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Why not just get to this point instead of silliness about hating vaccines? That’s absurd and nothing I’ve said or done is even remotely adjacent to that. Interesting on the booster shots AFAYK.

We don’t have to assume, I’m happy to look at any reports of Fauci or other parties acknowledging the participation in the development of the virus. Do you have something, or do you feel that what I offered is untrue? The point for me is not hating vaccines, it’s trust in people in positions of authority telling you what you should do. Given what I know now, I probably would not have gotten the COVID vaccine and I think it was significantly oversold. I’m neither an anti-vaxx nor do I blindly follow guidance without question. As stated previous, I’ve gotten the flu shot for years, was recently vaxxed against whooping cough, and my children were vaccinate on schedule. I don’t think I’m an outlier on this issue, and represent a cross section of people across party lines. Have you gotten COVID shots over the past several years?

Are you at all concerned that our country was engaged in research in Wuhan, that the research included dangerous viruses, and post COVID there wasn’t an acknowledgement of our involvement there? I think looking back, if Fauci was more honest, and the US government demanded more accountability from the Chinese government, the average American wouldn’t feel that there was a massive cover up.

Asked, answered. I was listening to Gimme Back my Bullets yesterday, just sort of popped into my head. The interesting part about the music is that there is precious little they offer that intersects with anything in my life. No whiskey, no ludes, no Saturday Night Specials, no girls on the road, no bullets to gimme back, not really all that much fighting. I’m not from the south (likely obvious), yet here we are because the first album I ever bought was an LS album. So…yeah, I think the song is pretty much spot on though you all seem to do a pretty good job of minimizing the problem when it comes to violence in Chicago. I do think it’s telling that LS didn’t even include a reference to Indiana in that song. They must not have gotten the memo?

That’s pretty good, though you’ve missed on a number of points. 1A-D. Wrong. In a perfect world, citizens of any city receive the services they pay for and have a right to expect. Many things get in the way of that, including poor leadership. Maybe, especially poor leadership. When things go south, from the perspective of the victimized, solutions should be found. More intimidating than the National Guard? Probably the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime, unless you’re an upper middle class moop lecturing people on how crime in their area is acceptable. My hope would be a refocus on the nuts and bolts of civil society and the mantle of leadership to lead. 2A-B. Fair enough. It’s an old Seinfeld reference in which George is playing Trivial Pursuit with a guy in a plastic bubble. The answer is “Moors”, the bubble boy answers correctly and George says the answer is “Moops” due to a misprint on the card. Chaos ensues. It’s a term of affection. 3A-B. It was a movie, the idea was to make a movie and make some dough. Mission accomplished. Chris Farley was all of those things, take your issues up with Lorne Michaels, the cast and crew of SNL, and popular culture of the day. 4A-D. I hope you have a great day, in spite of your increasingly concerning rage issues. I wish you…joy.

That was Donald Trump. I’m talking the lunatic who stalked another human being he didn’t like, waited for him to walk down the sidewalk and shot him dead. Luigi Mangione. The guy with the groupies like Charlie Manson had.

Gotcha. It can get confusing, there isn't even a Y in MAGA. For clarity, I meant you as in you with respect to that psycopath who murdered the guy on the street.

You're still coming up short on explaining why you lied about what I wrote. What I intended was the use of 'you' in the informal, colloquial sense to describe people that might be directly/indirectly impacted by the aforementioned death, crime, inept leadership. Citizens of Chicago, for example. I guess I can see how that threw you. Still, Tibsy, 'you' would not be 'I', even in the monkeyenglish world in which you reside.

Why do you keep changing what was written? I never suggested I was “bombarded” as you said the first time, nor did I claim I was “bombard” the second time you said I did (mostly because I went to school last 4th grade). Are you taking all the meds or just the one with pretty colors?

Hmmm. I read stories on Fox News on occasion. I have never read, listened to or thought about Alex Jones much beyond what I know about his reprehensible comments on the Sandy Hook massacre. “Fun cast of characters” reads as if you felt you were on a roll and then completely ran out of steam. I was vaccinated against COVID almost immediately, drove 80 miles to get the vaxx. I got my booster shot promptly, before the Biden admin changed the description of fully vaccinated to have at least one shot to make the numbers look better. Ironically my children thought I would be anti-vaxx, until I reminded them I had gotten the flu shot for many years before Covid. Other that that, I developed tinnitus not too long after getting vaccinated and have dealt with it since then. Could be old age, could be bad vaxx. Two young family members developed myocarditis after getting vaxxed, one ended up hospitalized. My only regret regret is pressuring one of my children into getting vaxxed based on the pressure of members of the scientific community. I don’t know anything about ivermectin, but it seems clear you considered it as an option. I couldn’t tell Matt Walsh from Matt Stafford. You, on the other hand, support and understand the emotion behind a lunatic gunning down a man calling down the street—-which basically puts you in the same category as any of the most fervent Alex Jones disciples, you just wear a different uniform.

Ah, she thought she was getting Swayze but ended up with Farley? Could be.

Because it was politicized and things simply don’t add up. From social distancing to churches closed and liquor stores open, to stay at home and no more than one person per household in a group to the elderly dying alone, to lock down/stay down while there was support for tens of thousands of people gathering in the streets, to the Harris declaration that she wouldn’t trust a vaccine developed under Trump when the world was in crisis…to myocarditis in young people and everything else——some people simply don’t trust pharmaceutical companies (and never have) and leaders who threaten to have you arrested when they knowingly break their own rules. Add to that the past administration encouraging unvaccinated people entering the country with not a fear in the world about spread, what would you think would happen? Personally, I think it’s nuts, but when you lose trust, it’s hard to get it back.

I’m worried about my participation in the series of events that lead to Kay defending Tibs and his subsequent outreach to her here. I feel that connection does not bode well for the future of the planet with lots of little Comrade Tibsys running around. I feel like the scientist in Terminator 2 who unwittingly put civilization on a collision course with the apocalypse, and I don’t know how to undo what I have done.

I'll repeat what I wrote earlier: I don’t watch much media, I have a short attention span for that sort of thing. Here are things I didn't say: I don't follow the news; I don't ever watch media; I am from Chicago; I am "bombarded with news from that one city"; After reconsidering a potential Tibs/Kay union, I beseech the Comrade to avoid a close personal relationship with you. There's not enough smart in Kay to offset the dullard in you. Your children will be simpletons.

Tibsy and Comrade sitting in a tree Kay Eye Ess Ess Eye Enn Gee First comes love! Then comes consciously coupling and cohabitating with equal division of labor in something that seems an awful lot like traditional marriage Then come the moops in the baby carriage! No sir, not from Chicago, but we have access to online news and news aggregators that covers news outside the area I live. Are you limited to news sources that only produce content related to your Grammies basement? Sad!

“Special rules for electeds”?

Neunundneunzig Luftballons?

I don’t watch much media, I have a short attention span for that sort of thing. I’m happy to listen to your perspective though—what are my media sources, what are they telling me and how am I being manipulated? I’m happy to summarize where I’m at on this: I think Chicago has a crime problem, I think that’s fairly well documented in terms of numbers of murders, the number of violent crimes, and the vast number of victims from those crimes. I don’t think Chicago is the only city with violent crime, but it is the city we’re talking about when we talk about murders and violent crime in Chicago. I think there is a political aspect in focusing on Chicago, and I don’t think that’s at all unusual. If someone thinks politics do not factor into so many things said and done in this country, I think they are pretty naive. I think tying a political party to weakness on any issue—-the economy, big government v small, inflation, and in particular, crime—- is just about as normal a thing as can happen in any given day in the country. I think most people, regardless of any other defining characteristic, when faced with significant exposure to violent crime, and under the impression that their “leadership” has failed them spectacularly, would welcome the National Guard, Guardian Angels, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, a rematch of the fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield where Tyson chomped Holyfield’s ear and just about anything else to make their lives and streets safer. I think most wealthy, affluent liberals express concern about crime in Chicago, at the same time minimize the problem, express concern about federal involvement, and do so comfortably ensconced in mostly safe neighborhoods. I believe that would change if crime came to call with any regularity. I think blaming the Hoosiers is the equivalent to blaming “slippage for Biden’s decades long confidential document problem, and/or his sharpness and vitality in general. I think some of what I wrote above comes from a place as a conservative voter, some is just common sense and information available to anyone who cares to look.

I think Chi’s point is that while the number in Shreveport is substantially lower, let’s remember Indiana. Thank you. It seems at times that both rooms are in Chicago.

I agree there is no simple (long term) fix--the morons who allowed the problem to reach this point, and the voters who allowed it to happen--have created a multi-tiered issue that will be difficult to fix. For example, the oft-cited "60% of the guns..." seems like a political talking point to me. It would be interesting to see how those numbers are derived, I'd wager there's a lot of guesswork and finger-pointing the other way involved there. Be that as it may, what about the other 40%? Are the people murdered supposed to be reassured that there's a 60% chance that they were killed with an Indiana gun while in Chicago? Are the 40% supposed to rest assured their wounds were born n raised Chicago style? As for 'who' might give a s****, I'd simply suggest many voters might. 'Soft on crime' is a consideration for many voters, and painting the dems as crime friendly is a pretty good strategy. I sincerely hope the dem approach is "Who gives a s*** about crime?".

Could be as simple as they start at the point where they can have the most impact with the lowest potential for problems.

On the other hand if you constantly hear stories of dead bodies, shootings, and victims of violent crime in the city, you might wonder why the leadership is inept, incompetent and unable to solve the problem that has seen massive amounts of money thrown at it. On some level, it goes back to the mindset when the reports of gang members taking over apartment buildings and the perception that the liberal philosophy was “Well, it’s only a couple complexes…”. There may well be a political element to it, that’s nothing new at all.

Never lived there, but loved the times I have visited. I have a close friend who lives downtown--bought a very cool house in a renovated area maybe 20 years ago. His version is that crime is bad, it happens in his neighborhood but at a lower rate than some of the high crime areas. Guy was shot up around the corner a few years ago. I have another friend who lived in the suburbs, worked downtown in his financial services firm who believes the city is not worth the risk anymore due to crime and poor leadership. Part of his view may be skewed because the wife of a friend caught a bullet in the head on the way home to the suburbs, from the downtown office she worked at, and died. He moved south, the firm moved out of the downtown area. Obviously, two anecdotal experiences does not a crisis make, but it certainly sounds like the relative safety of the city is nothing to brag about if you're leading the charge at city and state levels.

Deflection, a classic sign of insecurity.

Your attempt to leverage the death of a child for an endorphin rush is about as pathetic as it gets. Have you no boundaries at all? Be that as it may, it’s possible you’re not a complete sociopath off the board and I’ll say a prayer for you to find some sense of inner peace.