Let it be known, in case it wasn’t known already, that Lori Lightfoot takes no shit from anyone.
Yesterday, Chicago’s first openly LGBTQ and first Black female mayor took a swing at White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, labeling her a “Karen” after she called Lightfoot a “derelict” during a press conference.
“The derelict mayor of Chicago should step up and ask for federal help because she’s doing a very poor job at securing her streets,” McEnany quipped, before accusing Lightfoot of letting people die in the streets.
The statement was deeply ironic, of course, given the 140,000 and counting Americans who have needlessly died as a result of Trump’s botched handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Well, Lightfoot wasn’t having any of Kayleigh’s coded nonsense. In response to a post about McEnany’s remark, she tweeted: “Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth.”
Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth. pic.twitter.com/zhjRyokKD5
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) July 16, 2020
So far, the tweet has received over 100K likes, 20K retweets, and 20K comments.
Lets be clear. White conservative karens’ and Kens’ DO NOT care about Black and Brown folks dying at the hands of gun violence, never did, never will as far as i am concerned.
— Ale Levins (@AleLevins) July 17, 2020
Karen has some audacity…catch Mayor Lightfoot outside after Karen is jobless come January. How bout dat.
— ZB🌊 (@ZiaTheBest) July 16, 2020
— Stay Home | Stop the Spread | Save Lives (@Vegans4Pete) July 16, 2020
Say it again Mayor
— Carol Boeth (@carbo2002) July 17, 2020
Mayor, they can ALL kick goddamn rock. You’ve been Mayor for 1yr and 3mths. This problem waaaaay proceeded you. They attack you because you’re Black female and lesbian. Period! Did they attack Rahm and Dailey the same way? And this gun violence started on Dailey’s watch!
— Friendly Introvert (@Gladgirl720) July 16, 2020
Thata mayor!!
Got my money on you every time! 👏🏻Remember when we had a leader that cared in the Whitehouse? pic.twitter.com/KrPDcCmnfS
— Rebel Orange (@RebelOrange3) July 16, 2020
Epic reply. Also, the only reason the trump administration has a hard on for Chicago ia because Obama lived here. Otherwise he’d never think about it.
— siouxsie is a banshee (@SusieKline) July 16, 2020
i find it ironic that all the people crying over gun violence are the same people who would cry bloody murder the moment you suggest having stricter gun control laws and have “magic negro” syndrome thus expecting a single black person to fix all generational issues overnight. 🤔
— listen, it’s important. (@teli) July 16, 2020
— Bzailey (@BZailey) July 16, 2020
In recent months, Lightfoot has emerged as one of the loudest national voices speaking out against police brutality and the Trump administration’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests happening around the country.
In May, she literally said “F you” to Trump during a press conference after he called for “thugs” (his word) protesting the death of George Floyd to be shot in the streets.
“I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump,” Lightfoot said. “It’s two words: It begins with F and ends with YOU.”
Related: Lori Lightfoot just said “F You” to Donald Trump during a press conference
ThinkPlease
But what will Kayleigh do when she’s jobless after January? We only need so many bleach-blonde bimbos, after all.
Gadfeal
Fake blond with dark roots
jennifer.white530
Chicago is a shit hole and Lightfoot is a joke! Yes, I know she is a lesbian but that is does not make her a good mayor. 329 people have been killed in Chicago, an increase of about 34% from the 246 homicides during the same period last year, according to police. Shootings in that period rose by about 42%, from 978 in 2019 to 1384 in 2020.
Shootings across the city increased by 75% last month alone, with 424 shootings in June 2020 compared to 242 in June 2019, according to police statistics. Murders in Chicago rose by 78%, with 89 reported in June 2020 compared to 50 in the same month last year.
It is a shame we cannot talk about black on black crime.
ThinkPlease
Don’t you have to prove all those crimes were black on black first? Because I’m going to state a 100% probability that they’re not.
I’m not a fan of whining or Making Crap Up in any direction.
Scout
I agree with you. The highest percentage of shooting deaths in her city are black on black. That’s a fact. Soooo, what has she been doing about it? Criticizing Trump and McEnany is child’s play. Anybody can do that. What about cleaning up her own back yard?
TommyIL
I live in Chicago. It is not a shit hole. Please don’t make gross generalizations. Why do you frequent this site, anyway? It doesn’t seem to have the kind of content that appeals to you.
nunya
ThinkPlease, Without doing any research, I’m quite comfortable saying the vast majority are committed by blacks – black on black and black on white. That’s probably a good assumption for any large city in the USA.
Aires the Ram
See how well run cities are, that have been controlled by Democrats for decades? See how well some of the toughest gun control laws work. But they keep voting in the likes of failures like “Lightfoot”. Don’t worry, when she’s through, they’ll vote in another failure of a Democrat, they always do.
hoosier1969
Tough gun control laws only work if your neighbors have them. I could look across the lake from my old condo on the north side of Chicago and see the steel mills of Indiana. That’s where about 40% of the guns recovered from those crimes were originally purchased. Wisconsin is the second culprit. Missouri and Mississippi are the next two states on that list.
Let’s make their gun laws as stringent as Chicago and see what happens.
nunya
Hoosier1969 believes criminals buy guns. Lol!
jennifer.white530
@ThinkPlease I got all the information from Chicago NBC 5 news website. Unless you are telling me not to trust the media.
Scout
You’ve made a good point above. Question: Should we be supporting Lightfoot because she’s a Black Lesbian and a Democrat? Shouldn’t we have a higher bar when judging how she’s doing as the mayor of the city with the highest violent crime rate in the country?
ThinkPlease
That, of course, is not what I asked. But you knew that, you merely don’t expect that people will call you on your crap.
Too bad, you’re being called on making false conclusions from data, not from supplying bad data. Stop dancing, you already broke your leg.
truthseeker
Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice
nunya
I was wondering if anyone else other than me noticed the resemblance!
jennifer.white530
@ThinkPlease, you did not ask anything. You a brainwashed liberal who cannot debate with facts only hate. Can we discuss what you think made you a racist? Was it your parents?
ThinkPlease
Actually, I did. You did not answer it. You are unable to do so. You are now trying to deflect. This will not work. Can we discuss what made you unable to read properly? Although I already know the answer to that; you cannot answer and therefore are simply ducking the question.
Isn’t it time for you to recycle this login for another one? We’ve pretty much all got your number.
Deacon
It was be hard as hell to refer to as the First Black Female and Gay mayor…. figures a site run by privileged gay white men gay has to come first
nunya
Excellent leadership there mayor. Calling people names and telling the prez F You. What other words of wisdom have you?
GayEGO
Good! Now I can call Kayleigh – Karen McEnema!