Chicago Welcomes Illegals Then Sends them to the Suburbs

 

In early 2021, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago signed an updated ordinance welcoming illegal immigrants.

In Sept 2022, when a busload of illegal immigrants was sent to Chicago, the Mayor sent them to a suburb without letting the suburb know about it.

Interesting.

However, the 2021 action by Chicago did not actually promise to keep illegals, it only restricted Chicago law enforcement from coordinating their information with the Federal Government border related agencies.  The two actions (barring local coordination) and sending illegal immigrants to another jurisdiction are different enough that I can't call this hypocrisy.

The 2021 ordinance may however have been illegal but that is not a hypocrisy issue.

2021 Article on the Welcoming is 

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mayor-lori-lightfoot-welcoming-city-ordinance-chicago-police-cpd-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement/

2022 Article on Chicago Sending New Immigrants to suburb (Burr Ridge) without discussing it with the suburb is

 https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-welcomes-texas-migrants-then-195800361.html

Biden on Trump Voters

 

On Sept 1, President Joe Biden gave a speech in which he said, 

"...the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”

 Much of the rest of the speech was in a similar vein. It used somewhat demonic imagery too but imagery doesn't count in hypocrisy.

On Sept 2, in answer to a question from a reporter, Biden said,

“.... I don’t consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country,”

Is this hypocrisy?

In a normal person, this kind of 180 degree change would be strange. However, Biden who like some other politicians (Trump for example) lives in a fantasy bubble where words don't really matter, somehow there is enough difference between these two quotes so it is not really 180 degrees of change but a nuance of sorts.

This is similar to Biden's 'Putin must not remain in power", which Biden's spokesman walked back saying that Biden was not calling for regime change and a few days later Biden then said, 'I meant it." 

 

 

 

From article in NY Post:

https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/biden-walks-back-attacks-on-trump-voters-in-anti-maga-speech/

Trump and the Drug Dealers

 Back in July, former President Donald Trump proposed a 'quick death penalty' for drug dealers.  When he was President, Trump used his Presidential power to commute sentences for drug dealers.

Going into the weeds, it seems  that Trump has been provided with new information, for example, the estimate that each drug dealer is responsible for 500 deaths.  I doubt that any serious estimate of this kind can be realistically done but it seems to have impressed Trump.  Trump has changed his mind on innumerable issues over the years, e.g., he donated to Hillary's campaign and the Clinton Foundation.

So it seems to me this is not hypocrisy but just changing his mind.

Yahoo article on this is here.

Image is from that article.

Trump donating to Hillary and DNC is here 

Trump donating to Clinton Foundation is

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/28/david-plouffe/yes-donald-trump-donated-100000-clinton-foundation/