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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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Northwestern, You can’t be here if you ain’t queer.
Another famous Barnum said it best about the gullibility of the American public.
So where will they set up the Northwestern guillotine?
In the football stadium or on the lakefront?
The guillotine was inefficient compared to barges.
Today’s lefties are into theatre, they’ll want to put on a show as they eat their own.
Progressivism: Given enough time, everyone fails the purity test.
The LGBTQ+ community is now turning on one of its founding members: gay white males.
Of course she’s from Berkley.
Excuse me, this person is a ‘they/them’.
I’m yours.
I know this is my second post on this article but this editorial is completely insane. Crazy town. This abomination is obviously not smart, really dumb, and attends Northwestern not because of test scores or intelligence, but rather, because this abomination identifies as latinks and gay or whatever. Like Mark says below, “Uppity white queers should get off their pedestal, says this journalist in training,” she herself is asking for forgiveness for her own perpetuation of the toxicity of white queer privilege. These freaks are the least capable communists in the history of the world. Communism demands a brutal ruthlessness.… Read more »
“Hmmm…. interesting”: https://twitter.com/luciabarnum_/status/1565132033235357696?cxt=HHwWgMCgudbSu7grAAAA “So excited to share that I will not be editing for
@thedailynu this quarter! Can’t wait to spend significantly less time on the third floor of norris. Many thanks to everyone who made this possible https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/2764.svg
7:18 PM · Aug 31, 2022…”
The current crop of woke idiots in US colleges are essentially worthless to society – their only career options are sex work and organ donation.
And they’d suck at even both of those, lol…
Geez. Is this what students spend their time on these. days. Looks like they have way too much free time on their hands.
This is the caliber of “student” that $80K per year pays for. Why do I get the feeling that this person has never worked at a real job or task a single day of “their” life…??? Of course, she hails from Berkeley Ca, so that explains a lot…
Uppity white queers should get off their pedestal, says this journalist in training. And it’ll cost you $80K/year to get educated there.
Them goes on to say that it would be: “…frowned upon for a white straight person to hold that position [D&I Chair].” And there it is. Active discrimination based upon race and sexual preference. Totally racist stuff here disguised as diversity. Moreover, why is more than 60% of edit board gay? How many straight students were discriminated against and denied a place on the edit board? This person is an abomination and should be rightly called so. To ‘them’s faces. This freak is 18 years old. 18. Can’t even smoke weed or drink alcohol but is somehow the voice of… Read more »
Lol, my response, too. As a white gay guy (albeit much older than college age), this makes me ashamed. I remember the days – and not so long ago – when gays and people of color *were* routinely discriminated against (I was fired in the early 80’s, I had a homophobic boss; this was quite common). More gibberish from a pampered dolt, this is “their” description on the Daily Northwestern site: “Lucia Barnum, Audio Editor. Lucia is a Medill freshman from Berkeley, California double majoring in journalism and international studies. They previously served as an Assistant Audio Editor. When not… Read more »
Would have been a much shorter article if she had just said “you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a white queer around here”.
She needs to learn how to write if she’s going to work at a newspaper. But she might be safe since no one hires based on merit these days.
In her defense, she is (was) the audio editor!
But yes, this was a rambling piece of virtue signaling that she, as a white adjacent latinks (I don’t use latine or latinx) whatever that is, can participate in both worlds (POC and White Gay), and she was seeking her own redemption, publicly, for contributing to the toxicity of environment of the editorial board.
I get this kid has a lot going on but this is some really crazy stuff. I’ll even give her cannabis induced delusions a pass. But the editorial board decided to publish this whacky stuff.
Perfect, “seeking her own redemption”. Or as the People’s Cube site used to joke, “Comrade, I denounce myself!”
Since I’m of mixed Eastern European ancestry, I use Slavicx to confuse the woke youngsters.
Lol slavicx, you know that polish are people of color right?
Yeah that’s what happens when other people rule over you for 1000 years. There was even Irish immigration into Poland long ago.
I’m of mixed French Canadian and Scotch/Irish desent. I use the term Gaellix to throw em off!
It even confuses gay people too…
Hah! Gaelixx is a great one!
Latrinex would be a more apt description of herself!
I like this too much, spot on hah