Pritzker and Dems Play Russian Roulette with American Families
By John Kass
Wednesday Aug. 27, 2025
Some political tricks are obvious, even to the chumbolones.
Like the weak-minded fat man prancing along Chicago’s lakefront at dawn, downtown, telling us that he feels so safe in Chicago he’ll fight President Trump if Trump dares bring the National Guard to Chicago.
Violent crime? What violent crime, says the weak-minded fat man to his adoring audience of corrupt corporate journalists who repeat his idiocies even as they protect his massive behind.
Democrats are rabidly pro-crime, and I do mean rabid.
Hey Gov. Pritzker, if Chicago is so safe why not prance around the West and South Sides at night without your phalanx of armed bodyguards? You might go it alone. But you wouldn’t dare do that. You expect minority women of low-incomes to take the filthy and dangerous CTA at night to and from work. And to vote Democrat, for you. You must think them to be stupid.
Of course you do. They keep voting Democrat. They’re not stupid. Those women are good people. And they don’t deserve the garbage thrown at them by politicians and the press.
Angry? Yeah, I’m angry, with good reason. Because there is another deadly game going on in America, a political game of Russian Roulette that unfortunately is not so obvious.
And who loses? Not the American political class. But some lose. They lose everything.
This game is played by Democrats seeking to maintain power in the mapping and gerrymandering of Congressional Districts. And it has killed many Americans and broken many American families and killed many children. One of those children belonged to the family of Joe Abraham, whom I’ve written about before.
Katie Abraham was killed by a drunken driver who crossed the border illegally. He rammed her car from behind going 78 mph. And just the other day on The Chicago Way podcast, Joe sat down with WGN producer Jeff Carlin (best radio producer in Chicago) and me to talk about it. You can listen to it here.
Here is how this deadly game of political Russian Roulette works:
The Democrats put out a big banquet table for illegal migrants, a table loaded with welfare and other federal goodies paid for by American taxpayers.
That table is laden with health care and school rooms and food and lodging. All the comforts of home. Even better than their home which is why they rushed the border at Joe Biden’s invitation and Democrats turned a blind eye to the 20 million or so illegals.
The idea was to lure the illegals to a Democrat blue city like Chicago or a Democrat blue state like Illinois and keep them there long enough so they can be counted in the U.S. Census, to offset all the refugees fleeing high tax-high crime Illinois.
Sometimes the illegal migrants act out, they might get a gun to muscle fellow migrants. They might get drunk and get behind the wheel of a car. Sometimes a child like Katie Abraham is killed by an illegal migrant/drunken driver who never should have been out there.
What do the Democrats do then?
Nothing.
They pretend it didn’t happen. Or they appear irritated, to make you and any grieving family feel uncomfortable. The political class protect their power and they have corrupt corporate legacy media to cover for them.
I know how that works. I spent 40 years working for the Chicago Tribune, which was once a conservative newspaper, but now it just might as well be edited by George Soros.
And don’ t you dare say I’m being partisan about this. I’m not. In 1994, truck driver Riccardo Guzman (who couldn’t read the road signs in English) was involved in a horrific crash that burned the Willis children alive in the family van. The governor then was a Republican. George Ryan, remember? The press covered for him too. He lost his job and he went to prison.
What is too much to bear is that decent people have funded the hurt visited upon their families, courtesy of the Democrats.
“And that’s kind of where sometimes it just strikes a nerve for me because one of the things that eats me at night is that I helped fund Katie’s death, and there’s nothing I can do,” Joe said on the podcast.
Illinois corruption runs deeper than a slickster pocketing an envelope full of cash to look the other way.
Illinois corruption–like all political corruption is about breaking the souls of the innocent and filling the broken parts with poison.
“No death is worth your political power. Have some principle.
“Do not sacrifice and create collateral damage because you want a couple extra seats in Congress. That’s not good enough…It’s awful. And I’m sorry, Illinois is so mismanaged and misrun,” said Joe Abraham. “I’m sorry you (Democrats) have mismanaged the state so badly that half a million people are leaving. And no one else is coming in because who be there? You’ve got to backfill it with folks that probably shouldn’t.
“You’re letting your citizens die.”
Pritzker and his foolish chum, the mayor of Chicago, thinks all this is propaganda. All they want is more social programs paid for by the fleeing middle class.
But then, Gov. FatBoy and Mayor Pin Head never lose at political Russian roulette. They always win no matter what. They’re never hurt. Their families aren’t ever broken. They’re political. They always win just as as long as media keep saying the magic words.
It’s Trump’s fault.
It isn’t Trump’s fault. It’s our fault for electing people like Pritzker and Johnson.
But sooner or later the American voter wakes up. Here’s hoping they wake up soon, before all of Illinois and Chicago are gone.
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Comments 56
As a few of the fan base know,I will respond to some of the bias John has shown about Obama but when he is right about corrupt Chicago Way politicians,etc.,I will also support him. Chicago Police just try to do their jobs despite the usual few really bad ones. The Mayor needs to listen more to those who have been hurt in Chicagoland. He is not as tone deaf as Mayor Lighthead was. But criminals are getting more sophisticated with internet and cryptocurrency schemes. And the immigration mess was mostly Biden’s fault. That is why Mrs.Harris lost.She had no better plan. A few of us also will never support Donald J Trump who did not fight crime for decades in NYC as a housing developer and casino owner.He stiffed contractors bills and delayed paying his bank loans. And his tax bills? Still under Audit. NO SALE!
TDS
110% TDS. Alas, lying liars lie, and Pritzker and Johnson are suma cum laude liars.
james jennings:
TDS indeed.
JK
Another opportunity lost by the Dems to help the city. Are they not short about 800 officers? A real leader would acknowledge that. It takes months to hire and train officers before they hit the streets. Why not take the help for 6 months until the police department is fully staffed? It really doesn’t cost any political capital to take the help. In fact, the Mayor would probably gain some points and save a few lives along the way. But it’s not about helping the people, it’s about retaining power over them. It is the deranged Trump phobia that won’t allow any logical thoughts to interfere with Trump hatred.
A real governor, not some inherited money do nothing, would have already had the guard on the ground. The corrupt Tribune produced some clown in a wheel chair that said he was shot and paralyzed, but is okay, because people like he and BJ have to stick together.
No offense, but the certain minority living on the south and west sides who voted for this pair get exactly what they deserve.
Mayor Johnson is a doctrinaire Marxist repeating banal slogans. You don’t like our president. I get it. But asking the mayor to go on a listening tour is just too much.
As a few of the fan base know, I will call your bluff. You stated that DJT stiffed contractors and delayed paying back bank loans. Be specific: who, when, and where? Prove it!
Voted for Don three times. bit his casinos in Atlantic City did that twice. Look up the dates on your own.
Not sure I understand the fabric of this comment. Yes, we know you don’t like Trump (this article isn’t about him.) We know you love Mr. Obama but as a professional writer, Kass does not show bias, but rather presents facts and examines the situation of the day. When he offers his opinion, it is a well-reasoned presentation. Not sure if your post is offered as some kind of apologia for the current occupant of the 5th floor, but to just glibly say that he “…needs to listen more to those who have been hurt…” is an indescribably shallow description of the job of the mayor – of Chicago or any other jurisdiction. “…not as tone deaf…” ??? Are you telling us that the bar has been set so low we can collectively wipe our feet on it, like a door mat? It is easy to now just dump the whole immigration mess on Ole Joe…now that he’s been publicly decried as incompetent and safely hidden away. To blithely ignore the shared responsibility of all of Biden’s henchmen in this devasting, destructive exercise is an example of the the kind of mental hold the Soros cadres have on their willing followers. Not sure what kind of ‘crime fighter’ you expected Mr. Trump to be “for decades in NYC as a housing developer…..” If the developers here in Chicago were all crime-fighters to match what seems to be your expectation, imagine how crime-free Chicago would be!!! The downstroke of all of this? You hate Donald Trump. OK. What does that solve for Chicago? 319,481 people voted for Johnson out of a total registered voters 1,587,153; total population (at that time – as far as we know) 2,664,000. Hope they’re all happy with their choices…..both a mayor and a governor who have NO IDEA what the job actually entails and what the responsibilities actually are, and their apologists who apparently don’t have any idea either!
Karen, well said.
Excellent response Karen, all the things I was thinking you said in your response.
Thank you
I was not aware that the job of a developer or a casino owner also entailed crime fighting.
Beats being a Limousine Liberal and a CTU tool.
The majority of voters get the government they deserve. They elected these idiots. The most telling line in the article is that after they have been dumped on by the Democrats, they keep voting for the Democrats. Stupid is as stupid does. When will they ever learn?
The dead can’t choose who they vote for. After I left I received my absentee ballot in the mail in Tennessee.
John, great column and great idea. Pritzker, the mayor and CC Board president should give up their 24/7 security teams as well as their drivers. Then they could truly experience our city while saving the taxpayers a whole lot of money!! Perhaps we could use the extra money to hire more cops?? Oh that’s right we have no crime nor do we have people who want to enroll in the police academy. A sad state of affairs. Thank you for always speaking out on tough subjects.
Thank you Donna More. You’ve always been the people’s champion.
Unfortunately, Republican Governors have been complicit by shipping so many illegals to Blue States.
The media did not acknowledge the border crisis until the Governors sent the illegals to New York and Illinois.
You are smoking Hopium Daniel. For generations, Texas bore the brunt of illegal immigration. When Biden opened the border, Abbott had no choice. Why should Texas feel all the pain? Milton Friedman said you cannot have a welfare state and open borders. He was correct
They did not ship enough, there was still Aspen Colorado, Palm Springs California, Seattle Washington, Delaware, Maine, and the list goes on.
Perhaps you could explain to us EXACTLY what you think “Republican Governors” should have done with the MILLIONS of people who crossed the border into their states. Should they have allowed them all to just mill around on the river banks? Maybe the folks who provided them with their cell-phones; nice-looking rather new shoes; clean, rather well-fitting clothing; how many with MATCHING back-packs; a goodly number of them, shall we say “rather portly” – and they walked how many miles??? Who fed them, provided porta-potties, etc. for that long trek? Maybe those generous folks could have provided for them on THIS side of the border, too! No….that was left to the states! Maybe you could do a little research….and even read some of the columns Mr. Kass has written over the years. You’d ask “who paid for the planes that brought thousands of those illegals to airports all around the country, but especially to big airports like O’Hare?” Not too much effort let’s you find out that the Federal Government provided multi-millions of dollars to NGOs, in this case the U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops and millions more to Catholic Charities and they were the organizing group that helped “relocate” these hapless migrants to jurisdictions where those paying the bills realized they wanted the population numbers beefed up (and yes, we all know why.) The Governor of Texas did not sit on the phone, making arrangements for planes that could land at places like Tyson-McGhee (Knoxville) in the middle of the night. It wasn’t “the Republican governors” that set up the welcoming centers in places like O’Hare.
If you want to whine and cast aspersions at people, doing some fact-checking would be helpful. I would ask this, however. If states and cities are continuing to declare themselves “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States”, why would they have a problem with receiving these bus-loads and plane-loads of people? Isn’t that what it MEANS to be a Sanctuary? Since they are all in “Blue States”, what’s the problem?
Was a great idea. The blues wanted them, now they can deal with the results.
Every day there’s a headline about an illegal alien killing or maiming someone. Here’s the problem…. It’s hard to sympathize with these cities because they voted for this.
Not Biden , never Biden . This is and was Obama . Biden is an idiot , a crook and an idiot , Obama is a snake who hates this Republic , a clever snake , and flooding the country was his idea.. BTW John since you were at the Trib then , recall and recount the story how the Trib FOIA’ed the salacious divorce record of Obama’s R opponent back when he was just a lowly Community Organizer running for US Senate. An Oldie but a Goodie
Excellent!
John,
I tried this am to see what happen to Riccardo Guzman. I was not successful in that review. Given he didn’t know enough English to pass a CDL test, likewise he wouldn’t know enough to pass an US citizen test. Where is he now? The anniversary articles of the Willis family tragedy make no mention of him. A true investigative journalist would ask those questions and seek the answers. I find that the journalists of today don’t do that.
Agreed. Where IS the follow-up?
Great article John. Maybe something should be told of the labor unions tie to all of this. They take members money to help support the democrooks even though many in the rank and file don’t support this. They need to be exposed as well
Yianni,
As has been said before, countless times here, elections have consequences. If we expect things to change, we must demand they change, which apparently hasn’t taken place…yet. The only party of any consequence right now is the dem/socialist party here in Chicago and Illinois. Unless a tough, capable conservative comes along to challenge the status quo, it’ll be same old-same old. If only I was younger, I’d take a good crack at it…
Compelling argument made that a “ housing developer and casino owner” did not fight crime. Trump ain’t Batman – wow TDS no doubt . Is there a cure ?
Now that nearly all of the billions that Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago received from Biden’s American Rescue Plan have been spent, one can see the desperation that Dems are in as the City, School Board, and state haggle over who pays to keep the ship afloat. With three more years of Trump to go, like rats backed into a corner, their desperation will only increase, and they will do and say anything to regain the congress first and then the presidency. Joined by the other blue cities and states, don’t sell them short.
Jabba the Pritzker and his loyal sidekick Brain-ded Johnson.
A delightful sobriquet for Mayor Pin-head!!!!!!!!!! Well done, Sir!
You may have noticed how the Chicago media no longer reports on the number of shootings and murders over the weekend. Cover up for Mayor Pinhead
It may be they’re copying the example of the DC police admin that simply stopped reporting crime, then celebrated that their stats showed that crime was down.
“If we don’t report it, it doesn’t happen” – new ‘Rat motto…
One thing that is starting to bother me is the “the people get what they vote for” mantra. Although true, it is bleeding over and affecting ALL OF US. The braindead need to somehow be addressed along with the scum of Preckwinkle, Pritzker and Johnson. Preckwinkle skates too much on these subjects…she’s the problem here big time and needs to be brought front and center more. Johnson is HER PUPPET, just like Biden was Obama’s. Johnson is clueless, Preckwinkle is and continues to be evil and dangerous, as is the arrogant JB.
I’m not crazy about Trump National Guarding everything. Although sadly probably necessary at this point, it’s becoming too much of a game, too much of a policing state and I thought that’s what we’re trying to avoid…Communism. It’s getting a little too close. My fantasy in addition to Hillary and Barry would be to see JB and Toni be held to task and face a jury. But I’m afraid fantasy will be as far as it goes, when it comes to actually happening.
What is the problem with the people getting what they voted for? There is more than enough information about the candidates for anyone to be able to make an informed decision about the merits of each. If the voters don’t do their research, they are to blame for who is elected, and rightly so. Decisions have consequences – good or bad. Instead of owning up to their mistakes, the voters blame someone else – anyone but them. Also, remember not voting is also a vote, and the nonvoters share in the blame for these crooks running Illinois. Also, a lot of people seem to forget one thing – Trump WON the election by a majority of the votes. If a person does not like Trump, suggest a better candidate to appeal to the majority of voters instead of the same bunch of morally bankrupt idiots that are the Democratic Party.
Don’t forget the 70% who did not show up at the poll. A minority of the eligible voters put Johnson in office.
I don’t recall any uproar in 2020, when Pritzker ordered the Guard into the city as a response to the BLM rioting. I do recall that, with the Guard rerouting everyone and allowing only those of us who could prove our residence, it took me 2 hours to drive from North Avenue to Illinois Street. But again, no complaints or screams of “fascism.”
When I saw the out of breath Governor walking the lakefront, Telling us the city is just fine, I said to myself “Could there be anything more racist than this guy”.
Right! The city will always be fine when you have a couple of bodyguards watching your back!!
I feel sorry for the bodyguards who must walk “downwind” covering the “rear” and watching the back of the very corpulent physical specimen know as JB Pritzker.
I wonder if JB sports those “Caution Wide Turns” and “No Pass On Right” signs on his ample rear? For purely safety reasons.
Perfect, Bruce! This made me lol!
This Kass column is powerful, eloquent and important in political and moral character.
Something in these Comments should be noted, if with sorrow. Two (so far) tried to dilute blame for the ruinous flood of 10 – 20 million illegal immigrants waved in by The Biden Handlers. They bizarrely extend the blame to Trump or Republican governors. Note such opinion because it helps demonstrate how an impaired grifter and absentee family wrecker like Biden was made (figurehead) president. It represents the reasoning infecting roughly half of America’s voters.
The derangement of these two commenters has a broader cause than fixation on Trump or one party’s governors. It’s political and moral derangement.
David, I fear it is deeper than even that. Progressive “followers” have been taught / trained by Progressive elites to think emotionally, not logically. They don’t use the prefrontal cortex of their brain much, but respond to emotions instead of logic. It is a type of educational method, which with the teachers unions in charge of so much in education, has brought about this lack of brain use by so many. So they vote on emotions, not logic!
Yes. Even the purest form of logic (reason) – mathematics – we have now been so informed is racist. Who knew?
Steve and bruce — I appreciate your savvy comments on my little comment. Coincidentally, I’m working to review the campaigns against logic and reason that each of you wisely refers to — also euphemistic PC language. The opportunity to connect with original thinkers like Havlik and kleinman is a nice side benefit of access to the great unvanquished columnist, I’d say.
Thank you David. I often wonder how many of those who denigrate the soaring accomplishments of western civilization display those “Science Is Real” lawn signs. LOL.
Your comment, “Even the purest form of logic (reason) – mathematics – we have now been so informed is racist.”
Perfect!
BLM Brandon blamed Richard M Nixon for the violent crime in Chicago today.
Nixon hasn’t been a political player since August 9, 1974, when he was run out of the presidency.
He passed away in 1994….never shot anyone in a drive by. Now he blames climate change……Jellybelly tries to stay on the other side of the stage from Johnson, but their rhetoric is identical.
They respond with emotional, not logical appeals to those who listen to them. Logical thinking plays no part!
If my dad were still alive I know what’d he say but I’ll clean it up – “What a couple of frickin chooches!”
Pritzker and the Marxtard Dems don’t “feel your pain” or care one drunken alien for the underclass serfs they import and create. Their every move is calculated around their power. That is why Trump’s moves into the blue hellholes involving ICE, while loudly banging the bars with his promises to conduct a census simultaneously, enrages the Left. They know the result will produce self-deportation and uncounted illegal aliens hiding from census-takers as well as ICE agents. That will help negate the 20 million aliens that were imported by Dems since 2021 to secure their electoral majority. In fact, Trump should E.O. the census to now be under the DHS auspices.