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JB Pritzker Thinks He Can Be President, Desperately Wants Attention

Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, Pool

This guy is no longer interested in his day job, which is leading a failing fiscal basket case of a state.  He wants to be President of the United States.  In an attention economy, one Senator shouted his Resistance on the floor for 25 hours.  Another Senator traveled, with cameras galore, to El Salvador in solidarity with a credibly accused wife beater and twice-adjudicated gang member illegal immigrant.  Other governors and various Oval Office aspirants are finding ways to insert themselves into news cycles, and JB Pritzker is desperate to keep up.  Look at me, notice me, he's practically begging future Democratic presidential primary voters.  

That's why he disgustingly invoked Nazi Germany in a speech before the legislature.  It's why he pulled a toothless El Salvador stunt of his own.  And it's why he went to New Hampshire, a location selected for obvious reasons, to belch out this deranged rant to his assembled partisans.  In case you missed it:


"These Republicans" should never have a moment's peace, he thundered, calling them "tyrants" and "traitors."  This is ugly stuff in any context, but it's especially grotesque amid an epidemic of physical violence, crimes and threats against political opponents.  Pritzer -- a billionaire whose family escaped his COVID policies, fleeing to their mansions in other states while regular Illinoisans suffered -- surely knows what's been happening.  He doesn't care.  He wants to tap into it for attention, under the delusion that he may one day occupy the White House.  And the crowd ate it up.  Here's the response from a top advisor to the current, actual occupant of the White House:


Look at what this duo has "achieved:"

[Mayor] Johnson is staring down a projected deficit of at least $1.12 billion next year in Chicago’s budget. Chicago Public Schools is expected to face more than $500 million in deficits. The Chicago Transit Authority faces a shortfall nearing $600 million. Not to be outdone, Illinois anticipates $22 billion in total shortfalls by 2030. All this while Illinois received almost $14 billion in pandemic aid for discretionary state spending. The city, its schools and transit system received almost $6 billion. During this same period, Illinois’ big three revenue generators – the individual, corporate and sales taxes – increased by 50%. Whatever the actual impact of Trump’s policies, Illinois’ leaders must be held accountable for the state’s and city’s financial crises created by long-time Democratic mismanagement.

Just like Gavin Newsom, this Democratic governor wants people to ignore his record and focus on his ambition-driven razzle dazzle and Trump hatred. The motives at play here are as transparent as they are cynical.

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