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In a fiery address to New Hampshire Democrats on Sunday night, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker condemned what he described as President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian power grabs” while also blasting the “do-nothing” Democrats in his party — stating it is “time to fight everywhere, all at once."
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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With last years guest speaker being then Gov. Tim Walz, the Cambridge refugees who have taken over the former Great Granite State are 2 for 2 on having complete buffoons at the podium.
Only the paid Dem stooges at the State Media WaPo would pen such an uncritical regurgitation of the violent and traitorous words of the worst governor in America, JB the Hutt.
Bezos was supposed to make that rack of birdcage liners less idiotically partisan and succeeded about as well as his space carnival ride did at creating astronauts a few weeks ago.
Here’s WSJ/ J. Freeman column on JB in NH:
(https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-would-democrats-do-without-trump-b7aef659?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1)
Re Pritzker as a presidential candidate, he is articulate and aggressive. He is also a dishonest, immoral, anti-American leftist oligarch. It seems to me that if images of his repulsive face and physique are widely disseminated, he is unlikely to be elected.
But I wouldn’t underestimate him, due to his money and Democrats’ willingness to cheat.
Hmm, looks like he may have started his weight-loss campaign, too.
Photoshop??
Illinois is not great for business. The recent bankrupty of Big Lots saw all 26 Illinois locations close. Big Lots is reopening 132 stores and not a single one in Illinois. Why do you think that is JB, we have safe roads that’s what these businesses want, right?
https://chainstoreage.com/big-lots-reopen-132-stores-may-here-are-locations
Pritzker self-financed most of his election campaigns. So, there hasn’t been much need to waste anybody else’s money. Going forward, a possible negative could be lack of ability to raise funds for other candidates who run in 2026 or for a national campaign in 2028. What big donors think of Pritzker is a determining factor in whether he will run again for anything other than governor of Il. For the most part activists don’t give much. The activists provide reliable votes for democrats, and we’ve seen that they will vote for any democrat who runs. In terms of ever winning,… Read more »
I guess he can boast about IL being one of the most taxed state in the country with one of the few states with the highest outmigration, the highest unemployment rate and the most illegal immigrants living off the government dime. That is really a campaign winner.
The national media is either ignorant or avoids talking about IL decrepit financial situation while the local media, ST and Trib, are afraid of Pritzker’s money. So he goes around spouting without criticism. Only Wirepoints tells the whole story and Pritzker doesn’t do media interviews unless with butt kissers. When is some media outlet with national exposure going to out Pritzker?
The Chicago media have been Dem lapdogs for decades. They regurgitate talking points so as to retain access to Illinois’ political animals.
Completely worthless. All of them.
I don’t know if the readers here have found out about this but…….
So presidential hopeful wants to boycott El Salvador but he and his family own a 5 star income generating hotel in El Salvador. As usual the same crap out of Pritzgers mouth.
Replying to my own post. Almost 200 properties in China as well. Maybe Pritzger hates tariffs or anything anti China since he and his family are heavily invested in the China economy. Just throw this in the mix of the Blago scandal, toiletgate, draconian Covid orders for almost 1400 days, moving his family out of Illinois to Florida to be free of his ordered Covid restrictions and on and on. Pritzger is the typical democrat con artist, make that a wealthy con artist, liar, hypocrite and entitled egotistical elitist. I’m repeating myself when I say democrats hate you and hate… Read more »
The Democrats are so anti-American, I think many are on the take from China, drug traffickers, and human traffickers.
Thanks for the down vote JB did your tummy get upset by it or was it the 4 double beef bean burritos you had for a late nite snack?
The good news in all this is that if Pritzker is a contender, then the democrats have a very, we’ll, thin bench.
And Pritzker better not sit on it!
Yes JB. You know that you are a brilliant genius. Now let the rest of the World learn this fact!!! Please please please spend ALL of your daddy’s money trying to become President. Doit doit doit. Please. Please. Pretty please. Don’t let us down. The future of ‘your’ America is on the line. I can’t imagine a more ideal Democrat candidate for 2028.
So Large in Charge thinks POTUS has made authoritative power grab? Someone needs to remind him that he rule the state of IL for 1,155 days, under the pretext of a state of emergency caused by a fake pandemic!
Up next: JB delivers all his speeches wearing the custom-made Che Guevara fatigues, army boots, and red beret he has on order.
The AWFLs swoon. “He looks just like my favorite dorm room poster! All of our dreams are finally coming true!”
Best decision for the Republicans EVER. JB’s candidacy would cement more Republican time in the executive office…
JB, how are those toilets doing?
I’m trying to imagine how busy we will be on fact checking as he boasts about his accomplishments in Illinois. I do think he will be a leading contender for the Dem nomination. It appears to me that the far left will win the Dem civil war now going on with moderates, and Pritzker is clearly positioning himself as the embodiment of the far left. The general election will be a different matter.
Anybody outside IL either don’t know who he is and if they do they think he is a total LOSER!
It’s time to call for the individuals resignation from all parties all people this jackass is trying to turn Americans on each other, I’m waiting to hear the Republicans response on this one Pritzker is a evil evil individual.
I read this and then I think…my liberal neighbors love this guy.
Why? It would be insightful to hear why they think he is fit for office? He has allowed the jewel of the state, Chicago, to become a war zone run by public sector unions…
My experience is these days they then shift the conversation to Trump,,,and you know the rest.
Ask them if they are on the receiving end for anything from the state such as employment-pensions-health care? I spoke to some that work for the state/ public employment and they really like this guy but others on the paying end do not. I mean really do not like this guy but Cook county determines who becomes the governor in many cases.
I know someone that receives SNAP benefits as well as other benefits, she thinks he’s great. She repeats all the liberal talking points, Trump cutting social security etc. Pritzker will save us.
The dem self criticism buzz word for why they lost to DT a couple month ago was “the working class”. DT won and dems lost “the working class”. JB used to spout he was about building “the middle class” or those aspiring to be. What has JB/ the machine done for who they like to call “the working class” (us middle class chumbalones) in bankrupt Illinois?—ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!
Only the public sector guaranteed deal class has gotten ahead in JB’s, “so tiered of all the winning”, Illinois
Have to disagree with “absolutely nothing”. He foisted the SAFE-T Act on everyone, he tried passing the “fair tax”, and surrogates are trying to resurrect it under a new name, he has raised the gas tax again, he failed to stop the cessation of the Invest In Kids program, displacing 9600 students and leading to multiple private school closures. He fails to make budget cuts and he is uninterested in prosecuting criminals or helping ICE removed illegals who commit crimes. He’s done so much more than nothing. A terrible, terrible and smug governor.
Don’t forget his Covid lockdowns while transporting his family across state lines so they did not have to abide by them following the “some animals are more equal than others” policies.
You can be sure we won’t be forgetting. Here’s our earlier list of all his Covid blunders:https://wirepoints.org/in-hopes-of-doing-better-next-time-heres-a-list-of-illinois-covid-policy-mistakes-wirepoints/
He calls Trump authoritarian, but Portly Pritz told everyone to stay in their homes for no good reason, while he jetted around the country.
Don’t forget, he stopped the grocery tax that saves families around $200 p/yr. Those dollars go back to municipalities. JB wanted to campaign on eliminating that tax. He’s right, we shouldn’t be taxed on groceries, but he didn’t offer the municipalities more state funding to make up for it. Instead, the legislation ensured municipalities could reinstate the tax themselves. At least 50 have so far, others will follow, introduce a new tax, or raise others to make up for the shortfall. I am so disgusted with this state. I received my Lake County tax bill last night. My taxes went… Read more »
what is JB’s “record in Illinois as a template for improving the lives of working-class voters”??
Article states:
what a joke!!
And JB calls for violence against Republicans. The Democrat’s Brownshirt Army is real. But……JB is probably also deluded that his unconstitutional gun control laws have changed Illinois. Most Republicans maintain their 2nd Amendment tools. Bring it on fatboy.
I suppose that technically, he only called for Republican office holders to be treated like traitors and “never have a moment’s peace” — if called out on this, he would probably insist he didn’t mean ordinary folks who vote Republican — but there really is no way to separate office holders in this context from their supporters. So despite all his talk of “one Illinois” he basically declared war on at least 40%-45% of the state’s voting residents (i.e., those who voted for Trump) and on every “red” county or community in the state. If he really means what he… Read more »
Nice PR piece for Waddles. He fits the bill for a political party whose only strategy is “ down with Trump!”. Hey Waddles, how will you handle the economy if president? Like you’ve mismanaged it in IL? How will you handle illegals? Like you coddle them ( and other criminals ) in IL? Will the entire country be declared a sanctuary without asking anyone? Got a plan for a balanced budget like the one you promised but failed to deliver on year after year? Absolutely can’t wait for you to hit the national spotlight and for Toiletgate, your dealings with… Read more »
I desperately want Pritzker as the DNC’s chosen one in 2028 – PDJT/ VPV will literally mop the floor with the bloviating bozo. Remember, Democrat primaries are for show only, it’s the party Bosses who pick the candidate.
What a lesser of four evils for the socialists: Sanders, AOC, Karmala or Pritzker. Each one uniquely blissfully arrogant and incompetent in their own way.
This activity by this ridiculous blow-hard should tell every person in Illinois who and what he is. The state financials are a disaster, the pension system is financially unsound and will, absolutely, bankrupt the State. Yet, this jackass, does nothing but spend more and now campaign to somehow be the president. He should be focused on the job he has , but he doesn’t want that anymore…and the heat is getting to him. He doesn’t want to be the last governor when the music stops. The Fat Man has no chance to be president, but he should also never be… Read more »
Is Pritzker possibly calling for acts of violence in his speech?
Just mostly peaceful protests.
33 counties want to secede from Illinois. Listen to all the speeches you want. Voters check the facts
And big column in NYT here: https://archive.ph/0IVbl
He said this with all honesty in his speech. “We’ve done an awful lot in Illinois, and we can be doing those things in other states.” Awful is a good word he said on what he has done. What exactly has he done? He raised taxes on every person in Illinois from close to day one in his administration including the ones who can least afford it. He took money by taxation from the many to give to the few who are organized and have a large voting block. He promoted abortion-casinos-pot-transgenderism-sanctuary status for illegals-his daily mandates on Covid were… Read more »
JB is nothing but power hungry. Once he got a taste of what it is like to have power over people being a governor there is no going back to being just a plain billionaire.
https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/news/insights/power-game-people-want-power-over-others-even-if-theres-nothing-gain