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The 2028 Dem hopefuls can roughly be divided into moderates trying to reckon with what happened in 2024 and urging the party to pull back from the craziness… and the crazies who insist that they did nothing wrong and want to double down on it.
Many of the born-again moderates like Gov. Gavin Newsom are really crazies when it comes to actual policy. Pretending to be reckoning with the fallout is a political tactic. And so is going all in on militancy like Sen. Cory Booker and now Gov. J.B. Pritzker. They know what’s going to get more applause from their party and it’s not going on a podcast with Charlie Kirk. In that regard, Pritzker has now outdone every other Dem hopeful by delivering a New Hampshire speech with no ideas, just a call for war. It’s an overwritten and badly delivered speech, but the applause makes it obvious that this is the talk that the Dems want to hear from their leaders.
“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now, these Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” Pritzker recited.
Illinois governor JB Pritzker (D) calls for “mass protests” and “disruption.”
“These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace!”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 28, 2025
Because there haven’t been enough riots yet.
The obvious question is what does fat boy intend to do about it? Besides write more checks. Still Dems love the message that they did nothing wrong and that they need to fight twice as hard. And shove men twice as hard into the ladies room.
Back in his speech, Pritzker said Democrats should blame their losses in November on a “lack of guts and gumption,” not on the party’s defense of black people, transgender kids and immigrants.
“Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values,” he said.
This is a fantasy, but it’s a seductive fantasy. Double down on freeing criminals, open borders and ending women’s sports. Then denounce the opposition as enemies of the state. It worked for Biden. Bound to work for an ordinary morbidly obese working-class billionaire. But it’s clearly what Democrats want.
The main mistake was attacking Social Security. That’s what almost all the local demonstrators are upset about. It’s such a complex organization and obviously the rich oligarchs know nothing about it, being so rich they don’t need it.. One has to have some experience dealing with the organization to understand how it works. It was barely chugging along as it was, having to hire extra workers when they had to carry out a large scale verification project, for example.
Almost all the MSM articles are advocating positions benefiting the oligarchs, not the ordinary voters, which is suspicious. The ordinary voters don’t care about tariffs and deporting violent migrants, but they do care about their own personal financial survival. 70 million voters depend on Social Security. And many young people don’t understand the problems they are headed for when they need Social Security themselves, having a lot of illusions about the situation. Including how tough old age and retirement is.
There has been no attack on Social Security. There is an attack on the blatant fraud going on within Social Security. That so many people apparently don’t understand the difference is pathetic.
“The main mistake was attacking Social Security.” The only “attack” on Social Security I have seen since Trump took office is the attack on massive fraud and abuse of this system by the Democrat Party and the see-no-evil RINOs of previous administrations.
“The ordinary voters don’t care about tariffs and deporting violent migrants..” Wanna bet? Tell that to all the steel workers and the millions of others from industries that have been gutted over the years by rolling over for outrageous tariffs imposed by other countries, which in combination with the corporates offshoring manufacturing for access to cheap labor and the CCP market has nearly destroyed the middle class and its communities across America.
Tell that also to all the families who have been victims of criminal illegal aliens and gang bangers. Adversaries including Venezuela, Colombia, China/PRC, Iran, Hezbollah, the Mexican cartels (flush with massive income thanks to Biden and now operating in almost all states) and others have used the open border to inject criminal gangs and terrorist operatives into the U.S. The magnitude of this threat is not even fully appreciated or identified with our limited security assets, and that threat will only grow over time.
Most Americans are also smart enough to see the Biden regime’s open borders and the resultant invasion by millions of illegals for what it is — a brazen attempt at replacing American voters (many of whom might vote Republican) with dependents who would vote Democrat once given amnesty and voting rights (by various means including motor-voter) and thereby ensure permanent Democrat one-party rule.
This is actually not the worst of it, for among the millions of illegals that the Biden regime invited into the U.S. are many thousands of Islamic jihadis and other hostile foreign operators who are setting up shop for a future internal assault on America. If you thought Oct 7 was a horror show, that was a dress rehearsal for what is coming at 10X scale across the country. Intelligence from multiple sources has confirmed they are already in the country. Check out the interviews with Sarah Adams, Scott Mann, and related guests on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast for background.
That “ordinary voters don’t care about tariffs” is a sad commentary on economic illiteracy. Many voters cannot articulate the downsides of tariffs.
A tariff is a tax. A tax is a cost. Suppliers attempt to pass higher costs on to consumers. Yes, there are those who assert suppliers will just eat the tax and accept lower profit margins. Those people are clueless. There are people still searching for Bigfoot.
Rich politicians, e.g. President Trump, know a lot about Social Security and Medicare. Trump successfully “did the Democrat” when he demonized DeSantis after Ron, acting like an adult, stated something had to be done about the obvious problem with Social Security.
Social Security and Medicare have huge unfunded liabilities. (Eyes of the accounting-clueless glaze over.) I teach my students what that means and what the implications are. We can increase taxes, cut benefits, or do some combination of both.
Except for the fact that the insolvent Social Security hasn’t been attacked. (Unbeknown to idiot reporters, leftists saying that it is, doesn’t make it true.)
Social Security should be privatized as in Sweden.
It was also privatized for Galveston County and is highly successful. (Unfortunately, it’s only available for public employees.)
Let me get this straight: Are you asserting that as long as those people get their social security checks, they don’t give a sh*t what happens to this country? You should self deport immediately. It doesn’t matter where you go, just go. Git. America is not the country for you.
The demoncrap field is searching furiously for a message that will resonate with their primary voters. Barely coherent, irrational, psychopathic calls for violence are the messages that resonate with the last of the miserable turds that haven’t walked away yet. Trump and the new free media have completely broken them.
Nothing sells better in the democrat party than violence and hate, they thrive on it…
Democrat/socialists are the party of nerds and women. Neither can ever admit they are wrong about anything, otherwise they will run screaming from the room and not speak to you.
Big brush you are painting with.
… insulting nerds like that.
LOL.
Illinois had a program that allowed citizens to get a tax credit for donating money to a tuition voucher program. That program allowed students from poor families to escape the public schools that were dismal in spite of high per-student spending. (I contributed to that program.)
How bad are those schools? The black woman who was President of the Chicago Teachers Union called school choice “racist.” She, like billionaire Pritzker, sent her child to an expensive private school. It was the teachers’ unions that Pritzker caters to that wanted the program ended and it was.
Democrat-dominated Illinois is a fiscal basket case. That so many southern counties in the state want to secede should surprise no one intelligent enough to understand why so many liberal policies are failures.
DEI: Destroying Education in Illinois.
Oh Ritchie. I knew you would be back. I guess the semester is over and all of the term papers are graded. Now you have the time to regale us with your teacher’s observations like “Democrat-dominated Illinois is a fiscal basket case.” As if we didn’t know.
Still quite the narcissist
I’m sure you’ve noticed how flaming democrats send their kids to private schools.
(That includes 3 outta 10 public school teachers in Illinois who send their kids to private schools.)
All are capable of hypocrisy, but liberals tend to marinate in it.
Stupid, fat slob.
Sounds like insurrection talk to me.
Depends on which political party is defining the word “insurrection”.
“fat boy” … ;-)))
‘stupid’ works too.
Pritzker isn’t the brightest bulb on the shelf.
Terrorism is the only strategy the left has.
Democrats say outrageous, controversial and treasonous things like that all the time with confidence because they know that no matter what they say, there will never be any consequences and thus far, they’re absolutely right.
Why not push the envelop and say such outlandish things when you know the opposition (republicans) is weak and timid and afraid of you and will say little to nothing in response to every outrageous thing that you say?
The fact that democrats have not one iota of respect for republicans and utter contempt for the American people sticks out like a sore thumb.
This is how it filters to extremists and their extremist groups and people fed up – bloody civil war