Fuck Bob Dole

[bigtree]

...have a great day.

[Tomconroy]

1. Your mother would be proud of you.

[bigtree]

6. oh she was, Tomconroy

...very proud.

As I was of her. She never countenanced coddling the likes of Dole, dead or alive.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

65. Well I'M proud of you!! Couldn't have said it better!!

[beaglelover]

13. +1. Grave dancing is never attractive no matter who does it.

[BlackSkimmer]

24. Thank you.

A favorite sport here, sadly.

[madville]

93. Yep, the Covid threads have really brought it out

People cheering on red county and state Covid death statistics like a significant portion of those deaths aren’t Black and Hispanic folks in those areas.

[Sur Zobra]

53. It doesn't matter to the dead if someone on

a message board says something bad about them. And the chances that a member of the dead person’s family reads DU is infinitesimal.

The wailing and gnashing of teeth over dead people’s feelings borders on believing in the supernatural, like crazy people do

[BlackSkimmer]

61. Wow, way to miss the point.

Grave dancing reflects on the dancer. Badly.

[Sur Zobra]

68. LOL

It only reflects your belief that the dead have access to DU

[BlackSkimmer]

73. Whoosh! nt

[paleotn]

75. Depends on the grave.

And yes, mom would chastise me, but I'd dance on certain graves nonetheless. Not so much on Doles. Not a terribly nice guy, but there are far, far worse. Trump's grave will look like a disco party from 1976.

[DeeNice]

102. Yes that one will be hard to resist but I still think

I will just sip my tea, not saying a word.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. Set the WABAC Machine to February 18, 2021.

Thu Feb 18, 2021: Bob Dole has Stage 4 lung cancer

[bigtree]

41. oh yes

... I made it clear then.

me:

"I hate his conservative politics and the way he tried to con Americans into believing his party wasn't trying to end us... I opposed him in real time, while raising my family. I remember it well, he and Newt Gingrich and their 'revolution' working to end me. I fought those political and social battles almost constantly. One of the worst times in our political history, impacting hundreds of millions, and placing my family and countless others in jeopardy."

[BlackSkimmer]

2. Wow, impressive.

And not surprising.

[BannonsLiver]

48. "But I'm different than people on the other side1!!"

[guillaumeb]

3. A comment that a necrophile could embrace, so to speak. eom

[msfiddlestix]

5. deleted previous content

[jimfields33]

9. I really don't like this.

See the problem is that when nancy pelosi passes away and Repugs are nasty, we can’t say how awful that they trash her when we do the exact same thing. It’s one thing I can’t stand is bashing the dead. It always comes back when ours die.

[msfiddlestix]

12. ok. I'll take it down.

[jimfields33]

17. Thank you. Have a great weekend!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. +100.

I never saw the point in bashing anyone after they've passed, to me, it's just plain mean spirited and unnecessary.

RIP to Bob Dole and condolences to his family and friends.

[CBHagman]

86. Thank you.

I'm fine with fair assessments of someone's life and legacy, but I also feel it's important not to lose our humanity at this time or any other. The chants of "[Expletive] Joe Biden" make me wonder about the state and future of our country.

[W_HAMILTON]

27. Yes, because Republicans are well known for...

...their civility, their abiding by previous precedence, and their non-hypocritical stances.



I agree that we shouldn't be dancing on Dole's grave here; however, do it because you aren't the type of person to do that -- NOT because you are under the absolutely wrong assumption that Republicans will somehow keep from dancing on any Democratic grave if you don't dance on one of theirs.

[North Shore Chicago]

104. They treat

Nancy like crap ALL of the time, I wouldn't be able to tell by their cruelty, if she was dead or alive.

[Calista241]

7. is this just a random expression, or did something happen with Bob Dole?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. He died.

[Celerity]

14. Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/us/politics/bob-dole-dead.html

Bob Dole, the plain-spoken son of the prairie who overcame Dust Bowl deprivation in Kansas and grievous battle wounds in Italy to become the Senate majority leader and the last of the World War II generation to win his party’s nomination for president, died on Sunday. He was 98.

His death was announced by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation. It did not say where he died. He had announced in February that he had Stage IV lung cancer and that he was beginning treatment.

A Republican, Mr. Dole was one of the most durable political figures in the last decades of the last century. He was nominated for vice president in 1976 and then for president a full 20 years later. He spent a quarter-century in the Senate, where he was his party’s longest-serving leader until Mitch McConnell of Kentucky surpassed that record in June 2018.

As the old soldiers of World War II faded away, Mr. Dole, who had been a lieutenant in the Army’s storied 10th Mountain Division and was wounded so severely on a battlefield that he was left for dead, came to personify the resilience of his generation. In his post-political career, he devoted himself to raising money for the World War II Memorial in Washington and spent weekends there welcoming visiting veterans.

[Busterscruggs]

10. He is probably

Chock full of viagra so you could get your wish

[erronis]

79. I don't think the OP wanted to be f'd by Dole.

Bob probably isn't in a receptive mood. (ALERT!)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Defended Nixon during Watergate and said he regretted that Trump didn't win in 2020, and all sorts

garbage in between. Seriously, fuck that guy.

[dalton99a]

15. He lost his arm to the Nazis, and then endorsed a Nazi

"I'm a Trumper. I'm sort of Trumped out, though... He lost the election, and I regret that he did."

[JohnSJ]

22. Ironic, isn't it. That alone makes him anti-American. Supporting a racist, bigot, and sexist, who

incited and insurrection against the United States, erases anything he did in WWII, or as a Senator

[Celerity]

30. +1

[dchill]

38. Good a place as any to draw the line.

[JohnSJ]

18. That Bob Dole calls himself a "trumper", who supported trump in 2016 and 2020, says everything you

need to know about him, and it has nothing to do with love of the country or the Constitution

[Croney]

20. I see nothing wrong with the OP. I remember what Rethugs said

when we lost RBG. Saying fuck Bob Dole is tame.

[JohnSJ]

33. The only thing wrong with the OP is it left out some context that Dole had died. Otherwise, the

sentiments of the OP are very understandable, since Dole identified himself as a trumper, who supported the racist, sexist, bigot, and insurrectionist, both in 2016 and 2020

[Ocelot II]

21. The only grave I will dance on will be TFG's.

Maybe Dick Cheney's. I will not dance on Bob Dole's grave, and shame on you.

[BlackSkimmer]

26. Same here.

Exactly.

[Celerity]

28. Putin

[Ocelot II]

31. Of course Putin, but I'm thinking of US politicians.

[Patterson]

37. So, Putin.

[Celerity]

42. Gosar, Cruz, Empty G, Lil Gunny Boebert, Gaetz, Gym Jordan, Dennis Hastert the paedo rapist, Louie

Gohmert, Moscow McTurtle, Greg Abbott, Ron DeathSentence, Russian Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Hawley, Rick Scott, Nazi Madison Cawthorn, Mo Brooks, Newt

[Ocelot II]

46. They aren't worth scuffing my dancing shoes over.

If any of them were to expire my only reaction is likely to be a quiet smile. It's like stepping on cockroaches - you get rid of one, and that's fine, but there are so many more that it's not worth the effort to celebrate squashing just one of them.

[Tommy Carcetti]

44. I've got Putin printed toilet paper that I have saved for that occasion.

And I will enjoy every wipe of it.

[AngryOldDem]

34. +1,000,000

[JohnSJ]

36. You do realize that Dole was not only proud that he voted for a racist, sexist, bigot in 2016 and

2020, but identified himself as a trumper, even after January 6

While I understand you hesitancy about "dancing on someone's grave", his continued support for someone who literally tried, and is still trying, to destroy our democracy, is understandable at very least

[dalton99a]

39. And proud to oppose any healthcare legislation

Bob Dole pointed to the bottom of a dizzyingly detailed flow chart of Bill Clinton's health care legislation -- a prop so full of twists and turns that on television it looked downright intestinal.

"You and I are way down here, somewhere," Dole grinned into the camera, with his best "Mister Rogers-meets-Freddy Krueger" smile. "The president's idea is to put a mountain of bureaucrats between you and your doctor," the Senate Minority Leader added, indicating the dyspeptic diagram alleging federally mandated confusion.

The chart, even more than Dole, was the star of Tuesday night's official Republican response to the president's State of the Union address -- 200-odd reddish organizational boxes linked by a dense web of angry lines -- and Dole continued to brandish it yesterday as he lampooned Clinton's proposal on all the morning talk shows.

(Washington Post, January 27, 1994)

[JohnSJ]

40. He never was a nice person, and he received the best medical care the government could provide

[XanaDUer2]

47. Yes, prob why he lived so long

On our taxes

[MarineCombatEngineer]

49. He earned that lifetime medical care,

despite his attempted denial of those services to others.

[XanaDUer2]

50. Maybe he did, but I'm lying awake

At night, worried about affording $650 a month for MY Healthcare.

I'm the face of his policy support

[MarineCombatEngineer]

51. You shouldn't have to worry about health care, it's a crime, IMHO,

that the health care system is this country is all about profits instead of health care.
I'm truly sorry for the financial burden you're in because of the screwed up system.

[JohnSJ]

59. That is no excuse to deny others, and I know you are not saying that

[MarineCombatEngineer]

62. +100. nt

[BlackSkimmer]

60. He was almost killed in WW2

I was no big fan of his, but people here who never served a day in their lives slamming him…yuck.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

63. +100. nt

[JohnSJ]

64. I don't think they are critical of him for that, but because of his support for trump in 2016 and

2020

Sometwho supports a racist, bigot, and sexist, regardless of their military service, is not admirable, especially from a longtime Senator who should know right from wron

[BlackSkimmer]

66. Oh I agree, I doubt they're critical of him for that.

Most are probably not even aware.

[AngryOldDem]

71. I know I stand in awe of those who have never made bad decisions...

…and have led totally blameless lives full of perfection.

CNN had a list of the bipartisan legislation that he saw through Congress. There was a lot, but two I remember are the Americans With Disabilities Act and food stamp reform. Would that happen in today’s climate?

But let’s hold the man responsible for Trump. Never mind the fact that most people of his generation felt a higher loyalty to party. That’s misguided, now, for sure. But I’m not trashing the man’s 70-plus years of service over that.

[BlackSkimmer]

82. Thank you.

[MustLoveBeagles]

87. +1

[Meowmee]

92. This so much

Yet B says he was a friend…

[iemanja]

56. I thought he died ages ago.

[bearsfootball516]

23. I'll hold my tongue when it comes to him.

[Submariner]

25. The fascists supporting fascism almost killed him in Europe

yet there he was supporting the treasonous fascist trump, who felt Bob's dead WWII friends were nothing but suckers and losers.

Dole was a Raygun era 'own the libs' kind of a guy way back in the 90s, and all these years later we recently watched him take a dump on his own Democracy to support a punk dictator just to beat the libs. A partisan hack until the end.

[Tommy Carcetti]

29. Lovely.

Oy.

[AngryOldDem]

32. Well, that didn't take long.

DU, as they say, never disappoints.

[mopinko]

35. obits are the 1st draft of a life story. best to keep them real.

i have no problem w telling the truth when someone dies.
easier to keep the haze from forming than to try to blow it away later.

[BlueJac]

43. Not a special Senator...

Just another Republican. That is all.

[XanaDUer2]

45. I'll be paying $650/month for COBRA

So I'm not sad a foe of Healthcare is dead.

I didn't know he embraced Trump.

[LeftInTX]

52. And I'm in high school again!

[anamnua]

54. De mortuis nil nisi bonum NT

[RANDYWILDMAN]

55. he sold his soul to big tobacco

98 is a long life

Wish he had done more for people with less.

seemed like a regular R, im one of you, but not really

RIP

[Martin Eden]

57. Sorry, I'll pass

On necrophilia.

[LeftInTX]

70. Thread winner!

[Zorro]

58. Anybody remember this?

Dole Appears, but G.O.P. Rejects a Disabilities Treaty

WASHINGTON — Former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas sat slightly slumped in his wheelchair on the Senate floor on Tuesday, staring intently as Senator John Kerry gave his most impassioned speech all year, in defense of a United Nations treaty that would ban discrimination against people with disabilities.

Senators from both parties went to greet Mr. Dole, leaning in to hear his wispy reply, as he sat in support of the treaty, which would require that people with disabilities have the same general rights as those without disabilities. Several members took the unusual step of voting aye while seated at their desks, out of respect for Mr. Dole, 89, a Republican who was the majority leader.

Then, after Mr. Dole’s wife, Elizabeth, rolled him off the floor, Republicans quietly voted down the treaty that the ailing Mr. Dole, recently released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, so longed to see passed.

A majority of Republicans who voted against the treaty, which was modeled on the Americans With Disabilities Act, said they feared that it would infringe on American sovereignty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/us/despite-doles-wish-gop-rejects-disabilities-treaty.html

His own party gave him a big "fuck you" with this vote, and yet he remained committed to the party to the end. He could have spent his time in office promoting reasonable policies and accommodations with the Democrats, but nope.

[Solly Mack]

67. Short memories are as dangerous as willful ignorance

Uninformed or unaware not much better.

Politicians can cause real harm to real people. Nothing, not even death, excuses the actual harm they cause.

[XanaDUer2]

74. Upvote

[58Sunliner]

81. Thank you.

[Crepuscular]

69. ...

I suspect that both Joe Biden and Dan Inouye would disagree with the sentiment expressed by the OP.

[48656c6c6f20]

72. I'm a Trumper

Said Bob Dole.
So good riddance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bob-dole-i-m-a-trumper-but-i-m-sort-of-trumped-out/ar-AAMrqms

[Ford_Prefect]

76. Bob Dole was at the core of the party during the contract on America. He engineered much behind

scenes which prepared the way for W, the Neo-Cons and the Tea Party. He was a fixer for the RW GOP and every bit as dirty in that as any of them.

His wife was no saint either. We were graced with her presence as senator from NC and she did NOTHING for us at all. She was just as much a con-artist as her late husband.

Rot in Hell Bob.

[traitorsgalore]

84. Well said!

The GOPlague has been full of crooks since Nixon.

[dalton99a]

88. He was Gingrich's accomplice in the Senate

[XanaDUer2]

91. Disgusting nt

[Demobrat]

77. Death changes nothing

If I despised and bashed them when they were alive I see no reason not to despise and bash them when they are dead.

[Mr.Bill]

78. I always judge any politician to some extent

on whether they move back to the area they represented when they retire. If they don't even want to live there, it may reflect on how much effort they put into representing the place to begin with. Presidents are somewhat exempt on this, since they represented the entire country.

I have a former Congressman (R) who when he left the job he immediately became a lobbyist and lived in DC. So where were his interests when he "represented" his district?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Dole continue to live in DC after retiring from the Senate?

[58Sunliner]

80. Amen. I didn't like him alive, why should I pay him any respect.

And before anyone wants to bring up his war record, let's remember who he voted with. The pukes who consistently have tried to gut veterans benefits.

[Raine]

83. 👎 nt

[Polybius]

85. Disgusting repulsive post

Wish there were bans for this type of content.

[Buzz cook]

89. Nothing gets more respect than a dead Republican

Sweet baby Jezuz it sad to see how far we've sunk when we have to look up at Bob Dole.

All the good things that they say Dole did are things any normal good man would have done without a second thought. He's getting praised for not being a total asshole.

[betsuni]

90. So what?

[jcmaine72]

94. No thanks....

If my brain ever degenerates to the point where necrophilia seems like viable hobby, the last corpse I'd ever fuck would be Bob Dole's.

[FelineOverlord]

95. Fuck Bob Dole

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[XanaDUer2]

96. Wow he keeps getting worse nt

[Stuart G]

97. "It's the money, honey"...This is what Republicans are all about....Ain't it?

[wellst0nev0ter]

98. Bob Dole is the first cosponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act

So yes, fuck that trumpanzee and all that he stands for

http://www.georgialogcabin.org/news/Bob-Dole-Gay-Marriage-DOMA/199605101901.shtml

[XanaDUer2]

99. Wow, Thanks to DUers, I'm learning so much about him nt

[XanaDUer2]

100. Kick nt

[CrackityJones75]

101. DEMOCRATS NEED TO BE TOUGHER!

“Fuck Bob Dole.”

“Hey! That’s not nice!”



Give me a God Damned break.

[Meowmee]

103. Agree

[dalton99a]

105. When Democrat became an adjective

"If we added up the killed and wounded in Democrat wars in this century, it would be ... enough to fill the city of Detroit." - Bob Dole, 1976

[H2O Man]

106. No!

What a revolting thought!


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