By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
Saturday Night Live recently made fun of Chicago’s vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“Chicago, the U.S. City has called for a ceasefire in Gaza. And in return Gaza has called for a ceasefire in Chicago.”
It’s funny, for sure, but the mockery highlighted the “fixer mentality” of Chicago’s current political class. They’re willing to spend time addressing the world’s “politically-fashionable” problems rather than tackle the city’s own issues. In this instance, Mayor Brandon Johnson spent precious political capital keeping key aldermen who were opposed to the ceasefire resolution out of the chamber and away from the vote. That allowed Johnson to then cast the deciding vote in favor of the controversial resolution.
Mayor Johnson and his allies aren’t focused on the city’s own problems but instead on conflicts half a world away. Count the social and economic problems in Latin America among them, which is why Chicago’s ruling class continues to embrace the city’s sanctuary status, never mind the strife, expense and chaos the migrant flood is creating.
SNL’s mockery hits home because it’s so true. As a reminder, here are just a few of the city’s major problems that the mayor and his council should be obsessing about:
- Chicago led the nation again in 2023 for most murders, the 12th year in a row.
- Major crimes in the city hit a post-covid high in 2023.
- The city has the highest black unemployment rate among the nation’s biggest cities.
- Just 17% and 22% of Chicago’s black and Hispanic K-12 students can read at grade level, respectively.
- Chicago and Detroit are the only major cities to suffer a loss of people from 2000-2022.
- Chicago suffers from the nation’s worst pension crisis among big cities.
- Chicago businesses pay the nation’s highest property tax burden.
- Chicago has the worst credit rating of any big city besides Detroit.
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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.
This picture of city hall sums it up.
What a slap in the face to Jewish people. I am sure they are having sour grapes about voting for Brandon now. It always amazes me that American Jews are supportive of the domestic Marxists but Israelis are not. I stand with Israel and I don’t give two you know whats how many Palestinians they wipe out. They have every right after what happened. No quarter. These people are friendly with terrorists they should be dealt with severely. This sickens me.
When even SNL pokes fun at your “progressive” public policies, you know you’ve gone off the rails.
I don’t understand how a U.S. city having a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has any effect on the Israel-Hamas war. If it has no effect, why is Chicago wasting taxpayer dollars on such meetings?
Why does IL waste so much money on a needlessly bloated government system in the first place? IL has a larger bureaucracy than several European and African countries, combined! Enough already with every third person being connected and doing nothing on the day on one of the other two’s turn it is to work the position.
SNL follows the Babylon Bee. https://babylonbee.com/news/gaza-votes-for-ceasefire-in-chicago
“Let’s go Brandon” could not pour pi..
Out of a boot with the instructions written
On the heel.
If the man was on the Titanic and was given the order to prepare the deck chairs
He would move them to below the waterline.
It’s not surprising that Brandon Johnson would bring teacher union thinking to the mayor’s job. CTU members focus on social problems rather than solving the problem that is actually in their purview- teaching children to read and do math.
Of course the teacher union mayor thinks nobody will notice his failure to do his job, as long as he can virtue-signal his concern about an issue he can do nothing about. It’s teacher union 101 thinking.
When the Leftist pravda-like media is mocking the Marxists, take note.
Who in the US or the rest of the world gives a sheeet what the CCC thinks.
Bunch of corrupt Dems!!
Soon da former King of the Illinois Dems, Mikey Madigan, will be in a cell in Marion.
On the other hand, Chicago has the first pick in the NFL draft, so it all kind of evens out.