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Dec 24, 2022Liked by HeyJackass!

On target with the sports analysis. As someone who worked for 3 of the 5 mentions indirectly, but witnessed in-your-face day to day operations, the spectacle all but collapsed after Covid and the inability to traverse the City without the fear of being a crime victim in some way, shape or form.

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Dec 24, 2022Liked by HeyJackass!

I'll accept some responsibility as a Chicago voter... but, in fairness, we haven't exactly had stellar options on the ballot. Again to be fair, when she was running for mayor, Lightfoot didn't look that bad. If she's reelected though, you might want to start looking for "for real" voter fraud. Fool me once...

Give me an option other than bad vs. worse and I promise I'll vote for them. How about founding an Hey Jackass! Party? I'll vote a straight ticket.

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Dec 26, 2022Liked by HeyJackass!

You used to post the CPD murder clearance rates but you do not do that anymore, why? Of course you are spot on with highlighting Lightfoot, Brown, Foxx and Evans (and Pritzker) collective incompetence with crime... any one of them could stop what is happening with encouraging criminals to be criminals. Keep up the good work!

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Glad to see you folks back in the saddle properly. The honor students have graduated and are now running the zoo. At least one judge in the state doesn’t have his head entirely up his posterior which is why he’s in Kankakee vs a more populous region, and FedEx left 2,000 rds of FMJ ammo on my doorstep last week vs leaving a call tag. All in all 2022 was a cheerful example of why kicking a tiger in the balls is a bad deal tho entertaining for anyone watching and 2023 may well be just as entertaining. I’m sure we’ll get more newspeak where the fuckwit of a President tries to tell us that we’re too stupid to understand inflation or how they caused it, and I’ll still hold that the best disinfectant is 20 foot of rope and 30 foot of tree.

I’m looking forward to getting more engagement and enlightening commentary in the next 12 months. Thanks HJ, great to have you back in the original context!

PW

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