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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tries to chart a path for national Democrats to counter Trump (apnews.com)

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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago

Obtain fleet of excavators to dig heads out of sand.
Scrap the pink shirts and auction bid signs.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

The path is through AoC and Bernie. While I appreciate Pritzker's seemingly well-intentioned efforts he's part of the elites and can get fucked.

[-] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

The path is through AoC and Bernie. While I appreciate Pritzker’s seemingly well-intentioned efforts he’s part of the elites and can get fucked.

He may be one of the elites, but he has been doing much more to fight for working class workers than many/most politicians even in the Democratic party right now. I agree AOC and Bernie are great, but that doesn't mean they can do it themselves alone.

[-] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 13 points 7 months ago

As an Illinoisan, Pritzker is the exception that proves the rule. He uses his money for good, and has been amazing for the state. He really shows that billionaires can do good but the vast majority choose not to.

So, with that said, I'm all for letting him lead with AOC and Bernie. He can really bankroll efforts.

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Anything other than pushing aoc and Bernie is going to fail and they’re absolutely going to do it again because they’ve learned nothing.

[-] ShyCake 6 points 7 months ago

Formorer chicagolander:

I was never the most informed of pritzker, as I didn't start payong attention to politics until covid. The first thing I remembered hearingvabout him is that he tried to evade some property taxes in some houses he owned by removing the toilets, didn't work though. I found it more amusing than anything else

I remember when the covid crisisvstarted, he he did his best to reassure people with daliy press briefings. I also remember that pritzker was always at odds with trump. I hear he still is. Yeah I'd vote for him, maybe not over sanders, or aoc (I'd have to think about it), but I think he'd do a good job. Hasn't got any complaints from me, more than I can say from most Democratics.

[-] meangreenbeans@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Have you tried doing something, anything, yet?

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

He’s trying to draw a chart; does that count?

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, counter a billionaire with a billionaire... No thank you.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I wish Walz and Pritzker and AOC and the handful of other Democrats who have more than two neurons in their skulls would just say “fuck this, fuck you, new party”. The DNC got us here. The DNC isn’t going to get us out of this, if we even can get out of this.

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