits. But it's all there on the screen, it's not MY fault no one else gets it This movie is the first of a running sub-list of movies that I watched multiple times with my Mom or my Grandfather, this one was my mom and we both enjoyed ourselves immensely, specifically every thing Kevin Kline did whenever he was in spitting distance of the camera. The cast is a reunion of the admittedly superior A Fish Called Wanda, although now John Cleese for some reason has a terrible dye job. Kline is doing a LOT and while I could see people not enjoying it I think it's manic delight. Jamie Lee Curtis is the one left holding the bag as she's basically a walking sign for being horny and so doesn't have as much to do but the small moments she gets she uses fully. Small mention to Carey Lowell as a beautiful zookeeper (and the ADA I mentioned above who 15 year old TC had a lot of complex emotions about) and my man Ronnie Corbett the short British comic with huge glasses who has guided not many of my choices but idk we share a lot of descriptors!

Look this movie isn't perfect, and almost certainly not as good as A Fish Called Wanda but it takes me back to my youth and the fond warm embrace of a time when actually you could fucking hate rich people and the commodification of life. Miss those days RIP xoxoxox My favourite line is 'Excuse me gentlemen I need to be alone .. .I uh feel a bit . . . suicidal!' as spoken by Kline. Better heard then read I am sure. In closing I am a true contrarian and so when everyone says 'Oh this isn't as good as their OTHER movie I have to prove my punk bonafides and say ACTUALLY you're wrong and ACTUALLY I am right and it is GREAT to murder rich people. With Satire! 10.10

[brooklynislandgirl]

From my beloved @mouthoftheocean Optional tag: Music-fiends, you know who you are. 1.   a song you can listen to on repeat Red Right Hand || Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Whatever It Takes || Imagine Dragons 2.   a song from one of your favorite albums Alive || Pearl Jam - 10 Levon || Elton John - Madman Across the Water 3.   a song you loved when you were a teenager or kid Mr Brownstone || Guns N Roses Me and Bobby McGee || Janis Joplin The End || The Doors 4.   a song that makes you feel strong The Warrior Song - Leviathan || Sean Householder Wolf Totem || The Hu 5.   a song that makes you sad Indian Sunset || Elton John The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald || Gordon Lightfoot Pirate’s Plea || The Musical Blades 6.   a song that cheers you up Can’t Stop || Red Hot Chili Peppers Mwahahahah || Ookla the Mok Survivor Evolved || Neebs Gaming ft. JT Music {{RIP Thick44}} 7.   a song that reminds you of your friend(s) Lux Aeterna || Clint Mansell Throw Your Arms Around Me || Hunters and Collectors Sugar in the Hold || The Jolly Rogers Friends in Low Places || Garth Brooks 9.   a song that reminds you of yourself Texas Longhorn || Django Walker Closer to the Heart || Rush A Pirate Looks At Forty || Jimmy Buffet 10.  a song that brings back good memories Get the Funk Out || Extreme Amarillo By Morning || George Strait Sex Type Thing || Stone Temple Pilots {feel free to ask why} 11.  a song that grew on you Smooth Criminal || Alien Ant Farm {cover} On a Boat || The Lonely Island 12.  a song from a musical Music of the Night || Michael Crawford - Phantom of the Opera Right Hand Man || Jonathan Young and Caleb Hyles - Hamilton You’ll Be Back || Jonathan Young - Hamilton Falcon in the Dive || Terry Mann - The Scarlet Pimpernel Into the Fire || Douglas Sills and Original Broadway Cast - The Scarlet Pimpernel Madame Guillotine || Original Broadway Cast - The Scarlet Pimpernel Stars || Phillip Quast as Javert - Les Miserables 13.  a song with a great music video Sweep the Leg || No More Kings Jack Sparrow || The Lonely Island 14.  a song that’s better as a cover Temple of Love || Johnny Hollow The Plagues || Jonathan Young and Caleb Hyles -Prince of Egypt Old Town Road || Richaad EB and Jonathan Young 15.  a song that’s better acoustic Down in a Hole || Alice in Chains Radioactive || Daughtry {cover} 16.  a song with great lyrics Anybody Listening? || Queensryche Comfortably Numb || Pink Floyd 17.  a song for summer Santeria || Sublime When the Sun Goes Down || Kenny Chesney Toes || Zac Brown Band 18.  a song for heartache Snuff || Corey Taylor {Slipknot} Fuck You || Cee Lo Green and Daryl Hall

19.  a song for car rides Life is a High Way || Rascal Flatts Free Fallin’ || Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Calypso || John Denver 20.  a song for the rain Featherstone || Paper Kites What Kind of Love || Childish Gambino Nocturne #20 in C Sharp Minor || Chopin 21.  a song for dancing Can’t Dance || Cooper Allen Rodeo || Garth Brooks What I Love About Sundays || Craig Morgan 22.  a song for making out Hole-Hearted || Extreme More than Whiskey in Mind || Christian Kane Bad Romance || Lady Gaga 23.  a song for a lover Hallelujah || Jeff Buckley A Thousand Years || Christina Perri I’ll Be || Edwin McCain 24.  a song from before you were born White Rabbit || Jefferson Airplane Killer Queen || Queen 25.  a song from a band that’s no longer together Blow Up The Outside World || Soundgarden Big Empty || Stone Temple Pilots 26.  a song you’ve seen live Operation LIVEcrime || Queensryche {{yes the whole album/show}} 27.  a song you want to see live Hollywood Pirate || The Musical Blades House Rules || Christian Kane 28.  a song by a band you don’t usually like   Bang Bang || Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj 29.  a song you recommend Montero || Lil Nas X

[ramrodd]

Trump ally Steve Bannon on what a 2nd Trump term could look like

COMMENTARY:

Steve Bannon's world view is a rip off of George Lincoln Rockwell's, the American Fuhrer, National Socialism populism. Trump's inaugural address hit most of Rockwell's talking points. Sarah Palin was the smartest thing John McCain did for the GOP., She was the GOP;s AOC ten years before AOC. She was the absolute essence of the Republican Frontier virtues. Then Bannon fucked with her mind and transformed her into comic relief as a third string talking head when Conservatives can't get Laura Ingraham and need someone with bigger balls than Tucker Carlson or one of the girly-boys from the editorial board of the National Review. Trump has been channeling Bannon since before January 6.

[truck-fump]

'Piece Of S**t': Meghan McCain Rips Trump For Mocking Her Late Father

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2024/01/07/meghan-mccain-trump-john-mccain-injuries_n_659a24d0e4b0bfe5ff636f22/

'Piece Of S**t': Meghan McCain Rips Trump For Mocking Her Late Father

McCain criticized the former president for dishing out another attack at the late senator.

[dragoni]

I prefer presidents who weren’t captured by Putin  

[cbsnforeverandalways]

John McCain just passed and I am honestly in tears. He was a good man. Wow.

Rest in peace, sir. You are the embodiment of a war hero and a good man.

Thank you for your service to this great nation.

[fujoshi-defender-420]

yeah I'm sorry but it y'all could quit it with celebrating McCain's death, that would be greatly appreciated

[xiggy-stardust]

Damn tumblr don't sleep

John McCain's body isn't even cold yet and people are already writing essays about how shitty he is and how they hope the rest of his family dies too.

Like.

A respected and loved human being who has done significant things for his country has lost his life today. Show some fucking respect.

You don't have to agree with him on anything. You can disagree with his politics, his acts of "heroism," and whatever else. Thats fine. You don't even have to like the man. I personally was never too fond of him, but I was never really a political person.

But the least you can do is show some fucking respect. No matter who it is, wishing death on someone's family is never ok.

I'm not here to argue about politics or morals, because honestly I couldn't give any less of a fuck about that shit. I'm just saying to show some decency. You don't have to say rest in peace. You don't have to say shit. If u really truly don't respect him, don't say shit. Saying shit like "about time that fucker croaked" is ugly and disgusting. Again, you don't have to like him, but don't go and say some horribly insensitive shit and send death wishes to his family. He's dead and you're basically fighting a battle you've already won.

When you say those things, who are you speaking to? What do you gain? Whats the point? You're screaming into the void my guy. Go take those emotions and paint a picture.

I s2g I hate tumblr sometimes.

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Flashback Theater 🎥... Footloose (1984) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #drama #teenmovies #footloose #kevinbacon #LoriSinger #sarahjessicaparker #ChrisPenn #ripchrispenn #JohnLithgow #diannewiest #FrancesLeeMcCain #leogeter #MarciaGayHarden #vintage #vhs #80s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsasflashbacktheater #footloose40

[stupid-serendipity]

John McCain is one of very few Republican politicians that I have genuine respect and admiration for. I don’t agree with many of his positions. But I admire how he continued to exemplify a respectable man with great character. Faced with the bigotry of our president, he voted according to his morals.

Here’s a quote from the NYT article about him during the 2008 election:

At some McCain rallies, vitriolic crowds disparaged black people and Muslims, and when a woman said she did not trust Mr. Obama because “he’s an Arab,” Mr. McCain, in one of the most lauded moments of his campaign, replied: “No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.”

That is how politicians should act.

John McCain, Rest In Peace.

[fire-ben-winston]

the president of the united states, folks.

[gertieparr]

To prove that the willingness to get in the arena and fight for this country is not reserved for the few, it is open to all of us. And in fact, it is demanded of all of us as citizens of this great republic.

Barack Obama

[erikdbarrett]

👋🏾 Friends:

I just finished reading 📖 the last words from Senator John McCain. I gotta tell ya, this letter right here left me out here like....😭😭😭😭😭

You have politics, You have people, You have Senator John McCain. I can say, I’ve disagreed on his politics, but never once have disagreed on his morals, his judgment, and the conscience which lead him..

I can see my challenges, and even a pathway to correcting them... I believe my mission now should be to do what I can to live out the America he so determinedly believed in...

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again!! This is truly amazing Man!!

👇🏾👇🏾His Full Letter 👇🏾👇🏾

“My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,

Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them.

I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventures and friendships enough for ten satisfying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anyone else’s.

I owe that satisfaction to the love of my family. No man ever had a more loving wife or children he was prouder of than I am of mine. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America’s causes – liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people – brings happiness more sublime than life’s fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.

‘Fellow Americans’ – that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process.

We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.

We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.

Ten years ago, I had the privilege to concede defeat in the election for president. I want to end my farewell to you with the heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening. I feel it powerfully still.

Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.

Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America.”