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ken taylor's avatar

how many will come to honor you and me beyond the few who knew us?

who will even know when we are gone beyond the few who might still read the local obituaries?

we will be no more mourned by the "elite" than those who have been slaughtered in Gaza over the last two years.

People are dying every day and crying every day, but the elite only care when one of their own is gone.

Of course black lives never mattered.

No loves matter except those who lost their loved ones.

But when those who don't care how many die to earn their place in glory, it is supposed to matter to us.

Thomas Neuburger's avatar

Interesting, Ken. The concept of "the good and the great" starts with kingship and empires, not before. Interesting point.

Blackthorn's avatar

Maybe some of them went to make sure he was really dead.

Mark Oglesby's avatar

Obama may not have attended but he did his duty for the Elites and Elites, he refused to prosecute the Bush Jr. Administration, golden hero as Obama is. Oh, by the way, how many souls did he assassinate while in office? A whole lot!

the suck of sorrow's avatar

An old colloquialism stated that a picture was worth a thousand words. For me, the somber Rachel Maddow gets precisely two. I think those reading can pick two expressing the same sentiment as me.

Cheney and Epstein overlap in that they both practiced their magic without consequence in their prime. The Epstein coterie may find life becoming slightly less pleasant in the future. If the same revulsion adheres to Cheney's enablers (your senator and/or congressperson) then perhaps there is a God.

Jean-Luc Szpakowski's avatar

Ah Rachel, you democratic party apparatchik, you fake leftist, so careful to avert your commentary from US support for genocide in Gaza. I'm sure you're calculating that attending Cheney's funeral may buy you more time at MSNBC.

Mark Oglesby's avatar

That's why she gets the HUGE paycheck!

David on an Island's avatar

At least Dick bothered himself to obtain a fraudulent AUMF from congress before ordering brown people to be turned into red mist. Just when I thought that Rachel Maddow couldn’t sink any lower…

Mark Oglesby's avatar

Oh yes, she can: Again, that's why she gets the HUGE paycheck, and oh, invited to all the good parties of, as Thomas states again and again: "Elites and Elites!"