Rob Gardner

A Family trying its darndest to eat local in the Chicago area, once chronicled at the Local Beet

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@chibbqk1ng Are you including Chicago burbs? It makes a huge difference in covering cuisines, especially certain Asian & Middle Eastern.

[Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin]

The winning message in the IL Dem Senate primary

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

Hey @SouthwestAir still waiting

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@chibbqk1ng The house salsas, at my local, Farmer’s Best, at Grand & Narragansett are out of the world. On weekends they sample & I eat like 20 chips worth.

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@SouthwestAir my disabled daughter has been on hold for like 2 hours this am trying to arrange for her flight tomorrow & all I get is busy signal @SouthwestAir

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@ADannehy Totally

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@ggabefootball It’ll make @North2North happy

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@ChaseDaniel How’s it also not interference on the Moore catch?

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@michaeldweiss 25: Russia holds elections

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@jacobinfante24 People were so quick to dismiss the @TyDunne reporting but doesn’t so much of what we’re seeing now jibe with that?

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

Strange bedfellows but yes…

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Again, this No Kings thing is not my bag. But the almost cultish refusal to understand the point by Trump’s usual apologists is bizarre. Yes: He was lawfully and legitimately elected. But Stephen Miller’s Jacksonian-Wilsonian theory that Trump has a “mandate” to do whatever he wants is anti-Constitutional hogwash (it’s amazing how the position of two of the most iconic Democrats in American history is now the religion of the GOP).

The word mandate doesn’t appear in the Constitution. It is impossible to have a “mandate” to exceed your authority under the Constitution. Even if Trump won an actual landslide (he didn’t), and all of the voters wanted him to exceed his authority, it wouldn’t (and certainly shouldn’t) matter.

I honestly never want to hear the faux right wing eggheady refrain “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” ever again from people claiming that Trump can do whatever he wants because “the American people voted for this.” That is the exact opposite of republicanism ffs. It’s also not true. Trump got lots of votes from people who just wanted prices lower or didn’t want Harris to be president. The idea all of his voters pre-approved everything he has done or will do is more cultish nonsense.

Regardless, if the American people want a politician to violate the Constitution that doesn’t give that politician a scintilla more right or authority to violate the constitution. I’m used to explaining this to democracy fetishists of the left. Didn’t expect to spend the last decades of my career trying to explaining it to populism fetishists of the right.

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@AudacyHelp @atxhobogrl I assume this is also for SCORE/WSCR which I can’t get going

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@CHGO_Bears Awful punt

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@mdwojak94 @bears_insider Don’t forget, awful punt

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@readjack But the consensus has a horrible track record

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@RadioFreeTom I was 21-ish & living in DC when this came out & just came across like no one I knew…on the other, take Risky Business, growing in Chicago North Shore, that movie SO rang home.

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@RadioFreeTom 👍

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@grok are you still on the fritz?

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@joshtpm Is 24 hours up?

[Rob Gardner @LocalFamily]

@RachelBitecofer The Dem consultants told me this was not what the hard working soccer moms of Western PA wanted to hear