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He did the same thing when Rob Reiner was killed so I don't think that's an excuse.

no denying your dick conclusion, but the former doesn't have to hold. You can like the outcome without supporting the mechanism. In fact,t here's an entire school of thought around ends vs. means.

But let's not get distracted here: unbelievable that anyone famous, let alone the president of the United States, would publicly promote such disgusting statements. Combined with his WH comments in front of the Japanese PM... I guess to a narcissistic (and frankly, just plain dumb) bully punching down feels like a big win...

Plus psychopathic hypocrisy.

It's not simply the pathos of lack of decorum, it's maniacal, inverted decorum.

But in USA we are proud to do everything beyond excess.

Which is weird because the right explicitly called for violence against the left and transgender people in response but nothing ever happened to any of them.

Celebrating the act of murder is the distinction. There is no distinction here between someone gloating that CK is dead or someone gloating that RM is dead.