What the heck is wrong with Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot?

Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer who called looting 'reparations' dismisses peaceful protesting   What do you say, Mayor?

Thomas Lifson  "There is no doubt among those paying attention that Chicago is in crisis. Crime has exploded, with ordinary citizens living in fear of venturing out from their homes. (And, if they live in the wrong neighborhoods, their homes may be shot up as drive-by gang assassination attempts hitting neigboring homes.)

"Mayor Lori Lightfoot may try to downplay the severity of the trendline, but Chicagoans understand the risks they take merely by walking or driving on the streets as recidivist criminals are set free to wreak mayhem again and again on the innocent:

Prosecutors said Friday that a Chicago man on parole for possessing a stolen motor vehicle and on bail for possessing another motor vehicle shot a concealed carry holder during a carjacking attempt in the South Loop.

Cortez Crayton, 24, is the 45th person accused of killing or shooting—or attempting to kill or shoot—someone in Chicago while awaiting trial for a felony this year. The alleged crimes involved at least 83 victims, 21 of whom died.

"Major companies and well-to-do taxpayers are fleeing the city.". . .

‘Treat Them Like S**t’: Democrat Running For Senate Goes On Racist Rant

 Daily Caller  "A South Carolina Democrat running for U.S. Senate appeared to go on a racist tirade against white people in video footage captured by Project Veritas.

"Krystle Matthews, a state representative for the 117th district, was reportedly filmed saying white people need to be treated “like sh*t” in order to gain respect — otherwise they act like children.

“ 'My district is slightly Republican and it’s heavily white. I’m no stranger to white people, I’m from a mostly white town. And let me tell you one thing, you oughta know who you’re dealing with, like, you gotta treat them like shit, like I mean, that’s the only way they respect you.' ”

U.S. Senate candidate & Democrat lawmaker in South Carolina @kmforsenate was recorded disparaging white people & saying, "treat them like sh—." She compared whites to children that need to be kept under control.pic.twitter.com/xkvziUvFZo

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 7, 2022

When a culture separates from God, it elects leaders that produce this: 

. . ." Matthews made waves in June after another Project Veritas leak allegedly showed her talking to inmate David Solomon Ballard at Perry Correctional Institution about gaining support from gang members. Ballard was serving time for threatening law enforcement.

“I still gotta struggle to raise money for my campaign? Where the fuck is my black people with more? I don’t care about no dope money. Give me that dope boy money,” Matthews appeared to say.

Los Angeles Democrats caught on tape guffawing together as one calls blacks monkeys

Monica Showalter  "Every wonder what the most powerful blue-city ruling elites say in private about the people they virtue-signal loudest about in public?

"Wonder no more: A leaked tape of a meeting of powerful Los Angeles City Council leaders, plus a top public employee union leader, lets us know.

"Here's KTLA's report:

Two members of the Los Angeles City Council and a union leader released apology statements Sunday after a report published by the Los Angeles Times included transcribed leaked audio of offensive and racist remarks that were made during a private meeting. A third council member claimed to have no recollection of the conversation.

In the leaked audio, which was summarized by the Times but was originally posted to Reddit and remains readily available on social media, Council President Nury Martinez can be heard making derisive and racist comments about the child of Mike Bonin, the council member representing the 11th District.

Bonin, who is white, has an adopted son who is Black. In the leaked audio, Martinez can be heard describing Bonin’s son as “ese changuito,” or that little monkey, according to the Times. At one point, Martinez also refers to Bonin as a “little bitch.”

"There was other disgusting stuff, too -- a Wikipedia summary notes:. . . "

LA City Council President Resigns After Allegedly Making Racist Remarks About A Child In Leaked Audio

Democrats running fake local news sites in swing states ahead of midterms

"Six American Independent writers have each contributed to most or all of the sites in the network," Axios reported.

 Just The News   "The Democratic Party is running a string of questionable local news sites to spread messages in favor of their platform ahead of the November midterm elections.

"According to a report from Axios, the network consists of at least 51 sites across 10 battleground states, including Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

"These sites follow a pattern: "aggregated local news content and short write-ups about local sports teams and attractions — interspersed with heavily slanted political news aimed at boosting Democratic midterm candidates and attacking Republican opponents," according to the report.

"The outlet identified the relatively nascent firm Local Report as responsible for operating many of the sites, referencing the "about us" section available on each. Another organization, The American Independent, was identified as a major contributor to the effort.

" 'Six American Independent writers have each contributed to most or all of the sites in the network," the outlet wrote in its report. The American Independent is a left-wing organization owned by True Blue Media, which maintains close ties with former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, per the Epoch Times. Axios also noted TAI's funding of left-wing watchdog Media Matters for America.". . .

Biden: Exit Stage Lost

Obama couldn't speak coherently without a teleprompter, and Biden can't speak coherently even with a teleprompter.  . . . 

 Biden: Exit Stage Lost  The article is quite lengthy; this is just the conclusive thought:

. . ."A politically compromised and corrupt DOJ and FBI continue to target and harass any pro-Constitution Americans not down with American communism, and when they're not covering up their culpability for using the Hillary-Obama Russia collusion scam as part of a running coup d'état against President Trump, they're actively conspiring to foist further spurious charges against him in order to keep him off the '24 ballot.  Insidious censorship has gone so vogue under the malignant socialist State that American corporations, newspapers, "thought leaders," and social media platforms deceptively posing as defenders of free speech all justify viewpoint discrimination, language bans, and punishment for unapproved thoughts.  Members of the military, as well as huge majorities of the private workforce, are still being coerced against their will to accept experimental medical treatments and endure COVID-related crimes against humanity.  

"Biden, picking right up where Obama left off, insists on aiding our enemies in China, Iran,
Venezuela, Cuba, and elsewhere, while browbeating Americans at home for unconsciously engaging in "systemic racism" and other meaningless Marxist claptrap meant to strangle Americans' freedom, self-worth, and initiative with vindictive and morally deficient "collective guilt."  And while ordinary Americans deal with these plentiful — nay, nearly overwhelming — government-created problems, they watch as the useful dotard and aspiring dictator putatively serving as president of the United States continues to use Ukraine as a vehicle for laundering money for friendly cronies and as a playing field for tit-for-tat geopolitical warfare against Russia's Putin while nonchalantly terrorizing the globe with dangerous murmurings of nuclear Armageddon.  

"With the business of the day as serious as it has ever been, why not have a bumbling fool at the helm steering the ship of state — especially when it seems that this time around, the State is intent on driving us directly into the nearest iceberg!  It is as if we were playing Russian roulette with a hundred different life-threatening issues each day — including nuclear gamesmanship with Russia itself — and a corrupt, craven, lobotomized cretin were waving the gun at us all and repeatedly pulling the trigger.  But why should Braindead Biden care?  He gets to fly around on Air Force One, collect undeserved salutes, and prance around on the world stage as mad kings do.  He can escape from the burdens of leadership to his Delaware vacation home and lick pudding pops 'till he gives his Jell-O brain brain freeze.  For those with nowhere else to go, though, the Deep State's lost puppet sure has made a nightmare of the American dream."

May God Grant Them Freedom

 The American Catholic

This is stunning. Here is the Naser Khosro/15 Khordad intersection in Tehran, a crowded neighborhood. People chant “death to Khamenei.” The scenery speaks for itself. Watch to the end. This is beyond what the Islamic Republic has ever faced. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/BgPTLGvqnO

— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) October 8, 2022

Obama To Iran Green Revolution Dissidents: Drop Dead | Investor's Business Daily (investors.com)   "Hadis Najafi, Killed In Karaj, Becomes A New Symbol In Iran For Protest Against Hijab"

 Why Obama Let Iran's Green Revolution Fail - Bloomberg

. . .There was a chance for a better outcome. There is no guarantee that an Obama intervention would have been able to topple Khamenei back in 2009, when his people flooded the streets to protest an election the American president wouldn't say was stolen. But it was worth a try. Imagine if that uprising had succeeded. Perhaps then a nuclear deal could have brought about a real peace. Instead, Obama spent his presidency misunderstanding Iran's dictator, assuring the supreme leader America wouldn't aid his citizens when they tried to change the regime that oppresses them to this day.

Hadis Najafi killed in Iran protests, becomes new symbol of defiance

DeSantis Reveals What He Told Biden To Get Him To Cooperate After President Had Not Called Prior to Hurricane

Resist the Mainstream

. . ." The president telephoned Florida’s governor not long after the DeSantis response, according to a Daily Wire report.

“ 'Well, I’ll tell you what. I mean, what I told him is that the media was making a big deal that he wasn’t talking to me or whatever, and I told him, I was like, ‘Look, I want to work together for these people. Because these people are from all walks of life. Republicans, Democrats, they expect us to be able to put our differences aside,’” DeSantis said. “And nobody has done more to stand up to this administration than me in Florida over the last year and a half, as you know.”

“ 'But you’ve got to be willing to work together to help folks,” the Florida Republican continued. “And so I think the response from local, state, and federal has been pretty seamless. And I think that’s a testament that, you know what, we as a country can get things done when it counts.' ”. . .

Young women are trending liberal. Young men are not

When leftist personalities are introduced, notice the chorus of young female voices cheering them?

 The Hill  "Young women are more likely to identify as liberal now than at any time in the past two decades, a trend that puts them squarely at odds with young men. 

"Forty-four percent of young women counted themselves liberal in 2021, compared to 25 percent of young men, according to Gallup Poll data analyzed by the Survey Center on American Life. The gender gap is the largest recorded in 24 years of polling. The finding culminates years of rising liberalism among women ages 18 to 29, without any increase among their male peers. 

"Several societal forces have conspired to push young women to the left in recent years, including the #MeToo movement, former President Trump, rising LGBTQ identification and, most recently, abortion policy. Slower-cooking trends in marital status and educational attainment have also nudged the needle. 

"“I think there is a big generational shift that happened with Generation Z women who were really coming of age in the last five years,” said Kelsy Kretschmer, a sociologist at Oregon State University who studies gender politics. 

"The rift between young men and women may widen further. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a precedent that had protected abortion as a constitutional right for nearly half a century. The ruling has energized young women. New survey data, released this week, shows that 61 percent of young women consider abortion a critical issue, compared with 36 percent of all Americans.". . . 

Criminal Criticism; in which disagreement equals handcuffs followed by the Streisand effect

The city ought to apologize, invite him back to speak his comments, and amend the rules to comply with the First Amendment.

 Chris Bray, Substack  "This just keeps happening, and I’ll just keep writing about it.

"A 22 year-old Iowa resident named Noah Petersen was arrested this week at a meeting of the Newton City Council after sharply criticizing the town’s police department and refusing to be silent when the mayor told him to stop. You can read a local news story here, or see full video here. Here’s a TV news report that gets in most of the important action:

“ 'You are out of order, sir,” and, “Chief, escort this gentleman from the chambers.” Because he criticized the city government. I find the interrupted comment lumpy and cartoonish — more about this in a moment — but it doesn’t matter: The First Amendment protects dumb speech, too.

"The city’s rules for public comment (see Item #4) prohibit “derogatory statements or comments about any individual.” From the City of Newton’s website, here’s the police department’s Idiocracy-quality press release on the arrest:". . .See it at the link...

WHAT IS THE STREISAND EFFECT?

"The Streisand effect is a name for the phenomenon in which attempts to hide, censor, or prevent access to something have the opposite result—the unintended consequence of drawing far more attention to that thing.". . .

Meet John Fetterman: America’s Weirdest Senate Candidate Ever

                                            "The man is a literal spectacle."

 The American Spectator  "What’s six foot, eight inches, weighs about 300 pounds, wears tattoos, waves rainbow and marijuana flags, and points a shotgun at a black jogger? If you answered Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, go to the head of the class.

"Fetterman is plainly and undeniably the weirdest major party nominee to the U.S. Senate that America has ever seen. With his hoodie and tattoos — his standard attire — he looks like a biker at a bar in western Pennsylvania. In fact, indulge me with this inspired image:

"A close friend of mine, Tod, is a former police officer. He vividly recalls a 911 dispatch he will never forget: He and two other officers were called to a bar to deal with a massive hulk of a man, a prison escapee who had strewn a dozen guys across the floor and pool table. “Oh,” shrugged the giant at the cops, “they only sent three of you?” The officers sicced upon the giant a growling German shepherd named Dieter, who proceeded to fasten his jaws to the man’s testicles as the hulk resumed tossing human beings around the room.

"Fetterman looks like that guy.". . .

Fetterman is also a big-time bail-out guy. He has called for the cancellation of student debt and even aggressively campaigns for it. A hilarious ad run during the Steelers game this past weekend features a voiceover from a grumbling union worker complaining about how Fetterman wants to take money from hardworking guys who never went to college in order to bail out “blue-haired” baristas and “snowflakes” who majored in gender studies. The ad is spot on.

John Fetterman's Desperation Grows, As He Now Tries to Tie Dr. Oz to Hitler   . . ."In this instance, Fetterman shared an article from Susan Rinkunas at Jezebel, showing Dr. Oz giving remarks at a World War II museum, near Hitler's car. "Dr. Oz Stood in Front of One of Hitler's Cars at a Fundraiser and Had Jordan Peterson Call In," the headline read. Again, though, the event took place at the Lyon Air Museum and the car is there as a part of authentic history. 

Fetterman's tweet claimed that "if you're asking donors for money in front of Hitler’s literal car, then you shouldn't be running for U.S. Senate."

Your choice: The Republican...or Chuck Schumer

 If you like Chuck Schumer's agenda, go ahead and vote Democrat.  But don't think you are going to be sending some kind of independent thinker to the Senate by voting Democrat.  Whenever they get to the Senate, they will do Schumer's bidding.

  American Thinker   . . ."You might be surprised that Democrats voted with McConnell about one third of the time.  That is because McConnell voted with Schumer 34% of the time.  Those Democrats were not really voting with McConnell; they were voting with their own majority leader, Schumer, on the same votes where McConnell voted with him.

"Republicans do not have quite the same party discipline as the Democrats do.  While Democrats agreed with their leader over 97% of the time on average, Republicans agreed with theirs less than 82% of the time.  The Democrat "renegade," Sen. Manchin, still voted with his leader 91% of the time.  The Republican "renegade," Sen. Collins, voted with her leader only 63% of the time.  In fact, Collins voted with Schumer more often than she voted with her own party leader, McConnell: 70% to 63%.

"Voters should know that when they vote for a Democrat, they are getting a clone of Chuck Schumer when it comes to voting.  Maybe you find Senator Mark Kelly attractive because he was in the military and was an astronaut.  He voted with his party leader 96% of the time, even more often than Bernie Sanders and Kyrsten Sinema did.  His 96% matches that of the very liberal Edward Markey (D-Mass.).  Arizonans should know that a vote for Mark Kelly is equivalent to a vote for a Massachusetts liberal.". . .

A massive indictment of the Democrat party   "The U.S. Constitution, by limiting federal power, is designed to protect the individual citizen from external coercion.  "Man should not be in the service of society," said philosopher Joseph Campbell.  "Society should be in the service of man.  When man is in the service of society," Campbell warned, "you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute."  The Democrat party is behind it.". . .

Newsom and Biden: where can we find freedom from them?

When Newsom's constituency is composed of TV and Hollywood personalities, there isn't much thought for the rest of us drones. TD

Newsom wants to tax oil companies for soaring gas prices. It'll be a bumpy road for motorists no matter what

Gas prices rising again, Biden accountability, credibility falling again  . . ."President Joe Biden has taken every opportunity lately to take credit for the fact that gasoline prices fell for 99 days in a recent stretch.  That he did this by releasing millions of gallons of oil from our Strategic Oil Reserve, thereby endangering our future security, and ridiculously — if relentlessly — badgering oil companies for being profitable, was, of course, immaterial.

"As long as prices at the pump were going down, it was all duckies and bunnies...and all due to Biden.  But now that prices are rising again — by as much as 60 cents a gallon in some areas last week alone — the president will not take the blame.

'Biden was at fault for the rapidly rising gas prices shortly after he took office.  And he is at fault for high prices now.  When Trump was in office, gas prices were historically low, and America was energy independent.  Because of his policies.

"On his first day in office, Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline, and every day since, he has slandered, harassed, and vilified virtually every sector of the American energy industry.  All in chimerical, needless, fruitless, and impossible pursuit of slowing or ending "climate change."

"Moreover, his Executive Order 13990 dramatically increased the costs and red tape involved in the exploration, extraction, and refining of so-called fossil fuels...for any company dumb enough to engage in these endeavors.

"Energy companies are rightly asking why they would invest tens of billions of dollars in new supplies geared toward the future production of energy here at home when the Biden administration has pledged to phase out all fossil fuels within ten years. ". . .