It shouldn’t cost $60,000 to bury anyone.
Por que no los dos? I’m free to be disgusted with funeral costs and you’re free to make your point.
Because the unhinged racism is 1,000 times worse than the cost.
That’s like “yeah, plus JFKs convertible limousine had terrible hubcaps”
This isn’t a meme though.
It is complete bullshit. The family already came out and said it was. The article says the other guy they spoke to who was in the room “didn’t hear it” as if he missed it somehow, but that guy came out and said they twisted his words, and trump said nothing like that at all, he didn’t miss anything.
It’s the same with Mark Kelly. Lots of his co-workers and those employed under him are coming out of the woodwork and claiming Mark Kelly is a big liar with a Napoleon complex, and he is. I hope they throw him in prison and he rots.
Wear those down votes with pride. The more I see how the news is twisted and willingly echoed here without providing context or followup, the more I can see how dumb most of those I used to side with are.
I see you made an account just to post tankie propaganda.
How’s that working out for you?
No, it’s something he said when an American soldier of Mexican descent was murdered by a fellow soldier. He offered to pay for the funeral, then didn’t. This was while he was in office.
I’m assuming that this is some political bullshit spin job.
You know what they say when you assume…
of course the timing of it has to do with the fact that the election is less than 2 weeks away, but do you not remember the shit he did while in office? Every day there was a fresh scandal. Shit like this got swept under the fresh hot garbage that he spewed.
This isn’t surprising to me at all, especially knowing how racist trump is, how he actually does refuse to pay bills and also about how he does treat fallen soldiers with nothing but disdain.
How much does it cost to bury an avaricious, racist, mendacious sociopath? Feels like there is a gag in here somewhere.
How much to gag an avaricious, racist, mendacious sociopath? Shall we start a GoFundMe?
Do funerals really cost 60k? Or what made this one so expensive? I’m not trying to defend Trump here because he’s a racist POS but that number is terrifying to me.
It was something like $9k to have my grandfather cremated and a small service for him. The funeral industry is even worse than the wedding industry at taking advantage of your time of emotional turmoil, and because even legally you’re kinda limited at what you can do with the body and you’re on a time crunch, shopping around isn’t exactly easy.
Given that servicemember funerals can be quite elaborate, and I’m sure that number also likely includes a number of other things like death benefits paid to the families, I can totally believe that cost.
Guess I’ll just have to make sure to leave specific instructions to my family that I am to be thrown in the trash and to spend that money on something fun if they’re gonna spend it.
Absolutely! It’s something people really don’t like thinking about, but end-of-life planning is super duper important. Create and regularly update your will, ensure you have beneficiaries listed for stuff like stock accounts, and leave very clear instructions (and ideally money) aside for how to act on them. Have a lawyer look over them as well to prevent any family bullshit from going on as well.
They really can. And you should know your rights. The death industry is slimy AF, about on par with timeshares. My late mother-in-law was Lisa Carlson, a pioneer of funeral rights and ethics. If you are going to be dealing with someone’s death or planning to die (and you should be prepared), it’s important stuff. You don’t want to get suckered when you are so emotionally vulnerable, on which the death industry preys. There are a lot of options which the death industry tries very hard to keep hidden from you and lobbies to remove.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Final_Rights.html?id=-qxJEAAAQBAJ
Also: this is the offshoot of Carlson’s funeral ethics organization https://funerals.org/
