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When Authority Vanishes Chicago’s leaders have surrendered to vandals
City Journal ^ | August 14, 2020 | John O. McGinnis

Posted on 08/19/2020 8:11:14 AM PDT by PBRCat

Riding in trucks and U-Hauls, vandals came to Chicago. They jammed the Magnificent Mile, the city’s most important shopping district. They came prepared with tools to pry open gates and take all the merchandise that they could pack. It was a strike directed at the heart of the city.

For months, the state’s attorney, the mayor, and the governor—have failed to condemn criminals or act with necessary force against such violence. They have contributed to a culture of impunity that tolerates mobs and hoodlums.

Kim Foxx has already become nationally notorious for refusing to prosecute Jussie Smollett, a provocateur who tried to fracture the city with a falsehood. Foxx dismissed felony cases at a rate 35 percent higher than her predecessor. She raised the threshold for felony shoplifting from $300 to $1,000—and as a result, thieves steal brazenly in broad daylight.

The state and city’s ineffective leaders are all the product of a progressive ruling elite that promoted them beyond their competence. Foxx is a graduate of Southern Illinois, one of the state’s weakest law schools.

Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s first female black mayor never held elected office or had substantial managerial experience.

Pritzker’s main qualification for governor was that he had inherited a lot of money and thus could self-fund a campaign against Republican incumbent, Bruce Rauner, who paid for his campaign with money that he had made himself. Pritzker was not chosen to be put in charge of his own family’s businesses, progressives liked him enough to run him for governor without any political experience in order to stop Rauner.

Given their backgrounds, it’s no surprise that the trio of Foxx, Lightfoot, and Pritzker has done nothing to halt the state and city’s decline.

They have also failed to sustain the first condition of civilization: order under law.

(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; civilunrest; foxx; illinois; lightfoot; looting; pritzker; riots
A confederacy of progressive dunces!
1 posted on 08/19/2020 8:11:14 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

Anarcho-tyranny.


2 posted on 08/19/2020 8:14:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: PBRCat

progressives like morons..Easy to lead them by the nose.....


3 posted on 08/19/2020 8:17:33 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: PBRCat

That’s the neat thing about civilization and rule of law. When the rule of law fails, then the civilization crumbles and fails. It’s the history of half of Africa where whitey tried to give them progress. In Chicago? We are seeing regression at work.


4 posted on 08/19/2020 8:17:47 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: PBRCat

In other words, all normal democrats......


5 posted on 08/19/2020 8:17:54 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: PBRCat

Off topic....

Does PBR in your screen name mean Pabst Blue Ribbon????...:^)


6 posted on 08/19/2020 8:19:38 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: All

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7 posted on 08/19/2020 8:24:16 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: JBW1949

Ha ha ha.

Red necks, white socks and Blue Ribbon beer.


8 posted on 08/19/2020 8:32:15 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

There you go!!!!!! LOL


9 posted on 08/19/2020 8:41:57 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: PBRCat

Like the shirts say:

Beer. It’s what gets me up every afternoon.


10 posted on 08/19/2020 8:45:14 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: PBRCat

It’s not surrender. Ideologically the leaders and rioters are the same side


11 posted on 08/19/2020 8:50:12 AM PDT by Lee25
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The leadera want the property for cheap so they can store their pets there. They think its ok to lose the tax base because they think bringing in illegals will ensure permanent victory and thus federal taxes from job creators n matter what state they hide in


12 posted on 08/19/2020 9:02:17 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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"A confederacy of progressive dunces!"

I like it. (Definiton: a league or alliance) There's many ways to adjust that saying as long as the word "confederacy" is still there. It will drive the commies crazy. I like:
THE CONFEDERACY OF COMMUNISTS.
THE COMMUNIST CONFEDERACY LIVES!
DOWN WITH THE COMMIE CONFEDERACY.
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST CONFEDERACY.
DOWN WITH CAPITALISM - UP WITH THE COMMUNIST CONFEDERACY.

Feel free to give further examples for signs and slogans.

13 posted on 08/19/2020 9:10:28 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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To: PBRCat

bkmk


14 posted on 08/19/2020 9:12:33 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: PBRCat

Anybody who locates a business in downtown Chicago is nuts. Let’s vote EVERY democrat out of office!


15 posted on 08/19/2020 9:17:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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Chicago police chief David Brown suggested that Foxx’s failure to prosecute looters from the previous sacking of the city in June was partly responsible for emboldening the current round of looting.

Gosh, ya think?

16 posted on 08/19/2020 9:50:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("These transfer payments are fiscally unsustainable." ~Wall Street Journal)
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And not one of those trucks and U-hauls passed by a camera that recorded the tag number?
Want to stop this new form of looting? Vehicles used in criminal acts are subject to seizure - with tag numbers and probable cause you could seize or impound them - make it very painful for anyone who owns or rents them.


17 posted on 08/19/2020 11:44:20 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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In the past 40 years or so-—as I have alked to friends who don’t understand WHY their ‘city’ cannot draw new businesses...

I told them:

I don’t care if you are a brain surgeon-—a plumber—a heart specialist-—a janitor—or an accounting clerk.

YOU WILL NOT SEEK or ACCEPT EMPLOYMENT WHERE YOU & YOUR FAMILY ARE NOT SAFE!!!


18 posted on 08/19/2020 1:28:26 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Conspiring to SIDE WITH TERRORISTS will carry the same penalty.

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19 posted on 08/19/2020 1:50:54 PM PDT by elbook
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To: PBRCat

The Chicago liberals are eating each other. This is not unexpected.

For those who haven’t heard due to the Nazi media blackout, here’s the background story:

At the end of May, the Nazi democrats ordered their BLM racists to attack and loot the Mexican neighborhoods. The Mexicans objected and set up barricades, manning them with individuals carrying AKs.

The BLM racists were pulled out of cars, beaten and chased back to their black ghetto neighborhoods. IOW, the black racists were pinned down in their neighborhoods and couldn’t move out.

So, the racists were confined to certain areas and could only act in specific neighborhoods. That included Michigan Avenue where the whites are too chickenshit to make a stand for their neighborhood, unlike the stand Mexicans made for their homes and businesses.

I fully expect that BLM in Chicago will collapse after it devours street after street. The Mexicans will kill BLM by the thousands if BLM dares to advance beyond its safe ghetto and wimpy white neighborhoods.


20 posted on 08/19/2020 5:37:31 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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