Chicagoan Mess

Original Chicagoan. Cars, coffee, pizza, puppies, EDM. Stuck in Columbus

[Chicago guy @GuyChicago5151]

Vote for the guy that raised your taxes, allows criminals to run free, and acts like his is a King. He is worth billions, and manages our money like an irresponsible child.
Can’t blame him if you elect him

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

“Robber” Khanna!

[หมอหมาพาเพรียว @thunvet73]

แต่งองค์ทรงเครื่องเต็ม

[Chicagoan Mess @ChicagoanMess]

How many jobs have you ever created? Have you actually ran a business or created wealth for anyone but yourself and corrupt bimbos? What actual benefits have you provided society? You're a leech on society

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Billionaires sit on giant fortunes that compound while you're working two jobs just to pay rent.

My wealth tax changes that.

It's time the ultra-rich pay their fair share so we can invest in lowering costs for working people.

[Chicagoan Mess @ChicagoanMess]

Uh minimum wage was never meant to be a good life let alone support a family. Its for unskilled labor and highschool / college kids. If you're making minimum wage after 25 you did something wrong and need to reevaluate your life choices

Most companies aren't paying $7 either 🙄

[D A V E @0xDavecryps]

Housing costs have climbed so fast that the average U.S. apartment now rents for around $2,100 a month.

Meanwhile, someone working full-time at the federal minimum wage earns only about $1,300 a month after taxes, depending on their situation.

That leaves an $800 gap before paying for groceries, electricity, transportation, insurance, or a single unexpected bill.

This isn’t about skipping coffee or making a better budget.

No budgeting strategy can fix an income that doesn’t even cover the roof over your head.

The federal minimum wage has been frozen since 2009, while rents have surged over the years.

When the cost of simply existing rises faster than paychecks, people aren’t failing the system.

The system is failing them.

Until wages begin to reflect today’s cost of living, relying on one hourly paycheck alone is becoming less of a choice and more of a financial risk.

For millions of Americans, finding additional sources of income isn’t about getting rich.

It’s about staying afloat.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

No Iran deal would be far preferable to a bad deal. The regime is already giving POTUS all the reasons he'd need to justify walking away if they refuse to submit to vital American red lines. https://t.co/bobKV3RPRz

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism.

“Imagine no possessions” he told us.

He also:
– helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman
– incorporated his IP holdings
– moved to a lower-tax country
– fiercely protected his royalties
- drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes.
– made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity.

If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves.

John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice.

It doesn’t work outside of the imagination.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

It's almost as if capitalism really does work

[Chicagoan Mess @ChicagoanMess]

I would love to see a brain scan of these retards. Like are they just retarded or do they truly think they are making things better or are they just corrupt sacks of shit?

[Slats Grobnik @MissinRoyko]

I beg to differ with you Governor Big Spender

Illinois’ “Balanced Budgets” have come not because you and your Democrat in Springfield are fiscally responsible

Nope, your “Balanced Budgets” have come on the backs of taxpayers by increasing taxes yearly to cover your over spending budget deficits

When you actually balance a budget by being fiscally responsible and not by having to increase or find new taxes to cover the deficit, then I’ll give you credit for “Balancing the Budget”

I don’t expect that to happen ……

[Chicagoan Mess @ChicagoanMess]

Can you imagine how much better off we would all be if the media and Democrats paid as much attention/ outrage about the reflecting pool, on Obamacare or Biden being brain dead or fraud? Or all the regulations impacting car prices?

Nah orange man bad no matter what

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

Governor JB Pritzker signed his $56B budget yesterday, bringing the number of tax and fee increases in his two terms to 63.

In his two terms, his tax increases have taken a cumulative $77 billion more from taxpayers, and this does not include an additional $8.5B a year higher property taxes since 2019.

Illinois residents now pay the highest state and local taxes and fees in the entire nation. Pritzker’s tax policies have throttled Illinois economy, which has produced less than 10K private sector job growth since Pritzker became governor.

[Jared Howe @Jaredhowe]

Trump killed 50 of Iran's top leaders, did at least $1 trillion worth of damage to their military equipment and infrastructure, totally wiped out their naval fleet and air fleets, put their government in a state of endemic internal conflict, and left them totally incapable of meaningfully attacking their neighbors in the region any time soon. By the end of it, all Iran could do is rig the strait with mines and take pop shots at passing ships.

The loss of insurance coverage had more of an impact on the flow of marine traffic than Iran did.

I personally would have preferred the total destruction of the IRGC (which technically isn't off the table if they decide to FAFO) but it would have been difficult to accomplish without more civilian casualties -- something third worldist leftoids were already complaining (and campaigning) about.

In the meantime, consider the following:

No boots on the ground. No prolonged conflict. No permanent occupation. No military draft. No lasting impact on energy prices. No multi-trillion dollar boondoggle. None of the things anti-war retards with Israel tunnel vision like Dave Smith and Candace Owens predicted would happen.

In addition:

- Oil and gas prices are falling in time for summer and the midterms.
- "Free Palestine" third worldists like Graham Platner have less ammo on which to campaign for Congress.
- Russia is bringing in less revenue.
- The U.S. got a foot in the door to block China's Belt and Road projects.
- Trump has greater latitude to tighten sanctions on Russia without exacerbating supply shocks to energy markets.
- Europe and America have agreed to increase cooperation in providing for the national defense of Ukraine.
- Israel isn't a signatory to the MOU and isn't bound by its terms, leaving it free to independently defend itself from threats if necessary.
- America isn't creating a power vacuum for China and Russia to fill by absconding and surrendering its own influence over the region.

The people who say this is a "humiliating defeat" for Trump?

- Russia
- China
- Iran
- Democrats
- The leftist Drudge-led media establishment

All the worst people you know have joined arms and are pretending like Iran pulled one over on the Bad Orange Man in hopes that it will piss off Republicans and Israelis enough to get them to kill the deal themselves.

It's very transparent. Don't let your enemies control you with such a stupid and obvious Reflexive Control op.

[Quality Learing Center @QualityLearing_]

Billionaire JB Pritzker bought a mansion next to his Gold Coast palace.

To cut his property taxes by $331,000, he and his wife ripped out five toilets during a “remodel” and declared the whole place uninhabitable.

Cook County caught the scam. Feds investigated it as tax fraud. He eventually paid up... after getting busted.

Now he's put a .2% tax on crypto transactions.

These people...

[Scarlett Evans🇺🇸 @AresofRome]

@DefiantLs CNN should head to California and test the contaminated water Mexico is sending into our country. Newsom is too busy posting on X about how the investigation of his wife that began in Sacramento and blaming it on Pres Trump. https://t.co/YpZZqY2Wwb

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

CNN takes a sample of the water in the Reflecting Pool to test it

They did more investigation on this than the billion dollar fraud happening across the country

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

“He shares the account with his mother”

[Jen @IlliniJen]

You mean Pritzker is giving more money to illegal immigrants.

[Chicagoan Mess @ChicagoanMess]

But don't worry everything is still Trump and Republicans faults 🙄😂

[Jennifer Davis for Congress @DavisforIL8]

Wow! @JBPritzker hiked fees & taxes on IL 63x in 7.5 yrs.

Ludicrous he talks about addressing affordability and cost of living to hardworking IL families while emptying their pockets.

He's just another out-of-touch, finger-pointing billionaire politician blaming everyone else but himself for his failed policies and leadership.

He’s the gaslight 👑

[Jennifer Davis for Congress @DavisforIL8]

Wow! @JBPritzker hiked fees & taxes on IL 63x in 7.5 yrs.

Ludicrous he talks about addressing affordability and cost of living to hardworking IL families while emptying their pockets.

He's just another out-of-touch, finger-pointing billionaire politician blaming everyone else but himself for his failed policies and leadership.

He’s the gaslight 👑