Lightfoot's anti-gun hotline was a not-line and a failure

Chicago's Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot created an anti-gun tip hotline in July 2021. The purpose of the hotline was for people to turn in their neighbors, family and all others who are known to possess a firearm and they would get money for squealing. 

Lightfoot funded this hotline with one million taxpayer dollars in order for people “who have a conscience” to take a bite out of crime and get paid for turning people into law enforcement.

After just one year since the Orwellian program began, only a pittance of people provided tips that had been verified and thus rewarded with money. At this time, a tad over 0.01%, or $10,395 of the $1,000,000 was paid out to informants, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“I want you to know that I recognize that people are scared, people all over the city. This is the topic of conversation,” Lightfoot said. “Gun violence is holding us back from realizing our individual potential and our potential and greatness as a city.”

Her solution was to get rid of violent guns, because they don't have a conscience and will shoot anyone who gets in their way. Yes, this is leftist logic, if you believe they mean it.

Lightfoot’s handpicked police superintendent, David Brown, added, “This incentive will not only bring honest people forward because of that anonymity but likely will bring people who may be involved, who have a conscience,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported. 

Turns out Brown and Lightfoot don't know much about the human condition because the first tip to Lightfoot's "Gun Trafficking and Homicide Tip Line" took ten months to happen. In May 2022, the very first tip that resulted in an arrest and charge found the tipster being paid $10,000, according to WFLD.

According to the city’s infographic for the hotline, tipsters will be paid $3,000 if their tip leads to charges of someone buying or illegally selling ten or more guns, they will receive $5,000 if someone is convicted of the crime, they can get $10,000 for tips leading to a homicide charge, and they will be rewarded $15,000 if those charged with homicide are convicted.

It's like a game show that nobody's watching.

Despite the general failure of the tip line, Lightfoot has tried to make sell it to the public.

Arne Duncan, former Obama Education Secretary and possible candidate for the mayor’s office, blasted Lightfoot for her thoughtless attempts to fight crime.

“Strategies that aren’t thought out, that aren’t thoughtful, that aren’t implemented, that’s almost like the worst possible scenario. This stuff is really hard, it’s complex, but headlines and P.R. don’t keep people alive,” Duncan said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “The fact that this is literally a matter of life and death and the fact we are losing so many lives is untenable. This is the crisis facing our city.”

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And all the violent guns just laughed as crimes committed by them and the innocent people pointing them, have been increasing year by year.

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Maloney's sour grapes blames Democrats' "sexist systems and misogyny" as why she lost to Nadler

Maloney makes noises with her mouth while Nadler uses a different body part

She may be angry she lost the nomination, but she's correct as to why she lost to Jerry Nadler, the big guy Maloney said was senile.

Carolyn Maloney, the career House Democrat, was dumped in favor of another career House Democrat Jerrold Nadler. With the usual helping of grace and class we see with career politicians, Maloney blamed her loss on the “sexist systems and misogyny” and nailed it. The Democratic Party is the most sexist, misogynistic of the two major parties and they make it even worse with identity politics and hypocrisy. They attack all white men as being white supremacists, but they vote for white guys anyway. In fact, they vote for white guys with dementia, and you know the other white guy I'm talking about.

After Rep. Jerry Nadler cruised to victory over Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Tuesday’s contentious Democratic primary to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District — ousting his longtime colleague after three decades in office in the process — Maloney whined that she was the victim of “sexist systems and misogyny” as her supporters vented their wrath at her victorious opponent.

“I’m really sad that we no longer have a woman representing Manhattan in Congress,” Maloney told her teary-eyed boosters, later adding: “In Congress, it is that when women are at the table, great decisions get made.” 

Yes, decisions like allowing men who say they are women compete against women while the women decide to do nothing but complain later.

The longtime lawmaker also thanked great female New York leaders of the past like Shirley Chisholm and Geraldine Ferraro, who Maloney said “fought sexist systems and misogyny that continues today, as we know from my own campaign” — an obvious dig at Nadler who appears confused and in chronic need of a toilet.

The mood was even uglier about an hour earlier, as Nadler, appearing as happy as Kevin Spacey in Boys Town,  addressed his supporters on the Upper West Side. 

Maloney’s "classy" backers at her loser's party in Chelsea booed and jeered Nadler's televised speech, with some yelling “Traitor!” which made no sense. They are both Democrats and therefore they both suck at making good decisions.

Democrats being sexist and misogynist? 

Yes, it's true. Republican women should remind voters as the midterms approach of the Dem's misogyny, because they're going to see it when the Left starts attack ads going after GOP women, like they did with the “holy frijolx” attack on Latina Republican Mayra Flores. 

 However, the truth be told, Maloney has defeated men in the past in primaries [obviously] so her sour grapes are just whine. She initially won her seat in 1992 while Nadler was a special-election winner the same year for the late Ted Weiss. 

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Maloney is not owed that seat just because she is a woman with entitlement issues.

And Nadler's seat is 4X Large.

Hopefully the GOP will capitalize on Maloney's own words when they cut campaign ads in the coming days ahead of the midterms.

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Reliable source leaks names of next to go on CNN hit list

Last Thursday was a tragic day in the history of our media. The sun turned to blood and there was gnashing of teeth and wailing among men of strength. People were out on the streets and in airports all across our great nation, feeling scared and luckless to the point that many refused to board the planes they were supposed to take because they felt their collective luck had run out. 

Just kidding. Brian Stelter was fired from the Compromised News Network (CNN) and the birds were singing, planes flew safely, and all was well in the world. But now that Spud Stelter is gone, what's next?

Well, reliable source Jon Nicosia believes that Stelter isn't going to be the last one out the door, according to Brodigan. [H/T Louder With Crowder]

Nicosia has a decent resume having worked for Mediaite, Independent Journal Review and the Washington Examiner and knows a thing or three and he has a source who leaked about Stelter when he left CNN's new president Chris Licht.

Nicosia's source could obviously be wrong, but he or she has earned the right to be heard, if not believed. And according to the reliable source, we might be bidding farewell to such leftists as John Berman, Jake Tapper, Don da' Lemon, John King, Alisyn Camerota and my personal favorite to get the boot, Jim "Dear Diary" Acosta.

Licht was brought aboard the CNN garbage barge to try to balance it slightly to the middle and decrease its vacuous suck. The network has been so crappy that it had to pay airports to air it in their waiting areas.

But will the dream come true? Will the network deep six the current crew and start fresh with people who are there to report the news with a lot less spin and a lot more factual information?

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Pshaw! Who are we kidding?

In any case, we shall see what comes about as the ship of fools attempts to right itself to avoid sinking even more in the ratings. After all, who do they think they are, Joe Biden?

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Democrats betray Manchin: can I get an LOL

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) went along with his party last month and got him to cave on the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. This shocked many Republicans as well as a few Democrats, because he seemed to have been the voice of reason on the Left and we all thought he was going to vote against this ridiculous bill.

However, in July, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his substantial nostrils was joined by Manchin to announce support for the $740 billion fiscally irresponsible bill whose title is an oxymoron. This bill will not only not reduce inflation, it will likely increase it and it's actually about climate change and drunken sailor spending to deal with it. The bill will subsidize green energy programs, dramatically expand the army of the IRS, and raise taxes on the middle class while lying about it as they do it.

Manchin was promised by alleged President Joe Biden and other Democratic liars that they will facilitate the approval of a gas pipeline in West Virginia. In order to do that, they would have to pass legislation that would “overhaul the permitting process for energy infrastructure,” according to The American Prospect, a liberal website.

But as it turns out, House progressives don't want to support something that  “could undercut the IRA’s down payment on clean energy by accelerating approval for energy projects that could ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production and exports of natural gas,” The American Prospect reported. So Manchin is screwed, just like he did to the country.

House Democrats were reportedly angry that they didn't get called on to negotiate with Manchin, according to The Washington Times. 

Now they don't plan to honor the agreement and this hopefully will hurt Manchin with West Virginia voters.

In a statement to the Prospect, Michigan's Jew-hating POS Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib, wrote:

“Handshake deals made by others in closed rooms do not dictate how I vote, and we sure as hell don’t owe Joe Manchin anything now. He and his fossil fuel donors already got far too much in the IRA … and we will vote this dirty deal down, one way or another.”

What a woman of integrity, love and chutzpah.

Other Democrats joined in on the Manchin trashing.

California Rep. Jared Huffman said he refuses to be “steamrolled into a bunch of fossil fuel giveaways just because Manchin cut a deal in a closed room with Chuck Schumer,” the Times reported.

I think I may have just wet myself.

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Welcome to reality, Joe. You gave away your reputation for integrity, honesty and fairness and made a deal with the devil Democrats and they sold you out. 

I hope you are satisfied, you freaking hypocrite.

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Alec Baldwin blames guess who for "Rust" shooting

It has been about ten months since Alec Baldwin pointed a loaded gun at Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust," pulled the trigger [he swears he didn't] and the gun went off and killed Hutchins and wounded another person positioned behind her. Somehow, Baldwin considers himself the victim, proving he's as much of a narcissistic schmuck as he appears to be in public.

In a Comedy News Network interview on Saturday, Baldwin again tried to convince the person who watches CNN that he didn't pull the trigger of the gun that he didn't check before pointing it at Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021. He merely pulled the hammer of the weapon back and it discharged. 

He didn't check the gun. He is an idiot because he didn't check the gun.

The FBI did a forensic investigation of the gun and in a report obtained by USA Today concluded the gun could not have been fired “without a pull of the trigger.” And since he was the only person holding the gun, he was the only one who could have pulled the trigger and killed Hutchins.

Baldwin continued to insist he didn't pull the trigger of the loaded gun he aimed at Halyna Hutchins despite a ton of evidence that he was lying. He insisted that he wasn't responsible for Hutchins' death.

Hoping to get sympathy for the accidental killing of Hutchins, he said that since he is innocent, it's Trump supporters who questioned his innocence are magically guilty of shooting Halyna Hutchins.

“The former president of the United States said, ‘He probably shot her on purpose,'” Baldwin told CNN. “To me, that was really the only time I thought that I needed — that I was worried about what was going to happen.

“Because here was Trump, who instructed people to commit acts of violence, and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death.”

Except that's a crock of bull.

In an interview on “The Chris Stigall Show” podcast on Nov. 4, 2021, Trump was asked about the shooting and said of Baldwin, “He’s a volatile guy.”

“As bad as it may have been kept, meaning, you know, the people that take care of the equipment and the guns and everything else — but even if it was loaded, and that’s a weird thing — maybe he loaded it,” Trump said.

“He’s a cuckoo-bird. He’s a nut-job. And usually, when there’s somebody like that, you know, in my opinion, he had something to do with it,” the former President correctly said.

“But if nothing else, how do you take a gun and just, whether it’s loaded or not loaded, how do you take a gun, point it at somebody that’s not even in the movie and just point it at this person and pull the trigger and now she’s dead?” former President Trump asked.

Second, Baldwin's suggestion that Trump “instructed people to commit acts of violence” had nothing to do about Baldwin but was likely referring to Jan. 6, 2021, which also was contrary to the facts. Trump never called for violence and in fact, told people to protest peacefully.

Baldwin was implying that Trump supporters would attempt to harm him or worse, after Trump said he was guilty. This is such a crap weasel assumption by the actor about half the nation and he said it with zero evidence.

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Baldwin probably didn't mean to kill Hutchins but he pointed a real gun at her, assuming it was unloaded. He had to pull the trigger, whether he believes it or knows he did.

It's the not checking the gun, pointing it at a person, and pulling the trigger that makes Alec Baldwin come off as a narcissist and the jerk we all know he is.

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Carjacking suspect receives his karma from the car he was carjacking

Chicago -- An [alleged] incompetent carjacking suspect painfully discovered the reason why we have a Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. He is now in critical condition after being shot by the owner of the vehicle he attempted to steal.

Police report that about 1:30 a.m. on Monday, a man sat in his car when a carjacker [allegedly] began firing his gun at him, as WBBM-TV reported. 

And then the [alleged] carjacker got the surprise of his life--possibly the last surprise of his life--when the 45-year-old owner of the vehicle began returning fire with his concealed carry licensed handgun. 

The incompetent carjacker also wasn't as accurate with a gun as the man he intended to shoot because he was shot in the chest and was taken to Loyola Hospital where he is listed in critical condition.

The intended victim was not injured and the incompetent carjacker's gun was found at the scene of the incident.

Police are still investigating the incident and view it as an attempted carjacking.

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Crime has been exploding in the Windy City and last year was one of the deadliest on record with 797 homicides, 3,561 shooting incidents, 300 higher than 2020 and 1,415 more than 2019. And you can't blame Trump for that.

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D.C. Mayor Bowser again calls for Nat'l Guard to help with illegal alien 'crisis' but Pentagon denies her

Texas is bussing future Democratic voters [aka illegal aliens] to "migrant sanctuary cities" such as New York and Washington, D.C. but now that the "migrants" have arrived, reality has set in. It was all fun and games when all you had to do was virtue-signal and declare your city a sanctuary city, because they were coming in from the southern border with Mexico and it didn't affect the eastern part of the nation. But now that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) called their virtuous claims to be enacted, they are like Joe Biden sitting with the Pope and having to poop.

This is the second time that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested the National Guard to assist with the thousands of illegal aliens [aka undocumented Democrats] being sent to her city only to have her request denied by the Pentagon. The first time she tried this was last month but was rejected on August 4th. She sent another request on August 11th, asking for 150 National Guard troops be deployed to "help prevent a prolonged humanitarian crisis in our nation's capital resulting from the daily arrival of migrants."

It is unknown if she promised the Pentagon that she would not have the troops sleeping on concrete floors in the city's parking garages like she did with the George Floyd protests.

Defense Department executive secretary Kelly Bulliner Holly wrote in a letter to Bowser on Monday that the DC National Guard is not trained to assist migrants and activation would lead to "diminished readiness" for the troops. 

And they don't sleep well on concrete.

"The DCNG has no specific experience in or training for this kind of mission or unique skills for providing facility management, feeding, sanitation, or ground support," Holly wrote in the letter and was reviewed by Fox News.

"Approval of this request would also result in a substantial readiness impact to the DCNG," Holly continued. "Devoting the personnel or the facility for such an extended mission would force the cancellation or disruption of military training."

About 7,000 migrants have been  bussed from Texas to Washington, D.C. since April and another 900 have arrived in New York City, according to Gov. Greg Abbott's office. 

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Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams is also having full-blown conniptions over the illegal aliens arriving at his sanctuary city.

"Before we began busing migrants to New York, it was just Texas and Arizona that bore the brunt of all the chaos and problems that come with it," Abbott said Friday. "Now, the rest of America can understand exactly what is going on."

Good. They deserve to get what they said they support.

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Man murdered by criminal freed 8 days earlier--he broke his promise to the judge

If lawmakers were held accountable for their laws, and judges for their progressive judgments, the problem of violent recidivism would be almost nonexistent because the criminals would be in jail where they belong. But lawmakers and judges live away from most crime, often in protected communities and don't have to deal with the policies and legal procedures they create.

An innocent person was beaten to death by a scumbag who should have been in jail. But the scumbag was freed on bail 8 days earlier because the judge made him promise that he would be a good citizen and not commit anymore crimes. Pinky swear, cross his cold heart. This judge should not only be disbarred, he should be charge with the crime of blatant disregard for human life or perhaps depraved indifference to the welfare of the innocent people in society because he put a violent offender back out on the streets.

Aaron Fulk, [the 'l' is silent] the scumbag in question, obviously didn't care about a promise he made to Judge Philip Thornton, an idiotically progressive judge allowed him bail in spite of a violent history.

Fulk beat a 66-year-old man to death on the streets of Seattle. He beat the man with a metal pole and is currently being charged with first-degree murder with bail set at $2.5 million.

Fulk's original arrest 8 days ago was for felony harassment for threatening to kill a city worker. Prosecutors asked for $10,000 bail for this repeat offender with a history of being charged with assault, aggravated battery and attempted assault.

Thornton didn't care about Fulk's past and cut him loose on his own recognizance with the strict order: Do not commit any more crimes.

But he didn't listen. A man is dead because the judge released this POS.

Fulk didn't listen. And now a man is dead.

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Seattle is one of the most progressive cities in the country where their progressives voted to defund the police in 2020. Seattle, a mainly white city, got rid of its black police chief for equity reasons and crime is climbing faster than inflation and has ever since that time.

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