Anybody who can read this without tearing up needs a soul transplant:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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Anybody who can read this without tearing up needs a soul transplant:

https://nyti.ms/2G4M9BJ

12:25 PM - May 12, 2018
John McCain at the U.S. Naval Academy last year.
Opinion | As He Lay Dying
John McCain is not just plotting the details of his own funeral, but living it. And he’s giving us a very public tutorial in dignity and defiance.

nytimes.com

[Honeycombe8]

1. He's lived a good, full life. We all should be so lucky.

This must be hard on his family, like it is for so many families.

Politically, this is bad for the country, to lose one of the few moderate Republicans in the Senate. God only knows what kind of person will replace him. Could be one of those alt-right wackos.

So sad. In a way, though, it's good that he has had time to say goodbye to friends and family.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I'm not tearing up and I don't think I need a soul transplant.

Unfortunately, the dying of John McCain will mean that he'll be turned into some kind of saint, which he never was. There were a lot of men who were prisoners with him in Vietnam who claimed he collaborated with them and they were hushed up when McCain ran for President.

He's voted against a lot of good things. He cheated on his first wife and essentially abandoned her after he returned from Vietnam war and saw that she'd been crippled in a car accident. When he met the woman who is is current wife he lied to her about being single. She in turn lied to him about her age.

And while this may seem trivial, it cuts to the heart of his essential dishonesty: we were living in Phoenix when he decided he'd run for the Senate (he was already a Congressman) and moved out of his district over to a better part of town. He did that some time before actually declaring his run for the Senate. It was clear he didn't really give a flying fuck about his constituents, and always had his eye on higher and higher office.

So while I won't quite dance on his grave, I won't be mourning his passing. It's probably too much to hope that Arizonans will elect someone better than McCain to fill his seat, but I won't hold out very much hope.

[Hekate]

3. That is a beautiful essay. nt