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murielm99

(32,523 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:32 PM Aug 2025

JB!

Our governor will be on Colbert tonight, August 5, 2025. Many of our governors go to jail. JB goes on Colbert. We have a great guv!!!

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JB! (Original Post) murielm99 Aug 2025 OP
Yes, you do, murielm. sheshe2 Aug 2025 #1
Thanks for the heads up! ShazzieB Aug 2025 #2
same...I'm on w democratsruletheday Aug 2025 #3
I worked with him and for him early on. murielm99 Aug 2025 #4
Oh no . That is giving me flash backs to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington mucifer Aug 2025 #5
Ugh, you're right. ShazzieB Aug 2025 #6
OMG. murielm99 Aug 2025 #7
I was coming home from college and the cab driver told me . he was laughing. mucifer Aug 2025 #8
We sure found out who the racist scum was murielm99 Aug 2025 #9

democratsruletheday

(1,805 posts)
3. same...I'm on w
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 04:27 PM
Aug 2025

JB ramping up for a POTUS run. Between him and Newsom early on. I lean JB but GN has been coming on frankly.

murielm99

(32,523 posts)
4. I worked with him and for him early on.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 04:50 PM
Aug 2025

You know he self-finances his campaigns. No one has to pay for so much as a button or yard sign.

I hope he does not run for President. We need him here. This state has been so screwed up by bad financial decisions and crooks. He has helped put us back on track. He hires the best people to work for him as well. The woman doctor who oversaw the pandemic was amazing. She was a black lady who was fluent in Spanish. When she finished reporting in English at a news conference, she then translated everything into Spanish. One day, things got to her. She turned her back and cried.

And, and I got to know him, I saw a large man who is overworked. He is not as healthy as you might think. He needs to slow down. When he gets tired, he is an angry bear. I want to keep him here. He is our angry bear. Maybe people here can make him rest when he needs it.

murielm99

(32,523 posts)
7. OMG.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:53 PM
Aug 2025

I never thought of that. I remember when he died. I was going in to work just an afternoon shift at the library. I was supposed to open. I heard it on the radio and just sat down. The library opened late that day. What a terrible loss, for the whole state, really.

mucifer

(25,445 posts)
8. I was coming home from college and the cab driver told me . he was laughing.
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 06:00 AM
Aug 2025

I felt sick.

murielm99

(32,523 posts)
9. We sure found out who the racist scum was
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 08:54 AM
Aug 2025

in Chicago government. I had been around enough not to be surprised by racism or misogyny in my party. But Washington's treatment was often so bad. So was Obama's.

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