Posted on 03/11/2024 4:20:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
AI generated picture of youths rioting in chicago.
I’m sure the teens all have earbuds pumping out insipid rap “music.”
Opera music is played to keep 'the teens' from gathering.
It works! When I lived in an Italian-American rowhouse neighborhood, I used bombastic choral, orchestral or organ music, like "Lord Nelson's Mass," whenever the mobsters or unruly teens were on my pavement out front. They would wander away...
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Blacks aren’t untouchable.
They’re victimized by other blacks.
Law-abiding blacks are under threat as much as law-abiding people of every skin color.
If you’re a victim of crime, WTH difference does the skin color of the perp make?!
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You are correct in any sane world. My point is, when the perps are black, the news won’t cover it, or the news suppresses it.
I know exactly how you felt. My former workplace was near there. I used the Skywalk once.
Once was enough.
“When you get the message, hang up the phone.” —Alan Watts
“This video has been deleted.”
He mentions several points in the downtown that he frequents. He is a rabbi. Possibly his place of work is a large old downtown synagogue. All clergy in Dem cities face this challenge, saddled with historic buildings existing on fumes.
mewzilla was probably indicating that blacks are untouchable by the media. The media are actively participating in the victimization by promoting the woke narrative (“black disorder is entirely the fault of white oppression”) instead of the objective truth.
The writer seems like a nice person with no common sense and out of touch with his surroundings. This is 2024, almost no metropolitan area is safe after dark. And Chicago? He is simply living the life of a fat hen, waiting to be slaughtered.
Is this sad? No, it’s infuriating. But he tolerates it and, worse, pays taxes to support it. He is part of the problem he laments. I will try to remember his name so I don’t read his whimpering drivel again. Unless the title to the article is, “I finally moved out of Illinois.”
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan, shilled $150 million this past week, in his first cash-out since taking the reins at the bank nearly two decades ago.
Within days, Apollo Global Management’s Leon Black also enacted his first-ever sale, shedding $172.8million in his equity firm after 34 years. Walmart’s Walton family sold $1.5billion in a week, bringing its total sale proceeds to $2.3billion since December.
The series of transactions were all made within weeks of each other, and have already sparked conversation amongst onlookers.
OBSERVATION - As the article notes, there are several theories being bantered about over the timing and amounts of these transactions. Over all, the guess is that they see ‘uncertainty’ in the economy in the upcoming months due in part to the elections and other potential factors that would stall the economy. Some are saying they are trying to ‘diversify’. What ever the reason, these heavyweights are responding at market highs to something that has appeared
on their common radar
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To diversify? Into other currencies? Any guess what they’re buying?
I’m sure you’re right...
What does this very interesting tidbit have to do with the posts?
I never heard that quote before! But...relevant it its!
Keep these teens within their large city environments (perhaps a wall can be built to encircle these areas). Then let them have at it. Praise the narrative setters at main stream media for using sweet sounding words, and never alerting parents of these teens of any potential criminal activity, present or expected. Laud and give high praise to Democrat politicians who vote to defund and remove the police so no one has to go to jail. If these teens can be kept within their home areas, eventually the matter will self-dispose.
This could be the only hope for the law abiding.
I changed direction immediately, away from the crowd...
It's pretty obvious that the Rabbi is a racist. No need to read further.
I have been in broadcast TV news for decades. I can tell you that a conservative walks a lonely road in a newsroom, even more so in markets of any appreciable size. They are all about the leftist agenda, so in a city like Chicago with a mayor such as the leftist apologist they have (which replaced the leftist apologist that was thrown out of office last year), they will tout the liberal line. So it wasn’t a “mob”, it was a group of teenagers. It wasn’t theft, it was mischief. It wasn’t tend of thousands of dollars in property damage, it was expressing themselves. Like Ilhan Omar couching the 9/11/2001 attacks as “some people did something”. While a true statement, it fails to accurately describe it.
Words mean things. The right words are important. You can sell a rape an “undocumented date” and a drug deal as an “undocumented prescription” or car theft as ass “undocumented test drive” just like the left takes illegal aliens and euphemises them as “undocumented migrants”, or the new term that started last week, “newcomers”.
“A rose by any other name”, said Shakespeare, “would smell just as sweet.” The same applies to the stench of aberrant and unacceptable behavior that liberals always want to make smell, well, rosy. It wasn’t an urban mob, you see, it was just a bunch of teenagers, who if you read the copy that local news uses, “were just starting to turn their lives around”.
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Their constant attempts to make this kind of behavior normal, even good (what’ wrong with a bunch of teenagers??”) but if it’d YOUR store and YOUR merchandise getting plundered, it’d a different story entirely. “oh, but they’re insulted, let the insurance pay for it”. Right. The deductible comes out of whose pocket? The time and cost of clean up, the lack of stuff to sell while it gets replaced, the immeasurable but very real toll on employees that are stuck there while the wandering hordes commit their destruction, that doesn’t get paid for by insurance. And businesses pay higher premiums as a result. “They own a store, they are rich, they can afford it”. The people who say this (we the former mayor did) have never had to actually run a business.
As long as we allow liberals to downplay the actions of what we call criminals but they call constituents, it’s only gonna get worse.
I was faculty at a university. Were there conservatives? Yes. Do they speak out? No. Many were like me. To the other people in the building, I was a liberal. I knew how to play the game for my enjoyment. I was good at out-virtue signaling a liberal. Quick to describe Joe Biden as “too conservative”(liberals usually nodded their head).
I don’t have to worry about mobs of teens in Appalachia.
Mobs of teens would quickly turn to a bunch of patients in ICU were that nonsense to happen in the mountains.
Here in the urban flatlands, the mobs of teenagers are the “victims” and stealing is seen as “reparations”.
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