Mayor Lightfoot is out of her mind. Not only has she allowed criminals to take over her city, but she has also threatened to arrest citizens who violate her tyrannical social distancing rules. How are the retailers that Lightfoot want’s to keep in Chicago suppose to generate any revenue to cover their overhead costs? Americans need to stop voting for this insane party. November needs to be a wipe out for the Democrats. No party this dangerous should have any kind of political power in the Unite States.
Chicago Mayor Begging Major Retailers Not To Abandon Riot-Ravaged City
By Western Journal, June 9, 2020
Story continues below advertisementPortions of Chicago have resembled combat zones for years.
But in recent weeks, roaming groups of rioters have used the May 25 death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis as a pretext to loot and destroy businesses both big and small in the Windy City.
The response from the city’s Democratic leaders has been less than aggressive — and now they’re facing the potential repercussions of that approach.
National retail chain locations have been attacked, looted or burned and are now closed in many parts of the city, as was outlined June 1 by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Walmart, according to reports, might not come back, at least not fully.
WBBM-AM in Chicago reported the Arkansas-based retail giant is assessing which of its locations in the city are worth salvaging after criminals ransacked the stores during unchecked looting.
There isn’t a timetable for when that corporate evaluation will be completed, but Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whose job it is to protect her city, is now pleading with Walmart and other retailers not to leave the market.
“My hope is that they will come back,” Lightfoot said of Walmart’s evaluation of how to proceed in Chicago.
The mayor made the comments after she spoke with a number of retailers that have locations closed due to damage.
Per Lightfoot, most companies will stand by the city, but Walmart has not committed to anything.
“But I got a resounding, ‘Mayor, this is our city, this is our home,’ from a lot of other retailers, and I would hope that Wa
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Sorry readers but, FU Lightfoot
Democrats are very poor at consequential thinking. When they do horrible things, they expect ‘nice’ consequences’. BUT reality does not work that way. The Bible is very clear: Don’t be a jerk, because it will come back on you.
Some are dumb and others are doing their part for a larger destructive agenda.
Islamists are also poor at consequential thinking. They make war on us, and then they are SO surprised when we start obliterating them.
The problem is we’re not obliterating them fast enough…
Islamists are also poor at consequential thinking. They make war on us, and then they are SO surprised when we start obliterating them.
Anarchy is all about breaking ordered society.
That’s very good. I like Chicongo too.
She’s a troll man… dah dah dat dat dat dat dat. She’a troll man…
Got what she got, thru RIOTING, BURNING, LOOTING.
Next, all these blue cities will be crying because there is no food to be bought (or stolen).
They will demand federal bailouts for the mess THEY created.
Barr Blathers While Commie Hunters Name names
https://www.theepochtimes.com/antifa-other-far-left-groups-exploit-protests-for-revolution_3375358.
Communism expert Trevor Loudon, meanwhile, told The Epoch Times that Antifa is only one part of the picture, noting that “every significant communist or socialist party in the United States has been involved in these protests and riots from the beginning.” According to Loudon,- Communist Party USA- Liberation Road- Freedom Road Socialist Organization- Democratic Socialists of America- Revolutionary Communist Party- Workers World Party- Party for Socialism and Liberationhave been involved, among others, including Antifa and the Black Lives Matter organization. They are also guilty of conspiracy, misprision of felony, and malice aforethought, including intention to commit murder, because they were up and organizing within hours after public knowledge of the the George Floyd incident, and even before it was deemed a murder. They planned and coordinated the riots before there was even a reason for the riots.
It’s part of their tearing us down revolution.
Yes, Marx and Lenin laid it out clearly
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“The immediate aim of the Communist is… overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.” ~ The Communist Manifesto, Marx/Engels (1848)
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“We can’t expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism”
– Lenin
You are correct in their motives but there are still plenty of loyal Americans (to our Constitutional Republic) who will never allow Communist to win. There will be a BBR before that happens and we have more Liberty Teeth than the Left.
Oh yes, I know. Our worst problem is that conservatives don’t strategize and plan very much. We just stick to our guns and stand our ground. But Trump does maneuver warfare all day every day, and we need to learn from him.
just recited the – “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
about an hour ago at the Elks meeting..
just recited the – “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
about an hour ago at the Elks meeting..
Maybe they could set an example for people in Britain & other W. European countries, whose leaders in many cases are weaklings i.e. eunuchs. They have slavishly followed the globalist UN/EU, Davos agenda, promoting open borders & mass 3rd world immigration with disastrous results for the common man & woman, the ordinary Joseph(ine).
Gee, sounds just like Canada! The Prime Minister, Justinass Trudeau, is a liar who pretends that Canada’s borders are closed, but they are not and thousands of airliner flights, not least from China that caused the pandemic mess, still fly into Canada.
….THEY BROKE IT….LET THEM FIX IT…..NOT OUR TAX DOLLARS.
This is what cities get when their citizens are stupid enough to elect bumbling fools to lead them. Hey, woman, companies aren’t charities! They don’t have limitless funds to survive if they don’t have employees to produce and customers to purchase.
says soros
Yes, Soros, never got past those old political philosophies. He is still trying to impose “the dictatorship of the proletariat”, just like Stalin did.
They were waiting for the fuse to be lit. Intentionally or by happenstance.
It’s no surprise that the disease quickly crossed a-x the Atlantic to Britain. The same antifa & other seditious commie anarchist radicals, together with BLM (UK) rioted, broke numerous laws (aside from the unnecessary lock down, which they violated anyway) i.e. caused public disorder & criminal damage. There were disgraceful scenes as war memorials to the hono(u)red dead were defiled in London, a statue in Bristol was demolished, all while the impotent police looked on meekly or acted ineffectually.
I do not blame individual policemen & women, it’s the way they are led & have been by ultra pc careerists in recent decades. Such treacherous individuals have taken every opportunity to kowtow to muslims, black radicals, rapugees (gimmigrants) at the behest of their globalist NWO political masters. But woe betide any law abiding citizen who has dared to break the daft OTT lockdown measures in London & other big city parks or in the countryside! It’s amazing how quickly police appeared on the scene to pounce on such soft targets!
Thanks John! Of course, the cops just do what they are required to do by politico bosses. If the bosses tell them to arrest conservative Brits, then they will. They don’t like it, but they do it. The one big advantage we have with the police, is that they are quite good at consequential thinking, because of what they see in their jobs every day. They see that criminals have rotten lives. There are consequences to being a rotten person. They see that honest people have much better lives. They see that welfare sucking immigrants degrade themselves and society. They see that one good person can turn around a whole family. And so on, so they are inherently conservative in their thinking. And that’s one key reason why commies hate the cops.
It’s no surprise that the disease quickly crossed a-x the Atlantic to Britain. The same antifa & other seditious commie anarchist radicals, together with BLM (UK) rioted, broke numerous laws (aside from the unnecessary lock down, which they violated anyway) i.e. caused public disorder & criminal damage. There were disgraceful scenes as war memorials to the hono(u)red dead were defiled in London, a statue in Bristol was demolished, all while the impotent police looked on meekly or acted ineffectually.
I do not blame individual policemen & women, it’s the way they are led & have been by ultra pc careerists in recent decades. Such treacherous individuals have taken every opportunity to kowtow to muslims, black radicals, rapugees (gimmigrants) at the behest of their globalist NWO political masters. But woe betide any law abiding citizen who has dared to break the daft OTT lockdown measures in London & other big city parks or in the countryside! It’s amazing how quickly police appeared on the scene to pounce on such soft targets!
Barr better be putting people who spied on this President in jail or he will be looking over his shoulder forever.
yet blm doesn’t stand up and condemn these groups.
BLM is an arm [front group] of the Democrat Party. Research shows they share funding websites, administration, and decision making.
Trump will convoy in water bread and cheese. And turn off the ebit cards.
will– already have
just tax the few remaining workers a couple hundred grand…
I vow to campaign against and support any opponent of any Republicasn that supports any bailout in any form for any of these leftist cities and states that are involved in self destruction!
Not coming from this President. They(and the mayor) did nothing to stop this. No National Guard or anything.
They will demand federal bailouts for the mess THEY created.
Michelle Obama created the term “food deserts” and claimed it was caused by racism in inner cities. You cannot make people eat vegetables or merchants into losing money from riots. The term “food desert” is caused by racists burning down their own plantations.
It’s their own damn fault. The citizens are the ones that put this whacko beetle juice in office.
Right you are. And yes, she looks like an extra from the Walking Dead. And perhaps no coincidence, then, that much of Sh*tcago now looks like a set from the Walking Dead.
I did not vote for this woman.
Perhaps the dems there cheated like they did in mexifornia.
Cash registers are smart enough now to calculate that automagically — no thinking required.
hahahahah
Only business Chicago needs is a pet food rendering plant. ‘Fresh from the morgue to your dog’s bowl’
buckwheat be mad! it is not a beautiful in her neighborhood, and the white folks is leavin
But they will just scatter off like vermin and vote the same BS Dem crap into nice towns and ruin them, too. They seem incapable of understanding that this destruction is a direct result of the policies they voted for.
This cretin’s name should be ‘Lightloafers’.
Hopefully the exodus has just begun.
Distraught Chicago officials heard on tape fuming over looting, riots:
‘My ward is a s–t show’
Adam Shaw By Adam Shaw | Fox News 6/9/20
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-officials-looting-riots
Sure is – starring the first black lesbian Mayor Lighfoot who won by landslide!
When will the defunding and abolishing of police happen?
Chicago mayor: Will take ‘Herculean effort’ to get businesses to come back
Walmart, Target among businesses in city that can’t confirm reopening of stores
By Evie Fordham FOXBusiness
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“I’ve been on calls and text messages with people all day who fought hard to bring economic development to areas of the city, only to see the Walgreens, the CVS, the grocery store, everything vanish in an eye blink,” Lightfoot said on a May 31 call with distraught aldermen. “It’s going to take a Herculean effort on the part of all of us to convince businesses not to disappear, to come back. We’re prepared to fight that fight.”
…
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-alderman-chicago-walmart-looting
Chicago stores mull permanent closure following riots, coronavirus lockdown
Chicago stores are struggling to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown, riot violence and looting have physically and economically destroyed businesses.
How much more abuse are these businesses willing to endure? With an anti law enforcement mayor, they are better off leaving. What makes them think this mayor will do something different next time? This is what happens in a DEM run state that are anti-capitalists and pro communism.
If I was the President, I’d tell the people of Chicago….get rid of your Mayor…put in someone who knows how to run a city…..and we MIGHT talk….
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders – What would you tell him?”
I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?”
To shrug.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I’d ask Atlas what he was standing on.
If you think the cities are hell now wait until the debt-based, fiat, and unconstitutional buck is hyper inflated, which is coming. I suggest you all bail from your big cities now. Currency destruction is a monetary thing and it strikes like a thunder bolt. Suddenly and with little warning. Got gold? Better get some. Or get wiped out.
If you think the cities are hell now wait until the debt-based, fiat, and unconstitutional buck is hyper inflated, which is coming. I suggest you all bail from your big cities now. Currency destruction is a monetary thing and it strikes like a thunder bolt. Suddenly and with little warning. Got gold? Better get some. Or get wiped out.
Every major retailer should move out of every Democrat controlled city! The Democrats are antiCapitalist, antiFreedom, AntiAmerican & are Socialist. They think allowing anarchy in their cities will strengthen their party in Nov.
HA! That is insane!
Vote All Democrats out everywhere!
President Trump WILL WIN re-election & the Democrat Party will be little more than a whisper.
A lot of retailers also espouse the ideals of antiCapitalism, antiFreedom, AntiAmerican & Socialism. Target would be one of those. Didn’t spare them in the looting and burning.
Galt is gonna go Galt
Screw you, democraps
I wonder who gave the Mayor those two black eyes?
Guilty conscience and poor sleep does that.
She’s a rat-coon….
I hope I hope those retailers leave in droves. Just do it.
The moron allowed the criminals to run free and steal while destroying and then it wants the businesses to rebuild and stay in the shithole???? Can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds!
This mayor was a stand in for several alien actors in the best movie ever “They Live”. She needed no makeup.
SHRUG, BABY, SHRUG!!!
Chew on this one. A few years ago, NYC prevented Walmart from opening its first store there. The Marxists who were already running the city back then, had no legal grounds to stop Walmart. There were many big box store in NYC already. Despite this, big bad Walmart decided to give up the fight and move on.
If Marxist Leftists can stop the biggest retailer in the world, they can destroy ordinary people. They can and they do. How do think the Republican Party was wiped out in New York?
TO Mayor Lightfoot aka Marxist and Apologist for Back Urban Terrorists:
EFF You. Why would any sane rational American who cares about decency and the rule of law expose themselves to the violent carnage happening every day in your lawless city. If you want to help Chicago, quit. Chicagoans deserve better than you.
….really…they put her in that job….why do they deserve better?
I would say to Chicago…..get rid of her….bring in someone who can and will do the job…then we’ll talk.
She was elected by a lot of mindless apathetic idiots. In fact, she beat 8-9 other candidates and won easily. Her wikipedia page gives no indication that before being elected mayor, she was a Radical Leftist but based upon her actions and decision this past month, she clearly aligns with the Radical and Marxist Left BLM and LBGTQ movement. But this is masking the real problem. She lacks any qualification to be Mayor of such a large city, let alone one with a chronic high murder rate.
People love trashing Trump but they forget all those buildings didn’t build themselves. It required lots of management.
These leftist-run cities have no interest in managerial experience. They care about your ideology and loyalty to the cause. Minneapolis Mayor Frey, NYC Mayor De Blasio and Chicago Mayor Lightfoot had zero managerial or administrative experience prior to being elected Mayor. The typical career path is lawyer, city council member (elected), then Mayor.
Instead of first gaining managerial experience in the private sector, Leftists view the public sector as a more desirable career path to the private sector with guaranteed income, a generous pension, and zero competition. They live off the public teat. It has little to do with public service. Even though every penny of public funds comes from private sector productivity and risk, they view the private sector with contempt. Is it any surprise that they don’t give a rat’s a** about the businesses destroyed by looters. They’ll just borrow more money to cover the tax income deficit. Perpetually sucking in and squandering tax payer money is SOP for these political parasites.
People in these cities are dying as a result of gross incompetence, negligence and malfeasance. There’s literally zero prior qualifications to run for any elected position in these cities. It attract ambitious political ideologues that can trade favors, self-promote and raise campaign cash. Thee people are barely qualified to work in PR, let alone run a major city.
Chew on this one. A few years ago, NYC prevented Walmart from opening its first store there. The Marxists who were already running the city back then, had no legal grounds to stop Walmart. There were many big box store in NYC already. Despite this, big bad Walmart decided to give up the fight and move on.
If Marxist Leftists can stop the biggest retailer in the world, they can destroy ordinary people. They can and they do. How do think the Republican Parry was wiped out in New York?
TO Mayor Lightfoot aka Marxist and Apologist for Back Urban Terrorists:
EFF You. Why would any sane rational American who cares about decency and the rule of law expose themselves to the violent carnage happening every day in your lawless city. If you want to help Chicago, quit. Chicagoans deserve better than you.
I am originally from Poland and I lived thru the Russian communist dictatorship. I am a proud American. America, please wake up and stand up against the communist threat as your democracy is at stake. The same tactics were used in Poland.
Exactly. Well said. And God Bless Poland and her Visegrad allies Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia for standing up to the Leftist Supremacist/Communist/Globalist forces that are trying to destroy them with Leftism……….like they destroyed a lot of Western Europe.
You see it too!
I wish I could speak Polish or Hungarian then it would be Na razie to the Islamic Puppet States of N. America and a big FU to the rotten, corrupt, degenerate atheists who run this country.
It amazes me how the most incompetent, self-serving, ignorant, and condescending women turn out to be Dems. Sad.
Those are precise DemonickkkRats qualifications.
Well, don’t be too hard on it. Zombie mayor’s brain done rotted and ran out her nose.
NONE of these businesses should stay in Chicago, given how the Chicago “mayor” DIDN’T do anything to protect them from rioters and looters! Not to mention, her tough stance on “Social Distancing” hurt these businesses….while she hypocritically did not enforce any social distancing on the protesters and rioters. These businesses should not even have a conversation with her about staying in Chicago…..unless the conversation includes how they are made WHOLE and the city compensates them for their damages……AND compensates them for the trauma they experienced!
This is just another aspect of the” Dindonufin” culture.
She didn’t do anything to protect these businesses, has supported an anti-business climate her entire political career, and will be loudly complaining about the loss of tax revenue as Chcago residents go outside the city to spend their money.
They destroy their own town then complain its unfit to live in.
Sorry, Mayor…..you broke it…..you fix it.
Just like a spoiled commie child…..you want to do whatever you want WITH NO CONSEQUENCES …..the “D” in Democrat stands for DESTRUCTION ….. then you want other people to pay for it.
You’ve got some pretty wealthy Commie Dems in your town…..they can pay for it…NOT MY TAX DOLLARS.
planet of apes
I can imagine all of the insurance companies are cancelling, refusing to renew,or increasing premiums on any and all structures, inventories, any and all risks in Cook County making it impossible to open or finance these looted businesses. The tax base will shrink and default will arrive much sooner than expected. Pritzker will attempt to bailout the city but will need federal aid. I hope it is not forthcoming.
All she wants is the tax money.
To grow government dependence.
Rioting porch monkeys burn down their own neighborhoods, and then expect the “gummint”to deed nd clothe them? It’s suicidal!
You mean the Mayor who had her hair done when shops were closed to the peons. The one who said to social distance and wear a mask while not doing the same. And allowed terrorists to take over. The same one who kept everything closed down. Well she got the business closed down permanently and many more. Escape from Chicago!!!!
Best for all retailers to get out as Islam runs the mayor and things not looking good for more terrorist attacks
Turkey has been flooding countries with many war aged fighting males even during the COVID-19
Italian intelligence warns 20,000 migrants in Libya ready to invade Europe
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/italian-intelligence-warns-20000-migrants-in-libya-ready-to-invade-europe/
New migration and security threats for Europe after Turkey takes over a large military base in Libya
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/new-migration-and-security-threats-for-europe-after-turkey-takes-over-a-large-military-base-in-libya/
Qatar spends billions to support Islamist causes in the West
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/qatar-spends-billions-to-support-islamist-causes-in-the-west/
Lightfoot and all other diabolic Democrats Mayors/Governors/Congress members/Senators are the most perfect Looters and Destroyers of Common Sense, Conscience, Rightfulness, Fairness, Faith&Love&Hope.
Those people are the incarnations of EVIL.
The Cardinal is right !
I hope everyone including businesses abandoned Chicago. It’s a rat hole infested with evil and neanderthals.
Wouldn’t it be nice if these Moron Mayors, and others, would take a basic (correct) history class of America. Maybe start about 1960. Maybe these idiots would see how these riots have devastated some of our cities. Detroit, probably the worst. Before these recent riots, taxpayers have been moving out of these blue cities and states. All I have is a simple BA, but I have friends who never attended college…and they sure have it figured out! Many of these leaders have multiple degrees, but you’d have to look far and wide to find dumber and more ignorant people.
I have to laugh at that stupid moron. She is definitely a huge part of the problem in that sh..hole city. Sorry to all of you who remember or were raised there, but until they gain control of what goes on and arrest people committing crimes, real crimes, you know murder, robbery, arson, rape, assault and battery, ETC and not for breaking her edict on social distancing, they are screwed. I sometimes think about the movie, “Escape from NY”, and how we should put walls up around some of these cities to keep them in so the rest of the country doesn’t have to deal with them. Drop in enough food every week for 50% of the people and let the rest take care of itself.
Camden and Trenton NJ never recovered from their riots. No one rational lives there or goes near there unless you have to use the airport.. On the ourskirt of Newark they built Liberty international airport so you are very careful to make sure of the exit you get off and on to. If you drive into Newark, you may literally lose your life.
It seems every city that elects a black mayor sooner or later turns into a disaster area. We’ve seen it in Washington D.C, Detroit, Baltimore, New York, and now Chicago. I’m sure there are others. Will people never learn?
AS for rebuilding, why bother; they’ll just burn it down again?
So she wants her anarchist cake and eat it too. Typical of a Leftist hypocrite.
Why would anyone in their right mind invest money in the Chicago ghettos? Only a matter of time before the place is burned down or robbed into bankruptcy …. Beetlejuice had better rethink her attitude.
I STILL can’t go to church, but protests with hundreds of people are okay. It makes me so angry! I loathe this city!
Communists don’t like religion.
There may not be enough people with common sense in Chicago to vote out the leftist machine. Senseable people may have no choice but to flee! For the majority the crime city is a self inflicted wound! They deserve the government, the crime, and the riots they got!
Play silly games, win silly prizes.
Where is the rest of the article?
Let her feast upon the ashes of her bitterness and pyrrhic victory. As an African American she now understands how she’s recreated African standards of maladministration in America.
Lightfoot: ” Oh please don’t go, please stay here and be looted and burned out! Puleeeeeeezzz?”
“Mayor this is our city, this is our home”
She can hold on tight to that thought right up to the point where the insurers who indemnify those businesses make it clear that their business insurance cost is going to go up tenfold. Except for the parts of the city where coverage simply won’t available at any price.