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Honestly, we don't think about it much. gently caress off to Iowa already.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Now the rumor is he wants to run for President. To be fair, the states with the largest latino populations are California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois. Not that any normal candidate will carry those given party lines, but those states total 171 electoral college votes of the needed 270.
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Nov 29, 2017 23:36
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Also, Sam Zell is a giant piece of poo poo and he owns Tronc so...
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Stutes posted:Zell might be a piece of poo poo but he hasn't had anything to do with Tribune (broadcasting or publishing) since they emerged from bankruptcy. Really? I missed that apparently. I maintain his poo poo status regardless. Nuke all billionaires.
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Dec 7, 2017 15:35
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Niwrad posted:Yeah was he up to shady poo poo or just got caught on a tap with Blago and going for the guilt by association thing? I don't remember that time real well. This is entirely what Rauner is shooting for. Plays to his entire strategy of pitting downstate against Chicago because this ties Pritzker to "the machine".
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Jan 19, 2018 15:37
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I'll be voting for Biss in the primaries (RIP Ameya's campaign  ) but I don't think he has a shot in hell of winning the democratic nomination. The amount of money JB is already spending is astounding.
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Jan 24, 2018 15:40
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vyelkin posted:The TV ads on the Olympics are getting unbearable, I can't go a single commercial break without getting "BISS IS A PHONY PROGRESSIVE JB PRITZKER IS THE MAN FOR DOWNSTATE I'M DICK DURBIN AND I SUPPORT JB" or (somehow even worse) "IVES IS A MADIGAN CRONY" using a clearly out-of-context clip where Ives criticizes Rauner for blaming everything on Madigan instead of getting anything done. Only 9 more months to go! 
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Feb 19, 2018 22:22
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brugroffil posted:Anyone have a good breakdown on the AG race? Been wondering this as well now that the ad blitz has started for the candidates.
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Feb 21, 2018 15:45
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Dexo posted:I tend to vote along with the AFL-CIO, but will probably vote Biss, although it doesn't matter. This is my take as well. My vote for Biss in the primary is essentially a protest vote against yet another billionaire, but I don't think there's any way in hell that JB doesn't get the nomination.
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Mar 8, 2018 15:40
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And my inherent distrust of the ultra-rich comes through in spades again! If only votes mattered more than campaign contributions we could do something about it. Isn't democracy wonderful?
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Mar 14, 2018 18:10
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Bird in a Blender posted:I only wish this came out maybe a week ago, to catch more early voters. My gut tells my JB still wins the primary, but I hope not. I don't think it's any coincidence at all that the Trib was the one to drop this 6 days before the primary. I mean, it's awesome he's getting called the gently caress out, but there's no way this wasn't a calculated move by what has become a right wing soapbox in many ways.
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Mar 14, 2018 19:20
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Niwrad posted:Remember to vote out Berrios. Seriously. This is like, the one thing I care about on the primary ballot.
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Mar 20, 2018 14:37
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Niwrad posted:Looking good for the ouster of Berrios. Even with Raila getting 20%. WGN just said Berrios called Kaegi and conceded. gently caress and yes.
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Mar 21, 2018 02:26
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In actual, real life good news that doesn't involve our corrupt former governor, the IL house passed the proposed budget 97-18 after it passed the senate passed it 56-2 yesterday. Broad bipartisan support and I don't see a world in which Rauner won't sign it into law. We (probably 🤞) got a for realsies budget. I mean, the state is still hosed long-term, but it's better than it was.
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May 31, 2018 20:23
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mastershakeman posted:I want to see it happen but I do think a ton of the rich assholes would flee to Indiana since it isn't that much further away from the loop than they already live Silver lining: none of them could run for office that way.
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lmao The Perfect Candidate™ doesn't exist. The logical extrapolation of a two party system is literally picking between the lesser of two evils. No one is ever going to tick all of everyone's boxes. That's how democracy works you clod.
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Jul 11, 2018 18:21
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Bird in a Blender posted:People are dumb and all that, but will people really believe a guy who has never been elected to office is somehow responsible for a tax hike? 100% yes.
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Aug 13, 2018 20:22
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brugroffil posted:Why not call for an amendment Because half the state will hear the words "raise taxes" and vote no even though it would actually lower taxes for the vast, vast majority of the populace. 'Taxes' is a word like incest and oval office in the US: the last taboo.
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Aug 15, 2018 19:36
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LLSix posted:If the Dems have a brain That is a BIG if, especially in this state.
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withoutclass posted:I'd rather turbofuck people that got a deal that was too good to be true, blasted tons of overtime to boost their final salaries, and supported the politics of not funding these obligations instead of the state collapsing. It's lovely, but my generation didn't create the problem and I'm not particularly interested in paying for it. That's not how obligations work though. I don't want to pay my mortgage either, but if I don't, they take my house.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:55
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Willa Rogers posted:JB may be governor, but Madigan's in charge I'm honestly curious how the political ads are going to look when Madigan finally retires/dies/disappears in a puff of smoke/whatever. Literally every single republican ad I've seen this cycle references him in some way.
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mastershakeman posted:Npr pundit saying it'll take years to get the votes for recreational weed Huh? Hasn't every non-binding referendum on the ballots passed with overwhelming support? Am I missing something?
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Oracle posted:Actual filing can be read here re: Burke. I wouldn’t get my hopes up the guy is slippery as an eel and this isn’t his first set of corruption charges (he’s beaten the rest). He's only been investigated before, never charged or indicted. The feds don't indict someone if they don't have the case made cold. They have some absurdly high conviction rate.
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Jan 3, 2019 23:12
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Niwrad posted:I get a weekly text spam from Paul Vallas still. Can't unsubscribe from it either. If you text STOP back, it's supposed to remove you from the list. I haven't gotten any since I did that, but I maintain it's still a dick thing to do. I wasn't going to vote for him anyway, but that certainly solidified it in my mind. e: source Big Black Dick fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Jan 8, 2019 20:40
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Also applies to any sort of public money going towards sports stadiums for teams owned by billionaires. You want a new stadium? Write a check. You have 3 commas in your net worth.
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Jan 10, 2019 15:35
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LLSix posted:Amazing. According to the article it'll be at least 30 years before they could even break even since they didn't just give tax breaks but actual money they had to take out loans for. There's no way that factory will still be running in thirty years. It's such a boondoggle, Scott Walker (ex-governor) went from talking it up in campaign speeches to not mentioning it at all due to unpopularity in the span of like a month or two. Literally everyone I know in Wisconsin on both sides of the spectrum think it was an absolutely horrible idea. My biggest issue is that Wisconsin basically give the Great Lakes Compact the middle finger and is letting Foxconn pump 7 million gallons of water a DAY out of Lake Michigan. gently caress everything about that deal.
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baquerd posted:It may have hosed the town, but the state probably benefited, no? Absolutely not. The original projections were that the subsidies would pay off in 2043. That was when the number was $3 billion. It's since increased to over $4 billion which works out to about $315,000 in tax breaks per job created. A Forbes article had this quote: "Realistically, the payback period for a $100,000 per job deal is not 20 years, not 42 years, but somewhere between hundreds of years and never. At $230,000 or $1 million per job, there is no hope of recapturing the state funds spent from taxes on the company and its workers." It's an indefensible deal and will be costing Wisconsin taxpayers for decades to come.
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KillerQueen posted:This is the pettiest possible gripe, but I am extremely annoyed at how every mayoral candidate has had a bot text me in the last week. It's not petty, it's annoying as hell and should be opt-in only at the very least. For what it's worth, if you text 'STOP' back, I think they have to remove you. Seems to have worked with both Vallas and Amara's campaigns for me. Thankfully those are the only that have hit me up.
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Poque posted:Vallas ignored my STOP until I texted "Would you gently caress OFF ALREADY?" and I haven't gotten anything since I guess I should have specified that this is what I did for Amara's campaign and they removed me.
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Feb 6, 2019 20:46
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I mean, downstate seceding will never happen, but hypothetically if it passed wouldn't the federal government have some say in the matter? Just assuming the country is going to jump to 51 states because of a single state's vote seems more than a little presumptive.
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Apr 10, 2019 21:46
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What's your position on all of the poor people who couldn't take advantage of social services during Rauner's 793-day budget impasse? Were they "better equipped to handle their own personal damage control" even though they weren't sure schools were going to open or couldn't get health care or their university shut down?
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Apr 11, 2019 19:50
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Pooping* up again.
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Thing is, what's the max sentence for something like that even if he's found guilty? They've already paid back what they got on the tax break in full so it's not like the county is down any money. I'm guessing if anything comes of it, his brother or whoever it is that was managing the property and named on the deed will take the fall. IL gonna IL.
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Just do what I do and be a white dude.
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May 17, 2019 04:54
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I'm still utterly flabbergasted that he was reelected by such a wide margin while under a federal probe. I can't decide if people genuinely didn't know or didn't care and I hate both answers.
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May 31, 2019 14:26
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Gerrymandering is one of those things that everyone should be against regardless of political affiliation on the basis of protecting the sanctity of elections, but we're at the point now where whoever is in control will just run it to the ragged edge and grab whatever power they can while the getting is good.
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Jun 28, 2019 04:45
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Niwrad posted:Raising the gas tax to fix roads seems like the most logical tax. It also acts as an incentive to buy more fuel efficient vehicles. Nope, it's actually nothing more than a socialist money grab from social justice warriors in Springfield. There's clearly no link at all between the gas tax staying the same since 1990 and the sorry state of IL's infrastructure. We'd have been just fine if the commies in Chicago hadn't gotten rid of the road faeries that magically fix everything at night.
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"Democrat"
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Niwrad posted:Also I could have swore I read some stuff about how getting rid of it would save a ton of energy costs. That was originally used as a selling point. The theory was that people would use lights less because they had an extra hour of daylight, but studies have been inconclusive at best about whether that actually works out. Especially at this point when the vast, vast majority of our energy consumption happens independent of daylight. There is literally no compelling reason to keep DST at this point except inertia.
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brugroffil posted:Daylight savings time owns, get rid of the idiot standard time Honestly, I don't really care one way or the other which one gets kept. The switching is the stupid part I take issue with.
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