Pritzker the Coward
September 21, 2025 | By John Kass
Is anyone talking about the leadership qualities of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker?
No. Of course not. He is a liar who has run his failed state into the ground, damaging all who can’t escape and still live there.
Pritzker has inherited billions of dollars from his family’s hotel empire, allowing him to indulge every whim while eating a multitude of sins. He has spent an estimated $350 million on electing himself to the governor’s office. And now he wants to buy himself the presidency.
Ask yourself: Why don’t people talk of him as a leader? You never hear anyone talking about him in such positive terms. Why not?
There are many liars in politics on both sides of the political divide. I know this, having spent 40 years covering corrupt politics in the Combine State for the now-ethically bankrupt Chicago Tribune. But Pritzker is more than a simple liar.
He is a coward. His break with reality came after the assassination of the charismatic conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was murdered by a leftist pro-trans sniper who was appealing to his transgender lover, a man pretending to be a woman. And the Democrats, leftist legacy media and others who demonized Charlie after his death and kept dreaming up scenarios that blamed Kirk for his own murder and held themselves absolutely blameless.
Yes all that is corrupt, twisted and evil. But as funeral services were scheduled to be held on Sunday, understand who killed Charlie Kirk.
Yet only hours after Kirk had been assassinated, Pritzker was making unctuous sounds from the back of his throat, loudly telling Americans that he never, ever called Republicans Nazis and fascists.
“No, I have not,” Pritzker said at a news conference where reporters called him out on a multitude of his past hateful statements about Republicans. “That is completely false. I have never called Republicans Nazis. That’s what [Republicans] would like to say, they’re lying. They’re lying,” Pritzker said. “Well, that’s not what I called them.”
Is that the honest-to-goodness truth fat boy? That you never said such a thing?
I don’t think so. Neither do the people of Illinois. It’s all on tape. You’ve said it again and again.
The broken Illinois Republican Party has never recovered from former Gov. Bruce Rauner signing legislation supporting Illinois as a sanctuary state for illegal migrants and another bill using taxpayer funds for abortions. Then Pritzker literally bought the governor’s post for himself and along the way purchased Republican and Democrat legislators. He unleashed his billions to suppress what were, for him, objectionable realities.
JB Pritzker: I never called them Nazis
Also JB Pritzker: OK, so maybe I called Trump Hitler and Republicans nazis on a dozen occasions…pic.twitter.com/28MLpXvaec
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 15, 2025
Illinois Republicans argue that Pritzker has escalated divisions between the state’s residents, with State Rep. Adam Niemerg filing articles of impeachment against Pritzker because of what he called “hateful rhetoric.”
Niemerg said the governor needs to be held accountable for his recent remarks about Republicans, arguing that Pritzker has compared them to Nazis and fascists.
The left has been busy spinning various ridiculous narratives to shield themselves from the fact that the shooter was part of the Democrat Assassination Culture.
Their constant shrieking and portraying Republicans as fascists put targets on Republican backs. Remember that a demented leftist tried to massacre Republicans who were playing baseball in a park. Another tried to murder an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. And leftists tried to twice assassinate President Donald Trump. They dehumanize Republicans in the pages of their left wing newspapers, on their TV news networks, most notably MSNBC and CNN and have the audacity to ask, publicly, why Americans are hopelessly divided? Is there any wonder, with all the partisan hate and dehumanizing of conservatives that violence explodes?
Let’s review leftist violence: There were the Ferguson Riots of 2014 when a large young thug named Michael Brown, a black man, attempted a strong-armed robbery of a neighborhood store, grabbed for a police officer’s gun and was fatally shot. NFL players acting as agents of the Democratic left perpetuated the “hands up don’t shoot lie” for political leverage and intimidation. ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter overwhelmed American cities with riots, dozens of people killed, billions of dollars were lost in damage. Some cities, like Chicago, have never recovered.
Remember leftists attacking those Covington High School kids, screaming at them, the media promoting it, lauding it. And the line from the Black Lives Matter riots that sealed the demise of American journalism, as corporate journos intimidated by black left wing activists prattled on about those “fiery but peaceful protests” as the cities burned.
The elevation of leftist heartthrob and assassin Luigi Mangione–facing the death penalty for the murder of a health care executive-of the brown eyes being treated as a sex object as the left builds an opera around him. And that ridiculous fool of an ABC reporter Matt Guttman prattling on about the touching love exhibited by the pro-transgender assassin of Charlie Kirk.
The corporate media wants their “Che” Guevara, as Pritzker–the quivering mass of leftist goo–calls for angry protests in the streets.
After Kirk was murdered by the political left did white Republicans riot and burn cities and kill cops? Did white conservatives kneel and take the media spotlight wearing costumes–as did Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders kneeling and wearing Kente Cloth to honor the black career violent criminal and drug dealer George Floyd? Did black businesses or any businesses for that matter board up their windows and lock their doors when Kirk was murdered by the Democratic left?
No.
Don’t give me a cheap “both sides” argument about the murder of Charlie Kirk. For years and years, the bullets and the violence have flowed from the left. And American journalism–where I spent 40 years of my life–twists reality to spin the news and gaslight the people.
“Hours after Charlie Kirk was murdered, allegedly by a shooter who accused him of “spreading hate,” The New York Times falsely accused Kirk of making antisemitic statements,” wrote Brianna Lyman in The Federalist under the headline “After His Murder, New York Times Assassinates Charlie Kirk’s Character.”
After getting pushback for using lies to assassinate Kirk’s character, instead of publicly apologizing, the Times’ Ashley Ahn and Maxine Joselow quietly issued a small correction noting the comment was not Kirk’s but a quote he was critiquing.
“An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement,” says the correction notice.”
The leftist pathology continues, with Democrats in Congress—such as New York U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocascio Cortez–dragging Kirk through the mud.
Pritzker is a coward yes, but he reminds me of the ultimate left-wing bureaucrat, Dolores Umbridge from the “Harry Potter” novels. The cruel and manipulative witch Ms. Umbridge dressed in various shades of pink who delights in torturing others, but is terrified of being confronted, like Pritzker was after he loudly blurted out his “I have never called Republicans Nazis” comment.
In Illinois, Niemerg and other Republicans have been critical of Pritzker in recent months, including for remarks he made during the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner in which he called for “mass protests” and “disruption” when it comes to resisting the Trump administration’s policies.
“When you compare Republicans to Nazis, to the fascist movement in the 1930s and Adolf Hitler, that is tantamount to the same thing,” he said. “It’s very clear he compared Republicans like myself to Nazi Germany, to fascism.”
Perhaps in other states Pritzker’s bald-faced lie would be news. But journalism in Illinois has been broken by publishers bending over backwards to appease the political left in the last few years, ever since the Tribune defamed its lead columnist for daring to publicly criticize the do-nothing prosecutors installed in Democrat cities by leftist billionaire George Soros.
In recent days I’ve searched the Tribune and Sun-Times hoping to find such stories of Pritzker’s bald-faced lie about never portraying Republicans as fascists and Nazis, but as of this writing (Friday evening) I couldn’t find the stories by their political writers. Did they lose their thumbs or just their gumptions?
Pritzker has been twisted in knots as of late. His administration has been accused of scrubbing out news photos from state websites that infuriate him, like those of his so-called Peace Keepers involved in violent crime. He has the money to wipe up his sins. And the people of Illinois, so abused by the political bosses for so long, slapped and taxed and lied to year after year, just chew their cud and shuffle silently through the livestock chutes as do cattle at the slaughterhouse.
Will they ever wake up?
Pritzker hopes not.
More than 100 years ago, French behavioralists at the Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine began to study the face of fear in humans. I’d rather not study the fear in J.B. Pritzker’s face if I can help it, but for those of you who don’t follow Illinois politics, understand: Pritzker has always been afraid, bringing to mind the line from the movie Gladiator about the terrified emperor Commodus.
The French behavioralists made a study of fear, and photographed many subjects in the lunatic asylums. Below is a photograph from one such study.
Pritzker’s fear displayed itself in his 1998 campaign for Congress to succeed the late Sidney Yates. He was terrified of being confronted by the much more progressive rival -Jan Schakowsky–who was something of a giant shrew. One of his handlers, former newspaper reporter Jack Lavin of the outfit-connected Hotel Workers union contacted me. With Shakowsky shrieking at him, Prizker wore the same face of fear that the old French behavioralists had found in their subjects:
A paralyzing, irrational fear.
I had just started writing my newspaper column at the paper and Jack Lavin called to ask me for a favor.
“Can you just talk to this kid? Just talk to him. He’s f’ng terrified.”
Sure, Jack. I’ll talk to him.
I took them both to one of my favorite old-school Chicago restaurants that Rich Daley had taken me to when he was Cook County State’s Attorney.
Bruna’s Ristorante, 2424 S Oakley Ave, Chicago. And I ordered my favorite meal, veal saltimbocca with a side of linguini aglio e olio, and a bottle of chianti on the Tribune’s expense account. Sage, veal, butter, what’s not to like? If I were on Death Row having my last meal, I want it to be the veal saltimbocca from Bruna’s. And for dessert? A glass of Sambuca with three coffee beans, followed by a fine Maduro cigar.
I told JB not to worry about Schakowsky. She couldn’t buy him, I said. All he had to do was to stand up to her. Be a man, J.B. I thought about saying something like a coward dies a thousand deaths but a brave man dies but once. But I didn’t bother.
I turned in my chair to really look at the man.
He just whimpered slightly, staring at his plate of linguini.
But he ate all of it.
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(Copyright John Kass 2025)
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Jeff Carlin and I will talk about Pritzker and Charlie Kirk on the next Chicago Way podcast. So stay tuned.
JK
I’d like to ask Jeff Carlin about the mobs we’re seeing on TV. Just a decade ago, riots in Broadview and Franklin Park would have been science fiction. A definition of physics reads “Physics is the fundamental science that studies matter, energy and their interactions.” My question is do scientists study the physics of mob violence in unexpected locations ? The anti-ICE gangs seem well organized and highly motivated by Pritzker’s rhetoric.
My understanding is that–they are. There’s actually companies that have these people on call. Sort of like Rent a Riot.
I too did not see today’s column about JB BC the costs. A friend sent it to me. So
I wonder why the column was not received??? A Democrat trick? Would not put it past them.
Is Brunas still good?
I remember when being a medical student going there, after spending several hours on studying ‘my cadaver’ for anatomy class, with other classmates late Monday nites just before their closing for late nite dinner. After paying for dinner the staff would load bags of food for us that the restaurant couldn’t use for coming week. ALL FREE! That’s when Chicago still had a big heart. Loved that place!
Looks like it’s still there. MANY fond memories host Luciano (this is back in the 1980’s/early 1990’s.) Best veal parm ever (my husband’s favorite) and for me, the Chicken Limone.
OMG. Pritzker is even worse than I thought. I don’t keep up with your posts on a daily basis. Time goes by. Then I read. I do get daily news on FOX cable TV. A lot of people just don’t have time to keep in touch via some media. I have a desk top. I do not use my cel phone other than checking fb.
Who is reporting is false statements?
Positively Juvenalian send-up of this bloated barrage balloon of bull$hit!
Masterful!
thank you Mr. Hickey! He’s ruined a great state. And his lies about never, ever comparing Republicans to Nazis as the left paints targets on the GOP and perpetuates violence would be laughable if they weren’t so terribly violent. They killed Charlie Kirk.
JK
Alas, because too many of my blood-kin. andmany more like them, owe fealty to this blimp and the New Medusa in the county building, Illinois will have Governor Zeppelin for years to come.
I’d quibble a bit. Pritzker inherited a ruined state. Madigan and the Combine ruined it. Pritzker took it deeper into the depths. Which circle would Dante put the state of Illinois in now?
I agree, Illinois was headed downhill before him because of Madigan and the combine. He just exacerbated the decline substantially!
Well-said Pat Hickey LOL . We should expect Halloween stores to sell scary Pritzker masks, combined with extra-large “fat suits.”
Great phrase Mr. Hickey!
Pritzker, the poster child for someone ” born on third base thinking he hit a triple” is an easy target; as are: Gov Newsom, Gov Whitmer, former Gov Cuomo, even Gov Shapiro. The Dems have no bench, but this is a danger. We need two real Parties with real leaders. Otherwise we end up like Britain or France – no good option when one party/leader fails.
Don’t underestimate Guv Ken Doll of California. He is young and photogenic. “Hollywood style” counts for a lot in a social media obsessed country such as ours. Pritzker is an obese blob. Call it fat shaming or what ever. That’s reality. That’s a fact. And it’s also a fact that such a person – absent GLP-1 – has zero chance of becoming President.
Shapiro is Dems only chance of winning POTUS in ’28.
And if Jag Bag were to run , hopefully Fox News will expose his faux pas statements. He can’t handle being challenged publicly.
And it’s not fat shaming when one points out the obvious.
Good point. But Shapiro is Jewish AND he’s too sane for the insane Democratic Party.
John Kass, you always seem to surprise me in reading your articles in wrapping them around so much history and it brings that certain flavor of wowness to your journalistic crown of greatness. Thank you ever so much for this on JB Prickzter…..coward plus.
God bless you and yours John Kass. Faith Family Freedom….Life is good, God is great.
My Sunday morning is now almost complete….
Tom
To be a Democrat voter today is to debase yourself and pretend AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Dollar Store Obama (that’s Hakeem Jeffries for those of you in Rio Linda), Botoxic, Marxist NYC mayoral candidate Mamdami, et al don’t exist! Well, they do exist, and they aren’t stopping at Charlie Kirk’s political assassination. Rethink everything you ever learned about the Democrat party. It’s no longer operative if your memory bank still has thoughts of JFK, Scoop Jackson, Fred Harris, Sam Nunn, Zell Miller, Evan Bayh. They no longer have a place in their party. Yes, to vote for Pugsley’s reelection is the definition of insanity. Illinois, go ahead. I dare you. I expect it. What I didn’t expect and am somewhat shocked at is he only had one plate of linguini at Bruno’s?
To be a Democrat voter today is to debase yourself and pretend AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Dollar Store Obama (that’s Hakeem Jeffries for those of you in Rio Linda), Botoxic, Marxist NYC mayoral candidate Mamdami, et al don’t exist! Well, they do exist, and they aren’t stopping at Charlie Kirk’s political assassination. Rethink everything you ever learned about the Democrat party. It’s no longer operative if your memory bank still has thoughts of JFK, Scoop Jackson, Fred Harris, Sam Nunn, Zell Miller, Evan Bayh. They no longer have a place in their party. Yes, to vote for Pugsley’s reelection is the definition of insanity. Illinois, go ahead. I dare you. I expect it. What I didn’t expect and am somewhat shocked at is he only had one plate of linguini at Bruna’s!
Nice work again John. Ty.
I got worried about you this morning because your work did not show up in my email (yahoo). After searching with DuckDuck I find you on the right side of the grass.
Stay well brother.
try searching with Freespoke.com
I’ve noticed occasional warnings from Yahoo mail that certain sites may be unsafe. It’s always conservative sites they refer to. Today this column is still not in my yahoo mail or spam.
Coincidence? Likely not. I’ll look at Freespoke. Ty
I too did not see today’s column about JB BC the costs. A friend sent it to me. So
I wonder why the column was not received??? A Democrat trick? Would not put it past them.
I’ve noticed occasional warnings from Yahoo mail that certain sites may be unsafe. It’s always conservative sites they refer to. Today this column is still not in my yahoo mail or spam.
Coincidence? Likely not.
Drop yahoo! They’re snooping on you! I have used Duck Duck Go for years now! Only issue is when some companies’ App won’t allow it so they can keep you from ditching their snooping activities on searches an e-mail!
Nicely done, Mr. Kass.
You couldn’t have painted a better picture of what this self absorbed, arrogant, lying scum bag truly is. Unfortunately, when it comes to impeachment, why waste one’s time. There’s enough deranged, unethical, corrupted bought off politicians in this state that it’ll never happen. And way too many (non ?) voters who will let it stay that way.
Who is this joker “representing” anymore ? It’s certainly not you and it sure as hell ain’t me.
With regard to “left wing violence equaling right wing violence”, the right is just more violent right? After all, if you ask Google that’s what comes up.
Guess what? During the Biden Administration Secy Mayorkas gave over $43MM in grants to academic researchers, much of it to the University of Cincinnati. The researcher who got the grants is directly tied to ANTIFA. Michael Loadenthal, a radical leftist who previously disclosed his affiliation with the left-wing militant group Antifa.
They cooked the books. They cooked the stats. They knew that AI and search engines would confirm them since there weren’t a lot of “academic studies” in the universe. But, we can see with our own eyes that they are lying.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/19/the-economist-cites-a-study-by-literal-antifa-to-talk-about-right-wing-violence/
John you might want to investigate the absurd platinum benefits the CTU provides its members ( under 4K a year) compared to CPD, CFD and other city agencies (6 to 12k a year) Our mayor agreed to this atrocity and yet CTU wants more and more
Worth investigating ?
In keeping with Democrat history in, say, the dirty election tactics release of divorce records (Blair Hull’s, Jack Ryan’s), I hope that FOIA might soon loosen the grip on the porcine porcelain prince’s FBI transcripts of the Blago Senate appointment wrangling. Unredacted and unsanitized for our safety.
Yes Rory that would be interesting. People seem to forget JB tried to buy that seat, and Blagovich went to prison for it.
Thanks John Kass for reporting the truth about a greedy Illinois governor who scares millions of Americans. 10 years ago riots in Broadview would have seemed like dystopian sci-fi ; with Pritzker and Dan Bliss inciting violent mobs to attack ICE officers. And now Hippo-man JB wants his dim-wits to boycott ABC in support of hate-monger Jimmy Kimmel. The boycott might include Cubs post-season broadcasts. Politicians in Atlanta devastated local businesses when they canceled the 2021 All-Star game. ABC will also carry Bears at Washington DC next month. Bulls games might be affected. Does Pritzker really expect Chicago fans to change the channel in homage to sleazy slimy Jimmy Kimmel ? Is he going to demand we boycott Fox broadcasts of the World Cup ?
Yianni,
I fear it’s simply too late for us in Illinois, and Chicago as well. The socialist party is so well entrenched, it would take a miracle of miracles to oust them out of their holes. Governor Dumbo has so much money to spend, he’ll probably run for our governor again, when his handlers realize he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell to become president, running on his record. If only voters here could wake up from their chumbolone stupor, get their lazy butts out and vote for conservatives or independents – any candidates other than “democrats” aka socialists/communists. Let us pray….
Please quit pulling your punches. You are too much a gentleman.
Pritzker is a boy using daddy’s (family) money to be a man. Simple as that. He is nothing without his billions from his family. At least Penny bamboozled the Obama Administration into signing sweet heart deals with her real estate advisory group; she got the cojones-though I wonder what the vig was for Obama….
The “Boy” and his Illinois Democrat Party are nothing but opportunists that use other peoples-usually their family- money to do business. You got to take a look of their annual statement of economic condition that they file annually with the State of Illinois-its sad. They never had to wake up at 230 AM to plow a road for the next 24 hours or weld a cross member in the biting cold; and definitely never had to smell the stink of combat. They mew about hardships that regular people deal with on a daily basis.
They are nothing but dandies in lace pants sipping champagne. Out them for the low level scum they are-and don’t hold back. Especially when you talk about the “boy”.
” Believe what I say, not what you see.” The Mantra of the Leftist Democrat Socialist Party. Then again we should also remember the three D’s of the Democrats: Deflect, Deny and Destroy. My prediction is that party splits in two after another shellacking at the polls. They have already lost that retired auto worker in Sandusky Ohio who only voted for them because his parents alway did. As that party becomes taken over by full blown
communists that guy is already moved on. John Fetterman is one of the only prominent Democrat to try to steer them from the abyss but he’s losing even as the rest run to embrace the Commie from New York. Let’s watch in amusement as JB the Hutt attempts his takeover of that party. The Illinois Governor is a walking punchline and will surely take a beating just from all the excess baggage he’s carrying. And I don’t just mean his girth. There’s Toilet gate. Feds wiretapping him trying to purchase a senate seat. His disastrous financial leadership for the state, losing hundreds of millions thanks to his calling of illegals to settle in Illinois. Calling Republicans Nazis despite film evidence to the contrary. Vance, DiSantis or any other Republican will ABSOLUTELY destroy him on a debate stage. The establishment media, although they will try to run cover, wouldn’t be able to dig him out of that hole, much like Kamala Harris. Bullshit can only get you so far. Let’s pray JB makes a good run, it’s gonna be hilarious on a national level.
He needs to be vetted to discover that his generosity with his own inherited $ billions to causes like his insane illegal alien pandering will not be so large as his checks written on the public checkbook.
Or as large as his frontbutt.
Ah yes. That old problem in politics: lies and vile speech. So I guess Biden’s idea was insightful after all (with a nod to Chairman Mao): The Ministry of Truth. But now in these inflamatory times we really need the Ministry of Truth, Justice and Love. Those who violate the rules will be severely punished and sent off to re-education camps.
Great observations once again, John. But let’s face it; Pritzker is low hanging fruit…a very LARGE low hanging fruit.
I would love to sympathize with those of you who have been the targets of looney Leftism, but imagine this for a moment:
I am a devout conservative. Somehow, through 49 years of marriage, my wife became a devout liberal.
How can this happen, you say?
One word: TRUMP. She absolutely hates Trump.
During COVID in 2020, she followed the gazillion EOs issued by Pritzker to the LETTER.
Meanwhile, me and the rest of our golf course board were trying to keep it afloat, facing down bankruptcy and surviving. She thinks Prickster is hot shit as governor. She thinks Jimmy Kimmel got screwed by…..Trump.
Needless to say, I won’t talk politics with her. That’s a deal breaker or in our case, grounds for divorce. We love each other, but with a caveat. She treats me like Trump is my “side chick”.
AND I have not uttered Charlie Kirk’s name in the aftermath of his assassination.
I’m hanging on by a thread here.
We both love golf and play together very often.
BUT, I expect any day now that I will be in my back swing and she will yell “NAZI” at the top of her lungs.
Am I the only one with this problem?
Art,
I feel your pain….just like my wife of 56 years!!! I still sleep with one eye open…..
Similar here. Although I’m more of a Libertarian – devotion to free markets and the Bill of Rights (in particular as close as possible to an “absolutist” when it comes to the First) – so both parties give me plenty of rich targets. I don’t particularly care for Mr. Trump per se (although I endorse many of his policies), but I despise – absolutely despise the Lefty Democrats. And my wife is an “old time” liberal Democrat (think the party of JFK) but despises Mr. Trump. So yeah, I feel your pain.
PS: Yeah, the Democrats in Illinois think Fat Boy is great. But he has NO chance on a national ticket. In fact I truly hope he is part of a national ticket cause he’ll get steamrolled. In fact you can make book on that. Guv. Ken Doll of California, on the other hand, is another story altogether.
Get rid of her while your still alive! And be careful if you see a large pod in your room when you go to sleep!
Or I could make my son my power of attorney.
He’s also a conservative, as is my grandson.
I also had to search for this column. I know that there is always one on Sundays. I looked under the section “View All”
In the McIntuyre-Shaheen 100 Club dinner, he did call Republicans “quislings” which is arguably worse than calling them Nazis. .
JK writes: “For years and years, the bullets and the violence have flowed from the left. And American journalism–where I spent 40 years of my life–twists reality to spin the news and gaslight the people.”
Lately, I’ve been comparing Charlie Kirk’s assassination with that of Martin Luther King’s in 1968. It was just as momentous in a historical sense. Each were spiritual/political leaders with a large,nationwide following. Charlie was a better Christian than King, but King was a great advocate for his cause whose eloquence was noteworthy. The radical difference between them is found in the diametrically opposed reactions of their followers to their murders:
From Grok: \\What began as mourning quickly escalated into riots—often referred to as the “King assassination riots” or “Holy Week Uprising”—that affected over 100 cities. These disturbances lasted from April 4 to around April 14, 1968, resulting in at least 43 deaths, thousands of injuries, over 21,000 arrests, and an estimated $100 million in property damage (equivalent to about $900 million today).//
Here we see writ large the difference between the right and left.
Thank you for this.
Thanks Kasso!
Jack Lavin was an old pal of mine and nice of you to include him in this story. Jack was always good company and I miss hanging out with him. God rest his lovely soul. He also knew the old Marty O’Connor adage by heart, “Get the money, everything else is nonsense!”
Houli
Let us not forget all the feminists backing Pritzker wh0 used to howl and stomp their feet at at Muslim medieval-like female mutilation practices but “evolved” to endorse and encourage little girls and boys to have their bodies butchered in Frankenstein sex change operations. Nor forget that Pritzker cousin Col. Jennifer Natalya (aka) James Nicholas Pritzker, also born on third base as a boy, contributed richly to the “health care” butcher shop known as Lurie Children’s Hospital for gender identity.
Dems are masters of twisted rhetoric…remember how they embraced “Black Lives matter” slogans and if you said “All lives mattered” you were called racist? I agree Pritzker is a fraud, and I’m surprised he didn’t jump to the front of the line to replace Durbin in the Senate. He fished for the job from Blago before. He would be happy & fit right in to become an “esteemed gentleman” from Illinois in a place where he could primp and bloviate without ever having to do any real work.
I will now refer to Charlie Kirk as “Civil Right Activist”. The media, except for Fox kept referring to Kirks assassination as ” a shooting”, ” a murder”, ” killing” they didn’t use the word “assassination “. That would martyr and put Kirk on the same page as The Kennedys and Dr. King. The media now refers to Kirk as a ” far right activist”. Never too late to smear the dead apparently. Perhaps ” Civil Right Icon ” might be more appropriate…
How do you twist a ball into knots? Just asking.
The first thing Pritzker said after Kirk’s death was that it came about because of hate rhetoric of Donald Trump. How galling.
Well, at one time I did have a honest Nazi running as a Republican against Dan Lapinski. I voted for Dan.
Dan was a good egg actually. The last of the “true” Democrats and a pro-lifer as well. Sadly, Marie Newman took that issue and ran with. Her fear mongering worked and it’s been downhill ever since 🙁
John, you hit a grand slam out of Wrigley!
Pritzker’s “playbook” consists of two bullet points: 1) Lie and 2) Blame Trump.
That photo of Gov. Commodious Maximus, though. Ugh…makes my stomach turn. Thankfully you ended with fond memories of Bruna’s, and their amazing veal, fried calamari, chianti, and lively host Luciano. I’ll be dreaming of that all afternoon 🙂
A few of you know me to be a contrary Democrat who can never vote for Donald J Trump or support him.He made it clear at Charlie Kirk’s Sunday memorial marathon that Charlie will get the Medal of Freedom soon and that Trump likes having enemies. He also made it clear at the UN today,Tuesday,that Europe is stupid about climate change and immigration. So,if John wants to go on and on once a month about the Illinois Governor,I can start ignoring him,too. The Governor is not going to be centrist enough to appeal to Ohio and Michigan folks,etc. Neither is Newsom out there on the Left Coast. And Illinois was corrupt and in debt before Gov.P. came along with his Hyatt billions. And Obama will not save much of anything as a wise older former Leader. New blood wanted. And let’s stop throwing the N word around. Skokie folks knows what it means. Show a little respect for them if John can summon up some gravitas instead of just making fun like the all stars nightly on Fox News shows. ouch.