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Chicago City Treasurer Will Refuse to
Invest in U.S. Treasuries to Protest Donald Trump

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 11/13/2025 7:40:09 PM

You've heard of biting off your nose to spite your face, but what about biting off taxpayers' noses because you don't like someone else? Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin announced Wednesday that she will refuse to invest taxpayer money in the safest, most secure, most loss-proof investment in world history: U.S. Treasuries. She told aldermen that it's a way to push back on “the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump.” I'm sure she'll push back on Trump just as soon as Chicago buys U.S. Treasuries. The city currently doesn't own any. “I’m going to use that voice that our citizens gave me to say loud and clear to Donald Trump:

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Reply 1 - Posted by: ConservativeYankee 11/13/2025 7:43:25 PM (No. 2029542)
FTA: "Holy Moly. And this person is running for Congress? Not only that, if she didn't know that U.S. Treasuries have no connection to Donald Trump the person, I shudder to think what happened to Chicagoans' tax dollars while she's been the Chicago City Treasurer."
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 11/13/2025 7:48:37 PM (No. 2029543)
MC-E, as I thought. Black on white. Meanwhile, enjoy the suck of losing multiple millions of dollars on bad investments. I'm sure that your starving brothers and sisters in the 'hoods will appreciate your handy work when they discover their SNAP cards don't work anymore.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MickTurn 11/13/2025 7:59:16 PM (No. 2029547)
Sucks to be that STUPID, but she IS A Democrap so it comes naturally!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: seamusm 11/13/2025 8:01:39 PM (No. 2029548)
I knew (but verified) her skin color. Yup. I did not have to check that she was also challenged IQ-wise - seeing as how she is exceedingly reckless with the public's money.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Skinnydip 11/13/2025 8:05:30 PM (No. 2029549)
What is it with women with hyphenated last names (of any race)?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/13/2025 8:14:36 PM (No. 2029550)
Melissa, you should decline to use the dollar. Good luck!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 11/13/2025 8:27:00 PM (No. 2029554)
TDS is a serious mental illness.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: franco 11/13/2025 8:29:28 PM (No. 2029555)
The erstwhile treasurer must know that she has a few solid alternatives to US Treasuries. The bonds of the states of Texas and Florida come to mind. Those of Illinois -- hell, no! Ditto for California, New York, etc. etc.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: hershey 11/13/2025 8:50:35 PM (No. 2029558)
What is it with all these two last name idiots in government???
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Reply 10 - Posted by: PChristopher 11/13/2025 9:16:06 PM (No. 2029565)
Back in the day, he's the same guy who would have stuck with buggy whips.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 11/13/2025 9:42:16 PM (No. 2029572)
She could be sued because she is in violation of her fiduciary responsibility. But then again , she could buy penny stocks instead of AT&T if she chose. These Democrats are hot head losers, their hatred of Trump is so deep. It scares me because they will come out in droves to vote in their ilk.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: jimincalif 11/13/2025 10:06:53 PM (No. 2029573)
This from the treasurer of a city with an S&P BBB negative bond rating.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Lawsy0 11/14/2025 1:37:20 AM (No. 2029596)
Oh the pain! Oh the grief! Poor, poor Trump. I know he'll be wounded to the core!! (sarc)
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Reply 14 - Posted by: 5 handicap 11/14/2025 5:51:20 AM (No. 2029608)
Perhaps the US shouldn't invest any capital in Chicago either, nor the entirety of Illinois, for that matter.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 11/14/2025 6:23:04 AM (No. 2029620)
Let me guess her color.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: mifla 11/14/2025 6:25:17 AM (No. 2029621)
Good idea. Instead, go into the city and ask for Louie the Loan Shark. The vig will be high, but there is almost no paperwork.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Strike3 11/14/2025 7:29:55 AM (No. 2029659)
Another three-name female lunatic. Do the democrats ever do anything that involves logic and efficiency and is not guided by emotion? No wonder Chicago is sinking into the cesspool.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Venturer 11/14/2025 7:53:40 AM (No. 2029672)
Why should I care what happens to Chicago's money. Screw Chicago, up their butts./
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Reply 19 - Posted by: privateer 11/14/2025 8:46:58 AM (No. 2029691)
Hyphenated names are like Burberry scarves or Gucci bags. They announce: I am SO much better than you! Envy me...but keep your distance. Someone should tell this moron that a group of Nigerian royalty are selling shares in a new gold mine. That's where your peeps' money should be invested.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: JHHolliday 11/14/2025 10:20:06 AM (No. 2029725)
The hyphenated names are an attempt to sound special. I guess they picked it up from England where they use it to show that both families are important members of the peerage. In black mothers' case, the women probably don't even know the biological "baby daddy's" last name. You also have them naming their kids as Dontavious and Lakeisha which just tells HR not to hire them unless they need to check a DEI box.
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