"Welcome to MAGA Country!," the voters cried, as if with one great racist Trumpian voice, and then tied a clothesline loosely around her neck and flecked some non-caustic fabric softener upon the cuff of her sweatshirt, causing her to drop her Subway (TM) egg salad sandwich as she fled for safety in the Jim Crow prison of her mayoral mansion.

Lori Lightfoot claimed she was treated unfairly during her failed re-election bid for mayor because she is a woman of color, not for her failure to curb Chicago's soaring crime rate.

Lightfoot, the first black woman and openly gay mayor of the Windy City, is now also the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose a re-election after trailing behind in third place with only 17.1 percent of votes as of Wednesday morning.

Throughout her term, she has been criticized for her soft-on-crime approach, which has led to massive increases in violence in the city, which is up 52 percent from last year and more than 100 percent from 2021.

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Lightfoot has previously attributed the fierce backlash against her to sexism and racism, with the exiting mayor now suggesting the same goes for her defeat.

Following her concession speech, a reporter asked her if she was treated unfairly because of her race and gender, with Lightfoot answering: 'I'm a black woman in America. Of course.'

Shut the f*ck up you stupid vile ugly incompetent hateful whore.

Lightfoot has boasted to a critic that she has "the biggest d*** in the city" (she denies saying that, but has not denied having it) and has criticized white people specifically for complaining about soaring crime rates, opining, strangely, that white people were just whining about having to deal with "a touch of violence" for the first time.

Under Lori Lightfoot's watch, she means. She means that white people in safe neighborhoods had previously had "safety privilege" and were just being whiny babies now that Lightfoot had decimated the police force and thrown open the gates of the prisons and sent criminals rampaging through safe neighborhoods. She actually mocked white people for complaining about this, saying they're just butthurt about "experiencing crime for the first time." On her watch.

On her watch.

It's yt pipo's fault for complaining about the wave of criminals she had ushered into their neighborhoods, as a kind of equal-opportunity-pillaging-murdering-and-raping program.

But yeah, it's other people who have issues with people's sex, sexuality, and race, not this squat freaky malignant dwarf mutant who is hateful towards the world at large.
VodkaPundit also thinks she should shut that ghastly fish-like mouth and turn those freaky bushbaby Gollum bug-eyes back at Mutant in the Mirror.

Lightfoot must have known what was coming on Tuesday because she laid down the race/woman card over the weekend. "I am a black woman -- let's not forget," she told the New Yorker. "Certain folks, frankly, don't support us in leadership roles."

With all due respect, Madam Soon-To-Be-Former Mayor, do please shut up. You were a terrible mayor and that's why 87% of Chicago voters at their first opportunity pulled the lever for someone, anyone else -- including five black men (one of whom made the runoff) and one other black woman.

Chicago voters didn't wake up one morning in 2020 and realize, "Oh, no -- we elected a black woman? Why did no one tell us? We must resist her at all costs!"

No, Chicagoans saw a 52% increase in crime on Lightfoot's watch, much of it violent.

Just a pretext -- the real reason for hating on her was that she was a black dyke.

This article recounts the real reasons this misshapen sack of aberrant junkpile genetics was turned out of office: she spent four years failing abysmally in all aspects of her job, including the simple aspect of just avoiding pissing everyone off. It wasn't enough that she was corrupt and incompetent; she had to add to that being charmless, obnoxious, nasty, and weird.

Just a few of her many lowlights:

When Lori Lighfoot allegedly tried to recruit students to help her win

In January, Lightfoot found herself in the middle of a controversy after the Chicago Public Schools inspector general investigated claims that the Democrat asked Chicago public school teachers to recruit students to volunteer on her campaign for school credit. At the time, the Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General confirmed to NBC News that it had "opened an investigation into this matter and we are currently gathering information to determine which, if any, policies have been violated."

The investigation is guaranteed to be inconclusive, I'm sure.

Lightfoot was slammed as being "tone-deaf" and irresponsible after a video of her dancing on the streets of Chicago went viral. The incident, that took place at a Lunar New Year parade, came at a time when the city's crime rates were soaring.

Awkwardly dancing while the bodies piled up in the morgues was a defining feature of her mayoralty.

That's not all. Lightfoot's other controversies also included the time when she sparked a major row after saying she would only do interviews with reporters of color in May 2021. The move even led to Daily Caller journalist Thomas Catenacci, who is White, filing a lawsuit. In July 2019, Lightfoot was caught calling a police union official a "clown."

In April 2022, Lightfoot was slammed for saying carjackers feel "unloved" after Kwame Amoaku was brutally attacked by a group of carjackers outside his home. The attack left him in intensive care. "There are too many young people in this room that feel unloved, and we need to change that if we are going to change the trajectory of their lives," Lightfoot said at the Harold Washington Library at the time, while addressing the city's crime wave.

Even leftwingers can't avoid noticing that she's just an asshole.

Her two big failings were the skyrocketing crime rate and her untreated personality disorder.

Mooney also said Lightfoot hurt herself by being "gratuitously pugnacious." "We like our Daleys and our Rahms. We complain about them but we say you've got to be tough to run the city of Chicago," Mooney said. "She's got that but almost in a gratuitous way. She picks fights for reasons unknown to most people."

Veteran political consultant Delmarie Cobb noted Lightfoot's overly defensive approach to criticism, particularly around public safety, where she often scolded white audiences about how they were experiencing crime for the first time.

Lightfoot should have focused more on explaining the issues, Cobb said, rather than dismissing as "haters" those who have attacked her over crime. "She's not taken that tack," Cobb said. "Instead, it's, 'I'm going to force-feed you into acknowledging that I've done a good job.'"

On a more fundamental level, Cobb said, Lightfoot hasn't done enough to make herself "into a likable person."

Apparently she ran in 2019 as an Obama-like cypher, inviting voters (particularly guilty white liberal voters) to project on to her any fantasies of black nobility they might have, but once she got elected she dropped that like it was hot and just let her personality disorder run rampant.

Meanwhile, she routinely denigrated people, white people especially, for noticing the crime rates were rising, and suggesting that they should just toughen up have have some perspective.

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On the campaign trail, Lightfoot struggled with how to address the issue. "I know for many of you, you're feeling a touch of violence, maybe for the very first time in your lives in Chicago," she recently told a North Side crowd.

A touch of violence. Like a touch of rheum coming on with the rain.

Lightfoot frequently invokes the sentiment, but it has struck some residents as out of touch or insensitive. Lightfoot has also privately questioned the severity of the recent crime spikes. In a text exchange with a downtown alderman previously reported by the Tribune, Lightfoot said she shared his concern about crime but downplayed how bad it has been. "I will push back and say that it was not that long ago that River North was not a nice, safe neighborhood and that is recent enough that I remember it," Lightfoot added. It's been an issue she repeatedly tried to blunt even as critics and rivals used it against her.

Right, it had been more riven by crime, but was then cleaned up, and now.. you're letting it degenerate into a crime-filled pit again.

What is your point, exactly? That we all return to the dust from whence we came anyway, so what's the big diff?

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Lightfoot also drew criticism over her handling of the case of Anjanette Young, a social worker who was forced to stand naked during a botched raid by Chicago police. The mayor's lawyers tried to withhold video of officers ignoring Young as she pleaded with them to let her put on clothes. Lightfoot falsely said she hadn't been aware of the case but later apologized and acknowledged she had gotten a detailed email about it, explaining that she simply forgot the exchange and wasn't lying.

Lying? Evading responsibility?

That doesn't sound like the Lori I know.

[O]ver the past four years, Lightfoot's personal approval took a nose-dive in part due to a series of conflicts and her defensive response to even mild criticism. Lightfoot at times alienated friends and allies who agreed with her on issues but disagreed with her scorched-earth approach to those who question her decisions. Defending police Superintendent David Brown, Lightfoot said his detractors don't know anything about public safety, even though the chorus of critics included some of her former top advisers on crime and policing. Amid a high suicide rate for Chicago cops and concerns raised by officers that they were being overworked as the department canceled their days off, Lightfoot said they have an "incredible amount of time off." Throughout her term, Lightfoot blamed high-profile crime incidents and a spike in homicides on Cook County judges and State's Attorney Kim Foxx.

But the mayor sometimes acted as a political chameleon and alienated residents with contradictory statements throughout the years, including both praising Foxx as "our great state's attorney" before Black audiences and criticizing her in front of white ones.

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"I have never met anybody who has managed to piss off every single person they come in contact with -- police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, manufacturing, and that's it," Garza told the Reader's Joravsky.

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Lightfoot's feuds extended beyond the world of politics and into the business community. When McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said his company would remain in Chicago but had concerns about crime, Lightfoot said he should "educate himself" before speaking. She accused Uber of "paying off Black ministers" to oppose a congestion tax. When the Bears announced they were pursuing a possible move to Arlington Heights, Lightfoot mockingly tweeted that they should "focus on putting a winning team on the field, beating the Packers finally and being relevant past October."

This next part refers to her demented email writing:

I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!
I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY! I NEED OFFICE TIME EVERYDAY!

...to her staff. Sixteen times in a row, if I counted right.

This was her complaining that her staff was "overscheduling" her at events outside the office.

She wanted office time.

I think this means she wants to relax in her office and be lazy. And make videos of herself shuffling awkwardly and calling it "dancing."

A former Park District lawyer filed a lawsuit claiming she mocked his legal training and that she boasted she had "the biggest d--- in Chicago." (Lightfoot has denied that.)

Lightfoot also repeatedly interjected her race into controversies, drawing criticism even from Black supporters.

And how!

Anyway, so you can see: Obviously, this is all just a matter of "certain people" refusing to support black women, particularly gay ones.

Nothing else can explain why "certain people" wouldn't support her.

Oh and I forgot, she was an absolute Covid tyrant. One day during the lockdowns, he roamed the streets, surrounded by her detail of body guards, and shouted at some kids (who were black, I think) hanging out on the steps of a park to "Go home!"

"You go home," one of the kids smartly snapped back.

Apparently even in leftwing Covid Karen Chicago, people didn't like her walking around herself, while yelling at The Commoners to lock themselves up.