Posted on 09/11/2025 3:59:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The shooting death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk is the latest act of political violence in the United States.
Pennsylvania has also seen political violence, with the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler County and the firebombing of Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence.
While in Pittsburgh for an AI summit on Thursday, Shapiro said there's no place for this violence in American democracy. He said everyone on both sides of the aisle must stop the rhetoric to prevent any further acts of violence.
Shapiro expressed his condolences while pleading for the violence to stop. The Democratic governor criticized President Trump for what he felt was using his position to further divide with his speech from the Resolute desk on Wednesday.
"The president shouldn't cherry-pick what counts and what doesn't count. When he does that, it gives a pass to some. We can't have that," Shapiro said.
In April, a man broke into the governor's mansion and set it on fire. The suspect allegedly wanted to harm the governor. Shapiro says while this motivated him to push harder on doing his job, knowing his children were in harm's way because of politics has impacted him as a father.
"This is a moment where leaders need to speak and act with moral clarity, where we need to condemn this type of violence in our communities, in our politics. There should be no place for this," Shapiro said.
In the aftermath of this latest act, Shapiro says everyone must stop with the calls to arms that have floated around on social media. He says to move forward, there must be healing, and he says that starts with elected leaders looking to unify and heal.
Another 'sorry not sorry' version from the Left.
Democrat’s love to say “American democracy” due to their ignorance and seeing it as attached to the democratic party. People fall for it.
Citizen’s of this country must understand and know, without a doubt, the USA is a Constitutional Republic. Now that certainly attaches to the Republican Party, don’t ya think?
Save it scumbag. Go close another prison.
Trump nearly lost his life. Leave it to a Democrat to blame Trump. It’s ridiculous, but Democrats have to bow in all kinds of directions.
“”While in Pittsburgh for an AI summit””
Is that a real thing? We don’t have enough problems without MANUFACTURING them for the pleasure of WHO/WHAT/WHY?????
Blow it out your ass, you little Bolshevik POS.
Your party went kinetic and murdered one of THE most decent American Patriots ever.
What does Ellen say about violence Josh?
I MIGHT pay you some attention when you learn America is a Constitutional Republic.
Whatever we call the United States, it isn’t what’s going on in this country now.
Stfu scum
Nope
100% of the political violence in the country for the last year is from your party Governor.
Stop the lying, stop the posturing, stop the deflect and distract PR tactics. Your party incited this, your party created this. You own it. Your speech today is meaningless noise being generated to delfect attention now that US Voters are waking up to Democrats scumbag political tactics.
ANYONE who remains in that evil rotten party supports this. The democrat party has fomented violence and called for the elimination (one way or another) of their political enemies. Sorry Josh. It was your own degenerate democrat party foot soldiers that wanted you dead.
Why doesn’t Shapiro speak out against the extremists who advocate this kind of violence? Because he’s afraid of the LGBTQ lobby.
At least this situation is MAKING them say this crap. They don’t mean a word if it and we all know that. Charlie was powerful enough that the left is actually feeling the heat this time. Scores of lunatics are being fired today. But not enough.
Hey, Josh, can you not express condolences without adding to the division yourself by criticizing the President?
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.
The scholars unanimously agreed that taqiyyah is a concession that is allowed in the case of necessity. Ibn al-Mundhir said: They are unanimously agreed that if a person is forced to say words of disbelief, to the extent that he fears for his life, and he speaks words of disbelief when his heart is content with faith, he is not to be deemed a disbeliever.
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