Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, after another violent weekend in which there were more than 70 shootings on her city’s streets, has found a new scapegoat to dodge blame for the chaos that befalls her city.
At some level each weekend—despite strict gun laws and an alleged commitment to law and order—‘toxic public discourse’ is now the voiced cause of bloodshed that escapes her magic dust.
This from townhall.com.
Specifically, according to remarks Mayor Lightfoot made on Tuesday:
The toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that I think we should all be concerned about.
Lori Lightfoot says that increased shootings at uniformed officers in Chicago are due to people "losing respect for the institutions of our democracy" and "the toxicity in our public discourse." pic.twitter.com/u648wez456
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 5, 2022
Ah, well, if it’s non-toxic public discourse Mayor Lightfoot wants to encourage, she should probably start with herself.
That is, if she doesn’t want to deepen her reputation as an incompetent partisan hypocrite.
Many remember, it was just last week, after all, that she shouted “F**k Clarence Thomas” during her remarks at a Chicago pride event.
This certainly was a very public, very toxic manner in which to conduct her discourse.
Lest you think her profane declaration was merely an emotional off-the-cuff reaction to what someone in the crowd said, here’s Lightfoot doubling down on her statement to F**k a Supreme Court justice:
I said what I said. pic.twitter.com/z4BXZ4Jj9Y
— Lori Lightfoot (@LoriLightfoot) June 28, 2022
The mayor followed that tweet up with another element of discourse by saying:
If my language bothers you more than the destruction of our civil rights, then we don’t need to know anything else about you.
What? And this thing is Chicago’s mayor?
Obviously, “toxic public discourse,” as Lightfoot understands it to be, is not a problem when it is her toxically discoursing in public.
But, in all actuality, is Lori Lightfoot not one of the country’s most prolific toxic discourse participants?
Even before she was cursing about Supreme Court justices with whom she evidently disagrees, Lightfoot issued a literal “call to arms” against the highest court in the land—something of an insurrection, by definition—along with her call for “a fight to victory.”
To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms.
— Lori Lightfoot (@LoriLightfoot) May 10, 2022
So, again, Mayor Lightfoot thinks “toxicity in our public discourse” is a problem that everyone should be concerned about, but she has no issue making a “call to arms” and saying “F*** Clarence Thomas.”
It’s more “do as I say, not as a I do” nonsense mixed with “rules for thee not for me” hypocrisy.
Lori Lightfoot today: "The toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that I think we should all be concerned about."
Lori Lightfoot last week: "F*ck Clarence Thomas!" pic.twitter.com/tUTPmkQVqh
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 5, 2022
Perhaps, this is what is meant by the words: ‘Windy City.’
In Chicago, the term no longer refers to the weather. It is a description of the Toxic Public Discourse which the mayor of that murder capital handily leads.