Trump's defenders have taken all the fun out of pretending to being outraged over these things

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“Hey — he said mean things about me — he deserved to die, and so did his wife”

After a day of explaining and justifying Trump’s disgusting statement on the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife — their throats were slit, their bodies slashed to pieces —“my side” has resumed expressing faux-outrage at Democrats more outlandish gaffes. Like this, from TownHall:

Tone Deaf: Did Chuck Schumer Really Say This About the Bondi Terror Attack on Sunday?

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was about to deliver a statement on the terror attack in Australia, where two terrorists opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaving15 people dead and 40 wounded.

Yet, he had to comment on the Buffalo Bills beating the New England Patriots 35-31 first. 

“Of course, I’m going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Australia, okay? First, of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills! They beat the Patriots today. It’s a big deal,” he said.  

Remember — it wasn’t that long ago — when oooh, weren’t we all “shocked and dismayed” at Jay Jones being elected Attorney General of Virginia despite his calling political opponent Jay Jones and his wife, Jennifer, “evil” and “breeding little fascists”, and wishing someone would put “two bullets into his head”, that Jennifer could “watch her child die in her arms, to see how parents feel when their children are victims of gun violence”? “How could the voters of Virginia elect such a man?” we demanded, and shook our heads in sorrowful dismay.

And Charlie Kirk — does anyone else remember when conservatives expressed outrage when politicians and celebrities cheered news of his assassination and “explained” that Kirk had brought death upon himself with his hateful comments?

It was all so smugly satisfying to be the good guys, the ones upholding morality and sacred truths. Until yesterday, when the spectacle of “principled conservatives” justifying and excusing Trump’s deranged Truth Social post stripped away the moral ground we claimed to be standing on, and dropped us into the same swamp of moral relativism we’ve accused our opponents of wallowing in. We revealed that our side is just as hateful, just as unprincipled, as the haters on the left: it’s only a matter of who’s being attacked, not the attack itself. So if that’s case, and we can’t do better, then let’s just shut up.

And as for mere moments of idiocy, what, now, does it matter? Schumer looked at two horrible incidents and placed a third, trivial event — the triumph of his local football team — first in priority. Trump saw a brutal, horrific double-murder and made it all about himself, while cheering the deaths: “the country’s better off without him”. Weeell, “That’s just Chuck being Chuck”, just as it’s only “Trump being Trump”. Ya wanna say that Reiner had it coming? That dissin’ the dead is fine, so long as they’re obnoxious people with different political opinions than yours? Fine; say it, brother, feel free, because Reiner was an obnoxious, pompous shit; so is Neil Young, although he’s still annoyingly among us, last I checked. Just don’t claim to be offended when Leftists do the same thing to our guys.

The fun has gone out of this game; hypocrisy will do that.