It's always sadly funny to me when really Chicagoy civic booster type people sneer at Detroit and other cities as if that kind of thing couldn't happen here.
― dan m, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZZlY6BCcAAKX27.jpg
― dan m, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
Is that the Hideout?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
Author of Mayor 1% runs into Rahm at Dallas Buyers Club:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/11/20/a-party-for-mayor-1
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
But Solis is one of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's key allies, and what happened next was what usually happens when aldermen who depend on the mayor gripe to the media: somebody sat him down for a chat.By Thursday, Solis had seen the light. "Let me thank you for the meeting we had last week," he told McCarthy. "I think it's important to point out that what we have done has been very effective. I'd like you to explain to the rest of my colleagues and to the media what has been accomplished by this ordinance."
By Thursday, Solis had seen the light. "Let me thank you for the meeting we had last week," he told McCarthy. "I think it's important to point out that what we have done has been very effective. I'd like you to explain to the rest of my colleagues and to the media what has been accomplished by this ordinance."
gah this is so creepy. "just look into the light, my friend. look into the light."
my reaction to rahm emanuel--just the name, doesn't have to be a picture--is almost pavlovian at this point. i immediate start scowling and gritting my teeth.
chicago and illinois are run by shit heads. it's such an embarrassment. i think mike madigan is even more debased and cynical than mayor rahm if you can imagine.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
it was apparent what Rahmbo was by 2006. Liberals really need to speed up.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 November 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
Great job positioning yourself as morally and intellectually superior while not having actually done jack shit.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 28 November 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
I thought I was over your boring vague scattershot cynicism as political ethos (oh you thought Rahm Emanuel was "up to something" in 2006? Congrats, so did literally everyone else in the world) but it's especially irksome when applied to local politics that do not impact you at all but do impact me, go fuck yourself.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
lol @ morbs having figured the clintonistas out by 2006.
― balls, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
like patting yrself on the back for having the liberty league pegged by 1954
― balls, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:53 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
did I imply any of this was news to me?
also since does me = "liberals"?
you are a tedious fuck, morbs. my sympathies for having to live w/ yourself.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
since WHEN does me
typos
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 30 November 2013 07:59 (ten years ago) link
I hadn't kept up with rahms career since getting to Chicago - worse than I feared
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 30 November 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
His eagerness to quit Washington and take over Chicago was the reddest flag of all.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 November 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
InformationNo results found for "raw me manual".
― how's life, Saturday, 30 November 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYaeNMCCIAE8Af-.jpg
― tbd (Eazy), Monday, 30 December 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
As if he wasn't already some sort of cyborg.
― dan m, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
i wonder how he would score on the psychopath test
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
T-1000
― carl agatha, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
Seeing this image everywhere lately really grosses me out:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bcg7uu-CUAEJLQI.jpg
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
don't ✶✶✶✶ with my city
― dan m, Monday, 30 December 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
don't barf with my city
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Don't Rahm with my city.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
HECKLEDhttp://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Activist-Who-Heckled-Rahm-Says-Mayor-Hypocritcal-about-MLK-241151911.html
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/features/rahm-emanuel-interview-0314
― JuliaA, Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I get so depressed when people write about Chicago.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
HE SUCKS SO MUCH ARGHHHHHHHH
― dan m, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Good article!
― Jeff, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Like the political operative he once was, he frames any situation in the context not of what is right or fair or decent but of what is possible. The issue, in Rahm’s view, isn’t city workers who signed a contract filled with promises; the issue is that those promises were never real to begin with, and the only choice he has is to replace them with something that actually might happen. “Life is a series of choices,” Rahm says. “You may have to work longer, and that is pain. And it is also certainty. My view is I would like to give more certainty to more people, which doesn’t exist today.”
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
i cannot read that right nowi hate him so much
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
what a charmer:
A five-seven, fifty-four-year-old fitness fanatic who exercises seven days a week, whose weight fluctuates between 149 and 150 pounds, who as a child put pinholes in his mother’s cigarettes to protest her smoking, Rahm rebukes Walmart shoppers picking up alcohol and little else. “That’s a lot of beer,” he tells one young man hoisting an eighteen-pack of Modelo. “Don’t drink it alone.” (Rahm is what they call in Yiddish a kibitzer—he teases, he needles, he taunts, and even though he is in full greet-the-public mode, the booze hounds give him a chance to chide somebody.) Elsewhere in the store, Rahm sees a crying three-year-old standing next to a shopping cart, and checking first with Mom—or perhaps Grandma—he lifts him into the seat, calling for a pack of tissues from his press secretary to address the boy’s runny nose. “You okay now? Better?” Then the lesson. “What do you say to Tarrah?” he asks the boy, who is silent. “Thank you?” prompts the mayor, himself a father of three. Working his way to the front of the store, Rahm says “I’m ready” to his security man, and they head out to the pair of big black Chevy Tahoes idling outside.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
Opponent for 2015?
http://inthesetimes.com/article/16321/amara_enyia_rahm_emanuel
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 21 February 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
A five-seven, fifty-four-year-old fitness fanatic who exercises seven days a week, whose weight fluctuates between 149 and 150 pounds,
I can't figure this out. I'm 5' 7", I rarely exercise and my weight hovers between 142 and 145. Does this mean Rahm has 5 pounds of pure muscle on me?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
he's got an aluminum skeleton
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 21 February 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
he had some weights implanted in order to walk the brass balls walk in addition to talking the talk
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, 21 February 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
― carl agatha, Monday, 24 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, February 21, 2014 3:38 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oops! Sorry! I should read first then post.
Anyway, I like this lady and while I don't think she'll win, I hope she helps spur some viable opposition.
― carl agatha, Monday, 24 February 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
me too -- i don't think he's a stick around forever kinda guy but i could see him going for another term until he decides what he will decimate next.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I dunno, Washington faced a pretty steep uphill battle in 1983, and people are more pissed at Rahm today than they were at Byrne then. And most of the old racist white Democratic machine are either dead, retired, in jail, or are now Republicans who wouldn't stand a chance anyway.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
But will those pissed off people vote, that's the question. I sure hope so! I do my part to make voting seem like a vital/necessary activity.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhcOeaRIMAA7-H8.jpg
― dan m, Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
uuuuuuuuuugh
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:49 (ten years ago) link
people are more pissed at Rahm today than they were at Byrne then.
are a lot of people really pissed at him? i mean, sure, huge numbers of folks in progressive and many minority communities. but i don't get the sense that rahm-hate is quite as widespread as it would appear from reading this thread.
― espring (amateurist), Thursday, 27 February 2014 01:03 (ten years ago) link
also the problem electorally is not really rahm it's whoever might run against rahm. there just haven't been good high-profile candidates with enough name recognition, personality, and funding prospects.
― espring (amateurist), Thursday, 27 February 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Woman-Heckles-Mayor-at-City-Birthday-Celebration-248426171.html
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 6 March 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
my CPS teacher friends were all fired up about that. apparently heckling is the only way to get him to listen. also, he deserves it.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 March 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Announcing the James Beard nominees right now:
http://new.livestream.com/jamesbeardfoundation/events/2839907
― That's So (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
rahm always keeps himself where the real city action is
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
but i don't get the sense that rahm-hate is quite as widespread as it would appear from reading this thread.
I thought it was nearly as widespread...? I assumed his closing schools while funding that dumbass DePaul stadium was pretty much writing off huge voting blocs.
(but I'm 800 miles away)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
well, this is a speshul pol
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/19/chicago-republican-who-blamed-autism-and-tornadoes-on-lgbt-rights-wins-her-primary/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
did any of y'all hear the bold shameless pandering to latin@s that rauner (and the lady who introduced him) were doing during the acceptance speeches last night? whoa. never heard anything like it in this state. quinn is over there talking about how the ford plant has THREE shifts and it only had ONE when he started; rauner and gang are literally screaming MAS TRABAJOS
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link