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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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Keep in mind that the average normie is completely unaware of the deification of Kamala over the past two weeks. I again, was at the dog park with two normies, and politics came up (ok maybe I nudged it a little bit this time, but usually I don’t). Two normies I was with both said they didn’t like Biden, didn’t like Trump and knew next to nothing about Kamala, and said they were uninterested in the election in 2024, might not even vote. Which brings me back to the broader culture, in that outside of hyper-online circles, which are small,… Read more »
I had a somewhat mild almost heated discussion with a friend if my wife. It was about if our vote in Illinois counts for the national and local candidates. She is Republican or leans a little to a third party. I told her most of the time our votes for the national do not count if you are an R since Chicago and Cook county determines the election for a D for president. I told her Illinois is not a swing state and most likely we will not see much of Trump here. The battleground states will determine who will… Read more »
Freddy, the answer to your question is this: Your vote has substantial impact in your local community. Your mayor, alderman, sheriff and school board have far more impact on your day to day life than anything that happens 300 miles away in Chicago. There are progressives everywhere even in your community. They can flip an election in any community with only 20% of voters. They flipped my school board with near record low turnout but beat the normies handily 60% to 40%, with only about IIRC 20% of all registered voters. Now my school board is pushing actual communism. They… Read more »
It is great. Do you also recognize the Republican cultural-media machine, led by Fox News and hords of “conservative” influencers?
That’s a short, forced list. Not very impressive.
And the Trib didn’t even include what is probably the most influential of the leftist cultural institutions- academia and K-12 education.
I can add lots more. Why bother? The point is each side has propaganda and media it “owns”. And both sides have diehards that only listen to or believe their own media. From my point of view, so far only one side has built a personality cult. Maybe that’s starting now on the left. If so,they are years behind the right in that regard.
The difference, Brian, is that Trump sells himself, as he’s done his entire life. Kamala needs the apparatus to make her cool. NEWSFLASH: It’s not working and the average normie has no idea what “Kamala is brat” even means. Some pollster did a panel the other day of normie (non-AWFL) suburban woman and they were mostly unimpressed with Kamala. Tik-Tok videos of her dancing aren’t going to fix that problem.
Are there any videos of her with Willie? (If yes, I do not want to see)
Ask willie in calif how this creepy got her start……..
Wow, 5 downvotes? I know I automatically get 2 even if I said that water is wet. So I guess that means the education system is actually a bastion of conservative thought, right? No need to bother to respond with all of the other institutions that spread conservative propaganda that you claim are out there. Don’t expect you to exert that much effort. Why bother?
We post this because it’s a remarkable and commendable recognition by the Tribune board of the power of the “Democratic culture-media machine, a formidable force honed by holding power for 12 of the last 16 years and made up of headline writers, news analysts, Hollywood rainmakers, opinion columnists, TikTokers, influencers, social media meisters and late-night talk-show hosts.”
Think for a second about who owns and runs the Tribune. Even when they’re accurate, can you really say we should trust them?
I would trust almost nobody in media at face value. My point was really just that the editorial side is showing a break with the news side at the Tribune. Their news side is among the worst offenders, and I suspect the editorial people know it.
I would love to care about the Tribune and the discuss the conflicts between the communists that speak Truth to Power in the news section vs the Old Guard conservatives in the editorial board, but legacy media has little relevance in my life anymore, so I just don’t care. They’ll never earn my trust back because I’ve moved on and I just don’t care about them anymore. I’ve moved on with my life and I’m not looking back. Just as hundreds of thousands of people stopped going downtown everyday and they moved on, we’ve all done the same with the… Read more »