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2021-12-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chicago mayor who pushed $80M defund of cops now pleads for feds to save city
[NYPOST] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
 Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
 — who last year proposed cutting $80 million from her city’s police budget — publicly pleaded with the feds on Monday to bolster the ranks of her city’s cops amid a surge in shootings and homicides.Lightfoot called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to send agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the Windy City for a six-month crackdown on illegal guns.

"We cannot continue to endure the level of violence that we are now experiencing," Lightfoot said during a 40-minute speech.

"I feel the urgency every day."

The desperation move made Lightfoot — who’s said she opposes the "defund the police" movement — the second big-city Democratic mayor in days to announce dramatic steps to restore law and order as crime spirals out of control.

On Dec. 14, progressive the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
 Mayor London Breed — who last year pledged to shift $120 million from the city’s law-enforcement budget to social spending — reversed course during a speech in which she vowed to end "the reign of criminals who are destroying our city."
Posted by Fred 2021-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 Good Lord! Gangs are gonna eat the feds up! They are picked for their affinity to go after the Left's political opponents on the Right not deadly gangs such as Chicago's Black Disciples, etc. etc. etc. ...
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-22 00:43||   2021-12-22 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 The chaos was the whole idea from the beginning. Thus making people miserable and creating more recruits for the hard left.

They cannot win when people are happy. They have to create misery. Yes, this is in their literature and is not a secret.
Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2021-12-22 02:25||   2021-12-22 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Fuck them. They voted for this, now they can live with it.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-12-22 09:18||   2021-12-22 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 ditto darth
Posted by Chris 2021-12-22 10:05||   2021-12-22 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Ha! Wat goes around....
Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-22 10:13||   2021-12-22 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Lightfoot called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to send agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the Windy City for a six-month crackdown on illegal guns.

...and not the people using them?
Posted by Raj 2021-12-22 10:38||   2021-12-22 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 And like all Democrats, she takes a dump and wants someone else to clean it up.
Posted by Raj 2021-12-22 10:39||   2021-12-22 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 Lightfoot called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to crack down on illegal guns.

Da Ferret gon' hunt down dat bad ol' Gun Violence and bite his ass good - jus' you watch
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-22 10:56||   2021-12-22 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 ...and not the people using them?

Of course not, silly! It's called "gun violence", not "interpersonal people shooting each other violence". Once we get rid of all the guns, everyone will magically become nice.
Posted by SteveS 2021-12-22 11:18||   2021-12-22 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Gun Violence Descends
Ferret Rises
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-22 11:20||   2021-12-22 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 832 Homicides so far in 2021. Also, somewhere about 1000 opioid related deaths.

There were 974 homicides back in 1972.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-22 12:46||   2021-12-22 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Why do liberal cities keep electing *freaks*?

I can pretend to understand why liberals elect liberals. But some of these people don't even function well in their own lives and have no business in a leadership position. Why do white women and some white men have no discernment when it comes to these matters?
Posted by Crusader 2021-12-22 15:01||   2021-12-22 15:01|| Front Page Top

#13 crusader

actually in many cities the choice is between nutzoid lefty vs corrupt lefty

that was the case in Chicago in 2019

next mayoral race in Chicago is 2023, Police Union chief John Catanzara is currently planning to run

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-22 15:08||   2021-12-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#14 let them eat each other
Posted by Chris 2021-12-22 16:03||   2021-12-22 16:03|| Front Page Top

#15 A good start to saving Chicago would be for Lightfoot to resign. However, IMO Chicago has been under Dem corruption for too long to be saved.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-12-22 16:41||   2021-12-22 16:41|| Front Page Top

#16 If tomorrow morning she began to swim from the Oak Street beach to Holland Michigan, I'd be impressed. Anything short of that, forget it.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-22 16:46||   2021-12-22 16:46|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ With that peripheral eyesight she oughta come up with some fish too
Posted by Frank G 2021-12-22 20:31||   2021-12-22 20:31|| Front Page Top

#18 This was all part of their plan. I have said it all along. She defunds the police. crime goes up. The feds take over the police department, funding means ownership. Now the city does not pay and the fed have a model for federalizing local police...
Posted by 49 Pan 2021-12-22 21:11||   2021-12-22 21:11|| Front Page Top

#19 The Story of Lori, or, Angles and Dangles

As if from the brow of old Zeus
There sprouted a pole and... a noose?
No, omen of doom, go!
What glowed in the gloom
Was the cold golden egg of a goose.
[snap snap snap]
Posted by Shusolet Panda3990 2021-12-22 22:19||   2021-12-22 22:19|| Front Page Top

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