How do these clowns manage to put their shoes on?
What do you mean? That’s tradwife duties.
I would’ve sworn this was an Onion headline. What an absolutely deranged piece of shit.
What’s the opposite of “eating the onion?” Barfing it up?
Smelling rotten onion?
It would have been a perfectly acceptable thing to say (in my opinion) if he didn’t follow up by saying the suspected shooter certainly appears to be one of them.
The original statement makes sense that the person who’s job is to govern an area hoped it wasnt one of the people he represented.
Then when he made the second comment, it all fell apart because being one of them apparently meant they could still be a Utah resident. So he was only representing a subset of the Utah population, and therefore breaking his Oath of office.
one of them
This phrase appears to be written by the author of this article to refer to residents of Utah. It’s not part of the quote of what the governor said.
Yeah, I haven’t listened to him so it’s hard to tell tone, but hopefully he meant that it turned out to be a person from Utah and not referring to a person who isn’t MAGA
He definitely says “one of us”.
Yes. He doesn’t say “One of them.” There’s nothing wrong with “One of us” when “us” in this context is clearly “residents of Utah”.
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’”
Now that you’ve had to admit, “Hey, we do do that here” what are you doing with that? Have you experienced any epiphanies?
Hell no. Their magic underwear keeps that from happening.
And throat slit vow
Throat slit vow?
Mormon temple ritual in which they move their hand across their lower stomach/bowels (not throat, sorry, it’s been a long time since I left Mormonism) and vow to spill the blood of enemies of the Mormon church
This is part of a ritual called “the endowment” which is required for every person to do if they want to get into the highest level of heaven, called “the Celestial Kingdom”. Someone who receives this endowment ritual (which is most practicing adult Mormons) is called “endowed”. This endowment ritual can only be performed inside a Mormon temple.
I’m an exmo as well, the gestures you’re talking about were removed in 1990, and it was never about vowing to spill the blood of enemies. It was about secrecy, framed in stark death-before-dishonor terms.
Your version is more metal and exciting, though.
any epiphanies
Clearly, we must thoughts and prayers even harder.
sounds like tiffany the expensive jewelry chain.
All these people keep on praying, but the whole time they forgot to think
What a fucking joke of a human
hes spencer cox, what you expect, hes the one that allowed GUNS ON CAMPUS in the first place.
Womp womp. I assume he’s a lot like the governor I have to deal with here in Missouri
Someone I could hate and justify that hatred against the Left…
Honestly, if he’d just left it at “another state,” I wouldn’t even be mad. I totally get wanting the degree of separation. But adding “another country” absolutely betrays his true thoughts. What a gross thing to admit.
The quote makes it seem a lot more understandable than the title makes it out to be imo
TBH - that’s exactly why I added the quote when I posted the article. But I still think it’s fucked up with the full context; just not as fucked up.
I mean, plenty of us were hoping the shooter wasn’t antifa, and that’s not so different.
How ugly that is to admit it out loud. What a fucking racist
Welcome to Utah; it’s the new Florida!
Patel right behind him like, “Man I wish it wasn’t one of us too.”
Weren’t we all hoping the same thing, that the shooter wouldn’t turn out to be a member of whatever group we identify as? I know I was.
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Yes, but the difference is that he’s the governor of the state of Utah. He’s supposed to represent all the residents of his state. By choosing a side he alienates a significant portion of his populace for no apparent political gain or reason.
Cox is a fucking clown, a shameful excuse of a governor.
I grew up here, in the Mormon church, too (out for several years now). These are not the principles I was taught. This goes against every single thing that Jesus taught. Someone using their position of authority to parrot “god” is exactly the kind of person Jesus would have thrown out of his temple.
Someone using their position of authority to parrot “god” is exactly the kind of person that created Mormonism. The LDS church was literally born from this exact sort of thing.
You’re absolutely right, it goes completely against everything the Bible tries to teach, but somehow I don’t think that’s going to be a very big deal to them.
Yep, 100%. The entire Smith family were well-known con artists.
I honestly thought I was in /c/TheOnion
no… he laments he can’t blame a nonmormon.
Not exactly, he lamented that he couldn’t blame anybody not from Utah.
Lol rolled the dice, came up snake eyes again.
So, who ARE the terrorists?
Just good ol honest home grown terror.
He means Mormons.
Unfortunately, they have a storied history of murder and violence.
Don’t forget Mountain Meadows, or the time they (probably) had the governor of Missouri assassinated, or the time they were ABSOLUTELY PLANNING to throw down with the Grand Army of the Republic before someone realized the Army had more men and materiel to prosecute a war with.
No scapegoat for you. Maybe try facing your moral and policy failures this time? No? Ok, keep praying to god. Maybe next time he’ll help you out with a black trans muslim shooter instead of yet another young white conservative dude.
i like how cox is tryting to avoid blaming the shooter , because hes a white straight ultra right male. cant be hurting a straight white maile voting base.
