Whom may we mock?

 This will be brief.  (I promise, even though I rarely keep that promise.  I have a fuckload of work to do today.)  Consider the following statement: One should not mock those who are mentally ill or mentally impaired.  Agree?  Disagree?  How strongly?  Do you wish to add conditions?  What conditions?  I pose the question(s) in order to test principles.  Consider DD Hammer, better known as David DePape (the Pelosi assailant).  He is clearly mentally ill.  I am mocking him.  I mocked him yesterday, and I am mocking him again today.  Is it unacceptable for Republicans to mock John Fetterman?  He has impairment because of a stroke, so that puts him off-limits, right?  Do you mock Herschel Walker?  He is clearly mentally ill, and his IQ would put him, let's just say, below average.  There are others in the GOP, whom many of us mock, despite the fact that they are mentally ill, or perhaps because of it.  Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Lauren Boebert.  Louie Gohmert.

Donald Trump.

If we're honest, all of these people, from Walker to Trump, have serious intellectual and psychological impairments, and I am not writing this to be snarky.  They're authentically messed up, and I show them zero compassion.  Why?  Trump is a sociopath, and it is hard to be compassionate to a sociopath, regardless of whether or not he is also narcissistic-personality-disorder, paranoid and clinically stupid.  Marjorie Taylor Greene is antisemitic.  Fuck her.  Or better yet, follow the John Waters rule, and don't fuck her.  I could keep going, but I'm going through them, case by case.  Ad hoc.  Is that a valid methodology, philosophically speaking?

You do the same.  So do the people making fun of John Fetterman, none of whom acknowledged how seriously deranged Trump was/is.  Impaired by a stroke?  DSM smorgasbord?  What's the difference, morally speaking?

Just askin'.

Do you bite your thumb at Fetterman?  Walker?

I bite my thumb, sir.

Clarence White, with a live version of "Listen To The Mockingbird."