John McCain Accused of Living It Up at Hanoi Hilton; Twitter Does Not Disappoint

John McCain walks inside the Hoa Lo prison, nicknamed "The Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, Vietman on April 27, 2000 where McCain was kept as a prisoner of war from October 1967 until March 1973. McCain was visiting as Vietnam marked the 25th anniversary of the end of the war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
The “tough resister” of the Hanoi Hilton became an American hero, soon on the fast track to a seat in the Senate. (AP Photo/File)

Sen. John McCain (R – Ariz.) regardless of his perceived political faults, is an American hero. From 1967 until 1973, he was held and repeatedly tortured as a prisoner of war in the North Vietnamese prison dubbed, The Hanoi Hilton.

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This fact has been unbelievably twisted in the minds of some idiots as proof that McCain wasn’t, in fact, a POW, but was living it up at the city’s Hilton hotel.

The reply tweet came in response to this short exchange between AlwaysTrumper Bill Mitchell and Sarah Quinlan.

Twitter is a place where dumb, uninformed thoughts are published as a matter of course, but this reply immediately got the setdown it deserved from anyone with two brain cells.

Because, duh:

Mockery is the only way to combat this kind of thing, clearly.

This shows just how aggressively stupid some can be.

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And there’s only one thing to do with stuff like this:

And while the tweet alone is ridiculously stupid, it’s the likes and retweets that show just how many out there think the same:

In the words of President Trump, “Sad!”

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