Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[grumbler]

Guess we should be reporting corrupt real estate deals, too, then.  Though not to ICE.

And people violating the emoluments clause.

[garbon]

And people with their own email servers.

[grumbler]

And people who bring unsecure phones into a SCIF (Special Compartmented Information Facility).

[Syt]

This is Carol McCain, John McCain's first wife. She was not invited to McCain's Arizona funeral either. McCain adopted his first wife Carol's two children, Douglas and Andrew, after the couple married in 1965 and a year later they had their only child together: Sidney. All of the McCain children attended his funeral service in Arizona, including Carol's children, Douglas and Andrew. The mother of three of his children, Carol, was not invited, and neither was Sarah Palin, his VP candidate in 2008.

Two years after marrying, John became a prisoner of war and was not released back to his family until 1973. In turn, Carol had to raise her sons and the couple's daughter for an estimated six years, on her own. When McCain returned home from Vietnam in 1973 after being captured and held as a prisoner of war for five years, he found out about a car accident Carol had three years earlier that left her badly injured.

He left her because she was disfigured and started dating Cindy Hensley while still married to Carol. McCain pushed for a divorce in 1980 and, that same year, McCain married Cindy, who was 17 years younger.

Cindy was born into a wealthy family - her father was one of the biggest Anheuser Busch distributors in the United States. After her father died, she inherited the company and has an estimated net worth of over $100 million.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were both appalled at McCain for what he did to his first wife. Carol McCain was Director of the White House Visitors Office during the Reagan administration. This is the guy the media is now holding up as a saint? I think not.

[Tamas]

Reply with a link to Trump's first wife maybe? 

[Valmy]

Strawman. Nobody is saying he is a saint or some sort of perfect person.

But man your family loves making bogus claims and then arguing from that basis.

And I neither know nor care if that story is true. But since it is part of an internet meme I will just assume it is entirely fabricated or told in a very misleading way.

[Syt]

[Richard Hakluyt]

Not totally useless that facebook post. I was curious why Dearborn was so important to him; that place has an interesting demography.

[Razgovory]

Not totally useless that facebook post. I was curious why Dearborn was so important to him; that place has an interesting demography.

There is a Right-wing conspiracy that Dearborn Michigan has fallen to Sharia law.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yes, there would be 

A lot of the Arab-Americans there are Lebanese Christian by background though; I'm sure thay would let us know if a Caliphate was pending.

Trying to find the religious breakdown at the moment.............it looks similar to Lebanon/Syria........... ie very complicated.

[derspiess]

An FB friend of mine unironically posted this: https://trumpbetrayed.us/all/breaking-michael-jordan-resigns-from-the-board-at-nike-takes-air-jordans-with-him/

[grumbler]

An FB friend of mine unironically posted this: https://trumpbetrayed.us/all/breaking-michael-jordan-resigns-from-the-board-at-nike-takes-air-jordans-with-him/

I am not sure what "unironically" means in this context.  Do you mean that he meant this "headline" to be taken seriously?  Lots of humorous posts aren't meant to be ironic, just funny.

[The Minsky Moment]

This is Carol McCain, John McCain's first wife. She was not invited to McCain's Arizona funeral either. McCain adopted his first wife Carol's two children, Douglas and Andrew, after the couple married in 1965 and a year later they had their only child together: Sidney. All of the McCain children attended his funeral service in Arizona, including Carol's children, Douglas and Andrew. The mother of three of his children, Carol, was not invited, and neither was Sarah Palin, his VP candidate in 2008.

Two years after marrying, John became a prisoner of war and was not released back to his family until 1973. In turn, Carol had to raise her sons and the couple's daughter for an estimated six years, on her own. When McCain returned home from Vietnam in 1973 after being captured and held as a prisoner of war for five years, he found out about a car accident Carol had three years earlier that left her badly injured.

He left her because she was disfigured and started dating Cindy Hensley while still married to Carol. McCain pushed for a divorce in 1980 and, that same year, McCain married Cindy, who was 17 years younger.

Cindy was born into a wealthy family - her father was one of the biggest Anheuser Busch distributors in the United States. After her father died, she inherited the company and has an estimated net worth of over $100 million.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were both appalled at McCain for what he did to his first wife. Carol McCain was Director of the White House Visitors Office during the Reagan administration. This is the guy the media is now holding up as a saint? I think not.

Six years passed between McCain's return to the US and the breakup of his first marriage.

I don't think anyone ever held up McCain as a saint, least of all McCain himself.  He always admitted he acted badly to his first wife.

I'm also going to take a wild guess and surmise that the person who wrote this is a Trump supporter, raising some obvious questions about double standards and hypocrisy.

[derspiess]

An FB friend of mine unironically posted this: https://trumpbetrayed.us/all/breaking-michael-jordan-resigns-from-the-board-at-nike-takes-air-jordans-with-him/

I am not sure what "unironically" means in this context.  Do you mean that he meant this "headline" to be taken seriously?

That's precisely what I mean.  She posts a lot of the same stuff that Syt's sisters and in-laws post-- in this case I don't think she took the time to read through the article, nor did she seem to notice the author's name is Flagg Eagleton, or that the name of the site is trumpbetrayed.us

One of her friends has since replied "Good for him!" but then someone spoiled the fun by posting the snopes refutation.

[Jacob]