Criminals and leftist clowns surround Illinoisans, and one of those clowns wants to do to the whole country what he’s done to Illinois, especially Chicago. As J.B. Pritzker keeps his eyes focused like lasers on the White House, Illinoisans are murdered. The country has been warned: Illinois’ Clown-in-Command J.B. Pritzker believes he is the man to make American great by making it Chiraq.
Over Labor Day weekend, somewhere between 54-58 people were shot in Chicago with at least 7 killed. That’s up from 31 shot and 5 killed on Labor Day weekend in 2024. Apparently, shooters aren’t as lazy as Democrat politicians.
Instead of thanking President Trump for his offer of National Guard Troops to help solve the problems that Democrat beliefs, policies, and practices have created, Pritzker’s wrestling with his big boy panties that are all in a twist. How can he and bungling Brandon sweep those dead bodies under a rug if the nation is watching the National Guard clean up Chicago?
Why, sane people wonder, would Pritzker oppose help from any quarter in keeping Chicagoans from being murdered. The reason is obvious to anyone who knows what animates the morally vacuous Pritzker.
He is not animated by sympathy or empathy for the down-trodden and impoverished. He’s definitely not animated by principle.
He’s animated by narcissism, overweening pride, and a need to prove he can do something more than shell out his inheritance to far-leftist causes that harm people from conception till natural death.
There is no way that Pritzker can survey his fiefdom relative to the rest of the country brimming with men and women doing great, noble, self-sacrificial things and believe he is the best person—the person most provably deserving and able—to lead America into an era of greater prosperity, safety, liberty, and human flourishing.
He hopes to waddle into D.C. armed with a satchel full of Illinois-tested BIG LEFTIST IDEAS, like creating sanctuary cities, putting tampons in boys bathrooms and boys in girls bathrooms, subordinating the FDA to the World Health Organization, eliminating cash bail for criminals, paying off teachers unions by providing HUGE taxpayer-funded pensions for teachers who teach kindergartners that boys can be girls, and forcing taxpayers to fund abortifacient drugs through public university health centers.
I had a lengthy confab with ChatGPT (aka Chatty) on the potential causes of the decrease in the homicide rate in Chicago in 2025 as compared to 2024. First, Chatty attributed the decrease to “community-led violence prevention initiatives like READI Chicago.” I asked for objective evidence and after repeated queries, Chatty admitted this:
[T]he most rigorously evaluated programs like READI Chicago do not show a statistically significant reduction in shooting or homicides across the full randomized group.
After yet further queries, Chatty also admitted this:
By 2022, polling indicated strong public opposition to defunding or weakening police, especially after a [spike] in violent crime in 2020-2021. Several cities adjusted policies: increasing police presence rolling back thresholds for prosecuting theft, and emphasizing targeted enforcement. These policy shifts could plausibly contribute to a deterrent effect on violent crime.
Abandoning Democrat policies could plausibly deter crime? Who’d a thunk it?
Futures and options trader and CNBC contributor Jim Iuorio recently tweeted about life in Chicago:
Ive stepped over pools of blood from a dead person in front of my parking garage twice in the last 3 years. One morning I couldn’t workout because gang bangers shot the windows out of my health club. Just last Sunday a kid from the trading floor got shot in the side of the head (gonna make full recovery I think) in the west loop. I can no longer ride the blue line because it is a homeless encampment populated by aggressive and dangerous mentally ill drug addicts. I’ve seen people pummeled on the L and I’ve had to get off 3 times and take an uber from “medical emergencies” that turned out to be dead people… point is, if you’re some pampered upper crust activist who’s protesting federal help to make people safe you are a hateful cruel sociopath…
And yet, Pritzker has the temerity to go on Face the Nation and say with one of his two faces,
National Guard troops—any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don’t belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not.
Easy for him to say with his forked tongue all slicked up with politic-oil. The Chicagoans whose loved ones have been murdered may beg to differ.
Pritzker then donned his expensive, bespoke tinfoil hat and with the other of his two faces, went all conspiracy-theory bonkers:
[Trump] has other aims, other than fighting crime. The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections.
This would be an occasion for demands for a mental health evaluation, but everyone knows he’s lying. Pritzker knows Trump isn’t going to use the National Guard to stop or interfere with mid-term elections. Pritzker’s using this flight-of-paranoid-fancy to foment fear among the mentally unstable who stumble around America protesting all things good and true.
But what an obscene irony for Pritzker to suggest Trump will abuse his power. It was Pritzker who abused the power of government during the Chinese Communist Wuhan pandemic to shut down Illinois causing incalculable harm to all Illinoisans except his family who fled to freer pastures.
And it’s been Democrats since the Obama administration who have grossly abused government power in ways Richard Nixon could never in his wildest dreams have conjured. Democrats make Frank and Claire Underwood look like C.S. Lewis’ Mr. And Mrs. Beaver.
Where’s the community-led violence prevention initiative and public relations campaign to tell Chicagoans that the keys to reducing violence are effective law enforcement and intact families with one mother and one father?
If Pritzker really wants a legacy people can respect rather than one of squandered white guy privilege, he should let Trump make Chicago safe while he—Pritzker—fixes some toilets. Or move to Florida where he sent his family when he shut down Illinois and learn how to govern a state from Ron DeSantis.