Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

Chicagoans should have known what to expect when they elected radical socialist Brandon Johnson as Mayor: a city engulfed in violence, robberies and chaos.

Johnson, however, is quick to point fingers at anyone other than himself for the abject failures in his first few months.

Rather than address the crime that is consuming the city, Johnson sued automakers Kia and Hyundai, blaming them for the significant increase in car thefts in the city.

He said of the lawsuit, “The failure of Kia and Hyundai to install basic auto-theft prevention technology in these models is sheer negligence, and as a result, a citywide and nationwide crime spree around automobile theft has been unfolding right before our eyes.”

Johnson has even placed the blame for violence in the city on big corporations.

When hordes of violent teens repeatedly took over city neighborhoods-committing actual crimes-Johnson was more concerned with policing words than policing the streets.

In Johnson’s first 30 days in office, crime rose 38% from the prior year. In his first 100 days, there were 204 homicides.

On Tuesday, Johnson hit back at critics and gave yet another excuse for his poor leadership and declining city by pulling the race card.

He told the Chicago Tribune that he is held to a “different standard” as a black man saying, “There is a different standard that I’m held to. There is…and that’s not something that I’m mad at, but that’s just the reality. I’m not the first person of color, particularly a Black man, that will be held to a different standard than other administrations.”

Even the word “slow” is racially charged in his world.

The Chicago Tribune reports:

A progressive who won the April runoff election with the backing of labor unions, Johnson alluded to stories and headlines that mention a “slow” start to his administration. His administration still has commissioner vacancies in key cabinet departments such as public health, planning and development, transportation and housing. But the mayor objected to the use of the word “slow” and told his allies, “I also need you all’s help to call it out.”

“You all read the press. I don’t. But you all look at these dynamics. You all know how there’s been a certain, particular coverage of me, right? Think about it. You know, there’s coverage of me being slow, right?” Johnson said. “These are microaggressions, that if you don’t have the lens of those who have lived through these experiences, you would just miss it. You would, because the same — some of the folks who would call me slow, do you understand what that term means? Particularly (toward) the Black community. So you have these forces that perpetuate a particular view of Blackness.”

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“Perhaps things should go without saying, but as far as this dynamic that a Black man executive can’t make decisions on his own,” Johnson said before lambasting “the same forces” that he said didn’t believe he could balance a budget, unite the City Council or win the election. “Well, let me just offer news for the city of Chicago: The people of Chicago elected me as mayor, and if anybody has a problem with it, come see me in four years.”

Brandon Johnson is a fool and a racist and oh so sensitive now that all can see he has absolutely no clue. HT. @TomBevanRCP https://t.co/kkxLNWJQe8

— John Kass (@John_Kass) September 8, 2023

From the Editorial Board:

Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t just play the race card at a public event Tuesday night discussing his first 100 days in office. He pretty much laid out the whole deck. https://t.co/6wjnAPh52i

— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) September 8, 2023

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California Assembly passed AB 957, a controversial bill that will grant judges the authority to remove child custody from parents who refused to affirm their kids’ gender identity.

Ashley Zavala, California Capitol Correspondent, broke the news, highlighting the rift between the Republicans and Democrats over the bill’s stipulations.

“California lawmakers send Gov. Gavin Newsom a proposed law that would require judges to consider a parents affirmation of their child’s identity in custody cases,” she wrote.

BREAKING: California lawmakers send Gov. Gavin Newsom a proposed law that would require judges to consider a parents affirmation of their child’s identity in custody cases.
(AB 957)

Got out of the Assembly easily with final approval of technical changes. pic.twitter.com/uUVNMKUTua

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) September 8, 2023

Republicans argued that judges already possess the discretionary power to consider all aspects of a child’s well-being, including gender identity, when ruling on custody cases. The Democrats, on the other hand, argued that a parent’s affirmation of a child’s gender identity is crucial for the child’s mental and emotional health.

Parents affirm their children. Typically it happens when their gender identity matches their biological gender. But when it doesn’t, the affirmation starts to wane… Our duty as parents is to affirm our children,” said Democrat California State Rep. Lori Wilson.

WATCH:

This is California State Rep. Lori Wilson, who wrote AB 957: “Parents affirm their children. Typically it happens when their gender identity matches their biological gender. But when it doesn’t, the affirmation starts to wane… Our duty as parents is to affirm our children.” pic.twitter.com/KP2Z9sksmp

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 8, 2023

The proposed law cleared the Assembly after some final tweaks and has already been given the nod by the Senate. All that’s left now is for Governor Gavin Newsom to either sign or veto the bill.

Parents in California should seriously think about leaving now.

A.B. 957 originally passed the California State Assembly back on May 3. As the Daily Signal reported on Friday, Assembly Member Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, wrote the bill and introduced it on Feb. 14.

But the State Senator Scott Wiener, a CHILDLESS man who co-authored the legislation, amended it in California’s State Senate on June 6.

State Senator Scott Wiener

This gives corrupt California courts total authority to remove a child from his or her parents’ home if parents object to the radical left’s LGBTQ ideological agenda.

But this is not the most sinister part of the bill, though. Conservative activist Greg Price noted that parents could be charged with child abuse, a criminal penalty, if they so much as object to their child’s preferred pronouns.

A California bill AB957 was just amended to add “a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity” as part of the “health, safety, and welfare of the child” in the state’s Family Code.

If parents disapprove of their child’s gender transition, and say a teacher or lgbt… pic.twitter.com/YyaHLoSHFk

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 9, 2023

So not only can parents lose their children to a kangaroo court, they could go to jail for simply for not going along with their kid’s warped version of basic biology.

The Free Beacon reported the legislation “makes no distinctions regarding the age of a child, how long a child has identified as transgender, or affirmation of social transition versus medical sex-change treatments.”

Wiener, the man who wants to rip your children away from you, has been conducting a war on California families and endangering the broader public for years.

The Free Beacon added Wiener is simultaneously advancing a separate bill that would require foster parents to promise to “affirm” trans-identifying children. He also introduced a law in 2022 which would make California a so-called haven where out-of-state children undergo gender reassignment surgery without their parents’ permission.

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