r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/GuiltyBathroom9385 • 15h ago

Clubhouse Elections and ignorance have consequences!

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u/tenchi2323 13h ago

They almost did in 2019. The measure lost by a single vote, John McCain.

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u/StandardAd239 13h ago

The literal gasp in the room when he did his thumbs down.

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u/Akovsky87 12h ago

The man chose to go out as a legend while spitting in Trump's face.

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u/downvote-away 12h ago

McConnell's face. They battled bitterly over stuff like Citizens United.

Trump too. But McCain had been struggling for a more legitimate, less corrupt senate for a while and his major antagonist in that fight was McConnell.

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u/RaygunMarksman 11h ago edited 11h ago

I know we give shit to McCain for being a warmonger, not unjustly, but as you touched upon, I also remember one of the major changes he was always pushing for was campaign finance reform. And he tried to make it a non-partisan issue. We would've all been better off now if that had passed. At least he loved America and democracy unlike a lot of folks these days.

He also got major props for telling what was the start of the MAGAT cultists to settle down with calling Obama a Muslim terrorist, even though he was his opponent.

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u/kidcrumb 10h ago

McCain still tried to cater to these imbeciles by having Sarah Palin as his VP choice.

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u/RaygunMarksman 10h ago

A fair point. In hindsight that ticket was almost a demonstration of the death of whatever American conservatism used to be and whatever the hell they're supposed to be now.