It was supposed to be a big hand to the mouth when right-wingers on social media vigorously noted that Republican Sen. Deb Fischer’s father’s hands were full, and thus he was able to take Kamala Harris’s handshake at next week’s Senate swearing-in ceremony. But more to the point, it doesn’t matter why he didn’t recognize it, and nobody is entitled to an pardon from him.
What transpired online was one of those dreary social mini-controversies that Twitter geeks were the only ones to enjoy. Second, some Democrat sniffers posted a video tape on Monday that appears to show Bruce Fischer, the old father, ignoring a greeting offer from Vice President Harris before posing with her and his spouse for a picture. Don Lemon shared the picture and, predictable as always, called Bruce” an old, bigoted part of sh-t”. On her MSNBC program, Joy Reid wrote that the incident” shows… there is not an identical reverence for our politics in both of these two events.”
However, the original video failed to capture Bruce’s right hands gripping a cane while his left hand held a Bible version. This could be the reason he didn’t respond with a handshake. But if it wasn’t, that’s his straight. Maybe he doesn’t worry for Harris or someone she represents. That’s his straight.
I suspect complete fingers is not why Bruce didn’t participate in the sign. His senator’s wife appears to be pressing him to walk between herself and Harris during the swearing-in, according to an expanded video. He seems hesitant, avoiding eye contact with the vice chairman, and Harris says in joke,” It’s Sure, I didn’t bite” and” Don’t care”. At the end, Harris shakes Deb Fischer’s hand in congratulations and then extends the same movement to Bruce, who only says,” Thank you”, still avoiding eye contact.
It’s an certainly unpleasant experience. Let’s face it, though, that the poll is over and that it was a surprising erosion of civility to avoid the niceties. We are thus beyond that period of elections, and it’s not the fault of people like Bruce. If after nearly a century in which Democrats have ruined careers and lives by way of legal abuse, damaging medical mandates, and accusations of racism, fascism, and all forms of dirty prejudice, a rejected hand is the retribution, they’re getting off pretty easy.
Bruce Fischer might despise Kamala Harris. Perhaps he doesn’t care about her or her party. He might be of the opinion that she has tarnished our politics. He might consider her belief that she thought she could be president an insult. And perhaps refusing to shake her hand was the way he wanted to express it.
If he does feel that way, I won’t try to undermine those sincere feelings of contempt by pointing out that he was holding a Bible and gripping a cane. Democrats have done much worse than they should and have harbored all of these sentiments and more.
Kamala Harris, in the desperate final days of her absurd campaign for president,  , delivered remarks  , outside the vice president’s formal residence in Washington, and it was nothing short of appalling. She made the claim in her official capacity that her opponent is “increasingly unhinged and unstable” using an immediately discredited and blatantly campaign-coordinated article from the previous day in The Atlantic and a New York Times interview from a disgruntled former Trump administration official. She claimed that Trump would have an “unchecked power” as president in a second term, and that his behavior has made him “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous.” She waited until she was ready to officially declare Trump a state supporter.
In 2022, her boss, Joe Biden, called Trump supporters” a threat to the very soul of this country”. And he accused them of having “blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence” in his memorable, hell-themed Philadelphia speech that year.
In an ongoing effort to demonize and intimidate innocent and unassuming Americans who may not vote Democrat, they say and do these things in public. And nobody makes up excuses for them in a hurry. They defend everything. An unrequited handshake doesn’t really compare.
No one is entitled to signs of goodwill. Fischer didn’t spit on Harris. He said,” Thank you”.
Again, I’m not sure if Bruce Fischer is angry with any of that. Perhaps it was a matter of his hands being tied or something else equally harmless. But I’m certainly not concerned if it wasn’t, and he doesn’t need anyone to excuse him either way.
