At 8:53 a.m. on July 12 — hours after Sen. Lindsey Graham died at 71 from a ruptured aorta caused by chronic heart disease — actor Michael Ian Black logged onto BlueSky and went off on the Republican politician.
By 9:00 a.m., actor Ethan Embry had joined the pile.
Black, who hosts CNN's Have I Got News for You and appeared in James Gunn's Superman, published a Substack post calling Graham's legacy one of "parasitic fealty." He wrote that Graham's relationship with Sen. John McCain "seems, in retrospect, to be rooted in nothing more than opportunism" and that "his relationship with Trump will be remembered as that of enabler-in-chief."
He also suggested Graham was gay — apparently because nothing says "progressive values" like outing a dead man who can't respond.
Embry, known for Sweet Home Alabama and Scream 7, went a different route. Shorter. Colder. "I don't see what the celebration is all about," he wrote on BlueSky. "There's still 51 of em walking around."
This is the same cultural tribe that lectures us about empathy. About "doing better." About kindness being everything. They put it in their bios. They wear it on red carpets. They repost it in little pastel squares on Instagram every time a school shooting happens.
But when a Republican senator drops dead from a ruptured aorta the mask comes off before the coroner's van pulls away.
Embry has a track record here. He previously attacked Trump voters in June 2025 and called for Sen. Chuck Schumer's resignation in March 2026. So at least we know his contempt is bipartisan — as long as the target is in public office.
Black's criticism wasn't even original. Graham served South Carolina for decades, first in the House, then the Senate. He chaired the Judiciary Committee. He was one of the most recognizable voices in Republican politics for a generation. You can disagree with every vote the man ever cast. But you couldn't stop yourself from dancing on his grave before he's even been put in the ground? Cold.
There's a version of this where someone says, "I disagreed with his politics, but today isn't the day." That version requires a shred of decency.
The "love wins" crowd has a funny definition of love. It apparently expires the moment the person is no longer useful as a political prop — or the moment they stop breathing, whichever comes first.
