A German colleague at the conference asked where I teach.
“Illinois,” I said and he lit up like a Christmas tree. I never saw European colleagues react like this to Illinois.
“That’s where your next president is from!” the German professor exclaimed. “He’s amazing!”
I thought I was losing the plot because I haven’t been out of the news cycle for so long that I’d miss a new star in the American political firmament.
“JB Pritzker!” the colleague explained, seeing my befuddled look.
In Spanish we say this is like mentioning a rope in the house of a person who hung himself.
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oh no I hope that person doesn’t see the future. The horror
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Between the slender Newsom and the corpulent Pritzker, Dems will go with the former. Which is not much of an improvement, of course.
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Great, sorta like having a choice of being hung or fighting a mad dog ;-D
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Well, it might not be Pritzker. We seem to be protecting the next Biden.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/us-news/hunter-biden-fled-for-south-africa-vacation-avoiding-lawsuit-deposition/
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Keep him there, maybe?
I know, I know, nobody wants this jerk. We’ve been cursed with loser presidential sons.
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