become acceptable to politically stomp during a funeral?
Warning: Political rant to follow. Open at your own risk.
Here. Just because you stopped by…
This past weekend, we said goodbye to two exceptional human beings – a singer, who not only set the standard for her genre, but set the bar so high, no one will get over it, and a war hero who I voted for for President, but disagreed with politically in his later years.
Both funerals, which should have been a celebration of their lives, turned into mud-slinging of the most disgusting degree.
First off, I will NOT and am not saying anything against John McCain’s daughter. She is hurting and grieving, however I found it sad that others picked up and ran with the political stomping, turning a celebration of an extraordinary life into being about someone who wasn’t there. It became a sorry expression of bitterness.
I wanted to hug Joe Liebermann.
As for Aretha’s…
I know Maxine Waters has been destroying funerals since Trump was elected. She isn’t an acceptable guest anywhere where civilized people gather. Her rhetoric is on stuck, like a scratched 45 RPM record. Yet, people seem to look to her for funerary rhetoric! It wasn’t acceptable then and it sure as shit isn’t acceptable now.
I’m sure a lot of you have a lot to say about that and fine, just remember, I lean right and I lean further and further every passing day. And this is about FUNERALS…
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I’m sorry to say I don’t know what happened… we got star studded reports of Aretha Franklin’s funeral here in the UK, and not a lot of detail about John McCain other than that The Donald wasn’t invited… I better go and google what went on! 😳
We knew Donald wasn’t invited – his daughter went. No one was surprised – Donald and John did NOT get along and it seemed that John voted specifically against Trump – no matter how GOOD the bill was for America. We call this ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’
Of course Trump was acting like a 2 year old, however….
I wanted to hear about John’s military exploits – the man was a hero. I loved Joe Liebermann telling jokes about the man.
But George W Bush, Obummer, all got up and politically stomped and made it about Trump, not McCain. It angered me. That’s not what the funeral was for.
Aretha’s was a travesty – preachers and ministers talking about everything and anything. I understand the thing went on for close to 8 hours. That’s too long. There was accusations that one pastor groped women while on the pulpit, and discussions that had nothing to do with Aretha.
Just disgusting.
Yeah I did a complete news blackout all weekend primarily bec I spent the majority of it with my two nieces and they alone are a comedy act. I only read something about one of the ministers touching or too close to Ariana Grande’s breast and later apologized that he did not mean anything inappropriate by it. I am not a Meghan Mccain fan but I did hear she knocked it out of the ballpark with her eulogy as I commented on Servetus blog post. Aretha was a legend so hopefully the funeral if there was pomp and circumstance was fitting for the Queen of Soul.
McCain: he had a lot of class and showed bravery in the last year or so with a terminal diagnosis. I cannot imagine how I would act and react if my dad who turns 81 this month was diagnosed with any illness not to mention terminal.
I do hope you had a great and relaxing time visiting your parents this past weekend.
Dare I comment? Yes! Apparently I do! Hopefully we’ll still be friends. 🙂
I didn’t see much of Aretha’s funeral. I saw a bit of Jennifer Hudson doing “Amazing Grace”. I’m a bit of a purist, though, and prefer a version closer to a hymn. Apparently, she’s going to be playing Aretha in a biopic.
And then I really liked Ariana Grande’s rendition of “Natural Woman” — big voice on that small woman. Of course I’ve also seen the pictures and video of the pastor with his fingers digging deeper into her right breast — eww… also no place for that at a funeral or anywhere. That did not look inadvertent to me. I think you know when your hand is wrapped too far around a woman and your fingers are actively pushing into a woman’s breast.
As for McCain’s funeral (only having heard bits of it), my understanding is that, knowing his diagnosis, he very carefully planned his own funeral. He picked the speakers and likely even made some suggestions about the content of their speeches. I agree that they were more like political speeches, for sure, but seems like that was McCain’s wish for his final public event, and maybe his wishes being respected is appropriate. (I agree that his military history and demonstration of character as a POW were very impressive and to be celebrated.)
The other thing I would say is that these are no ordinary times. When a sitting President decides that international “diplomacy” and trade negotiations and, in fact, his communication with the nation and the world should be done via Twitter, then maybe a funeral isn’t off base either.
And that’s about as political as I get. Still friends?
Oh, we’re good. I’m not one of those people – OMG if you voted for him/her unfriend me now! kind of people. People have different opinions and usually I invite civilized discussion on various views. People have to accept that sometimes, people aren’t going to agree because of differing life experiences and viewpoints. No worries.
I didn’t have a problem with the music of Aretha’s funeral (which I only saw and read about bits of pieces of) – my problem was some of the speakers and such. Also, I extremely dislike Clinton, Farrukhan etal. Extremely.
As for John’s funeral, it’s been well known our current president wasn’t invited, as was his former running mate. He would have preferred Joe Liebermann (who I really liked) but his team wanted the female vote really bad.
Our previous potentate did Congress’s job using his own pen and stocking the lower courts with his cronies so undoing his shit is taking too long and costing the US an arm and a leg. And by the way, had they REALLY cared about a lot of the stuff they are crying about now – such as the separation of families at the border (which they started) a higher living wage, free food, free college education etc… they could have done it when they had the super majority. Our previous tyrant also decided international diplomacy and such and no one yelled then.
You know, I was kinda… stuck in traffic yesterday morning, and Pelosi is on the radio, whining about ‘affordable healthcare’ for all – hello, didn’t you try that before? And all I can think about is – well, in 2010, my healthcare was 67.00 a month and then I lost my job and jobs were scarce for 5 years. And instead of leaving it alone because we tend to bounce back, you and your cronies made it WORSE and I STILL managed to find affordable healthcare with me making less than 1/3rd of what I was making and I’m a teacher, so you know I wasn’t rolling in the dough and then when I finally DID get a job, I was making LESS but my healthcare costs skyrocketed to over 500.00 a month PLUS a 1500.00 deductible PLUS my PSA which I had the foresight to take part in. And I’m having to jump MORE hoops to get my diabetes meds because of reasons. Honestly, I wish that the government had kept their hands out of my healthcare and out of the economy. We’d have recovered faster and we’d be paying less for healthcare.
While John McCain pointedly left Trump off the guest list and asked Obummer and George W to speak, I had hoped they would focus on his accomplishments and less on his political foe. Sadly, that didn’t happen.
This is too early in the morning
Sorry… crazy-busy day today. Definitely I agree that we can all have different political opinions and still get along.
I didn’t actually hear any of the speeches at Aretha’s funeral. So really, I can only comment on the bit of music I heard. And she will surely be missed.
Being Canadian, there is only so far I will venture into discussions of US politics. Suffice it to say that if I were there, I would not have voted for the current President, nor would I vote for him for a second term.
We do have government health services plans here, not covering dental or drugs. It’s great to have this. Payment arrangements for individuals vary depending on the province. Currently, individuals in British Columbia pay on a sliding scale based on income to a maximum of $37.50 per month for one or $75 for two adults in a family. Covers medical services, essentially. Next year, this will convert to an employer tax, with individuals not paying premiums. There are still dental and prescription drugs to worry about, though. Most colleges and universities include a plan for those as a compulsory part of tuition and a lot of employers will have a plan.
Anyway… always interesting to read others’ points of view. I won’t often comment on political stuff, but now and then I might. 😊
On a lighter note I missed your ManCandy Monday on Monday but it was technically a day off so… I just LIVE for that day and of course Guy Friday but the pic above which is how my house looks after being with my nieces most of last weekend is swoonworthy. commando and all!!!
This is why I normally do NOT discuss politics here. I don’t debate well and I’m not going to change my mind. let’s just have cheesecake and move on.
Yeah, I fell down on the ManCandy Monday and Zee Reads… I might do that when I get home tonight. We went to the grocery store last night and by the time I got home, I was exhausted. And today my blood sugar is skyhigh, so I’m cranky. Very cranky.
Oh no!! I’m eating Sour Patch kids right now-leftovers from last weekend bec I feel lightheaded and my tummy is queasy today. It is so f— hot here in DC. I detest hot weather. No a/c in my house for two months. The dogs are going nuts, I’m going nuts. I kept thinking well “I’ve made it this long w/out it, it’s gonna cool down soon and I won’t need the heat all that much until Jan or Feb so hang in there Michele!!”
I’m all for cheesecake, yummy!! I was curious if your guardian angel frog has made another cameo recently? Those webbed feet are just adorable.
can’t go without AC here in the South. No way. I’ll be running the air until November. I’m kinda hoping for a mild winter, but if it’s not REALLY cold, we have serious bad bugs in the summer. I had my highest electric bill ever last month – just under 180.00.
I know I know, the blessing if anything was the electric bill was like $55 each the last 3 months which to me is alluring (like a huge clearance sale at Target for me) so my rationale was ok sleep in the basement, fan on full blast, the Labradoodle is hogging the fan and the cocker spaniel is happy on the cool floor. My dad keeps asking me did ya get it looked at yet and I tell him not today.
Ya need to!!!!! I couldn’t cope! My AC was out for 3 days some years back and I thought I was gonna die!
Yes you’re right! My dad’s right! As I browse the 5 day forecast on my phone. I’m just really weird like that.. I adjust my living situation accordingly try to adapt to what is going on and then when I should do something proactively or reactively in this case about it I procrastinate… stupid I know.
Just to make both of you jealous, I am currently sitting in a really cold hockey rink watching my younger son play.
Shaddup. I’m looking at at leas 5 days of temps in the upper 80’s/low 90’s with a good chance of rain. Meh.
Haha right on! We are jealous Sue esp since your healthcare each month is fantastic.
It is supposed to cool a little here into the 70s in DC/Virginia area so I get a little reprieve there. We are also supposed to get rain which my head is feeling coming on now…
No, my spirit animal hasn’t been seen. 😦
Oh that’s a shame but he’s out there looking over you maybe from a tree or bush or wherever frogs sleep/watch..
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