Chili Ron Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Howdy, Seems looting is really in this summer. According to the am news the looters bring uhaul trailers. Seems some looters got cut on broken windows. They will probably sue the merchants for not having windows that break into safe pieces. And do they have to call ATM ATM machines? Dont they know what the M stands for? Unarmed shop owners couldnt defend their stores. Equal opportunity looters took every thing from donuts to diamonds. Da mayer didnt want Trumps help so..... Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 They picked a nice area to loot. Quote The Magnificent Mile is Chicago’s premier commercial district. The vibrant, bustling area is home to upscale shops, luxe fashion outlets, cool restaurants and posh hotels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 That mayor is totally useless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Chicago's woke leadership is determined to show how leaderless and spineless it can be. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 What's with this "woke" business? Wha'd they supposedly wake up from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 14 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: What's with this "woke" business? Wha'd they supposedly wake up from? I don't know from what but what they got looks like comatose to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: That mayor is totally useless! Have you seen her??? She could bluff a buzzard off a meat wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patagonia Pete Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 They just raise the drawbridges ... cause looters can't carry loot and swim too ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Patagonia Pete said: They just raise the drawbridges ... cause looters can't carry loot and swim too ... That will work until someone realizes the money paid for scrap metals and steals the bridges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Mayor Lightloafers has the decision making skills of a toddler on a sugar high. If you click on the attached link, you will see that while she vacationed in Michigan during the last weekend in July/August 1, she made another brilliant decision. She pulled Chicago Police from patrol and answering calls to GUARDING HER HOUSE. At least 3 neighborhoods had only ONE beat car available for calls. With an already understaffed agency. https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2020/08/here-we-go-again_5.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 "Don't bait us!" That being in translation, "Don't you dare question our policies that encouraged riot, looting, and vandalism!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 You would think all this would spell the end for this city government, and the state one as well. It is simply failure, pure and simple, and you can add in incompetence, and the new progressive way of socialism. However, considering the past city/county/state governments, they all may get re-elected. That old familiar adage comes to mind. The definition of insane is doing the same thing, over, and over, and over again, and expecting a different result. I think this may fit this situation pretty well. I wonder how much it will take to finally cause the public to wake up? Perhaps they are in a coma. W.K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 13 minutes ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said: I wonder how much it will take to finally cause the public to wake up? Perhaps they are in a coma. For 40 years and more the American people have been force fed the idea that the State (government at any level) is supposed to Do Something!!! about everything and that the people are just along for the ride, just let the State handle everything. Couple that with the pandering and promises of free this, free that, free almost everything and too many people have fallen into the settled habit of voting bread and circuses for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Well I do believe you nailed it Joe. I guess no matter how bad something gets, if someone is gaining something off of it, then they will support it, regardless if it is a good thing, or less than a good thing. That is really sad...and worrisome as well. That mindset is not good on any level. W.K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Just to be fair, we must also acknowledge corporate welfare. Around here, hundreds of millions of tax revenue is lavished on “private” enterprise belonging to the politically connected. That diversion of revenue is made up in increased taxes on the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylan Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 It's all narrative and/or branding - the facts do not matter at all - rational thought does not matter at all. If something "bad" happens it is always always the fault of the bad guys, and the bad guys in Chicago and urban Illinois is anyone except the Democrats. Therefore no matter what happens and no matter who or what objectively may bear responsibilty, people will find a way to blame someone or something so long as it doesn't attach blame or responsibility to the "good" liberals, Democrats, etc.... and blames the "evil" conservatives or Republicans. So most will never "wake up" or change their minds as their minds are already made up and they will believe literally anything so long as it supports their favored narratives. If you even try to truly discuss facts, information, etc... you will be shouted down. Name called, branded a racist, a sexist, part of the evil patriarchy, a nazi, a fascist....... Nothing will make people angrier who have sold their soul to a narrative than to have that cherished narrative challenged by facts. They will cancel you by defriending you on social media, seek to have you fired from your job, seek to have you banned from social media, and in some cases even physically seek to intimidate or harrass you. The only thing I have found now that can even make a dent are memes. People can get caught by a sudden picture with a brief pithy phrase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 "What's with this "woke" business?" im wonderin on that myself , seems to me weve seen all this chit before [if your around my age] nothing new - revealing - enlightened about it , just criminals getting good press for breaking the law and good folks getting criminalized for trying to defend their lives , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Watab, I don't know your age, but I've had front-row seats for more than my share of this stuff. Not limited to, but including: Several Black Panther demonstrations, including during Huey Newton trial (just a bus window between me and them, en route to job at Oakland Naval Supply Depot). We were told that if Huey was convicted, the BP's were going to start shooting. 1968 - 1969 Oakland's Castlemont High School race riots. I took a brick to the back of my head the morning Dr King was killed. Literally left for dead. 1969 - Watched as a crowd of 30+ black students attacked a single, "nerdy" white kid walking to the school. He lived, but spent months in hospital. Messed up for life. 1969 - 1970, '71 San Francisco State College riots. I have to admit, those were entertaining - loved it when Dr Hayakawa had the sprinklers turned on! 1971 - On a bus (7 Haight) en route home from work after midnight - bus window shot out - missed, as I just lowered my head to read. Corner of Haight and Fillmore; demonstration in progress. Never did know what they were protesting. 1979 San Francisco - "White Night" riots. Getting home from work was dicey. 1992 San Francisco - Rodney King riots. Getting home from work was dicey. Many other "demonstrations," with "peaceful demonstrators" smashing windows, burning, vandalizing. I actually got to be pretty good at slipping away to safety - kinda challenging, sometimes, coming out of a Bank of America high-rise office building in a suit and carrying a briefcase. Totally unreal stuff. I'm a California native, but was pretty much raised in Texas. Talk about culture shock! DAMNED glad to be away from the Bay Area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Mosby Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 What I'm hearing this morning is that BLM is loudly proclaiming that there is no looting, it is reparation!! Therefore there are no crimes being committed. We need to stop asking if things could get anymore out of control. The animals are taking it as a challenge!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Social stupidity is contagious. It's spread from the Left Coast to the Loop. Where will these fires flare next? (That was rhetorical, if it was an actual question I'd use the crystal ball my boss never did issue me but he still thinks I have!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 While Chicago's south and west sides remain in turmoil. Mayor Larry personally took a contingent of police and park district workers to close a beach and shoo away beach goers that were "too close." https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-montrose-harbor-closed-chicago-police-lightfoot-20200809-4wpgd43mgfbrvnprudbxcnlvzu-story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: "Don't bait us!" That being in translation, "Don't you dare question our policies that encouraged riot, looting, and vandalism!" She calls it ‘baiting’. Most people call it, ‘holding elected leaders accountable’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 9 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Just to be fair, we must also acknowledge corporate welfare. Around here, hundreds of millions of tax revenue is lavished on “private” enterprise belonging to the politically connected. That diversion of revenue is made up in increased taxes on the rest of us. If I run a private business, and a municipality, desiring to attract business and jobs (and as a result a revenue stream for years to come) offers me tax incentives to move my business to their city, I have every right to accept. That is not "corporate welfare"; it is not a give-away program, or a free ride. I am obligated to deliver on my promises to hire and train, and to center my business in said city. If you are unhappy with that deal, express your dissatisfaction in the voting booth next time your mayor comes up for re-election; but don't fling dung at businesses who take up these public offers and deliver on their promises. And if your elected officials are entering into shady deals without adequate return to the city, that is either malfeasance or criminality, and bears investigation and prosecution. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 YA’KNOW?? The thought just occurred to me!! These crudballs running Chicago and, by default the Illinois government, are now wearing masks!! They are bandits, thugs, and criminals and the masks just reinforce their hubris!! Now that they are wearing masks, they are certain that they can get away with ANYTHING, right or especially wrong, with impunity!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patagonia Pete Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 12 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Just to be fair, we must also acknowledge corporate welfare. Around here, hundreds of millions of tax revenue is lavished on “private” enterprise belonging to the politically connected. That diversion of revenue is made up in increased taxes on the rest of us. Wait a minute! Let's not drag professional sports and their stadiums into this thread!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said: If I run a private business, and a municipality, desiring to attract business and jobs (and as a result a revenue stream for years to come) offers me tax incentives to move my business to their city, I have every right to accept. That is not "corporate welfare"; it is not a give-away program, or a free ride. I am obligated to deliver on my promises to hire and train, and to center my business in said city. If you are unhappy with that deal, express your dissatisfaction in the voting booth next time your mayor comes up for re-election; but don't fling dung at businesses who take up these public offers and deliver on their promises. And if your elected officials are entering into shady deals without adequate return to the city, that is either malfeasance or criminality, and bears investigation and prosecution. LL That's how it's supposed to work, but it doesn't. Too often the promise is not realized and businesses don't deliver. At least not in my area. I live on the Kansas side of the state line in Kansas City Metro area. For years, tax incentives have been offered to companies to jump the state line and relocate from KCMO to Kansas and vice versa. AMC Theaters got $47 million dollars to move from downtown KC to Leawood, KS -- a distance of 10 miles. No new jobs were created, no employees moved anywhere. Only their commute changed. A local Walmart, located in a subsidized shopping area (called an enterprise zone) was offered $51 million to move 1.5 miles down the road to a different suburban entity. Again, no new jobs. Just to be clear, these "enterprise zones" are created in upscale suburbs where there is no blight. One such shopping center, the Mall of the Great Plains was created with much fanfare and public investment. It lasted a few years and now sits vacant. Harley Davidson opened a brand new plant here with heavy public investment and is now closed, long before its public investment was paid off. I could water your eyes with more examples. The problem I have with these arrangements is there's no clawback. If the company doesn't perform, there is no enforceable penalty. There are tens of thousands of self-employed people like me in this metro area who collectively contribute millions of dollars to the local economy, yet we don't get a dime. So yeah, I'm little peeved about it. And just so you know, I do bend the ear of local officials and I do vote. Might as well be howling at the moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 26 minutes ago, Patagonia Pete said: Wait a minute! Let's not drag professional sports and their stadiums into this thread!! You got that right. That's a whole 'other topic on which to vent one's spleen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Unfortunately, as long as the cemetery vote exists, you will never get rid of those bums in Chicago and adjacent Cook Country. My Dad and Mother were staunch Republicans, but since they, and my grandparents and all the rest of my relatives now "reside" in Oaklawn Cemetery, they all "vote"...well, you know! Chicago was a pretty good place to live and grow up in...in the 1950's. Seeing what's going on now just makes me sick to my stomach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 8 hours ago, Clay Mosby said: What I'm hearing this morning is that BLM is loudly proclaiming that there is no looting, it is reparation!! Therefore there are no crimes being committed. We need to stop asking if things could get anymore out of control. The animals are taking it as a challenge!! De-fund BLM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I always thought BLM stood for Bureau of Land Mismanagement! Frankly, the way things are going, if SpaceX had their Starliner ready to land on the Moon, and the price was about what some airlines charge, I'd buy a ticket! Stop the world! I wanna get off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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