The Dan Bongino Show - JB Pritzker Has Big, Fat Presidential Ambitions | Episode 32

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois has come out with a new effort to impeach Donald Trump while simultaneously pulling the good 'ol Hitler comparison. Also in this episode: all of the other democrats are also losing it, how surprising.  JB Pritzker’s fiery speech calling for mass protests sparks talk of 2028 run ⁠⁠https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/jb-pritzker-speech⁠⁠ Slotkin is testing a ‘war plan’ to beat Trump. She wants Dems to ditch wokeness and muscle up ⁠⁠https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/slotkin-has-a-war-plan-to-beat-trump-dont-be-weak-and-woke-00308176⁠⁠ LOFTUS: Democrat Leaders ‘Protest’ For Hours With One Of America’s Greatest Villains, And Nobody Even Noticed ⁠⁠https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/28/democrats-hakeem-jeffries-cory-booker-sit-in-capitol-hill-anti-trump-randi-weingarten/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We are at 100 days now into the Trump administration, a lot of cause for celebration. And I'm definitely looking forward to the next 100 days of this Trump administration. But the left, well, they are still trying to figure out the path forward. Stuck in the wilderness, a couple of the people who are in the insane asylum think that they can take over now. And they've got some orders for everybody else.

How are we going to win this thing? J.B. Pritzker, the very fat governor of Illinois, has a big plan and it certainly sounds like to me that he wants to whip the left into a murderous frenzy yet again. We'll break down all of the details on that. We've got a great Republican lawmaker in Chicago, in Illinois, who's going to join us on the program today. We'll talk about that and so much more all ahead on Vince. As always, great to have you with us.

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Thank you, Ryan is Magoo. I appreciate that. That's the plan. That's the plan. I'm gonna keep working with you and working for you because we've got a lot going on in the nation's capital and in our country right now. As I mentioned, we're 100 days into the Trump administration

and I score him very well. I've seen some of this chatter that, oh, his polls have been slipping in the last few days, that people are not as happy with Trump these days. And it may be true, it may also be completely untrue. Since when have the polls been a super reliable barometer of all things Trump? They haven't, obviously. But I would say on the big picture items, like it's obvious that the American people are with him. On haven't, obviously. But I would say on the big picture items, like it's obvious that the American people are with him. On the border, they're totally with him. On ejecting Democrats, well, ejecting Democrats, that'd be fun. Arresting Democrats, they're with him. Getting rid of these illegal aliens, these violent illegals, especially if we're in our country,

everybody's with him, saying that men should participate only in men's sports and that women should only participate in women's sports. The people are with him on racist bigotry in our institutions, DEI, the American people are with purging all of that, on verifying that somebody's a U.S. citizen before they vote in our elections. The American people are totally with him on that. So if you go policy by policy, they're with him. What do the Democrats have to offer? Well, J.B. Pritzker this weekend is a he's an Illinois state governor, of course, and also a very rich man. He's got the Hyatt family fortune, Hyatt hotels at his disposal. And he traveled to New Hampshire, as politicians do when they want to convince people that they are built of presidential timber and that guy's built with a lot of timber. Have you seen J.B.

Pritzker? Man's got a lot of timber going on. In fact, J.B. stands for Jelly Belly. Governor Jelly Belly Pritzker, our thanks to all the Vince listeners who were responding. Justin posted this this morning on his ex account. He said, what does JB in JB Pritzker stand for? This is a product of our pre-show conversation. We were wondering, what do we call this guy? And originally, I thought Jelly Bean would be good. Somebody came in and said Jelly Belly. Steve Audi, thank you for that.

Jelly Belly Pritzker. So going forward, heretofore known as Governor Jelly it for for the rest of time, unless he somehow figures out a way to lose that weight. But instead instead of dedicating his fortune to weight loss, he's been dedicating it to making America more and more chaotic. And he teams up all the time with guys like George Soros and Reid Hoffman to induce that kind of chaos in the United States of America. So over the weekend, he goes to New Hampshire and he gives a big speech. Big man giving a big speech. And what does he call for? Well, you take a look and then you tell me what is he calling for here?

Look, never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now these Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box. Yeah, disruption. Republicans must never know a moment of peace.

He's calling for mass chaos is what he's calling for. He's not offering a positive vision. He's not offering an alternative that people should vote for. He's calling for disruption, chaos, and destruction. By now, if you don't realize how radical the left-wing base is, you're a moron. And JB Pritzker, not a moron, he knows the dog whistle that he's putting out. He knows what he's calling for, which is chaos. Because the Democrats, they've adopted this strategy that the way to victory is to put so much chaos in place

during the tenure of my political opponent that people, Americans, begin to attribute that chaos to that person. They want chaos as a message to take down Trump. That's it. They want it as a vehicle to take down Trump. They put it differently. It's like a criminal demanding a ransom. And if you don't get it, he's going to start shooting the hostages.

That's what we're talking about here. And so J.B. Pritzker goes out, speaks to a bunch of lefties in New Hampshire and declares, we will have chaos. It's time to fight everywhere and all at once, he says. Never in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization all at once, he says. Never in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, he says. But I am now, these Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. Now we've heard this before. We've heard this from, well, cut three, people like Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who's done this on a routine basis. Look. Let's save the cars. Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you

see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere. Yeah and she would only go on to do that over and over and over again even in the midst of all sorts of left-wing violence in the United States she said that people needed to get more confrontational more in the face of American citizens, cause more chaos and destruction. Take a look, once again, this is 2021 when Maxine Waters said this.

Let's save the cause. Let's make sure we share. Oh no, not Manchelore, no, no, no. This is guilty for murder. I don't know whether it's in the first degree, but as far as I'm concerned, it's first degree murder. Ms. Congresswoman, what happens if we do not get what you just told? What should the people do? What should protesters on the street do?

I didn't hear you. What happens? What should protesters do? Well, we've got to stay on the street, and we've got to get more active. We've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business. We've got to get active. We've got to get confrontational. And boy, did they, how many people were killed as a result of left-wing riots,

especially in the year 2020 and what ensued after a lot, a lot, just ask David Dorn, the retired police officer who was murdered in cold blood in the midst of those left-wing riots and so many others too. How many buildings were burned to the ground by left-wing rioters, by terrorism here in the United States? Government buildings attacked, police precincts burned to the ground, stores, restaurants burned to the ground. Federal courthouses laid siege upon night after night after night. And where are the consequences for any of those actions? Few and far between. Very little. Then again, January 6 people, well, they had to suffer

immensely. If you went into the Capitol building or were even in the vicinity or in some cases weren't even in the United States Capitol during the events of January 6th. If you just voted for Trump, you had your life upended, turned over. And in some cases, some of the people who were subjected to that, they've lost their lives since then. Obviously. Ashley Babbitt was killed in cold blood inside of the Congress building. After that, a number of people who were subjected to the horrors of the tyrannical justice system led by Democrats committed suicide as a result of everything that they lost. Dastardly. And these lefties keep advocating for this violence. JB Pritzker knows exactly what he's doing here. Not a dumb man. Not a dumb man. He's a calculating man. He's trying to bring about chaos in the United States in the service of defeating Republicans and making a place for himself so that he can run for president in 2028. That's what he wants. That's why he goes to New Hampshire and does this.

And Pritzker has been laying the groundwork for this kind of rhetoric for a long time. He's been referring to Republicans as fascists, as Nazis. In fact, as recently as his State of the State address in February listened to J.B. Pritzker, old jelly belly, saying that President Trump and the people who voted for him, well, they're basically Nazis. Take a look, cut to. My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one. I'm not speaking up in service to my ambitions, but in deference to my obligations. If you think I'm overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this. It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle

a constitutional republic. And all I'm saying is that when the five alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control. Trump is a dictator. He's just like Hitler. His supporters are Nazis. We've seen this before.

And we see where all of that language goes. Now, nevermind the fact that this is a case of projection about who has the fascist tendencies, who's the authoritarian, who's constantly misusing, abusing the tools of government in order to rain tyranny down upon your political opponents. That's the left, the left does that. The left imprisons your political opponents. That's the left. The left does that. The left imprisons their political opponents.

The left tries to imprison president Trump in order to prevent him from even appearing on the ballot. The left tries to remove him from ballots like in Maine and Colorado. This is, these are the attitudes of the left. The left shuts down his ability to communicate and shuts down your ability to communicate and shuts down your ability to communicate on the dominant social media platforms.

That's the left that does that. That's not the right. The right opens up lines of communication. It opens up free speech. It encourages candidates to appear on ballots. It appeals to you on the basis of argument, on the basis of logic and not by crushing political opponents using the tools of the state. It's obvious what side of this you should be on.

And so he says, these guys are like Nazis. Now we have heard this before a lot. We've heard it from people like Joe Biden. We've heard it from Democrats up and Biden. We've heard it from Democrats up and down their food chain. And they say it over and over. They say things like, well, President Trump and Republicans, they're a threat to democracy, they'll say. And sometimes weak-minded people take them seriously, such that they attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. In fact, remember this? Ryan Ruth is the man who tried to take a shot at the President of

the United States, the second would-be assassin in Florida. And here's what Ryan Ruth posted April 22nd of 2024, last year, ahead of his attempt to take President Trump's life, quote, your campaign, this is him directing this message to Joe Biden at the time, your campaign should be called something like KADAF, keep America democratic and free, he wrote. Trump's should be MASA, make American slaves again, master. Democracy, he wrote in all caps, is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail, he declared. The world is counting on us to show the way. That's what Ryan Ruth wrote in April of last year. And those words, everything you just used, you can do that, he just used,

you can detect where that came from. Those are the talking points of the left. Those are the talking points of the left. Down to the democracy is on the ballot and democracy is on the line. Those are all left-wing talking points. And Ryan Routh was regurgitating them, believing that there was some sort of existential threat

to our country, and then justifying his own attempt to assassinate the president of the United States on that basis. That's who J.B. Pritzker is talking to. J.B. Pritzker goes out there, he's talking to people like Ryan Routh. And he knows it. It happened so recently.

How could you avoid it? That's what's happening. And it's not just JB. I'm going after governor Jelly belly right now because he's the most recent to do it and boy, he's got a big megaphone and boy, he's got a lot of money. He's been buying up these various races all across the country. He just dumped a lot of cash into buying up those Supreme Court seats in Wisconsin. He did that alongside George Soros, alongside Reid Hoffman. But also, it's not just him, it's a lot of Democrats. Here we have,

take a look here, cut six, just endless parade of Democrats who are either tiptoeing up to the line or outright calling for violence against their political opponents. Watch. I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be. People need to start taking to the streets. This is a dictator.

You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives. Enemies of the state. Show me where it says that protest is supposed to be polite and peaceful. Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c***. When they go low, we kill them. How do you resist the temptation

to run up and wring her neck? Biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right. I thought you should have punched him in the face. I said, even if you you lost he insulted your wife Yes He came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murders He said well what do you think I should have done?

I said I think you should have punched him in the face and then gotten out of the race You would have been a hero I'd like to punch him in the face. I said if we're in high school I'd take you behind the gym and beat the hell out of them PUNCH SOME PEOPLE IN THE FACE When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? They're still gonna have to go and put a bullet in Donald Trump He himself signs worthy of censure When was the last time an actor assassinated in a prison? They're still going to have to go and put a bullet in Donald Trump.

And that's a fact. Look, as his character is stabbed to death. Where is John Wilkes... That was posted by Ann Wilkins, that video, some time ago. And so the Illinois governor, adding to that, thinking... And so this is coming out of a stream of thought. So there are Democrats right now who think that, you know, the way out of this, the way

out of the political wilderness that we're in right now is not to offer a better idea. It's not to appeal to Trump voters. It's not to appeal to the voters that we lost to President Trump, but instead is to double down on aggression, on craziness and on chaos. That's what these guys think the path is. And J.B. Pritzker, he embodies a lot, you can tell. Just look at him. But he embodies that line of thinking inside the Democrat party. And in a moment, we're going to have a conversation with one of the few elected

Republicans in the entire state of Illinois, who's in a position to push back against this. His name is Sean Morrison, and he is a Cook County, Illinois commissioner. To remind you, Cook County is where Chicago is located. He's the only Republican commissioner in the Cook County commission. And we're gonna get his reaction,

get his take on what is going on in the state of Illinois. What is J.B. Pritzker even doing here when he's playing with all of this dangerous language? And also I wanna ask him what's gonna happen in the Senate seat there. Dick Durbin, as you know, the number two Democrat in the Senate, he's vacating that Senate seat, he just announced.

So how rigged is that process going to be to replace him? And what are the chances that a Republican could even have a shot in Illinois? That conversation coming up with Sean Morrison in just a moment. Stay with us here on events. It's just been a wild week already. It's only Tuesday. I've been using Bon Charge, the infrared sauna blanket, which is really a sauna in your house, and the red light face mask ever since they sent them to me and I'm loving them. I really am. I first turned to the sauna blanket to help with muscle recovery after workouts, detoxification.

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is a Cook County commissioner, a Republican, the rare Republican on the Cook County Commission. Sean Morrison joins me. Hello, Sean. Hey Vince, how are you? I'm doing very good. And you are the only Republican, I believe, on the Cook County Commission. Sean Morrison joins me. Hello, Sean. Hey, Vince, how are you? I'm doing very good. And you are the only Republican, I believe. I am the only Republican in Cook County. Yes. Okay, which is why you are the only one who seems to be speaking out about just how violent your state's governor his rhetoric

is. Just once again, to quote what JB Pritzker said in New Hampshire, you only get in New Hampshire if you're running for president. He said, it's time to fight everywhere and all at once. Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now. He said, these Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty

with every megaphone and understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. What do you make of your governor's language here? Well, according to Democrats phrase, I think that's, I think it's a dog whistle. It's what everybody knows. It's kind of like the congressman from California saying, get in their face and address them at a gas station and address them at a restaurant. What human being calls for another human being to not enjoy peace in their face and address them at a gas station and address them at a restaurant. What human being calls for another human being to not enjoy peace in their own life or peace in their home or peace

when they're out with their family? What human being calls for that? I mean, that's a level of cruelty that we've never seen. And you know what? J.B. Pritzker is the biggest hypocrite in the world because one week he's out there calling out Democrats and calling out Donald Trump for harsh rhetoric. And then the next day he's calling Republicans are all Nazis and Republicans are a threat

to the Democratic fabric and the rule of law. Those are dog whistles. Those enables I put in my statement yesterday. Those are little signals that enable those that are unhinged perhaps and those that are that are that are of a of a of a questionable mental gate to go out and commit the atrocities and the crimes and shoot at presidents and shoot CEOs in the streets and all these things. It's really, it's really terrible. That's exactly what we've seen. That's exactly what we've seen. These assassination attempts on President Trump

have included people who had fully bought into the very kinds of lines that J.B. Pritzker is spreading that somehow President Trump is a threat to democracy. In fact, that's the exact language that Ryan Routh, who was lying in wait inside of those bushes in Florida, that's the exact language that Ryan Ruth, who was lying in wait inside of those bushes in Florida, that's exactly the kind of stuff he was posting to social media, aping the rhetoric that he had been hearing from people on the left like JB Pritzker.

So here he is doing it again. It's one thing to just say it in the course of political disputes, and of course it's wrong, but once you have assassination attempts in the rear of your mirror, you have to know how dangerous this is. Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, this is the second or third time that I've addressed this issue, going all the way back to when the first attempt was made on President Trump in Pennsylvania. I sent a letter to the governor.

I sent a letter to the mayor of Chicago and the county board president, and it was addressed to all politicians saying, look, we really need to lower the temperature of the vitriol language that we're using when we're debating each other, when we're debating both sides. And that has obviously fallen on deaf ears, hence his statement on Sunday. So you mentioned a moment ago that JB Pritzker

has made a habit of doing this. For the most part, I've had the good fortune of ignoring JB Pritzker to the extent that that's possible. But then when I started looking into his rhetoric and getting familiar with what you're talking about, I detected exactly what you say, which is that he on a routine basis refers to Republicans as Nazis, or at least makes big comparisons about that. And in fact, he did that very thing in February in his State of the State address, where he's addressing the state legislature and says outright that this is like fighting the Nazis. Does he do this all the time?

All the time. That's the normal part of his rhetoric. You know, listen, he has been in campaign mode for president for probably the last three years. You know, he's a six-year governor here in our state, but he's been vacant. He's been absent. He addresses none of the issues that are here. The only thing that he's ever addressed and put into place are very, very weak on crime policies, thing in what I call the Safety Act, where things such as fentanyl have been decriminalized to misdemeanors. He's raised our taxes. We're amongst the highest per capita tax rate of all 50 states.

We are still suffering from his draconian COVID policies that he put in place that crushed hundreds and perhaps thousands of business and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work for several years. These are the things that we're facing with him and he's constantly out there chirping. When he's in front of the media who love him and praise him,

he's the nice guy, he's the, oh, we need to be nice to each other. And then he flips a coin and he's calling people Nazis. And he's ginning up crowds that somehow, if you're a conservative or if you have a differing opinion than his, that you're the enemy of the state. I mean, good gosh, can you imagine what statement that was? And what does that tell somebody subconsciously? It dehumanizes an entire group of people, nearly 50% of our state.

He's dehumanizes an entire group of people, nearly 50% of our state is dehumanizing them. Yeah. So what is his reaction been to President Trump deporting illegal aliens from the United States? Because as I recall, it's in your county, Cook County, of course, you have Chicago. Chicago as a city, its residents have been furious about the illegal aliens who've invaded our country, brought in by Democrats and then brought into Chicago. So has the governor of your state spent any time

applauding the president's efforts to clean up a problem that Chicago residents are very concerned about? Zero time, Vince. In fact, he is publicly defiant of the president and the notion of sending back criminal aliens of all things. I mean, who is against sending back criminal aliens? Who is J.D. Pritzker? Our mayor Brandon Johnson is, our county board president Tony Breck Nicholas. Illinois is a sanctuary state. Chicago is a sanctuary city and Cook County is a sanctuary county. You know, it just came out in the last few days.

We spent over 10 and a half billion with a B, 10 and a half billion dollars of taxpayer money on just the migrant issue. We're a state that has a failing mental health treatment centers. We have veterans that are homeless. We have homeless, of course, that are out there in the streets. And every time these groups come to us as a government body and ask us for help, you know what they've been told consistently for the last 10 years plus up until the last two years? We don't have the money for it. We can't afford it.

We're already on an extreme budget, which we are. Illinois is facing a $3 billion budget fall, budget short-haul this coming cycle. The city of Chicago is going to face a $1.2 to $1.5 billion shortfall. The Cook County Government Board is going to face a $500 million budget fall. Our transportation systems are facing a $1 billion budget billion shortfall. The Cook County Government Board is gonna face a $500 million budget, while our transportation systems are facing a $1 billion budget shortfall. And yet we spent nearly $11 billion on the migrant issue addressing this. Yeah, and so J.B. Pritzker,

I wanna talk more about what is he focused on, if not fixing that, because this is a guy who is famously very wealthy. He's got the Hyatt family fortune at his disposal. He has used that for a lot of left-wing political agenda items across the country, oftentimes teaming up with people like George Soros and Reid Hoffman. He's bought himself a couple of Wisconsin Supreme Court

seats using that wealth. What is he up to exactly? He's clearly up to running for president. He's ignoring his duties and his functions that he was elected to do here. By the way, I might add, he also funded and bought two Illinois Supreme Court seats just two years ago.

Put in millions and millions of dollars of his own money for those seats. But what is he doing? He's running for governor. He's going all over the country. He's funding campaigns for certain officials. He's doing a bunch of fundraisers for them. It's basically the same. It's very near similar to 2006 and 2007 when Barack Obama went throughout the US when he didn't have a challenge for his US Senate seat. It allowed him 18 months to go to all the other states and work their state Democrat parties and do speeches and campaigns and fundraisers, which ingratiated himself into what the electoral college for all those states. So when the time comes to try and rack up the electoral votes when he runs,

it's going to be those very folks that he's out right now seeding the fields, dropping millions of dollars into their coffers. And when the time comes two years ago, or two years from now, he's gonna say, hey, remember I was there, I did those speeches, I gave you that money, I'm running for president, I'm gonna need your electoral votes to nominate me for the primary.

That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, well, he's trying to use all that money and right now trying to become that guy. I'm glad you brought up Obama because I want to ask you also about the Senate seat, one of the Senate seats in Illinois. Obama kind of famously in 2004 was the product of a very corrupt Democrat system machine that placed him in there as the nominee for their party, was able to secure that Senate seat for him.

And of course, the rest there is history. Now we have another Illinois senator who's retiring. Dick Durbin announced recently that he will be retiring after a long, long tenure in the United States Senate. My view of this, Sean Morrison, is that Democrats in Chicago, unfortunately, are among the most corrupt in the whole country.

And I fully expect that this is going to be a very rigged process. Is that your view? Yes, it is. I mean, already the lieutenant governor, Miss Stratton, has already declared that she's going to run for that Senate spot. And J.B. Pritzker has already given her his basic endorsement for her to run for that seat. That kind of tells everybody else, hey, don't mess around here. This is who we want to be in Senator. The Democrats in our state, in our county, in our city are notorious for giving what's called a Dapsons choice. They put people into primaries, they put Democrats into primaries that are preordained and preseasoned.

The Democrats themselves don't realize that Democrat voters, but they never really have a true choice of who they get to pick to be their Democrat candidate for all these various selected spots from governor all the way down to alderman. It's really unique. And I can add a little bit of nugget. The thing about politics is that we have very short memories, but people don't remember who the big culprit was along with the then governor Blagojevich. It was J.B. Pritzker that was trying to buy the US, the Barack Obama vacated US Senate seat. There are copious hours of undercover tape

because it was all taped by the government. Blagojevich went to jail for it. But it was J.B. Pritzker who was on the other side of that phone negotiating to buy it, to buy the US Senate seat back then. People need to take a look and remember that. That was some interesting dialogue. He disparaged the minorities, He disparaged African Americans. I'm talking

about Governor Pritzker did. His own words. Go back and review some of that tape. It'd be very surprising. Yeah. That's some good game tape to call back on, especially as this guy wants to run for president. That makes a lot of sense. And what do you know, Vince, as far as Durbin himself, 44 years, 44 years between US Congress and US Senate. And what has been, what does the state of Illinois have to show for it? Much further in debt, much bigger bloated,

terrible infrastructure in our roads and bridges, mental health again was gutted, veteran home was gutted. You know, he's a US Senator and Tammy Duckworth is still there. What have they done for the state of Illinois? What have they done for the residents of Illinois? When he announced, you should have seen the local media. It was as though, it was, it was as though the pope himself said that he was going to, to step back.

All platitudes, all platitudes. And I said, Hey, that's great. 44 years. But what have you done in those 44 years? So if we're going to just put the same ideology, the same, the same preset into a new Senator, what's the point? No one's going to change. So, okay, last one on this. What are the chances that a Republican can actually prevail? Because the last time Illinois had a Republican senator was Mark Kirk. What are the chances that a Republican here could take that seat? Do you think it's possible? As it pertains to Illinois, it's a great question because there's two ways. We've had mass gerrymandering. In fact, there's a current lawsuit going on, but gerrymandering really affects our state house,

our state Senate, and our US Congress. A lawsuit was filed with the federal court six weeks ago. I have very high hopes that they're gonna change that. But as it pertains to statewide offices, here's another interesting thing, Vince. And I'll tie Governor Pritzker to that as well. Governor Pritzker in Illinois politics has spent roughly about $600 million of his own wealth

on his own races, on trying to defeat those that were running in the Republican primary two years ago against him. He spent nearly $75 million alone to knock out strong candidates that could challenge him. And he spread the same amount of money around throughout all many different local races, senators, state reps, all that kind of stuff in Illinois. So nearly just under $600 million of his own money. Okay. Donald Trump has never spent a penny in Illinois because it's a flyover state. It's a, we're a predominant Democrat state. Okay. So nearly $600 million spread in a state by a person, zero spread by a person. Donald Trump in this last election got 48,000 more votes in the state of Illinois than J.B. Pritzker has ever gotten in his two elections. Why am I saying that?

There are absolute voter proven, absolute paths to good statewide candidates to retake statewide governments. The governor, the treasurer, the secretary of state, all those races that are going to come up in two years. Republicans can actually win those races numerically, based off of just a recent election, less than six months ago. Okay, all right, well, that's a little cause for optimism. Yes, it is.

Sean Morrison, thank you very much, Cook County Commissioner. Great to talk to you, sir. Really appreciate your feedback on all of this. Thank you, Vincent. I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, sir. Yeah. All right.

And let's see. I just figured out, All right. And let's see. I just figured out, thank you again to Sean for that. I just figured out why my microphone sounded like utter crap for the first half of the show. Thank you to the chat for telling me everybody was screaming, hey, your mic sounds like garbage. Yeah, because I was using the wrong here's's, just, just, let me, let me show you. I was using my stupid computer microphone. It was like halfway across the room from me.

This is what it sounded like. This is the, uh, this is the stupidity of it. I was just randomly talking and not realizing I wasn't talking into this big microphone that's in front of my face. And, uh, here we go. Well, that's a lot better. So thank you. People rag on audiences. They're like, the audience doesn't know what they're talking about. What I've discovered is that my audience

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oh, we had updates on the Jelly Belly question. JB and JB Pritzker, what does it stand for? Jumbo Bag of Donuts? Okay. I like that a lot. I like that a lot. That's a Joey Bag of Donuts callback. I like it a lot. Joey Bagged Donuts Pritzker. Yeah. I like Jelly Belly though. I'm too addicted to the Jelly Belly thing. Governor Jelly Belly. I think I'm gonna stick with that.

And there's something about the rhyme that just makes it so resonant. Juicy Bacon is a perfectly good one. Thank you, Chris's World. Jumbo, that's hilarious. From Rach77777. Thank you to Rach. Justin Belial.

Hailey coming in hot today. Justin Belial, Just Big says Mark MSB and Juggernaut Belly says Shanna Marie as Justin Belial's ex-account gets a lot of action today. Jelly Bean, yeah, that's what I went with before tweets don't. I went with Jelly Bean as we call them here in Illinois.

Jumbo is great, Jelly Belly, yeah, I like Jelly Belly too. KJ Onyx has it nailed. I think that's the one for me. Governor Jelly Belly, just blows, says kitty, me, me. That's great. You're all great. I keep saying it because I really mean it, the best damn audience in media.

They're not doing this over on Fox. They're not. Yeah. All right, Jumbo Biscuit. That's funny too. Okay, these Democrats are unintentionally hilarious, as you can tell. One way they're unintentionally hilarious.

Did you see what Corey Booker and Hakeem Jeffries were doing this week? So if Corey Booker specializes in anything, it's lazy performative nonsense with a touch of, well, a heavy dose of desperation. That's all he does. It never is about actually improving anybody's life. I don't know what he's doing other than talking a lot

and trying to be as lazy as possible and draw cameras in. That's Cory Booker's whole move. And Booker and Hakeem Jeffries decided to sit on the stairs of the Capitol this week. And they acted like this was some sort of noble fight. They did an amazing, amazing thing. And in fact, I, let me, I'm going to pull me, pull up the photo. I got to do this carefully because I want you to see what this really looks like.

Take a look at these guys. Here is Hakeem Jeffries and, uh, and Cory Booker sitting on the steps of the Capitol. Look how serious they are. Look at these guys. And then I looked at them and I said, isn't it kind of weird how similar they look? I mean they're both dressed in black right now. But they both have a very, there's something very familiar about the look that these guys are giving me. What is it? What could it possibly? Oh, that's what it is. They look like Dr. Evil and Mini Me. These guys, look how crazy these two people are. They really do.

I swear I looked at this and I go, that's who they are. It's Dr. Evil and it's Mini Me. And just like Mini Me, Hakeem Jeffries doesn't know how to communicate in English. Mini Me sits there in silence all the time, right? Hakeem Jeffries can barely formulate a sentence. On the radio show, for those of you listening to the 12 to 3 national radio show, I call

Hakeem Jeffries the dial-up Democrat. He's the dial-up Democrat because his brain operates on a 56k modem. Every time this guy tries to think, every word that comes out of his mouth, there's like a little buffer that starts appearing on his forehead and he can't connect it word for word. He's having trouble getting through sentences. So there you go. There's the dial-up Democrat, Horry Booker, Mini-Me and Dr. Evil. That's who these guys are. And they're just as ridiculous as Mini-Me and Dr. Evil, but again, unintentionally so. Really funny. I love how ridiculous our political opponents are, don't you?

And they were dumb. I mean, they were sitting there on, they were sitting there Sunday for, I think they claimed for 12 hours. And take a look at Cut 7. They descended into singing cringey songs and nobody even knew what they were doing on the steps. Look. Can you sing? Yes. All right.

I will build this world from love. Not too bad. Yeah. Yeah. Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da da. Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da da. Not too bad. What the hell is this? That was awful. That was truly awful. And they thought that was great.

They, they want, did you hear the applause? They are really mailing it in, aren't they? So they tried that. They tried the cringey drum circle and nobody could, nobody could even sing along to whatever that was supposed to be. And then of course they also tried the stuff like the JB Pritzker move, which is like, why don't we just call our political opponents Nazis and traitors? Here's Hakeem Jeffries. Listen to him. This is the presentation he had on the steps of the Capitol. Here he is, the dial-up Democrat. This is the time for us to put the principle over the party.

is the time for us to put the principal over the party. Principal over the party. It reminds me, I think that was a powerful moment. Reminds me of a letter that Ulysses Grant was president at the start of the Civil War. Don't you have Democrats who quote people in the Union as if the Democrats were on the side of the Union or great general subsequently became president and at that moment of great turmoil in the country country literally tearing itself apart.

Frank because of Democrats wrote that whatever priorities, political positions have been, our opinions have been up until this point, I have put only one objective down. Oh my gosh, get to the point, Mr. Dylup. Brandon said, we have a government and laws and a flag, and they must all be sustained. Uh huh. Government. You hear what I mean?

When this guy talks, he has trouble getting from word to word. Like he's standing on a cliff and it's just a single word and he has to leap to the next one and he's not sure if he's going to make it laws And a flag and then must all things sustain and he said something even deeper than that What did he say? Because at that time in American history, there were multiple parties. We're in a two-party system right now, but there were multiple parties and and what grant said is

That marlboro two party go ahead in amer America right now, patriots and traitors. Oh, there you go. So Hakeem Jeffries attempting to stick the landing and of course face planning. He says there are two parties in America, patriots and traitors, which of course you know what he's trying to say. He's saying that it's the right, it's Republicans, it's the voters who are traitors. The voters, because they chose a different path, because they don't like

establishment Washington, they chose Trump over and over and over again. That makes you a traitor for doing that. So that's the leader of the Democrats in the House, referring to more than half the country, I will remind you, as being traitors. So they... Can you make a picture of the two of them? That's wonderful. You want the photo back of the two of these idiots? Here they are.

Take a look. There is these goobs. One million dollars. It is really special, isn't it? Look at these idiots. Oh, that's I mean, it is such a it is such a joy how stupid they are. It really is. It does.

It does. That does bring me joy. I admit, I admit. But how can Jeffries in even being low IQ is how Kim Jeffries, even being low IQ, he's playing with fire here, even being low IQ, saying that Republicans, voters who go the other way, they're traitors. They're traitors for doing that. He's not the only House Democrat who's a crazy person.

There's also this hilarious sounding Dem congressman who just yesterday announced that it is time to call for President Trump's impeachment. Take a look. Here's cut five hilarious sounding Democrat. This is Congressman Sri Thanedar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy, but defying a unanimous 90 Supreme Court ruling that has to be the final straw.

It's time we impeach Donald J. Trump. The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process. Trump ignored it. He ignored the Constitution. He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact. Now if you're like me, you maybe thought to yourself, is that a real congressman? Is that guy real? Is he really in the Congress?

Yeah, it's Congressman Sheet Tanadhar from Michigan. And Donald Trump makes me feel very sad. And when I feel sad, I think maybe we should impeach him. So I have presented articles of impeachment to remove the president because he is a bad man who makes me feel bad. I don't like him. It is time for him to go. What the hell was that? Can they put that guy out more? Why am I not

seeing that guy more on television? He should have given the State of the Union response. I need more street than the dollar in my life. That was unbelievable. I'm seeing people look at, can we just put his image back on screen for a moment, please? Just, I don't need the whole video. I just want to. I just want that face. If you could just pause it and just put that right back on screen. Look at this guy. What is that? Where did he get that?

That's like Tucker Carlson's haircut. Where did he get that from? That's amazing. How old is he? It's hard to tell. His hair is like 17. His face, let's say, that looks about 50. The shoulder line looks a little young too.

I don't know. He's like a composite figure. Somebody built him in a lab and shoved him out in front of a camera, and he's calling for an impeachment of the president of the United States. And I love the talking point that he first relies on. Why should Trump be impeached? He had deported a MS-13 gang member, and I want him back. I want Kirmar back in the country.

Okay, that's the reason. That's a terrible reason. People are not with you on this. And there he goes. So we got a Democrat congressman. And my lousy impersonation of him on a Tuesday, he calls for President Trump's impeachment. Yeah, he's got James Brown's hair. Who said that? He does have James Brown. Hold up a second. Hold up. Fellas, put the congressman back on screen for a minute. Is that James Brown's hair? He sort of does actually. In a way, let's see here. I think I've got James Brown right here. Let's take a look. Here it is. There's, there's, it kind of looks like him a

little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like it. There's James Brown. All right. So Congressman James Brown wants to, wants to impeach Trump, which makes sense because Congressman Al Green also wants to impeach Trump. Oh, these guys are something else. They really are. Thank you, fellas, for that. That's, that's, that makes me laugh. And that's the key. Make me laugh and I'm, and I'm good to go. Chad says he's 70 years old. He's no way. Did you say he was 70? Seven zero.

What? How did that happen? Whoa, I want to know more about his skincare routine. That guy's looking all right for 70 years old. And that's got to be a wig then. 70. Holy cow. Okay. Well, there he is living his best life performing. And so, and so you got those Democrats doing that nonsense. You got Hakeem Jeffries saying that you are a traitor for voting for Trump. By the way, on the steps of the Capitol, Randy Weingarten got in on the action. The teachers union person who is just destroyed

how many children and their educations all across the country. You can thank her for that. So of course they bring out, speaking of evil, they bring out like Dr. Evil, they bring out all these people who really have done damage to our country. One million dollars. Yeah, yeah. All of Dr. Evil's henchmen showed up on the steps of the Capitol this weekend to advocate for more chaos in the country. And they keep fighting for this illegal alien,

these MS-13 guys. And I hope they keep it up. And it's not just all of these elected officials, it's the biggest named Democrats in the country. Michelle Obama, Big Mike is still on the podcast circuit. And she's arguing this week that, I love, last week she said that her husband is not worth spending any time with that she drives her crazy that she has to spend time with her husband. So it's really about me. Michelle Obama said I got to get away from him. But yesterday she said, but you know who is keeping her up at night?

Donald Trump, baby. And here's why. Look, cut a Get over it. It just goes away. And here's why. Look, Cuddy. Kind of get over it and it just goes away. It kind of shows its head in many different ways, I imagine. Well, in this current climate for me, it's, you know, what's happening to immigrants. You know, so it's, it's not the fear for myself anymore. I drive around in a four car motorcade with a police escort.

I'm Michelle Obama I do still worry about my daughters in the world even though they are somewhat recognizable So my fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the the city And now that we have leadership that is sort of indiscriminately Determining who belongs and who doesn't and we know that those decisions aren't being made with courts and with due process and that it's being made like this cop that pulled my brother over when he was 12. You don't look like somebody that belongs. I can determine just by looking at you that you're a good person or you're not a good person.

And knowing that there's so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance that fuels those kind of choices, I worry for people of color all over this country. And I don't know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody. And that makes makes me that frightens me it keeps me up at night and I know that there and I and I see that when I'm driving around LA and I'm just looking in the faces of folks who could be victim and I'm wondering how are you

feeling how do you feel standing on the bus stop how do you how do you feel comfortable are you listening to what she just said are you feeling? How do you feel standing on the bus stop? How do you feel comfortable? Are you listening to what she just said? Are you listening to this? So Michelle Obama's stupid take on all of this. They're never gonna get away from this. It's always going to be identity politics from top to bottom.

And regardless of the lip service they pay, and maybe we should stop doing that. They never stopped doing it. That's their comfort zone. So she goes right back into it. It's all about racial profiling. The very last sentence you heard her utter is that she likes to drive around LA in her motorcade, I should point out, protected by the Secret Service, staring out the window and then identifying people based on their skin color and saying, yep, that guy's going to be deported. Yep. I'm just so worried

that that person on the basis of my racial prejudice, I'm concluding they're going to be deported from the United States of America. Well, I don't know. Are they a US citizen? Are they an illegal alien? How did you arrive at that conclusion? And did you notice that she never bothered to make any distinctions like that? She just said things like immigrants or people of color, suggesting that just random black people are gonna be deported from the United States of America. This is how little they have to go on, that is the American left,

and how sinister their talking points have become, which is, you know, we don't have anything to attack Trump on, so let's just make up something. Let's just say Trump's going to deport black people. Boy, I tell you what, the left hates how much progress Trump has made with black voters. They loathe it. And so rather than figuring out a way to appeal on a positive basis to the average black voter, how can I convince you to support my party? What is it that I can do for you to get

the government off your back, to make your life easier, to make it so that you can get married and have children, have a thriving family. That's not a part of the conversation at all. Instead is to scare black voters into submission. Donald Trump might deport you, says Michelle Obama. It's psychotic.

And luckily, I think the spell is breaking. I think the ability for them to wield language like this and achieve results, which is their goal to basically long-term Democrat power, it's slipping away. And that's because you and I are openly mocking them for how stupid this is. And we should keep doing that. Mock them into obscurity, mock them.

Just go after them. It's so great. Because what are they calling for? They're calling for physically going after the people who don't support them. That's what they're calling for in the United States, demonizing their political opponents as Nazis. Meanwhile, we're just here to tell you how stupid they are

and how little they have to offer us, how little they have to offer us. how little they have to offer us. There's Michelle and she's fighting for at its core, the animating principles once again, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It's like, you know what keeps me up at night? The MS-13 gangsters are being deported from the United States of America.

Huh, that's funny. That's the very thing that helps me sleep soundly at night actually. The thing that gives my family more comfort is that America is headed in a safer and better direction. Kind of interesting that the thing that keeps you up at night is when Americans are living in safety. Really goes to show you what their political priorities are.

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