I don't understand why John doesn't like Gotham. After a while the Joker kind of grows on you.
He's getting a little "pissed off". He needs to move to the suburbs.
Jussie Smollett, the Obamas and the Chicago Way
By John Kass
November 24, 2024
Have you heard the one in the Chicago media about disgraced and outgoing Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx—the George Soros prosecutor zero–shouting “Karma is a bitch?”
No?
Have you read the one in Chicago media about the secret Chicago Way deal for Jussie Smollett, between Foxx, and Obamas?
No?
Well, I keep telling you to pay attention to what politicians and the media don’t tell you for what they avoid like the watchdog that didn’t bark during a crime.
That’s where you find the root of the story. And so, let’s begin with a song at the Obama White House sung by Jussie Smollett, crooning “I Got a Woman” off key to then First Lady Michelle Obama, and every note was sung without a trace of irony.
Michelle sat there giggling and clapping, as wiggly as a teenage girl. And sitting right next to her in the Obama White House was the equally wiggly and giggly President Barack Obama to see Smollett shake his hips and try to sing.
Don’t tell me you missed it years ago. Happily, American taxpayers have paid public television to record the scene, and I present it here for your Obama Christmas joy and without a shred of irony. I mean it.
What’s all this about?
Smollett has been big news lately, since the Illinois Supreme Court reversed his conviction about faking a hate crime, blaming Trump supporters, trying to ignite a race riot in Chicago, and paying two weightlifting Nigerian brothers to place a noose around his neck while blaming MAGA. His lie was that he was attacked by those “MAGA” supporters on the coldest night of the year as he went out for a tuna-fish sandwich. He fought them off (or so went his idiotic story) and kept his sandwich intact. What a hero!
The media made fools of themselves breathlessly covering it, supporting the racist slogans and the idiotic Obama- approved Ta-Nehisi logic that gave the simpering Jussie Smollett the room, or the rope, to portray himself as a victim of white Republican racism. How perfectly simple, like a child’s wooden puzzle.
But it was all a lie.
And when Jussie was found out to be a liar, Kim Foxx cut him a deal and then her office used a special prosecutor to renege on the original deal. In the race panic and confusion, Smollett the weasel was applauded by fool journalists such as ABC’s Robin Roberts . If Roberts had honor, she’d be thoroughly ashamed. But she isn’t. She’s just another DEI media star mouthing the approved cliches. He raised his fists to claims victory. And that bad news broke just as Foxx the noted social justice warrior thought she was covering herself in glory as she exited the prosecutor’s office.
But it doesn’t smell like glory, does it Kim?
It smells like something the donkeys make, doesn’t it Kim? And it’s all on your face, in your eyes, and mouth as if you’ve been rolling in it.
Bless you Kim Foxx.
You’ve destroyed the office of Cook County State’s Attorney, just as Mayor Brandon Johnson has irrevocably destroyed the mayor’s office. And skin pigment has nothing to do with it. But stupidity and arrogance have everything to do with it.
The case cost Chicago taxpayers millions of dollars, and more than $100,000 in police overtime to focus on the made-up story. Some of us–including former Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives–think Kim Foxx should go to the slammer if she doesn’t make full restitution for her own costly stupidity. But that’s like wondering if Boss Toni will apologize for letting street criminals roam. It won’t happen.
Still, I sometimes think of that touching photo of Kim Foxx and Vice President Kamala Harris. When that photo was taken, Foxx thought she had a political future, perhaps pushing Dick “Bullhead” Durbin aside and becoming a U.S. Senator herself. She was running with the popular girls. And Kamala had yet to knife Joe Biden in the back as part of Barack’s coup.
Now Kim is out and Kamala is out. And Barack is still building his great temple. Funny how “stuff” happens.
Foxx’s made the controversial decision to drop the false hate crime charges against Smollett, after he forfeited his $10,000 bond and conducted community service. That move led to a public outcry, and brave retired former Judge Sheila O’Brien stood up to Jussie’s woke mob and demanded a special prosecutor. Eventually Special Prosecutor Dan Webb did charge him again and convict him.
The Supreme Court said the double jeopardy rule enshrined in the Constitution is clear: You cannot try someone twice for the same crime.
As Foxx told a local radio station: “As unpopular as the disposition was — and I don’t negate that it was an unpopular disposition of his case — it was over. ”
You don’t negate? Don’t you have any other weasel words? Kim? Nice try but as Bill Clinton would say, No Cigar.
In it’s opinion overturning the verdict, the Illinois Supreme Court said: “We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the oroiginal case and believed it to be unjust. Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the State was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied.”
What frosted me is that Foxx didn’t tell the truth that as the Smollett case broke and the media became even more hysterical, Foxx and Michelle Obama’s White House chief-of-staff, big shot lawyer Tina Tchen were speaking quietly, secretly and somehow–as if by magic–Smollett was dipped into the corrupt magic waters of the Chicago Way. And all his hurts were healed. And Kim dropped the charges, because as she saw things, race was everything. I assume the Obamas wiggled and giggled. They won. And justice lost.
You know what’s really unjust?
Letting Kim Foxx and Tina Tchen get away their scheming is unjust. Both still have their law licenses. I haven’t seen Tina’s name in any of the editorials about Foxx and Smollett. Why is that?
It all pales when compared to the real problems of real people, and true victims of true crime. But they don’t count. Obama clout counts. Now that Kim destroyed what remained of her reputation, perhaps Michelle and Barack will take pity and giving her a job slinging drinks at their Pritzker paradise on priceless lakefront land, the Obama Temple of Adoration and Fealty.
Will Obama’s palace resemble the Temple of the Morlocks from “The Time Machine” of the H.G. Wells story, like the photo I saw in an “X” post? I certainly hope so. The Morlocks feasted on human flesh. But Obama’s guys eat human American souls. And they smile wanly as they chew with their mouths closed. The Cook County
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State’s Attorney’s office was once a great place for bright young Chicagoans to learn the practical aspects of the law. Until Foxx came, and picked up her $2 million check from the ne0-Marxist billionaire George Soros and adopted woke legal theory and failed to charge violent crime. Or organized shoplifting. Thugs stole thousands of dollars worth of goods, and there were no arrests, because Chicago cops knew there would be no prosecutions. And shoppers avoided those areas and more pressure was placed on taxpayers.
And that is how Democrat racial politics kills a city.
Foxx’s patron, Cook County Board President Boss Toni Preckwinkle and Foxx decided to shrink the size of the Cook County Jail. And they did. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart–a political weakling reduced to a pink token on Boss Toni’s gameboard–sat obediently and let Boss Toni and Kim Foxx shrink the jail to nothing. It was no matter to them if violent repeat offenders ended up walking free for lack of jail space. It’s what they wanted. Offenders were mostly minorities and Boss Toni and Foxx knew that. And so they shrank the jail. It’s what the left wanted. And it’s what Barack Obama wanted. Obama has long been about “social justice” even though that may sometimes mean elderly minorities in Chicago getting robbed or beaten up, their hips broken. But these leftists don’t care, as long as they can demonize law enforcement.
Under Foxx the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office was the place to twist the law to satisfy her neo-Marxist racial politics that have destroyed Chicago. She played race cards, and ran on race cards, and wrapped herself in race cards. All this left-wing Democratic racial demagoguery drove good prosecutors into retirement, and good cops off the force but the neo-Marxists of the union that destroyed my old “paper” must have been pleased.
I’m reminded me of Heather Mac Donald talking with my friend, the conservative radio host Dan Proft on his “Counterculture” podcast.
They addressed what happens to a culture when merit is suppressed in the pursuit of so-called racial justice.
“Nothing is going to change Dan unless we have an explicit repudiation of the anti-cop narrative that has been embraced by President Joe Biden, by much of the Democratic class, by political activists in cities, because cops are still operating under this pall of accusation that they are inherently racist.”
Some of the Soros prosecutors in other jurisdictions have already been turned out of office. But in Cook County, Eileen O’Neill Burke avoided the tough issues and slid into office because the Republicans continued to support a weak candidate. The Chicago papers roll into oblivion. Who reads them? Legacy corporate media is dead.
But for many victims of crime in Cook County who remain, and for some of us who stood up to condemn Soros and his neo-Marxist influence on criminal justice, there is no real change. Civilized city life has become the province of the barbarian and the anarchist climbs up on that hill to crow.
And the left-wing flies keep buzzing as a great city dies.
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