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A man firebombed the Pennsylvania governor’s residence while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were inside. The man in question had a hammer and planned to assault him with it. His motive was that
Shapiro “needs to know that he ‘will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.’”
Rather than clearly speak out about what happened, Gov. Shapiro instead launched into a strange word salad.
“I know that there are people out there who want to ascribe their own viewpoints as to what happened here and why. I know there are people out there who want to adopt their own political viewpoints, or their own worldview as to what happened and why. I choose not to participate in that,” he said at a press conference.
Then he boldly took a stand and condemned ‘violence’. In general. On all sides.
“I said after the assassination attempt on the president in Butler, I said in Altoona after we captured the individual who shot and killed a U.S. health care CEO, and I said on Sunday that this kind of violence has no place in our society, regardless of what motivates it.”
“This is not how we resolve our differences. This kind of violence has no place in our society — and it must be condemned by everyone, from both political parties.”
There’s nothing wrong with denouncing violence in general, but Shapiro is being deliberately evasive here. He’s not condemning violence in general, he’s trying not to deal with the stated motives of the man who tried to kill him because those motives have a good deal of popularity within his own political party. So instead he’s reduced to ‘bothsidesing’ his own attempted murder to avoid calling attention to the motive.
The closest Gov. Shapiro came to addressing what the motive was saying that no one would intimidate him from practicing his faith. But much of this came down to Shapiro issuing general condemnations not grounded in anything.
“This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society, and I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one particular party or another, or one particular person or another. It is not OK, and it has to stop. We have to be better than this.”
Weirdly, it fell to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who has his own iffy history with antisemitism, to actually issue a specific condemnation. “Political violence of any kind is never acceptable, and it is especially unconscionable to attack a Jewish family during the first night of Passover.”
Halie Soifer, the CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, who has recently been advocating for campus Hamas supporters, bizarrely attacked Trump over the assault.
“Nearly four days after Gov. Shapiro was targeted in an act of political violence — reportedly due to his position on Israel — Trump hasn’t clearly condemned it,” Soifer complained.
The thing is that Gov. Shapiro still hasn’t condemned it.
lol, psychobabble from the 1970s: “I choose not to …”
I heard that so often when something went wrong: “You chose to ,,,”
“I choose not to…” Ugh! That’s an obnoxious one. “We have to be better than this,” along with its vicious little cousin, “That isn’t who we are” are a couple of others that make me gag just to type them.
“That’s your opinion.”
I hate lefty illogic.
That reminded me, one of my pet peeves 🙂
I used to think the people who used psychobabble against me understood what it meant. So I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what they were talking about. Like if something bad happened to me, they would say “you chose for that to happen”. WTF? I didn’t choose anything. Something bad happened by chance.
I finally figured it out.. They were just playing games against me. They didn’t understand what the psychobabble meant either. it was just a way of manipulating and dominating the poor suckers like me who weren’t initiated into the game. Like “You chose to …” puts the blame on the victim for whatever bad thing happened to him. In that case they were just playing the blame game.
So I ended up knowing more about psychology than they did 🙂
One of the last times I was with my Dad he asked me about some weird new psychobabble saying, asking me if I understood what it meant. I said “No.” Dad didn’t understand it either so he dropped the topic. I wonder what would have happened if I had said yes 🙂
LOL. If he’d said “yes,” you would’ve had to explain it and bore him to sleep! You were right to keep silent.
Someone wants to be president
Isn’t the real lesson rather a consistent one and immediately recognizable. That most of these politicians are unctuous skidmarks who will sell out anybody or anything for power including their own family, faith and country.
Maybe this is unfair to hold Jews to any standard, but if anyone should be a united front and practice the “Your silence is violence.” slogan as a primary lesson from the Holocaust, and not tolerate looking the other way, as a community at large, it should be Jews.
Shapiro’s scheming is pretty transparent, but mostly exposes a craven, low character scumbag, who feels he can ascend to the throne by displaying his willingness to be self gassing or at least let his people be gassed for that tiny extra bit of power. It is a naked display of a power pig.
It’s also one of the more egregious examples of the extremely common ability of liberal actors to flip morality, never have a consistent one,or display fulminant hypocrisy, the later their greatest talent. It’s source is the easily recognizable seminal and most important rule: The overriding thing is power and sycophants have to follow all narratives without question so power can be gained. Use of word salads is just one of their defensive weapons.
Maybe Josh thought kapo translates to Governor in English and figured it was a natural fit. Because even if it was already a hopeless hell the mostly communists couldn’t stop their addiction to power and had to prey on others. Sides were never in the equation.
Happy Passover Easter
Leftists eating their own (as they wiggle and squirm) is very fun to watch, period.
Too bad it will be the PA taxpayers that will have to pay to repair the damages to the Gov. Mansion, unless Shapiro, being so morally generous, agrees to cover the cost himself.
We both know that prick would never agree to cover the cost.
Flaming liberals are only generous with other people’s money.
“I know that there are people out there who want to ascribe their own viewpoints as to what happened here and why. I know there are people out there who want to adopt their own political viewpoints, or their own worldview as to what happened and why. I choose not to participate in that,” he said at a press conference.
Then he boldly took a stand and condemned ‘violence’. In general. On all sides.”
The bold stance would be to call out the left for their anti-Semitic violence and coddling of nazis.
I seem to have posted this without meaning to?! – maybe my arthritic hands have struck again, they do sometimes have a life of their own.
Anyway this is what I meant to say:
“I know that there are people out there who want to ascribe their own viewpoints as to what happened here and why. I know there are people out there who want to adopt their own political viewpoints, or their own worldview as to what happened and why. I choose not to participate in that,” he said at a press conference.
Then he boldly took a stand and condemned ‘violence’. In general. On all sides.”
Ok. Why not just say:
I don’t want a guy’s undefined “family” hurt but I wish the mad bomber had taken out Shapiro. What a lowlife, and is anybody surprised by his reaction? I sure ain’t. As if we needed more proof that lefties are scum.
And practicing his faith? No way does that turd boy have any religion. I can respect an agnostic even though they’re all deluded and endangering the immortal souls they don’t believe they have but I have nothing but contempt for people who express fake pretensions to piety.
If anybody deserves an ass kicking, it’s Shapiro.
This is the fallout of the de-institutionalization movement of the last 50 plus years. Keep in mind that this is a bipartisan movement—Democrats who think institutionalization violates the civil rights of the mentally ill and Republicans who want to cut state budgets were behind it.
This movement hasn’t really worked out.
There is nothing wrong about looking for a motive.
Typical Democrat dodge from Shapiro: refuse to talk when the facts might hurt one’s credibility. What if someone had tragically died? What then, Governor?
Donks can’t say feces even when their mouths are full of it.
Shapiro wants the 2028 Dem nomination so even at the cost of putting himself and family in jeopardy he will take a knee to the Dems love of Hamas. It’’s cowardly.
This guy……….holy crap.
You know you are illogical when you justify someone else’s desire to kill you.
I can’t share a country with these retardocrats anymore.
Their the UN/CFR/Globalists who want a Global Government run by the UN
I don’t know who’s more deflated by the knowledge it wasn’t a MAGA guy who committed the arson; flaming Shapiro, or the courtier press.
“I know there are people out there who want to adopt their own political viewpoints, or their own worldview as to what happened and why. I choose not to participate in that,” he said at a press conference.”
What’s that supposed to mean, and why is he trying to ignore the motive of the man who attacked him and his family? Would he be so reticent if the attacker had been a “right-winger”? I doubt it. What we see here is just a continuation of the Dems suicidal coddling of Muslims and their supporters.