Aw, dang it. It seems as if everyone is ignoring the mayor of Chicago with all this immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) excitement in Minneapolis. And everyone knows this sort of racial tension and divisiveness is right up Brandon 'Bear of Little Brains' Johnson's alley, especially now that he's killed off the ShotSpotter program, making Chicago alleys exciting again.
Well, the Bear had had about all he could stand watching Minnesota grab the grievance spotlight. So he took full advantage of an earlier city press conference, when he was supposed to be answering questions about such mundane sore subjects as *checks notes* snow removal after the massive storm this weekend.
Dullard that he is, Johnson DID know it was snowing, as he was standing out in the middle of it shrieking about not being 'okay with ICE shooting Americans without impunity.'
Defying his own city’s winter storm warnings, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stood on ice — literally — with hundreds of protesters while calling to abolish ICE, then accused the Trump administration of kidnapping illegal aliens.
— Illinois Review (@IllinoisReview) January 26, 2026
Illegal Aliens First.
The Safety of American… pic.twitter.com/tKCjb4z2Cc
It seems his tiny brain got so caught up in the moment that he couldn't process what wasn't his job with the parts that were his actual responsibility.
Like removing the snow gently settling about the watchcap that's keeping his pinhead from freezing.
He knows he has snow plows, because, impish witless that he is, the Bear coyly suggested he would name one of them 'Abolish ICE' a week before any snow ever fell.
.@ChicagosMayor Brandon Johnson supports naming one of the city's new snow plows "Abolish ICE."
— Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) January 23, 2026
Does that mean he supports abolishing @ICEgov?
Johnson says ICE has been "quite abusive" and "terrorizing" and "we should question whether or not it should exist." pic.twitter.com/JBHUfbpi0d
Such a giggle machine.
And he kept shouting the snowplow's name as he marched through the gradually thickening piles of frozen precipitation.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson lead an Anti-Ice Protest.
— IamLegend 🇺🇸 (@DarkSideAdvcate) January 27, 2026
Brandon Johnson loves illegal aliens
pic.twitter.com/cTdex4JD9y
The mayor didn't slip on the snow, but the plowing did.
In Chicago, the mayor’s first job is simple: keep the streets safe. Snow, cold, or a wind chill of –35°? That’s winter in Chicago, not an excuse. Plows don’t get snow days, and neither should da mayor. Chicago history is clear: mayors have been fired for not plowing the streets.… pic.twitter.com/cRAUBeB8ux
— Reporter William J. Kelly #thatreporter (@Williamjkelly) January 25, 2026
And when the crusading Bear got put on the spot about it at a press conference, ho, boy.
Protesting ICE, he said, and ICE (vice ice) removal WERE HIS JOBS...you RACIST.
Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked to his face why he was out protesting ICE instead of tending to snow removal in Chicago, and whether his office was coordinating with the anti-ICE rioters.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 28, 2026
He was accused of producing rhetoric that has caused violence against ICE.
He ridiculously… pic.twitter.com/xB8olD0CB2
...He ridiculously responded by saying part of his job is to protest ICE.
Johnson should be investigated to determine whether he and/or his office colluded in planning protests and riots against ICE.
He certainly didn’t deny it here.
Folks who live in Chicago seem to feel differently and are upset that Hizzoner has priorities somewhat out of synch with what and who his citizens believe a mayor's first concerns should be.
Where on earth do 108 people get shot in 27 days and it’s not a priority? ONLY in the black communities because they don’t care about black blood!! If anybody should care, OUR “BLACK” leaders should. It’s disgusting watching them let us die and suffer but prioritize everything…
— Ja'Mal Green (@JaymalGreen) January 28, 2026
BRANDON JOHNSON HAS NOT DONE ONE THING FOR BLACK PEOPLE AND HE ONLY START TALKIN' THAT POOR BLACK S**T WHEN THE MONEY RAN OUT
🤯Ya’ll wanna see Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, get totally nuked?
— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) January 29, 2026
This may be the most damning indictment of an elected Democrat I’ve ever seen, eviscerating him for appropriating billions for immigrants and little for the black community. pic.twitter.com/cej7glqJAA
Woof. These gentlemen seem to be onto the Bear's flim flam ways.
But that doesn't worry Hizzoner.
https://t.co/Q8Af5PxUig And since mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago is about as popular as herpes and MS13 probably pulls in higher poll numbers, he needs all the help he can get.
— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) January 26, 2026
He has friends in low places.
As if the body count on the frozen and treacherous streets weren't enough, Mayor Johnson left Chicago to take his racist roadshow somewhere he wouldn't be bothered by snowplow mayor-work questions while trying to get his anti-ICE leadership message out.
Mr Johnson went to Washington.
The Bear loves refighting the Civil War, forgetting that he's breathing, walking, and talking proof that it's been dead and buried for so long that an unmitigated grievance weasel and abject mediocrity can be elected to run a major American city, and no one bats an eyelash about his color.
It's his rank, dense, spite-laced stupidity that's so appalling.
🔥🚨 BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the American right wing still refuses to acknowledge the Civil War.
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) January 28, 2026
“Gregory Bovino… His dressing, his whole package, it is so familiar that I believe that it was blinding for some people…”
“It's clear that the far right in… pic.twitter.com/ZtZRQ1cCeF
He also wants to steal a march on the Minnesota lesser lights currently stealing what he feels is his rightful thunder in the deportation wars. SO at the press gaggle in the nation's capital, he announced another bold set of worthless virtue-signaling, banana republic Chicago anti-ICE (aka threats and intimidation) measures.
Brandon Johnson says Chicago will hold ICE/CBP officers accountable for "criminal misconduct."
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 28, 2026
"Nobody is above the law."
The left wants to go after Americans enforcing immigration law while protecting the foreign nationals that broke it.
Simple as that. pic.twitter.com/EDiVyWQGdb
...The left wants to go after Americans enforcing immigration law while protecting the foreign nationals that broke it.
Totally owned teacher's union tool that Johnson is, it should then come as no surprise that they are already enforcing the anti-ICE code in Chicago on those who would quietly dissent.
...Some of us in the free speech community have been writing about the hypocrisy of many in the media and academia suddenly championing free speech values after years of silence (or support) over censorship of conservatives, libertarians, and contrarians. This is a good example.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 27, 2026
Where this is going to cause a problem for a mayor of little brains who loves the sound of his own voice is that he doesn't know when to shut it - his yap.
...But Johnson said the “hyper-militarized” immigration raids have proved to be the most difficult challenge that Chicago has faced during the second Trump era. It’s a two-part challenge, he said, that includes the “raids themselves” and the protests that followed that have been “met with rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper balls.”
After conferring with the mayors of Los Angeles, Portland, Baltimore, Denver, Oakland, Boston and Minneapolis, “one common thread” emerged: the importance of “know your rights” campaigns to educate people about their constitutional rights.
“We happen to believe that, in the United States, there is no such thing as being ‘too well-educated’ on your rights under our Constitution,” Johnson said.
'Conferring' with other mayors on...oh. 'Know your rights' campaigns?
Well, maybe a touch more involved than that.
...“To respond to the operation in Chicago, I leaned heavily on other cities’ responses, like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass shared her experience governing while the city was in Trump’s crosshairs,” Johnson said. “We’ve been in regular communication both at the executive level and the staff level with cities like Minneapolis and Portland, Oakland, Boston, and Denver and Baltimore to learn from each other’s experiences and develop strategies to protect our constituents.”
Well...huh.
I'm sure the other mayors were thrilled to have Johnson confirm their conspiratorial conferencing on a national stage.
Oh...my bad.
Shared learning experiences.
I wonder if he asked anyone to share experiences about how streets get plowed?
If he did, it was probably Karen Bass.
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