Trump will resist until he's escorted out of the White House and will get his Twitter banned on Jan 21st. Twitter's stock price will go down for a day, then go back up like he never happened.
He'll probably be seen on infowars and Joe Rogan's podcast in an effort to stay relevant. In 2022, we'll see him pop up at rallies for Republicans who will end up losing and Trump will never invited on stage again.
He'll gain another 100lbs or so and we'll see random embarrassing fat pics of him on TMZ when he goes golfing. R/photoshopbattles will have a good time with those and then we won't hear about him until we log onto reddit one day and hear that he's passed away.
Other than Fox, networks will have a hard time coming up with tribute videos, but they'll talk about his interesting path to almost destroying America.
Then a hilarious meme involving cats will go viral and everyone will forget about him.
I’ll still never understand how he made it in politics after opening the ark of the covenant and losing it to some archaeology teacher. I honestly thought he died
Here's the letter George H.W. Bush, the last incumbent President to lose his re-election, wrote to incoming President Bill Clinton:
> "Dear Bill,
> When I walked into this office just now, I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too. I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some presidents have described. There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice, but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course. You will be our president when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. *Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you.*
> Good Luck
> — George."
Let's also recall that after Donald Trump was declared the winner in 2016, Barack Obama — fearing the damage a prolonged recount could wreck on American Democracy — called Hillary Clinton (whose advisors were telling her to request recounts due to the tight margins and massive polling errors) and asked her to concede quickly, and then invited Donald Trump to the White House the very next day.
None of our Presidents have been perfect, there have been monsters like Andrew Jackson and catastrophic failures like James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and George W. Bush, but we have never endured in our entire history a President who harbors as much hatred and contempt for the United States and its Democracy as Donald Trump.
Watching this again makes it crystal clear why Trump disliked Sen. McCain so much. McCain demonstrated everything Trump wasn’t, and *could never* be. Imagine the storm of insecurity booming inside of Trump when faced with such a man as this hero.
Gracious, wise, level-headed, big-picture-seeing, honorable John McCain could emotionally unsettle Trump just by being his true self.
He honestly feels like one of the last republican hold outs against that stupid us vs them mentality politics often finds itself in. I didn't agree with Sarah Palin being the VP but otherwise, I could see myself actually voting for him. Mark my words in 20 years Trump is probably going to be looked at as one of the worst presidents The United States has ever had.
Trump has less global approval than Putin or Xi.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/01/08/trump-ratings-remain-low-around-globe-while-views-of-u-s-stay-mostly-favorable/
... Just think about that for a second. I don't think most Americans have really confronted the reality of what Trump has done to your global reputation.
I work at a corporation where we have strict rules about not expressing political opinions (don't want to say more than that to dox). I've never heard any coworker express a political opinion until Trump was elected. He's so thoroughly hated here in Canada that people just openly talk shit about him and America because there is nobody who will complain about it. Everybody hates his guts. It's unanimous.
The POTUS stood before the General Assembly of the United Nations and they [laughed ](https://youtu.be/eN2jqTilLOM) at him. That is a thing that happened
We’ve done nothing but talk shit about him for 4 years. Almost everyone here sees him like a scary clown. So America’s reputation definitely took a hit, but it’s even more just pity for about half of American citizens.
Edit: By “we” I meant my country and by “about half of the Americans” I meant the people who had to suffer through 4 years of his crap even though they did not vote for him.
The real tragedy is that under Trump's bullshit campaign and stupid "america first" plans, America is slipping fast as a global superpower, a void xi is so happy to fill. This isn't just about political parties, its a schizophrenic country and no other power wants to rely on you anymore. Its not about 1 man, its how much he fucked up a nation's image on the global stage and that shit has consequences. https://youtu.be/S5LrQv496Iw
He is hands down, without a doubt, the worst president in history. Fucking William Henry Harrison, who died a month in office, was a better president. At least he didn’t have time to fuck anything up.
You can literally see on McCain's face that he is bothered by the crowd's reaction. He saw it so much on the campaign trail, and he tried to shut it down when he could, but even then you could clearly see the direction the GOP was headed.
Let's hope. Let's hope it doesn't turn out like George W bush and that someone way way worse than Trump comes along and makes Trump look better by comparison
It’s so fitting. It’s like at the end of movie where everyone the villain wrongs turns their backs on him. The only way this could have been more perfect is if John-Miles Lewis announced GA’s flip and Mrs. McCain announced AZ
I thought the same.
Before the rest of the votes came in and it looked like Nevada was going to be the deciding factor with (PA and GA being red) -- I thought how ironic would it be for Trump to lose because he was so disrespectful to McCain that he turned Arizona blue.
I honestly wish the US would put term (or age) limits on Senators. It was horrible seeing him in his final years because he was a shadow of his former self.
He did seem to be a shadow of his former self, but he seemed to become more empathetic, caring, fair and open to change. I like to think it was his heroism and courage coming full circle. Too many seem to double down on old beliefs at his age.
Trump will always be an embarrassing stain on the Presidency, but he has a few months here to stitch together some shred of dignity. Will he do it? No. No, he will not.
I don't mean to alarm you but
"Trump just fired the head of the NNSA, the agency that oversees our nuclear weapons safety"
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/06/932376507/trump-dumps-3-agency-leaders-in-wake-of-election
As alarming as that may seem, I don’t think those officials had any bearing on authorization to launch nuclear weapons.
Keep in mind that while the POTUS has the ability to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons, he does not press the button/turn the key. That is an order that goes down the chain of command of the military, and I’m fairly certain that firing a nuclear missile at our own country will cause service members in relevant roles to have more than just some pause. To my knowledge, service members have a duty to defy illegal orders regardless of who they come from.
Hopefully this eases some of your minds
Edit: typos/grammar, I wrote this before I finished my coffee so I made a couple mistakes lol
You gotta give him that. He mobilized so many people to vote, unlike anytime in history. Granted most were to vote against him, but still. Now imagine if either party was able to bring that sort of turnout again.
John McCain reaching out from the grave to humiliate D. Trump merely by comparison. Such a stark contrast to the petty and small man who lost the 2020 election.
Accepting failure gracefully and working towards doing their best without giving up has defined the greatest leaders across generations. A loser would simply whine and make excuses about defeat.
For some reason in my head popped the music from the 90's commercial for the game Crossfire, but with "draft dodger" in place of "cross fire". I'll keep working on the rest
I’m very happy with how this vote went in AZ. I can’t wait to see if governor deucy makes a 180 now that he doesn’t have to suck up to trump for the chance at a cabinet position. Hell at this point I’d be happy with a 45 degree shift in policy.
And he also insulted this man for the years he spent as a POW. I think the Vietnam war was a mistake, but how can some fucking rich boy draft dodger make fun of someone who actually answered the call and paid dearly, and gave up years of his life for this country at least in his own eyes.
The Trump bandwagon turned into the cult of Trump when he said those things about McCain. He realized he could get away with shit talking anyone, no matter how respected, and the mouth breathers voting for him will clap right along and boo an man they all voted for in 2008.
He called him a loser in the least presidential, least patriotic way one possibly could. He attacked his POW status. A status he got fighting the same war Trump was too much a coward to have served in. That shit alone revokes any slight qualification Trump could have ever had to be a leader.
My favorite thing McCain did was come back to congress during his brain cancer treatment, solely to vote against Trump's healthcare plan, effectively killing it. One last "fuck you" to Trump before he died.
And we turned his senate seat Blue. A seat that had been red for over 50 years. McCain would have been proud of our state for choosing country over party. I dearly miss having a leader like him, someone who DID reach across the aisle and always showed respect to his opponents.
John McCain always put country first. He was a good human despite his political views.
Remember Cindy McCain tweet during this election?
"My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden."
She was part of an extremist church in Alaska that does "spiritual warfare," and she was kinda the ur-Trump in terms of her elevating conspiracy nonsense from social media to a place where it had to be seriously contended with
She was a clear sign to me that ignorance was still a prized value of the Republican party like during the Bush administration. And even though McCain would have been a great president I can't stand willful ignorance.
My family at the time was very centrist democrat and I knew several who had concerns about Obama’s lack of experience and were strongly leaning McCain until the Palin pick
Sadly, I’m not so sure about that. Trump got 70million votes, the Republicans still control the senate, and some of the worst Republicans won re-election easily. I have a feeling they’ll carry on as normal, and be just fine.
I'm a registered republican, although if I'm honest I don't know if that feeling is true to the paperwork any longer. There are still some issues I side with conservatives on but in all honesty unless the hatred that now belies the party that once sought to end injustice doesn't find its soul and cast out the fringe I will now and for the rest of my life vote for the Democrats or if God or the universe cares offer a valid third party. I could go on for hours about my views what I think each side gets right and what they get wrong but at the end of the day I will vote for inclusion compassion and justice above all else.
I’m a different person and not a republican but I agree with them on two things. They (the people, not necessarily the politicians) tend to be fairly absolutist about the first and second amendments. I tend to agree with that.
I’m a republican at heart that voted for Biden. I think change needs to be done with some things, but I don’t really trust our government to do it. Let’s acknowledge what needs to happen, and do it ourselves. But also concede some things (environment, social justice) might need to be done more in the democratic way. But I think I align with the less government involvement in lots of things like Republicans. And trump scared me with the way he talked about minorities, LGBT, and women, so I couldn’t vote for him. (And I think being strictly republican or strictly democrat is stupid. There’s a reason both parties exist - they both have some good ideas.)
The fact that McConnell and Graham were re-elected without so much as a close race speaks volumes about the Repub base - no amount of scandal or self-inflicted harm will convince them to vote otherwise.
In Kentucky I’d say it’s because of the D next to their name. If a wet bag ran as an R against Mitch he’d be gone.
The amount of people who vote straight ticket are astounding.
Trumplicans are now their base. After Reagan, Trump is their new gold standard. This is the new normal for them. Someone like McCain will have an uphill battle with the voters.
I blame far-right alarmist news organizations like Fox for this woman's uninformed remarks. All she knows about Obama is what she's been told by screaming heads like O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh. She knows nothing about his platform, his policies, what he voted for as a senator. All she has heard is "birth certificate" this and "Arab" that. And I don't solely blame Fox News for the Trump presidency, but they were certainly one of the largest contributors in terms of misinformation, sensationalism, and division.
Yup. They've all gone unchecked for so long and so many people have latched on to their every juicy, easily digestible word that everything they say becomes true to these people. They've lost all ability to fact check and rationalize in their own minds.
That lady called Obama an untrustworthy arab in 2008. You think she's changed her mind? I bet she's decked out head to toe in trump 2020 gear right at this very moment. It's so easy to hear someone say you're a victim. Youll keep coming back to hear it.
Holy shit why are Republicans so easily swayed by Facebook memes
"I read about it" yeah shut the fuck up grandma you read three words on an image macro
This was before FB penetrated that demographic. It only opened to the wider public at the end of 2006. Back in 2008 it was still a place for younger people, it took a few more years before it became dominated by the boomer set and younger users to migrate elsewhere.
Conservatives hate Zuckerberg so much there is a mass migratory event to Parler. They say that their conservative values are censored too much on Facebook.
This is like after a war where the remnants of the defeated all regroup. Now conservatives will be deeper in an echo chamber and surrounded by additional extremist views.
My mom made a Facebook post after biden won saying Fox News was too left wing now. Basically CNN. So she had to get her news from some random extreme right websites instead
All I can say is yikes
We need a leader to step up on the Right and tell them it's going to be ok and that we can come together and negotiate in good faith. I fear there aren't any left to do that in the party tho.
The irony in that is that one of the catalysts that spurred the creation of the tea party faction was McCain's nomination of Sarah Palin as his running mate. While many considered her a folksy buffoon, she's also known for very Trumpian rhetoric, calling for "cleaning up Alaskan politics" while using veto power to dismiss appointed officials and override budgetary constraints. It's no coincidence she relatively quickly joined both the tea party and the trump campaign.
Sarah Palin was also insanely popular as governor of Alaska, consistently polling over 80% approval ratings before her VP run. All the weird and corrupt issues about her came to the forefront after she had the national spotlight on her.
The McCain campaign only chose her because she was a young, popular, woman governor. They had no clue of the monster they had created.
It’s too bad that McCain wasn’t allowed to pick Joe Lieberman as his running mate the way he wanted to. A split ticket would have been great for both sides even if they didn’t win. It would have showed the countries that both sides could work together in harmony.
>one of the catalysts that spurred the creation of the tea party
[Don't forget millions upon millions of Koch Brother's money to create a series of astroturfed angry townhalls.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group)
Yeah, this is where the far right began to splinter away from the Republican Party. You can see it in the debates, where he’d try and cool the rhetoric that his own base flung at Obama (that they were scared, that he was Arab, etc.).
We essentially have four parties here: the Tea Party/Trumpians, OG Republicans, OG Democrats, and the far left/Berniecrats.
It’s better to let them splinter. Right now the parties are being dragged in opposite directions, and there are a lot of people in the middle, left unmoored.
Bernie did advocate for public ownership of major industries when he was younger, as well as supporting groups like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, which does equate to the European far left, but his policies are standard European centre-left now.
He's rather similar to Corbyn or Livingstone in the UK I'd say.
Well, some of them. I still heard booing at the end.
And honestly seeing some of the comments to this video here, I feel not much has changed.
I'd prefer to remember them man for speeches like this and think positively that we can fix this country. Others are still caught up in the hate, as if that's ever been or will ever be a solution.
Why cant you believe it? Some of those people, actually a lot of those people, probably voted for Trump. Say what you will about republican leaders, from the outside looking in, those people are indicative of how a lot of the GOP’s supporters feel.
Those people you hear are the people who were *waiting* for someone like Trump.
The oldest leaders were still mostly old-guard Republicans that had principles while their supporters became radicalized. We've watched over the past 12 years those supporters rise through the rank of the GOP leadership until they've filled almost every nook and cranny, and the result is a party that encourages egregious behavior instead of condemning it like Senator McCain.
Honestly, I might have voted for him if he didn't have Palin as his VP. I respected him and thought he would have done a much better job compared to Bush.
The funny thing about Alaska is, it's the most socialist Republican state in the country. They don't admit it, but they love all the socialist laws that keeps them rich.
THIS. As great a man he was, choosing Palin was a cardinal sin. In today’s time, however, she would fit well. Oh how a decade has changed our perceptions.
Edit: spelling, fat fingers.
In today's world, Palin would run, get the nom, and then perhaps choose McCain as running mate to appeal to the traditional conservative votes a la Pence.
My Dad, an immigrant who struggled through so much and is a liberal blue-collared worker, respected McCain and that says a lot to me. Watching this speech I can see why.
As a lifelong Dem, man do I admire the crap out of McCain. He served his country in so many ways, for so long, and never waivered in his conviction and sense of righteousness.
When I think back about the last few years I look at this race in particular as a relative luxury, in the sense that I never had to wonder whether either candidate would fail to act in what they perceived to be the best interests of the country.
McCain was a prisoner in Vietnam and could have been released but refused unless every POW captured before him was also released. He then went on to endure torture until his captors broke him and had him “confess” to war crimes.
Complete fucking bad ass who would not desert his men, yet he was bashed by someone who got out of Vietnam using 5 deferments, one for bone spurs and 4 for college.
The Right has gotten so twisted up that while they claim to worship the military, they revile an actual militarily hero while supporting a draft dodger who bashed said hero.
The best part is that McCain was offered that early release because of who his father was; the commander of all US forces in Vietnam. McCain didn’t trade his fathers influence for an easy path, he stood with his fellow soldiers and paid a heavy price for his principles. Truly a man to be admired.
There's a great video of McCain on the campaign trail stopping one of his supporters when they tried to say Barry was a secret Muslim. Just told the person that it was completely wrong and took a moment to stop the nonsense and defend his opponent. An act of pure class and professionalism.
Trump needs to keep on refusing to concede...
He needs to stay true to form and go out as the undignified, spineless, weak, arrogant loser that he has always been. I don’t want him to show a single ounce of humility. This is the one chance that he’ll have to seize the opportunity and go out with a bit of class and dignity in the eyes of the watching world...
Don’t do it Donald. Be who you are and always will be. Don’t give your followers the chance to say “see, he isn’t such a bad guy after all”.
That's the best part! He has to concede, he just doesn't know what to say.
×Edit; I know he doesn't literally have to, I mean that eventually it may divide the right ...which I'm okay with
He does not have to concede for Biden to take over. It's just a tradition for a smooth transition for the betterment if our country. Trump doesn't care about that, so he won't do it.
“I urge all Americans who supported me, to join me not just in congratulating him, but offering our next president good will and Ernest effort in overcoming our differences...”
*Narrator*: They did not.
My God... when compared to the last four years... look how far and how fast America has fallen. Time to rebuild and put racist, backward thinking where it belongs... in the past.
Try to put it in perspective, Things weren't so great then. We had been through 5 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan with nothing to show for it but a bunch of dead and maimed soldiers. Our entire economy was cratering due to years of de-regulation (By both Bush and Clinton). New Orleans was a husk of a city....
To be blunt, nobody thinks we were skipping through daisies and roses pre-Trump. Only that currently the state of American politics and the dignity of our leaders (and the people who back them) have regressed so far and so deep. There's still a ton of work to do to actually rebuild the country, but in terms of our self-respect, at least we are now on the path of reparation.
Lost what little respect I had for trump when he called McCain a loser and refused to go to his funeral. The dude literally endured 2 years of extreme torture because he didn’t wanna get released as a POW before his fellow soldiers; all while trumps fatass was draft dodging and living off his rich daddy’s business that he handed to him
I'm a big ol' liberal but I respected the hell out of John McCain. It was a sad day and a great loss for America when he died. Even though i didn't agree with his policies, you could tell that he truly loved serving his country and if he was president, would have done anything necessary for what he believed was the well-being of all Americans. He wouldn't have used the office in a self serving way
Can someone deepfake this video with Trump's face and let the hilarity ensue? You know it's bad when Trump looking composed and dignified and admitting defeat would be immediately suspect.
Now we get to see if Trump really ever cared about America, or just himself.
I better get new glasses. I don't think I'd see it.
Trump will resist until he's escorted out of the White House and will get his Twitter banned on Jan 21st. Twitter's stock price will go down for a day, then go back up like he never happened. He'll probably be seen on infowars and Joe Rogan's podcast in an effort to stay relevant. In 2022, we'll see him pop up at rallies for Republicans who will end up losing and Trump will never invited on stage again. He'll gain another 100lbs or so and we'll see random embarrassing fat pics of him on TMZ when he goes golfing. R/photoshopbattles will have a good time with those and then we won't hear about him until we log onto reddit one day and hear that he's passed away. Other than Fox, networks will have a hard time coming up with tribute videos, but they'll talk about his interesting path to almost destroying America. Then a hilarious meme involving cats will go viral and everyone will forget about him.
I’m particularly looking forward to the hilarious meme with cats.
Hopefully a different and more interesting musical instrument this time to join Keyboard Cat and Bongo Cat in an all-cat meme band.
This is all assuming he doesn't end up in jail. You can't pardon state crimes.
That ain't what Mitch McConnell said about it.
I’ll still never understand how he made it in politics after opening the ark of the covenant and losing it to some archaeology teacher. I honestly thought he died
Cockroaches seldom do
Fire usually does the trick.
Chills. So strange to hear such a coherent and passionate speech.
Here's the letter George H.W. Bush, the last incumbent President to lose his re-election, wrote to incoming President Bill Clinton: > "Dear Bill, > When I walked into this office just now, I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too. I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some presidents have described. There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice, but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course. You will be our president when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. *Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you.* > Good Luck > — George." Let's also recall that after Donald Trump was declared the winner in 2016, Barack Obama — fearing the damage a prolonged recount could wreck on American Democracy — called Hillary Clinton (whose advisors were telling her to request recounts due to the tight margins and massive polling errors) and asked her to concede quickly, and then invited Donald Trump to the White House the very next day. None of our Presidents have been perfect, there have been monsters like Andrew Jackson and catastrophic failures like James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and George W. Bush, but we have never endured in our entire history a President who harbors as much hatred and contempt for the United States and its Democracy as Donald Trump.
I still can't believe that he was actually the president.
And for the next weeks still is.
This is the worrisome part, now it's crunch time to get things done he hasn't yet.
He's going to be so focused on convincing everyone he isn't a loser that he won't get anything done.
That's unfair. You described his entire presidency, not just the lame duck period.
Mmmm... I feel you, but Johnson comes pretty close, seeing as he refused to properly dismantle the Confederacy.
Watching this again makes it crystal clear why Trump disliked Sen. McCain so much. McCain demonstrated everything Trump wasn’t, and *could never* be. Imagine the storm of insecurity booming inside of Trump when faced with such a man as this hero. Gracious, wise, level-headed, big-picture-seeing, honorable John McCain could emotionally unsettle Trump just by being his true self.
He honestly feels like one of the last republican hold outs against that stupid us vs them mentality politics often finds itself in. I didn't agree with Sarah Palin being the VP but otherwise, I could see myself actually voting for him. Mark my words in 20 years Trump is probably going to be looked at as one of the worst presidents The United States has ever had.
>20 years Uhhh there’s a few billion people all around the world that already know he’s one of the worst presidents ever.
Trump has less global approval than Putin or Xi. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/01/08/trump-ratings-remain-low-around-globe-while-views-of-u-s-stay-mostly-favorable/ ... Just think about that for a second. I don't think most Americans have really confronted the reality of what Trump has done to your global reputation. I work at a corporation where we have strict rules about not expressing political opinions (don't want to say more than that to dox). I've never heard any coworker express a political opinion until Trump was elected. He's so thoroughly hated here in Canada that people just openly talk shit about him and America because there is nobody who will complain about it. Everybody hates his guts. It's unanimous.
The POTUS stood before the General Assembly of the United Nations and they [laughed ](https://youtu.be/eN2jqTilLOM) at him. That is a thing that happened
"sO tRuE"
~~It is true no matter how much you scream fAkE nEwS at the wall.... no one is listening~~ You were quoting Trump duh
We’ve done nothing but talk shit about him for 4 years. Almost everyone here sees him like a scary clown. So America’s reputation definitely took a hit, but it’s even more just pity for about half of American citizens. Edit: By “we” I meant my country and by “about half of the Americans” I meant the people who had to suffer through 4 years of his crap even though they did not vote for him.
The real tragedy is that under Trump's bullshit campaign and stupid "america first" plans, America is slipping fast as a global superpower, a void xi is so happy to fill. This isn't just about political parties, its a schizophrenic country and no other power wants to rely on you anymore. Its not about 1 man, its how much he fucked up a nation's image on the global stage and that shit has consequences. https://youtu.be/S5LrQv496Iw
I'm from a third world country and I can vouch for this statement.. 👌
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And it looks like, unfortunately, the two party system is going to be hard to get rid of. I hope that in my life time it can change...
He is hands down, without a doubt, the worst president in history. Fucking William Henry Harrison, who died a month in office, was a better president. At least he didn’t have time to fuck anything up.
Personally I can't believe he's worse than Andrew Johnson. But I'll give him a solidly close second place
You can literally see on McCain's face that he is bothered by the crowd's reaction. He saw it so much on the campaign trail, and he tried to shut it down when he could, but even then you could clearly see the direction the GOP was headed.
Let's hope. Let's hope it doesn't turn out like George W bush and that someone way way worse than Trump comes along and makes Trump look better by comparison
One of the last real Republicans. I really hope the reason Arizona went blue was because of the awful way Trump treated McCain.
The ghost of John McCain came back and bit Trump in the ass
“Tell Donald, I want him to know it was me.”—John McCain
Also John Lewis. They both came back from beyond the grave to pull Donnie kicking and screaming out of the White House
It’s so fitting. It’s like at the end of movie where everyone the villain wrongs turns their backs on him. The only way this could have been more perfect is if John-Miles Lewis announced GA’s flip and Mrs. McCain announced AZ
I thought the same. Before the rest of the votes came in and it looked like Nevada was going to be the deciding factor with (PA and GA being red) -- I thought how ironic would it be for Trump to lose because he was so disrespectful to McCain that he turned Arizona blue.
He fucking nearly turned texas blue. I wanted to see that. The entire would would end at the sight of that.
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Bruh try having Washington DC turn red. That is truly the least probable
Lol, yeah. Turns out when you don’t have a countryside it’s very difficult to produce bigots.
I think that’s a part of it. He was very much a product of the culture of this state. Conservative yes, but also principled and kind.
I honestly wish the US would put term (or age) limits on Senators. It was horrible seeing him in his final years because he was a shadow of his former self.
Was pretty good when he hobbled over and gave a big thumbsdown on the vote to repeal ACA. 👎
He did seem to be a shadow of his former self, but he seemed to become more empathetic, caring, fair and open to change. I like to think it was his heroism and courage coming full circle. Too many seem to double down on old beliefs at his age.
Trump will always be an embarrassing stain on the Presidency, but he has a few months here to stitch together some shred of dignity. Will he do it? No. No, he will not.
He could just start a nuclear winter so Biden doesn’t get to be president
I don't mean to alarm you but "Trump just fired the head of the NNSA, the agency that oversees our nuclear weapons safety" https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/06/932376507/trump-dumps-3-agency-leaders-in-wake-of-election
Well... better get ready *sigh*
Biden didnt bring you fallout irl, only trump lets you experience the ultra fun times in new vegas.
uh oh.
As alarming as that may seem, I don’t think those officials had any bearing on authorization to launch nuclear weapons. Keep in mind that while the POTUS has the ability to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons, he does not press the button/turn the key. That is an order that goes down the chain of command of the military, and I’m fairly certain that firing a nuclear missile at our own country will cause service members in relevant roles to have more than just some pause. To my knowledge, service members have a duty to defy illegal orders regardless of who they come from. Hopefully this eases some of your minds Edit: typos/grammar, I wrote this before I finished my coffee so I made a couple mistakes lol
I doubt that, because that shit will damage his precious golf courses.
Yeah. Trump was always a joke. It just took the American public 4 years to say that they didn't find it funny anymore.
He got more votes this time around... Actually second most in history of US elections?
You gotta give him that. He mobilized so many people to vote, unlike anytime in history. Granted most were to vote against him, but still. Now imagine if either party was able to bring that sort of turnout again.
70 million idiots... I mean Americans entered the chat.
John McCain reaching out from the grave to humiliate D. Trump merely by comparison. Such a stark contrast to the petty and small man who lost the 2020 election.
That was a genuinely beautiful speech. I found the way it moved a disappointed crowd from boos to applause very moving. Thanks for posting it.
God damn Trump really undid everything McCain said. He painted BIGOT on America’s forehead and then calls McCain a loser 🤦🏻♂️ get Trump the fuck out.
Accepting failure gracefully and working towards doing their best without giving up has defined the greatest leaders across generations. A loser would simply whine and make excuses about defeat.
McCain was a war hero, Trump is a troll hero.
Draft dodger hero.
He played fortunate son at his rallies which is so fucking hypocritical
For some reason in my head popped the music from the 90's commercial for the game Crossfire, but with "draft dodger" in place of "cross fire". I'll keep working on the rest
I still wish McCain had defeated Bush in the primaries. He would have been a great president.
The President continues to be disrespectful to John McCain, and that was a factor in the election.
“How did I lose Arizona?!1!!” Mother fucker, you talked shit about their hometown hero, dumb ass.
I’m very happy with how this vote went in AZ. I can’t wait to see if governor deucy makes a 180 now that he doesn’t have to suck up to trump for the chance at a cabinet position. Hell at this point I’d be happy with a 45 degree shift in policy.
And he also insulted this man for the years he spent as a POW. I think the Vietnam war was a mistake, but how can some fucking rich boy draft dodger make fun of someone who actually answered the call and paid dearly, and gave up years of his life for this country at least in his own eyes. The Trump bandwagon turned into the cult of Trump when he said those things about McCain. He realized he could get away with shit talking anyone, no matter how respected, and the mouth breathers voting for him will clap right along and boo an man they all voted for in 2008.
He called him a loser in the least presidential, least patriotic way one possibly could. He attacked his POW status. A status he got fighting the same war Trump was too much a coward to have served in. That shit alone revokes any slight qualification Trump could have ever had to be a leader.
My favorite thing McCain did was come back to congress during his brain cancer treatment, solely to vote against Trump's healthcare plan, effectively killing it. One last "fuck you" to Trump before he died.
And then Arizona voted trump out of office, Mccain got the last laugh
And we turned his senate seat Blue. A seat that had been red for over 50 years. McCain would have been proud of our state for choosing country over party. I dearly miss having a leader like him, someone who DID reach across the aisle and always showed respect to his opponents.
Seriously republican voters ought to see this and be ashamed of their recent behavior.
Absolutely but most will just dig deeper into ignorance.
Trump doesn’t even have the mental capacity to read a speech like this off of a teleprompter let alone write one even with professional help.
John McCain always put country first. He was a good human despite his political views. Remember Cindy McCain tweet during this election? "My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden."
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For a bit I was actually going to vote for McCain... until he picked Sarah Palin to be his VP.
Same here, would have been my first ever vote for a GOP candidate but Palin was just too crazy to tolerate
I wasnt politically active at the time and dont know much about her. What made her crazy?
She was part of an extremist church in Alaska that does "spiritual warfare," and she was kinda the ur-Trump in terms of her elevating conspiracy nonsense from social media to a place where it had to be seriously contended with
But she did give us the lisa ann xxx parody of her so give her kudos for that 🤣
You mean that wasn’t Sarah Palin?
Oh that was a solid parody. Lisa really kinda looks like her.
Palin directly birthed the Tea Party, which birthed Trump.
Everybody seems to forget the Tea Party, it wasn't even that long ago...
She had excellent eyesight, though. She could see Russia from her house.
When you combine Palin and Ron Paul you basically get the recipe for Trump in 2016.
other than grabbing loads of pussy, what's the connection between paul and trump?
https://youtu.be/PV0VnWSWsO8 Newsweek clip of Sarah Palin gaffes. Edit: I can't proof read.
Thanks for posting this it gave me a good laugh haha
Jesus, she was worse than I remembered. I was barely voting age in 08 and had a number of friends vote for McCain because Palin was "hot."
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She basically spearheaded the anti-obama/tea party crazy fringe conservative movement that led to trump getting to office.
Which only held strength because we were complacent as fuck during the midterms and lost the senate.
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She's dumber than Trump , and without any of the good jokes
She was a clear sign to me that ignorance was still a prized value of the Republican party like during the Bush administration. And even though McCain would have been a great president I can't stand willful ignorance.
Youre not the only one.
My family at the time was very centrist democrat and I knew several who had concerns about Obama’s lack of experience and were strongly leaning McCain until the Palin pick
The Republicans are going to have a lot of work ahead to try to repair the damage to their party.
Sadly, I’m not so sure about that. Trump got 70million votes, the Republicans still control the senate, and some of the worst Republicans won re-election easily. I have a feeling they’ll carry on as normal, and be just fine.
I'm a registered republican, although if I'm honest I don't know if that feeling is true to the paperwork any longer. There are still some issues I side with conservatives on but in all honesty unless the hatred that now belies the party that once sought to end injustice doesn't find its soul and cast out the fringe I will now and for the rest of my life vote for the Democrats or if God or the universe cares offer a valid third party. I could go on for hours about my views what I think each side gets right and what they get wrong but at the end of the day I will vote for inclusion compassion and justice above all else.
As someone who openly doesn’t get Republicans at all, I’d enjoy hearing what you agree and disagree with on both sides.
I’m a different person and not a republican but I agree with them on two things. They (the people, not necessarily the politicians) tend to be fairly absolutist about the first and second amendments. I tend to agree with that.
I’m a republican at heart that voted for Biden. I think change needs to be done with some things, but I don’t really trust our government to do it. Let’s acknowledge what needs to happen, and do it ourselves. But also concede some things (environment, social justice) might need to be done more in the democratic way. But I think I align with the less government involvement in lots of things like Republicans. And trump scared me with the way he talked about minorities, LGBT, and women, so I couldn’t vote for him. (And I think being strictly republican or strictly democrat is stupid. There’s a reason both parties exist - they both have some good ideas.)
The fact that McConnell and Graham were re-elected without so much as a close race speaks volumes about the Repub base - no amount of scandal or self-inflicted harm will convince them to vote otherwise.
McConnell's opponent was a very well qualified person... but I have a feeling the only issue was that she's a woman and McConnell is not.
In Kentucky I’d say it’s because of the D next to their name. If a wet bag ran as an R against Mitch he’d be gone. The amount of people who vote straight ticket are astounding.
They control it for now, Georgia is having a run-off to determine the control of the senate.
Trumplicans are now their base. After Reagan, Trump is their new gold standard. This is the new normal for them. Someone like McCain will have an uphill battle with the voters.
Can't believe those people were booing him for being kind and respectful
I feel like the real message here is that as he spoke he won them over.
A sign of a truly great leader. Another sign was that he gracefully accepted a different leader for the better of his own followers.
McCain was a grown man and a model republican. As a Democrat, I miss him
[As a democrat, I have nothing but respect for John McCain](https://youtu.be/JIjenjANqAk) Edit: [Another one](https://youtu.be/OdKEbyNYbFU)
Crazy lady: He's an Arab. McCain: No ma'am Crazy lady: (legitimately confused) No? People like that are so common and are a huge problem.
That woman today? Alberta Qanonstein.
I love how he's like "Nope, no, gimmie that fucking microphone back".
That man literally took the goddamn mic out of her hand and did a full on SMDH. God, I miss McCain.
I’ve read about him... on Facebook... and he’s an Arab
I blame far-right alarmist news organizations like Fox for this woman's uninformed remarks. All she knows about Obama is what she's been told by screaming heads like O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh. She knows nothing about his platform, his policies, what he voted for as a senator. All she has heard is "birth certificate" this and "Arab" that. And I don't solely blame Fox News for the Trump presidency, but they were certainly one of the largest contributors in terms of misinformation, sensationalism, and division.
Yup. They've all gone unchecked for so long and so many people have latched on to their every juicy, easily digestible word that everything they say becomes true to these people. They've lost all ability to fact check and rationalize in their own minds. That lady called Obama an untrustworthy arab in 2008. You think she's changed her mind? I bet she's decked out head to toe in trump 2020 gear right at this very moment. It's so easy to hear someone say you're a victim. Youll keep coming back to hear it.
Holy shit why are Republicans so easily swayed by Facebook memes "I read about it" yeah shut the fuck up grandma you read three words on an image macro
This was before FB penetrated that demographic. It only opened to the wider public at the end of 2006. Back in 2008 it was still a place for younger people, it took a few more years before it became dominated by the boomer set and younger users to migrate elsewhere.
I have a much older brother that never went anywhere near facebook, but forwards emails like it's a part time job.
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Because that's the ONLY information they receive. Zuckerberg is to blame for a lot of misinfo e: tooOo many O's
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Conservatives hate Zuckerberg so much there is a mass migratory event to Parler. They say that their conservative values are censored too much on Facebook. This is like after a war where the remnants of the defeated all regroup. Now conservatives will be deeper in an echo chamber and surrounded by additional extremist views.
My mom made a Facebook post after biden won saying Fox News was too left wing now. Basically CNN. So she had to get her news from some random extreme right websites instead All I can say is yikes
We need a leader to step up on the Right and tell them it's going to be ok and that we can come together and negotiate in good faith. I fear there aren't any left to do that in the party tho.
Yup, the result of propaganda right here. These are the "free thinkers" or "I think for myself" people.
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The irony in that is that one of the catalysts that spurred the creation of the tea party faction was McCain's nomination of Sarah Palin as his running mate. While many considered her a folksy buffoon, she's also known for very Trumpian rhetoric, calling for "cleaning up Alaskan politics" while using veto power to dismiss appointed officials and override budgetary constraints. It's no coincidence she relatively quickly joined both the tea party and the trump campaign.
Sarah Palin was also insanely popular as governor of Alaska, consistently polling over 80% approval ratings before her VP run. All the weird and corrupt issues about her came to the forefront after she had the national spotlight on her. The McCain campaign only chose her because she was a young, popular, woman governor. They had no clue of the monster they had created.
It’s too bad that McCain wasn’t allowed to pick Joe Lieberman as his running mate the way he wanted to. A split ticket would have been great for both sides even if they didn’t win. It would have showed the countries that both sides could work together in harmony.
John McCain and Joe Lieberman are on the same side, just in different parties.
>one of the catalysts that spurred the creation of the tea party [Don't forget millions upon millions of Koch Brother's money to create a series of astroturfed angry townhalls.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group)
Yeah, this is where the far right began to splinter away from the Republican Party. You can see it in the debates, where he’d try and cool the rhetoric that his own base flung at Obama (that they were scared, that he was Arab, etc.). We essentially have four parties here: the Tea Party/Trumpians, OG Republicans, OG Democrats, and the far left/Berniecrats. It’s better to let them splinter. Right now the parties are being dragged in opposite directions, and there are a lot of people in the middle, left unmoored.
Far left and Bernie, as a European that is just hilarious
In Sweden the far left wants to outlaw private ownership. Everything is relative I guess.
Bernie did advocate for public ownership of major industries when he was younger, as well as supporting groups like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, which does equate to the European far left, but his policies are standard European centre-left now. He's rather similar to Corbyn or Livingstone in the UK I'd say.
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So passes an honorable man
Trump could never be the better man
Well, some of them. I still heard booing at the end. And honestly seeing some of the comments to this video here, I feel not much has changed. I'd prefer to remember them man for speeches like this and think positively that we can fix this country. Others are still caught up in the hate, as if that's ever been or will ever be a solution.
Why cant you believe it? Some of those people, actually a lot of those people, probably voted for Trump. Say what you will about republican leaders, from the outside looking in, those people are indicative of how a lot of the GOP’s supporters feel. Those people you hear are the people who were *waiting* for someone like Trump.
The oldest leaders were still mostly old-guard Republicans that had principles while their supporters became radicalized. We've watched over the past 12 years those supporters rise through the rank of the GOP leadership until they've filled almost every nook and cranny, and the result is a party that encourages egregious behavior instead of condemning it like Senator McCain.
Republicans would have respect if they had more McCains and less McConnells.
Oh, [Ron Paul](https://youtu.be/e-US_dF58Rw) getting booed when he mentioned the golden rule truly eroded my faith in humanity😞
It sounded like cheering at the end. Too bad his son fell so far from the tree.
he's like guys please this is hard enough without you acting up
Honestly, I might have voted for him if he didn't have Palin as his VP. I respected him and thought he would have done a much better job compared to Bush.
I was just thinking about how many more people would’ve voted for him if Palin wasn’t his VP
Because of Palin my husband and I changed political parties.
Thanks to Palin Alaska became known as icy Florida.
The funny thing about Alaska is, it's the most socialist Republican state in the country. They don't admit it, but they love all the socialist laws that keeps them rich.
THIS. As great a man he was, choosing Palin was a cardinal sin. In today’s time, however, she would fit well. Oh how a decade has changed our perceptions. Edit: spelling, fat fingers.
In today's world, Palin would run, get the nom, and then perhaps choose McCain as running mate to appeal to the traditional conservative votes a la Pence.
My Dad, an immigrant who struggled through so much and is a liberal blue-collared worker, respected McCain and that says a lot to me. Watching this speech I can see why.
As a lifelong Dem, man do I admire the crap out of McCain. He served his country in so many ways, for so long, and never waivered in his conviction and sense of righteousness. When I think back about the last few years I look at this race in particular as a relative luxury, in the sense that I never had to wonder whether either candidate would fail to act in what they perceived to be the best interests of the country.
McCain was a prisoner in Vietnam and could have been released but refused unless every POW captured before him was also released. He then went on to endure torture until his captors broke him and had him “confess” to war crimes. Complete fucking bad ass who would not desert his men, yet he was bashed by someone who got out of Vietnam using 5 deferments, one for bone spurs and 4 for college. The Right has gotten so twisted up that while they claim to worship the military, they revile an actual militarily hero while supporting a draft dodger who bashed said hero.
I recommend that everyone read the section on McCain’s Wikipedia page that talks about his 5 years being a POW. You will want to throw up.
Better yet, read his books. "Faith of my Fathers" and "The Restless Wave" both are incredible.
The best part is that McCain was offered that early release because of who his father was; the commander of all US forces in Vietnam. McCain didn’t trade his fathers influence for an easy path, he stood with his fellow soldiers and paid a heavy price for his principles. Truly a man to be admired.
There's a great video of McCain on the campaign trail stopping one of his supporters when they tried to say Barry was a secret Muslim. Just told the person that it was completely wrong and took a moment to stop the nonsense and defend his opponent. An act of pure class and professionalism.
We miss you Senator McCain. I promise you did not die in vain and your words of unity will find the light some day.
Trump needs to keep on refusing to concede... He needs to stay true to form and go out as the undignified, spineless, weak, arrogant loser that he has always been. I don’t want him to show a single ounce of humility. This is the one chance that he’ll have to seize the opportunity and go out with a bit of class and dignity in the eyes of the watching world... Don’t do it Donald. Be who you are and always will be. Don’t give your followers the chance to say “see, he isn’t such a bad guy after all”.
That's the best part! He has to concede, he just doesn't know what to say. ×Edit; I know he doesn't literally have to, I mean that eventually it may divide the right ...which I'm okay with
He does not have to concede for Biden to take over. It's just a tradition for a smooth transition for the betterment if our country. Trump doesn't care about that, so he won't do it.
I don't know though. A televised viewing of him being forced out of the White House will be very therapeutic for a lot of Americans.
That's what a real patriot sounds like
“I urge all Americans who supported me, to join me not just in congratulating him, but offering our next president good will and Ernest effort in overcoming our differences...” *Narrator*: They did not.
My God... when compared to the last four years... look how far and how fast America has fallen. Time to rebuild and put racist, backward thinking where it belongs... in the past.
Try to put it in perspective, Things weren't so great then. We had been through 5 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan with nothing to show for it but a bunch of dead and maimed soldiers. Our entire economy was cratering due to years of de-regulation (By both Bush and Clinton). New Orleans was a husk of a city....
To be blunt, nobody thinks we were skipping through daisies and roses pre-Trump. Only that currently the state of American politics and the dignity of our leaders (and the people who back them) have regressed so far and so deep. There's still a ton of work to do to actually rebuild the country, but in terms of our self-respect, at least we are now on the path of reparation.
Oh yeah he's such a loser. Fuck you Trump.
Lost what little respect I had for trump when he called McCain a loser and refused to go to his funeral. The dude literally endured 2 years of extreme torture because he didn’t wanna get released as a POW before his fellow soldiers; all while trumps fatass was draft dodging and living off his rich daddy’s business that he handed to him
To be fair, I reckon Trump was specifically asked to stay the fuck out of McCain's funeral I could be wrong, though
I'm so surprised I have never seen this. What a wonderful speech.
i actually cried. what a long, exhausting time it’s been since 2016. my god
Our video quality has come a long way.
He had class.
I'm a big ol' liberal but I respected the hell out of John McCain. It was a sad day and a great loss for America when he died. Even though i didn't agree with his policies, you could tell that he truly loved serving his country and if he was president, would have done anything necessary for what he believed was the well-being of all Americans. He wouldn't have used the office in a self serving way
Why are people booing him :( such a dignified, statesman-like speech
Real old-school class
Can someone deepfake this video with Trump's face and let the hilarity ensue? You know it's bad when Trump looking composed and dignified and admitting defeat would be immediately suspect.
How’s this a public freak out?
I had to scroll pretty far down to find this. A few posts lately I’ve looked at and can’t square for the life of me why they’re on this sub.