Local Pittsburgh leaders will not accompany President Donald Trump during his Tuesday visit aimed at offering condolences to the families of the victims of the mass shooting at a synagogue over the weekend.
A spokesman for Mayor Bill Peduto’s office confirmed that the mayor will be attending funerals as Trump arrives in town. Peduto, a Democrat, previously urged Trump to consider “the will of the families” and to avoid a visit “while we are burying the dead.”
“The mayor’s sole focus today is on the funerals and on supporting the families of the victims,” the spokesman, Timothy McNulty, told POLITICO. At least two funerals are being held Tuesday, according to local outlets.
Trump’s contentious visit on Tuesday afternoon comes as the city is still reeling from a shooting considered one of the worst instances of anti-Semitic violence in U.S. history, in which the attacker allegedly yelled anti-Semitic statements as he killed 11 congregants of the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
The four top congressional leaders in both parties — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), as well as Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — were invited to join Trump in Pittsburgh but declined, according to a source familiar with the matter. But that move isn’t necessarily a sign of eagerness to avoid Trump by the GOP leaders — both McConnell and Ryan had previous commitments with the midterms just one week away.
The Department of Justice has filed hate crime charges against Robert Bowers, the alleged shooter.
Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said the words elected officials use can fuel the flames of violence, adding that he had no plans to meet Trump during his trip.
“When you speak words of hate, when you speak ill of the other candidate, any words of hate, Americans listen to you. They get their instructions from you,” Myers told CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday. “When you speak words of hate, you say to them, ‘This is okay, you can do it as well.’”
“Tone down the hate. Speak words of love, speak words of decency and of respect. When that message comes loud and clear, Americans will hear that and we can begin to change the tenor of our country,” Myers said.
Several local leaders have publicly spurned the president, linking the president’s rhetoric with the violence even as he condemned the attacker and the “scourge of anti-Semitism.” Eleven progressive Jewish leaders penned a letter to Trump urging him to stay away.
“For the past three years your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism,” read the letter, which has garnered more than 68,000 signatories as of Tuesday morning.
“Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted. You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday’s massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country,” the letter went on.
ed note–As predicted, all the usual stuck-on-stoopid suspects in ‘duh muuvmnt’ (otherwise known by the acronym assigned to them–SOSSIDM) are now screaming the obligatory stuck-on-stoopid answer which they autonomically and reflexively give for any and all questions that come up, whether involving events such as the recent shooting at the Sin-a-Gog in Pittsburgh or even something as innocuous as the weather–namely “HOAX’ and ‘FALSE FLAG’, since, after all, it is as much a physical impossibility for an angry white man to get his hands on a gun (or several of them) walk into a public place and kill a bunch of people who he believes are responsible for the litany of his own personal miseries as it is for pigs to fly.
So, in the spirit of theorizing, we’ll offer a possibility that maybe, just MAYBE, the SOSSIDM brigade might consider, not only in better understanding what might have happened, but as well, in making changes as to how they do things in the future so that events of this type–that in the end only further empower the very enemy against which these SOSSIDM types claim to be fighting–aren’t repeated.
Now, as we know, our shooter Bowers has been a regular communicant at all the usual shrines reserved for devout members of the angry white men brigade (otherwise known by its acronym AWMB) and has been lighting all sorts of prayer candles at these shrines in the form of violence-laden commentary. It is also a fact that Judea, Inc and all its eyes and ears maintain a 25 hour a day presence on these sites, reading every word and sentence, and then analyzing and cataloging them in figuring out how best they might be used at a later time in furthering the narrative which Judea, Inc must maintain if her thousands of years old plans are to come to fruition.
It is also a known fact that when it comes to the business of cyber espionage that NO ONE does it better than Judea Inc, and that therefore she not only possesses the IP addresses, but as well, the identities, physical addresses, background info, dirt under the fingernails, anything and everything knowable about every single person who posts a comment that gets approved on one of these WN websites/forums. From that point it is then a simple matter of striking up a ‘cyberfriendship’ with a certain someone such as Bower who has made violence-laden statements in the past and to begin the process of ‘feeding the fire’ that is already raging within him into ‘doing something real’.
And then next thing you know, WHAM-BAM, THANK YOU MA’AM, ABRACADABRA-ALAKHAZAM, he has just shot up a Sin-a-Gog in Pittsburgh, resulting in ENORMOUS political pressure being put on Donald Trump a mere week before the mid-term elections which Judea, Inc needs to have swing in favor of Trump’s enemies as the necessary precursor in commencing Impeachment proceedings against him.
Now, naturally, while this is all titilating to some who suffer from an unhealthy level of fascination with any and all sorts of conspiracy-ism, the obvious intelligent question that must arise out of all of this is ‘Qu’est-ce que c’est le point’?
The point is that as much as the WNs are constantly pissing and moaning about ‘open borders’ and the danger that ‘unfettered’ immeeegrayshun poses to the safety and security of nation states, they do not practice those same protocols when it comes to the ‘open borders’ which they tolerate on their websites, message forums, and other avenues of ‘alternative media’ which are available for public viewing anywhere and at anytime, something which Judea, Inc obviously uses to her own advantage.
Long story short–Until people understand that it is quality and not quantity that wins in the end, then Gentiles will continue to suffer stinging defeats such as what just took place (as well as what is to come out of all of it) until the battle is all but over.
Oh, and by the way, as a final note–Just as we have warned here from the beginning that the ‘Trump is owned by Djooz’ types are doing more of the dirty work in furthering the enemy’s agenda against us than entire legions of goons from the ADL, JDL, JIDF, etc, perhaps now–given what Bower, an avowed ‘Trump is owned by Djooz’ acolyte has just done–that more people will see these ‘troothers’ for the obvious liability to all of us that they truly are. Read more of this post
