Look for them to make an emergency "rescue" mission that endangers the animal and people. They are that stupid.
Posted on 02/01/2025 9:51:01 AM PST by DallasBiff
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro hit back at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Friday, after the activist group sent a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club promising to send them a vegan "weather reveal cake" if they agreed to stop pulling Punxsutawney Phil out of his burrow for his Feb. 2 prognostication.
"Come and take it," Shapiro tweeted in response to a New York Post story on PETA's demand.
Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Shapiro, told Fox News Digital the governor stands by his comments and said he will again make the trip to Gobbler's Knob in Jefferson County on Sunday to witness Phil's 138th meteorological prediction.
Shapiro has been on-hand for every Groundhog Day ceremony in Punxsutawney since taking office in 2023.
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Someone who will be a contender in the dems presidential race in 28.
Discuss it's saturday.
2023 + 2024 =2 appearances. 2025==third one.
It’s a great annual photo op for the Governor, and a popular fun event.
Since 1984, the “Jesse Jackson” portion of the Dem party (not just blacks, but DEI types in general) has veto power. Unless you have someone who is super-established (Gore, Mrs. Clinton, Biden), a middle aged white male governor is not going to cut it.
Shapiro would do okay in Iowa, and great in New Hampshire, but South Carolina will chew him up and spit him out. He’ll be lucky to get the VEEP spot.
I hope they take him up on it. Would make that stupid ceremony entertaining. Then I hope it happens the same way every day forever.
It’s a Dem set-up so Shapiro can seem “moderate” to ignorant voters.
His over-the-top response is the tell.
Millions will fall for it, though.
PA’s voters aren’t stupid.
They are why Deep State steals their elections.
Shapiro ever so quietly backed Trump in the election, if you were paying close attention then you know it (and Trump knows it). He and Fetterman may end up with an “R” next to their names someday once they get fed up enough with these ludicrous liberal woke mobs.
Shapiro and PETA set up this ruse for the 2028 national election.
“I stood up to PETA!”
Everything with these career politicians is staged. It’s why Trump being authentic is such a striking jolt to the way politics has operated for decades.
These Peta people need to get a life.
A few years ago some of ‘em showed up at the annual Kingfish tournament where I am.
Fishing teams come from all over the country to compete and in the middle of all that they were whining about fish feel pain blah blah blah.......they’re lucky the cops showed up an ran ‘em off.....I doubt it woulda been much longer before they got thrown in the water or got the daylights beat out of ‘em as the weigh-in location is as much a party as anything else.
Shapiro was looking to 2028 and Kamala winning made that impossible.
He’s not going to become a Republican, this stunt and the ones to come are to set him up as the “rational” Democrat for 2028. He will still govern to the far Left. Come on people, this happens all the time with Democrats.
Ping...
Reveal cakes are for freaks , they have all kinds , just looked it up ,LOL
A triangulation play. He gets to play Mr. Common sense for his 28 run. It was probably a set up
PETA is really being stupid here.
Phil has never been abused, otherwise he would never had made it to 139 years old.
“Luckily, Phil is 139 years old and gets his longevity by drinking a secret and magical, life-giving brew that only he can drink.“
https://www.fox29.com/news/who-is-punxsutawney-phil
“PETA is really being stupid here”
They seem to be really good at it.
It’s a trash event invented to secularize and paper over an ancient Christian feast day. I don’t care what happens to it.
Look for them to make an emergency "rescue" mission that endangers the animal and people. They are that stupid.
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