Ted joined Thom Serafin and Lissa Druss to talk about why Ted decided to live in Illinois, why this state is such an extreme outlier on so many issues, why now is the best time ever to create a strong opposition, the details of the state’s education disasters, and much, much more.
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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.
It’s been awhile since I posted. Was concentrating on a new job and that took my time away from this. I am just so glad we all left. It’s like the pendulum has swung so far it may never get back to any bit of normalcy. I still read and what I see is that it may have gotten worse. Move, if you can because you won’t regret it.
So I’ve been trying to figure which of my local school board candidates are nutjobs, and being ‘non-partisan’ it is difficult to figure out who really stands for what. The local newspaper has a Q&A for candidates posted online, but they are such generic, basic questions and the candidates all give generic, basic answers. The signs around town don’t suggest any particular issues and I can’t even make sense of the colors which are not the traditional blue or red. The candidate’s websites are even vaguer, they “want to support teachers” and “make schools better” that kind of nonsense. Only… Read more »
Buddy, you’re not going to figure it out on your own. You need help and support to make a coordinated effort. If you keep making disparaging posts, nobody is going to bother, and that also applies to everyone else her that shoots down optimism and fresh ideas. Also, Ted knows better than to place the burden on individuals.
My 8 am posts from my bedroom in the basement of my parent’s 1970’s split-level have no effect on anything or anyone. The apathy is already there. I doubt more than several dozen people read my posts. You don’t believe me? Go ahead and follow any Illinois conservative influencer on X. There’s a dozen or so big ones and they get close to zero engagement. Jeanne Ives had 184,000 primary votes in 2018 but has only 13,000 followers on X. Dan Proft has less than 40,000 followers. Libs of Chicago has 15,000. There’s plenty more accounts like this. No one… Read more »
Absolutely correct!
There is a very lefty near my house that always has campaign signs in her yard. I chose anyone that she does not have a sign for.
The other thing going under the radar everywhere and especially here are the rise of progressive slates running for office around state and especially Cook County. Non-Partisan elections are being funded in part by Gov. Pritzker and the IL Democrat Party to take over local school boards, townships and cities in an extreme methodical and partisan manner. There’s a progressive slate of about 15 candidates in my town running on LGBTQPedo+ rights and Climate Change in my little town whose biggest local issues are all related to development. But they don’t. Some IL politician the other day said that these… Read more »
What is your school?
With Illinois gerrymandering the only solution is move out because you can’t fix that with no representative vote.
So, we’re just supposed toto overlook Johnson’s 94% disapproval, the fact that supply lines are being cut to unaccountable Democrats, and the 20% drop in Democrat party supporters? ActBlue could be dissolved very shortly. What would change your mind? Indictments? Chicago bankruptcy? We could see both soon if Trump keeps up momentum.
Whoa, hold up. This past November Cook County voters looked at the candidates – Harris or Trump – and 70% of them decided to vote for the insane nutjob progressive Democrat. 70%!!! This was a whopping 5% improvement from 2020 when 75% of Cook County voted for the dementia patient Biden who couldn’t barely finish campaign speech and went absent for days at a time during the height of campaign season. The reality is that nothing will change the minds of Cook County voters. They’ve been voting Democrat for nearly 100 years now. I wish they could change their mind… Read more »
At a certain point it’s either 1) Stockholm Syndrome or 2) A cult. I firmly believe it is a cult – being part of the Democrat cult is important in Cook, and non cult beliefs and opinions are not to be tolerated..
It’s a bit of a cult and a bit like Sean Thompson says, they’re all in on the grift, earning an income off the continuation of the corrupt system. But as I keep saying, it’s been like this for 100 years now. Cook County was flooded with immigrants in the 1880’s and beyond and eventually it became enough to turn it Democrat forever much like every major city.
You again use a broad brush to gloss over how extreme, filled with hate, and intolerance many Leftist Democrats are – they cannot accept anything outside their tribal cult beliefs. This isn’t the blue collar days of the 60’s for a working mans party with Democrats. Just look at the video of the School Board Mtg in Deerfield – There’s todays Leftist Democrat full of hate and intolerance ready to be violent.
I use a broad brush because Democrats have always been this way from the very founding of the party by Thomas Jefferson. It started with slavery, then they fought reconstruction, they were the first to pervert protestant teachings to reflect their own despicable worldview; then through the Jim Crow era, the KKK, segregation, Democrats have killed all our presidents and been responsible for every attempt to do so, they supported mass immigration, Prohibition’s passage in 1919 came under Democrat Woodrow Wilson, civil rights, denying women the right to vote: ALL DEMOCRATS. Democrats have been wrong ON EVERY ISSUE SINCE THE… Read more »
Good points. The JFK release pretty much confirms Kennedy was assassinated with LBJ’s cooperation. Democrats have been sickos for some time. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
I was encouraged by the recent polls showing approval for Democrats had dropped to 29%, the lowest since 1992.
Then I remembered who won the 1992 election.
The problem with that poll showing 29% is that much of the decline is from Democrats themselves. Remember that each party has a floor of around 40%. This decline just shows how far left their party has become and that unless you go full derangement syndrome they won’t be happy. This number would be encouraging if it caused Dems to tack to the center but I’m afraid that’s not what it’s telling us.
Yes, it seems very clear to me that the far left has the numbers among Dems. Those trying to move the party to the center will be outnumbered. It’s suicide. The rest of the nation is not with them (except in IL, MA, etc.).
That’s ridiculous. You can’t claim with a straight face that 94% are against Johnson but still support the party leaders! Here’s a fun idea: one day a week have an open comments post with only optimism and suggestions! Fear uncertainty and doubt get deleted! Another idea: once a week post something about a community hero that represents the values of Wirepoints.
I don’t get it. Saying that the country is not with the far left isn’t positive and accurate? Re comments, we don’t censor and won’t. And if we’ve missed any stories positive or otherwise please send them along for us to post.
Democrats believe they can replace one Democrat with another Democrat. Furthermore, Democrats have a 29% approval rating because they are unhappy with their geriatric leadership that has presided over several major losses in the past 8 years, and now they’re completely out in the wilderness, probably for at least several more election cycles. If Kamala had squeaked out a win, the average Democrat would have been happy with another four years of the status quo.
The headline overlooks chronic low voter turnout. The few that vote are motivated. The masses are apparently apathetic, resigned to the BS, or support it. You’d think Johnson would be that magic bullet to get people engaged, but will he?
Chronic low voter turnout is a feature, not a bug, of Illinois municipal elections. I mean, we just had an a major presidential election less than five months ago. Why are we having another vote on April 1st? Why are there hardly any news articles, public forums, or discussions about local candidates? Why are candidates’ websites so intentionally vague? Why are the unions/JB Pritzer pumping millions of dollars into local ‘non-partisan’ elections when there is almost no conservative counterpart? When Democrats run the elections, they make the rules so they can win. Blame voter apathy all you want but it… Read more »
This headline is completely false! A strong majority have connected the dots. Most have moved on from engagement or investment with treacherous leadership and shady duplicitous characters prominent in the local scene. I’ll believe things change and start working when Profit changes the intro to his show and Wirepoints quits posting move out stories. I’m confident others feel the same way.
Connected the dots? A lot of IL voters can hardly navigate a word search puzzle, thanks to the inferior excuse for education IL schools churn out. Have you forgotten that Governor Hack got re- elected even after all his lies and his covid tyranny that set IL back while others states, like the ones he and his brood vacationed in, moved on? The welfare/ trans/ criminal community is quite satisfied with Pritzger.