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Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

June 3, 2019

58 Shot in Chicago, The City that Never Learns. City run like an episode of "The Wire."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/6/1/18648305/chicago-weekend-shootings-52-8-killed

58 people in Chicago got shot over the weekend. 44 if you ask CNN. Why they're downplaying it is another story altogether. This isn't a record. That stands at 72 over the weekend of August 8, 2018, but Chicago never learns. Watching the mayor on TV this morning, I had a flashback to "The Wire." She was talking metrics. Bullshit stats on crime. Can't scapegoat the #NRA on this one. Can't blame a gun maker. The blame falls squarely on city leadership. Liberal democrat leadership. When is the last time they had a conservative in the mayor's office? It was William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, who left office in 1931. Wait! Now I know why I channeled "The Wire" when I saw the mayor. Chicago really is just like Baltimore (and Detroit, Atlanta, Washington DC, Seattle, San Francisco). Democrats have run those cities into the ground, yet after all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over murders, urban blight, drugs, homelessness, etc., they just elect another, then another. It's Einstein's definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result). Nothing changes. Well, except for corruption and liberal privilege. That just keeps getting worse, along with the problems in the city. Why did they sweep the whole Jussie Smollet racist hoax under the rug? Why did people protest gun violence two years ago but do it in the Miracle Mile instead of where the crime is happening? Did protesting white shoppers have an effect on black crime? No. Did Rahm Emmanuel or Charles Daly or Harold Washington or any of those liberals even make a dent in the issues? No. I've seen "The Wire." Maybe Mayor Lightfoot should also.