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Chicago's New, Frightening Reality: a Blue City in a Red Nation
The Chicago Reader ^ | November 9, 2016 | Ben Joravsky

Posted on 11/09/2016 3:46:19 PM PST by PBRCat

The polls have closed and the electoral firewall Hillary was banking on to prevent the Barbarian from crashing the gates and taking over —

Results are all over the place. She's up. She's down. It's too close to call.

I'm flashing back to game seven in Cleveland last week, when the Cubs had a three-run lead.

Nate Silver: "We're in a state of suspended animation right now . . . no major state has fallen to Clinton."

"Uh-oh. I'm starting to feel panic set in."

My editor's pacing around in a state of terror.

Texts are now pouring in from friends and relatives: "I'm nervous. I'm feeling sick. I may vomit."

To make it worse, exit polls say that more than 50 percent of white women voted for him.

A cry from down the hall. Another editor has discovered that FiveThirtyEight updated its projection and Trump has a 55 percent chance of winning.

The Republicans control everything. There are no checks and balances.

Trump will fill Scalia's vacancy and all the judicial vacancies.

What does this mean for the press? He despises the press. His supporters joke about lynching reporters.

I get a text from my Bernie bro telling me that Trumpsters are jubilant.

I'd like to crack a joke. I haven't felt this much political gloom and doom since the Reagan landslide of 1980.

But this may be worse. Reagan at least offered hope.

Trump is dark and mean and foreboding. Always talking about locking people up. Or beating them up. Or investigating his opponents and punishing his enemies.

Hold it. Clinton takes Colorado. The firewall. But Ohio goes to Trump. And Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania are leaning his way.

It could come down to Arizona and Alaska. Home of McCain and Palin—the 2008 ticket.

This is surreal.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoreader.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bluezones; chicago; clinton; illinois; landslide; redstates; trump; trump2016
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To: Arm_Bears

Always the big lie with leftist thugs.


21 posted on 11/09/2016 4:01:16 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Don’t forget, Spike Lee was permitted to film “Chiraq” in the city, but the Chicago City Council voted to remove a honorary
“Trump Plaza” street sign across from his hotel because Trump dared to criticize crime and violence in the city!

Here’s a quote:

I have a flashback to 40th Ward alderman Patrick O’Connor’s warning a few days back. This was after the City Council voted to take down an honorary street sign outside Trump Tower.

You don’t want to upset a guy like Trump, O’Connor cautioned.

“If you put a guy like Trump in the office, with whom we have an absolutely terrible relationship, any discretion that he could exercise that would hurt us I think he would,” O’Connor said. “It will be a terrible thing for us personally in Chicago if he were to become president.”

O’Connor continued: “That’s something he understands: Getting even with people. Going after people he doesn’t like. He understands that real well.”


22 posted on 11/09/2016 4:01:48 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat
Chicago is a blue island in a red state

The difference is they (and the rest of the suffering state) now have to live with the consequences of their actions. There won't be a bailout from the Trump administration.

23 posted on 11/09/2016 4:05:36 PM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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To: faithhopecharity

Obama has been flooding Chicago with Muslims. Some streets look like Baghdad now.


24 posted on 11/09/2016 4:05:36 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: Vendome

“the world was finally freed of the USSR and many concentration camps, operating as Soviet Satellite States, were finally freed.”

For those of the author’s worldview, that was a horrendous catastrophe!!!! /s;)


25 posted on 11/09/2016 4:08:43 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: PBRCat

Chicagoans can go back to murdering one another.


26 posted on 11/09/2016 4:09:26 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (LOCK HER UP!)
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To: PBRCat
Their frightening reality is detailed HERE.

681 total homicides so far this year.

27 posted on 11/09/2016 4:10:47 PM PST by NorthMountain (Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Yep. I despise Obama from the deepest parts of my heart, but when he was elected twice...it did not define me.

Unless defining means highlighting what I am not.


28 posted on 11/09/2016 4:11:21 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: NorthMountain

Hopefully they can break a thousand. Remember as long as they are killing each other,the innocents are being spared.


29 posted on 11/09/2016 4:13:21 PM PST by sport
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To: PBRCat

SH8T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no wonder ChiTown is going downhill so rapidly

what a shame!
a once-great city


30 posted on 11/09/2016 4:18:20 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: PBRCat

Ben will never realize that he was the problem.


31 posted on 11/09/2016 4:18:35 PM PST by henkster (Clinton delenda est)
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To: MarineMom613

Yea it’s unbelievable. One of my cousins said she wanted Trump assassinated. I’m glad she is lives in another state. The arguments would be be unbearable.


32 posted on 11/09/2016 4:18:55 PM PST by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Give me liberty or give me free stuff.)
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To: GraceG

I’d take the places that have oil.


33 posted on 11/09/2016 4:18:58 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: PBRCat
And what does this mean for the press? He despises the press. His supporters joke about lynching reporters. At least I hope they're joking.

Not to worry - if we're joking we'll let you know first.

Which we didn't.

34 posted on 11/09/2016 4:20:57 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: justlurking

Donald couldn’t make an offer they can’t refuse


35 posted on 11/09/2016 4:22:21 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PBRCat

Chicago can just go and Carpe Dung.


36 posted on 11/09/2016 4:24:34 PM PST by soycd
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To: justlurking

#23. So Chicago is a blue island...

Hey, according to some jackass Democrat congressman, if we put a few more people there, it will tip over.

Chicago might have once been a great city, but now it is nothing more than a perpetual morgue for its inhabitants, except for the rich white liberals who don’t live with the “brothers” they are so concerned about. /sarc


37 posted on 11/09/2016 4:29:01 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Vendome
The Republicans control everything.

But consider that. They are Republicans. How have Republicans used their majorities in Congress or their occupation of the White House in the last 16 years? Being all Republicans offers faint hope and should not concern the lefties terribly except that the Left is about Us vs THEM even more than Ideology.

38 posted on 11/09/2016 4:30:28 PM PST by arthurus (Hillary's campaiIt would be nice if four leftie judges and Kennedy would all resgn is getting shaky)
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To: PBRCat

They still don’t ‘get it’ - - they’ll keep reading us wrong and we’ll keep winning... Life is good. Too bad there aren’t more elections coming up. We could mop the flood with these old snowflakes.


39 posted on 11/09/2016 4:38:54 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats were played for fools by their own political operatives! That's how they were blindsided)
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To: PBRCat
My editor's pacing around in a state of terror. Texts are now pouring in from friends and relatives: "I'm nervous. I'm feeling sick. I may vomit." To make it worse, exit polls say that more than 50 percent of white women voted for him. A cry from down the hall. Another editor has discovered that FiveThirtyEight updated its projection and Trump has a 55 percent chance of winning. The Republicans control everything. There are no checks and balances. Trump will fill Scalia's vacancy and all the judicial vacancies.



Feels good, man
40 posted on 11/09/2016 4:55:47 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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