Posted on 08/15/2020 10:00:20 AM PDT by John Semmens
Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) put the blame for the rioting and looting going on in Chicago on President Trump, saying that "people are frustrated over his coronavirus response. They're particularly scared about being forced to go back to work. Trump's indication that the government checks everyone has been getting during the pandemic won't be permanent is frightening. People felt safe staying home knowing that the money they need to live would be in their mail box or bank account each week. Now, they're terrified."
"Terrified people do terrifying things," the Mayor reasoned. "Breaking windows and looting stores should have been a foreseeable consequence of the decreased and eventual phase-out of federal pandemic payments." Oddly for the Mayor's theory, it wasn't food stores that were robbed, but high-end retailers in the Miracle Mile district. Reminded of this, Lightfoot offered the opinion that "just because you are desperate doesn't mean you don't appreciate a little luxury in your life. Why wouldn't the poorest among us want a Gucci bag?"
"Maybe if we had been quicker to defund the police and shift the money to social programs like some of our sister cities have the looters wouldn't have done what they did," the Mayor speculated. "Fewer police means fewer victims of police brutality and the righteous rioting that can be expected to follow from that brutality. The knowledge that a future 911 call would be routed to a social worker rather than a cop could have exerted a calming influence that would have dampened the enthusiasm for a spree of looting."
Black Lives Matter organizer Ariel Atkins led a protest demanding the release of the more than 100 looters arrested by the police in the Miracle Mile riot. "I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci… or a Macy's… or a Nike… because that makes sure that that person eats," she insisted. "These people are not criminals. The stuff they took is part of the reparations they are owed for slavery. And the stores are all insured, so no one was hurt by by the looting."
In a next-day follow-up to the Miracle Mile looting, rioters destroyed large sections of the city, including the Ronald McDonald House where families were staying to be near the hospital where their severely sick children were being treated. Though the Ronald McDonald House is a charitable activity, a spokesman for the rioters pointed out that "MacDonald's is one of the biggest corporate oppressors in the world."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=411390.0
There is no room anymore for satire when discussing leading Democrat politicians. The reality is such that it cannot be distinguished from satire.
LORI IS LIGHT IN THE LOAFERS.....
Chicago has been under DemocRAT (Commie) control since 1931. Mayor Beetlejuice can’t pin the city’s problems on President Trump or any other Republican no matter how much she (he) wants to.
Lessbrainium!
Let’s call her what she is: Mayor Lightweight.
I beg to differ. Just my opinion but she is deadweight for Chicago. The damage in Chicago is worse than the press is letting on,
There isn’t an American alive today who picked one single piece of cotton.
NO ONE is owed for ANY reparations in the USA.
The EBT cards which most of the blacks rioting have been living on for most of their lives NEVER were reduced. Those cards have been replenished electronically during the entire virus disruptions.
They LIE as easily as they scream.
NO SYMPATHY here. That jar is empty.
There isn’t an American alive today who picked one single piece of cotton.
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On the contrary. My hubby picked cotton and peanuts. He’s a proud member of the Choctaw Nation-Choctaws had code-talkers too-it wasn’t just the Navajo. Eventually, his Dad got a job pouring concrete for a construction company in Springfield, Mo. and the cotton picking days came to an end.
His brother had a DNA test done-they ain’t black. But they are Native American, Spanish, Asian, and Caucasian.
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