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Well, It Wasn’t the 4th of July
In Chicago over the 4th of July weekend, 80 people were shot and 15 died. This past weekend in Chicago, 34 people were shot and 9 died. Well, it wasn’t the 4th of July but that’s still quite a total for the first weekend in August. If anyone actually understands what the English words emanating from their mouth mean when they yell, “Black Lives Matter” they would get very ill at just the thought of these horrific events.
Lori Lightfoot is too smart not to know what this means. She is a tough politician who is defending her left-wing turf but how long can she keep standing. The slaughter on the streets every weekend makes her look like a fool. Her police department is ready to mutiny. Chicago already has the strictest gun laws in the country. These gun laws don’t seem to keep guns out of the hands of the criminals who are committing almost all of these murders.
Something has got to give.
Regards,
Jim
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But apparently, not enough to recall, impeach, or arrest her.
Don,
Not yet. This is Chicago. Neither the 4th of July nor this weekend were unprecedented if you’ve been following this. She’s got the next weekend and the next weekend and the…etc.
Regards,
Jim
That was my abbreviated way of saying:
What do you think it would take to recall, impeach, or arrest her?
What options are available?
Who might be up to the task?
Can Republicans leverage the situation in some way?
Sometime between 2000 and 2004, the citizens in Illinois took upon themselves the grave responsibility of getting themselves a decent method of voting, so that the usual stealing of elections could not occur.
Impartial election integrity activists approved the new situation, and all was deemed well going into the future.
Then the HAVA Act descended on that state. Behind that Act was the theory that if there was a Federal Act, the theft of an election would not be possible. (Nudge, nudge; wink, wink.) The decent equipment had to be scrapped, and the newest cheat machines were installed. Not the same ones as before; newer black box voting versions.
As Kurt Vonnegut was fond of stating: “And so it goes.”
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Don,
Up until this year, the national news media didn’t cover this story period. Now at least Fox is jumping on it. Breitbart too but that goes without saying. I am not the expert on Chicago politics. They are a major city so like New York their political landscape is very complex. I don’t know how much of a miracle it would take to elect a Republican Mayor. I hate to be crassly political but for the moment she is an easy target and a little defensive about it too. As she takes a beating on this she will make the Dems look as bad as they are.
Regards,
Jim
Republicans? We ain’t got no stinkin’ Republicans! In the Land of Lincoln, and especially in Chicago, the Republican party is dead, kaput, useless, and irrelevant.
Lightweight was elected as a “reformer.” She is simply incompetent. Her handpicked police superintendent David Brown should have turned down the job offer. And don’t forget state’s attorney Kim Foxx, of Jessie Smolett fame. The police can’t do their jobs, Foxx doesn’t prosecute and Lightfoot would rather scold, lecture and threaten people. It’s a trifecta of losers.
If you look at the numbers compiled so well by heyjackass, you can see that so many are being shot on the west and south sides. Now, the west side is more dangerous than the south side, but the neighborhoods where Governor Trust Fund and his minions live are relatively unscathed. If the gang wars came to the gold coast and north side, maybe something might change. Morale in the CPD must be nearing rock bottom…a recently promoted deputy chief, Dion Boyd, took his own life while in his office on the west side last week. Whatever the reason, Boyd was universally remembered as a very nice, good police officer and his death a real loss to the department.
But Illinoisans spent almost $61 million of newly legal weed in July. Priorities.
Right. That’s kind of why I worded it that way. The chance of electing a Republican mayor in Chicago is zero, and even if you did, the Chicago swamp is probably deeper than Washington’s. You’d lose if you won.
I’m not so sure how ‘tough’ a politician she is. She tends to come across like a bewildered college freshperson who, after the first week of classes, realizes to her horror that she is in way over her head and it’s only a matter of time before she is back home and hoping against hope the local library hasn’t filled that intern position.
Franz,
You’re tough. Not wrong but tough.
Regards,
Jim
Won’t happen. Well, maybe, if Lightfoit were to work with and be friendly toward President Trump then there’s a chance she would be ousted.
The short answer is: only other Democrats. The problem is that even the better options are beholden to the machine or to crazy leftist/identitarian politics.
Heh, not likely. Even in R strongholds we get R’s voting for the tax increases. In Chicago proper? No one in sight. We don’t even have Democrats In Name Only (DINO’s), we just have marginally less bad Dems. My hereditary Dem congressman was just primaried out because he was too conservative (he was ostensibly pro life supposedly, and he probably opposed defunding police).
The only change I see possible is for the blue sections of your map starting to decamp out of state and letting the oranges and reds have the whole damn thing to themselves to shoot it out.