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"A disgracefully ill-timed comment" by Pritzker" -- Washington Post editorial
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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Free speech even if it is in poor taste is allowed in the good old USA. PPF is living proof of this.
and you as well
Never turn down the rhetoric on the democratic party!
Pritzker appears to have lost weight. Maybe he is testy due to dieting and/or Ozempic?
That fat pig needs to be impeached! He is a lying P.O.S. filled with hatred and himself espouses violence. Shame on you people from Illinois who voted for him.
It’s one thing to live in the Illinois fanboy eco chamber dealing with JB, and quite startling when your forced to confront the reality of seeing and hearing a real governor like Cox in Utah. I honestly can’t wait until the day I can leave this state.
I haven’t recalled a more Odious, Pompous and Self-Aggrandizing individual than JB Pritzker.
If there is one, please let me know. At least one that supposedly represents me here in Illinois, which leaves out Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters or any of “The Squad” members…
Please run for President and lose in the primary and part with 1.2 billion in the process.
No…..spend ALL $4 Billion of daddy’s money in the process. And not have a nickel remaining to torture Illinois.
Pritzker should have heeded, “ “Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.”
Proverbs 17:28 ESV
Well the biggest fool then is Trump
Right now, today, it is hard for me to think of a bigger ignoramus than JB Pritzker. What a low and no class individual he is.
A loving husband and father is dead, and the radical left still cannot stop with their propaganda.
The left is not human.
They are demons, ghouls and goblins. Pure evil.
Do everything you can to separate yourself from them, because they want to kill you.
What about when yall laughed at the attack on pelosis husband and laughed at the MAGAt that shot and killed representative Melissa Hortman and her husband??? Reap what you sow. Thats in the bible too.
There is absolutely zero evidence that the Melissa Hortman assassination was done by a Trump supporter. Just because you repeat a lie long enough doesn’t make it true. I also find it strange that a father was murdered in cold blood for all to see, one of the most horrific deaths that most people will ever witness or view, and a response from anyone is “oh yeah but what about…”. Seek help in becoming a human NicAhole. Although if watching someone die on video doesn’t cause you to pause I don’t know that anything will. Your humanity is sadly already… Read more »
PPF – spot on
*Insert insane leftist point here*
because jesus said to be compassionate in the bible somewhere
no, i’m not a christian and I have
nothing but contempt for your backward religious beliefs
so yeah, this argument wouldn’t work
on me but maybe if I use it on you,
you’ll do what I want
To add to PPF’s excellent comment, Pelosi’s husband was attacked by a mentally deranged Canadian citizen. But Nichole, I appreciate your unhinged comment. You and your fellow travelers are only using the fake moral equivalence argument because the spotlight is now on your side’s violence and you have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. You know what you did and we know what you did. We will NEVER forget. Your side is on the wrong side of every 80/20 issue, but all of a sudden when your side commits another act of evil, the blame is 50/50. Funny that.… Read more »
You lie about the Melissa Hortman shooter then cite the Bible?
I don’t actually know any conservative who “laughed” at either of those events. I certainly don’t know of any conservative who got on SM and posted a maniacal “good riddance, they had it coming” post. As opposed to members of my own family who have done so for this and other attacks on conservatives
This horrible person is one of the biggest bloviators of hate. Let’s also not forget James Comey and his 8647 sea shell photo.
He has to scream racism, fascism, and every other sort of -ism to redirect attention from the horrible job he’s done as governor of Illinois and how much more in debt he’s driven the state.
JB is Gov. Biff Tannen – “Biff is portrayed as a hulking, belligerent, dim-witted bully who obtains what he wants by intimidating others into doing his work for him, or by cheating”. – from Wikipedia about the bully character from Back To The Future. He’s in our future alright, he’ll be reelected as Gov.
We all know who he’s running against. He cannot tell us what he’s running for, because he has nothing.
Trusty Fund has the predictable reaction. Just like his Dem cronies that have on occasion threatened harm to Trump and brain dead celebrities that have done the same, he turns the victim into the perp, as Dems do so often. Hopefully, this will be the end of the political career of a spoiled, corrupt ,vindictive man .
The king of rhetoric speaks…! ! !
Revealing that DJT lives rent free in his head…
What a pathetic poor excuse for a human being.
Pritzker continues on with the usual MO of how can I create a headline. Well this time the headline is going to work against him and show that his actions reflect that he is simply too big for his britches…figuratively as well as actually.
“I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly,” he said in the speech.
And yet, here you are doing exactly what Hitler did, demonizing your politcal enemies because you have higher aspirations to be President…like Hitler.
You knew these statements were coming . Woke media coverage will state the same message.
Pritzker shows yet again he is completely unfit for leadership, and most certainly unfit for the WH.
I truly believe his WH aspirations are in his head and his head alone
This clip should be on replay for the entirety of his 2026 campaign. DJT and Charlie Kirk are not responsible for this states mess. Pritzker is not a presidential candidate, and proves it time and time again. What a heartless, incompetent individual.
I have never been more ashamed to be an Illinois resident. Can’t change that anytime soon for reasons that would take all day to explain. Though if even the Washington Post thought his comments were “disgracefully ill-timed”, maybe we can hope that this puts the last nail in the coffin of his presidential aspirations? Maybe even gets him NOT reelected governor?
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/09/suburban-man-threatened-to-kill-ice-agents-stockpiled-weapons-feds.html
Says the power hungry to his gullible minions
I hope and pray people wake up and Remember this at election time in 2026, say goodbye to this tyrannical incompetent individual.
Karma, as big as his bloat will happen one day.
I blame You, Pritzker and your friends of the democrat party who are communists, for Charlie Kirk’s death. The spiteful rhetoric that pours out of your mouth is what took Charlie Kirk’s life.
JB the Hutt, the one who called us nazis. Uh huh.
With all due respect, Mr. The Hutt (none), G F Y.