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Jolly

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Free money! Maybe...

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-reparations-task-force
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Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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George K

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Evanston, the suburb immediately north of Chicago has already instituted such a program.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/evanston-illinois-becomes-first-u-s-city-pay-reparations-blacks-n1261791
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Ninth Ward after Betsy in 1965. A perfect example of the effects of free money.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Maybe the money could go towards better policing?

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-46-shot-7-killed/14963901/
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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