At today's "listening session" in "honor" of Black History Month, Trumpito the Cheeto Pepito took yet another opportunity to talk about a city he doesn't fucking understand - Chicago.
via Chicagoist
Now, enter Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who is a scumbag in his own right, but not quite on the same level. He held a press conference today, and in response to the aforementioned, said:
Now, Emmanuel is not the guy you want solving these problems. If you don't recall, he pressured the former "top cop" to keep footage of Laquan McDonald being shot by the police under wraps until after the mayoral election. But Emmanuel is also notoriously flippant about shit like this, so he may have just said that out of exasperation.
Either way, as a Chicagoan, shit like this gets me exceedingly nervous. We already have a police force guilty of countless infringements against the constitutional rights of our citizens. How much longer is it going to be until we have "special task forces" doing "whatever it takes to keep our streets safe?"
There's no doubt that Chicago has problems - anyone who lives here will admit that. But what we don't need is goose-steppers with fascism boners cracking heads. We need to rebuild the infrastructure on the south and west sides that leaves people with no way to commute around town for jobs. We need schools with actual resources so that we can bring up our graduation rates and get these kids into college. We need to fix the income inequality that allows for dozens of new development projects in the Loop but leaves countless neighborhoods without a fucking grocery store. We need to reverse course on the purposeful segregation taking place so that no matter your background, you can move to a "good area."
And again, make no mistake - this obsession that Trump has with Chicago has nothing to do with our homicides. If Trump was worried about murders per capita, he'd probably be focusing on the 10+ cities that are worse off than we are. He has our city's name stuck in his teeth for two reasons:
1. President Obama called Chicago his home, proudly, and Trump has an obsession with him.
2. Chicago kicked his ass out when he came here on the campaign trail, and he got scared.
Make no mistake. This is not the last we hear about this.
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UPDATE - 2/2/2017
Why does he keep saying "gang thugs?" If you're in a gang, you're a thug. If you're a thug, you're in a gang. What are these non-thug gangs? Who are these thugs who don't have gangs to call home? Can someone get Shifty or D-Money on the line to help us set the record straight?
Anyway, here are some tweets from the guy with his finger on the pulse of over-the-hill gang thugs everywhere.
And a response from Jedidiah Brown, a guy who actually lives in Chicago and works with these communities.
via Chicagoist
Now, enter Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who is a scumbag in his own right, but not quite on the same level. He held a press conference today, and in response to the aforementioned, said:
Now, Emmanuel is not the guy you want solving these problems. If you don't recall, he pressured the former "top cop" to keep footage of Laquan McDonald being shot by the police under wraps until after the mayoral election. But Emmanuel is also notoriously flippant about shit like this, so he may have just said that out of exasperation.
Either way, as a Chicagoan, shit like this gets me exceedingly nervous. We already have a police force guilty of countless infringements against the constitutional rights of our citizens. How much longer is it going to be until we have "special task forces" doing "whatever it takes to keep our streets safe?"
There's no doubt that Chicago has problems - anyone who lives here will admit that. But what we don't need is goose-steppers with fascism boners cracking heads. We need to rebuild the infrastructure on the south and west sides that leaves people with no way to commute around town for jobs. We need schools with actual resources so that we can bring up our graduation rates and get these kids into college. We need to fix the income inequality that allows for dozens of new development projects in the Loop but leaves countless neighborhoods without a fucking grocery store. We need to reverse course on the purposeful segregation taking place so that no matter your background, you can move to a "good area."
And again, make no mistake - this obsession that Trump has with Chicago has nothing to do with our homicides. If Trump was worried about murders per capita, he'd probably be focusing on the 10+ cities that are worse off than we are. He has our city's name stuck in his teeth for two reasons:
1. President Obama called Chicago his home, proudly, and Trump has an obsession with him.
2. Chicago kicked his ass out when he came here on the campaign trail, and he got scared.
Make no mistake. This is not the last we hear about this.
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UPDATE - 2/2/2017
Why does he keep saying "gang thugs?" If you're in a gang, you're a thug. If you're a thug, you're in a gang. What are these non-thug gangs? Who are these thugs who don't have gangs to call home? Can someone get Shifty or D-Money on the line to help us set the record straight?
Anyway, here are some tweets from the guy with his finger on the pulse of over-the-hill gang thugs everywhere.
And a response from Jedidiah Brown, a guy who actually lives in Chicago and works with these communities.
