the great R. Crumb

If you’re going to Chicago

Be sure to wear a flower helmet over your hair!

Let’s get it out into the open: Republicans are hoping Chicago next week August 19-22 resembles war-torn Bakhmut. So, we suspect, do the news media despite their romance with Kamala/Walz. Ratings — not love — conquers all!

It does appear that the Democrat(ic) national convention will be besieged by the pro-Hamas wing of their party. Tens of thousands of U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan’s people divvied up among some 150 different organizations will set up at Chicago’s Union Park half a mile from the convention venue at United (as in airlines) Center. What could go wrong?

Anticipating Chicago 2024, our b&w Philco flickers with images from 1968. Chicago cops rendering street-level cranial adjustments to the peace & love generation! Mayor Richard Daley’s fat jowls flap furiously at Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT), who is denouncing the violence from the convention podium. That deja vu all over again haunts the party of Woke progressivism.

 Bad mouth old Boss Daley all you want

The man fought back! Preserved order (if not law). He wasn’t about to allow the Yippies and Weather Underground to invade the convention floor and carry off poor old Hubert Humphrey, gagged and hogtied in the back of a VW microbus painted like the Magical Mystery Tour, force fed LSD by Wavy Gravy on the way to Charlie Manson’s ranch hideaway outside of Los Angeles. 

Chicago’s current mayor is a Woke specimen named Brandon Johnson. We remember Mayor Daley. Brandon Johnson is no Mayor Daley. Or even a Rahm Emmanuel. He’s One Of Them! What the mainstream news media delicately calls “an activist.” A paid organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union. Defund the Police. Chicago’s mayor is on record protesting Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. 

Approved pro-Squad parade route from Union Park

Cannot blame Chicago retailers for boarding up windows ahead of time. Even without a convention, gangs smashed and grabbed Michigan Avenue’s “Magnificent Mile.” Brandon Johnson is the kind of enabler who scapegoats “lack of opportunities” for criminal behavior. 

Brandon Johnson … is the most tragically stupid, self-defeatingly incompetent big-city mayor in America. … while Johnson has time to hate the cops, he has no time whatsoever to condemn either violent youth street crime or even violent political protest for that matter. —  Jeffrey Blehar, “Please don’t come to Chicago”  

Chicago police are already handcuffed by a federal consent decree over excessive use of force. Hellz bellz, a federal judge is currently considering whether to micro-manage traffic stops! Next week, every cop badge number will be recorded on a thousand smart phones, the video uploaded to ACLU lawyers.

Blaska’s Bottom Line: The playbook for Democrats since at least George Floyd is to let the “mostly peaceful” protests play out until the last hair-styling salon is torched. (Ask Tim Walz about Minneapolis. Or Tony Evers about Kenosha.) Come to think, Chicago is the other direction from Kyle Rittenhouse’s house. If he asks his mom for another ride you’ll know Democrats are in trouble. On a scale of 1 (an average Jerry Springer show) to 10 (the Siege of Stalingrad) …

What’s YOUR prediction for violence in Chicago?

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31 responses to “If you’re going to Chicago”

  1. brynstane Avatar
    brynstane

    The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.

    -Richard J. Daley

  2. Steve Witherspoon Avatar

    Personally, I really don’t give a hoot what the lunatic progressive wing of the political left does in Chicago, they can riot and burn it all to the ground and the left will figure out some absurd bassackwards way to blame the political right and their sheeple voters will swallow it whole and ask for another.

  3. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
    Cornelius_Gotchberg

    Ask Tim Walz about Minneapolis. Or Tony Evers about Kenosha.”

    Howse about ask the Socialist Cow (H/T Gary Kriewald) about the 77 Square Miles Surrounded By A Sea Of Reality?

    What’s YOUR prediction for violence in Chicago?

    An 11…c’mon, all those imbecilically clueless, purple haired, tatted, pierced, endomorphic Lefty losers wreaking havoc on top of Chicago’s regularly scheduled shooting gallery?

    All eyes will be glued on despicable Lefty, and a fact-based Reality will be forever confirmed.

    The Gotch

    1. richard V Lesiak Avatar
      richard V Lesiak

      ask trump about 1/6

      1. Steve Witherspoon Avatar

        That’s a trolling deflection.

  4. pANTIFArts Avatar

    No one, but a Democrat, would intentionally go to Chicago. The rest of us just took a wrong exit on the Interstate.

    1. richard V Lesiak Avatar
      richard V Lesiak

      Don’t you have navigation in your
      Prius?

  5. richard V Lesiak Avatar
    richard V Lesiak

    It will be a 2. I grew up in a Chicago tenement. First thing you learn; never screw with the cops and never come between a cop and his dog. The city knows what’s coming and will be prepared.

    1. Gary L. Kriewald Avatar
      Gary L. Kriewald

      I suspect the cops you recall so fondly from your childhood never had to worry about a mayor (like the current specimen) who actively seeks out ways to undercut his own police and thereby score points with the deluded woke mob who elected him. If anyone needs to worry about violence during the DNC, it’s not delegates or ordinary citizens; it’s Chicago’s cops, who will be the foremost targets of the same brand of lunatics who took over Library Mall a couple of months ago.

      1. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
        Cornelius_Gotchberg

        Cryin’ shame the Beetlejuice DYKE got bounced out a year and half ago; would’ve LUVed to see her monumental incompetence on full display!

        The Gotch

      2. richard V Lesiak Avatar
        richard V Lesiak

        It’s hard to rate something that hasn’t happened. What number would you give 1/6 when 140 cops were hurt? But; weren’t all those fat, maga shirt wearing fools just there for a bus tour?

        1. Steve Witherspoon Avatar

          Again with the 1/6 deflection? Is that really all you’ve got?

  6. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    With all the protection at the “Convention” I wonder how the rest of Chicago will fair?

  7. David Gerard Avatar
    David Gerard

    Kyle’s mother did not drive him to Kenosha.

    Kyle is estranged from his mother.

    It just goes to prove your point: “Single Parent Households Are One Of The GREATEST INDICATORS Of An IDIOT’S Future Poverty And Substandard Education.”

    1. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
      Cornelius_Gotchberg

      It just goes to prove your point: “Single Parent Households Are One Of The GREATEST INDICATORS Of An IDIOT’S Future Poverty And Substandard Education.”

      Good catch there, DG; epic sociopaths Hopeless Changey, the Former Serial Sexual Predator In Chief, and Kacklin’ Kamala all have that in common, and (heh!) all will be prominently featured on stage in Chicago.

      One rarely sees symmetry like that in life, am I right…?

      The Gotch

      1. richard V Lesiak Avatar
        richard V Lesiak

        You’re going to have to pay Vance and Hovde to use that pretty soon. I’m sure that being an entitled rich white guy you will get it free. And here I thought Blaska banned you. Must only be Dems who get that treatment.

        1. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
          Cornelius_Gotchberg

          Are you trying to get permanently banned, again?

          In a Perfect World, t’would be ever thus.

          Alas, perfection is not a human attribute; were it so, stoopidity (sic) that staggering would physically hurt…BAD!

          The Gotch

    2. Mordecai The Red Avatar
      Mordecai The Red

      “Kyle is estranged from his mother.”

      What? Wendy Rittenhouse was the one that navigated her son’s legal options after the incident, including the hiring and firing of Lin Wood and then the hiring of Mark Richards who was in charge of his defense. Does that sound estranged to you?

      1. David Gerard Avatar
        David Gerard

        Does this sound estranged to you?

        His sister Faith spoke to the V-Radio podcast on June 2 and said that she wound up hospitalized with appendicitis and has been in the hospital six times in the past six months, though she said her brother never once reached out. She added that “people still believe my mother drove Kyle or was somehow involved in his decision to go to Kenosha. With my brother’s unwillingness to provide support or contribute to our family, we’ve been left to navigate this journey on our own,” she added. You might want to contribute to their GoFundMe page so they can avoid eviction.

        But it seems your boy toy is facing more trouble. He recently posted this: …”unfortunately, Donald Trump has bad advisers, making him bad on the Second Amendment. If you cannot be completely un-compromisable (sic) on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you,” he said on X, formerly Twitter. “We need champions for the Second Amendment or our rights would be eaten away and eroded each day. I support my decision and I have no take-backs,” he added.

        12 hours later he stated he had “a series of productive conversations with members of the Trump’s team and I am confident he will be the strong ally gun owners need to defend our Second Amendment rights”. He called his comments from the night earlier “ill-informed and unproductive”. He may have destroyed his gravy train with those comments.

        He was not invited to speak at the RNC. It will be interesting to see if he speaks at Vance’s Kenosha press conference this Tuesday. If not, it will be clear that enablers like you have thrown him overboard like some cheap Northalsted hooker.

        1. Mordecai The Red Avatar
          Mordecai The Red

          I threw him overboard how exactly? I couldn’t care less what the RNC thinks of him. He did what few had the stones to do and showed remarkable restraint when attacked by bloodthirsty degenerates. He’s no hero, but he’s no coward either. If he fades from the political spotlight to lead a normal life, so much the better.

      2. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
        Cornelius_Gotchberg

        it will be clear that enablers like you have thrown him overboard like some cheap Northalsted hooker.”

        Oh…the deeply viscid irony through which you had to slog to type that!

        Curious DG, you see hide-nor-hair of the unceremoniously $#!tcanned Cindy Sheehan, li’l Davie Hogg, Greta “Shame On You Thunberg, et al, after their Pull By dates passed…?

        The Gotch

  8. Kevin S Wymore Avatar
    Kevin S Wymore

    Rules and grocery-store regulations? Who needs them? THROW ‘EM OUT THE DOOR!

  9. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
    Cornelius_Gotchberg

    Did Systemic RAYcism make Chicago a 3rd World Cesspool/$#!THOLE?

    Not exactly; to wit:

    1. 2,240 Shootings, 440 Homicides from January thru July 2020; the race of nearly every shooter and homicide (97.7%) were the same.
    2. The Chicago mayor is a black democrat.
    3. The Superintendent of Police is a black democrat.
    4. The Cook County States’ Attorney is a black democrat
    5. The Chief Judge of Cook County Circuit Courts is a black democrat
    6. The Illinois AG is a black democrat.
    7. The Chicago Fire Department Commissioner is a black democrat
    8. The Cook County Board President is a black democrat.
    9. The State Senate Majority Leader is a black democrat.
    10. The Illinois Lieutenant Governor is a black democrat.
    11. The Illinois Secretary of State is a black democrat.
    12. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County is a black democrat.
    13. The Cook County Clerk is a black democrat.
    14. The Chicago Treasurer is a black democrat.
    15. The Chicago Police Board President is a black democrat.
    16. The Chicago Transit Authority President is a black democrat.
    17. The CEO of Chicago Public Schools is a black democrat.
    18. The Commissioner of the Department of Water Management is a black democrat.
    19. 40% of the City Council belong to the Black democrat Caucus; their average pay is $122,304 annually each, PLUS $122,000 per year in expenses. Their pension for life is 80% of last pay.
    *Republican head count in the City Council? ZERO.
    William Hale Thompson was the last Republican Mayor of Chicago in 1931. For 93 years democrats have controlled the Chicago Mayor’s Office, and, it would appear, everything else. At the end of fiscal 2019 the Chicago deficit was $838,200,000!

    Sensing a trend….?

    Paging Rollie; have things gotten better, stayed the same, or gotten worse?

    The Gotch

    1. Steve Witherspoon Avatar

      That’s pure ad hominem trolling. A constant troll like you would never last on my blog.

  10. Bob Dean Avatar
    Bob Dean

    I’d love to see either Sleepy joe or Kackling Pops get on the Blue Line after touching down at O’Hare unescorted by the crack SS corps and ride it to the DNC.

  11. Mordecai The Red Avatar
    Mordecai The Red

    The level of violence will depend on how many cops call in sick or walk off the job next week to prove a point. The point being that Chicago needs them more than they need Chicago. If there was ever a time to do it, this is it.

  12. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
    Cornelius_Gotchberg

    KSAs — Knowledge, Skill, Ability (Federal Employment Application)
    Specific KSAs are needed in performing certain jobs. Individual KSAs, based qualifying experience, education, or training, are used to distinguish “qualified candidates” from the “unqualified.”

    Kacklin’ Kamala score:
    K: ZERO
    S: ZERO
    A: ZERO

    This is what happens when Didn’t Earn It predicates supersede fitness for the position.

    The Gotch

  13. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
    Cornelius_Gotchberg

    Factor in this is from Tucker Carlson:

    “According to GPS tracking data: At least 53,411 foreign Antifa and 21,034 domestic Antifa are already gathering in Chicago, to create chaos during the Harris-Walz DNC.” (bolds mine)

    Hmmmm….

    The Gotch

    1. Anonymous Avatar
      Anonymous

      Tucker is full of it, per usual. He can’t really believe GPS eye-in-sky is tracking every single terrorist heading for Chicago.

      Consider the source. The only time I’ve ever agreed with Fixed Noise is when they canned his ass.

      1. Cornelius_Gotchberg Avatar
        Cornelius_Gotchberg

        Hence the disclaimer; reckon we’ll see, though, am I right?

        If your desire is to be the best informed, provided with actual news content, oddly enough, a fact-based Reality suggests that FoxNews (which The Gotch, in addition to all the other national/international net/cable outlets, doesn’t watch) should be your source; to wit:

        From the (heh!) bedrock Conservative HuffBlow (sic) MSNBC Almost Entirely Dominated By Opinion: Pew Study

        News Content: FoxNews 45 % MSNBC 15 %
        Opinion Content: FoxNews 55 % MSNBC 85 %.

        Et tu, HuffPo?

        MSNBC has 55 % more Opinion content and a mere 1/3 the News content of FoxNews?

        The mercilessly everLUVin’ irony? Priceless!

        The Gotch

        1. Kooter Avatar
          Kooter

          Oh oh, Gotch, there you go using facts again. Lefty don’t like that!

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