By John Kass and the readers of JohnKassNews.com

Wednesday Dec. 3, 2025

In every human endeavor, there is the possibility of conflict. Some like chicken, some like steak. Also, who doesn’t like hot dogs the Chicago Way?

And that’s just when one family selects a menu.

Multiply that by thousands.

“How do you choose just one candidate from the ever-growing list of clowns??” Eileen McElligott Ahlstrom asked when I opened up the nominations for this Golden Moutza of November.

How do you choose just one? You ask for help from your friends. That’s why I’ve changed today’s byline to include all of you.

”Oh goody!” writes Sheila Kelly Ames. “Great comments will abound!”

And if they’re not all that great, well, we know who to blame. (Just not me).

Patrick Moran:

“I nominate everyone who forgets to say “nah” at the end of their picks. “NAH”

Yes! So many great nominations ruined by forgetting the Nah!

What’s wrong with people?”

Yes Patrick, I fully agree. What’s wrong with these people? It’s so damn heartbreaking. How many excellent Golden Moutza of the Month nominations ended up on the ash heap of history. Plenty. But who can say?

Some made good arguments for Gov. Phat Boi, but every time I see his face I’m compelled to lay off the carbohydrates and read another X post by Ted Dabrowski who is the last hope for Illinois. And others demanded the Seditious Six Democrats who are desperate to undermine command authority and seed sedition in the U.S. Military.

I have a response: Frog march the leader of the Seditious Six, Sen. Mark Kelly (retired naval captain) back into active duty, so we can see if the Uniform Code of Military Justice still applies at his courts martial. Because this left wing nonsense of trying to lure some 18-year-old U.S. Marine into an act of sedition is evil and wrong. Let me see you laugh Senator.

John Stryker:

“Seditious Six easy”

 Eileen Priest:

“It might be time to elevate many of these Chicago, Cook County and Illinois nominees to “Lifetime Moutza” status just like they long ago did with the “Best Dressed” award.”

Yes I know that many of you are consumed with the attacks on the Venezuelan drug boats–the left wing corporate media stepping over and ignoring the 100,000 young Americans poisoned by China made fentanyl– and other topics.

And I keep seeing the image of poor Bethany Magee, the innocent young woman burned alive on the CTA as a repeat violent offender Lawrence Reed, (72 arrests) screamed:

Burn alive Bitch!!! Burn alive!!

 

Weitzel, “This photo should be etched in your memory for the next time the Mayor, Governor, or any elected official tells you the situation is an ‘isolated incident’, because it’s not!” @BobFiorettiChi @CWBChicago @FoxNews @MorningAnswer @John_Kass @Wirepoints @ilpoliski pic.twitter.com/dlcIBgHVaL

— Chief Thomas Weitzel-Retired (@ChiefWeitzel) November 30, 2025

Tom Weitzel, the retired police chief of Riverside, Illinois came on the Chicago Way podcast as a guest with me and WGN producer Jeff Carlin to talk about the horrific case of Bethany Magee.

Laura Jellings Shields

“The Liberal 6 who are telling military service members to disobey their commanding officers. Feesa etho! Nah!”

Well done soldier.

Jennifer Zenda:

It’s a hard choice. There are two. Is it Judge Theresa Molina-Gonzales for letting Lawrence Reed out for the umpteenth time on monitored release after he had already injured a caregiver at a mental facility recently? Or is it Governor Commodius Maximus and the leftists in Springfield for even thinking that the SAFE-T Act would work, let alone making legislation that allowed this moronic DEI judge to let him walk around? We are clearly getting to a point where it’s impossible to pick just one. Nah to all of them!

Fred Butt:

I’m a perennial nominee of our very own Jellybelly Pritzker.

But it’s disgusting to watch more and more innocent victims from his Progressive policies that he and the Dem Socialist including BLM Brandon, open the jails Tony Tony, beat his wife speaker Welch, get your Staffer robbed at your office Harmon.

Not report crime because crime is down Trib, Sun Times and the rest of the Clown Show Chicago Media.

As illegals and repeat criminals kill and maim innocent victims like Katie Abraham, Bethany McGee, Mike and Gail Clayton , Darcy Brunner Megan Bos

Plus all the illegal CDL’s issued by this same administration.

Bob ‘Ski’ Waniski

I nominate fatso Pritzker for his being silent on the killing of the National Guardwoman and maiming of another.

Clarence Totleben

I nominate the usual 3 Prekwinkle, Johnson and the governor of Illinois. The jails are empty, the schools are terrible and the people of Cook County pay the highest taxes in the nation. Innocent people are being murdered and they just watch.

Dennis Ryan

How about the Tennessee Democrat running for the House who says she hates her city (Nashville)?

Craig Lofgren

John Kass you need another award as there is nothing more stupid, moronic or just plain dumb then JELLY BELLYS Safe-T act….you know the one that let’s criminals free on bail so they can set people on fire on the CTA… blow on it.

Martin Ruffner

The citizens of Illinois who voted for Pritzker and his state killing policies.

Diane Puetz

It’s got to be the combination of Preckwinkle and that useless garbage Judge Teresa Molina Gonzalez, although Gov. Toilets for that horrendous Safe T act and Mayor Conehead for being useless as always deserve nominations as well.

Nancy Himmes

I nominate Toni Preckwinckle for all the reasons you put forth in your “How a City Dies…” column of 11/23/25. It being Thanksgiving I don’t have the time to go into details, but as you so succinctly stated – she is behind all of it. Feesa etho! NAH!

Nancy, yes she is behind it. And I will hound her to the gates of hell.

Joe Malez

Have to go with Judge Theresa Molina-Gonzales for caring more about diversity, equity and inclusion over the safety (not to be confused with SAFE-T) of law abiding citizens of Chicago. Hey Judge Molina-Gonzales, blow on this. N’ah!

Rod Walpole

The sedition six. They all have CIA backgrounds. The CIA playbook for overthrowing a government includes disrupting military command and control by civilian authority. Remember the “Russian Hoax” letter about the Hunter Biden laptop signed by the 50 former DOJ employees? This is version 2.0. 

Frank Poggio

Judge Theresa Molina Gonzales. But here is a more ambitious one, which goes right to the heart of the Left. Ken Burns, for his misleading American Revolution documentary, which takes numerous swipes at George Washington, because, OMG, he owned slaves.

Jim Tilson

Mr Kass my bad on the name, but Nominate the Shat for Brains Chicago Judge who released Convicted Felon that burned the young CTA female rider, NAH!

Susan Kunz Hood:

Judge Molina-Gonzales, the DEI queen. There is no contest this month. NAH!

Jeanne Schneider

Michelle Obama for all the hair trauma.

Bill Isaacson

I nominate Toni Prieckwinckle, the Supreme PuppetMaster who, always behind the curtain, supplies the cast and puts them in position to ruin the lives of Crook County residents – all the while watch over the top of the curtain and never taking the hit for the chaos she creates! NAH … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy6Ad021qFk

But then I’m reminded of what that grand Irishman, Speaker Tip O’Neal said or perhaps it was the Chicago bartender, Mr. Dooley:

All politics is local.

And that girl Bethany Magee was burned alive. She’s suffering. And DEI Judge Teresa Molina Gonzalez let the psycho Lawrence Reed walk, though he’d been ARRESTED 72 TIMES as the Cook County State’s Attorney and others pleaded to keep Reed behind bars. “I can’t keep everyone in jail just because the State’s Attorney wants me to,” the judge said.

You sided with this animal against the law abiding. And Bethany Magee clings to life, Judge Gonzalesz. You disgust all good and honest people, you DEI scum. You shame yourself, your family and the Puerto Rican people.

Nah!

Blow on this.

And I promise you that I’ll keep bringing it up again and again and again until you and your DEI boss Toni Preckwinkle finally pay a price for what you’ve done, using anarchy and violence and lawlessness to destroy Chicago, my hometown. And Bethany Magee’s life has been forever shattered.

Nah!

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