D J Giles:Just a minute. You’re selling horses to Maximilian in preference to your own country’s army?
John Henry Thomas: No, I’m selling horses for $35 in preference to 25.
The Undefeated 1969
There are a lot of really stupid arguments being made by a lot of people who think they’re very smart concerning what this election comes down to.
But for all the idiocy that’s being spewed by “experts” let me break it down to one simple thing.
The best fish in the city of Fitchburg Massachusetts is at the 5th Street Diner. This has been true since they opened in the year of the great Ice Storm. It was true when Ed and Tina ran the place as husband and wife and it’s still true now that they have broken up and Tina works the morning and Ed the evenings. No matter how you slice it they have the best fish and chips and I would highly recommend it to anyone.
But if you want to understand what his election is all about I can’t think of a better example then the fish and chips at the dinner.
Four years ago when Donald Trump was president I could go down to the 5th street diner and get my fish and chips and a diet coke with a ten dollar bill in my pocket (they don’t take plastic)
When I got the same meal today four years later, it cost me a $20.
Not many people these days know that the British Empire was the driving force behind ending the vast majority of global slavery.
Slavery or de facto slavery was standard practice throughout the world from the dawn of civilization until a few hundred years ago. It is even… https://t.co/HQjCz4Hago
The points “Thinking West” are making are absolutely correct and true.
The Objections and grievances of the Irish & India are also correct although in India’s case it should be pointed out that poor Indians didn’t do much better under native rulers
The point being there is nothing wrong with acknowledging both the positive and the negative aspects of a country’s history. When you ignore one or the other you insult history and you paint a false picture.
Or do you want a VP who is willing to go into the den of the lioness and beard her in her own den in front of millions or however many people actually watch ABC?
The city’s leftist mayor, Brandon Johnson, who lives in Austin, was in London in advance of Sunday’s Chicago Bears game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Although he later backed away, slightly, from his statement, in 2020 “Branjo” called defunding the police “a political goal.”
As you’ll see, the looters are so casual in these videos as they unload the U.P. freight cars, it’s as if they calmly enjoying a visit to a suburban pick-your-own pumpkin patch. They’re not hiding their faces; they’re not covering up their licence plates. One enterprising criminal even brought a cargo truck to speed their 100-percent discounts along.
The mass thievery was so vast that commuter rail traffic on those rail lines was suspended for hours.
Society is rotting in Chicago–as well as suburban Cook County, because we have had a pro-criminal George Soros-funded so-called prosecutor, Democrat Kim Foxx, lackadaisically enforcing the law for that last eight years. Thankfully, she’ll be out of office in two months.
Criminals don’t fear getting caught in Chicago–and if they are–only those accused of the most heinous crimes are locked up to await trial. Since last year, courtesy of JB Pritzker’s SAFE-T Act, cash bail is banned in Illinois.
The Chicago establishment media, TV stations are an exception, are shameful. They minimize rampant criminality, calling it “a perception problem.”
On Facebook, an hour after the brazen looting, a Chicagoan on Facebook, a self-described “entrepreneur,” was advertising a back yard full of widescreen televisions for sale. As of this writing, 5:00pm EDT, those TVs are still for sale on the social network. Facebook doesn’t seem concerned. It’s a good thing this “entrepreneur” isn’t claiming that masks don’t work against COVID.
Then again, maybe it’s a coincidence that the “entrepreneur” is selling those televisions. But there are a lot of “coincidences” in America’s third-largest city.
NEW: ‘Entrepreneur’ JP McQueen posts an ad for TVs in Chicago just one hour after dozens of TVs were stolen off a freight train in Chicago.
At least 30 people looted a freight train yesterday, stealing TVs and other appliances.
So far only six people have been arrested for allegedly participating in the Great Chicago Train Robbery. Where were the Chicago Police on Friday? It took the cops over an hour to arrive to the West Side rail yard. ABC 7 News’ traffic chopper showed up much more quickly. Where was Union Pacific’s security detail? Just a thought, but U.P. may want to investigate their West Side employees. I suspect that this heist may have been aided by a tip from someone working in that freight yard.
There have been other thefts of U.P. trains in Chicago recently.
Finally, where are the decent Chicagoans?
There are some, right?
John Ruberry regularly blogs just north of Chicago at Marathon Pundit.
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