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Jon Lovett

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TACO Tuesday in Tehran

Yeah, and I feel like it's actually been quite helpful to be consistent through all of this, which is not celebrating any deaths.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

And by the way, not celebrating death is not an act of civility.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

I'm not saying I feel happy when my enemies die, but I pretend not to as a means of projecting the morals I think we should have.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

I'm not judging people for what they're actually feeling.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

My feeling, what I see when people kind of celebrate someone's death is actually,

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

When someone dies and they did bad things, I'm not talking about people that are actively in the midst of doing horrible things, their death relieves people of pain and abuse and tyrants, whatever.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

But to celebrate someone you don't like dying is to act as if dying is a kind of justice, that they're getting justice.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

But that can't be true because everybody dies.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

And what you're really doing when you celebrate the death of your enemies, you're actually just avoiding facing the injustice that happened when they were alive.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

You're coping with the fact that you don't believe they faced what they deserved when they walked among the living.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

And so I think about what happens when Donald Trump will inevitably die and there will be a crazy debate befitting Donald Trump in which our whole country is caught up in this very kind of

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

notion of it's okay that people are happy that he's dead and celebrating in the streets.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

But the truth is, I think a lot of what people will be feeling, that kind of like will be a kind of a,

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

a grief about all the damage that was done and our failure to stop it and to get justice when somebody was walking around.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

And so like to celebrate death is to act as if it won't come for all of us.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

And that's just bad for the soul and it's bad for the world.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

And so I just want no part of it, whoever dies.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

That's my take on this.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

Yeah, I'm not, look, I'm not gonna say I'm gonna go out.

Pod Save America
TACO Tuesday in Tehran

Yeah, look, I- You were grieving.