Rookie Numbers.

Did Chicago quit trying? 

DNC protests have been mostly peaceful, per Chicago Sun Times.

Chicago Sun Times (August 21, 2024): DNC protests have been mostly peaceful. Let's hope it stays that way.

And on Wednesday, pro-Palestinian protesters marched peacefully from Union Park toward the United Center just as the evening’s events were about to get underway.

If you're only getting your news by Doom and Gloom scrolling on X or TikTok, you wouldn't know this. Pulling a select psy-op video off X or TikTok isn't trustworthy. Unfortunately that's the only news some people believe. Chicago Sun Times is reporting "mostly peaceful." They should know, right?

One question remains.

Who will be selected to run as Hillary's VP? 

The 2024 DNC Convention in Chi-Town is gonna be HAWT and FEISTY! 🔥

Get out while there's still time! 🤣

Breitbart: Biden ends re-election bid. Drops out of race. 

Obama appointed federal judge rules non-citizen "newcomers" have a right to carry; protected by 2A.

Newsweek: Undocumented Immigrants Have Right to Own Guns, Judge Rules.

A judge this month dropped gun charges against an illegal migrant in Illinois, sparking further debate about the rights associated with the Second Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois referenced lower court rulings in dismissing firearm possession charges against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, who was illegally or unlawfully in the United States when he possessed a handgun in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on June 1, 2020.

"The Court finds that Carbajal-Flores' criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense," Coleman, who was appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her eight-page ruling filed March 8.

Carbajal-Flores was charged under Title 18 of U.S. Criminal Code, which legally disallows undocumented individuals to possess firearms and ammunition "or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce."

Meanwhile, democrats actively seek to pass legislation that prohibits some U.S. Military Veterans from owning guns.

⏬  March 19, 2024 ⏬

NRA-ILA: Anti-gun Democrats Seek to Undermine Law Passed to Protect Veterans’ Rights.

[...] a partisan coalition of anti-gun Congressional Democrats – all but two of whom actually voted for the spending package – is now leaning on the VA to ignore or undermine the rider. In doing so, they are using the usual anti-gun tactics of fearmongering, misinformation, and gaslighting.
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The attempt came in a March 13 letter spearheaded by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), chairman of the so-called House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, to the Secretary of the VA, Denis McDonough, and was signed by 138 Democrat members of Congress.
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The claims in the letter, unsurprisingly, do not hold up to scrutiny and in some cases actually lend support to the rider itself.
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It's true that statutory law allows the VA to make a “competency” determination for the process of administering its own system of benefits. But that determination has no legal effect outside of that context. As the VA states on its own website, “The determination that you are unable to manage your VA benefits does not affect your non-VA finances, or your right to vote or contract.” This makes sense, as it is a purely administrative procedure that contains no adversarial process unless the beneficiary decides to challenge the action after the fact.

Even then, these appeals are processed in the first instance by the VA itself. And it makes perfect sense for some beneficiaries to have a fiduciary, while also legally possessing firearms. The insinuation that standards for assigning a fiduciary take into an account a veteran’s propensity for posing a physical danger to self or other is patently false.

⏬ March 4, 2024 ⏬

U.S. Senate Committee on Veteran's Affairs: After Tester Push, Provision to Protect Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights from Federal Overreach is Included in Must-Pass Government Funding Bill.

A critical bipartisan amendment U.S. Senator Jon Tester championed to protect veterans’ access to legal firearms has been included in the government funding legislation, following his call to Senate leadership to include the provision.

“It’s flat wrong that a DC bureaucrat could take away a veteran’s legal right to firearms simply because they need assistance managing their finances,” Tester said. “We need to ensure the government does not infringe on veterans’ Second Amendment rights, and I’m glad we were able to fix this unfair policy in the government funding legislation. This is a win for Second Amendment rights and for veterans who have made it clear that VA’s current practice is pushing some folks away from accessing the mental health care they need out of fear their firearms will be seized.”

Tester's bill passed, yet democrats immediately work at trying to undo it.

⏬ March 13, 2024 ⏬ 

Roll Call: House Democrats urge VA to find gun rider workaround. 

“We are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to use their power to bypass this rollback and they must do so before a single life is lost because of this legislation,” Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida said in a statement. He was one of three Democrats, including Sen. Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and House Veterans’ Affairs ranking member Mark Takano of California, to vote against the spending law.

The House members urged the VA to establish processes that would automatically seek a judicial order for veterans deemed mentally incompetent. The department should stretch appropriations from previous years out for as long as possible, which would allow the VA to continue reporting names to the FBI background check system while putting those processes in place, the lawmakers said.
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The department should also make full use of state red flag laws to report concerning behavior from veterans and educate state VA facilities about the tools available to them, the letter said.

Naperville, IL councilman asks affluent residents to house illegal migrants.

Washington Examiner: Councilman in wealthy Chicago suburb asks ‘affluent’ residents to take illegal immigrants into homes.

A city councilman in a wealthy Chicago suburb is calling on residents of his “affluent community” to welcome illegal immigrants into their homes as the migrant crisis continues to ravage Chicago.

The influx of migrants who have arrived in Chicago from the southern border is becoming an unendurable burden for the area’s resources, and Naperville Councilman Josh McBroom does not want to see tax dollars fund the transient population, according to a report.

“The public should also know taxpayer dollars are not, and will not, be used to house any potential migrants in the neighborhood. [ Not yet. - DD ] There’s been some misinformation out there.”

The needs of the migrants could rather be met by residents voluntarily welcoming the illegal immigrants into their homes, McBroom suggested.

Meet Josh McBroom.

Sounds like another Martha's Vineyard Experience in the making. 

People in affluent communities aren't already providing shelter and food to the new neighbors? Shocking! How dare they!

How many are living with Pritzker in his estate(s) and the Gov's mansion?

JB grocery shopping like us regular folk. Convincing photo-op, yes?

JB eats Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cheez-Its and Orville Redenbacher? "Why, so do I!"

Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection Bid.

Breitbart: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection Bid.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Tuesday failed to secure enough votes to advance to the runoff on Tuesday, losing her bid for a second term in office, according to an Associated Press projection.

Lightfoot becomes the first Chicago mayor to lose a bid for reelection in 40 years[.]

I'm surprised. I'd have figured the Chicago Dem Machine would've re-installed her.

Her finest moments of intolerance and rage can be viewed here.

Lightfoot's revenge: Busing illegals to Republican towns.

FOX News (Archived): Illinois mayor blasts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 'hypocrisy' after migrants shipped to 'Republican suburb'.

The Republican mayor of a suburban Chicago town is calling out Windy City Mayor Lori Lightfoot after over 60 migrants were shipped to his town and dropped off at a local hotel.
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Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, a Republican, told Fox News that the migrants are being used as "political pawns" by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker.

..."at least 30 days." Uh-huh.

Meanwhile, in Chicago - and in cities across the nation - American citizens, some of whom are Veterans, are homeless and sleeping on the streets. Where are their hotel rooms, Lori?

Who's paying for the hotel rooms? Ha, we - the taxpayers. I wonder what the condition of this Hampton Inn will look like after 30 days?

Orland Park, IL Mayor Keith Pekau warns of upcoming 2023 $0 bail.

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FOX News (Archived): Chicago-area mayor rips Democrat bail reform to let kidnapping suspects out on $0 bail.

 

In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Chicago-area Mayor Keith Pekau called out the Democratic-led state legislature for passing what’s been dubbed the 2021 SAFE-T Act, which aims to enact "extensive reform impacting many areas of the criminal justice system" at the start of 2023.

Pekau, a Republican leading the city of Orland Park, Illinois, said the 780-page bill was passed "in the middle of the night, with just 40 minutes of debate" and was purposely designed by Democrats to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023, after the midterm election knowing what it will do to escalate crime.
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[...] Pekau said he felt compelled to speak out against the 2021 SAFE-T Act. He said the legislation will allow suspects charged with kidnapping – as well as second-degree murder, drug-induced homicide, aggravated battery, burglary, robbery and arson – to be released on $0.

"We already have this problem a little bit in Cook County, where they're letting violent criminals out on low bail or no bail. And you’ve seen what's happening in Chicago with crime and how much crime has spiked because of it," Pekau told Fox News Digital. "Like that policy on steroids is what this is. And it will be completely statewide, and it's a law. So it's not like the police can do anything."

Pekau is running for U.S. House. He'd get my vote if I lived in this district.

Sanctuary City Mayor Lighfoot says it's "immoral and unpatriotic" to bus migrants to Chicago.

Breitbart: Democrat Lori Lightfoot: ‘Immoral, Unpatriotic’ to Bus Migrants to Chicago.

Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) now says it is “immoral” and “unpatriotic” for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to bus migrants from Texas to the sanctuary city.

Initially, Lightfoot balked at the migrant buses by calling them “racist and xenophobic.” While visiting a shelter last week, Lightfoot called Abbott’s buses “immoral, unpatriotic” and claimed the operation “defies the values of who we are as Americans.”

Lori is mad. Oh, when Chicago City Limits suddenly become the Southern Border she gets hostile. Well, that's not very Sanctuary City of her. Where's Teh Love, Lori?

She has no answers, no plan. Not for Chicagoans or the newly arrived Vibrant mix of potential Democrat voters. Her go-to reaction always is to defensively lash out at people. It's her only game.

In which U.S. city is a fight between two police officers likely to happen? Any guesses?

Chicago Mayor Beetlejuice is Above The Law. Unpaid traffic tickets and running red lights.

She is Above The Law!

FOX News (Yahoo Archived): Chicago Mayor Lightfoot refusing to pay speeding, red light tickets as they pile up.

Multiple police-driven vehicles used to transport Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have reportedly racked up multiple traffic tickets that have gone unpaid despite the mayor's advocacy for stricter speed cameras in the city.

Two of the SUVs used to shuttle Lightfoot throughout Chicago have accumulated three speed camera tickets and two warnings in the past month. The tickets have so far gone unpaid, CWB Chicago reported on Monday.

Additionally, CWB Chicago reported that one of the SUVs in the mayor’s fleet has a red light ticket that has not been paid and two SUVs that were previously assigned to Lightfoot’s security detail have outstanding speed and red light tickets.

One of those SUVs is eligible to be booted and impounded over the lack of payment.

As a "leader", Lightfoot sets high standards and examples for others to follow. A true role model for the young'uns.

Where's her cowboy hat? I think she should wear it all the time. It's gives her such a certain...je ne sais quoi.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Unhinged. When isn't she angry and bitter?

She seems nice. And tolerant. She must be fun at parties. Where's her cowboy hat?

H/T: 19th Ward Chicago

Rare baby photo of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot saturates social media.

"Goochie, goochie goo"...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says carjackers do what they do because they feel unloved. Head of Chicago's film office beaten by three carjackers described as, "children".

Daily Mail: Chicago film office chief appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot is rushed to intensive care after being beaten up by gang breaking into his car - as mayor says carjackers strike because they feel 'unloved'.

Kwame Amoaku, 51, was appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in July 2019 to head the city's film office.

On Wednesday morning he was attacked and beaten up outside his home, and his car stolen by 'three kids'.

Amoaku was taken to hospital where he was admitted to ICU and treated for head injuries, but is expected to recover.

Chicago police say that carjackings are up three percent, and 57 percent of those arrested are juveniles.

On Saturday Lightfoot told a forum of young people, assembled to discuss crime reduction strategies, that carjackings were because youth 'feel unloved'.

In February she blamed the rise of carjackings on remote learning during the pandemic.

The head of Chicago's Film Office was rushed to intensive care after being beaten by three car thieves described as children - as the very mayor who appointed him claimed carjackers only struck because they feel unloved. 

Kwame Amoaku, 51, was attacked twice by three people just before 8am Wednesday morning outside his home in the centre of Chicago, near the National Museum of Mexican Art.
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Chicago police reported that Amoaku saw three young men inside his car as he walked toward it at 7:46am, on the 2100 block of West 22nd Place.

He confronted the intruders, who then attacked him and fled in a gray Dodge Caravan that was waiting nearby.

Moments later, they returned to the scene, beating Amoaku a second time and robbing him, before driving off in his car.

'This AM I was attacked, beaten, and my car stolen by three kids,' he wrote on Facebook.

But were the "child" carjackers wearing MAGA hats?

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gets a haircut!

Brietbart: Chicago Mayor Blasted for Getting Haircut After Telling Chicagoans to Shut Down Shops.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot took guff Monday for getting a haircut only a week after scolding the Windy City for not shutting down “non-essential” businesses, including barbers and beauty salons.

The celebrated first openly gay mayor was pressed by the Chicago media over the haircut she got over the weekend. But Lightfoot insisted that since she is the “face of the city,” she deserves to be excused from the governor’s orders to shut down non-essential businesses as a measure to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus.

The vain mayor told the media:

    "I’m the public face of this city. I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye.
    "I’m a person who, I take my personal hygiene very seriously. As I said, I felt like I needed to have a haircut. I’m not able to do that myself, so I got a haircut. You want to talk more about that?"
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But the mayor is not exactly practicing what she has been preaching, because she has several times scolded those Chicagoans who have been seen out in public “unnecessarily.”

Last week, Lightfoot aimed at Chicagoans, who insisted on walking, biking, and jogging on the city’s famed lakefront.

“Congregating on our lakefront, to be blunt, is going to create a risk that is unacceptable and could lead to death. That is why we are taking these actions and going back and saying again: dear god, stay home, save lives,” she said after a city employee reportedly died from the virus.

Indeed, after shutting down Chicago’s lakefront, Lightfoot sent out squadrons of Chicago Police officers to stand sentry to prevent people from using the paths, sidewalks, and lakefront facilities.

Lightfoot even scolded the media for simply talking about her haircut fiasco.

It's called Liberal Privilege. It's a Perk!

SUV crashes through Woodfield Mall, Chicago. Video.

Via News Breaking (NSFW - language):

Chicago Sun Times: Video shows SUV driving inside Woodfield Mall, crashing through displays.

Ronin Diedenhofen was walking through the lower-level of Woodfield Mall Friday afternoon when he saw an unusual sight: An SUV driving through the concourse.

At first, he thought it was being put out on display. Within seconds, he realized it was something different.

“It took me a minute to register what was going on,” said Diedenhofen, 19. “I heard a loud bang; it was the car hitting one of those little trains that kids usually ride in at malls. That was like, ‘OK, that’s not normal.’”

As it turned out, the driver had rammed through a side entrance to a Sears store just a few minutes earlier, around 2:20 p.m., on the east side of the mall near a Rainforest Cafe. From there, the 22-year-old man behind the wheel smashed into one store after another before crashing to a halt, according to Schaumburg police. He was held by shoppers — including two off-duty cops — and arrested minutes later by responding officers, police said.
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Nathaniel Findlay, 21, was walking into the mall for the start of his work shift when he saw the SUV pull up to the Sears.

“He was approaching the door, and he came to a complete stop,” Findlay said. “I got a quick glance at him and you could tell real quick the gears were turning, he was thinking about it.

“And then he just accelerated right through the doors,” Findlay said. “He was not going to stop until he got inside that mall.”

Findlay went right back to his car and called his cousin who was inside the mall.

“Dude wherever you are, get down, get out,” he told his cousin. “There’s a car inside.”

Back inside the mall, Diedenhofen managed to pull out his cellphone and record much of the incident, later posting it to Twitter, where it quickly went viral.

“It was a safe distance away,” Diedenhofen said. “There was no way it would turn around and go for me, so I pulled out my phone and started recording.

“But you can even see on the video, I’m jumping back when he looks like he’s reversing, I’m not taking a chance,” he said. “It seemed like he was just trying to go for as much damage as he could.”

WSB-TV Atlanta: Man who drove SUV into Chicago mall acted alone.
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Chicago Sun Times Archived

Vacationing Chicago Mayor asks legislature for power to tax high-end professional services and big-ticket home sales.

Chicago Sun Times: Mayor Lightfoot to ask legislature for power to tax high-end professional services and big-ticket home sales.

[Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will ask the legislature] to help Chicago dig out of a $1 billion hole — by empowering the city to tax high-end professional services and raise the transfer tax on big-ticket home sales, City Hall sources said Monday.

The vacationing mayor plans to make those requests during a fall veto session, when she also will seek a Chicago-only casino gambling fix.
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Lightfoot wants state authorization to tax high-end professional services and raise the real estate transfer tax on the sale of $1 million-plus homes. The mayor once earmarked that tax for homeless services and affordable housing.

Sources said the mayor is prepared to portray those two local taxes as the only alternative to a dreaded property tax increase she wants desperately to avoid after former Mayor Rahm Emanuel doubled the city’s levy.
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[House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) said], "I just don’t see my caucus embracing either of those two concepts[".]
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Kristen Cabanban, a spokesperson for the city’s Office of Budget and Management, had no immediate comment on the mayor’s impending request.

Chicago Sun Times  Archived

Another weekend in Chicago: 10 dead, 52 wounded.

CBS News: Violent Chicago weekend leaves 10 dead, at least 52 wounded.

At least 10 people were killed and 52 others were wounded in a tragic outburst of Chicago gun violence over the weekend, according to police.
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A Chicago police spokesperson told ABC News that 19 people had been arrested on gun-related charges between Friday and Sunday evening. A total of 81 illegal weapons were seized since Friday evening.
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Police said 41 people were shot and seven were killed in the city during the previous weekend, according to the Sun-Times. 

Maybe pinhead, Pro gun-confiscation DEM presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand can fix this.

Then again, maybe not:

Washington Examiner:  Gillibrand calls the NRA is 'the worst organization in this country'.

"I think the most outrageous thing that has happened to our democracy is how much fear and division and hate has been spread. I think the NRA is the worst organization in this country for doing exactly that. They care more about their profits than the American people," said Gillibrand.

"Promoting fear, division and hate." Sounds just like the Dogma of the Democrat Party.

Gillibrand: Nice Sieg Heil, there KriSSy. All that's missing is the little mustache and a Swastika shoulder patch.

Chicago Memorial Day Weekend: 34 shot, 5 fatally.

Chicago Tribune: 34 shot, 5 fatally, so far in Chicago during Memorial Day weekend.

By Sunday evening of Memorial Day weekend, Chicago police had responded to the shootings of 34 people, five of whom died of their injuries, officials said.

CLTV: Violent Memorial Day weekend leaves 5 dead, at least 35 wounded.

I am perplexed.  How come so much gun play in Chicago, Jussie Smollett's MAGA Country?

Oh. Wait. Forget it. Blame the guns. Not Blue Chicago, where DEM demagogues and politicians have spent several successful decades combating violent crime in the Windy City. Oh. Wait. Forget that too.

Why does anyone believe "outrage" from Chicago DEM Mayor Rahm Emanuel and PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson?

I stopped listening to talk radio over ten years ago. The main reason being that no matter which Conservative talker was talking, it was the same stuff, every day, restated and regurgitated slightly different every day. Day after day after day.

I tuned in to talk radio yesterday and today, wanting to hear reactions to the Mueller Report and the Jussie Smollett story.

Not going to reference any names, but you can guess the two, main Conservative talkers I'm referring to.

Yesterday, both hosts expressed their anger over the Mueller Report, talking at great length over how much time and money was wasted by the Mueller investigation. Well, both of you gentlemen are somewhat intelligent, you knew this was coming. Why are you angry? Both hosts claim to have such keen insight into how the Liberal Mind works, yet, both expressed varying degrees of pissed-off-ed-ness.

Yesterday, one of the hosts was all bent out of shape saying there is no reason to "thank Mueller" for his report's conclusion of no Russian-Trump collusion. Who is thanking Mueller? I haven't read a single site, a single blog or any writer anywhere who is "thanking Mueller".

Today, these same talkers gave ample time in discussing that "even Rahm Emanuel and PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson are upset" over the charges dropped against Jussie Smollett.

You guys are joking, right? Or did you forget that the Smollett hoax happened in Chicago, the Liberal Grift Capital of the World?

Chicago Mayor and lifelong Liberal operative Rahm Emanual "lashes out" at the prosecutors for dropping charges against Jussie Smollett. These two conservative radio takers believe Rahm is really upset over this?

We're asked to believe that Liberal Godfather Emanuel was not aware of what would happen today regarding Smollett? Are you kidding me?

Here's what happened. Emanuel, and to a lesser degree PD Superintendent Johnson, gave performances worthy of Best Supporting Actors in a Hate Attack Hoax.

If you really believe that Rahm is, or was, surprised and angered by the charges against Smollett being dropped, you have played right into the hand of the Liberal Narrative. Chicago PD's Mr. Johnson...of course he had to be in step with The Rahm Narrative for his job and to play his role in protecting the illusion that Chicago law enforcement holds any degree of legitimacy.

You've been Pwned by The Liberal Narrative and fell for it hook, line and sinker.

And the Oscar goes to, Rahm Emanuel, for best acting in feigning outrage over a hoax. And Mr. Johnson, he did his best in a supporting role.

Seriously, you believe this guy?