JB Pritzker
speaker
632 appearances
13 recordings
6 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 2 Jul
JB Pritzker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Oct 2025 with 8.
Appearances
that I lived in a home that was bought by my grandparents, my grandmother and grandfather who immigrated to this country from Jamaica, and had a home that was barely big enough for them, but they figured out a way to make it big enough for all of us, that I was raised in a family where, as my sister said, my mom wore sweaters so we could wear coats.
And so this idea that somehow you have people who have their multiple homes as they get to retirement is a fantasy.
And we are seeing how, just since Donald Trump has come into office, how beef prices are now up 14%, coffee is up 20%.
For our farmers, that fertilizer is up 39%.
Everything is more expensive.
And the only thing that continues to go up are both prices and the stock market for his hedge fund.
And so this is the type of the lack of reality, the disconnect that people are so frustrated by because for a president who said that this is what he wanted to do when he got into office, it's amazing about how little focus that has actually been of this administration.
I think the commanders-in-chief should think about it from the lens of their soldiers.
Think about what it's like for that young man or young woman who joined up to serve the National Guard, who, for many of them, this is not their only job.
They're serving another job that maybe they are a teacher or maybe they are a construction worker or maybe they are a police officer.
But they decided to take on this additional responsibility because they believe in their neighbors and because they believe that in a time of crisis, that there are missions that they alone can actually do and execute.
And they also took the oath with the full expectation that the commander in chief would have a soberness about how they would use them, that they would keep in mind that every time you deploy, you have to leave your family.
Every time you deploy, you have to leave your job.
Every time you deploy, you're deploying with an understanding that you might not make it back.
And so they're deploying with an appreciation that the commander in chief is taking that deployment seriously.
And so what happens when you see these deployments not being taken seriously?
What happens when you see the commander in chief who's not using the military to deescalate situations, but is actually using the military to escalate situations?
What happens when you realize that the commander in chief is using you and your life, not as something that is helping to bring our society back together,
but actually helping to tear it apart.
That's the challenge.
Showing 141–160 of 632 · page 8 of 32
← Previous
Next →