By John Kass

Wednesday Aug. 27, 2025

Some political tricks are obvious, even to the chumbolones.

Like the weak-minded fat man prancing along Chicago’s lakefront at dawn, downtown, telling us that he feels so safe in Chicago he’ll fight President Trump if Trump dares  bring the National Guard to Chicago.

Violent crime? What violent crime, says the weak-minded fat man to his adoring audience of corrupt corporate journalists who repeat his idiocies even as they protect his massive behind.

Democrats are rabidly pro-crime, and I do mean rabid.

Hey Gov. Pritzker, if Chicago is so safe why not prance around the West and South Sides at night without your phalanx of  armed bodyguards? You might go it alone. But you wouldn’t dare do that. You expect minority women of low-incomes to take the filthy and dangerous CTA at night to and from work. And to vote Democrat, for you. You must think them to be stupid.

Of course you do. They keep voting Democrat. They’re not stupid. Those women are good people. And they don’t deserve the garbage thrown at them by politicians and the press.

Angry? Yeah, I’m angry, with good reason. Because there is another deadly game going on in America, a political game of Russian Roulette that unfortunately is not so obvious.

And who loses? Not the American political class. But some lose. They lose everything.

This game is played by Democrats seeking to maintain power in the mapping and gerrymandering of Congressional Districts. And it has killed many Americans and broken many American families and killed many children. One of those children belonged to the family of Joe Abraham, whom I’ve written about before.

Katie Abraham was killed by a drunken driver who crossed the border illegally. He rammed her car from behind going 78 mph. And just the other day on The Chicago Way podcast, Joe sat down with WGN producer Jeff Carlin (best radio producer in Chicago) and me to talk about it. You can listen to it here.

Here is how this deadly game of political Russian Roulette works:

The Democrats put out a big banquet table for illegal migrants, a table loaded with welfare and other federal goodies paid for by American taxpayers.

That table is laden with health care and school rooms and food and lodging. All the comforts of home. Even better than their home which is why they rushed the border at Joe Biden’s invitation and Democrats turned a blind eye to the 20 million or so illegals.

The idea was to lure the illegals to a Democrat blue city like Chicago or a Democrat blue state like Illinois and keep them there long enough so they can be counted in the U.S. Census, to offset all the refugees fleeing high tax-high crime Illinois.

Sometimes the illegal migrants act out, they might get a gun to muscle fellow migrants. They might get drunk and get behind the wheel of a car. Sometimes a child like Katie Abraham is killed by an illegal migrant/drunken driver who never should have been out there.

What do the Democrats do then?

Nothing.

They pretend it didn’t happen. Or they appear irritated, to make you and any grieving family feel uncomfortable. The political class protect their power and they have corrupt corporate legacy media to cover for them.

I know how that works. I spent 40 years working for the Chicago Tribune, which was once a conservative newspaper, but now it just might as well be edited by George Soros.

And don’ t you dare say I’m being partisan about this. I’m not. In 1994, truck driver Riccardo Guzman (who couldn’t read the road signs in English) was involved in a horrific crash that burned the Willis children alive in the family van. The governor then was a Republican. George Ryan, remember? The press covered for him too. He lost his job and he went to prison.

What is too much to bear is that decent people have funded the hurt visited upon their families, courtesy of the Democrats.

“And that’s kind of where sometimes it just strikes a nerve for me because one of the things that eats me at night is that I helped fund Katie’s death, and there’s nothing I can do,” Joe said on the podcast.

Illinois corruption runs deeper than a slickster pocketing an envelope full of cash to look the other way.

Illinois corruption–like all political corruption is about breaking the souls of the innocent and filling the broken parts with poison.

“No death is worth your political power. Have some principle.

“Do not sacrifice and create collateral damage because you want a couple extra seats in Congress. That’s not good enough…It’s awful. And I’m sorry, Illinois is so mismanaged and misrun,” said Joe Abraham. “I’m sorry you (Democrats) have mismanaged the state so badly that half a million people are leaving. And no one else is coming in because who be there? You’ve got to backfill it with folks that probably shouldn’t.

“You’re letting your citizens die.”

Pritzker and his foolish chum, the mayor of Chicago, thinks all this is propaganda. All they want is more social programs paid for by the fleeing middle class.

But then, Gov. FatBoy and Mayor Pin Head never lose at political Russian roulette. They always win no matter what. They’re never hurt. Their families aren’t ever broken. They’re political. They always win just as as long as media keep saying the magic words.

It’s Trump’s fault.

It isn’t Trump’s fault. It’s our fault for electing people like Pritzker and Johnson.

But sooner or later the American voter wakes up. Here’s hoping they wake up soon, before all of Illinois and Chicago are gone.

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About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.

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