Phil Ponce of WTTW on Tuesday asked Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot this: “In recent months there have been questions raised about your temperament and your reaction to criticism. A Tribune editorial used the term irascible. How much of this do you think might have to do with the fact that you are a woman and specifically a black woman?”
Lightfoot: “About 99% of it.”
She went on:
“Women and people of color are always held to a different standard,” Lightfoot said. “I’ve known that my whole life…. They don’t like to see a woman assume power and forge ahead on an agenda that is about disrupting the status quo.”
– Mark Glennon
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
She is mentally ill. And yes, she’s held to a different standard — a lower standard, because Affirmative Action probably got her positions and entry into good college and law school, even though she’s whacked out. Same with Michelle Obama, in 2008 I read her Princeton senior thesis paper and it clearly provides concrete evidence that she’s a hypocritical moron.
Lightfoot has lost her credibility even in mainstream press.
She and Harris, our nation’s two silly affirmative action babes, cackling when asked unscripted questions, framing every issue from their BLM “racism” prism, invariably unaccountable and utterly unqualified for their political positions, not comprehending their bad press, day after day, so resort to labelling all criticism as “Racist”.
Neither woman is a natural politician, both are stumbling badly in their assigned roles. Both are “in it” way way way over their heads.
In short, both are highly qualified to be democratic contestants.
In one sense Lighthead is correct. She is 99% racist and the other 1% just confused. That’s where you will find the racism.
I don’t understand why she doesn’t quit. She should just apologize for her inability to complete her term and goals. Health reasons, that will kill any further inquiries. Everyone will laugh up their sleeve, and then we move on with the next fool.
Take Fred flinstone with her
Yes, the person who won in a landslide is a victim of racism and sexism.
What a loser
Calling anyone who criticizes actions a ‘racist’ is a multiplier of effect (force). One can deny accusations but that makes one sound guilty/or no-one listens/or minds are already made up. How does one use this phenomenon to one’s own advantage? In the immortal words of Don Draper, change the conversation. So the accused (in this case, a Mayor accused of malfeasance) becomes the accuser. She has changed the conversation and no longer needs to defend against charges of malfeasance. As accusations of racism require no due process (accusations of racism are now tantamount to verdicts of guilt), accusers AND would-be… Read more »
When your only tool is a hammer every solution involves pounding. Racism is all she has!
There is one person for whom I feel a tad of sympathy: this unfortunate woman’s unfortunate child. Kids don’t choose their parents, who are often a “log” kids drag around all of their lives. Let’s hope the kid is not marinated at home in the vitriol Maw so freely dispenses in public.
How come this Massillon, Ohio, native is never called to account for her vulgarity and profanity? Where did Ghetto Girl learn how to be endlessly incoherent? At the University of Michigan? Or the University of Chicago Law School? The admissions offices of each school have a lot to answer for. She’s gotten as far as she has with so little demonstrated native ability precisely because of her race and sex [ “gender” to the “woke”]. Now she’s damming the very characteristics that got her where she is. What a head case! Alas for Chicago. Don’t send her back to Ohio… Read more »
She has lost respect, thats the same thing as losing the city.
Holds the highest office in the 2nd largest city in the USA, and she is oppressed. … Give me a break.
She forgot to add that she is also criticized because she is short, has bad hair and is incompetent.
Oh but early in April 2020 –she had to get a hair cut because she is the face of Chicago–OH boy
The winning predators utilize the concept of “force multipliers” in their favor.
Examples:
“Force Multipliers are Good and Must Be Propagated”:…when force multipliers such as supra-legal benefits are accorded (and supra-legal penalties are accorded) based upon what some arbitrary self-appointed Czar dictates as social justice, without due process.
“Force Multipliers are Evil and Must Be Eradicated”…when force multipliers are existential threats to predators in power, such as self-defense weapons which hold sufficient rounds in magazine to be effective against a coerced “army’ owned by predators-in-power (who hold power by virtue of controlling distribution of survival level food/family safety).
What?
This post is incoherent.
So it’s everyone else’s fault. And please explain how she’s disrupting the status quo. Still too many murders, too much violence, too high taxes, poor city services, poor teacher union negotiations, poor police morale, poor fiscal management, poor pension coverage. Yea, someone else’s fault.
Always a martyr, always someone else’s fault. Typical for them.
Quick, send that woman a mirror! She obviously doesn’t have any.
They all broke when she looked into them.
She left out homophobic, misogynostic, xenophobic, and every other phobia. Here is a pro tip for you Mayor Lightweight – no man is a failure until he starts blaming other people for his shortcomings. Mayor Lightweight has been a failure since day one.
Like watching kids in your city die on a daily basis
As a gay man, I feel *deeply* ashamed that this poor excuse for an elected official is in a powerful position. Her “personality” – such as it is – lines right up with all the old nasty stereotypes of a gay woman that date back to the 1950’s and before. I *cringe* every time I see, hear, or even think about her…I still boggle at the process by how she became Mayor. She’s grossly incompetent – on top of being extremely immature…
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Her gayness has nothing to do with her incompetence and as you as a gay man should not be ashamed for a gay woman. It makes no sense. Her problem is that she thinks her gayness is what makes her a good leader when being gay, by any objective reality, is irrelevant to governing a city. Lori’s failures all stem from her confusion that her ‘identity’ was a substitute for competence. Her progressive beliefs inherent with her identity are not tools to govern a major world metropolis. This is ultimately the left’s entire problem. As Tucker once said about Deblasio… Read more »
There’s expression “Napoleon complex”.
Here we have example of “Napoleonette complex”.
Lori, Freddie and the Official Government Workers party are ignoring what they prefer not to see.
They are acting like Lord Nelson, who said “I see no ships”, holding a telescope to his non-functioning eye, while hundreds of Danish ships were approaching.
The best is yet to come…..
Typical Phil Ponce leading question. Not even a softball, more like a marshmallow. And Lori swung at it and scattered bits on everyone.
I suspect he knew what he was doing — that he was guessing she would give the worst possible answer.
If she believes her 99% observation as to questioners and critics and if one could generalize this belief to the entire non-black non-female population of Chicago (seemingly about 50% white) she appears to be writing off a fairly large segment of the population for whom she wants to be the democratically elected mayor. This level of opposition by one’s constituents ought to prompt even the dullest of politicians to resign and seek a new place to rule.
such sad little people ALWAYS using the race card as an excuse for their own personal failures,does anyone on the left EVER take personal responsibility or accountability or is it always someone elses fault!?-pssst,hey Lori,its not because your black,its because youre mean spirited,nasty and a horrible leader!!
I want to know what criticism falls in the 1% category.
groot is a terrorist using the same weaponized propaganda as the rest of the fourth reich’s gauleiters working for london.
Its important for people to like working for you, it creates enthusiasm. Even more important if your employees are govt workers and un-fireable! It has to be a miserable experience to work for her.
Is there anything more pathetic than someone who is in a position so far beyond their capabilities that they have no chance of success? Yes, an arrogant person who is in a position so far beyond their capabilities that they have no chance of success.
She doing wgat the left want her to do. Nothing ! Let the carnage play out
I think the Peter Principle ordinarily serves to limit the damage of an incompetent, at least when there is a gradual transition to more responsible positions. But in politics, as Lightweight illustrates, it is possible to go immediately from zero to way past where the Principle would have kicked in. It’s really sad that the consequences are so bad, and deadly for so many people.
I am so beyond fed up with being told that I and most of the world are racist. Nobody would ever have heard of Lightfoot or Obama if it weren’t for the fact that most of us show special favor to them because they are black. I agreed with John Kass who was pretty favorable to Lightfoot because he respected some of the hardships she has gone through. And she returns the favor now by calling us racists. Yuck.
What hardships has she had? She’s an affirmative action queen. All given to her because of color, college, law school, us attorneys office, patronage jobs from Daley and Rahm. Big fancy firm due to color and gay. They got rid of her because she was bad, a drunk and constantly played the race card. Won the mayor’s race with help of the media because of color and being gay and RINO Lausch her bff Beverly machine democrat who indicted Burke to take out Preckwinkle, Daley and Mendoza helped her get elected. She is the absolute worse.
She’s a drunk? Did not know that…1 in every 4 attorneys is a raging alcoholic, and the higher up the corporate ladder they go, they more drunker they are…
She is some % of mentally ill, maybe 99% since she likes that number. And yes, she’s held to a different standard — a lower standard — because Affirmative Action almost certainly got her positions and entry into good college and law school, even though she’s whacked out. Same with Michelle Obama — in 2008 I read her Princeton senior thesis paper and it clearly provided the concrete evidence that she’s a hypocritical moron.
Demented and needs serious intervention. Unfit to lead.
So I guess it is racist and sexist to criticize her when she tells the President of the United States to “F– off”. And her no -class, crude foul mouthed tapes of her conversations with aldermen are all criticized because she is black and a woman. And her dismal crime, shooting, car jacking and murder stats are all the results of racism. And it is ok to ban white folks from interviewing her. Lord help us.
I think it’s an important insight into how her mind works and why she acts as she does. She thinks the overwhelming part of world hates her because of her race and sexuality, and she hates them back for that reason.
as do the majority of leftists,poor little old me,says the leftists!
Maybe she thinks that because that is how she views the world- hates others for their race and/or sex. “Hating back” seems too kind of a characterization.
Mark I think, as I have posted before, that Pritzker has the same issue regarding his weight. Sad situation with the both of them but the resy of us have to live with their edicts.
She has NO allies in Chicago government. She is one and done if she even runs that is. No way will this misfit win another term. The gay gentleman “GM” above who mentioned he cringes every time he thinks about her because she is a walking talking stereotype of gay women dating back forever is right on the money. Not even the gay community will back this odd duck.
If the criminal enterprise in DC want her to win the election, she will win. When there is no election integrity, and there is no election integrity in IL (Jb enshrined it with drop off ballots) and Chicago in particular, this point is obvious.