Have you read the bio of Tony Sirico’s brother? Crazy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

"We are protecting these Texas democrats" Thank goodness we have some democrats with spine left

“He’s saying he’s some kind of interior decorator.”

OMG YES

I wondered why he looked so familiar!

That's a damn good point

Ok, I might be changing my option on (now) liking the idea of a Pres Pritzker. *cracks knuckles* About time to make some trunk music and dig a big hole out in the desert

This is how you fight! Dems - pay attention.

I had been thinking Phil Leotardo for a while.

He’s giving this Illinois energy

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Yes! My wife, not having seen him much, said essentially the same thing when he was on Colbert recently. He has that Mafia Don aura that Trump desperately tries to emulate.

Works for me!

I'm going to have 'Woke up this morning' stuck in my head all day now, but agreed :)

But doesn’t he look a lot more like Tony?

Nah Tony had dead eyes

Needs the big pinky ring, menacing hand gestures.

Yep- my Governor. Cool beans

Exactly this. We need more people who won't be intimidated, and the fact that he's a liberal billionaire with unlimited resources and has legal authority of his state is very helpful.

And has a law degree!

Yeah, everything that trump is not: brave, a legitimate SUCCESSFUL billionaire, smart, educated, honestly elected, with a strong morality and decency. Grateful to the good people of Illinois, who finally lived back up to their Lincolnesque reputation for leadership.

I told someone yesterday if I were @govpritzker.illinois.gov successor, I would make sure everyone had food. everyone. His FIRST response was "why should I have to pay for that?" As if someone else starving only affects his wallet.

People want Galoot FDR

heh heh heh. didya hear what I said, Tone? I said the pricks can take in the views and go to a restaurant. heh heh heh 🤟

A billionaire and the only dirt they could get on him was taking the toilets out of a house he was renovating to lower his property taxes.

I am disappointed about that but 💯 support him (he's my guvnah)

It’s not ideal but it’s a .25/10 on the “things billionaires get away with” scale to me

I'm not rich so it's never come up, but I can't promise I wouldn't do the same thing tbh

Same on both fronts

Time for more of that.

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Yep, absolutely. Chicago is not the place you wanna challenge homefield advantage in a street brawl. terrytrueman.com trueman-triola.stories.email justweighing.com

Right? I would *love* to see ICE or anyone really roll up on any Chicago neighborhood, but especially like Englewood or W. Garfield Park - but they're not allowed to target landscapers, day laborers or vendors. They have to go after people in the streets. That would be the last time they pull that.

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He is also old money… Trump never will be and it eats at him because old money Manhattan rejected him with cold disgust.

Now I can never unsee that!

This. 24 7

He's like if Joe Pesci had a full head of hair.

You nailed it!

Haha I have always thought he seems like an extra on the sopranos

Sure it’s been said a million times elsewhere but Oliver Platt’s Unc in “The Bear” comes to mind.

Very Uncle Jimmy “Suck my balls, Computer” energy

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The "it's gonna hurt me more than it is you for me to cut your balls off, but you'd rather it be me than someone else so I'm doing you a favor" look.

His voice sounds just like Platt to me.

🎯

Can’t unsee it now

What about Big P.?

Nah he was a rat.

I wish he wasn't defending the hospitals that are illegally denying care to trans kids

Whatever or whomever he is, I’ll take a dozen more please. Enough already. Let’s roll

🙌🏻Pritzker2028🙌🏻

A man for the time.

Let’s emphasize this. These Dems are REPRESENTING their constituents by leaving the state. They are fighting for the rights of their constituents to vote. As to The Bear reference, yes.

If Republicans are gonna make up their own rules, Democrats can at least bend them. Pritzker is actually stepping up. Hopefully it becomes a big dick energy contest between Newsom, Hochul, and Pritzker.

Hochul didnt get rid of corrupt ass Adams when she could have and Newsom is way too cozy with prominent right wing personalities. Pritzker is the best option.

Trump was never a conservative. I don't care what they did last week, what are they gonna do the next 4 years.

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My wife and I live in NW Indiana ... about 50 minutes from downtown Chicago in good traffic. We'll do everything we can to support Pritzker if he decides to run and it sure as shit looks like he's gonna run. Dude could floss his teeth with Vance or whatever no-Elvis the GOP wants to put up.

Definitely gravitas

C'mon, Jamelle. How does that help? And yes...gangsters are popular. 77 million people voted for one.

Sybau

He actually reminds me a lot of Uncle Jimmy from the bear

During their lifetime, everyone will have some version of Pauline Walnuts in their family

Just a touch.

Whattaya hear, whattaya say?

You can't fake the gravitas of a man who has to work hard to raise his eyebrows.

😁

Fingers crossed

Thank you for reminding me about the amazing Pritzker bit from the Unclear and Present Danger’s episode about the Air Force One

He thinks he's a Jedi.

he is, The Khan

Top of my short list for Pres 2028. His balls to the walls F U I'm here for my people energy is laudable. Ain't no one going to say "oh there goes another oligarch" when he's walking through the room.

He's Uncle Jimmy from THE BEAR.

He looks like a billionaire, sure, but also looks like the Site Foreman.

I can see Pritzker telling Abbott to go to the ENT doctor to get his hearing checked

He was made for a political system where the Iowa state fair is still important.

Iowa?

Oh yeah. Remember their fair is right around caucus season. they used to make every primary candidate eat some obscene fair food or they'd never make it out of the first round.

So is this supposed to be a fat joke or something? Bc it didn't land at all.

And you thought this one was funny enough to pin?

You had me at Paulie Walnuts!

And a Babba Booey to you!

He actually has a Chicago accent so that is badass. The Dems are going to bring back the ethnic whites into the coalition!

"Really, honestly, and truly not giving a s*** is life's cheat code." – Alex Pappademas Pritzker knows when to apply this.

It's so true, in pretty much any situation.

Abbot Threats to arrest Texas Democrats Pritzker

I’m going with this guy

Same, I’ve been saying that! He’s now the left’s billionaire mob boss.

God (not Christian nationalist gawd) bless this to the best thing possible. We need a reformist president who ISN'T normal in order to overcome the MAGA bullshit, please pardon my French.

Well, if we are by some miracle to get a Democratic president, a "Not today, Satan" guy wouldn't be the worst thing to get. It's not mere Texas that deserves messing with here. It's a whole evil autocratic system.

Who’s our Sylvio?

oh no

I like him - but it’s the hair.

Channeling Richard J. Daley

Maybe the left needs Carl wheezer

I’m all-in on JBP. I know his billionaire status doesn’t code left but I think his being part of elite America is a long-term asset. FDR / Teddy were effective b/c many of the elite saw their radical proposals as reforms rather than destruction due to their up upbringing.

It doesn't code left, but if we are fighting billionaires, we are gonna need at least one on our side so I made peace with that

Totes

finally a machine politician willing to Mob It Up

When I learned he was a billionaire I was surprised because he manages to come off as a normal person who has an understanding of the world

Wealth only makes most people stupid. Fortunately, not all.

Dude was an orphan by the time he was a teenager. I don’t care how much money you have, that is a S T R U G G L E, and he learned the right lessons from it.

My father was orphaned at 13 and raised himself from then on and he had a lot of similar traits. He was solid, resilient, determined, and got shit done

Nah, being a billionaire orphan is still leagues better than being a regular orphan. But good on Spritz for being able to at least fake basic humanity, the bar’s in the earth’s mantle.

What's with "nah"? Are you disagreeing with something I said?

Literal Bruce Wayne origin story

OMG, Big Batman

One of the few billionaires who aren't malignant assholes. Cuban is another one. Both could be amazing presidential candidates.

Better than being billionaire coded (I do like the guy)

We might need a class traitor

I think (and it's been a while - I'm probably wrong) that Marx predicted educated bourgeois folks who would raise class consciousness and promote solidarity. I don't know if you can be a billionaire and bourgeois, though. 🤷‍♂️

Ok but in the face of reality, we aren't going to stop billionaires & the politicians they own without a billionaire. They treat each other differently. It'll be harder for them to shit all over him like other dem politicians. Money is power and he has a lot of it. I hate to say we need him, but...

We need him or someone like him. He seems ok. Just... Eggs and baskets.

We've had a couple of those

Both pretty cool.

Precisely the correct person to call JD Vance a dork in a presidential debate.

Kidnapping is their specialty now.

Hearing him talk about how his mother who died when he was young was a women’s rights activist & his drive to serve the public is in part to honor her really impressed me.

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It's what we need - the Chicago attitude without the corruption.

At this point I don't care if it's corrupt as long as it stops the MAGA traitors

oh I need to watch this again! It was filmed in Union Station here in Chicago.

Nice

We will welcome him as a liberator. I'm quite worried about this.

Giving Big Pussy.

Tots use the PW 🥜 reference. Manafort or Sopranos.

omg awesome observation

Another asset is how large swaths of the mainstream media ignore him completely, present company excepted of course. Sorta lets him operate more freely than Newsom, for example.

He has the look of a guy who will take his rings off before beating a cheater. And I mean that in the best way.

OMG. OMG OMG.

He's not the mobster here, though.

As long as he can give that energy back to them it's ok

I always like to invoke my friends with the middle name "the."

Or to put it another way: FDR spliced with Mickey Cohen, by way of George Meany.

He means what he says.

*Somebody* has to be able to communicate with the Trumpy voters and I like his odds over JD Vance's.

He's naive to think the FBI is going to obey the laws.

He's the Democratic politician I could most imagine diving over a table to get to you.

😁

I keep saying this. He has the look and attitude down. Just needs to work on cutting a better promo and he’s golden

He’s more like Uncle Jimmy from The Bear.

Haha, yes, yes 😊

He probably has v strong feelings about shoelaces

I think he needs to start wearing a gold necklace and end every sentence with a question!

And facial expression should turn on a dime right after 😄 , know what'I'mean? 😐

I will 100% vote for whichever dem promises to make locking them all up, from Trump down to the doge boys, and Pritzker seems most likely to make (and mostly try to keep) that promise.

He looks like Sean Austin (complementary)

#DemsFighting #PowerDemocrats

Thank you! Couldn't put it together until you said it.

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