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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Italygate. Duck duck go is the only search engine you could trust. The big coverup begins. Its bad. The data was moved from Frankfort to Italy when the counting stopped, votes were changed in Italy then uploaded to the Dominion mix. Conservative speech will be crushed. Parker app was taken down by Apple and Google, and tomorrow at midnight Amazon will kill all the Parler data servers. Poof conservatives gone, no voice. The capitol deserved to be invaded. America is done, its over. Forget Illinois, thats just a pimple, America itself is gone, the press, big tech, Washington, the military,… Read more »
This conspiracy theory is the same as the Democrat’s delusions that the Mueller Investigation was going to show that Trump was some kind of Russia agent with Deutche Bank laundering his money. It’s crazy talk. Trump doesn’t even believe this Dominion vote changing nonsense. You’re not doing anyone a favor talking about this stuff. I hate to be the jerk telling you this but you do us all a disservice, and play right into Democrat hands, when people spew this stuff. We all know the election was stolen. Listen to the phone call between Trump and the GA secretary of… Read more »
Let’s refrain from the manufactured label of “riots” – there was a, A, ONE, disturbance. The entry into the building, and I am guessing, the individual offices, while owned by the citizens of the US, was not permitted. It was swiftly dispersed and ended.
As such, “riots” and the other nonsensical descriptions used by the MSM are grossly, as per usual, inaccurate.
If I am a lawyer, I am licking my chops
WGN should not be calling people ‘domestic terrorists’ when they don’t have any facts. Did WGN call the BLM rioters this past summer in Chicago and D.C. domestic terrorists? No.
Stick to the facts WGN, not the narrative being pushed.
Facts have long ago ceased to matter to the media.
WGN was the last bastion of marginally less biased coverage on the major networks. I have simply stopped watching them, and, in some cases, deliberately stopped patronizing their advertisers – as I did Gillette after their “masculinity is toxic” set of offensive ads.
I never thought of Atlas Shrugged as non-fiction.
The next two years will be a witch hunt for anyone who doesnt show fealty to the Democrats and their narrative. All Witches will be burned at the stake in an Democrat/Socialist attempt to end any political opposition once and for all.
The silver lining for 2023 (if we make it that long) is that: 1) R’s exclusively control legislative redistricting for many more seats than D’s throughout the country (IIRC its like 170 to 80 or something); 2) Blue states are the most likely to lose one or two seats with census redistricting and they will be gained by Red state with R’ legislatures; 3) Mid-terms almost always result in major losses of house seats for the presidential party, and the current D margin in the house of 8 votes will likely be a 20-30 R majority on January 4, 2023;… Read more »
Do you think it matters if Kevin McCarthy controls the house? I think it’s laughable that a disciple of Boehner and Ryan will be a bulwark against anything. I hope they get slaughtered again and the GOP is relegated to the ash heap of history.
Obama was lame duck from 2010-2016 and Cruz and Paul singlehandedly thwarted most of Obama’s agenda and he was reduced to governing by executive order, most of which were overturned by Trump. Name one major bill that passed after Obamacare. There are none. Because none were passed. Obama couldn’t even appoint a Supreme Court Justice. I understand and feel your cynicism but some politicians do take their job seriously. And the pearl clutching from the D’s as the impeachment process goes forward will be awesome.
Obama did DACA with Ryan/Boehner and they didn’t budge. Obama spent and spent and they didn’t do a thing. Obama got us into Iran and Paris while Ryan and McConnell were leading the Congress and they didn’t do a thing. Rafael Cruz was down at the border giving presents to kids while Obama was letting them in. Little Marco from Cuba and Ryan did everything they could to pass an amnesty after the 2012 election. They were barely stopped by grassroots uprising, so they took a nap while Obama passed DACA. Some politicians take their jobs seriously. They are all… Read more »
Also, if I’m not mistaken, when these same people had the perfect opportunity to repeal Obamacare they decided it was worth keeping.
True colors of the GOP.
Chase,
A few months from now: DC and Puerto Rico become states, and there are 13 justices, and there’s major gun legislation, and IL gets a partial bailout……..
maybe then you’ll realize what a lame duck he was (and why progressives complain that he was a do nothing prez). A Triple D (senate, house and prez) is about to do more damage in 6 months than Obama did in his last 6 years.
duckduckgo lame duck obama, lots of articles….
You and I are on the same side here. but it’s better to attack your clear enemy than your ally…
Curios what the line on civil war is… The Dem-centrists were so offended by Trump that they were unable (or, in many cases, incapable) of understanding the consequences of allowing the liberal/socialist/extremist left side of their party access to the keys.
Trying to be optimistic about the cyclical nature of politics, but, with these nihilists at the wheel, my trepidation runs high.
There’s no civil war coming, just really hard politics with, unfortunately, lots of pop up violence and mob violence. 2021-2025 is gonna be a long slog, with negative growth, recession as the CRE market crashes, the housing market too (overpay for a suburban house in the middle of a pandemic? Ooopsies!!!) along with the stock market, and small business. QE is deflationary, not inflationary. Those QE money printing bubbles burst and suddenly you find yourself without any money, and prices for hard assets collapse. Biden’s presidency will be remembered like Carter’s four awful years (Which too came not too shortly… Read more »
I really can’t believe you think a Republican will win again. 2020 was the last chance. There was nobody who had a chance in 2016 until Trump came along. It’s over. Little Marco from Cuba, Rafael Cruz, Nimrata Randhawa, Pierre Delecto, Rand Paul… none of them are getting elected, and with the exception of Rand the others are vomit inducing.
Unfortunately I do believe a civil war is forthcoming politicians have stepped out of bounds horrible laws everything for BLM reparations and so on to many to list or talk about D.C is just the beginning people have had enough of the crap in this country it’s a accumulation of a whole host of things.
The fascists are already here. The SJWs have in their ignorance voted in the Fourth Reich. They will not call it that, maybe something like the Glorious Second Revolution instead.
It’s not ignorance. They have been fascists all along. For the last thirty years I’ve ID’d them as brownshirts.
This is just the beginning of the removal of all conservative and Republicans from civilized society. This is be a rough two years for us.
What do you think will end after two years? Or even four years? You think Little Marco from Cuba is going to right the ship? Or Rafael Cruz?
There are others. Ron DeSantis has done a great job in Florida. Kristi Noem in SD. Crenshaw is a great rep from Texas and so is their Gov Abbott. It’s going to be hard, and the Republicans need to get rid of the Murkowski’s and Romney’s. Today, Maricopa Cty Republicans moved to censure Jeff Flake, and McCain’s wife. It’s a symbolic gesture, but shows where they are moving.
Civil War is a possibility, but secession might be the least bloody way out.
They have done a good job but will have trouble cobbling together 100 EC votes.
This is what will be interesting. Does the Republican party try to get rid of the moderates and push further to the right or does the party try to become more centrist and bi-partisan? Becoming more right-leaning could mean losing votes but I might be wrong on that.
My personal belief is that if the Democrat party welcomes with open arms:
the bigots;
the racists,
the socialists,
the globalists;
the anarchists;
the collectivists;
the communists;
the illegal aliens;
the eco-terrorists;
the BLM movement;
the corporate-fascists;
the convicted criminals;
and the severely mentally ill;
The Republican party can handle a couple hundred thousand Q conspiracy theorists who are otherwise employed and contribute positively to society.
I agree. That is why the thought of “bi-partisan” now is mind blowing. Why would/should any rational person try to find common ground with lunacy?
The Republican party became more centrist by Trump’s inclusion of the millions of disenfranchised blue collar workers. The former party of the country club elite is now supported by the folks who just want to live their lives and have the government leave them alone. The turning point will be when all of the labor unions realize which party really gives a fig about them. Big tech and Big business hate American workers; they are too expensive. They prefer the overseas global workforce at pennies on the dollar. Democrats embrace foreigners over their fellow citizens; especially their fellow white citizens.… Read more »
Excellent comment!
You hit the nail squarely on the head.