Posted on 06/06/2020 4:17:37 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this call. – Chicago’s radical Mayor Lori Lightweight, er, Lightfoot refused to allow her police department to effectively put down the mass riots that have taken place in her city over the past 11 days. She also refused to activate the National Guard to provide assistance to the police department before the rioting had done hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and resulted in multiple deaths, over and above the 50-60 murders that take place in her city every month.
Lightfoot and her city council are, to put it simply, active enemies of the people in Chicago, and as such, they are active enemies of the businesses who serve those people. They are radical leftists who care nothing about people’s lives and livelihoods, and everything about obtaining and wielding political power for their own personal gain. That is who and what they are.
So it was that she had a pretty tough story to tell when she held a conference call on Friday with leaders of Wal-Mart and other big retailers whose stores she personally allowed to be looted, vandalized and destroyed in the days since the death of George Floyd. The worthless, subversive Mayor admitted that she “pleaded” with these business leaders not to abandon Chicago. One can only wonder what her messages of assurance might have been, especially to Wal-Mart, which reportedly lost 7 stores to Lightfoot’s own mismanagement.
After the past 11 days, there of course can be no rational business case to be made for Wal-Mart or any other business with the means to get out to remain in Chicago, given that the city’s government has obviously abandoned all pretense of doing anything real to provide civic security. But of course, most of those businesses will reopen, no doubt based on false assurances from Lightfoot, only to see it happen all over again in November after President Donald Trump wins his re-election.
Because that’s coming, and it’s coming in a very big way.
Back in 2018, as the Democrat Party was actively fomenting and staging “abolish ICE” riots in Los Angeles and other Democrat-controlled cities, I wrote about America’s new reality, which is the fact that one of our two major political parties now sees rioting, looting and burning cities as just another tool of politics. Of course, that Party has trended in that direction since the 1960’s, but in modern times its leaders have become quite open and frank about it.
Think about it: Over the past week we have seen the spectacle of Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi participating in the violent demonstrations in front of the White House in which more than 60 Secret Service agents have been injured. We have had the abject refusal by Democrat mayors all over the country to allow their police departments to protect the citizenry and quell the riots. We have seen the mayor of Washington, DC endorse the riots by painting “Black Lives Matter” – the name of one of the domestic terrorist groups who have fomented and conducted the riots – on a two block stretch of 17th Street near the White House.
Even more telling is what we have not heard from Democrat leaders. We have not heard a single one of them condemn the rioting. We have not heard a single one of them disavow their support for Antifa and Black Lives Matter. We have not heard a single one of them say a word about the tragic deaths of a dozen or more black lives, including retired Police Captain David Dorn in St. Louis, as a result of these riots.
Any astute business leader at Wal-Mart or any of the other major retailers who saw their shops destroyed by these Democrat-sponsored riots would summarily reject any appeal from Lightfoot to stick around and go through it all again in a few months. But they will all no doubt do so, though, due mainly to political pressure, even as their insurance and paid security costs skyrocket, and the flight out of the city by most sane people dramatically reduce their customer base in the months and years to come.
Because Democrats destroy everything they touch, and if you’re doing business in Chicago, they’re touching you in a very big way.
That is all.
Live by the looters...die by the looters.
Food deserts...just racism!!!
Mayor Lesbo is dumber than a bag of rocks....PERFECT for the DUMBASS THUGS in Chicago!!
Bravo for your perfect insight into the DemonRAT strategy for power. While you were writing your comments, I wrote this:
These Dem mayors know that the National Guard would shut down these demonstrations. Those looters and property destroyers are wanted by these Dem politicians. They know it will kill the businesses already to the breaking point because of the COVID-19 lock-downs. They know that the anarchists, using the cover of Floyd’s murder protests, will take out the Capitalist sector. This is what the Left has wanted for decades. It wants to destroy Capitalism by destroying the rule of law required by the commercial sector.
President Trump loves our police. Police racism is, and has been, a phony issue used by the Left. It is a way to hurt the image of the police as well as Trump, who loves and respects our police.
We have seen, when people know that the police have their hands tied behind they backs, how quickly they descend into violent anarchy that destroys the business sector. The business sector is the main target. The National Guard ensures that the police aren’t overpowered and the destruction continues. These DemonRATs want the destruction to kill the economy so they can use it to hurt President Trump. It reveals their willingness to allow severe damage to people’s lives in order to get power. The COVID-19 lock-downs failed to do it and now they are pouring gas on the fire to make it happen here.
I live in a community of around 30K and if you ignore domestic and alcohol related crimes there is maybe 1 violent crime per year. Even with the very low crime the local Wal-Mart posted 500K in “shrink” or merchandise they could not account for in a one year period of time. I can only imagine what it is like in the inner city.
I don’t think Lightfoot is that far-thinking to be trying to advance Communism.
This is just a chance to tear-up the report card of failure, and to shred the IOU’s for the money already spent.
What’s inside the Walmart doesn’t really matter to her. It’s going to be all of that fresh Bread coming from Whitey to support the recovery from all this that is going to be of interest to her.
There really are two Americas. I hope the red pill is starting to work.
Pritzker and his partners in crime want to destroy Illinois so that they can personally profit. One can only hope that Karma gets to Pritzker soon, in the form of how the French Revolution turned on itself.
Those businesses will capitulate or face racism charges
The idea that the police are racists is the biggest scam in history.
Wally won’t have a problem.
Shrinkage losses are tax deductible.
That needs to end.
Sorry Lori, I choose to live in a white centric neighborhood where safety is valued and people are civil to each other.
If they don’t rebuild the burned out stores, the former customers of those stores will come to the stores in your neighborhood...not all of them, but enough to impact your local economy.
“If they don’t rebuild the burned out stores, the former customers of those stores will come to the stores in your neighborhood...”
Yes and no. According to what I read in my MBA class, when a food desert develops the people living in that desert end up paying substantially more for less quality and variety at the gas station/grocery model businesses. Sales of food items at those stores will climb substantially even though the items themselves are all substantially more expensive. I am sure a lot of this is because of convenience but some of it probably has to do with the fact the customer’s aren’t spending money they earned. They use SNAP and other programs that issue credit card style payments.
I had to stop in a food desert area for a car problem. The Korean gas/grocery store had a wall of refrigerators featuring TV style microwave food of a type I had never seen in a similar store. The Korean and his family were behind a bullet proof enclosure with slits in it. The wall outside was lined with black men leaning against it drinking beer and smoking pot. Amazingly, I was not challenged. It was about eleven in the morning. I suspect that had it been night the story would have ended differently. My buddy stopped and helped me get the antique car running again and we got away safely.
Wal-Mart and every business that can should pull out of those cities that allowed the crazies to destroy their stores.
Chicago is simply not a good atmosphere for doing business.
No doubt, a civil war is on the horizon, between those who stand by the Constitution and those who would tear it down.
Mayor Lesbo is dumber than a bag of rocks
It is a mistake to automatically think someone is “dumb” because you do not understand their reason for doing what they are doing.
These mayors may be misguided or simply just corrupt. Either way no one becomes a mayor of a large city by being dumb. They become mayor because they have someone (or group of someone) that provide money and instructions.
Bottom line, the mayor is not making these decisions, she is just the face. The Democrats have learned to use “people of color and/or woman” as the face of the party. This goes a long ways in protecting them from criticism. It is a mistake to think the figurehead is making these decisions.
If they were, at least some of them would make the sane decision to end the riots. Instead they are all following the same playbook.
Walmart should send a very public notice to da Mayoresse.
“Hope all the Walmart shoppers in Chicago who voted for you and your council enjoy only being able to get the great deals and employment from Walmart by leaving the city, or by mail order. Sorry if that takes a big bite out of your city budget’s tax revenues, but we want all your voters to know that you and the council did this to them, took from them, and now will push to raise their taxes again to pay for it.
“Granted, all this November elections will allow the voters to do is replace the defective Aldermen currently sitting with new ones, but we hope that when they do so we can return.”
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