Illinois Politics: Great Plains Khanate Megathread

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Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Come to Illinois

Pick your poison

High Property taxes, hut actual fun poo poo to do in Chicago

Or living in hellhole cities that died when the manufacturing jobs went overseas(shouts to my hometown Rockford) . But boy is property cheap.

You also get to complain about idiot downstaters or fat cat Chicagoans who don't know how "real" Illinoians have to get by.

Dexo fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 18, 2017

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 21:49

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 18:44

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Rockford is Chicago level crime and bullshit with downstate level entertainment and money.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 22:36

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

xzzy posted:

All I know about Rockford is the BMO center is a fine place to watch hockey, and Machine Shed is a fine place to add 20 pounds to your rear end.

Machine shed is trizzash

And it's the loving MetroCentre

gently caress BMO center. I miss the Rockford Lightning. gently caress Hockey.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 22:42

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Grassy Knowles posted:

Also Beefaroo

WOAH WOAH WOAH

Lets not say things we can't take back.

Also hey, We have a Portillos now.

Dexo fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Sep 18, 2017

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 22:44

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Bird in a Blender posted:

Rockford has like two of its largest construction projects ever both happening right now, so it's got that going for it. My employer also owns a road construction business, I wonder how much the state budget has affected their bottom line. I definitely know they've slowed down the last year.

Chicago also remains a place everyone loves to leave. Although I think a lot of that is restricted to the south and west sides.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Chicago-Tops-List-of-Cities-Residents-Are-Moving-From-443983463.html

I wonder why people are leaving the south and west sides.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 23:16

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

LLSix posted:

I moved to Decatur recently. Looks like we picked an exciting year. It'll be interesting living in a blue state. It seems like people around here are pretty conservative though. It's really shocking to hear Rauner talking about how terrible his state is. Does he not think that reflects poorly on his governership?

Illinois outside of Chicago is probably only slightly more blue than like Kansas.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 00:51

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Volkerball posted:

And yet, y'all spend ten times the amount of effort bitching about how people downstate are dumb than you do discussing the major systemic issues in the city and the state. Way to be a part of the solution.

Like we haven't discussed issues with our state tax code or the need for a ConCon before. Also why are you bitching on a forum. You should be the change you want to see in the world.

(LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT MISTER)

Also I live "downstate", and whoo boy are we dumb.

icantfindaname posted:

So wait Volkerball, John McCain's grandson, lives in rural Illinois?

p much, yeah

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 14:58

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Lol at blaming the teachers and pensioners for not turning down money that was given and promised to them.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 15:24

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

xzzy posted:

Garden of the Gods is quite nice!

Struggling to come up with anything else worth visiting down that way though.

Come to Springfield, we have all the Abe Lincoln stuff you could ever want to see.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 15:44

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Carry a sheet of paper with the calories in a horseshoe and feel better about it.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 18:43

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

look how many motherfucking carbs can you load onto this plate and cover in cheese and meat for me.

(I am not a big fan of horseshoes, and was confused when my girl had me try one since I hadn't after living down here for a year or so)

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 20:12

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Krime posted:

Peoria and Springfield are 2 places that have job opportunities for my wife... I used to live near Edwardsville.

Enlighten me about life in these cities.

Springfield is bleh, Can't speak to Peoria, it seems slightly less bleh than Springfield.

But as someone who moved to springfield for a job it is extremely bleh.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2017 19:15

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

https://twitter.com/DudeSlater/status/922629837730340864

:thunk:

# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 15:42

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Bird in a Blender posted:

More creative yes, but seeing Scott Walker smugly talk poo poo about Illinois is not endearing in any way. That and seeing Indiana billboards about how much better it is to work there than Illinois for so many years makes me hate them too.

I'm really sad Pawar dropped out, even though he had no shot at winning. At least I could have voted for someone I liked.

lol politics isn't about voting for someone you like(it's rare someone genuinely likable is willing to go through the bullshit and glad handing it takes to be a candidate), it's voting against someone you hate, or voting for the person who's policies you hate the least.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 14:16

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

https://twitter.com/jon_greenberg/status/926194366082936832

That suuuuuucks

https://twitter.com/jon_greenberg/status/926201703585779713

Dexo fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Nov 2, 2017

# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 22:22

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

https://twitter.com/sandhya__k/status/939253961864990720

Lmao I thought you guys were exaggerating

# ¿ Dec 12, 2017 16:59

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Oracle posted:

He talks about gun violence a lot because HIS DAD AND UNCLE WERE ASSASSINATED. His running mate's son was also shot and killed. C'mon people.

Which reminds me I don't think anyone posted this tone-deaf exchange that led to him leaving the stage at a debate.

Jesus

that reminds me of that exchange between Tammy Duckworth and Mark Kirk, where Kirk attacked Tammy for lying about her families military history by saying "oh really, your family has a long military history while they were over in Thailand"

Not stopping and thinking that she's Mixed, and her father's family has been nothing but military men and women, and that he had literally been caught multiple times lying about his own military history.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 17:35

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Lmao

# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 20:24

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

oh we are actually responding to Volkerposts now?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 20:37

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

mastershakeman posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57WlyvHA-I

ahahhahaha that is unbelievably offensive its amazing
if i didnt know better i'd say bruce rauner is using ives as controlled opposition to make himself look better

Least it was smart enough not to use a Hispanic as the gang member stand in.

Though the black teacher is a bit on the nose.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2018 23:26

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Honestly any billionaire that actively gets into politics is an idiot and/or really vain

If I was that rich I would never ever want to be in elected office. I can pay others a pittance of what running a campaign can cost. To do my bidding.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2018 23:15

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

I mean we blacks do love our weed.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2018 21:16

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

https://twitter.com/blagojevism/status/966384833705529349

https://twitter.com/blagojevism/status/966391837593427968

Somebody get ya mans

# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 05:36

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

I've used Google Music since the start.

And Oh god there are election ads on YT for state races?

Holy poo poo that sounds insufferable.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 05:33

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

The Socialists like Kennedy?

How in the gently caress?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 23:53

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

It's corruption all the way down in this state tbf

Is there anyone you can hire who hasn't had to swim in the sewage?

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 01:07

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

I tend to vote along with the AFL-CIO, but will probably vote Biss, although it doesn't matter.

But boy his record is sketch, and what happened with Ramirez-Rosa is ehhh

But I'll save my billionaire vote for the general.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 02:52

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Bird in a Blender posted:

Ha, I just saw an Ives ad that tries to tie Rauner to Obama somehow, that’s a new one.

Anyway, my thoughts on Pritzker are that I refuse to vote for a billionaire. Maybe this counts as a hot take, but anyone who is a billionaires doesn’t actually give a poo poo about people. The guy has obviously used his money to influence politics in the state and country for a long time, and now we’re supposed to think he’s some guy out there for the middle class? It’s just Trump like bullshit from the left.

There is no "Trump bullshit from the left" and I loving hate that type of assertion.

Problem with Trump isn't that he's a (alleged) billionaire. The problem is that he is a personification of the policies of the right. He has taken all if the rights subtext and made it text. I hate how much influence money has in politics as much as the next guy and am under no illusion that any pol is "one of us" but that seems disengenuous as fuuuuck.

JB or Biss, or Kennedy could be lying their rear end off and it wouldn't shock me all that much if any of them were. They would still likely be a remarkable improvement over our current lovely governor.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 03:09

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

I mean he doesn't give much of a poo poo about the culture war part of the conservative ethos.

He just wants his anti-union, and regressive economic poo poo.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 17:35

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Probably Kwame Raoul

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 19:48

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

No way that makes it at those numbers.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2018 20:22

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

I don't get the Trib but are they all Op-eds

Because 99% of all opeds are trash

# ¿ Mar 14, 2018 21:46

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-litesa-wallace-harassment-payment-ethics-20180315-story.html

loving lmao

Everything in this state is dumb.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2018 04:13

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

can't wait for the tape of JB calling Obama the hard r the day after the primary results.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2018 18:53

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Oracle posted:

Jesus gently caress money really does buy anything in this country.

where the gently caress have you been for at least the past decade.

Honestly I thought JB would be higher up

# ¿ Mar 18, 2018 20:15

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

twice burned ice posted:

Someone talk to me about Chris Kennedy. I like his platform, but I'm not a big fan of dynasty politics.

I was leaning Biss last year, but after what happened with Ramirez-Rosa, I'm turned off.

Also, anyone have thoughts on Aaron Goldstein for AG? I like his platform, but I don't know too much about him.

Biss > JB > Kennedy imo

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 20:29

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

gonna make it even more depressing when he drops the big joker on JB

# ¿ Mar 21, 2018 04:58

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Tbf That's light numbers compared to other states and districts around the country.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2018 19:17

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

If you are in illinois and have the opportunity to buy into a TV company for this fall do so.

Rauner and JB are gonna make it rain on TV networks.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 00:23

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 18:44

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

xzzy posted:

I don't see how it could get worse as entire commercial blocks were political ads for the past couple weeks. Maybe the next step is buying product placement on big bang theory.

"this is most amazing my fellow nerd stereotype, this sealed box contains a politician that voted to murder baby seals. He may be dead or he may be alive, we can't know unless we open it! let's leave it closed so he can't ruin the state of Illinois further."

oh my god that would be amaaaaaazing.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 00:54

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