Mark joined Ray Stevens to discuss the illegal immigration crisis occurring across the country, what the consequences will be for Gov. Pritzker calling Illinois “the most progressive state,” why the unprecedented pardons issued by Joe Biden matter, the danger of Illinois losing federal grants, Chicago’s credit downgrade, and more.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
The best political ad you could run to oppose Pritzker would be this picture of JB smiling and waving, pretending to be someone who is a leader.
No matter how JB the Hutt and his fellow leftists try to obfuscate, the label applicable to Illinois and its insane policies is ‘Liberal’. This is no badge of honor.
Personally, I have been trying to avoid calling the modern left “liberal” because I think their biggest flaw is illiberalism. Liberals traditionally believed in free speech, suspicion of elites and centralized power, and the unpoliticized rule of law. Today’s progressives have betrayed those principles and become their enemies.
Journalist Walter Kirn was making this *exact* point on this past Monday’s “America This Week” podcast, hosted by Matt Taibbi… he was in fact *raging* about how the current leftist cabal has absolutely ruined the concept of classic “liberalism”; he called them fascist, akin to the “though control” of the old USSR or the present – day North Korea… “They ruined something that I loved and lived by!”, was his conclusion… seriously, he had an on – air meltdown!
We centrists should reclaim the liberal label. And, yes, centrist. The “right wing” label is a fiction of the leftist press
Yup, I’ve always been a centrist at heart, and I would dealy love to reclaim the *liberal* label… but the leftist pukes ruined that for me, as they ruin *everything* they touch. And yes, that “right wing” label is used by the MSM as a “trigger” term to label things. I follow European news closely, and this “right wing” label, for example, is used to slander the conservative AfD party in Germany. All AfD wants is to reclaim Germany’s borders to reduce immigration of hostile Third Worlders, get rid of the harmful “green” crap that is destroying German industry, and… Read more »
Liberals believe in government as the solution to every problem. Benevolent government, of course, with only good and wise people in charge.
They are finding out what happens when your basic idea is to offer power to the most charismatic people who can win elections. You end up with narcissistic sociopaths in control.
It is inevitable. Every leftist/liberal movement has ended in disaster. Liberals need to start understanding that their utopian ideas end badly. Every single time. No more “my party left me” whining.
Actually, classical liberals believed in limited government, though you are right about the more modern ones.
Yes. But liberals today are almost the direct opposite of classical liberalism. Another example of Orwellian newspeak.
Once again, everyone thinks that being a progressive is such a BAD word!!! When you Conservatives were in power….Rauner remember him?? Illinois wasn’t in any better shape! It’s always a problem when you can’t come up with a tangible, comprehensible, equitable plan. I read this newsletter for a conservative view on statewide issues, not a pity party or b**** session!! If ya’ll conservatives didn’t learn how to plan well in the sandbox, then shut up or put up!!!!
Rauner was elected governor. Madigan made sure he was never in power. And yes, the problem is progressives can never come up with a tangible plan for anything. They just scream for more money.
You aren’t going to like the next four years. The liberal progressive extremists had their heads handed to them in November. Trump isn’t perfect, but at least we know who is making the decisions now. I don’t know who was running the country the last four years, but it wasn’t Dementia Joe. Trump is off to a nice start.
Even the left has tired of the extreme progressive agenda which resulted in the drivers of their election massacre, namely inflation, illegals and extreme wokism. Pritzker can’t change course because it would require him to admit he was wrong. He simply can’t accept it.
That’s right. You elected that. Your shame should be unbearable.
JB can’t read the writing on the wall. His hard left, champion of the little people, schtick is passe now. The national elections prove it. And even the votes in Black and Hispanic areas in Chicago show the same conclusion. JB is toast outside of Illinois but he is one of the few people who can’t see it.
Again, as Chicago circles the drain towards insolvency, it’s scary for this Chicago Illinois taxpayer/homeowners listening to JB & Brando promising to go peddle to the floor, all in progressive, in fighting Trump agenda while having no idea how to pay for it all? Here’s Brando doing his progressive shtick today on Trump (witch he’s good at) on how Chicago is not going to give an inch to Trump but of course never mentions how a broke Chicago could ever pay for it all.( https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/01/20/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-on-trump-inauguration-mlk-jr-day) But what does he or any of our public sec hero class care if they… Read more »