Ahh, Chicago. The Windy City. Usually beautiful. Yeah, the river can be a bit murky, but still beautiful nonetheless.
If you can avoid the massive tent cities (most were cleared just in time for the convention, thankfully!), the bullets whizzing by, and the massive protestor gatherings — the city is beautiful.
Well, as we came in, I noticed nearly every store on every street had their windows boarded up with plywood. I asked why and was told it was in anticipation that the protestors … almost every single one of them democrats … that the protestors would be there to break windows, cause havoc (and loot, if possible) the stores. Well, the ones that stayed after we let the riots occur…. The staffer said Walmart closed half its stores, and countless stores just went out of business altogether. Retail vacancies hit an all time high in the Chicago Loop in 2024 after increased crime and lack of support for business in general in Chicago had most of them leave, close, or send employees to work from home “where they might be safer” — but… the remaining businesses — they have become experts at plyboarding their windows.
I thought the right wing was concluded to be the gravest terror threat to the US!? Why is it that the leftest protestors scare the businesses? That’s a conundrum. A conundrum is a big word people use when their brain is trying to figure out something and the conundrum is they can’t. God Bless America. Another conundrum is making people show photo IDs to get into the convention but not to vote — but who’s counting? We need to know who’s coming into the convention. Getting IDs to ensure the correct people are voting? That is just ludicrous.
And God Bless democrats for helping at least one kind of business— the ones that sell plywood.
And, I brat.