Doing the Job Government Won’t Do

Some of the most wealthy and influential business leaders in the City of Chicago have unveiled an ambitious violence reduction plan. [Watch]

I didn’t see any demands for new citizen disarmament edicts, so have at it.

Still, I got ten bucks says throwing private reparations money at the noisiest rabble-rousers to shut them up and offering jobs to the unemployable won’t work. Any takers?

Being a billionaire do-gooder doesn’t mean you don’t live in an ivory tower– in fact, it guarantees it.

[Via 1Gat]

A Band-Aid on a Gaping Wound

Divided City Council approves $51 million in migrant crisis funding [More]

And the strongest objections come not from the tax slaves paying for it all, but from jealous entitled squabblers demanding more of the plunder for themselves.

An “improved” plan comes together.

And funny, who the most influential proponents of “guaranteed income” are

This is just one city. And it’s nowhere near enough and must be sustained going forward, enslaving your children and their children into perpetuity. Anyone questioning the wisdom or the motives is despised as a privileged Nazi…

Are you sleeping bourgeoisie?

Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue”. And I have that on good authority.

So… Black ‘White Supremacists’…?

The community meeting where people shouted ‘We don’t want them here’ and one person held up a ‘Build the Wall’ sign was a pathetic and embarrassing display of NIMBYism in a city that prides itself on its racial and ethnic diversity. [More]

As opposed to an outrageous display of arrogant elitism by privileged editorial board “progressives” who are situated above the effects on everyday people already struggling under their policies in the affected areas…

[Via Michael G]

Voting with Their Wallets

“Within 15 minutes, we had people coming in,” Krahl told the Tribune on Saturday. “There was a line outside the door before I could open up this morning. There will be no lunch today, because we’ll be going nonstop.” [More]

When voting with your ballots doesn’t work, there’s always Plan B.

And if the tyrants try to exploit that, Plan C.

Streisand Effect in 3…2…1…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal bureaucracy with a vast jurisdiction, is testing a novel approach to crime and punishment. In a lawsuit against Townstone Financial, a small Chicago-area nonbank mortgage firm, the CFPB is signaling that it may attempt to punish anyone who complains about neighborhood crime. [More]

I’m in trouble now.

Or will be if they respond to baiting

[Via WiscoDave]

Inconvenient Truths

‘Don’t demonize them’: Chicago’s new mayor-elect says it’s ‘not constructive’ to vilify group of rowdy teens that torched cars in rampage organized on social media – but condemned the chaotic takeover [More]

People who think things were intolerable under that idiot Lightfoot ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-Town.

[Via bondmen]

Let’s Go, Brandon!

[Deleted photo — from the thumbnail my mind conflated the red t-shirts with Moms Demand Action shirts. But he’s still big on citizen disarmament.]

The Windy City decided on its new mayor Tuesday after a tight race between two blues, with a progressive, Bernie Sanders-endorsed Democrat taking the keys to the Chicago mayor’s office. [More]

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-Town.

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