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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The country’s entire upper-crust political elite is in the National Cathedral right now. Except&#8230; the president. Take from that what you will.</p>
<p>&mdash; Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1035896071778709505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">That seemed like a funeral not so much for McCain, but for an ideology which had once sustained America&#39;s imperial hegemony, and is now on the way out.</p>
<p>&mdash; Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1035929989819060225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shows of elite unity, like this McCain Holy Week, are a defense mechanism. They know their standing is precarious. So they create this weird mythology to justify their existence. Fewer and fewer are buying it.</p>
<p>&mdash; Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1035924271959293953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Obama on McCain: “When all was said and done, we were on the same team.” Sports metaphors are the least persuasive demonstrations of elite unity. But it’s all they have.</p>
<p>&mdash; Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1035919347896725505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The state funeral for this <a href="https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five-6431838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corrupt</a> open borders warmonger sociopath is nauseating, but at least the phony top-down solemnity and pompous audacity of it means the neoliberal elite are scared that their era is over, and the Trumpian realignment is the future of America.</p>
<p>But you know the Chaimstream Media loves Republicans who lose, and they especially love anti-Trump Republicans who bloviate neoliberalogisms, so McAmnesty is /theirguy/ when his death can be used as another prop in their war against Trump and nationalists who resist the plague of globohomoism.</p>
<p>Good riddance to that malevolent cuck, and fitting that the heavens should open up and piss on his coffin as it was carried into the Capitol abattoir of moribund globalist elites.</p>
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