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"When Johnson was released from Cook County Jail — it took days to get him fitted with an electronic monitoring device — he tweeted to his followers: 'I have two neck tattoos and I have now been to jail. Will y’all please go listen to my music now?' He then posted a new song titled, 'Blacked out, Pissed Off.'"
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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The Chicago tribune is sainting him and giving him free advertising for his legal defense fund. They have taken the size of the cop attacker.
What? Here’s the flipped narrative: Unhinged punk is determind to commit violence and is then surprised when the police respond to his violence violently. Unhinged and spoiled punk is gifted some well deserved prison time.