With 77 people shot last week, it’s another pleasantly murderous autumn week in Chiraq.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot got her $16 billion budget with its focus on ‘equity’ passed. By equity, Lightfoot meant giving herself a maximum 5% raise.
Aldermen, or as the newly woke Windy City calls them, Alderpeople, got a 9% raise.
It is unlikely that Lori will ever see a dime of the pay hikes for her $216,210 salary because they’re due to kick in by 2024. No one thinks Lightfoot will be in office by then except the unions still funding her campaign which managed to burn through $607,449 in campaign funds without even running any ads. It’s another achievement in an administration filled with them.
Where is the money going? Who knows. It’s Chicago. Everyone wants a nibble and a political operation has got a lot of mouths to feed. But everyone knows where her numbers are going.
Last year, Chicago’s failed racist mayor had a 26% approval rating. Up from 16%. Only 5% strongly approved. 50% strongly disapproved. These days her approval rating hovers somewhere in the 25% range. Those are challenging numbers even for Chicago elections in which polls matter much less than poll workers and counting the votes is the real democracy.
That didn’t stop Mayor Lightfoot from announcing that she was running again during the summer. Chicagoans greeted it with the same enthusiasm as a dead rat in the gutter.
“I get angry. They say, sometimes, I take things personally. You know what I say? They’re absolutely right,” Lightfoot rambled in her reelection video.
City residents have been taking her crime wave personally. And they’re angry too.
In a true testament to Lightfoot’s talent for racial healing, even black voters are turning on her as Chicagoans of all races and creeds come together to say that they’d rather have Al Capone’s corpse as mayor..
“Lori Lightfoot has a problem and it’s interesting for a black woman to have a black problem,” a local political analyst observed.
That’s odd because according to Mayor Lightfoot, her only problem is that she’s a black woman in a racist and sexist city.
Lightfoot claimed that “about 99%” of the attacks on her are because she’s a black woman.
“Women and people of color are always held to a different standard,” she whined. And claimed that men “don’t like to see a woman assume power.”
But, nobody, including black people and women, seem to want her to assume power again.
With 5 black candidates running against her, Lightfoot doesn’t have a base anymore except the one in the mirror. But that hasn’t stopped her from blaming everything on racism and sexism.
“I don’t look or sound like any other mayor we’ve ever had before, and I’ve had to fight to get a seat at the table,” Lightfoot complained in her reelection announcement, taking the familiar aggrandizing and self-pitying tone that grated on the city throughout her entire mayoral career.
Absent from the Hillaryesque pitch is any reason why normal people should care.
The implicit message is that anyone who votes against her is a sexist racist or a racist sexist. And with polls showing her doomed to defeat, Chicago must be the most sexist racist city ever.
If only 25% approve of Lightfoot, 99% of the other 75% must be bigots according to her math.
Or maybe it’s the 3,561 “shooting incidents” in Chicago last year which makes the Iraqis in Edgewater nostalgic for their homeland. There’s the 6-year-olds being shot and 5 people being robbed in one hour. And a general sense that the city is even more broken than usual.
Beneath the bluster, Mayor Lightfoot is feeling desperate. Her $16 billion boondoggle budget refrained from the traditional property tax hike: passing the buck in the hopes of managing public anger. Like a whirligig, Lightfoot twirls through contradictory claims, from blaming State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for crime to embracing her, from attacking the police to promising to invest in more police helicopters, from claiming to fight corruption to giving herself a 5% pay hike.
In a fundamentally divided city, Chicagoans are united in being sick and tired of Lightfoot.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Mayor Lightfoot announced her racist policy of refusing to let white reporters interview her. These days fewer reporters of any color would even bother and even fewer readers and viewers would pay any attention to the latest excuses and lies.
With Lori, everything is always someone else’s fault. After a weekend in which over 100 people were shot, she complained that “we are seeing historic levels of violence” and “yet we see people in Congress sitting on their hands and not doing anything.”
After Officer Ella French was shot and killed, police officers at the hospital turned their backs to her. Her father yelled at the mayor who has tried to blame a Columbus statue for the murder of police officers.
“Get that f—— statue back before noon tomorrow or I am going to have you fired,” Lightfoot allegedly yelled at a government lawyer who had tried to negotiate a deal with Italian-American groups to restore the statue..
“You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians. … You are out there stroking your d—- over the Columbus statue, I am trying to keep Chicago police officers from being shot and you are trying to get them shot,” Lightfoot ranted. “My d— is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d— in Chicago.”
Lightfoot then convened a Chicago Monuments Project Advisory Committee which called for “artistic interventions” targeting statues of Lincoln, Franklin, Grant and Washington.
But those statues are likely to outlive the city’s racist mayor.
A whole lot more Chicagoans like Washington and Lincoln than Lori Lightfoot. And the 2023 election is likely to do to her political career what her racist mobs did to the city’s statues.
The statue of Columbus that stood proudly in Grant Park until it was assailed by Black Lives Matter racist mobs and removed by the racist mayor is still absent. But it would not be hard to imagine a Columbus comeback after she has been sent packing.
As part of her $16 billion equity budget, Lightfoot wanted to build a whole lot of affordable ‘tiny homes’ of 500 square feet each.
Next year, she can go live in one.
And claimed that men “don’t like to see a woman assume power.”
No decent politician would say that, anyone who desires power should be prevented from having it.
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
~ Douglas Adams
Awesome. Does this apply to Donald Trump and Ron Desantis, or only to Democrats?
Only to Democrats.
False choice, there are lots of applicable Republicans, but I’d say Trump and Desantis are exceptions..
Tell me a Republican that mandated vaccines, masks and prolonged lock downs while violating their own mandates? So, mask wearing for everyone and no travel except for Lightfoot, Prtitzger, Newsome, Pelosi, Feinstein, Cuomo, etc.. Tell me a Republican that weaponized the IRS, FBI, DOJ to raid someone’s home because they were a political rival? What Republican had the FBI target parents who didn’t want CRT taught in public schools?
I’m sure you understand now.
You are either too ignorant to know that all of the worst big city cesspools in the US are dominated by progressive tools, like yourself, or you just won’t admit it.
The other 25% are the queers ————
Democrats? Who and where are they? I only see minions of a depraved cult.
A woman? Seriously? Good grief.
Dont worry., she’s a Chicago democrat. With any luck, she’ll just get 99% of the vote in a 400% voter turnout.
Who are we kidding? We all know the elections are completely rigged.
That elections are rigged to tip the scales ⚖ for democrats is indisputable.
It’s rigged in many ways – one facet is that many schools are closed this Tuesday, so union teachers can work all day for the DNC.
Schools dispensed with teaching to make room for leftist indoctrination long ago – another facet of rigging.
That’s how incompetent fools like “BeetleJuice” Lightfoot keep getting elected.
I don’t know about “Beetlejuice”. Maybe if he mated with one of those bug eyed goldfish.
Just another another black fascist who’s serving the criminals and terrorists.
I know, right. Lori Lightfoot is so racist. Thankfully we’re not racist at all!
Somebody must have said Betelgeuse three times, and out came Mayor Lightweight
“I don’t look or sound like any other mayor we’ve ever had before,” but I do look like a certain otherworldly, dead character from a last-century sci-fi comedy movie…
Remind me, what Republican doesn’t allow black reporters to interview them?
Al Capone probably *would* have been a better mayor, at least until syphilis got him.
Considering her “notable” record on overseeing record increases in homicides, perhaps she would be more suitable in a new role as “Pest Control Director” where she can apply her same magnificent policies to take care of the vermin problem in Chicago.
Lightbrain is definiteloy the worst mayor in the history of Chicago
so how was she ever elected with just 25% of the vote?
She will get 100% of the cemetery vote and that out numbers the living voters
light foot is a deviant perv.
The most incompetent, dysfunctional and perverted mayor in the USA!!!!!!
She?makes De Commie O look like a Success???
Oh come on, that’s a tough competition.
I I love the way lori wants everything both ways. How can disliking lori or her policies be sexist when she’s “got the biggest D in Chicago?” And I’m a little surprised lori didn’t play the “homophobia” card.
she identifies as a man?
Maybe not openly, but she obviously does on some levels. She never wears a dress or women’s shoes, though her partner often does. She also stands like a man (like Levine, who hasn’t mastered standing like a woman). And she does brag about how big her D is (Which I’ve heard from that type before)..
And her point is?
Google provides something besides calcium on this: “There is a sole survivor… and he is miraculously unharmed.” I have something called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. It’s a genetic disorder. I don’t make a particular protein very well and it makes my bones very low in density… very easy to break.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJUICE!!
“in the comic you know how you can tell who the arch villain is going to be?”
25% that’s a neat number.
Excuses- for her lack of ability, skills and professionalism. The blame game, isn’t that what the losers do today? It’s everyone else but me. It’s the white guy, systemic racism, capitalism, homophobes, election deniers, climate change deniers, the anti-vaxed, MAGA supporters, Trump, Roe v Wade, and the list goes on.
Just look in the mirror you silly woman and ask yourself honestly- have I done everything I can to make a difference, and what obstacles to I need to overcome to take Chicago back to that once glorious mid-west City? Do something, instead of whine, if you can do that maybe you can become the celebrity you seem to think you are.
must be her good looks, sex appeal and charisma
For an orangutan, maybe.
If that is true, how did Lightfoot get elected? Or is sexist and racist now considered to be fluid like gender?
Bet she became a multi-millionaire on that $200k in 4 years
I seriously question the brain function of those 26% who still approve of this piece of dregs of humanity.
How do they manage to get that much UGLY on one person?
I wonder what Lightfoot did for Halloween Maybe hoped on her Broom and flew across the sky followed by her Flying Monkeys
I have identified as Maximus Rex for decades and the only respect I get is from my dog!