Trigger Warning

By Steve Huntley

Sept. 20, 2023

This and that. Some thoughts on politics and current events. Trigger warning: Coming up are a few views that may prompt outrage and deep hurt among those especially sensitive souls who are easily offended.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is considering having the city open and own a supermarket to, according to one news report, “promote food equity” in poor neighborhoods.

One question: Given Johnson’s affection for and forgiveness of criminals, will the checkout lanes for payment be marked “optional”?

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These two things happened within days of each other:

  1. Another Democrat prosecutor filed a fourth indictment against Republican former President Donald Trump, who, among other charges, is accused of falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
  2. Russian President Vladimir Putin brought down by bomb or missile a plane carrying Yevgeniy Prigozhin, killing the head of a mercenary army who had staged a brief mutiny against Putin’s conduct of the Ukraine war.

Democrats will cry that there are a thousand-and-one differences between these two occurrences.

And that’s true.

But it’s also true that the people in power in Russia and the United States have gone after their chief political opponents by every means they think they can get away with.

Unprecedented doesn’t begin to describe the decision of Democrats in the Biden administration and in New York and Atlanta to try, for the first time in our nation’s history, to throw a former president in prison.

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All of the criminal indictments against Trump came down in time for the 2024 presidential campaign season. That’s just a coincidence, right?

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None of the accusations of stolen votes in the 2020 presidential election made by Trump and his admirers has stood up in a courtroom.

They will get another chance to fight their cause before the bar. The makers of the film “2000 Mules”, True the Vote, are being sued by Georgia officials for ignoring a subpoena to back up their claims that “they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes.

The group also is being sued for defamation by a Georgia voter depicted in the film as committing “a crime” by putting ballots into a drop box.

What are the chances that this time at long last an allegation of stolen votes can survive a court challenge?

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Here’s a question for all those only-Trumpers who insist the Republican Party must nominate the former president again in 2024:

If Trump is nominated, what happens to hopes for Republicans winning enough votes from independents to retake the White House once he is asked  and answers this question: Will you respect the outcome of the 2024 election?

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The Supreme Court decision overturning the Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling was credited with angering women and sending them to the polls in 2022, killing GOP hopes of a red wave in that off-year election. It was a big surprise, embarrassing all the pollsters and political pundits.

Is illegal immigration bubbling up as the surprise election issue for 2024? Protests against the economic burden for taxpayers and the excesses of illegal aliens are being heard — loudly — in blue states and sanctuary cities. Then there’s the fentanyl smuggled across the border, in one case ending up in a daycare center in New York, killing one toddler and sickening three others.

Watch for progressives to perform propaganda gymnastics to try to explain away their open-borders fanaticism that is pouring oil on cities already in flames from rampant crime.

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Democrat Senate Majority Leader, the late Harry Reid of Nevada, arrogantly paved the way to eliminate the judicial filibuster thus ending minority rights in the Senate.

The abortion decision is one of several high court rulings restoring constitutional principles to American governance and education. These rulings have so outraged Democrats that they are out to undermine the independence of the judiciary by any means they can get away with. Predictably, they voice fury at Donald Trump for the appointments of three conservative justices responsible for these rulings.

As usual, Democrats have got it wrong. Their ire is misdirected. The credit, or blame, for those Trump Supreme Court justices should go to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). He was the one who blew up the Senate’s judicial filibuster, a procedure that had given the minority party an important and at times even a determinate voice in approving high court picks.

Back then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Democrats they would come to regret Reid’s wrecking ball, and sooner than they might think. He was right.

Now Democrats have embarked on politically motivated criminal prosecutions against a former Republican president. That’s a precedent they may regret, and maybe sooner than they think.

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Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry against President Biden over accusations of influence-peddling in collusion with his son while father Biden was vice president to Barack Obama.

In its long history, this country has seen five impeachment stories. The first impeachment, against Abraham Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson, came within one vote in the Senate of kicking him out of the White House.

The second, an impeachment inquiry against Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, never required an actual impeachment vote or Senate trial. As the evidence against Nixon mounted, Republicans in the Senate told him that an impeachment in the House and a conviction in the Senate were sure things. Nixon resigned.

The three impeachments since then — against Presidents Clinton and Trump — were, by comparison, trivial matters, political show trials that had no hope of conviction in the Senate.

But at least those political prosecutions were based on events that occurred during the Clinton and Trump presidencies. Now Republicans are going after Biden for something he allegedly did as vice president.

Do Republicans really want to establish a precedent of starting impeachment inquiries against presidents for things they did in the past when they were not president?

If so, they may come to regret it, and maybe sooner than they think.

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Chicago appears nowhere near to growing weary of its ugly crime wave. The city only a few months ago elected Brandon Johnson as mayor, even though every voter knew he was committed to a soft-on-crime agenda.

So far this year, crime is up 30 percent over 2022, reports the Wirepoints weekly crime tracker. And Chicago recorded 204 murders during Johnson’s first 100 days in office.

To the mayor, the juvenile delinquents who trash and loot stores and turn city streets into nightmares of unrestrained menace are mere youths with nothing better to do. In his words, “it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.”

Cars are being stolen because a couple of auto makers produce vehicles Johnson deems easy to steal. So he sues the two automakers.

Blame the victim is Johnson’s mantra. Should sexual assault victims start worrying that the mayor may start looking at how short their skirts may have been?

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The crime plaguing Chicago and so many other cities is overwhelming under-manned police departments. And police officers are demoralized by elected officials who scapegoated them in the wake of the Black Lives Matter riots that erupted following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Here’s a thought about that event:

George Floyd would be alive today and ingesting his favorite illegal drugs if he had not tried to rob a Minneapolis merchant by passing counterfeit money.

George Floyd would be alive today and contemplating new crimes if he had not disobeyed orders from police arresting him.

No, that’s not excusing any police abuse during his arrest.

It’s simply recognition that Floyd initiated the chain of events that led to his death. Breaking the law and resisting arrest constitute risky behavior that exposes a criminal to the possibility of unforeseen peril. That’s not saying he’s primarily responsible for his own death, just acknowledging that Floyd was not without blame for his death.

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The last Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of Floyd was sentenced last month to four years and nine months in prison. The crime alleged against Tou Thao: Exercising crowd control around the Floyd street arrest, which was characterized as having “stood by and allowed it (Floyd’s death) to happen” and preventing others from perhaps helping Floyd.

At his sentencing, Thao declared, “I did not commit these crimes. My conscience is clear. I will not be a Judas nor join a mob in self-preservation or betray my God.”

That took guts. And the mob remark surely does describe the atmosphere surrounding the arrests, trials and convictions of the cops held responsible for Floyd’s death.

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Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of killing Floyd based on video of Floyd’s arrest that is damning. A jury found that Floyd died from police abuse, Chauvin kneeling on his neck, and not the fentanyl in his system that greatly exceeded what is usually a lethal dose.

That conviction is being appealed by Chauvin’s lawyer to the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds Chauvin was denied a fair trial because of the notoriety and rioting surrounding the case.

The rioting caused the jurors in the case “to all express concerns for their safety in the event they acquitted Mr. Chauvin — safety concerns which are fully evidenced by surrounding the courthouse in barbed wire and national guard troops during the trial,” said Chauvin’s lawyer, Bill Mohrman, in a statement.

Was Derek Chauvin railroaded into prison to prevent a return of the 2020 Black Lives Matter rioting to American cities?

We’ve seen a number of disruptive demonstrations by environmentalists complaining about fossil fuels. They’ve blocked roads. They’ve tossed soup and paint onto great works of art in museums. They’ve glued their hands to trains and roads.

What’s common to these tactics is that they inconvenience folks trying to go about their lives or enjoy the world’s great cultural treasures.

How to respond to these disruptions?

Let them know how much their approach alienates you. Drive your car aimlessly for a half an hour or more. If it’s air-conditioning weather, turn down the thermostat a couple of degrees for an hour. If it’s cold, turn up the thermostat.

Let them know their demonstrations disrupting your lives will result only in more fossil fuels being burned.

Every time one of these protests makes life miserable for us, the conservative network of broadcast, cable and web sites should erupt with calls that it’s time to burn some extra fossil fuels. Let them learn disruptive protests are self defeating.

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The accusation of misogyny gets tossed a lot around today, usually aimed at conservatives. But the biggest, most serious, most far reaching misogyny these days is the trans movement’s drive to destroy women’s and girls’ sports.

The most widely known and infamous example is Lia Thomas, the man turned trans woman who took over the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team to deny championship trophies to female swimmers.

If the conservative side was anywhere near as savvy in street theater as the left wing, Thomas and other trans women dominating women’s sports would not be able to appear in public without being greeted by chants of “Show us your vagina! Show us your vagina!”

Back to the Trump indictments. There’s talk of prosecutors pushing for a trial of Trump within a matter of months. Justice for American democracy demands it, say prosecutors.

It’s been more than two decades since the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and brought down the Twin Towers. Yet there’s still been no trial for the jailed five jihadist terrorists responsible for that atrocity.

Where is justice for American democracy in that?

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Steve Huntley, a retired Chicago journalist now living in Austin, Texas, has contributed other pieces to johnkassnews, from an examination of the secret jail for Christopher Columnbus and other politically problematic public art to an essay on Americans suffering from Joe Biden gas pain.

For almost three decades Huntley spent most of his career in Chicago journalism at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was a feature writer, metro reporter, night city editor, metropolitan editor, editorial page editor and a columnist for the opinion pages.

Before that he was a reporter and editor with United Press International (UPI) in the South and Chicago, and Chicago bureau chief and a senior editor in Washington with U.S. News & World Report. Northwestern University Press has issued soft cover and eBook editions of Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America by Truman K. Gibson Jr. with Steve Huntley, a memoir of a Chicagoan who was a member of President Roosevelt’s World War II Black Cabinet working to desegregate the military.

Comments 39

  1. Outstanding article, focusing on a number of important points! And all of these items are backed by the liberal media! Something I’ve noticed since Brandon Johnson took office is that we no longer hear the numbers of the weekend carnage in Chicago anymore. No totals on the number of shootings or killings are being reported by anyone, lest they make dear Brandon look bad.

    1. BLM Brandon has no experience in running a business. His ridiculous idea of a government (Communist) run grocery store shows his ignorance and how out of touch with reality he is.
      Brandon has absolutely no respect or concern for law abiding taxpaying citizens.
      The police don’t have it tough enough without letting criminals with rap sheets a foot long out with no bail.
      The libs are determined to destroy Trump, prevent his running and winning the election. They obviously will stop at nothing. We are in for a dangerous and long fight.

      1. I think his idea of a government run grocery store is great. Remember those pictures of the grocery stores in the Soviet Union … with “miles and miles” of empty shelves? I can hardly wait to see the exact same thing here in Brandon’s Shop Rite. And then watching the amusing show as Brandon does verbal gymnastics trying to explain why empty shelves really are OK and we need more (not less) of the same.

  2. “Will you respect the outcome of the 2024 election?”

    Why is it that only Conservatives have to respect the outcome of elections?
    Lefties are apparently free to challenge and condemn elections the Republicans win, but can’t afford that right to your opponents.

    Yeah, that’s fair.

  3. Wow, great column!!
    I agree, I noticed the same press coverage of Brandon. The honeymoon needs to be OVER.

    Side note, my husband is a police officer and this “no bail” that started 9/18 is going to be catastrophic.

  4. I am changing my mind on impeachement of Brandon aka Joe Biden. If this is about what he did when he was VP, it has not risen to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. There are other stuff he should be impeached for while in office like his opening the southern border and wan on fossil fuel but they are not “sexy” enough to command the attention, so the next best things are in order: 1) Pray diligently and consistently for our country that the people and leaders will REPENT and turn to God 2) NOT nominate Trump to represent the GOP in 2024 election (too much “baggage” 3) vote in 2024 like you life and future depends on it because it might.

    1. slight modification, i mean to say not risen to the level of high crimes and misdemeanor while President. He is a terrible person and President, however what he did as VP should not be tried to remove him as President. If more comes out I may revise that opinion, eg if he did things as President to obstruct the investigation of what he did as VP. I support the inquiry though as that will uncover any “high crimes and misdemeanor” he may have done as President.

    2. Biden is not running in 2024, Newsome is in the batter’s box. If /when that happens, DeSantis would be the only counter force. Trump WILL lose. DeSantis should immediately pardon Biden, Trump and Hillary, so we can get back to some level of sanity, and Hunter and Jim Biden, along with fauci and Birx, should feel the whole weight of the justice system.

  6. This is the first column to raise the issue of impeaching a president for conduct that occurred before he took office. The closest infraction was Biden’s repetition during his debate with Donald Trump of the conclusion of the 51 former intel officials who said the material on Hunter Biden’s laptop “had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation,” though they qualified that opinion by saying they had no evidence of it. Then the question becomes is it proper to commence an impeachment inquiry when it’s not proper to impeach? The justification is that it will give the Republican investigators more tools to obtain information about Biden’s conduct. But (1) it’s not clear that they’ll be able to enforce the new subpoenas they issue (this is always a problem when the other party controls the DOJ); (2) there’s little or no reason to believe that there is a spillover to policy from the acts (including taking of bribes) the Republicans are investigating, and (3) there’s no chance that the Senate, with a Democratic majority, would vote to convict even if the House sends it articles of impeachment.

  7. Mr Huntley. As usual an incredible, detailed, intelligent, and accurate portrait of life today. Sucks, doesn’t it.

    As for Brandon Joe. Instead of impeaching him for issues as VP, how about the other “I” word…as in indict. Wouldn’t that be more in line with the crime for the time. Then when or if (of course not likely) then do your impeachment for being a criminal. We all know that wouldn’t happen, would it, as the would mean using the justice system for “political revenge” and we can’t have that. Hmm, where have we heard that ??? Certainly if one side could do it, why not the other ? Because that is not the CURRENT (screwed up) so called “ American Way”.

    As for Brandon Brandon. Well all that can be said there is “you get what you pay for”, I guess.

  8. Excellent column. Much food for thought. Tribal politics at its best. “Russian Dusinfirnation” hah. How about Dem/DOJ Disinformation. BLM riots costing huge sums of money and peoples livelihoods, yet where is the real Justice for those crimes. CRICKETS. Critical Trump be tried with all speed yet the 9-11 masterminds are yet to be tried and if found guilty executed but wait…. What about those Iranians who received “clemency” in this multibillion cave to ransom five execs. And just who are the two that wish to remain ANON?
    My bet is the USG has made that call because it could be just a tad problematic. Please Steve snd John keep asking the questions and holding folks feet to the fire.

  9. Excellent article Steve. One word that sums it all up perfectly is “ consequences “.
    Everything we do has them, both positive and negative. Unfortunately, we are facing the negative consequences of our actions or inaction right now. We have to do better. The floggings will continue until morale is resumed.

    1. Maybe you live in Wisconsin (as I do), yet refuse to recognize the election effects of leftist government worshippers who cluster tightly around Milwaukee and Madison. Here’s a clue: That ideological self-segregation makes it hard to control the state legislature, and wailing about its consequences is just dumb. Maybe you get your “Republican dismantling of democracy” and “highjacking of voter decisions” nonsense from the latter-day Pravda of The New York Times and Rachel The Expert in Russian Collusion and Vaccine Effectiveness. In either case, your troll fantasies will never work here.

    2. When the Democrats don’t get their way, they shed crocodile tears for our democracy. I suppose only Democratic Party woke orthodoxy is considered democracy. Any deviation from Party scripture is heresy and undemocratic. Democracy for thee but not for me, right?

  11. Great column Mr. Huntley. You are skilled and sensible. You write without the emotion that skews our host as he felt compelled to walk away from a job he loved and is seeing a city that he loves being slowly turned into Beirut.

    As for Trump, I totally agree. Outside of this echo chamber where fools defend him, he should be easy to beat at the ballot box. He’s so outrageous and ignorant. It’s just that the Democrats have sold out to the donors and actually do t care about the people whom they profess to live so much, yet only give them platitudes and virtue signaling. It’s the dem corruption and hypocrisy that enables the whackos who embrace Trump to gain and keep power.

    I’ve been maintaining a need for a sane alternative and implementing true reforms that would break the grip of this corrupt corporate duopoly that rules our once great nation.

    I saw the Republicans are actually talking about raising the min wage and are proposing, albeit slowly, sensible immigration reforms. Maybe they can gain some traction with these things.

    Trump would go along with something that is popular and would earn him praise.

    I always thought the Dems were dumb as they could have gotten many th8ngs from him if they just buttered him up, celebrated him and indulged in his narcissism.

    Look what they gave him with Covid and they barley had to do any of that. The dems are hopeless, both of these parties are shams.

    No one will tell the unvarnished truth as there’s no money it it. They are all political whores, to quote Sean from Elmwood Park. He’s spot on about that.

  12. An excellent column today. Sad that it’s the VERY small minority that causes all the problems. I didn’t realize that blacks only make up 15% of the American population yet they commit 70% of crimes and when a cop does anything to stop them it’s the cop that’s villainized. Johnson is only adding fuel to the fire by defending those roving juveniles as bored kids. They’re taught that their actions have no consequences. So sad.

  14. In a fine article, Huntley touches on the problematic issue of impeaching a president for crimes committed prior to the presidency.

    But there’s a relevant “ex post facto” aspect to the many millions of dollars sucked up by the Biden family business — which produces no product or service other than political favors — from China in particular. I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere, but it’s referred to in the Constitution as giving “Aid and Comfort” to “Enemies,” and is identified by an old-fashioned term: treason.

    Like the George Floyd case Huntley dares describe in some detail, treason is complicated. But it sure seems to apply to activities managed for at least seven years by the lazy, greedy, muddled politician who is now technically our president.

    Take a look at the Constitution’s Article III, Section 3, Clause 2, and at the history of previous applications. None of those historical, arguably treasonous activities are as blatant as the those of the Biden family business, and such crimes have no statute of limitation.

    1. David, Biden’s lousy poll numbers only affirm the fact that even casual observers are not thrilled with his performance, his apparent infirmities of aging, and his obvious corruption.

      The problem is much of the shenanigans, the influence peddling, insider trading, quid pro quo, etc., is either legal, so hard to prove, or ignored by the political class as they all benefit from it.

      I see what has become of the once vaunted “squad”. They’ve all taken the money and shut the hell up. They push for nothing they’ve campaigned on. Just as the so called Tea Party sold out their supporters. The money is too enticing and the lack of accountability only makes thievery that the likes of Biden, McConnell, Pelosi engage in easy for them to do. They only have to throw crumbs to their respective bases and just keep the donors happy.

      The polarization also has made the public numb. Many of the readers here accept Trump and his idiocy because the other “side” is an existential threat. Just as the wokesters endorse the absurdities the Dems pull, outlined by Mr. Huntley and Dr. Lipson, because the supposed existential threat Trump poses.

      Can we at least get back to discussing real issues? We need political reform yesterday. We need to wrestle control of the government away from the corporations and the oligarchs. Things have only gotten more out of control since Citizens United. Term limits and strict ethics rules with harsh penalties are necessary and essential.

      Let’s keep arguing about these two buffoons who are running for POTUS and keep sending incumbents back to Congress because they’re on the team we cheer for like stupid sports fans.

      What passes for political parties is likely the least truly representative of the populace in the last century. The grift and graft that is allowed to continue is obscene. The denial of the left and right of the corruption and greed in their own midst is cultish.

      But let’s keep arguing. If only we vanquish the woke. It will be all good.

      1. Robert, that’s a shrewdly independent-minded and substantive comment. I’d say it demonstrates how the best commentary website of jkn deserves the best reader responses.

        I especially enjoyed your (sarcastic) “Let’s keep arguing about these two buffoons who are running for POTUS and keep sending incumbents back to Congress because they’re on the team we cheer for like stupid sports fans.”

        For what it’s worth, here’s a light reflection on that same subject:

        https://curveballcommentary.com/2023/06/30/twelve-experiences-even-more-horrible-than-another-horrible-trump-biden-election/

  15. Mr. Huntley, the only triggering your article led to in this house was cheering. Keep writing – we’ve enjoyed your work since we first saw it many years ago in the Sun times.

  16. Well that article packed a punch!
    Excellent writing and points laid out perfectly.
    As much as I enjoy the works John Kass and his fellow columnists such as yourself I’m always left aghast and question how did we get here? Thanks for all you do.
    I must not question too much as the thought, and feeling police will surely come for me.
    What I find the most egregious is those in power thinking I am stupid, I didn’t see what I saw, I and I didn’t hear what I heard. Don’t even get me started on diversions.
    Thank you for a great column.

  17. If you repeat a lie it soon becomes the truth. Someone on this forum states that Trump has too much baggage and is not electionable. I have heard this from the print, television, social media and the Democrats for the last eight years and no one yet has told me what exactly the baggage is. Any shit that was thrown at him from these outlets has failed to stick, yet the constant throwing has succeeded in convincing weak Republican voters into believing he must be guilty of something. Of what I ask? What is the “luggage”? Trump and his family have been under constant attack from these outlets yet none of these rumors, lies and innuendo have been proven to have any basis in truth. But if you throw enough shit at someone something has to stick. Arrogant? Yes.
    Temperamental? Yes. Outspoken. Yes. American Caesar. Will not bend the knee. Trump has had “baseless” attacks led by “insurrectionist” Democrats who have constantly pushed “big lie” theories about Trump. All of the media, in lockstep have used these terms usually at the same time. Repeated. Constantly. 24 hours a day. Over and over again. See? If you constantly use loaded bullshit terms to describe someone they soon become the truth. You learn to believe. You’re accepting the indoctrination being pushed upon you. You’re getting played by the media and you don’t even realize it. If you don’t know who the mark is in the poker game then IT’S YOU.

  18. The foreign influence peddling is the crux of the impeachment inquiry. The potential for that corruption to be behind much of what can only be described as Biden’s inscrutable and unwise foreign policy decisions is basis enough for its exposure and mitigation. It is directly relevant to his current office.

  19. Burn more fossil fuels in response to disruptive and idiotic climate protests? Brilliant. The point will be lost on most of these protesters, though. For many of them, it has nothing to do with fossil fuels or even climate change. Rather, it’s about virtue signaling and moral preening to showcase their righteous superiority. Narcissism defines them.

  20. First sub par article on the John Kass blog. Of course it is from a former journalist. But even with this steaming pile of word salad nonsense (e.g. an impeachment inquiry of Biden’s possible influence peddling and bribery should not be done because it was before he was the president) John Kass’s blog postings are still must read!

  21. 1. Almost all these comments are about Biden -Trump! while this article is mainly on Mayor Branden Johnson.
    2. At the beginning, I donated $50 to Brandon Johnson’s primary campaign hoping he will dislodge the lesbian who had snatched the title “Sin City” from Kenosha, Wis for Chicago.
    3. Johnson campaigned for LGBT and Vallas for Pro-Choice! What a bunch of losers!!
    4. However, I offered the Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy $1000 if he could find a Bernie Eptan to run for Mayor. Yet, not only him but the white voters like the commenters to this column disappointed me. And now we got Brandon.

    However, on March 28, 2023, only a few days ago before the April 4 election I wrote the following to the Chicago Tribune:
    “Brandon has been playing well to his base. He avoids saying the word (Police) that his people hate most and says he will go to the root cause of the problem, instead – Which means pumping more money into the cause! Next he says what they would love to hear most – that not only he would not increase tax on the citizens but would tax the rich (corporations that do business within Chicago), instead – which would make them flee the city one by one. But that’s okay with his voters. In short, he has been telling everyone what they just want to hear!”

    And then of course, Tribune wouldn’t even bother to respond.

    _Nambi

  23. Steve, your “will the checkout lanes for payment be marked “optional”” comment on the mayor’s planned government-run grocery store was coffee-thru-the-nose hilarious.

    I worked for in the corporate office of a major CA grocery company at one time. In order to maintain a presence in theft-prone (😉) communities, stores in those areas were budgeted to lose money, and were only closed once they reached a negative profit margin threshold. It will be interesting to see if the Mayor accounts for expected shrink in his proposed business plan.

    Maybe the Mayor can bring Kasso in as a consultant, given John’s experience with his family’s business.

    ‘Ya up for it, John?

  24. The George Floyd situation is an odd one. I am not convinced that he was being choked because of the crimes he had just committed. Chauven, the police officer, had the same girlfriend as Floyd, and they worked at the same bar in Chauven’s off hours. There was probably a personal dispute and romantic problems going.

    Doesn’t excuse Chauven, and of course, Floyd’s precarious physical condition could be a major contributor to his demise. But the narrative that this was some systemic police brutality is ridiculous when Chaven and Floyd had a long history, and some deep seeded personal issues going on.

  25. Illinois sleep walks. Nothing triggers a vote for change. Governor Graf Zeppelin gave Manteno to Red China and BLM Brandon is creating his very own 51st Ward. The 19th Ward is stopping a new Dollar General. Everything is just Jake!

  27. Ah, the factual truth, what a pleasure to peruse this prose. It’s nice to know that with only a click of a mouse one can still obtain the facts on just who benefits. Thank You.

  28. I have been to many fentanyl OD’s, they all had the look that Floyd had in his eyes. Just watching the video, I am convinced Floyd was dying the moment he was found. Any person near him at that time would have seen him die, whether it was on the ground or on a lazy boy with a bag of chips watching a game on TV. The crowd, BTW, stopped EMS from reaching Floyd because they were violent and throwing threats at the police…so every crowd member is more culpable than the police officer.

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