Posted on 07/02/2020 5:02:08 AM PDT by PBRCat
How many more babies will be murdered in Chicago’s street gang wars?
It’s time to stop the bleeding, Mayor Lightfoot. Stop the bleeding. And lead your city.
She’s thrown her police under the bus, but on Wednesday she announced a 180-degree change. She needs them. Now she wants her exhausted cops to sweep problem areas and make arrests, even if social justice warriors complain.
She’s been mugged by reality and knows virtue signaling and rhetoric won’t stop the gangs. Yes, that stuff excites national media and networks. They get tingles when she rips on President Donald Trump. He’s snarky, she’s snarky, and fighting with him from the blue city in the blue state gives her political cover from media criticism. But she can’t use Trump as a shield forever.
She’s the mayor. Families are weeping. And babies are being killed.
Notice that Black Lives Matter and their allies aren’t leading any angry demonstrations about Black and brown children being cut down in Chicago. Those dead babies have no political utility. Their lives don’t help the activists leverage the November elections. So those lives are ignored.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker won’t help her. He’s a soft billionaire, a marshmallow who wants to be liked and thinks he can become president. He cares about optics. He won’t order in the National Guard.
The Chicago Police Department is demoralized, exhausted and confused, and much of that is her own doing. She’s worked them to the bone. She lost them with her sarcasm and that ridiculous Bobby Rush popcorn drama.
Lightfoot threw Brown under the bus just two weeks on the job. Undercutting her new police superintendent in front of his troops was a bad move.
Bad optics isn’t about arrests being made, but babies being killed in the gang wars.
She’s out of time.
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Lori’s last name fits her. She is light in the loafers.
I saw a comment that the mayor looks like she is a crack addict. She does side with criminals.
I’m having trouble working up a lot of sympathy for them - who and what do they vote for?
I call him Governor Creosote.
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“The rest of us do.“
I used to. But God forgive me I no longer do.
They voted for this. Let them have it.
Good and hard.
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The rest of us do.
Speak for yourself.
She needs a new tailor. The way that collar on her jacket is popping up is a disgrace for someone that demands to be taken seriously.
Guess she couldn’t pull off being a lipstick lesbian.
Children being slaughtered could not matter less to Lori. She supports abortion which kills a hell of a lot more children than the stray gunfire. Why should she worry about a few who escaped the birth canal alive. To such a one they are no more than an inconvenience making unpleasant news now which should have been precluded in the abortion palaces.
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