🚨#BREAKING: Chaotic Scene Unfolds in Downtown Chicago as Teenagers Vandalize Cars and Gunfire Erupts
📌#Chicago | #Illinois ⁰ There is currently a significant police response taking place in downtown Chicago due to a large group of teenagers causing chaos. They have been… pic.twitter.com/n7xhBpsTKs
two teenagers were shot Saturday night as hundreds of youths streamed through downtown streets, prompting a heavy police response that resulted in more than a dozen arrests. The boys, 16 and 17, were among the large unruly crowd about 9 p.m. in the 100-block of East Washington Street when shots were fired, police said. The younger boy was shot in the right arm, and the other boy was shot in the left leg. Both were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where they were listed in fair condition.
On the bright side nobody was killed at that incident but throughout the city 35 were shot and 8 killed this weekend past
In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city. However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.
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Since I’m a glutton for punishment and I’m sure I’m gonna get the most unhinged, crime weirdo replies but:
I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement. It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation.
While increasingly irrelevant, the mainstream media is still a force to be reckoned with in regard to shaping opinion. Despite paywalls at many newspaper and magazine sites, revenue is down, and layoffs are up. The paywalls of course limit readership, and usually, considering what is produced by the MSM, that’s a good thing.
You probably that FTX, a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency firm that is incorporated in Antigua and Barbuda, filed for bankruptcy protection a few days after Election Day.
Oh, Election Day, is that a non-sequitur?
Nope.
The co-founder, and until November 11, the CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was the second-largest contributor to Democrats in the 2022 midterms. Nearly $40 million in SBF funds went to the Dems, most of that money ended up in three Democrat-PACs. Only George Soros, who made his fortune in currency trading, donated more to the Dems during the midterm cycle.
Bankman-Fried, often referred to as SBF, has not been charged with any crimes. Still, there are comparisons being made between SBF and Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, as well as the collapse of Enron. Bankman-Fried’s successor at FTC, John Ray III, who did the best he could in cleaning up Enron, had this to say about his new employer, “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.” Larry Summers, alluded to the Enron debacle too. “The smartest guys in the room. Not just financial error but — certainly from the reports — whiffs of fraud,” the former Treasury secretary under Barack Obama said. “Vast explosion of wealth that nobody quite understands where it comes from.”
And I believe there is a bit of the Fyre Fest hoaxster, Billy McFarland, embedded in Bankman-Fried’s mental DNA.
Notwithstanding Summers remark, there have been few if any screams of anger from prominent Democrats about the FTX ruination. I wonder why. Not!
The mainstream media coverage of Bankman-Fried has largely avoided this word–megadonor. Which is of course how the MSM reflexively labels major Republican campaign contributors such as Ken Griffin, Andy Sabin, Ronald Lauder and so many more. When I entered “megadonor” into the Google News site this morning and their names popped up. Not so much with SBF–and most of those mentions came from conservative-leaning sites such as Fox Business and the Washington Free Beacon. NBC News managed to use the word “megadonor” in an article about SBF–but take a look at the mournful headline that accompanied that story: Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall could deprive Democrats of key donor.
We used to see similar media malpractice–until bloggers and conservative journalists repeatedly called the MSM out on it–with the phrase “mass shooting” only being used when the evil perpetrator was a white male.
You know who else is almost never called a megadonor by the media?
George Soros.
Media bias is like the Hydra, a beast from Greek mythology. There are so many heads that need to be sliced off.
Things appear to be rather bleak here in the United Sates after the theft of at least four senatorial seats by the Democrats in last Tuesday’s midterm elections, along with the possible theft of some House seats. There is a very strong temptation amongst Conservatives and Libertarians to simply give up. I have spoken to several fellow right-wingers who have stated that they have in fact given up because they believe there is no hope left for the United States.
There have been many times in this nation’s past when things have been even more dire. What has pulled us through has always been Patriotic Americans who have a never say die attitude. Rugged individualists who fight the good fight against unbeatable odds have accomplished miracles, no scenario is more American.
There are many things us patriots can do to fix things before all hope is lost. It will be a long tough road. There are a great many obstacles in the way, placed there by both the Democrats and Republicans.
Most important, we need to wake people up. Social media should have been the perfect tool to accomplish this. Rampant censorship of those who oppose the progressive agenda makes waking up those in need difficult. Hopefully Elon Musk will turn things around on Twitter. I’m not holding my breath. When my lifetime ban is lifted I’ll be most surprised.
Us patriots need to work to gain more control and influence over the Republican Party. The Republican establishment is only slightly better than the Democratic Party. This can happen slowly, starting on the local level, and building from there.
We need to make sure the Republican Party does one of two things. Firstly, we need to make sure the Republicans overturn all of the dirty tricks the Democrats have used to steal the presidential and midterm elections. Unlimited mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, and massive dumps of fraudulent ballots all need to end. Until the Republicans fix our broken electoral system, they need to learn how to be competitive in the mess we have now.
There is so much more we can do before all hope is lost.
Democrats have long anointed themselves to be the compassionate party, the ultimate protector of women, children, and minorities. The media plays right along with this farce, trumpeting the Democrats claims incessantly, as loud as possible. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Democrat core policies are egregiously harmful to all those they are meant to help, and produce an unacceptable level of collateral damage. Unfortunately Democrats have a overwhelmingly large and submissive public relations department. This public relations department, or course, consists of the mainstream media and social media giants.
No Democrat policy is more harmful than abortion, which is championed as an institution to liberate women from the scourge of pregnancy and the unseemly burden of having to raise a cliild. It has been long documented that abortion causes significant emotional and psychological harm to a noteworthy percentage of women who have one. Abortion is most tragically harmful to the unborn child murdered during the procedure.
A generation of children are being brainwashed into believing they are transgender. Then the children are subjected to heinous medical treatments which include breast removal, chemical castration, actual castration, given puberty blockers, and hormones to permanently alter their bodies.
For decades progressive indoctrination has warped the minds of college students so much that half actually believe socialism is superior to capitalism. Now progressives are destroying the minds of high school and grade school students with Critical Race Theory, Emotional and Social Learning, and endless climate change propaganda.
The Democrat strategies to fight the Wuhan Flu were extremely harmful to children. School closures set the educational development of children back years. Mask mandates caused mental and emotional trauma to children. Vaccine mandates have caused far more harm because of the extreme level of side effects produced by them.
Allowing biological boys to compete in girls sports is completely unfair to girls. The vast majority of girls do not want boys in their bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers.
Republicans desperately need to go on the offensive. They need to frame the issues just as I have done in this article. They need to stop being such wooses. Republicans are far too afraid about the mean things the media will say about them.
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