UPDATED: Chicago to find out why it's now called the War Department

On NBC's Meet the Press this morning, Host Kristen Welker said, "President Trump shared this on his social media account directed at Chicago, 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning and Chicago about to find out why it is called the Department of War.' Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker called it a threat. Would you call it a threat?"

Maryland Governor Wes Moore (Democrat), to whom the question was directed, called the President's social media post a “threat” that was both "embarrassing and performative." Readers are invited to suggest who might have been embarrassed by what we would call a promise... and who will be embarrassed when Chicago goes a whole weekend without anyone getting killed by gunfire!

UPDATE added 8/9/25: According to Breitbart News, the toll of those shot and killed/wounded this weekend in Chicago is 19 shot, 7 killed, in the city that its mayor, Brandon Johnson ["You doesn't have to call me Johnson!" Ed.] and Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker don't think needs any help with its little problem.

Coming soon to YOUR city -- a summer of rage!

There are three big news stories this weekend, all related. Just the facts, first, and I'll tie them all together at the end.

Item: Yesterday, in a predominantly black neighbourhood of Buffalo NY, an 18-year-old gunman wearing tactical gear opened fire in a busy supermarket, killing ten people (at last count) and wounding three others. The shooter, now in police custody, was identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin NY, a town some 200 miles SE of Buffalo. 

Mr Gendron is white, and was immediately labelled as a "white supremacist" by New York's Democratic Governor Kathy Hochula, who hates white supremacists. "It strikes us in our very hearts to know that there's such evil that lurks out there," she said. "This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well."

Item: In Milwaukee WI, 21 people were injured in three separate shootings, in an entertainment district where 1000s had been watching the Bucks lose to the Boston Celtics in Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals.

Three people were shot near the Deer District outside Fiserv Forum toward the end of Friday night's game, sending fans fleeing through the streets. One person was injured in a second shooting before a third shooting less than a mile from the arena left 17 people with non-life-threatening injuries.

A man and a 16-year-old girl who were injured in the first shooting were transported to a local hospital Friday night, while a third person drove there, according to the Milwaukee Fire Department. All three have non-life-threatening injuries. 

Police said a 19-year-old man was in custody from the first shooting and that charges were pending a review by the Milwaukee County district attorney's office. No arrest has been made in the second shooting. Ten people were taken into custody and nine firearms were recovered from the third shooting, according to police, which described the incident as an exchange of gunfire between two groups of people.

Nothing has been said about the race of anyone involved in these incidents -- not the victims, not the suspects, not the arrested man, and certainly not the "groups of people". Can the police and politicians of Democrat-controled Milwaukee not say "gangs" or "black"?

Item: While other events were unfolding in Buffalo and Milwaukee, 1000s of people -- mostly angry white women, to judge by the photos and video clips -- took part in "mostly peaceful protests" across the Excited States of America to decry the Supreme Court's expected reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Organizers -- these were not spontaneous events -- said there were more than 380 protests in cities from coast to coast, including Democrat-controlled Washington DC, New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Those cities, especially Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Chicago, are not known as havens of peace and tranquility, but signalling to "organizers" (read: Rise Up, Antifa, BLM et al.) that they can take to the streets without fear of prosecution is "not helpful".

Earlier last week, Mayor Lightfoot had to defend herself against backlash after she tweeted that the draft SCOTUS opinion in Hobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was a "call to arms" [not "firearms", shurely! Ed.] for those in the LGBTQ2S+ etc etc community. 

Conservative figures, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, (R-CO) and Fox News' Laura Ingraham, accused Ms Lightfoot of seeking to incite violence when she tweeted on Monday, "To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community -- the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms." Ms Boebert told Sean Hannity on Wednesday, "If anyone in America is an insurrectionist, it's little Lori."

Last Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote to the Justice Department. Citing Ms Lightfoot's tweet, condemned a coordinated campaign of intimidation and threats to the SCOTUS justices. "The comments made by the president's staff and members of the Democratic Party threaten the safety of members of the Court," he said.

Indeed. Not to mention the safety and security of people who live in cities such as Buffalo, Milwaukee, and Chicago, and just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when "mostly peaceful protests" turn violent, or when mindless or insane violence breaks out on its own. If you live in a big American city -- a Democrat-controlled city -- take care.

AFTERTHOUGHT, added at 1810 - Apparently I didn't make clear the connection between the first item (the Buffalo mass murder) and my prediction of a summer of rage. I have been told [already! Ed.] that I'm making the same point as crazy Nancy Pelosi and the rest, that "white supremacists" are responsible for all the rage and hatred afflicting America today. Not so.  

What I predict... and it's started already... is that the SJWs and other usual suspects will be baying for the blood of the possibly demented kid who shot up the Tops supermarket, and for all whites guilty of being white. Signs reading "No justice, no peace!" have already appeared, the cries for vengeance are loud in the land. Except for Milwaukee of course because, well, see the second item. 

If I were white and had the misfortune to be living or doing business in Conklin NY, or even Buffalo, I'd be boarding up the windows and starving the hounds. The sound you hear tomorrow and in the coming weeks will be that of the BLM shithammer striking!

Easter in Brandon's America: more "racial injustice"

Easter weekend, when Christians celebrate the resurrection and the hope that it brings us of peace in this world and the next, has come and gone. In the Paranoid States of America, it seems, peace and harmony will have to wait for the life hereafter, as the weekend was marred by three separate mass shootings and many smaller instances of gun violence as communities across the country grapple with spikes in the murder rate.

Two teenage boys were killed and eight other people were wounded after gunfire erupted at a party in a short-term rental home in Pittsburgh early on Easter Sunday. Police were alerted to shots fired shortly after midnight, and arrived at a rental property where a party was allegedly being held. 

The cops found rifle and pistol casings and set up as many as eight crime scenes spanning a few blocks in the area. A spokesthingy told a local TV station, "The initial investigation reveals a large party was being held at the short-term rental property, with as many as 200 people in attendance, many of them underage."

According to the cops, at least 50 gunshots were fired in the home in question by multiple people who had been drawn into some sort of fight. A handful of partygoers were injured but not shot, suffering cuts and broken bones while jumping out of windows in a desperate attempt to get to safety.

First responders took several of the victims to a hospital, including two 17-year-old boys Pittsburgh boys, Matthew Steffy-Ross and Jaiden Brown,whom doctors later pronounced dead. Others who were shot but survived took their own rides to the hospital. No word, of course, as to the race or ethnicity of those involved, so let's not jump out of windows to any conclusions.

Meanwhile, also early on Sunday, gunfire which erupted at a nightclub in Hampton County, South Carolina, injured nine people. None of the wounds reported at Cara's Lounge, about 80 miles west of Charleston, were fatal, said officials, who had not immediately announced any arrests in that case.

A more serious "incident" occurred in South Carolina's capital on Saturday, when a gunfight inside a busy shopping mall left nine people, ranging in age from 15 to73, with bullet wounds. Five people were injured while attempting to flee to safety. 

Columbia Police Chief "Skippy" Holbrook told the meeja, "We don't believe this was random. We believe [those involved] they knew each other and something led to the gunfire." Investigators believe that at least three suspects displayed firearms inside the mall but are working to determine how many ofo them actually fired weapons. 

22-year-old Jewayne Price, was jailed following the shooting on accusations of... wait for it... unlawfully carrying a pistol. On Sunday afternoon, his bail was set at $25,000. Benjamin Crump is expected to arrive today, accompanied by "Rev" Al Sharpton, to post bail and demand justice for Jewayne.

That's Jewayne there, in the middle of the top row, along with some of his friends. The pic isn't from their high school yearbook, or from police files related to this weekend's shootout, but from a report of arrests made in the May 2018 shooting death of a 17-year-old in Richland County SC.

Amon Rice, 17, and another victim were found with gunshot wounds, after a dispute of some kind near Unity Missionary Baptist Church in Hopkins SC on 10 May 2018. A mother and her three children were arrested at the end of May. In June, the Richland County Sheriff's Department arrested 20-year-old Jordan Terrell Myer, 18-year-old Kenneth Roger Robinson Jr., 18-year-old Jewayne Marquise Price, 39-year-old Twana Ivery, and 18-year-old Thaiyeah Keisha Keel, in connection with the murder.

Jewayne Price was charged with accessory before the fact. Ed. couldn't find out if he was ever tried, but if he was convicted, he evidently didn't learn any lessons from his brush with the law. Perhaps the judge let him off lightly because of his being the victim of centuries of oppression, racial discrimination, yada yada yada, according to the Ketanji Brown Jackson Sentencing Guidelines.