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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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Handyman said:
That is what I heard as well. I hear way better things about the Gov than I ever did about the Mayor.
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The Libertarians and Republicans hate Prtizker because of his latest antics (the midnight passing of the assault looking* weapons ban being the leading issue currently), along with his "handling" of the pandemic... *rollseyes at those people*.

And he's got a statewide shade over himself for being "old money, old politics" in Illinois (a green space garden in the city is because his family was the benefactor of it, and his family is the heirs to the Hyatt fortune). The stunt he pulled during the renovation of his house prior to the election still stings too. Cook County property tax is assessed on the habitability of a house, uninhabitable houses are valued at just 10% of market value. Pritzker, to save on taxes, had all the toilets removed from the house to make it uninhabitable knocking the assessed value from over six million to right around one million.

Pritzker has been good for the state, but listening to anyone outside the collar counties, and even some within, he's been a useless failure (with no proof offered).

Honestly, Rauner was the last decent Republican (and knew how to keep Madigan and his ilk well in check, but he got run off thanks to the MAGA-ing of politics. Rauner was pro-life, but staunchly supported pro-choice because "that's up to the woman and her doctor."


Back to JB, the gun bill, and some other maneuvering he's done in the last few weeks, has been fueling rumors that he's going to make a Presidential run. Outside of Illinois, those political "blunders" aren't mentioned, which gives him a more favorable review nationally.




* Any scary looking guns are banned. Everything from actual AR-15s and AK-47s, to 22s that merely look like "assault" weapons. Scary looking rifles, handguns, and some shotguns are banned. The only thing you can legally purchase or own (unless grandfathered by having previously owned) are traditional looking handguns with a magazine capacity smaller than 15, and traditional looking rifles with a magazine smaller than 10 rounds. Or some shotguns (I forget the details with them).
 
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There are only like four viable presidential candidates on the Democratic side.

Pete, Whitmer, maybe newsom, and... I don't know. I guess whichever one of the Castros has by vying for it.
 
I think you are underestimating a lot of people...we won't know who is viable until they declare. Most of the "sure things" fizzle our fast and randos come out of nowhere.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
So who gets you excited? I'll admit, this is a pretty bad farm system we have right now. Single A fully stocked, AAA... yikes.
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The folks on the Insurrection Committees and on Beer Boy's Confirmation Screw Job all acquitted themselves well.

And all the Clintonistas are dead. Addition by subtraction.
 
There are plenty of people there, the Dems just have a way of self-eliminating before things even get going. I'm not saying every person who is interested in the nomination is a great or even good choice, mind you, but we have a way of checking people off before we even get the debate going because they are not the love-child of JFK and Obama. The GOP at least lets people build up some momentum during their process, so that their names get out there and they get the ball rolling for other positions even if they don't win the POTUS nomination, whereas we write people off before the process even starts, and then wonder why our bench is weak. We write off candidates from large consistently-blue states because we don't want to be pushing coastal liberalism on people, but you don't see the GOP writing off candidates from Texas; if anything that gets them mega-hard and they push them even more strongly. I'm not saying we become total assholes like that, but we need to push the brand a little more rather than let the potential criticisms hamstring us into doing nothing.
 
Slap Shot said:
Specifically why?
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No more billionaire white knights. Their very existence is the root problem. Let's get away from the money and the royal families and choose as leaders people who have worked to better the lives of workers and proles, and who have known what it is to be in need. No more flight into adolescent superhero fantasy. Let's build our policies and parties around substantial requirements of real people, not curated celebrity social media profiles.

We don't need Bushes or Kennedys or Romneys or Forbes. We need humans.
 
Mark Cuban? Good God no. That is almost a bad as people who want Oprah or The Rock. Putting politically incompetent people in the highest office is lazy and stupid.

Mark Cuban may have better politics but he is no more qualified to be President than Trump was and he is just as irrationally hotheaded.
 
St. Clown said:
Joyce Alene, a US attorney for Obama, thinks that it’s a lead-up to overturn Obergefell.

https://twitter.com/joycewhitevance/status/1631657412015927299?s=46&t=Wh0YZolS27WTEiS8o60kMQ
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Legislative leaders have already said its going no where, it didn't make it past the first funnel, and as a Constitutional Amendment, it would need to pass again 2 years from now.

There's plenty of horse hockey legislation that has or will pass to focus on. Don't waste time on the stuff that's meant to grab headlines to distract from that.
 
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