joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
35 shot, 5 dead-30 wounded Friday through Sunday afternoon Labor Day weekend in Chicago. I am glad Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have this situation under control.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
35 shot, 5 dead-30 wounded Friday through Sunday afternoon Labor Day weekend in Chicago. I am glad Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have this situation under control.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I never said I was in Minnesota. I par-phrased Adam Schiff. Reading is an overlooked skill.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I stated facts-the requests and lack of action are on record. The shooting was at a school, what are you talking about "most dangerous areas"--Waltz wouldn't send additional law enforcement to a school. ...and if you want to call people an idiot, start with your Mom-she had you.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
In April of 2022 and May of 2023, private schools in Minnesota sent a urgent requests to Governor Tim Waltz stating their students are in immediate need of additional security. Tim Waltz did nothing. He should be voted out.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
27 wounded, 4 shot dead last weekend in Chicago. THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY. THIS IS NORMAL. Governor Pritzker, do you realize how stupid that sounds?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
27 wounded, 4 shot dead last weekend in Chicago. Governor, "we don't need you" --- it is obvious you represent people walking around the lakefront at 6 a.m....not those who live in the areas where most of the violence took place.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Chicago has had 254 homicides this year...50 more then New York, which has 3x the population. Black residents [are]…22 times more likely to be killed compared to white residents. YOU don't want any help here. Any unbiased observer would tell you that you need help, and a lot of it.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Over and above all this political nonsense is the fact that no one's been killed in Washington DC for close to 2 weeks and all levels of crime have been reduced materially. It appears that hating Don Trump takes priority over everything, including human beings lives.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
The video of you walking down the lakefront and saying how beautiful it is 100% correct. However, why don't you drive to Englewood, park your car and take a walk around the block?...and then say how beautiful and safe a community it is? Grandstanding is what you do best Governor.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
The least surprising headline ever is you making a big deal about Maxwell. For 2 years you and the House, Senate, and the Oval Office and chose not to do a thing about Epstein.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Adam Schiff, why weren't you interested in Epstein for 4 years when Joe Biden was President? Trump has asked the department of justice to declassify all documents and release them. He is also asked New York to release all tangible evidence related to the Epstein case and they refused.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Governor Pritzker took office in 2019 I wonder how people who live in the highest crime areas feel about his refusal to let in the National Guard to reduce the murder rate
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
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joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social)
So if redistricting happens in Texas it's going to cause us to lose our democracy?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Clinton Judge Richard Berman DENIES Trump administration's court filing to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts and exhibits. CLINTON EPSTEIN. CLINTON EPSTEIN CLINTON EPSTEIN...
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Senator, today the European union leaders had nothing but praise for Trump and how he is brought the peace talks to its current place. You got to come up with something new.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Adam Schiff, the European Union leaders don't share your thoughts. They had nothing but praise for President Trump's work on getting the peace talks this far. Putin took Crimea and invaded Ukraine during the Obama+Biden Administrations. Putin head zero fear of Obama+Biden.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Jeffrey Epstein went to jail in July of 2019, he was dead a month later. Why was no one asking for the Epstein files for four years under Joe Biden? For two of Bidens 4 years, the Democrats had control of the White House, Senate, and the House.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social)
So Governor Newsom, if Texas cuts 5 seats and that means our democracy is over, doesn't this mean it's been over for a long time?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
This was the interview where the liberal host stated Illinois has the most politically bias voting district map in the country as voted by an independent agency. Your reply was stuttering nothing.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Joe Biden raised the cost of living materially, Don Trump lowered it. "Declaring war on working people?"-if this is political BS, I get it. However you can't expect intelligent people to believe this. And you're keeping Illinoisans safe by not apprehending illegal aliens who have committed crimes
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I am sure we can trust Adam Schiff to make up stories. The FBI report on the Whistlerblower's statement that Schiff instructed him to leak classified data may cause the Senator to revive some of his favorite material. "Putin is running the Whitehouse" maybe in play again.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
No inflation, have you found the Smoking Gun Senator?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Delaying the deployment of the National Guard was totally debunked yesterday by the former Chief of Police in Washington DC. He said it was Pelosi who refused to deploy the guard earlier and then delayed her decision for over an hour on January 6th.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Why didn't you care about Epstein when Joe Biden was President?... and when you find The Smoking Gun please let everybody know.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social)
This kind of thing happens when you absolutely know you're right.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not true at all. My monthly bills are lower now than they were 2 years ago and I just got a tax cut.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social)
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joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Over 60% of the people in this country support the deportation of illegal aliens. How did the Biden Administration allow 10 million people to come in this country that were undocumented?... that is the most important story of our time.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
No tax on tips, lowering taxes for seniors, maintaining Trump's tax cuts for middle income wage earners... that sounds pretty good for every day Americans. You supported every Biden idea that increased the cost of living.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
…this is too sophomoric to go on. If you want to make a ton of money and not worry about tax on tips, find a cure for TDS. Your friends will love you.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
So a company gives an employee a W-2...and the employee then claims that their bonus was tips??? You live in a pretend world. I'm happy for you, however what you are saying is comical.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Governor, you have to come up with something new other than his “billionaire friends at Mar-a-Lago” Are those the people who will be enjoying the benefits from no tax on Tips and no tax on overtime pay? You could’ve offered this benefit to Illinois citizens, why didn’t you?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. Not providing Medicare and Medicaid to illegals will strengthen the system. Trump tax cuts will stay in place, avoiding a huge increase for low and middle income wage earners. You have raised the gas tax to 66 cents/gallon, the 2nd highest in the country.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Argumentative? Let's be clear here, if PSA had been monitored on Joe Biden each year he was President, he might not be in this life-threatening situation now. Do you think Joe wishes they should have been checking on it?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
This doctor is treating the leader of the Free World. You have to explain to me why he wouldn't want to know anything possible that's wrong with his patient.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Correct. it wasn't there because they didn't want to test for it. Why wouldn't a doctor want to know if their patient had an elevated PSA? So what you're saying is because of the doctor's lack of thoroughness, Joe Biden's cancer was not caught early. PSA is on my panel every year..I'm over 70.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
When you're getting a full blood panel, as the President did with his annual physical, there isn't a doctor in the world who wouldn't say add PSA to that panel to any man over 40.... unless he didn't want to know it.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
It is standard practice to check a patient's PSA level when doing a full blood work up in an annual physical. I am 100% confident a PSA level was noted in every annual physical Joe Biden had. An elevated PSA score would be the impetus to check further for prostate cancer.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Wishing death for someone because you don't like them? That Morgan Freeman is just a wonderful person!
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I am going to dig into why you told the American public Joe Biden's "running circles" around you when in fact now everyone definitively knows he was totally incapable. Why did you lie to everyone?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn’t changing the tax laws on Social Security income require a vote in Congress and a 60% majority in the Senate? You should know this, so either you’re omitting a material fact for convenience, or uninformed.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Comey acknowledges Trump could be substituted for “47”. So if Comey did not know what 86 meant, why did he post it? 86 could have represented “the greatest ever” - would Comey have risked posting that?… He knew exactly what 86 meant.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
State Democrats won't fight for the success of this because it is DJT's idea....the hell with the people.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social)
President Trump just announced that tomorrow, he will sign a historic executive order that will reduce drug prices by 30% - 80%.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn’t Joe Biden release the Epstein files? If Joe Biden thought there was a chance that Donald Trump was on the Epstein videos, he would have released them.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
They are trying to find out why it occurs and why is it’s occurring at such a higher rate over the last several decades. Of course you know all of this, so we could kind of be done here.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
No one ever said they were going to be names associated with the symptoms, medical history or genealogy related to the patients.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Without data on any medical problem, it would be impossible to find a cure for that problem. J.B. Is grandstanding again. There is no surveillance or discrimination involved in collecting medical data.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I encourage Governor JB Pritzker to assist Kristi Noem in arresting illegal aliens who have committed crimes. That would protect the citizens of Illinois. No one performs more for the media than governor JB Pritzker. He isn’t protecting taxpaying, citizens of Illinois.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
You have been saying the same thing for 9 years...look at where it got you in the last election. Please keep up the great work, it will ensure you are defeated again.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
During the Biden Administration the cost of gasoline, heating and cooling our homes, and groceries went up materially and it affected all Americans. You supported all of Biden's policies. Where was your outrage when that was happening? And now you're talking about a stroller, Elizabeth?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
An illegal immigrant either faces immediate deportation if a gang member, or a court hearing to deport. Both of which carry jail time. To avoid jail, they could fly back to their own country at no cost to them. The cost of arresting an illegal is multiple X's that of the airfare Bribery? Tax$?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
UMMM, 60% of these loans were issued during Trump1. The balance during Biden, most had a 2 year payback some had 5. This would mean all near all (90%)of the loans came due under the Biden administration. If Biden prosecuted 90% of deadbeats, what are you making a big issue about PPP loans?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn't it great to see a Venezuelan immigrant who entered this country legally, succeed at such a high level in the USA!
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
When the laws in this country regarding college financing change I'll abide by the laws. I haven't seen a plan that I thought made any sense. I would welcome a well thought out plan. I would love it for my grandchildren and their parents not to have to pay extraordinary College costs.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
You are incorrect. I just think everyone should play by the same set of rules. I'm happy with my position in life and comfortable with the decisions I made. I am not angry at people for having a different point of view than mine, they get to have that.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I just posted about people having to repay debts they signed for. We paid our education loans, why should others not have to?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
You are correct...the laws of the states and country would have to change...but that is OK. However, until that time, if you sign a loan agreement, no matter what kind, you have to live by the terms of the loan or suffer the consequences.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
All I said is that if you agree to the terms of a loan, you should be obligated to pay it back or face the consequences. I agree with you, it would be great if college education was free in this country but it's not.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I would love college education to be free, however that isn’t the world we live in. This discussion started with me saying if you received a student loan and agreed to the terms, it should be paid back. I wish we didn’t have to pay it back, however people should oblige to contracts they entered into
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
*60% of the Business's APPLIED for the loans during Trump1. Fraud/better said, failure to live up to the terms of the loan occurred during the Biden administration. No loans were DUE during Trump1. Fraud/default on loans couldn’t be determined until they were due. Biden did not prosecute.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
To be clear: 30% of PPP loans were issued during the Biden administration. 100% of the PPP loans that were forgiven occurred during the Biden administration.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
The initial round of loans were done under Trump. The balance when Biden was President. ALL loans came due during the Biden administration. If terms of the loan were not met, it was Biden who dismissed them.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
President Donald Trump wants Big Pharma to shoulder a part of the cost of his tax cuts, and is now asking Congressional Republicans to force drugmakers to accept lower prices on Medicaid-covered prescriptions - Bloomberg
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
PPP loans were given by the government to businesses to keep people employed and businesses open during covid. If the terms of the loan were met, the loan was forgivable. If a business did not comply with the criteria of the loan, the government should go after them.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
The only thing you could be talking about is the New York fed under Trump issued over a trillion dollars in short-term loans to Banks so to in order to avoid a liquidity crisis, those short-term loans were paid off.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
That is incorrect, the first PPP loans were issued in March of 2020.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Correct, I agree with you. I don’t know why Joe Biden thought otherwise.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I did not. I am self employed. The “cope with it” was ridiculous.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
What are you talking about? I made a comment and student loan paybacks. If someone signs for a government loan, they should have to pay it back regardless of the type of loan.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t go tell me to cope through. Are you going to give me the 200K my kids and I paid in loans?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Way to incite people to be violent!,,,,, What is the matter with you?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Stop lying and running for President and concentrate on being Governor of Illinois. You increased the state tax on gas by close to $.30 a gallon. You have done nothing about education in this state. You have spent a fortune on services for illegal aliens residing in the state of Illinois.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Why haven’t you done this for Illinoisans? You’ve been governor six years!
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Does “pulling the rug out from them” mean that they’ll have to pay off the debt they signed for?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
In 4 years of Joe Biden's Administration grocery prices went up 30%, gasoline and natural gas went up materially. You supported everything Biden stood for. Thank you for bringing us 4 years of hell.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Effective July 1, you will have raised gasoline tax $.30 a gallon. This has a material impact on all working families in Illinois. At this point in time, no one has any idea exactly what the total impact of the tariffs are going to be, whether positive or negative. Stop trying to scare people.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
American laws protect its citizens from those who enter the country illegally. Governor, you are more interested in protecting the rights of people who are not citizens in this country than those who are citizens.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
He is he is a citizen of the county he is incarcerated in. In 2019 the Department of Homeland Security identified him as a member of MS 13. That paperwork is now public.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I stated facts….that’s all. Evidently you can’t handle the facts.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Stop making this stuff up Governor. A cart of groceries and a gallon of gas are less than they were six months ago. In response to the tariffs, Ford is now selling cars to the public at employee prices. “Just to help his friends…”. You’ve gotta come up with something new.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
That Amazon location in your District must not have been a good enough price.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
When you change your name you get should get new identification and register to vote using your new name and ID. In the event you change your name and do not get new ID, you register to vote using your old name and old ID. What are you talking about?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Last week, the FBI under Kash Patel arrested two people on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. This week they arrested one of the top three leaders of MS-13. In one month as FBI director, he orchestrated these arrests. Why weren't these people arrested in the Biden Administration?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Last week, the FBI under Kash Patel arrested two people on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. This week they arrested one of the top three leaders of MS-13. In one month as FBI director, he orchestrated these arrests. Why weren't these people arrested in the Biden Administration?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Under Joe Biden the price of a dozen eggs went from 50 cents to over $6. In 2 months, under Trump the price is now under $3.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Governor, this is just blather. Why don’t you just get a job at MSNBC because what you’re saying here has no basis in fact. I don’t think there’s any part of Statesman in you. Every day you try to scare the citizens of Illinois. When are you lowering State income tax?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
An overwhelming of Americans, who heard what you had to say, knew exactly what you were referring to. You were making fun of the Governor being in a wheelchair. The American people aren’t as stupid as you think.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I have heard Governor Pritzker try to scare Illinois citizens every day. Why don’t you spend some time lowering my state income tax, sales tax, and services I have to pay the state instead of running for President?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn’t AOC always say the middle class needs billionaires to pay more tax?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
The Social Security budget is going to get cut. No one is losing Social Security benefits who deserve them.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Decades before Doge came around, people on both sides of the aisle used to joke that dead people getting Social Security. Now of course it isn’t happening because iElon Musk said it did.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a lie. The Governor of Illinois wants to scare people. He never lets the facts get in the way of a good story.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
I would love everyone in this country to live comfortably. However, that is not a reality of life. AOC quote:”“We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation,”….she wants free speech now or almost free speech?
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Boycotting a product is a logical and legal method of saying you don’t like the company’s policies. Starting cars on fire, defacing dealerships, and vandalizing peoples cars are illegal activities. I hope you can see there’s a difference here.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
Great content.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
What you do best Governor Pritzker, is scare people. No one is losing Social Security benefits. What they are doing is stopping millions of dollars in checks to people who are dead. If a SS office does close, it will be an inconvenience, however remember you closed State offices too.
joedowks.bsky.social (@joedowks.bsky.social) reply parent
USDA wholesale egg prices per dozen: Jan. 21, 2025: $6.55 Mar. 18, 2025: $3.22 Difference: -$3.33 Percent Decrease: 50.89%