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Mayor blames Richard Nixon for Chicago’s intractable violence
CWB Chicago ^ | July 8, 2024 | Tim Hecke

Posted on 07/09/2024 6:22:06 AM PDT by Salman

CHICAGO — In recent years, Chicago’s leaders have blamed a wide range of external factors for the city’s infamous street violence. They’ve pointed fingers at Donald Trump, Indiana, Kim Foxx, and gun manufacturers, among others.

On Monday, after 108 people were shot, 19 fatally, during the Independence Day weekend, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson became the first leader to blame Richard Milhous Nixon.

“We are standing here today talking about a violent weekend because of generations of disinvestment,” Johnson told a room full of reporters.

“Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time,” Johnson claimed. “We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes and people mocked President [Lyndon] Johnson and we ended up with Richard Nixon.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago

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Yeah. That's the ticket. Nixon's fault, so nobody alive today has to do anything about it. Ever.

Is he really that stupid? Or does he just think everybody else is that stupid.

Or is this a tale not intended to be believed, but pretending to believe it is a loyalty test?

1 posted on 07/09/2024 6:22:06 AM PDT by Salman
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“Is he really that stupid? Or does he just think everybody else is that stupid.”
Yes and YES


2 posted on 07/09/2024 6:24:12 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Salman

Do you remember the bills you have to pay?

Or even yesterday?


3 posted on 07/09/2024 6:24:30 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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Are they letting Benjamin Harrison off the hook?


4 posted on 07/09/2024 6:25:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Salman

LBJ bragged that he would be having Johnson and his ilk “...vote Democrat for the next 200 years...”.

Maybe they’ll figure it out in the next 140...


5 posted on 07/09/2024 6:26:40 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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“Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time,” Johnson claimed....

It's our fault that they're killing each other.

Got it.

6 posted on 07/09/2024 6:26:40 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Black Death? That was in Europe.


7 posted on 07/09/2024 6:27:10 AM PDT by nwrep
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8 posted on 07/09/2024 6:27:56 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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You Young Americans say the strangest things cough cough


9 posted on 07/09/2024 6:28:05 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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They’re trying everything. Something will stick, even if it’s Nixon. Desperate.


10 posted on 07/09/2024 6:28:25 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: OttawaFreeper

It wasn’t inadvertently, it was by design.


11 posted on 07/09/2024 6:29:21 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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I blame it on the Bossa Nova. ;)


12 posted on 07/09/2024 6:29:43 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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paint $55/gallon

plaster?


13 posted on 07/09/2024 6:30:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Thank God, relief, all this time I thought it was the Welfare State and the breakup of the family by substituting big government for daddy...


14 posted on 07/09/2024 6:30:35 AM PDT by eyeamok
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I’ll go for the simple answer.... it’s the segment of society that has the poorest impulse control.


15 posted on 07/09/2024 6:31:39 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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Meanwhile, looks like in addition to stopping traffic stops...

https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2024/07/next-progressive-target.html?m=1

“...Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in May that her office is developing a policy not to prosecute gun, theft, and drug charges stemming from certain traffic stops...”


16 posted on 07/09/2024 6:31:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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The guy who didn’t hand out enough free stuff is dead, so it’s all his fault.


17 posted on 07/09/2024 6:32:05 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Johnson’s gaslighting. From day one he has used the lame excuse that a lack of investment in black lives is the cause of the black crime wave particularly youth crime. Over the years, trillions have been allocated to blacks with most of the money going into the pockets of corrupt politicians and their cronies. Johnson is pathetic.


18 posted on 07/09/2024 6:32:05 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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The decline of America began in 1960 Chicago when Mayor Daly stole a Presidential elecion from the American people.


19 posted on 07/09/2024 6:32:15 AM PDT by allendale
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20 posted on 07/09/2024 6:32:41 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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