ChiGoose

This should have a significant impact on the runoff: For those who aren’t familiar, White is the closest thing you can find to a consensus candidate in our polarized environment. In his last election (2018), he won 68% of the vote in an election where the Dem governor and AG candidates each won 55%. The next closest statewide candidate that election was the Comptroller who won with 60%. White carried a lot of downstate counties that are equivalent to the upstate and western counties of NY. He’s recently retired but this is a significant endorsement for Vallas. Here’s how the state voted for Governor in 2018: And here’s how it voted for Secretary of State (Jesse White’s race):

This cancel culture snowflakes are at it again. Trying to cancel an entire political party because of something from 150+ years ago. Florida Republican pitches bill to eliminate the Florida Democratic Party “A Republican in Florida's Legislature has filed a bill that, if enacted, would eliminate the Florida Democratic Party. “The Ultimate Cancel Act,” filed Tuesday by state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, would require the state’s Division of Elections to “immediately cancel” the filings of any political party whose platform had “previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.”

I mean, yeah. That's why I didn't vote for her. And it seems most of Chicago agreed with me.

Hard to understand who is still supporting her. What are they saying? I don’t know anyone who voted for her this time around even though most people I know (including myself) voted for her in the runoff in 2019.

The true Chicago style pizza is tavern style and it has a cracker thin crust. It’s cut into squares. It has a cool history, but I’m not a fan.

Yup! I moved to Chicago a little over a decade ago. I think Johnson will be favored to win but Vallas will have a shot at the upset. Johnson's lead won't be prohibitive and turnout is going to be the major factor. Any change from Lori is a positive change. Beyond that, hard to say. Chicago's biggest problems (gun violence, lack of investment, housing, etc) can't be solved solely by the mayor but instead require help from Springfield as well as states like Wisconsin and Indiana. Personally, I voted for Kam Buckner because I liked his ideas around fostering entrepreneurship, trade and vocational schools, funding neighborhoods and a post-COVID downtown with mixed use and more public spaces. Crime is the top issue in Chicago, but it's not the only issue and it's not why Lori lost. She lost because she alienated everyone. She spent her entire term yelling at everyone and claiming she had the biggest dick in Chicago. Even people who work for her don't like her. If the theory that supporting the police / being tough on crime was the only issue in this race, Brandon Johnson wouldn't have made the runoff. Chuy ran a pathetic and lethargic campaign. Lori was hitting him in the local media and he wasn't responding. I'm not sure he even wanted to win, his campaign was so bad. It had nothing to do with Cori Bush. Don't form your opinions on a local race from the national media. That goes double for Chicago where most of the national coverage is junk.

Tell me you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election without saying you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election.

Given Vallas’s move to the right, I would think that Johnson has a stronger chance at picking up those votes even though they aren’t progressive areas. Lightfoot was somehow both arrogant and incompetent. Not a great combination. She didn’t play nice with anyone and just assumed everyone would do what she wanted while she yelled at them and berated them.

Vallas is a traditional establishment guy who has tacked to the right to carve his lane in the election. His endorsements largely come from those that endorse republicans (like the FOP) though Vallas has himself traditionally been a Dem. Vallas’s support has come from the southwest and northwest white conservative areas of the city. Johnson is a Cook County Commissioner, so he has experience with local government administration. His platform is fairly progressive and he’s big on fixing the homelessness problem. He actually was a big supporter of a local non-profit that worked to help the homeless whose associate board I used to sit on. However, he has some controversial proposals like a 3% tax on incomes over $100k and a business headcount tax for people who work in the city (and thus benefit from its infrastructure) but live in the suburbs. Johnson’s support has come from the white progressive / liberal areas in the north. The runoff will be decided by turnout and who can court the west and south side areas that supported Lightfoot, Chuy, and Willie Wilson: Here’s another breakdown of the vote:

Not optimistic. This field was incredibly weak and I don’t have high hopes about either candidate who made the runoff.

She’s delusional. She has only herself to blame. Maybe she had had a few too many of those conciliatory Modelo’s before talking to the press…

Me too! Very underrated city. Have lived here for over a decade and really can’t imagine living anywhere else.

Lightfoot was elected with more than 70% of the vote in the 2019 mayoral election runoff. She then spent four years alienating every constituency and complaining about literally everything. Her greatest accomplishment is leaving us with this quote: “My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago.” The election played out mostly as expected. Vallas picked up the conservative vote while Lightfoot, Johnson, and Chuy Garcia competed for the second runoff slot. Johnson had surged over the last couple of weeks and beat out Lori and Chuy. I would expect that Johnson is the favorite for the runoff (interestingly, both he and Vallas split the white vote so the runoff will be decided by turnout and who the Latino and black votes coalesce around), but Vallas has a good chance at the upset.

In reality, the war started because the Ukrainian president went against the will of the people and cancelled plans to move the country towards the West in favor of closer relations with Russia. The people revolted and forced the president out. Putin couldn’t have that so he invaded Crimea under false pretenses. When that did not deter Ukraine’s move towards the West, he apparently decided to try to take over the whole country and install a puppet government. As much as people want to stretch the truth so they can blame Biden, the sole reason this was exists is because Putin wants to restore the USSR.

Some people will fall for the dumbest propaganda from the geniuses who confused SIM cards with the game “The Sims”

There’s tons of coverage. I see videos from the war literally every day. There are embedded journalists, there are independent outlets covering it, it’s everywhere if you’re looking for it. The only way you could believe that there’s no coverage is if you live in such an isolated bubble that the real world cannot penetrate it.

Top 5 states by homicide rate: 1. Mississippi 2. Louisiana 3. Alabama 4. Missouri 5. Arkansas Didn’t realize progressives were running those states… Also: “But there is a large piece of the homicide story that is missing and calls into question the veracity of the right-wing obsession over homicides in Democratic cities: murder rates are far higher in Trump-voting red states than Biden-voting blue states. And sometimes, murder rates are highest in cities with Republican mayors. For example, Jacksonville, a city with a Republican mayor, had 128 more murders in 2020 than San Francisco, a city with a Democrat mayor, despite their comparable populations. In fact, the homicide rate in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco was half that of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield, a city with a Republican mayor that overwhelmingly voted for Trump. Yet there is barely a whisper, let alone an outcry, over the stunning levels of murders in these and other places.”

2022 Homicide rates: Chicago - 25.8 Buffalo - 24.6 Is every day in Buffalo a day of hate too?

So any time a nuclear power wants to take territory and kill civilians, we should just let them? Let’s just carve out the world for Russia and China so they can take whatever want and we’ll just come to the “negotiations” with our tails between our legs.

Let me ask you this: If China invaded the United States, took a good chunk of our territory before stalling out, was torturing and murdering civilians, instituted a policy of kidnapping American kids and taking them to re-education camps so that they can be brainwashed into thinking that China is superior and the US really doesn’t exist, would you be willing to cede a parts of the US to them? Would you condemn US citizens to indoctrination, torture, and death? If China had stalled out and the US was poised to take the upper hand and potentially regain the occupied territories, would you instead sue for peace? Because I sure as hell wouldn’t.

They’ve been pretty clear about this: restoration of their borders and sovereignty.

Maybe PJRedStateBartTwitchyDotMAGADotWin doesn’t have good war correspondents?

This stuff is readily available for anyone who is interested. Maybe it’s not that it’s not there but that some people have closed their bubbles so they never see it.

Saw this going around here in Chicago and it looks like it may not be limited to just the Illinois Nazis: Hopefully it’s overblown and these losers just keep losing and embarrassing themselves but be vigilant this weekend and stay safe just the same.

Russia is torturing and executing civilians and they are even kidnapping children and “re-educating” them to eliminate their Ukrainian heritage. It’s textbook genocide: trying to erase a culture. And yet some people are surprised that Ukraine doesn’t want to capitulate to Russia and leave its citizens in the hands of those who wish to liquidate them.