Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Two months before the Democratic Convention, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made an urgent plea to President Joe Biden for federal help to stop city gun violence. Oddly, the letter from Mayor Johnson to President Biden never mentions the Democratic Convention, but zeroes in on summertime holiday weekends, when shootings and murders typically spike. We need help, is the essence of the June 18th personal letter from the mayor to the president obtained by the I-Team through a public records request. It asked for specific federal assistance aimed at curbing gun violence to arrive before the expected July 4 weekend violence. With 109 shootings, including 19 people killed by gunfire, during the long Independence Day weekend, there was nothing to indicate that the mayor's letter to the president resulted in the arrival of any federal help.

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... gun laws don't work ...

I don't see that phrase in the cited article.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 06:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

Especially if your neighbor is"buy one and get one free" Indiana.

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-08-18 06:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

... gun laws don't work ...

Not after SCOTUS overrules them.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-08-18 06:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Gun shop in red state -------- linked to hundreds of Chicago guns.

www.propublica.org

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-18 06:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Mayor Brandon Johnson made an urgent plea to President Joe Biden for federal help to stop city gun violence. Oddly, the letter from Mayor Johnson to President Biden never mentions the Democratic Convention"

Yeah, I hate it when this happens.

"Send in the clowns, Don't worry, they're already here"

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-18 07:15 PM | Reply

Judy Collins could see this ------.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-18 07:16 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Yeah, I hate it when this happens. ...

Does your current alias really hate when gun violence happens?


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:20 PM | Reply

Does your current alias really hate when gun violence happens?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:20 PM | Reply | Flag

Does your current alias have an IQ that tops room temperature?

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-18 07:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#8 ... Does your current alias have an IQ that tops room temperature? ...

It does.

So, now, maybe answer the question I asked instead of replying with an ad hominem attack?


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:54 PM | Reply

@#8

... and your #8 comment got a NW flag from the originator of this thread.

You must be so proud. :)

:)

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:56 PM | Reply

It does.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 07:54 PM | Reply |

Prove it. I call BS

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-08-18 08:06 PM | Reply

a NW flag from the originator of this thread.

It's the Florida civilian equivalent of a Silver Star.

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-08-18 08:13 PM | Reply

#11 I can bank on the alias always looking at the recently flagged page. Predictable and pathetic.

#13 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-08-18 08:13 PM | Reply

@#11 ... Prove it. I call BS ...

Aside from what I would suspect your current alias' rejection of anything I might now post, I will say...

What else does your current alias got?

Maybe, a non-ad hominem comment that is thread-related?

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 08:18 PM | Reply

@#13 ... I can bank on the alias always looking at the recently flagged page. Predictable and pathetic. ...

Nah, I don't "always" look at that page.

Just when I see something weird.

And, thank-you for confirming my suspicions of something "weird."

:)

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 08:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#11 ... Prove it. I call BS ...

What's to prove?

Is this your new Obama Birth Certificate?

imo, the fact that your current alias is asking these questions means that it cannot reply to the questions I ask in my comments.

To me, that is the more important question here.


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 10:42 PM | Reply

Project 2025 HQ is being projected onto the puthy ath bith's Chicago building. lol

x.com

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-18 10:56 PM | Reply

@#17

Images taking aim at Trump-Vance campaign projected onto Trump Tower ahead of DNC
www.nbcchicago.com

... As democrats descended on the city for the four-day convention, various taunts were visible on the side of the building, such as "Project 2025 HQ." ...


#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-19 01:14 AM | Reply

If Chicago could deport and remove all of the societal trash that were hatched on Dem values or lack there of, ie without family values. we probably would have a much better and more respectable society. Dems are the problem.

#19 | Posted by Robson at 2024-08-19 09:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Bigots like you are the problem.

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-19 09:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Compassion won't get you not shot on the south side. The only thing that's going to fix it is eventual gentrification when they bulldoze it.

#21 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-08-20 08:24 AM | Reply

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