BuzzFeed editor Sarah Mimms used a lesson learned in the Disney movie “Bambi” and applied it to Senator John McCain, telling her readers that “If you have something shitty to say about John McCain, here’s a thought: Don’t.”
If you have something shitty to say about John McCain, here's a thought: Don't.
— Sarah Mimms (@mimms) July 25, 2017
That advice was as good for Thumper as it is today, but her readers had other plans. Notice the 4000 responses on the tweet above? Most are like this (and we’re just including the ones from verified accounts!):
Ah, fuck you. McCain raced back from publicly-funded healthcare to vote to take coverage from 32million Americans. I'll say whatever I want.
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) July 25, 2017
I'm paying for that old fuck to get the best treatment in his final days, so there's no chance he shares the fate he condemned others to.
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) July 25, 2017
That's worthy of discussion. That's worthy of some public shaming. So if you want to play tone police, here's a thought:
Don't.— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) July 25, 2017
FUCK JOHN MCCAIN
— Travon Free (@Travon) July 26, 2017
nah. Be respectful, but feel free to criticize him politically. You know – democracy.
— Bill Lawrence (@VDOOZER) July 26, 2017
A cancer patient who received top care on our dollar just told other cancer patients, tough shit. So, no, take a seat privileged white lady.
— Yolanda Machado (@SassyMamainLA) July 26, 2017
Your priorities are ghastly.
— Josh Olson (@joshuarolson) July 25, 2017
He just voted to take away my health care and don't tell me it's because he wants to keep my seat because that clearly doesn't matter
— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) July 25, 2017
So don't tell me that he's some kind of good person. He's an evil ghoul and the world will be better without him.
— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/freeblackgirl/status/889925726790701056
Fair enough. You can eat the satchel of dicks I was going to tell him to eat.
— Kno (@Kno) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/bethshax/status/889939283317882880
fuck you and fuck John McCain
— Jeremy Wein is in Georgia this week (@thismyshow) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/LevNovak/status/889925575665647617
bitch please.
— Gabrielle Union's Dope Ass 'Rotating' Hairstyles (@kelleent) July 25, 2017
youre an idiot
— Skeleton Jones! (@fugazi420) July 25, 2017
is he your dad or something? if not, who cares. he's a very powerful person with decades and decades of a terrible record.
— Councilor-elect Bill Humphrey (@BillHumphreyMA) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/889932459365806080
https://twitter.com/nately/status/889928235974369282
https://twitter.com/sivavaid/status/889928413498179585
https://twitter.com/iskandrah/status/889939065403056128
You can delete your account.
— Jeremy Pond (@JeremyPond) July 25, 2017
the wrongest take?
— Tim Federle (@TimFederle) July 25, 2017
Stay classy, libs.
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