Texas Democrats protesting GOP redistricting in their home state were forced to evacuate a Chicago hotel early Wednesday morning following a bomb threat.
You can separate a person’s background with their policy stances.
Someone like Pritzker should be praised for supporting democratic and progressive moves, just the same as someone from a destitute background calling for regressive reform and inequality should be shamed. Even if you feel more sympathy for the latter’s background.
Pritzker should be praised for supporting democratic and progressive moves
He should not.
Because his stance aren’t determined by what is right or fair.
It’s solely based on the least that will satisfy the masses. At the end of the day if every single thing Pritzker honestly wanted to be done was accomplished, he’d still be a billionaire and we’d all still be fucked.
Just not fucked enough for a revolution to be a threat to his wealth.
Billionaires are scared of 2028 and a fair primary, don’t fall for the BS where they pretend to be for change. If they really are then they currently hold enough wealth to effect change any day they want to.
Like, literally in this scenario.
Pritzker has the personal wealth and resources to hide these politicians away where they’d never be found. Instead he publicly and proudly announced they’d be staying at his hotel, when any idiot who’s paid attention to politics in the last decade new it made that hotel a lightning rod for not just threats but attacks.
Which would also make Pritzker look like he was “fighting” at the cost of not I ly these politicians safety, but also his employees and other guests.
I legitimately can’t believe this performative shit is working…
Name me a person with the perfect leftist-certified record and background, whose house the Texas House Reps. should stay at.
(Edited to add) Pritzker is providing protection to these Texans within his capacity as Governor of Illinois, not as a private billionaire. Governor Hochul of NY, Governor Newsom of CA, Governor Ferguson of WA, Governor Healey of MA could have taken the same steps hosting these people in their respective states for each their own reasons. Sure Newsom wants to become President someday, Hochul wants to curry favour with the rising tide of Mamdani, etc etc but at the end of the day, whoever it is should be judged for their action within that role, not past stuff or future personal ambitions.
To give an analogy: Say someone who did something horrible later funded a public school. Is it not enough to admonish and prosecute the horrible act? Or, are we secretly in support of the horrible act unless we demolish the school as well?
You can separate a person’s background with their policy stances.
Someone like Pritzker should be praised for supporting democratic and progressive moves, just the same as someone from a destitute background calling for regressive reform and inequality should be shamed. Even if you feel more sympathy for the latter’s background.
He should not.
Because his stance aren’t determined by what is right or fair.
It’s solely based on the least that will satisfy the masses. At the end of the day if every single thing Pritzker honestly wanted to be done was accomplished, he’d still be a billionaire and we’d all still be fucked.
Just not fucked enough for a revolution to be a threat to his wealth.
Billionaires are scared of 2028 and a fair primary, don’t fall for the BS where they pretend to be for change. If they really are then they currently hold enough wealth to effect change any day they want to.
Like, literally in this scenario.
Pritzker has the personal wealth and resources to hide these politicians away where they’d never be found. Instead he publicly and proudly announced they’d be staying at his hotel, when any idiot who’s paid attention to politics in the last decade new it made that hotel a lightning rod for not just threats but attacks.
Which would also make Pritzker look like he was “fighting” at the cost of not I ly these politicians safety, but also his employees and other guests.
I legitimately can’t believe this performative shit is working…
Name me a person with the perfect leftist-certified record and background, whose house the Texas House Reps. should stay at.
(Edited to add) Pritzker is providing protection to these Texans within his capacity as Governor of Illinois, not as a private billionaire. Governor Hochul of NY, Governor Newsom of CA, Governor Ferguson of WA, Governor Healey of MA could have taken the same steps hosting these people in their respective states for each their own reasons. Sure Newsom wants to become President someday, Hochul wants to curry favour with the rising tide of Mamdani, etc etc but at the end of the day, whoever it is should be judged for their action within that role, not past stuff or future personal ambitions.
To give an analogy: Say someone who did something horrible later funded a public school. Is it not enough to admonish and prosecute the horrible act? Or, are we secretly in support of the horrible act unless we demolish the school as well?
He’s not hiding them in the attic…
He, a billionaire hotel heir, put them up in a hotel…
What your analogy is missing, is that it would have been more secure to not say where they were…
Instead of giving a press conference saying where they were which…
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Is exactly what Pritzker did. Because this was about optics and setting himself up for a 2028 presidential run.
If he wants to help, he can redistribute 3 billion in wealth back to the people and still have over 200 million in personal wealth.
He ponies up and I’ll shut up. But no billionaire can authentically be on the side of the people.