Posted on 07/05/2022 9:10:32 AM PDT by lightman
Amid the nationwide crime crisis that has arisen out of woke Democrat policies and the so-called "progressive prosecutor" movement, Philadelphia has been especially hard-hit — and its mayor is apparently tired of leading and looking forward to being out of office after overseeing the city's record-setting crime spike.
On Independence Day, two law enforcement officers were hit with gunfire at Philly's July Fourth festivities from an unknown suspect or suspects — authorities are still trying to identify those responsible and determine their motive. Thankfully, both officers were discharged after being treated for their wounds.
Video of the chaos that followed shows that happens in big cities where there's little if any penalty for breaching laws:
In a press conference following the incident, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney went on the same rant that all big-city Democrats do when the lawlessness their policies cause takes hold: attack America's Second Amendment freedom and the country's law-abiding gun owners.
America is "a gun country — it's crazy," Mayor Kenney said. "We're the most-armed country in world history and we're one of the least-safest," he claimed before saying that until those pesky Americans who believe in the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms lay down their legally-owned firearms "we're going to have this problem."
A tad ironic that, on Independence Day in Philadelphia, the city government was calling for Americans to lay down their arms in fealty to Democrats' dictatorial rule. But, the mayor doesn't even enjoy Independence Day, so little surprise there.
Mayor Kenney followed up his anti-Second Amendment screed by expressing his apparent desire to no longer be responsible for what happens in Philadelphia. "I don't enjoy Fourth of July, I don't enjoy the Democratic National Convention, I didn't enjoy the NFL Draft," he explained. "I'll be happy when I'm not here, when I'm not mayor," Kenney said.
A reporter, apparently surprised by the mayor's answer, asked "You’re looking forward to not being mayor?" as a followup. "Yeah," was Kenney's quick reply, followed by a bizarre chuckle:
So, Kenney, after being elected in 2015, has overseen Philadelphia's crime surge that he now says makes him unable to enjoy Independence Day, the DNC, or NFL Draft — a reality for which he has himself to blame — and now that he's plunged Philly into chaos, he whines about the danger on his city's streets and says he wants out.
It's hard to blame Kenney for not wanting to lead a city where Democrat policies — that is, his own — have made the streets exceedingly dangerous — but then it's on Kenney to make the changes necessary to uphold the rule of law, which he and his fellow Dem leaders refuse to do. In addition to Mayor Kenney, embattled District Attorney Larry Krasner has defied calls for law and order to be restored while the City of Brotherly Love smashes all-time homicide records — 562 slayings in 2021 and 267 killed so far in 2022 — but D.A. Krasner denies the city has a violence or crime problem.
Mission Accomplished!
Just make sure you're not still living in Filth-a-death-ia.
The mayor blamed SCOTUS for the gun violence in his city on the July 4th - regardless of the facts that while he has been mayor the gun violence long precedes the recent SCOTUS decisions.
“Well my work here is done.”
“But you didn’t DO anything!”
Of course, he blames guns and not the feral and violent minority community who were the shooters.
Boooo! Boooo!
After his term is up, he’ll probably move to Florida and complain non-stop about the conservatives who run the state.
Sounds like a typical miserable democrat to me. Maybe he doesn’t get enough graft?
What a POS.
I know that liberals are mentally defective. If there was one single idea that should immediately disqualify anyone for office it would be the idea that the cause of crime is guns. That’s like saying the cause of car wrecks is cars. Or the cause of burned bread is ovens. One has to be monumentally stupid to believe such things. Only a complete idiot blames instrumentality. And such stupidity shows in every other policy such mental defectives come up with. Dunning-Kruger guaranties that these people with these ideas will never realize their one errors and failures.
We are living “Idiocracy” right now.
Vey well put.
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Am I beginning to notice a pattern of cackles and chuckles among the dims?
Well he danced at least once
In democrat cities where only the criminals are armed.
Should dig out that statue of Frank Rizzo. It would do a better job than Kenney is doing.
I wonder what percentage of the American public are even aware of the crimes, let alone their causes?
Most people have no idea that the Dem City Riots went on night-after-night for months.
Would not an immediate improvement manifest if he resigned today?
Over the weekend a hood rat from Philly shot and killed an Asian driver for “Driving too slowly”. Mamma hood rat fled in their car after her son killed the Man. She was the getaway driver. When they finally found the shooter they are failing to charge his momma for anything! She din do nuffin.
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