@godpod

Both parties have epic fails when it comes to caring about #veterans.

I'm a boomer who has voted almost exclusively #Democrat over the years & I have to call out #JohnMcCain as a stellar example of one #Republican who always tried to do the right thing for vets. There are others from both parties.

We, me 100% included, all need to be careful of broadbrush statements.

It's easy to get into us vs. them & miss people who really made a difference.

Kagan served as a speechwriter for Secy of State #GeorgeShultz during the #Reagan admin & as an advisor to Sen #JohnMcCain during his 2008 presidential campaign.

In 2016, he left the #Republican party over its nomination of #Trump as its standard bearer & endorsed #HillaryClinton. In Nov 2023, he published an expansive column in the #WashingtonPost under the headline “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”

"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."

Senator #JohnMcCain

https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/

>230 fmr ofcls for #Republican presidents #GeorgeHWBush & #GeorgeWBush have also backed #Harris, in addition to campaign staffers for Republican presidential noms #JohnMcCain & #MittRomney. #Biden received a similar amount of #GOP support in his 2020 run against #Trump.

Fmr #Reagan staff backing Harris includes Ken Adelman, the US ambassador to the #UN & #US #ArmsControl dir under Reagan, as well as B.Jay Cooper, the special asst & deputy press sec to Reagan.

"We hope that those visiting this sacred site understand that there were real people who sacrificed for our freedom & that they are #honored & #respected & treated accordingly," they said in a statement.

Jimmy McCain, a US Marine whose father was the late Sen #JohnMcCain, also condemned the visit.

#Trump has a history of controversial remarks about the <military - he insulted Sen John McCain for being a #POW. He called dead soldiers "suckers" & "losers,"

At the same time, #Trump has repeatedly badmouthed the sacrifices of American #ServiceMembers. In 2015, he mocked the late Sen #JohnMcCain (R) for his time as a #POW, saying, “I like people who weren’t captured, & earlier this month said the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom was “much better” than the #military #MedalOfHonor because those who received the latter were “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.”

#law #USpol
#HarrisWalz2024

@MarvinTheMartian #Russia is a dying country, demographically. But existentially, in the words of the late #American Senator #JohnMcCain “Russia is a gas ️ station run by the mob masquerading as a country.”

@Extra_Special_Carbon

Except the ACA votes. He saved all Americans with a single down vote against the hundreds of Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

This one action during complete Republican control of Congress and Senate is enough for me to forgive his many blunders.

#navy
#pow
#johnmccain

@GottaLaff @ChrisHolladay

@SocraticEthics But if the previous owner happens to ‘fall out of a window’, #Russian state-control of the largest auto dealer could be ‘extended’.

#RussiaIsATerroristState and as the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain said: “A gas station run by the mafia, masquerading as a country.”

@w7voa maybe we need to convince McCain's son to join Mastodon instead

More seriously, I can see this leading to lawsuits. #Twitter #JohnMcCain