Why can't the same thing be said for jokes about Pelosi's husband?
Because one was an absurd domestic altercation people were mocking, and the other is a political assassination people are cheering on. One is a joke the other isn’t.
Do you even remember the Paul Pelosi scenario? It was like 5 am or some shit, Pelosi was in his underwear with this younger man, the police were called, when they arrived Pelosi let them in and had a hammer in his hand, the two men continued to argue, and then the other guy took the hammer from Pelosi and attacked him with it, with the police already in the house and standing right next to them. That entire scenario is an SNL sketch that played out in real life. Pelosi was fine, made a full recovery, the optics made it very clear we would never get the true story, but it looked a lot like a gay dispute, and oddly his wife was nowhere to be found. This was not a political situation, it was a domestic one that happened to involve a politics adjacent person, and this is exactly the kind of situation people make fun of and parody, regardless of who it was.
Meanwhile, Kirk was doing what he always does, engaging in public debate on a university campus, and was randomly and needlessly assassinated by a gunman for the crime of having different political views and engaging in legal open discussion. This was a real, public, and brutal murder.
Yes, some are making fun of the situation. Those who say things like “ironic that guns killed the gun supporter” or “how weird that he was answering a gun question when he was shot” might he in poor taste, but they’re not blaming him for his own murder, nor are they celebrating and encouraging the act of political terrorism. They’re happy Kirk is dead because this silenced him. That’s all this is, and they aren’t joking. These are the same people who think just having an account on this site means you’re an evil fascist doxer, and they’d likely be happy that any of us, you and I included, were also shot and made a public example of.
They want the world to know that if you dare be conservative, you will get shot, they’re celebrating it like Christmas. It’s evil, it’s disgusting, and it needs to be stopped.