READ THE COMMENTS BELOW! PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES!
MAGA HAS AMNESIA ABOUT THE DAMAGE TRUMP CAUSED DURING
HIS FIRST REIGN! TRUMP TRASHED THE ECONOMY & IGNORED COVID
AS AMERICANS DIED! TRUMP LEFT OFFICE WITH REFRIGERATED TRAILERS
FILLED WITH COVID DEAD!
GOV. JB PRITZKER MAKES THE CASE THAT IT'S DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORT &
PROMOTE THOSE PROGRAMS & BENEFITS THAT MATTER TO AMERICANS!
MINIMUM WAGE IS $7.25/HOUR - NO ONE CAN LIVE ON THAT!
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My Interview with Gov. JB Pritzker
By Ben Meiselas
When I sat down with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for his first interview on the MeidasTouch Network, I knew we were going to have a real conversation—not political fluff, not canned talking points. And Governor Pritzker delivered. This wasn’t just a chat about policy—it was a clear-eyed warning about the dangerous trajectory of Donald Trump’s kleptocratic grip on this country and an urgent call to action for all of us.
Governor Pritzker has been sounding the alarm since day one of Trump’s return to power, and he’s not mincing words. We’re watching a government that exists to enrich a handful of corrupt billionaires—Trump, Elon Musk, and their inner circle—while regular Americans are stuck paying more for tomatoes, lettuce, beer, housing, cars, and child care. Meanwhile, Trump’s tariffs are driving up costs, and his broken promises are wrecking families’ finances. The only people thriving in Trump’s America are the ones already at the top.
And let’s be real—this isn’t accidental. This is what Trump wants. It’s not about helping the working class; it’s about funneling money to his cronies, selling garbage meme coins, and gutting the services veterans, seniors, and families rely on.
The governor told me stories that cut through the noise—veterans losing access to services, Head Start programs in crisis, parents unsure if they can even keep their jobs because child care is evaporating. That’s the real cost of Trumpism. That’s what we’re fighting.
And let’s not ignore Trump’s bizarre, dangerous obsession with Vladimir Putin. Pritzker called it out directly—Trump is literally helping Putin advance his goals while abandoning our allies and isolating the U.S. on the world stage. This isn’t leadership. It’s capitulation.
To anyone out there feeling afraid or defeated, Pritzker gave the message we all need right now: Stand up. Speak out. Show up. Whether it’s organizing, protesting, or just bringing friends to a congressional office—we have the power to fight back. And we must.
We don’t have time to sit on the sidelines. Trump and his enablers are counting on our silence. Let’s make sure they don’t get it.
Thanks again to Governor Pritzker for joining me—and if you haven’t already, consider joining now as a paid subscriber of the Meidas+ Substack.
You can also listen to this interview and share it with your friends and family on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
–Ben
COMMENTS:
I have voted for Pritzker twice and will continue to vote for him no matter if he is running for governor or president. I would hate to lose him as governor but he would make a terrific president. He improved our bond rating, improved our state's services, protected us during COVID - getting us needed equipment and supplies, and he doesn't take crap from anyone, especially the CONmander in Cheat.
Great interview, greatly appreciated!!!.
Yes I agree. I was unsure about a Billionaire governor but he has done a good job. Our credit rating has improved. The state budget is a lot better and we have not heard any news or rumors (at least I have not) about wrongdoings. That last point is quite something in this state.
Trump has no intention to help any middle class or poor Americans. They are pissing away your tax dollars. All while dismantling our life savings programs.
Love Governor Pritzker.
start naming the 1% by name and the wealthy corporations get those names out there.
Trump and Musk are both stupid and playing games. I look at each action and surmise if it is legal or not legal. Most of Trump’s Executive Orders are illegal. Those I know the court will cancel in due time, like a month. I get neither worried, nor anxious about those. Each of those illegal Executive Orders constitutes a fraud on the American people. This fraud is rumming rampant. The courts are now intervening, but the court should turn proactive by citing these illegal Executive Orders as contempt against the plain language of The Law that takes taxpayer dollars to mitigate (damages).
We the people are the 5th estate that must back up the courts. DOGE has cost us taxpayers $ billions already. We the people pay the bills here.
I hear the world’s wealthiest peckerwood*, a derogatory Alabama term for a white person, whining about suffering (equitably I might add) from the anger that the peckerwood* in fact caused. Robert goes to protest the peckerwood* today! I wish the non tax-paying peckerwood* neither the pain, nor the stain. One does not easily shake off international disgust. Musk will need to change his stripes and become the giver, not the taker. That is Peckerwood’s call. Only Peckerwood* can fix his problems. Peckerwood* has engendered bad will by his cruel actions. Poor, poor pitiful Peckerwood*.
Use of the term peckereood, an inversion of woodpecker, dates to the early 19th century. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest printed use to an Alabama newspaper in 1835. Peckerwood was in use in reference to white people by 1859; it often suggested a white person who was a little off in the head, backward, or poor. The shortened form peck was in use in the same sense in the 1920s. In African American folklore during the 1920s, the woodpecker symbolically represented white Americans, in contrast to the blackbird that cartoonishly represented African Americans. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/musk-whines-poor-poor-pitiful-me?r=3m1bs
I cannot say that I agree with you about Musk changing. He is so high on ketamine and the other drugs he is using that his brain has probably fried by now. Rich people just become greedier - although I can't say that this is true of all wealthy people - Taylor Swift, Mark Cuban to name two. And now that Musk has tasted power he is gone. There is no turning back for him especially since Putin, Trump and MAGA are pulling his strings.
Yes, I believe in backing the courts but Trump is ignoring them. Until the courts take action against Trump and hold him accountable Trump and Musk will continue on their destruction of this country.
After Trump's announcements on Friday - telling China, sure we will go to war with you and then saying he wants Canada and he wants it now, destroying the Board of Education I'm not sure how anyone can feel safe or just not take these actions seriously.
Is there any way to overturn the ridiculous immunity that was gifted to the grift? The destruction of our humanity, constitution, democracy needs to stop. The lawlessness needs addressed everyday by republicans and democrats! We’re are being run into the ground by the cloaked authors of Project 2025, out in the open as well as all dark corners!
I believe it would need to be overturned by the USSC itself. Otherwise if the judges were investigated, impeached and removed and if that case was used in the impeachment it could be retried. However who would appoint new justices? Trump himself and he would install even more loyal servants.
License to be lawless. I hope bright minds somewhere are working on trying to overturn, ASAP—not after more crimes against humanity occur!
Dumpster fire has played golf every weekend at the cost of 3.2 million in secret service expenses each time, including renting ten golf carts each day for them to follow him around. He is over charging them to rent rooms in his hotel. One million could hire 20 park Rangers for a year. Why isn't the department of government inefficiency investigating Trump for fraud abuse and waste?
I just hope we have enough people stand up to stop them from giving our parks to corporations.
and how about the expense of ICE's use of those completely UNNECESSARY & EXTREMELY expensive, massive military planes for the photo op they believed they provided in "showing" us all their progress in deportations -- deportations that will hopefully be proven just as invalid and erroneous as the federal employee terminations that had to be rescinded nearly immediately, after complete chaos they created - ANOTHER waste of OUR TAX DOLLARS, etc.
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