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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,760 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:53 AM 11 hrs ago

US must 'universally condemn political violence', Democratic governor Shapiro says

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro has said Americans must “universally condemn political violence, no matter where it is” after the killing of rightwing youth organizer Charlie Kirk as well as a deadly shootout in Shapiro’s state that left three police officers dead and two others injured.

Hours before Kirk’s funeral, Shapiro said that the nation stands at an “inflection point” and urged Americans to choose shared values over division, pointing to the solidarity shown by Pennsylvanians in the aftermath of the officers’ killings in York county last week.

“I think we’re at an inflection point as a nation, and I think we can go in a number of different ways,” Shapiro told moderator Kristen Welker on NBC News’s Meet the Press. “I hope we go the direction of healing, of bringing people together, of trying to find our commonalities – not just focus on our differences.”

Shapiro told Welker about his own recent experience with political violence: when his gubernatorial mansion was firebombed in April, an act that authorities suspect was carried out by a man unhappy with Shapiro’s support of Israel amid the Israeli war on Gaza.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-must-universally-condemn-political-212520140.html

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US must 'universally condemn political violence', Democratic governor Shapiro says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 hrs ago OP

Did he happen to point out that the 47 regime is doing the opposite? pat_k 9 hrs ago #1

You aren't wrong pat.... democratsruletheday 3 hrs ago #3

Right wing Youth Organizer??? rpannier 8 hrs ago #2

Meh. Sounds like both-siderism n/t leftstreet 3 hrs ago #4

pat_k

(11,789 posts)

1. Did he happen to point out that the 47 regime is doing the opposite?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:00 AM

9 hrs ago

If he didn't call out the fact that the hateful, divisive, incendiary talk is coming from the top -- from 47 and minions of the regime -- then fuck him.

Every Democrat calling for "universal rejection of violence" who does not point out the reality that it is NOT "both sides" who are fomenting division, is propagating a lie. When they speak, there is an implicit assumption they are speaking to "their own people," The corollary to that is that we need to be talked to because we are somehow being "out of line."

I don't think there is a single Democratic elected or leader who HAS NOT universally, repeatedly, and vehemently denounced political violence. So quit talking to "everybody" and talk directly to the ones who ARE OUT OF LINE.

democratsruletheday

(1,560 posts)

3. You aren't wrong pat....

Reply to pat_k (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:56 AM

3 hrs ago

but you have to try and see Gov. Shapiro's side of it too. He's trying NOT to throw more gas on the fire like Trump and all his MAGA(T)s do every day. That said, I totally disagree with him on Israel and I'd have to say it disqualifies him from being in contention for Dem nomination in '28 because every Dem I KNOW disagrees with him. Just saying.

rpannier

(24,767 posts)

2. Right wing Youth Organizer???

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:17 AM

8 hrs ago

Whoever said/wrote that can go f themself

leftstreet

(37,287 posts)

4. Meh. Sounds like both-siderism n/t

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:59 AM

3 hrs ago

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