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At least five people have been killed and 30 others injured in shootings across Chicago over Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims wounded late Saturday night, according to police. The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Trump on Saturday sent a warning to the Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in a post on his social media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying Pritzker "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!" Illinois Gov. Pritzker, a Democrat, responded in a news conference a week ago to an earlier Trump threat to "straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C.," by saying that the president's plan was "unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is un-American."

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---- off you MAGAT whore

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-01 12:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What is your point Gracie?

Chicago is not even on the lists of the most violent cities in America.

Cities frequently appearing on lists of violent cities:
Memphis, Tennessee
Has been cited for the highest homicide rate in large metro areas and a high violent crime rate.
Detroit, Michigan:
Often ranks high for overall violent crime and is listed among the "murder capitals".
Baltimore, Maryland:
Has a high violent crime rate, particularly for robberies, and is considered a deadly city by some sources.
Kansas City, Missouri:
Has seen a worrying rise in its homicide rate, leading to community efforts to reduce crime.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-01 01:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Gracie's point is she believes black people are less than human

Gracie is a racist ----

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-01 01:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

As of mid-2025, Chicago had recorded 188 homicides, a 32% decrease from the same period in 2024, which had 276 homicides. The city experienced a significant reduction in violence, with June 2025 having fewer homicides than any June since 2014

Chicago is taking care of Chicago.

Then why is Trump talking about it?

Because there are still people in America who are talking about Trump the pedophile being Epstein's number one client.

So why is Gacy posting this thread?

Because she's decided pedophilia isn't really a big deal.

Those 13 year old girls were asking to be raped.

Right, Gacy? You're a big fan of raping young girls, aren't you.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-01 01:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Then why is Trump talking about it?

Because Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama is from there.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-01 01:22 PM | Reply

Obama was the best president of my lifetime.

Followed by Clinton.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-01 01:24 PM | Reply

"Then why is Trump talking about it?

Because Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama is from there.
#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-01 01:22 PM"

Possibly, but then so is Pope Leo XIV. Proving, once again, coincidence is not causality.

It's much more likely President Trump is looking for something (ANYTHING!) to defect attention away from the Epstein Files.

#7 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-09-01 01:30 PM | Reply

Typical Gracie mentality. Who else is surprised hmmmmmmmmmmmm??

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-01 02:20 PM | Reply

@#8

It is typical MAGA mentality, imo.

Focusing and highlighting the symptom, instead of focusing and trying to resolve the cause.

For example, why did the Trump admin cut funding for crime prevention in Chicago?

Trump administration slashed federal funding for gun violence prevention (July 2025)
www.reuters.com

... The Trump administration has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Baltimore.

Of the 145 community violence intervention (CVI) grants totaling more than $300 million awarded through the U.S. Department of Justice, 69 grants were abruptly terminated
, opens new tab in April, according to government data analyzed by Reuters. ...

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-01 10:33 PM | Reply

Of course, that then leads to the question ...

Why does Pres Trump seem to want violent crime to rise in cities?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-01 10:34 PM | Reply

"For example, why did the Trump admin cut funding for crime prevention in Chicago?"

Because Crime Prevention is Woke.
Because it mostly helps Black people.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-01 10:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#11 ... Because Crime Prevention is Woke.
Because it mostly helps Black people. ...

I do not disagree.

But I think Pres Trump's advisors are looking more towards a longer-term goal.

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-01 10:54 PM | Reply

Memphis has a higher shooting rate than Chicago so f*** off troll.

#13 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-02 07:42 AM | Reply

Chicago has been called out for having a violence and homelessness issue incessantly on this site without debate.

But suddenly on this thread Chicago is nowhere near being an issue. Hilarious.

#14 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-09-02 02:14 PM | Reply

"Chicago has been called out for having a violence and homelessness issue incessantly on this site without debate."

Thoughts And Prayers.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-02 02:15 PM | Reply

"Chicago has been called out for having a Black violence and Black homelessness issue incessantly on this site without debate."

True.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-02 02:16 PM | Reply

Gracie's posted about Chicago forever. Even when I smack her with the per capita murder rate of Jacksonville Fl being higher, as are MANY cities, you idjits on the right just glaze over and shout "CHICAGO!" Violent crime? There are far worse places than Chicago. That doesn't mean Chicago's just peach keen - but it does mean you right-wingers are nutcases.

Y'all are sad little brain dead fccks. Ranking in violent crime, top of the list is the worst:

St. Louis, MO 69.4
Baltimore, MD 51.1
New Orleans, LA 40.6
Detroit, MI 39.7
Cleveland, OH 33.7
Las Vegas, NV 31.4
Kansas City, MO 31.2
Memphis, TN 27.1
Newark, NJ 25.6
Chicago, IL 24.0
Cincinnati, OH 23.8

Why is Trump picking on Chicago? Because morons like Gracie and other MAGAts have been told "CHICAGO!" over and over and over and still can't figure shht out.

#17 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-02 02:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

-Why is Trump picking on Chicago?

because it's a blue city in a blue state and doesn't give 2 ----- about pissing everyone off there.

Gracie loves it because it's perceived as proof that liberalism and the democratic party don't know any more how to run a city or state than the republicans.

Yeah.....it's kind of stupid. Always has been.

#18 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-02 02:37 PM | Reply

#18 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Sort of, but my take is, its not so simple.

Ranking in violent crime, top of the list is the worst:

The issue with rankings is its always per 100,000 or some statistic. There really is a high density of crime and shootings in particular Chicago areas.
abc7chicago.com
bestneighborhood.org

Why is Trump picking on Chicago?

Because of the percentages of African Americans, in these towns.

To any of these :
St. Louis, MO 69.4
Baltimore, MD 51.1
New Orleans, LA 40.6
Detroit, MI 39.7
Cleveland, OH 33.7

You'd call him a racist if he went to a city like above. The point of Newsom, calling out of primarily African American crime areas is a racist dog whistle. Hoping racist point this fact out.

That fact:
Black (males) Americans have high homicide rates, in fact its over half of all homicides, and this doesn't include the high percentage of unsolved homicides.

So go figure Trump is playing it safe, going after a homicides in a high population with a low percentage of Blacks. To avoid being called a racist.
Everyone knows where the violent crime is, no one wants to point it out. In fact thats why its gotten so bad in these neighborhoods.
Crime keeps people in poverty, black people are in poverty because Democrats seem to look the other way when there is PoC crime. Thus perpetuating black poverty. While Republicans are too chicken about being called racist.

Black people deserve peace. Lowering crime in their neighborhoods would be the first step to lift black people out of poverty.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-02 02:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

gacy is a racist, so it's no surprise she laughs about Black people killing each other.

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-02 03:03 PM | Reply

in particular Chicago areas.

Same as in DC. Same as in any other geographic area.

"Alaska, the country's most rural state, led the nation with the highest violent crime rate of 1,194.3 per 100,000 residents."

"The southern states of Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina were among the national leaders in both violent crime and homicide rates last year..."

Not to minimize Chicago, but there are dangerous areas. Far more dangerous areas, in fact.
You know what they all have in common? The National Guard isn't in those areas.

Do you know why they are dangerous? Any clue besides "they're black!" (which, btw, is funny because there just aren't all that many black folk in Alaska).

#21 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-02 03:13 PM | Reply

so it's no surprise she laughs about Black people killing each other.
Yep. Big supporter of the Lost Cause and the Confederacy.

#22 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-02 03:14 PM | Reply

#19 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

When you write blatantly stupid things, like claiming the reason Chicago is called out isn't due to racism, do you expect people to believe you?

Do you really think Eberly is that dumb?

Do you think anyone reads your posts and does anything but recoil with disbelief at how stupid you are?

Interesting.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-02 03:17 PM | Reply

"Gracie loves it because it's perceived as proof that liberalism and the democratic party don't know any more how to run a city or state than the republicans."

That's not why. You're really over-thinking it.

Republicans ------- over Chicago every weekend because they love it when Black people die from gun violence.

It reinforces their reality that Blacks are Savages.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-02 03:21 PM | Reply

"like claiming the reason Chicago is called out isn't due to racism,"

He's saying it's to avoid being called a racist.

I see his point. Not sure if that's why Chicago is targeted....as I posted earlier....I think it's because Trump has no friends in Illinois. He has friends in Missouri, Tennessee, etc.

But I didn't realize Chicago has a lower black population compared to those other cities.

#25 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-02 03:27 PM | Reply

-Do you know why they are dangerous? Any clue besides "they're black!" (which, btw, is funny because there just aren't all that many black folk in Alaska).

native Americans?

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-02 03:30 PM | Reply

But I didn't realize Chicago has a lower black population compared to those other cities.
#25 | Posted by eberly

Of course not. I didn't know that either. That goes against The Narrative.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-02 03:35 PM | Reply

-Do you know why they are dangerous (Alaska)

Even before you account for poverty and notice that you're looking at pretty small sample sizes:

Men are far more dangerous than women, and Alaska has the highest male to female ratio in the nation at 110 males per 100 females. Next highest state is North Dakota at 105 to 100.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-02 03:43 PM | Reply

He's saying it's to avoid being called a racist.

You think Chicago is being called out is less racist?

Have you read anything reported about gun homicides in Chicago? Race is the forefront of the reporting.

Also. Illinois has some very tough gun laws. So, it's also a way to illustrate how gun laws don't work. (Which is an ignorant take, but I'm sure it helps sell guns.)

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-02 03:54 PM | Reply

-You think Chicago is being called out is less racist?

I don't know. Maybe Trump or Grace thinks it's less racist.

Again, I think it's because Trump doesn't care if he pisses anybody off in Illinois. They're never gonna vote for a republican anyway. Not the same in Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, Ohio, etc.

#30 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-02 04:13 PM | Reply

I don't know. Maybe Trump or Grace thinks it's less racist.

Maybe. But I'm pretty sure racism is the point.

Also. Saint Louis isn't as damning of democrats as Chicago is.

Trump doesn't care if he pisses anybody off in Illinois.

Or anywhere else for that matter.

Pretty sure elections in America will resemble elections in Russia.

Republicans are doing everything they can to make sure of it.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-02 04:18 PM | Reply

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