Brandon Johnson is Chicago's new progressive mayor

Chicago has elected Brandon Johnson another leftist to fill in as Mayor of the city replacing the execrable Lori Lightfoot, who came in a miserable third in the Democrat runoff.

"I may be a millionaire, but at least I'm not a billionaire!"

Johnson is endorsed by fellow communist Bernie Sanders which should tell you a bit as to how Johnson will run the joint after he defeated his moderate opponent, Paul Vallas, the former Chicago Public Schools CEO. Vallas had the support of the city's police union and major business groups, while Johnson that the backing of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Lightfoot, who was one of the most incompetent people in power, became the first Chicago mayor in four decades to lose a re-election bid.

One of the deciding reasons Lightfoot is gone has to do with the crime climbing through the proverbial roof during her mishandling of it and her call for defunding the police while people were being killed in the city.

The now-former mayor came in third in the general election, losing to Johnson by five points, while Vallas took the plurality of votes and lost in the final election.

Lightfoot broke the glass ceiling in Chicago as homicides in 2021 hit a 25-year-high as it soared to 797, as reported by the Chicago PD. She was also the first black lesbian mayor thereby proving that ability trumps identity every time.

Now Chicagoans will find out whether things improve in their town. If not, the smart ones will leave because while Jussie Smollett believes Chicago is "MAGA country," it's a one-party city and it isn't the Republican Party at all.

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Melania makes rare appearance during Trump's difficult times

The whole world knows that former President Donald Trump was arraigned on Tuesday in New York and faces 34 trumped up charges by a bragging Alvin Bragg, including the alleged $130,000 hush money paid to porn performer Stormy Daniels [whose real name is Stephanie Clifford] before the 2016 presidential election.

As retired Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has said, that in all his years practicing law, there has never been a case that he's aware of where a man paid hush money for his sexual improprieties and listed it as hush money on the bookkeeping records. 

Initially, after Trump's arrival,  Melania, his wife, was nowhere to be seen. One can imagine how any woman whose husband was outed for screwing another woman might be angry and make herself unavailable to the press. However, she was seen several hours later after Trump arrived with his son Eric, in a rare public appearance entering Trump Tower.

She looked sad and refused to speak with the press, who probably smelled blood in the water for another juicy story. But the Daily Mail yesterday said that their sources said that Melania unconditionally supports her husband, like the rest of his family. Also, the source said that she is focused on her family and supports Donald, as she always has.

Therefore, everything is just hunky-dory.

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Barehanded badass Israeli EMT takes on knife-wielding terrorist and treats the victims

A United Hatzalah volunteer EMT named Benny Meshulam had left for work from his home in Beer Yaakov in central Israel when he saw that oncoming traffic had come to a stop. He then witness two men lying on the sidewalk with people all around them in an obvious commotion. [H/T United with Israel].

United Hatzalah is an Israeli free, volunteer-based emergency medical services organization that serves all of Israel with its headquarters based in Jerusalem.

“At first, I didn’t understand what was happening,” Meshulam recounted. “After a few seconds, I realized that it was a terror attack. I immediately put my car in park, flipped up the handbrake, and ran toward the incident, shouting ‘terrorist.’”

There were two other Israeli citizens, barehanded, working in concert to subdue the terrorist after he had stabbed a pair of IDF troops from nearby Tzrifin army base. Both soldiers were around 20-years-old. one of them was wounded seriously, the other not quite as bad.

Meshulam, along with the other two men, had tackled the terrorist to prevent him from harming anyone else, including those congregated at the side of the roadway.

“We punched and kicked him, and used anything else we could in order to knock him down,” Benny said.

“The terrorist looked determined. I could see the evil in his eyes. Once he was no longer a threat, I ran towards one of the men, who had sustained serious injuries from being stabbed in his upper torso. I provided initial treatment, bandaging the man’s wounds and applying pressure on them in order to stop the bleeding. I contacted dispatch and made sure that backup was on the way.

“After a few minutes, other volunteers arrived and took over treating the young man. I then went to treat the second person who had been injured in the incident. His wounds were less severe, and he was in light condition.”

Both victims were quickly evacuated to the nearby Assaf HaRofeh hospital for further treatment.

Meshulam visited the young men after the incident and said that he was grateful that he had the opportunity to help.

“I feel privileged that I was able to help neutralize the threat and save a man’s life. I still haven’t fully internalized what happened. It will probably take me a long time to process what happened this morning and the part I played in it. I simply reacted and did what needed to be done. The emotional fallout and decompressing will take time.”

The terrorist, a scumcrumpet from Hebron, was arrested and is in custody of the police. He will be provided with a smart, Jewish lawyer a Koran and a prayer mat if so requested.

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BREAKING: Trump breaks glass ceiling as 1st POTUS ever arrested

Loved and hated former President Donald J. Trump has made history on Tuesday after surrendering himself to the Manhattan district attorney's corrupt office as he faces over 30 fake felony charges.

The former president’s motorcade of nearly a dozen vehicles arrived at the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building around 1:30 p.m. EST as people both pro and con lined the streets, cheering and jeering depending on their political views and whether they have transitioned their toddler or not.

On his way to the building, Trump posted on social media in all caps that the moment was “SURREAL.”

“WOW, they are going to ARREST ME,” he wrote. “Can’t believe this is happening in America. MAGA!”

Between you and me, Trump is probably delighted with the arrest as it gives him a monopoly of time on CNN and in other leftist media coverage.

As this is a developing story, stay tuned for more of the Trump Arraignment Syndrome saga.

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Trump hires new defense lawyer the day before court appearance

On Monday, just one day before he is due to appear for his New York City arraignment, white collar defense attorney Todd Blanche was hired by former President Trump to represent him. [H/T Fox News Digital]

Blanche will defend Trump in the case brought against him by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. He will join Trump's other defense attorney Joe Tacopina along with other lawyers on Trump's team. 

The source for Fox News Digital said that Blanche will be "additional firepower" to the Trump legal team.

Blanche has a winning history in which he represented Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman. 

Blanche previously represented Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman. Manafort was charged as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in 2019, and pleaded guilty to foreign lobbying and witness tampering, as well as tax fraud and conspiracy.

Trump's political arraignment comes after he was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday after a year-long prosecutorial targeting of him by Alvin Bragg, who has been soft on violent crime in New York, but tough on finding crime in Donald Trump. 

Another term for what Bragg is doing should be called "lawfare."

The former president traveled from Palm Beach, Florida to New York City on Monday ahead of the Tuesday arraignment scheduled for arrival at 11:00 a.m. and arraignment at 2:15 p.m.

Supposedly, he will not be handcuffed when he surrenders, nor will his New York residence be raided by fully armed FBI agents and SWAT teams designed to take him out if he twitches. If he is made to take a mugshot, I have an idea for a tee shirt.

The charges Trump faces are unclear as the indictment is still under seal until the arraignment, but if it's what might be expected, it's baseless and unconstitutional. However, this remains to be seen.

So tomorrow is a big day for Trump, the nation, and my prostate exam.

I wish us all luck.

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Cops: Nashville school shooter planned the carnage months in advance; considered previous mass murders

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) in its investigation of the mass shooting at the Christian elementary school said Monday afternoon that the shooter, a 28-year-old woman who identifies as a man, had planned the massacre months ago.

The shooting last Monday at the Covenant School in Nashville murdered three 9-year-old children and three adults.  Authorities said in a press release that “from all information currently available,” the shooter “acted totally alone,” and revealed that she had planned the massacre at the Covenant School months “over a period of months.”

The MNPD has been going over the "collective writings" of the gender dysphoric woman they found in her vehicle and bedroom. The shooter had been a former student of the Covenant School. Police said she was influenced by previous mass shooters, but the cops still don't have a motive.

The writings, which include her “manifesto,” are under investigation by both the MNPD and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.

“The motive for [the shooter’s] actions has not been established and remains under investigation by the Homicide Unit in consultation with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. It is known that [the shooter] considered the actions of other mass murderers,” MNPD said. It is also known that the shooter had been treated for an "emotional disorder," a relatively common problem of transgender [gender dysphoric] individuals. The Daily Beast said their source described the shooter as "autistic" but "highly functional."

The weapons purchased by the shooter were legally bought from gun stores in the Nashville area. She carried two rifles and a handgun when she breached the school. 

The investigation found the in the total time she entered the school until she was neutralized by police, she fired off 152 rounds: 126 5.56 rifle rounds nd 26 nine millimeter rounds. 

Police Officer Engelbert dropped the shooter with four 5.56 rounds and Officer Collazo unloaded another four rounds killing her. The entire episode from the time of the 911 call to she was killed was 14 minutes. 

In contrast, the Uvalde PD waited an entire hour for backup as that shooter was killing children, one-by-nem before making a move on the mass school shooter in a Texas school.

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China's spy balloon got what they paid for: our US military intel

The Chinese spy balloon that did figure eights around the United States early this year was able to gather intelligence from many sensitive military sites, a recent report from NBC News states, in spite of the Biden administration claiming no harm, no foul.

The report cites two American officials and a former administration official and says the balloon was controlled by China, it was maneuvered by China, and made a number of passes over primary military sites, sometimes in a figure-eight pattern as it transmitted data back to Beijing in "real time."

The three officials say the data obtained by China was primarily electronic signals that could be collected from weapons systems or base communications, a strategic military move that would help the Chinese target America's defensive and offensive weapons.

NBC, to their credit, tried to press the National Security Council for comment [on the administration's incompetence] and were fed the same tired lines they were handed back in February by the Department of Defense, claiming the balloon had "limited additive value" to China "over and above what [China] is likely able to collect through things like satellites in low earth orbit.”

In spite of the myriad data the balloon likely collected in late January and early February, Biden officials said that China could have gathered even more intelligence if the administration hadn't taken actions to move potential targets around to disrupt intelligence gathering. A better idea would have been to shoot the damn balloon down as soon as it was discovered rather than allowing it to hang around for so long.

The State Department previously admitted the spy balloon had intelligence-gathering capabilities, because it was a freaking "spy" balloon. It flew over Montana where the nuclear missile silos at Malmstrom AFB are located. It also flew in a path that would allow it to gather intelligence at other sensitive military sites, all with impunity, because the Chinese said it was a civilian airship and Biden didn't want to screw up his foreign pension.

Finally, after it was finished doing what China paid for it to do, the spy balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on February 4 by a U.S. military F-22 Raptor using a single air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile.

General Glen VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), said that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall and weighed “in excess of a couple thousand pounds.” 

If it had an insignia stating: "Chinese Spy Balloon, Do Not Destroy," it may have stayed up there for another few weeks under this incompetent and corrupt administration.

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Almost half of investigators fell sick studying East Palestine train derailment

The Norfolk Southern 100-car train derailment that created a toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio is being studied by 15 U.S. government investigators and now 7 of them have experiencing illness symptoms even after the feds said the water is safe to drink, while not actually drinking it themselves. [H/T The Daily Wire]

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which includes members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service [an oxymoron if there ever was one] reported to CNN that almost half the crew felt sick while surveying homes of the town's residents near the contaminated areas.

Pete Buttigieg, our so called Transportation Secretary had visited East Palestine weeks after the disaster occurred and thought it was all clear, but now he says that he's concerned his chest milk might be contaminated and he doesn't know what to do about feeding his baby. 

“Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours,” a CDC spokesperson told the network. “Impacted team members have not reported ongoing health effects.” No deaths of team members have been reported as of now.

Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the February 3 derailment and started a controlled burn of substances on the vehicle. It's as if the contamination knows that a mile is a safe distance, like 6 feet is a safe distance to prevent Covid from killing you.

Five of those train cars emitted vinyl chloride in huge plumes of black smoke visible throughout eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Vinyl chloride is a human carcinogen that's used in the manufacturing of PVC. Residents in the town have since raised the alarm over health symptoms they experienced after the controlled burn in spite of the lies the government tried to pass off.

Before working from their hotels, some group members began experiencing sore throats, headaches, coughing, and nausea, basically the same symptoms reported by many of the town’s residents near the derailment site.

Federal officials did not disclose what caused investigators to experience such symptoms but again assured everyone that the water is safe to drink.

Two contractors from the Environmental Protection Agency out of 100 personnel working on the derailment also reported health symptoms after working in areas where the chemicals created strong odors.

The Ohio Department of Health published the results of surveys conducted at its East Palestine Health Assessment Clinic, plus door-to-door visits by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, four weeks after the chemical catastrophe permeated the town’s atmosphere.

The results showed more than half of the 168 After Chemical Exposure (ACE) community surveys reported headaches, anxiety, coughing, fatigue, and irritated skin after the derailment. However, the surveys did not indicate if the residents were exposed to harmful levels of chemicals or what caused their symptoms.

EPA officials, in conjunction with the Justice Department, announced a lawsuit on Friday against Norfolk Southern. They are seeking “penalties and injunctive relief for the unlawful discharge of pollutants, oil, and hazardous substances” under the Clean Water Act, [although they said the water is safe to drink] as well as “declaratory judgment on liability for past and future costs” related to the incident under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. 

The complaint from the EPA and Justice Department said materials released from the train cars, such as vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, Ethylhexyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, isobutylene, and benzene residue, have been “associated variously” with impaired fetal development, organ damage, cancers, and other health conditions with a sufficiently high degree of exposure. 

Yet, state and federal officials have repeatedly claimed that the air and water supplies in East Palestine are safe for residents. In other words, the water is safe to drink. 

So why didn't the state and federal officials wet their whistles while in town?

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