Pritzker’s Latest: Handing Out College Cash to Illegals While Illinois Drowns in Debt

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the corpulent Democrat billionaire with 2028 White House whispers, just inked a bill that has conservatives spitting coffee. The new law throws open the doors of state-funded financial aid to all residents, yes, including illegal immigrants. If you're in Illinois and dreaming of college, Pritzker's got your back, legal status be damned.

Cue the outrage. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), didn't mince words, calling it a "slap in the face" to hardworking Illinois families. "Our state is drowning in debt, yet JB Pritzker is determined to drain even more taxpayer dollars to reward illegals," she told Fox News Digital. "It's absolutely shameful." Miller isn't wrong; Illinois' budget is already a train-wreck, and this move isn't exactly screaming fiscal responsibility.

The bill's defenders, like state Sen. Celina Villanueva, are popping champagne. "This law is about making sure no student is left behind because of where they were born," Villanueva said, framing it as a win for "equity." Her office bragged that the measure scraps a "patchwork of confusing and sometimes conflicting requirements" that kept undocumented, DACAmented, and mixed-status students from getting aid.

Translation: if you're in Illinois, you are now eligible for state or local financial aid, whether you're a citizen, a DACA recipient, or, say, a transgender student who didn't register for selective service. The bill has a little something for everyone, except, perhaps, the taxpayers footing the bill.

Villanueva's all-in on the feel-good vibes: "If you live in Illinois and are pursuing higher education, you should have access to the same opportunities as your peers."

Sounds nice, but the Illinois GOP isn't buying it. A spokesperson told the outlet that Pritzker's "prioritizing illegal immigrants at the expense of Illinois families." They added, "Illinois taxpayers should not have their hard-earned dollars pay for benefits to illegal immigrants who shouldn't be here in the first place." 

Meanwhile, state Sen. Andrew Chesney (R) took to Fox's Fox & Friends First to pile on, blaming Pritzker's policies for everything from budget woes to a recent deadly collision. He's calling for a serious overhaul of state laws, and you can bet this financial aid stunt isn’t helping Pritzker's case.

So, there you have it: Illinois, already strapped for cash, is now playing Santa Claus with college funds for illegal immigrants. Pritzker is betting this will cement his progressive cred, but with folks like Miller and the Illinois GOP crying foul, it's looking more like a political hot potato. As Miller put it, "It’s absolutely shameful." Wonder how many taxpayers agree.

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Female Cyclists Cry Foul Over Trans Athlete’s Sneaky Victory Lap

Well, folks, the woke sports brigade is at it again, and this time they’ve got veteran female cyclists spitting nails, and I don't mean fingernails. 

USA Cycling is under fire for what some are calling a straight-up bait-and-switch after a transgender athlete, Kate "KJ" Phillips, waltzed away with first place at the Lyons Masters National Championships in Wisconsin. The worst part is that the women who got steamrolled claim they were kept in the dark about Phillips’ participation. 

"It was hidden from us," Debbie Milne, who finished a respectable seventh, told Fox & Friends with the kind of exasperation you’d expect from someone who’s been pedaling for decades only to get blindsided. Milne and second-place finisher Julie Peterson said they always scope out the competition by checking the registered athletes list. But guess whose name was mysteriously missing. Yes, Phillips, who apparently identifies as Catherine "KJ" Phillips, was nowhere to be found.

"Catherine Phillips, KJ’s name, was not on that list. And I checked it up all the way to the point of closure when we couldn't register online anymore," Milne said, probably while resisting the urge to chuck her bike at someone.

So, Phillips wins, and Peterson, in a move that screams “I’m not here for your nonsense,” refused to step on her second-place podium at the awards ceremony. Milne called it a “difficult” choice but backed her fellow cyclist, saying she’d have done the same. “She's a class athlete. We respect our sport,” Milne said, noting that the lack of transparency from race organizers felt like a slap in the face to athletes who’ve poured years into cycling. “We respect podiums. It's really tough to do something that significant. It's disrespect,” she added. “She [Peterson] felt that there had not been transparency.”

Here’s where it gets extra spicy: Milne and Peterson aren’t buying that Phillips’ name being left off the list was some innocent oopsie. They’re calling it “deception,” and Milne pointed out that Peterson later confirmed Phillips had been registered since mid-June, which is plenty of time to show up on the list before it closed. 

Milne said if she’d known, she might’ve saved herself the hundreds of bucks and 400-plus-mile trip to compete in what turned out to be a rigged-feeling race.

Now, let’s talk about USA Cycling’s rules, which sound like they were written by someone trying to thread the needle between fairness and a diversity seminar. 

Transgender women can race in female divisions if they sign a declaration saying they identify as female and jump through some hoops in the “Elite Athlete Fairness Evaluation Process.” Their website pats itself on the back, claiming, “The Policy recognizes the need to ensure that everyone, irrespective of gender identity, can participate in cycling in a safe, harassment-free environment,” while also promising no one gets an “unfair and disproportionate advantage.” 

Sure, sounds great, until you’re a female cyclist wondering why you’re racing against someone who wasn’t even listed and was born with a twig and berries, more fast-twitch muscle, and XY chromosomes.

Meanwhile, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the big dogs of global cycling, aren’t playing these games. They’ve got a policy that keeps transgender women out of female-designated events, period.

Maybe USA Cycling could take a page from their book instead of leaving athletes like Milne and Peterson feeling like they’ve been pedaled into a ditch.

This whole mess smells like another case of woke bureaucracy trumping common sense. If you’re going to let transgender athletes compete, at least have the decency to tell everyone upfront. Hiding the ball, or the name on the list, just makes it look like you’re trying to pull a fast one. And when you’re dealing with athletes who’ve dedicated their lives to the sport, that’s not just unfair, it’s a betrayal.

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President Gaffe Master calls LL Cool J "Boy"

Joe Biden is a racist. He cannot help himself when he blurts out a racist statement because deep inside he is a white supremacist, which may explain why he's so quick to point the finger away from himself.

Biden's latest racially insensitive comment came when he referred to rapper LL Cool J as "boy" when poorly reading a speech in front of the Congressional Black Caucus [that curiously doesn't allow black conservatives to be part of their group]. Anyway, black Americans and popular radio hosts went after Biden for his  comment as to the history behind how the term was used to demean black men.

It comes at a time when Biden is losing support among the black electorate almost as fast as he's losing brain cell activity.

"Two of the great artists of our time represented the groundbreaking legacy of hip hop in America. LL J Cool J, uhhh…" Biden mush-mouthed during his speech. "By the way, that boy's got – that man's got – biceps bigger than my thighs."

Even Greta Thunberg has bigger biceps than Joe Biden's thighs.

BIDEN: "LL J Cool J, uhh, by the way, that boy's got— that man's got biceps bigger than my thighs" pic.twitter.com/ulCQRkEp0l— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 24, 2023

The word "boy" has been used historically to belittle black men and today, many people, not only blacks, saw Biden's latest 'self-reveal' as a misstep, especially when addressing the Congressional Black Caucus.

On "FOX & Friends First" Monday, a panel of black voters weighed in on the Houseplant-in-Chief's gaffe.

"It's 2023. It's very unacceptable to speak and use that language when referring to my community," Darnesha Weary, owner of Black Coffee Northwest located in Washington State, said. "He should know better by now, so I was very upset about that."

Chris McCullough, a father of three, a small business owner and former Democrat who voted for Biden in 2020, didn't mince words, either.

"I just thought this is just like another example of how Biden truly feels about the black community. This isn't the first time he's referred to a black man as a boy, and it's most likely not going to be the last one," he said, mentioning previous times in which Biden used that racist label, including when addressing Maryland's Democrat Gov. Wes Moore, the state's first Black governor.

Charlamagne tha God, a black radio host on “The Breakfast Club,”  granted President Biden the “Donkey of the Day” award, as opposed to the "Whitest White Supremacist of the Nation" award.

"A lot of people are upset that Joe Biden referred to LL Cool J as a ‘boy,’ as you can hear he corrected himself on the spot, you know why Joe Biden corrected himself because he’s 137 years old," Charlamagne said. "He fully understands the word ‘boy' in a racial context around a White man referring to a black man as ‘boy,’ You see, ‘boy’ is absolutely a white racist word when used in a certain context."

It was on Charlamagne's show where Biden originally said that black people who aren't sure whether they support him or Trump "ain't black." 

However, Charlamagne pivoted to argue that the part of the incident he truly "found egregious" was "the fact that Joe Biden got LL Cool J’s name wrong to begin with." Not to mention the fact that Biden couldn't name one rap 'song' he cut like, say, "Hey lover," or "Mama Said Knock You Out," or even "Big Ole Butt."

It's so profound I could just bust a move.

The sad thing is, no matter how disgusting Biden is when it comes to his deep-rooted racism, black voters are still going to vote for him disproportionately than they would for a Republican because the left has them believing that it's the GOP, not the party of the KKK who cares about them. Cares about them unless they happen to be conservative.

I just wonder who Cornpop is going to vote for in 2024.

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Sean Spicer claims no 'conclusive evidence' Russia hacked DNC emails

The Trump team on Monday made it clear that it isn't clear that Russia executed a cyber-attack on the presidential race. "Rushing to judgment on stuff like this is not in anybody's best interest," Sean Spicer, incoming White House Communications Director said on "Fox & Friends" Monday.

Spicer said that Trump isn't disputing statements made by U.S. intelligence officials, but instead is waiting for a final report due later in the week that could provide more conclusive evidence.

"Then I think we'll have a better idea of what to make to the situation," he said. 

Several U.S. intelligence agencies have claimed that Russia was behind the hacking and release of John Podesta's emails from the DNC, but if you know anything about who runs some of these intelligence agencies, you might not be totally convinced that they're telling the whole truth.

Last week, Obama had 35 Russian diplomats expelled who are believed to be spies and involved with the email hack. The Russian compounds, which are large mansions, in New York and Maryland have been since closed.

Hillary Clinton's team and supporters believe the hacked emails, contributed to her upset loss to Donald Trump because the public got to see how little she and her team think of the American people. 

They never disputed the validity of the emails, only where they came from. 

Obama, who only reacted to the email hack after the election but knew about the hacking beforehand, said the investigation and sanctions were in the interest of protecting the U.S. election system especially if the GOP wins.

Spicer suggest that Obama's actions were politically motivated.

When Obama pees, it's politically motivated.

"There is a question about whether there's a political retribution here versus a diplomatic response, he told ABC on Sunday.

Regarding Trump's New Year's Eve comments about "know(ing) things that other people don't know," about the hacking, Spicer said that Trump gets briefed daily and this is "privy to information that nobody else is. What he's driving at is that there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence."

Spicer also dismissed the FBI and Homeland Security report supporting the accusations against Russia, and called the report a "how-to" manual on basic cybersecurity for Democrats. He said the report isn't even final but is being taken "as gospel."

Interestingly, Spicer pointed out that in 2015 China stole sensitive information from millions of Americans, including federal workers, and Obama failed to issue "a single statement."

Or get off the golf course.

Donald Trump will meet this week with intelligence officials to get more input about the allegations against Moscow.

Trump said, "I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove, so it could be somebody else."

Like that 400 pound couch potato.




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It wasn't racism, it was Hillary's arrogance and stupidity

Democrats simply cannot make a case to vote for them based on policy so they their only alternative is identity politics. 

The top members of the Trump and Clinton campaigns got into heated exchanges at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government forum. 

Naturally, the Democrats accused the GOP of cultivating white supremacists. 

Jennifer Palmieri, the Catholic lady who was disrespectful to Christians who actually believe in their religion, told Trump's team, "The platform that they gave to white supremacists, to white nationalists, is a very, very important moment in our history."

Kellyanne Conway, the Trump campaign manager was furious. She responded to the accusation: "Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?"

"You did, Kellyanne. You did," Palmieri emotionally said.

Conway spoke on Fox & Friends and called the Clinton staffers "sore losers." She went on to say, "I do think some people are stuck in the permanent campaign and not really past the anger, grief and denial stages and into the acceptance stages. But that's okay, because we won."

During the forum, someone noted that the Southern Poverty Law Center collected reports of almost 1,000 hate-related incidents from almost every state since the election. Conway countered by saying that Trump called for an end to such incidents and called the SPLC a far-left center and "anti-Trump group."

It's noteworthy that even the FBI no longer recognizes the SPLC as a legitimate hate crime resource, but leftists love to cite them. A more recent article discusses the SPLC and their bogus "monitoring" here.

Robby Mook, (aka "The Quicker Mucker-Upper") blamed FBI Director James Comey for Clinton's defeat after bringing up the inconvenient issue of her illegal email server. If it wasn't for Comey, Hillary would have won.

 It's as if Clinton was the victim of the FBI investigation, rather than the perp. If she obeyed the law, there would have been no FBI investigation. And if Mook is so prescient, why didn't he tell Hillary not to call Trump supporters a "basket of deplorables?" That might have gotten her more votes.

Instead, he called the email investigation during the campaign one of the "most over-reported, overhyped, over-litigated stories in the history of American politics." But never mentioned how stupid, irresponsible, lazy, arrogant and incompetent Hillary had to be to use an illegal private server as secretary of state.

A yooge key to Trump's victory was Clinton herself, Conway explained. "I said to Mr. Trump, 'You're running against one of the most joyless presidential candidates in history. Why don't we find a way to be the happy warrior?'"


Clinton also presumed that people who previously voted Democratic would do so again, Kellyanne said. That was an example of her short-sightedness. But Mook said Clinton's campaign never took the win as a foregone conclusion, obviously not recalling that Hillary's campaign, according to the  New York Post, prepared to throw a yooge party after the election to celebrate a victory that never was to be. 

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