What if Republicans Threatened Obama The Way Democrats Threaten Trump?

By John Kass | May 3rd, 2026

In the photo above, there is no light in former President Barack Obama’s eyes. That’s what struck me. Obama’s eyes are black holes framing his gleaming white teeth as he stares at President Donald Trump.  All you see is Obama’s teeth flashing.  I found the photo on Wikimedia Commons, after the Democrat left failed to assassinate the president for the third time in the past 22 months.

The Democrats responded to the assassination attempts by scoffing, smirking, laughing, protected and supported by legacy corporate media, and accusing Trump of staging the attempts on his own life.

But none dared stand up to the rabid  left that has tried to take Trump’s life and threatened the lives of other Republicans, from Republicans in Congress shot by an angry leftist at a baseball practice, to conservatives on the Supreme Court. And I wondered:

What would happen if Obama’s life had been repeatedly threatened with assassins failing three times in a matter of months and Republicans called Obama a fascist What if conservatives appear on late night TV talk shows to mock Michelle Obama the way ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tastelessly mocked First Lady Melania Trump, and dared say Michelle was “glowing like an expectant widow?” How long would he have a show?

Don’t think of it as some parlor game. Think of it happening right now, for real.

Would Kimmel keep his $16 million salary and perks if he mocked Michelle? Would the blue cities burn at the hands of angry blacks as the cities burned during the Democrat “Summer of Love in 2020 when the left turned the violent drug-addicted thug George Floyd into a saint?

The broken legacy media won’t address this and or dare challenge their rabid leftist subscriber base. I don’t see the Chicago Tribune and the rest of Chicago media demanding that Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker shut his Ozempically skinny lips and insist he stop inciting assassination by repeatedly screaming lies that Trump is a Nazi and Fascist?

I’m sure you can outline the issue. Three assassination attempts and they will continue because the hard left demands it.

In July 2024, a sniper tried to blow Trump’s head off on national television at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The assassin missed and took off a piece of Trump’s ear. Two months later came a second failed attempt at the president’s Palm Springs Florida golf course. And recently came that third failed attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 25th.

The above photo of Obama staring at Trump was taken by U.S. Air Force Sgt. Marianique Santos at  Trump’s, Jan. 20, 2017 Inauguration. President Trump is also showing teeth. He doesn’t appear to be all that happy.

How could he have known that  Obama had held secret meetings with his CIA and FBI chiefs, John Brennan and James Comey and others, asking them to cook up evidence falsely portraying Trump as the servant of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, as per the hysterical paranoid fantasies of Hillary Clinton.

Shortly before the photo was taken, top Obama operative Susan Rice wrote a strange email from the White House, insisting rather frantically that Obama had done everything “by the book.” Really Susan?

I’m not the only one of the opinion that the “by the book’ memo was a desperate attempt at Obama using a mindless hateful servant to cover his behind.

When Obama Began Strangling the Republic “By the Book”

 

In February, Rice warned that when Democrats again take power, there will be retribution aimed at Trump supporters. So gird your loins.

“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to, you know, play by the old rules, and, you know, say, ‘Oh, never mind. We’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you’ve violated, all, you know, the laws you’ve skirted.’ I think they’ve got another thing coming,” Rice said.

In other words, if Democrats retake power and win the mid-term elections, there will be pain. And followed by Congressionally mandatory ” Two Minutes Hate.”

As Jimmy Kimmel basks in all the attention he’s getting, has anyone had the good manners to think of Tuffy Gessling?

You’ve forgotten Tuffy?

He’s the Missouri rodeo clown banned for life for mocking Obama, daring to ask the crowd if they wanted to see another clown in an Obama mask “get run down” by a bull.

Gesseling was forced to march the walk of shame and he was banned. FOR LIFE. And he was a real clown not some buffo from Chicago who had the crooked influence peddler Tony Rezko buy him a Chicago dreamhouse while presenting publicly as some kind of virtuous political reformer.

And the great Hank Williams Jr. had an iconic song, one of my favorites,  titled Are you ready for some football? It was deleted from Monday Night Football.” He called Obama some kind of Hitler. And apparently only white male Republicans  can be called the ‘h’ word, but Obama may never be mocked that way. Never, ever.

But ESPN/ABC currently defends Kimmel for his tasteless attacks on The First Lay Melania Trump and the Trump family.

The rodeo clown ws banned for life from the Missouri State Fair and said Obama supporters threatened him.

“I’ve had somebody threaten to run me over; one of them wanted to burn the house down,” Tuffy Gessling said in an interview with Kansas City CBS affiliate KCTV. “I’ve had one lady spit in my face – called me a dirty name, spit in my face and walked off.”

 

The temptation is to find a cave and wait this storm out. But the Democrats–like their Bolshevik ancestors won’t let you hide. They will pack the Supreme Court and blow up the Senate filibuster for the sake of power. They will do anything, including dragging you out of your cave to inflict the kind of pain promised by Obama commissar Susan Rice.

Obama said he didn’t know what drove Cole Tomas Allen to try to storm the White House Correspondents Dinner. That is a lie. He’s a corrupt silky. If you doubt it, look at his eyes in the photo at the top of this column. He was at the Trump inauguration but he’d already set in motion his plots to strangle the republic by the book. And Susan Rice told you what she wants done.

It’s all in the eyes. All you have to do is look and pay attention.

 

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Comments 61

  1. Good morning John. Nice to read your work here. Thanks. I hope your health is improving.

    There’s been no accountability for any one of the many transgressions committed by the left. And there are many to be sure. I believe that any Republican who sides with the left, or is involved in the deep state, should also feel the consequences. Loss of office, freedom for decades and most of their material wealth upon conviction.

    I’m hoping to see the DOJ come to Illinois to investigate our elected reps including our governor and Chicago’s mayor for violating federal immigration laws among many other possible crimes. I want to see JB and all the Combine members marched off to prison for a long time.

    When the democratic socialist party members feel the pain of lawful consequences that’ll tone things down for a few years at least. But they’re evil, and the battle against evil won’t be over until the Son of God returns.

  2. Glad to see you back writing again, my Sunday just perked up a bit. You know what they would do, the whole legacy media and left establishment would freak out and demand blood and the few responsible outfits and conservatives would calmly [and properly] condemn it and call for reasonable action too.
    Happily, while not impossible, the prospects of the Dems wining the trifecta of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency are impossible in 2026, unlikely in 2028, and will fade dramatically after the 2030 census [and more after 2040 if I live that long]. By then, a generation of Dems will have passed out of active political life and the fever dream of packing the courts and adding two states will pass with them. Gen Z and the Alphas are NOT the millennials, trust me, I teach them!

  3. Good morning John! Nice to have a breakfast with one of your columns! Yes, the eyes matter! Jesus said “Your eyes are the lamp into your body (heart/being). So when your eyes are healthy, your whole body us full of light, but when they are bad, your eyes are full of darkness. Therefore, be careful, lest the light in you be darkness.” Luke 11:34-35. There are many more Biblical references to light in the eyes of a person. It is more than just Obama on the Democratic Progressive side of politics filled with darkness, and a few Republicans also!

  4. Glad you’re back Kasso.

    Paul Vallas deserves a chance to save Chicago. If he runs again, I will write a check myself, something I never do for any politician.

    I sincerely hope you are feeling better. You are 100% correct about the One Eyed Jack, Barack Hussein Obama, all of it is correct. You re also correct about the violence outwardly proposed against President Trump, the hypocrisy of the left, and the disdain that Democrats, especially high ranking Black politicians feel towards working people, people of faith, and the nation in general.

    The capi di tutti with the Obama scam for me was two things: Namely the bailing out of Wall Street while kicking 100’s of thousands of Americans out of their homes, and he let the Republican Governor of Michigan and Wall Street banks get away with poisoning Black kids in Flint, MI. That did it for me.

    However, although 99% of what you say is correct about Obama, Chicago and National Dems, the whole party as I have not voted for any of them in the last two elections, there is not a better deal on the red team.

    Trump was absolutely correct in closing the border, although you see there’s still no wall. I shudder to think what 4 more years of Sleepy Joe and Mayorkas would have done to our nation.

    This ICE thing was ham handed and way over the top.
    Further, he’s renewing FISA which Obama used to spy on HIM and they can spy on any of us.
    They are trying to put AI in our cars so they can spy on us and shut them off if they don’t want us to drive.
    AI pollutes the environment, wil drive up energy prices, and put our kids and grandkids out of work.
    Glyphosphate, the pesticide they spray on our food, outlawed in Europe, but totally legal here. They protect a foreign company over our own people.

    They’ve done nothing to balance our nation’s books. Even the One Eyed Jack was forced by the Tea Party to bring the deficit down, and he did, kicking and screaming. DOGE made more of a mess than anything else and they still SPEND MORE! When asked on his first term about the deficit, Trump said, “I won’t be here”.

    I won’t go into international politics because while Obama largely did the bidding of the neocons if you really look at it objectively. Biden did too. They just wrang their hands over the bombing, murder of innocents and genocide. Victor Davis Hansen writes about this Iran situation like he’s writing about the NFL. Bombing, blockades, all at the bidding of a nation the size on NJ and who are in a situation now largely of their own doing. Are Judea and Samaria and the displacement of millions really worth closing the Straits of Hormuz, and 5 bucks a gallon gas? And maybe a nuclear detonation, don’t put it past Bibi if he gets desperate. I’m sure you’ve seen the Liam Neeson Iran War movie trailer, it’s heartbreakingly funny, but true.

    He promised to make health care more available and affordable, NO
    He promised to end the wars with a phone call, NO
    He promised to balance the budget, NO
    He promised to release the Epstein files, NO
    Instead, he’s enriching himself in a way that would make the Biden Crime Family blush.

    This is what happens when you become wedded to an ideology, or a party. You must intellectually twist yourself into a pretzel to justify heinous behavior, all the while proclaiming to be guided by faith. Your hatred of the Left, while entirely justified, especially ion light of what they did to you personally and to the city and state, is entirely justified. However our quality of life here for the average working person keeps getting worse.

    In Closing, Trump let them do Covid. He shut the nation down, then when he saw the damage to the economy he wanted to reopen. However, he allowed the suppression of the negative impacts of the vaccine, he let them lie to us. He criticized CA and IL, and NY, all justified, but he never came clean on the Covid scam. How many died as a result of that shot? We may find out in 90 years.

    CBS, Tik Tok, CNN, bought by Ellison amd the installing of lightweight Bari Weiss as Editor in Cheif, any thoughts?

    1. Hmmmmmm, didn’t Orange Man call and publish pics of Obamas as apes? That’s presidential. Michelle being labeled as a guy in woman’s clothing, Barack labeled gay. Everyone knows he’s bi, not really true gay . Frequently seen early in his career at bath houses on Clark Street. Was warned to stop lest it affects his career.
      This high school behavior must stop.

      John as a reporter where’s proof Dems behind these attempts on his life. Being a progressive, leftist, queer, AWFLs etc doesn’t prove a direct link to the party.
      Was GOP behind assasinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, attempts on FDR, Truman, Wallace, etc. Wheres the hardcore proof John. The kind of proof that holds up in court. GOP in charge now of law enforcement. If they can indict Comey why not Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, Soros, etc. Where is the proof John. Aren’t reporters suppose to deal in truth, ie,check sources etc. ‘Where’s the beef’

      1. I hear ya John, but you’re drinking the kool aid, peddling a narrative that is killing us. You know it, I know it, and you want the Democrats back? Cause that’s what you’re gonna get. Had DJT, made our drugs and food safe, like RFK wanted, had he said no to Israel going after Iran, allowed Medicare to dictate what they would pay for drugs, and put a stop to this AI surveillance bullshit. he’d be at 50% favorability now. He would never get more than that. But our government is at war with is from the left and the right.

  5. I remember when my dear friend met Obama when he was a”community organizer “. She thought he was just an empty suit. Boy was she wrong. He did succeed in “fundamentally changing America “! We are a nation that is seeing the results of the change he was seeking…..totally divided! I hope we can recover. Glad to see you writing again! God bless you.

  8. John, so good to read your thought provoking column on Sunday morning. Keep up the good work, but please don’t push yourself too much.

  10. Kasso is in the house, halleleuia, Kasso is in the house!

    I am wondering John if you still have all five digits on your right hand after shaking the hand of the the community organizer future Nobel Peace prize winner at the EZ2 fire scene?

  12. I keep thinking about false prophets who are inwardly ravenous wolves. Ravenous wolves who had a meeting in the Oval where one wolf explained to the other wolves the plan of another wolf to smear a political rival was fallacious. One wolf ran the FBI, another ran the CIA, one was POTUS, one would be POTUS in the future. All false prophets. False prophets created a conspiracy that is not widely understood. The heart of this conspiracy is inspired by evil. And the eyes are windows to the soul. Excellent article, Sir.

  13. Obama and his worshippers collectively amount to the most shameless dirty fighter in the history of American politics, dirtier than Nixon and his plumbers or LBJ and his “Daisy” TV commercial.

    But this morning I’m celebrating a clean fighter, a great one, the most talented and hard-hitting survivor in the history of political writing: our courageous man staying strong in the arena, JK!

  14. Yianni,
    So glad to read another stellar essay on the worst POTUS ever. Yes, as more and more facts come to light, Barry will steadily lose his “holier than thou” attitude, for orchistrating the Trump/Russia collusion hoax…among others. He was a slime ball as POTUS, promoted by the Chicago machine, and continues his efforts to smear, demean, and otherwise trash Trump – I think now more out of jealousy than animosity. Trump has been able to do SO much more than Barry ever could, cutting waste, identifying boondoggles, deporting criminals, and calling out hypocrites that espouse socialist tripe. As we’ve said so many times, if socialism was so great, how come it failed wherever it was rammed down a populations’ throat? Let us pray our president maintains his stamina and resolve for a few more years, as we observe the light of day shining on Obama and his minions, indicted one by one!!!

  15. I don’t understand how the left can justify all the illegal activities as acceptable. They can threaten, insult, destroy and the list goes on without impunity. The worst part is that they continue to get away with it.

    I saw last night that the two individuals who physically attacked the Fox reporter in Minnesota have been charged federally, they are now victims of the right. Jimmy Kimmel syndrome………

  16. It is always a good morning waking up to a fresh John Kass column. May your recovery be strong and steady. Blessings to you and Betty.

  17. Great to see you back, John! And thanks for another great column, especially skewering that intellectual pantywaist and leftist shill. As I’ve always said, nobody’s ever looked more dapper in an empty suit than Barack Obama…with an emphasis on empty…

  18. Good morning, John! What a treat and pleasure to read your great Sunday column with my coffee! I hope you keep improving. God Bless.

  19. There is good, no, great news today. Kasso is healing and able to speak midwestern common sense to remind us what is really important. Had there been an attempt on Chuckie , Nancy or 45, we woujd be in chaos. But it’s ok for the left to do so. Such hypocrisy. The double standard is alive and well. Glad you are back John. .

  20. Glad you are back! You wrote, to me at least, a very timely column.

    We see members of Congress calling the President a Hitler. They tell members of the administration to go drink poison. They call drug smugglers people trying to “earn” a living. They studiously ignore the death and mayhem that they make. I can only imagine that when elections are held, when the new President is a Democrat and they have strength in numbers in Congress; an American “Kristall Nacht” will begin. Plain and simple.

    The only way I see is that the Democrats do not win Congress; that the voters get wise locally and do not fall for the Democrat koolaid. Don’t know if that will happen though.

    1. How many folks remember the interview Obama did with some shlub when he said he would love to be in control from behind the curtain,rather than the Oval Office ? We all saw how that played out didn’t we ?
      This is a dangerous man who showed us who he was right then.
      Why did so many rock-heads not believe him ??

  21. Wow. So many Americans thought, and still think, Bary is the the cure for their White Guilt. Gotta give credit to Barry’s handlers on knowing how to cash in on that.

  22. Grateful that you are back, John. Always keeping you in my prayers.

    I do have one question. The Democrats are continuously calling Trump a Dictator, Nazi, Fascist, King, and too many other names to list. All of this is designed to incite the unstable individual to take action to eliminate the so called “Evil” President Donald Trump by any means necessary.

    Democrats claim to be the only true defenders of the Constitution. Yet they want to achieve sole governing power by seizing Power in the House and Senate, and Packing the Supreme Court so they never have to fear another Republican in the White House, nor a Republican House and/or Senate. They would also, if their rhetoric is to be taken seriously, prefer to rid the Country of all Republicans and Christians. They push what they call Socialist values to achieve “equality”. And again I ask, what is equal about my earning a dollar and have to give 75 cents to them to “re-distribute” to those who do not care to earn money but would rather have someone else do that and be forced to “share”.

    And, alas, who would be in Power, making all the decisions as to how you live, where you live, how much of what you earn can you keep? Even, what you eat, what you are allowed to own, where you work, what your children learn and how they learn. Would those in Power be sharing their earnings? Or would they be just directing your earnings?

    Has anybody bothered to ask those who live in Socialist or Communist Countries how good they have it? Are they happy and excited at how their lives are going? Does anybody care enough to ask questions or are they just blindly being led down the path of regret until it is too late?

  23. Welcome back to the morning read, and God bless your continuing recovery. In 2017 Trump was chosen by the electorate as necessary chemotherapy to the Obama carcinogen. Its metastasis was slowed only, as it carried on “by the book.” In this term Trump has the chance to administer surgical removal of the Obama tumors of his weaponized agencies, and Bondi was not the agent to begin to deliver that. And prosecuting a malignant nerd playing with seashells is not a productive restart. There are too many bigger fish to fry, so long as any trace of the Marxist Obama government cancer remains, destroying what yet survives of our 250 year experiment in personal liberty.

  24. Thanks for your column. You put to words what’s many of us are thinking. Hope you’re recovering nicely.
    By the way for some reason I’m not getting your columns.

  25. Oh so nice to wake up to your column today, John. Will Obama ever pay a price for his treasonous acts? We can only hope the DOJ will bring forth some sunlight to sanitize this whole dirty mess that is Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, etc. They should all go to prison. Too bad the Trump haters don’t see the real problem. They continue to lionize Obama and march at rallies for “No Kings,” yet stand and applaud a real king. God help us.

  26. All these years later, in the face of everything that is wrong with our country, and you STILL can’t get past a black man who had the audacity to think he could be President. Pathetic. Is that why you tolerate racist comments and slander here John? Jumped on the Kimmel bandwagon I see, did your backside ache when Trump mocked a dead man?? When he (routinely) displays misogyny when speaking about women reporters? Doubtful. But a comedienne cracks a few jokes (5 days PRIOR to the assassination attempt..) and the angry white man crowd push themselves off the the La-Z-boy recliner and scream at the clouds. What a joke. His eyes John? REALLY? What do YOU see in the mirror?? Grievance? Anger? Bitterness? I can recall when you wrote about Obama with respect, sharing the story of when you both commiserated about your respective nicotine habits, he treated you with respect, but I guess that kind of grace wouldn’t pay your bills now, huh?

    Spare the world your mock outrage John, no greater victim than the old white guy, huh? No Doge checks, no tariff rebates, millions w/o health care, gas at 4 bucks and rising, 2 billion a day for a war no one wanted, farm foreclosures at an all time high, middle class having to choose between groceries and medication, the rise of Christian Nationalism, government censorship, Trump crime family making BILLIONS off his Presidency.

    But ya, “Obama.”

    1. John Kass:

      The blocked and banned reader, Tony Cesare, has again infected this column. Now, under his real name, not his fake alias, “Riga- Tony.”
      You blocked Tony Cesare in 2024 due to his insults and lies.
      It gets worse…

      Tony Cesare is a confirmed identity thief.

      We exposed him a few years ago after uncovering his claim on his Facebook profile that he is the “proprietor” of a bar in Mineral Point, Wisconsin: called Tony’s Tap. This is a real place.
      Knowing that it is unlikely that losers like Tony Cesare had the skills to own and manage a bar we called Tony’s Tap. We spoke to a staff member. We spoke to the actual Tony. They have never heard of Tony Cesare. Never. He lied.

      Tony Cesare fabricated the entire tale.

      Shown in this link is a screenshot of Tony Cesare’s Facebook profile that exposes his alleged identity theft:

      https://www.gardendesignquickstartguide.com/2022/09/come-for-our-durp-burger.html

      It gets worse, a lot worse…
      After we revealed Tony Cesare’s identity theft attempt in your comment section, he denied it. He stated that we had falsely created these images. The images are real.
      Commercial identity theft like Tony Cesare’s could be devastating to the real Tony of Tony’s Tap. It could potentially destroy his business.

      It gets worse:
      Tony Cesare trolled my dying daughter’s GoFundMe page. We lose her shortly thereafter.
      Please block Tony Cesare, a.k.a “Riga- Tony” again. Nobody here wants his slime to ooze from this excellent columns. The bottom line is that if Tony Cesare remains, I go.

      Every Kass reader is in danger of having their identities stolen by Tony Cesare.
      I believe that Tony Cesare is an abject loser. He is probably shunned by nearly everyone. He is desperate for recognition. He fabricated his Tony’s Tap story. And/or he is simply a pathological liar.

      I have known a few pathological liars. However, their lies do not harm anyone but themselves. People in their lives know when lies are being told. They shrug them off as, “Well, there goes Tony again.”

      He probably does not realize how easily he could have parlayed his identity scam.

      I know a man whose family owned a contracting firm in Phoenix. An employee, while working for them, borrowed hundreds of thousands in the firm’s name and embezzled every dollar. By the time it was discovered, it was too late. They went out of business.

      Best regards,
      David Pearling, a paying subscriber

      1. Spoke to an attorney neighbor, common where I live, not so much in a trailer park. 🙂 Anyway, shared your slander with him and he did some digging, turns out this ‘bar’ you reference doesn’t even exist. There is no “Tony’ Tap” in northern Wisconsin. Isn’t that funny? Then again, if there was, and they needed an owner to bankrupt them, you’d be my recco. BTW, why happened to the “R”? Peace.

        1. Tony Cesare, (or is it Riga- Tony?):
          Your lies are worn out. You have been stealing identities for four years.
          Four years!
          What has that gotten you?
          Only shame.
          We all know exactly who you are: a confirmed identity thief.

        2. Well Tony if your attorney did some digging as you say – and due diligence – then he would have pointed out to you that the present Cow Tipper’s Pub and Eatery in Mineral Point WI, was formerly Tony’s Tap in Mineral Point Wisconsin. And the undeniable truth is that you once claimed – on your former FB page – to be the “bartender, proprietor, bouncer and cook” of Tony’s Tap in Mineral Point WI. And that was clearly not true. You surely do remember that, don’t you?

          1. Ah! I see. There WAS such a place, but it’s something else now. Got it. Aren’t you a little old for this Bruce?

        3. Tony Cesare is a confirmed identity thief.

          Shown in this link is a screenshot of Tony Cesare’s Facebook profile that exposes his alleged identity theft. Tony Cesare claimed to be the proprietor of ‘Tony’s Tap’ in Wisconsin. It all here in living color: name, address, phone number.

          See for yourself:

          https://www.gardendesignquickstartguide.com/2022/09/come-for-our-durp-burger.html

          I spoke the actual proprietor, Tony Pittz. He had never hear of Tony Cesare. I talked with another staff member. She had never seen Tony Cesare.

          Apparently, Tony’s Tap in under new ownership. That’s understandable. Running a bar is tiring. Tony Pittz sounded tired on the phone.

          Imagine having all of the challenges of running a bar and also having an alleged identity theft attempt by Tony Cesare at the same time.

          That’s Tony Cesare. It gets worse. Please read:

          Following our original post of his alleged criminal attempt Tony Cesare denied it. He lied and said we created these images. We didn’t.

          Even in the comments here he said that no such place exists. When confronted, he admitted that lie. You can read his admission.

          Here are some more of Tony Cesare’s threats and lies. They are in the comments here.

          He threatened legal action for exposing his alleged identity theft attempt. He threatened that four years ago. I’m still waiting.

          He repeatedly has written that I live in trailer park. I don’t. My home is very nice condo in the San Diego area. It is 3 BD, 2 Bath in a resort-like community. We are selling it. It is listed for sale at almost $600,000. Our new will be a single-family home in an even nicer 55+ community.

          Tony Cesare has misrepresented the trailer park. Here is the story:

          In 2014 my dear friend, Karen, called me on Easter Sunday. She was in an abusive marriage in Maryland. She pleaded with me to come and rescue her. I did.

          I flew on a one-way to DCA. Her horrible husband was out of town on a long business trip. With help, we loaded all of her stuff into a Ryder truck and drove across the country to San Diego.

          At the time, largely due to my helping Karen, I gave up my place and needed a new one. Karen asked me to live with her to help her get reestablished.

          Our relationship was purely platonic. Separate bedrooms. After leasing an nice apartment for one year Karen decided to invest in a mobile. At first, I objected. The idea of living in a trailer park was distasteful.

          But I said, “Well, at least in San Diego we never have tornados.”

          Karen asked me to look at homes along with her. I was surprised at how nice the mobile home parks are. There are many. She bought a nice three bedroom with cash for $75,000. The space rental is $700 per month. Very affordable. I totally recommend it.

          After a couple of years, I decided to move along. I met my soon-to-be wife. We live in the condo described above. Karen and I remain good friends. We talk often. I am her g0-t0 handyman.

          So…who will you believe?

          Me? I flew across the country to rescue an abused wife and helped her grow new roots.

          Or, Tony Cesare…a confirmed identity thief.

          It gets worse with Tony Cesare:

          He trolled my dying daughter’s GoFundMe page. Tony Cesare knew that she was suffering from terminal cancer. He trolled a dying mother.

          Who will you believe?

  27. Great to have you back John. Good health to you always! You are absolutely correct about the Deep State politics of Obama. With his assist from our Intelligence Outfits (yes, I referred to them in organized crime lingo) Obama eagerly set into motion the events that have placed us where this country now stands. A former CIA director once testified in front of Congress about the fact that many newspapers and print media were on the payroll to push their agenda. This is obvious even as their subscription numbers tank due to the constant lies they put in print. I wonder if any ” reporters” have the ability to question ANYTHING anymore. Bloviators like Pritzker and Johnson are allowed to windbag without ONE reporter asking ANY relevant questions. Local television included. Makes me reminisce for the days of Walter Jacobson and Bill Kurtis. Love ’em or loathe ’em, they definitely were the bane of many corrupt or brainless local politicos. National media is even worse with ABC/ Disney leading the pack, with CBS a close second. Someone recently announced a boycott of the advertisers on the Kimmel show and The View. I don’t watch either channel and neither do millions of others so this is revenue these companies won’t get out of us. What needs to also be addressed is paid television ( Directv, etc.) who charges you for trash you don’t watch by bundling it in packages it then forces upon you. How quickly CNN, MSwhateveritcallsitselfNow, Oprah, The Gay Channel would die if subscribers had to pay for them as an add on. Time for consumers to wake up and START CANCELLING these companies. Boycott ABC/Disney. Don’t see anything they put out at movie theaters. Don’t use anything advertised on these channels. COST THEM MONEY. MAKE THEM LOSE MONEY. ITS THE ONLY THING THEY UNDERSTAND.

  28. Doc both of these parties are run by intellectual contortionists who have morality of conscience and situational ethics. There is plenty of hypocrisy and thievery on both sides. Two cults is what they are. Shameful is what they are. I’m shocked Kass is writing as such a mental midget after going after the Daley and Mike Madigan the way he did. He was armed with facts then, but now, it’s reduced to a group of high school kids fighting after a football game. Intellectually specious and clownish.

    Also, far left and far right are funded by the same oligarchs who own everything, the even fund the Hoover institute VDH works for and Hillsdsle College.

    Kass has stayed away from writing about Thomas Massie and the Epstein files, any negative or criticism of Trump. I realize we can get that in slot if places, but as I’ve said before, he calls a spade a spade locally, but nationally he’s take up the neocon mantle.

    Obama needs no defense. He has no soul. He was a great salesman, but was proven as essentially an affirmative action hire. He sold out his race(s), and the nation.

    Just remember; my team is better than your team, my oligarch is better than yours, theft is okay if my team does it sex trafficking is okay. Epstein died in his jail cell Kash and meathead Bongino said so, and Charlie just happened to get clipped just as he was breaking away from the Zionist lobby and their money.

    Nothing to see here!

    1. Hey folks. Its little Bobby Maitino again. You know the world’s foremost authority. Little Bobby knows everything. Trump? Bad. Obama? Bad. Republicans? Bad Democrats? Bad. Oligarchs? Very, very, bad. Everyone is bad except little Bobby himself. His sh*t don’t smell. But the truth is little Bobby is a sanctimonious gasbagging moron. In fact he is a parasite. A leach. He is a cowardly cheapskate. Afterall, an otherwise normal person with such strong opinions would take the honest path: create their own site or substack to present their arguments, rather than commandeer someone else’s. But of course little Bobby knows that if he was to do that no one would pay a dime to read his ranting screeds. Which by the way can be summed up as: “I know everything … and everyone else is either stupid or oligarchs or both.”

      1. There are a dozen mindless comments posted here, why attack Mr Maitino?? And why does this site tolerate your slander? I think you need more fiber in your diet Bruce, your less cranky when your regular…

        1. Most of the mindless comments emanate from you. Look up the definition of “slander” you fool. Me calling Little Bobby Maitino a “moron” is no more slanderous than Little Bobby calling John Kass a “mental midget.” I guess you and Maitino need a “safe space” whereby your feelings won’t be hurt. Boo Hoo. By the way, genius, I’m curious. You used to brag how you would access Kass’ site without paying. Remember? You thought that was so clever … a mark of cunning bravado rather than what it was: behavior of an ethically bankrupt person. So, did you pay this time? Or are you freeloading again like last time?

    1. Riga- Tony…
      Please tell us again about that “cheap aluminum key” you wrote about in the Downers Grove Patch.
      You know…when you lied about leaving your bicycle at a train station for an entire winter.
      Any fourth grader could have fabricated a better story.
      Here is what you wrote:
      “It was an operation I had been dreading for months. You see, last fall I rode my bike down to the station and dutifully chained it to the rack on the north side of the tracks, same as always. Unfortunately, in my haste to ride off when I got back in the afternoon, I broke the key off in the lock (%$#@! cheap aluminum key), so the bike sat chained there all winter long.”
      Nobody makes aluminum keys.
      You keep lying. I keep exposing you. Fun stuff, watching you squirm.

      1. 100% true story. I will concede the key may have been a cheap metal composite versus aluminum, but flimsy nonetheless. Their my bike stayed till I released it in the spring, my Dad lent me his “big” cutter.

        Still live in trailer park David R? Ya u do.. (:

        1. You slither out. I stomp you back under your rock. It will never stop.
          It’s wonderful watching you squirm. Just like before.
          You are obviously severely rattled by being exposed as an identity thief. We love it.
          Your same old lies are worn out.
          FYI: My home is a very nice condo in the San Diego area. 3 3 BD, 2 Bath. In a resort-like community. Several pools, hot tubs, playgrounds, tennis and pickle courts. Nearly all white. It is for sale for almost $600,000.
          What’s your home worth?
          And when is your lawyer coming? You threatened that four years ago. Still waiting.
          Did your trolling of my dying daughter take too much time?

        2. Jeez…this nitwit is back? Riga Tony, Riga Baloney or whatever he/ it /they/ them , or whatever his/ its pronouns are is still an Idiot. With a capital I…

          1. It is frightening that Tony Cesarean, abject liar, an unrepentant alleged identity thief, and a man who trolled my dying daughter’s GoFundMe page walks freely among us.
            Frightening!
            Tony Cesare knew that my daughter had terminal cancer. He trolled a dying mother.
            I am disappointed that Kass allows him.
            FYI: In another exclusive site all about him, we refer to Tony Cesare as “TTT,” Tony-the-troll. Let me know if you want to join.
            I will be in the Chicago area next week. Should I look him up?

  30. Thanks John for this eye-opener Kass column.

    I wonder if City Hall will install gun detectors at train stations to prevent more “Choo-Choo Shooters” eager to copy Cole T. Allen, who changed trains in Chicago while heavily armed.
    That could validate idiot Brandon’s parrot-like excuse that every murder is caused by “out-of-state guns.”

    Its sad Mighty King Obama is exposed as a buffoonish caricature of his former self, just as his monstrosity on Lake Michigan is about to open. Obama worshippers must show the same identification cards they claim voters can’t afford.

    Barack disgraces himself pretending he doesn’t know what drove the alleged shooter. Maybe he’s faking early dementia, in case Susan Rice, John Brennan or James Comey betray him to a grand jury.

    Acting Atty Gen Todd Blanche said “It’s pretty incredible that a leader like President Obama would say that. Actually, literally just covering his eyes to what we know is happening.”

    Democrats will demand their cult adherents follow Barack’s lead and play babe-in-the-woods after 11 years of hate speech. Everyone will pretend to be absolved of sin; harmless as Bambi and Thumper.

    After all, Illinois is where thousands of gullible dimwits were duped by Jussie Smollett into believing Streeterville is overrun by lynch mobs armed with MAGA hats.

  31. I’ve often wondered myself how the “Big Shot Investigator Goudie” never has a question about good old Jolly JB.
    Hey Chuck, WTF cares who shot Giancana? Try sticking up for the Republic sometime or are you afraid BJ might came after your job!

  32. Mr Kass, I am very proud of your maintaining the highest standards found within your literary works. The connecting of the dots, “Factual Truths”, exposing the devious patterns of misbehavior by minions bordering on, In My Opinion, RICO violations yet to be proven. Thank You so very much for once again, standing ten feet Journalistically Tall! John Pais

  33. All I can say is that the “silent majority” better get off their apathetic kesters” and turn out for the mid terms to the tune of 90+ % turnout.
    Love your columns Mr. Kass, get well, be well and keep on keeping on.

  35. Short answer to your question: we would see turmoil that would make the George Floyd riots look like a transcendental meditation session.

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