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The Degradation of Democratic Norms is abstract (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How nice of the guy who sang about bombing Iran to snatch the mic away from a crazy person that would've made him look bad if he had agreed. This was back when republicans had to keep up appearances of decorum. His policies were still along the same lines as trump (and as bush before him).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

John McCain never saw a war that he didn't want Americans fighting and dying in.

[–] ZombiFrancis 7 points 2 months ago

Or a bank not worth bailing out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm sorry, how many bombers did you personally stop from bombing children in Laos?

None? Oh, you didn't even take an aircraft carrier out of commission during the vietnam war?

Edit: In case somebody didn't get the joke, Mccaine was a terrible pilot who crashed 2 planes and was involved in an incident that took a carrier out of commission and killed almost 200 soldier.

There's not a lot of people who directly did as much to slow the American war machine as Mccaine's incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

a crazy person that would’ve made him look bad if he had agreed

The bitter truth was that McCain's political instincts sucked. He should have doubled down and gone with the crazy, rather than trying to play at respectability politics and wait to sabotage Obamacare from the cloak room of the Senate. His base didn't want to hear about how Obama's plan was a moderate reform to shore up a broken private system. They wanted to hear that the scary black man was going to kill whitey.

His policies were still along the same lines as trump (and as bush before him).

McCain took a full 180 on a litany of policies - climate change, health care, immigration, balancing the budget - the moment Obama stepped into the White House. But that's SOP for "moderate" Republican congressmen. Spend 20 years going to Think Tanks, agreeing with everyone, and saying you're going to deliver reform. Then torch a mountain of legislation because your rival hurt your feelings when he didn't let you win.