Three Funerals and a Wedding

Funerals Are For the Living...and Those Living Rent-Free in Their Heads

Spengler: A Funeral for a World that Never Was:

"Senator John McCain’s funeral was the most ostentatious that Washington has accorded except for a president, and much grander than the 2006 funeral of Gerald Ford, for example. The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.

The eulogies for the Arizona senator, to be sure, were a convenient occasion for the Establishment to show its dudgeon at “the pointedly un-invited President Trump,” as the New Yorker noted, calling the event “the biggest resistance meeting yet.”

McCain’s daughter Meghan contrasted what she called her father’s “real greatness” with the “cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice,” a reference to Trump. Politics, though, were less important than the American elite’s collective exercise in self-consolation after the catastrophic failure of its policies and its repudiation by the voters in the 2016 election.

Senator McCain served his country and suffered on its behalf as a prisoner of war, and deserves respect on the occasion of his passing. But the unctuous sea of self-congratulatory declarations of virtue embedded in his obsequies was enough to make the portraits in the Capitol rotunda puke. ...

The un-invited president recalls the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, to whose christening were invited 12 of the kingdom’s 13 wise women – the palace had only 12 golden plates. Humiliated, the 13th wise woman gave the new born a curse rather than a blessing, declaring that it would prick its thumb and die.

In its narcissism and self-adulation, the Establishment will not die of pricking of the thumb, but the other way around.

By civility and bipartisanship, the Establishment refers to the policy consensus that squandered America’s dominant position in the world after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990.".......

But first, two Completely Unrelated stories:

Iraq election: Months after vote, Moqtada al-Sadr finally negotiates alliance with 16 political groups    

 

Photo: Moqtada al-Sadr retained his lead, winning 54 seats.

Iraqi politicians led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi say they have created an alliance that would give them a majority bloc in the new parliament after four months of political uncertainty.

Feds Scramble after Las Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Lists FBI as Place of Employment on Loan App...

True Pundit

"Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock, worked for the FBI, according to credit application data the Australian national reported as part of a loan application. That’s the same Danley whose fingerprints were found on Paddock’s horde of ammunition packed into unused rifle magazines.".......

Now back to our post:

(Ed.'s note: The Other McCain: Still Alive and Well!)


"Here--and tell Barry I'm absolutely no threat to y'all's Islamo-Communist project."
"Oh--we already know that about you, Dub."
"Cool. Hey--when are they going to play 'R-E-S-P-I-uh...' that song?"

President Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Alex Jones celebrate the life
of decorated fighter pilot Sen. Aretha Franklin

Say--you know who else got a televised taxpayer-funded State Funeral?

Seth Rich



On the sidewalk--although the surveillance camera video was a little grainy.

And now, a Wedding:

Here, the New York Times marries the Narrative, trying desperately to spin a seditious failed Coup Attempt into a legitimate law-enforcement function:

Conservative Treehouse: Comical Propaganda – NYT Now Claiming FBI Was Trying to “Flip” Oleg Deripaska…

"Yesterday we wrote about how the Associated Press was attempting to cloud and obfuscate details (now getting exposed) about DOJ Official Bruce Ohr and his engagements with Fusion-GPS, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele and the collaboration with the FBI in their collective political targeting of candidate Donald Trump...Here’s the cut-to-the-chase:  Those AP reporters are almost virtually guaranteed to be the same AP reporters that are participants within the Fusion GPS network; and the same AP reporters who collaborate with Andy Weissmann et al. These endless media scribes were willing participants within the 2015/2016/2017 plot, plan and execution; and as such they are clearly acting/writing to protect themselves and their interests.
Today we cue up another brutally obvious example of media collaboration to protect their own interests, where we see the New York Times attempt to engineer yet another narrative and hide a reality that DOJ and FBI officials were conspiring with Russians:

(Read Article Here)

See how the insufferable media now spin the connection between the DOJ/FBI and Oleg Deripaska as the FBI was trying to “flip” the Russian oligarch.".......

Congratulations to the happy couple!