Posted on 10/09/2024 9:10:03 AM PDT by simpson96
The people of Chicago know about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s panic attacks.
He just can’t handle the job.
And now the people of his city, including the property taxpayers, are about to have a series of panic attacks all their own. He’s unleashed two curses to hound them and haunt them.
They’re already suffering from violent crime and he’s also killing the public schools that is turning out yet another generation of young people without future, without hope.
The Chicago Public Schools can’t educate 300,000 students, most of whom are black and brown, all of whom are poor. They can’t read or do math at grade level. And even reaching the low standard of “grade level” won’t prepare them for future jobs. They won’t be hired. So what’s in store for them?
They’re being groomed by Johnson, and his former employers at the Chicago Teachers Union who run the Chicago Public Schools for a bleak future. It is the bleak future of government dependency and violent crime. It is Chicago as a lawless dystopian hell. It will devour what taxpayers remain.
The people of Chicago voted for this, and the newspapers that went woke and went along with Johnson’s idiocy, and so despite the current chorus of piteous cries, Chicago is getting what it wanted and what it deserves.
“More than 80 percent minority kids graduate from CPS, but only about 15 percent can read at grade level,” said Ted Dabrowski of https://wirepoints.org/ on this week’s Chicago Way podcast.
“So, they’ve moved through the system never able to really read, yet they’ll graduate them anyway,” Dabrowski said during the podcast, “and that’s the lie of the system, that’s the hypocrisy of the system, and that’s the racism of the system. Just move ‘em on, move ‘em up, get ‘em out.”
It is supremely racist but it is a system controlled for years by black Chicago Democrats, and the left–through the corrupt media–defines the terms. Johnson rushed out to do some damage control on Monday after his public-school board resigned because they did not want to borrow another $300 million at high interest to benefit CTU, leaving taxpayers further in debt.
Johnson was busy spinning, spinning, frantically playing the race card, and blaming everyone but the man responsible—himself.
Neutral correspondents who were having a beer or two at St. Joseph’s Society for Young Men on Franklin in Michigan City watched Johnson’s desperate and panicked media antics on Chicago WGN news. It dragged on and on and on. It was endless. Reporters now as always are so terrified by being called a racist by the Marxist bully in office that they kissed his behind or simply remained mum.
The consensus?
“All propaganda,” reported the neutral correspondents. “It was, in a word, ridiculous.
Unless you pay taxes in Illinois.
I doubt if Chicago’s media stars would call out Johnson for propaganda, no matter that it smelled of Gorgonzola cheese gone bad. On top of Johnson’s self-inflicted public-school disaster was another of his own making
Just a few weeks ago, Johsnon shocked crime-plagued Chicago by killing a proven law-enforcement tool, ShotSpotter.
He condemned ShotSpotter as “over policing.”
It led to arrests of street gang members, the type of thugs who terrorize taxpayers, neighborhoods and kill a city. Johnson’s race-inspired decision was selfish, yes, and exactly the kind of ugly racial politics that he used to win his mayoral election.
What bothered Johnson is that ShotSpotter led to arrests of too many minority gang members who were illegally shooting guns in the city. So, he killed it.
Now the editors at CWB Chicago—the crime reporting web site that covers crime because the woke Chicago newspapers prefer to avoid the subject—have produced an important new feature:
Brandon’s Bodies
“On this page, CWB Chicago tracks incidents of people being found shot in areas previously served by ShotSpotter where the technology, had it not been dismantled, could have played a critical, helpful role. The most common scenarios are likely to be people being found shot without corresponding 911 calls of shots fired and people being found shot in areas where 911 callers provided inaccurate or overly broad locations of gunfire.”
The editors of CWB tally the dead. I think they should all be put in the lap of Mayor Panic Attacks.
The complete failure of Chicago’s mayor is clear to everyone but the morons who refuse to see and his ministers of propaganda.
Among them are Chicago’s Defund the Police Marxists, the ShotSpotter haters, Johnson’s true boss Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and his old boss Toni Preckwinkle, chairman of the Cook County Democrat Party and President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
It was Preckwinkle, who, along with the left-leaning Chicago media that foisted the do-nothing Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx on the people of Cook County (bless her heart) twice and tore up the city with violent crime.
Oh, yeah, and let’s not forget the angry Fat Boy himself, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Pritzker is a Democrat of gargantuan appetite who inherited billions and preens as he stands on third base, convinced that he hit a triple all by himself.
In taxpayer nightmares, you can imagine J.B completely naked, sprawled out face-down at the mouth of a cave on the edge of ruined Illinois, mouth wide open like some epic gigantic troll, eating everything and everyone trying to escape from his troll cave. And working his tongue around to dislodge mashed taxpayer bones.
On Monday, Mayor Johnson debuted his new Chicago Board of Education, offering rant after racist rant to cover his power grab after the old board resigned.
“… The people who are upset with me right now, as we shepherd and transition into this transformational moment … are the same people that watch black women cry when their jobs were being taken away from them, and then blame those black women for the conditions in which black children were being raised in abject poverty — [and] many of them are tied to administrations that not only closed schools and privatized assets, but shut down public housing, took the dedicated string for pensions and gave it to greedy corporate interests, spent all the money, left me with the bill, and now they’re mad that I’m actually doing what I promised I would do on behalf of parents, even though they have left a trail of harm.”
A trail of harm? Watch black women cry?
That’s simply pathetic, even if it comes from this Marxist fool who can’t sleep because of his panic attacks. How about black mothers crying because Mayor Panic Attacks runs a school system to imprison black children in misery. The KKK couldn’t have designed a more hateful system of “systemic racism” than Chicago Public Schools.
Bottom line? All the cynical race talk means nothing to the dead piling up after Johnson killed ShotSpotter. It means nothing to the children who won’t get an education and think they’re getting an education.
What has Chicago seen?
“All-out theft masquerading as some kind of benevolence for the kids they aren’t serving with an education,” said former Schools CEO Paul Vallas, the proven crisis manager rejected by Democrats and the Chicago media because he’s the wrong political color–white.
“Nobody is harming black children as much as Johnson and CTU leadership right now,” said Vallas. “They are cynically expanding the CTU’s monopoly and political power and not improving the education needed to improve black children’s lives.”
Wirepoints.org reports that at CPS in 2023 only 8 percent of black children were at grade level in math, and only just 17 percent were at grade level in reading. Among Hispanics, only 14 percent can do math at grade level, only 21 percent in reading. That’s not good enough.
The bare minimum won’t be enough for them to win a spot in the tech-heavy economy America is building.
Those 300,000 Chicago children are being prepared not for a successful productive career, but for prison. And if not prison, then a life languishing on what remains of welfare that you pay for.
And they become what they’ve been for generations now, a millstone around the neck of Chicago. I’ve written about it for years, and the Democrats played race. And the leftists tried drowning me out. They didn’t want to hear it.
“As for the mayor, he’s made a Faustian bargain with CTU leadership,” said Vallas. “And it means disaster not just for the schools but for the city as a whole.”
Vallas knew municipal finances. He understood crisis management. He cared deeply about the students. He buried many and tried to soothe their parents.
But Vallas wasn’t a great candidate. His flaw? He was too white for Chicago Democrats and the downtown media that is always drifting ever leftward. Just too damn white.
And Johnson was exactly who the Democrats of Chicago voted for, if they bothered to vote. He was the future that they wanted. And they got what they wanted.
Now Chicago can feel the chill and tremble, thinking on what is to come.
Johnson and Pritzger deserve every single hit Kass makes.
“In taxpayer nightmares, you can imagine J.B completely naked, sprawled out face-down at the mouth of a cave on the edge of ruined Illinois, mouth wide open like some epic gigantic troll, eating everything and everyone trying to escape from his troll cave. And working his tongue around to dislodge mashed taxpayer bones.”
Wow…..
“And now the people of his city, including the property taxpayers, are about to have a series of panic attacks all their own.”
Suffer you democrat filth.
Mr. Kass is a fellow old school Chicago south sider. A great man and fearless writer for decades on the Chicago scene. Did I mention also a proud Greek? Chicago was a city of ethnic enclaves..Poles, Irish, Italian, Jews, Germans, Greeks, Swedes, Ukrainians etc. Perfect classic American melting pot. "Throwing hand grenades" was the way it was done..verbal, that is (mostly).😎
City a perfect shithole now.
PS try his Beer Can Chicken
Turning into Africa one mayor at a time
Ahh, let’s just watch to see how this Democrat/Communist Party plan to “control crime” works out for them. Perhaps the citizens of Chicago who keep re-electing these incompetent, un-wise, self-serving communist fools will catch on to the grift ... but I doubt it as the level of public ignorance is just too high ... by design of the Democrat/Communist Party.
I believe this is on par with Baltimore. One thing is almost certain, there's not a majority-black, Dem run city that is doing much better.
WLS! Back in the 80s and 90s it was my favorite radio station! Don Wade (RIP) and Roma, Rush (ALSO RIP), Roe Conn, Ol’ Uncle Lar and Little Tommy’s Animal Stories! Those were fun times! Alas…….
The beer can chicken is going into my recipe book, thanks!
I go back way farther than that, but was with you all the way in the 80’s and 90’s! Now it’s Dan Bongino, Chris Plante, Dan and Amy, Sean Thomsen, Brandon Tatum etc. Got to have a continuos stream of sanity to cope with today’s terrible evil. We have to hang in there mate!
Amen to that!👍😀
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