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Criminals are criminals and should be treated as such. At some point, Chicagoans themselves are to blame. This is generational failure where grandparents, parents and children have voted for one party for years. The party has failed to manage the city responsibly. Voters continue to support the same failed policies. It appears most Chicagoans do not recognize failure when they see it.
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We live in the age of stupid.
Related. Woke business is not good business:
Disney’s financial fairy tale in Florida is coming to an end thanks to Ron DeSantis.
We are lucky to live in a city not badly affected. On my morning walks I see more homeless in the last few years in our area. Most appear to have some sort of mental disability – talking to themselves, collecting things, brandishing sticks, etc.
“…Steve Dettelbach, the man President Biden chose to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), followed in the footsteps of other Biden administration officials who have been stumped by seemingly straightforward questions from lawmakers, questions that deal with subjects within what is supposed to be their purview.
On Tuesday, Director Dettelbach was asked by Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX) to give a brief, 15-second definition of the term “assault weapon,” the thing President Biden and Democrats have demanded must be banned within the United States in order to reduce the frequency of crimes committed by individuals with guns. Dettelbach, however, came up completely empty during his testimony in the House Appropriations Committee’s hearing focused on the ATF’s FY2024 budget.
“I’ll go shorter than that because I, honestly, if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work, but we would be there to provide technical assistance,” Dettelbach told Ellzey. Huh? So, the man in charge of ATF doesn’t even have a guess when it comes to defining a firearm type that is mentioned and demonized almost daily by the White House?…”
Related. Just say anything. Most people don’t know if it’s true or not.
This literally never happened.
Here's the DOJ saying it didn't happen https://t.co/H4IPoUBHVF
Here's JAMA saying it didn't happenhttps://t.co/L8RsI35nq9
Here's RAND saying it didn't happenhttps://t.co/eRff2Pwmh0
Here's NYT saying it didn't happen https://t.co/Q6Db7XhuQA https://t.co/pQn778L7YN
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 10, 2023
“…Left-wing comedienne Kathy Griffin said she has an extreme case of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that arose shortly after her cancelation resulting from her photograph of holding a bloodied Trump severed head.
Griffin revealed her struggle with mental health in an Instagram video in which she used a blurred filter that she said reflected how she feels internally…”
“…Delusional: Claims Many Felt ’Quality of Life’ Improved.
The Department of State’s Monica Medina says that during coronavirus lockdowns, “we saw pollution levels go down.”…”
“…California’s Kern Community College District didn’t act on termination recommendation during public portion of meeting dominated by Matthew Garrrett’s supporters, including black pastor.
Bakersfield College has fired a tenured history professor formally charged with “dishonesty” for disagreeing with colleagues on diversity issues, including a proposed “racial climate task force” to supersede the gridlocked diversity committee on which he served.
The secretive move against Matthew Garrett followed a contentious public meeting on his fate Thursday.
The Kern Community College District Board of Trustees, whose vice president publicly compared Garrett to livestock that should be culled before apologizing for the remark, apparently held an unrecorded vote without public notice Thursday, either in closed session between morning and afternoon open sessions or after the public meeting. Local media were confused, with KGET reporting that Garrett’s status remained unknown as of noon Friday…”
This is legalized corruption.
“…For the past couple of years, we’ve been led to believe that the letter from 51 national security officials was some sort of spontaneous, grassroots effort by the intelligence community to warn us about the potential foreign influence behind Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The laptop has since been confirmed to be legitimate, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that there was no foreign disinformation campaign involved. But new information from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and congressional investigators, with the help of two Obama-era CIA officials, has revealed a new twist in the story. The investigation has uncovered evidence linking the letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 election to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
The unsettling revelation of evidence linking the dismissal of the laptop to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign raises grave concerns about the suppression and censorship of crucial information by big tech and the mainstream media leading up to the 2020 election. This could be one of the most significant instances of legitimate election interference in our nation’s history, with far-reaching implications that leave a dark cloud over the integrity of our democracy. The implications of this investigation are deeply disturbing and must not be ignored.
Jordan revealed to Just the News that a report on government weaponization is set to be released later this month, detailing the individuals involved in the letter and the evidence linking them to the Biden campaign. Jordan suggested that the letter may have been a significant interference in the presidential election and was motivated by political considerations. Jordan declined to provide more details as further witness interviews are being conducted this week…”
“…Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, might drag his city into the urban doom loop. Inheriting a city already in crisis, Johnson plans to soak commuters, businesses, and the “ultra-rich” in taxes, has claimed that defunding the police is an “actual real political goal,” and promises to splurge on social spending. All this will make the Windy City’s situation more dire still.
In an urban doom loop, a city’s tax base flees, draining revenue and thus stressing already-underperforming core services. As conditions deteriorate, the cycle spins faster, pushing the city further into the fiscal and public safety abyss. Though Johnson backed away on the campaign trail from his most strident defund-the-police rhetoric, the city’s pension problems are already doing the trick…
…Chicago’s election highlights several aspects of our research, including ballooning expenditures, rising crime, and cratering commercial real-estate markets. Perhaps more than anywhere else, the Windy City exhibits the telltale signs of a negative spiral.
In the 2010s, Chicago saw a small population increase of around 2 percent, but the number of municipal employees fell by almost 5 percent, owing to the pension crowd-out effect, in which rising pension costs squeeze other city priorities. Chicago’s pension spending has nearly tripled in the past ten fiscal years, from around $15,700 per full-time employee to more than $45,000. Pension expenditures now total more than $1.5 billion—over 12 percent of the city’s total revenue. For every person Chicago employs, in other words, it is effectively paying $45,000 to a city employee who has already retired. And the problem will worsen in the years to come, with the city’s pension debts exceeding those of 45 states and the recent market downturn intensifying its funding shortfalls. As these costs rise, they limit the revenue available for needed services.
And Chicago can hardly afford to tighten its belt on public safety. From 2020 through 2022, more than 2,000 people were murdered within city limits. The 2021 figure of nearly 800 was roughly 60 percent higher than that of 2019—yet the Chicago Police Department recorded less than half the number of physical arrests in 2021 as it did in 2019. Crucial to understanding these numbers is that the police force has shrunk by 8 percent in less than half a decade…”
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1647520201850896384
Interview with pizza guy Tyler Morrell:
"I get pretty sick of seeing crime like that go on, especially half a mile down the road, so I was just ready to step up if they needed a hand, or a foot, whatever." pic.twitter.com/nIyVfNScWX
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 17, 2023
“…A report released by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) raises the prospect that millions of lives could have been saved — including those of more than 1 million Americans — if not for a “coverup” by the Chinese government during a theorized initial outbreak.
“This report concludes most likely this was two leaks [including] a lab leak in the September-October [2019] timeframe, even as early as July or August,” the medical doctor turned senator told a small group of journalists ahead of the release of the 301-page document.
“We’ve concluded that [China] started vaccine development in November 2019. And then another lab leak seems to be most sensible explanation,” he said. “There are key data points that are being held back that could help us prove that.”
Dr. Robert Kadlec, a cofounder of the Operation Warp Speed program that rapidly developed US COVID-19 vaccines in 2020, drafted the report titled “Muddy Waters: The Origins of COVID-19” with about a dozen Republican aides on the Senate Health Committee and additional outside consultants…”
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“A lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science and by common sense.”
Former Director of National Intelligence @JohnRatcliffe testifies that the Wuhan lab is responsible for spawning a global pandemic. pic.twitter.com/RHFV4FwNbV
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) April 18, 2023
There must be accountability for politicians and media jerkoffs that lied and mislead the American people for 2 years,
Sen. @JohnFetterman (D-PA) returns to Capitol Hill after a two-month absence during which he received treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. https://t.co/6tjy3Wlngo pic.twitter.com/YS9E9gzfCu
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 17, 2023
WATCH: Madeline Brame, mother of a veteran who was murdered in NYC, TORCHES DA Alvin Bragg for dismissing gang assault and murder charges against her son’s killers. pic.twitter.com/su3dqFq9fp
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 17, 2023
Pete Buttigieg tells Al Sharpton that minorities are more likely to die in car crashes for a variety of reasons including:
"The way roads are designed and built." pic.twitter.com/9ADW5IFFti
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 16, 2023
