The New Normal

Two weeks ago, Rahm and Special Ed were forced to send Fred Waller out in front of the TV cameras to address the 70+ shooting victims over that weekend. Fred proceeded to make a statement about his amazing culinary skills combining shit and syrup being transformed into pancakes. Truly a memorable mopment.

One week ago, Rahm and Special Ed fell all over themselves patting themselves on their manly parts for reducing the number of people shot to around half of that. Ed made noises about re-deployments, day off cancellations, and overtime expenditures. We don't think he or Rahm thanked the cops or their families for having to change and reschedule plans.

This weekend certainly didn't start well:

• In a span of about 14 hours between Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, 25 people were shot in Chicago, including a 3-year-old boy who was among seven wounded in a single attack.
  
  [...] The man was taken to St. Bernard Hospital in critical condition after the shooting in the 7000 block of South Sangamon Street in the Englewood neighborhood, but was later pronounced dead.
  
  In the seven-victim shooting, six of the people shot were standing on a sidewalk around 8 p.m. in the 1600 block of West 65th Street when they were hit by gunfire, police said. The seventh person shot, a 38-year-old woman, was grazed on the arm while in a backyard. She was treated on scene.

The new normal - 20, 30, even 40 or 50 shot and it's accepted as normal.

And once again, not a single shot fired by the police. It's amazing.

This qualifies as another "mass shooting" weekend, and you can guess exactly where Rahm is going to lay the blame as soon as he returns to town (is any reporter staking out his fake residential address yet?)