What is Conehead Smoking?

There's tone deafness....and then there's Conehead Tone Deafness:

• As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson marks two years in office this week, he talked about his swings, his misses, and why he thinks his poll numbers will likely rebound.

  Currently, Mayor Johnson has strong crime numbers to boast about — a 24% drop in homicides since taking office. But his poll numbers are currently terrible, and some of his handpicked leaders in the City Council even say he is trending toward becoming a one-term mayor.

  Mayor Johnson is a big basketball fan, and his term is now at the equivalent of halftime of a game. He was asked if he is leading or trailing?

  "I think the people of Chicago are certainly winning," the mayor said. "You cannot argue about safety in this city as we drive violence down. You can't argue that we're not building affordable homes, because we're doing that."

Um....cities aren't supposed to build affordable housing. They can remove regulatory burdens, but government can't and never has built anything truly affordable, because it all ends up being funded by taxpayers AND no one ever gets held accountable for missed deadlines, shoddy construction and cost overruns.

That's why Chicago is broke, along with Cook County, Illinois and pretty much the entire country being $37 trillion in debt. 

And crime numbers fluctuate. Chicago was on the verge of truly lowering crime back in 2019/2020 until the plandemic blew everything up and numbers skyrocketed. We are merely returning to the trend line established in the 20-teens.

The Tribune has an amusing editorial up that a bunch of people are quoting (sorry about the paywall):

• We’re halfway through Mayor Brandon Johnson’s term, and the city the mayor described in a series of recent interviews to mark the milestone hardly resembles what we see.

  We agree with the mayor that Chicago is a great American city, made so by the people who live, work, play and love here.

  But in many other respects — a transit system that continues to perform unacceptably, public schools that cost too much and do a poor job of teaching our children, violent crime levels well above peer American cities and a local economy needlessly deprived of the dynamism that produced our uniquely beautiful skyline — Chicago is ailing.

  For all the unfair shots ideologically motivated critics take at the city, Chicagoans who’ve grown up here and made adult lives here know something has gone wrong these last two years. They’ve seen what this city looks and feels like when things are going well. And, judging from Johnson’s rock-bottom public-approval numbers, many of them have concluded he’s a big part of the current problem.

And once the Bears leave town, that's going to be yet another check mark against any kind of positive legacy this moron is attempting to make.