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While the body count was still being tallied, BLM groups in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington issued statements supporting Hamas’s tactics. BLM Chicago tweeted an image of a Hamas paraglider with a Palestinian flag attached to his parachute and the caption “I stand with Palestine.” What’s shocking isn’t the rhetoric of BLM leaders in the aftermath of Oct. 7 but that so many people who ought to have known better got played.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Obama, aka The Great Divider, got the ball rolling on Democrats full embrace of Leftist Extremism. Hamas, Taliban, BLM – all aligned with Democrats.
The worst offenders are the professional sports leagues– NBA and NFL being the worst. In fact, you can still see some of the BLM inspired crap in the end zones and on a few sidelines of NFL games. ( I turn the game off the second I see it). And how about the NBA sucking up to BLM the way they did. MLB got out of it a little earlier, but even they were duped. It was a shameful stampede to Wokeism that is now coming back to bite them all
Of note, the NBA has fewer fans and eyesballs watching games than it did during the Jordan era.
Jordan/Pippen/Rodman-Those were the days when watching BB was exciting. Now it’s mostly 3 point shots maybe someday 4 point shot from half court then 5 point from full court and 10 point from the locker room. LOL
The good teams still pack the house. The intermediate or bad teams (Bulls), not so much. Lots of freebie tickets are given away by teams to charities, church groups and such.
Bulls have the highest average attendance in the entire NBA, being located in the middle of an expensive DINK and yuppie neighborhood who are only a short walk or uber away from a 7pm game. The problem with the NBA is TV viewership. Massive slides over the past several years after a decade of slow decline. The commish just last week blames cable tv: Younger fans not subscribing to cable and therefore not catching games on ESPN or TNT or on the local speciality sports networks. They’re trying to make deals with streaming networks. That’s a lot of the reason… Read more »
Add Disney to that mix….
Hmm, sounds like Cullors had to leave on of her mansions (in a nonPOC) hood!