The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Dan Proft responds to Mayor Lighfoot’s ‘racial demagoguery’
The Chicago Way
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It will be the summer of joy in Chicago. |
| 0:03.5 | Thanks to Governor Pritzker, the lawlessness of Chicago will soon be the law statewide. |
| 0:09.5 | That bill goes into effect. Our hands will be tied. All their bonds will be extinguished on January 1st. |
| 0:15.0 | We are going to have violent criminals out on the street. |
| 0:18.0 | That's why 100 of Illinois's 102 state's attorneys oppose Pritzker's mandatory release of violent criminals. |
| 0:25.5 | Stop Chicago violence from coming to your town. Vote no on Pritzker. |
| 0:30.0 | Look that the Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon. |
| 0:35.5 | It's the Chicago way. |
| 0:37.0 | The Chicago way. That's the focus. |
| 0:39.5 | In a tower by the river, there lived a man. |
| 0:46.0 | There was a man who took a stand with pen and paper in his hand. |
| 0:53.5 | Defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword. |
| 0:59.0 | No escape from his inkless soul. |
| 1:02.0 | In the tower by the river. |
| 1:05.0 | Castle. |
| 1:06.0 | Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife. |
| 1:08.5 | You pull a gun. He sends 20 years to the hospital. |
| 1:11.0 | You say, when he hits the mall, that's the Chicago way. |
| 1:17.5 | Well, here we are. |
| 1:19.5 | I guess the end of the summer of joy, but not before more people are killed. |
| 1:25.0 | More people are slaughtered in Chicago. |
| 1:27.5 | As Mayor Lightfoot screams about how she's being perceived and a fastball. |
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