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J.B. Pritzker.
In my mind - he is already out there campaigning for the Dem Nomination in 2028. He is standing up to Tr**p and doesn't appear to be afraid of Tr**p. Tr**p knows that J.B. has his number and he has been taking him on - and Tr**p doesn't like it.
So this whole National Guard thing and Chicago being the most dangerous city in the world - isn't what this is all about.
Tr**p is out trying to discredit J.B. any way and any chance he gets.
That's what this is all about. l
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,980 posts)Shitler is also going after Chicago for the same reason he went after L.A. and DC: Black, black, blackity black, black, black. As in a large part of the population, including their mayor. The right has also been shitting on Chicago for years, to the point where people who have never been there actually believe it's a bombed-out hellhole. They trashed Portland, OR the same way.
bamagal62
(4,540 posts)Because Chicago is such a great city. Its beautiful. Its clean. And, the people are amazing.
GoCubsGo
(34,980 posts)I was born and raised there. I would give anything to be able to move back there, instead of having to live in this shithole I'm stuck in.
bamagal62
(4,540 posts)Would go back in a heart beat!
murielm99
(33,055 posts)I live in a rural area west of Chicago. My son is in DuPage County. We have always loved the city.
rubbersole
(11,264 posts)Probably enough by itself for tsf to want to bomb the place.
GoCubsGo
(34,980 posts)Chicago would never have become a target if not for President Obama coming from there. And, I'm not trying to blame Obama for that, by any means. The blame is entirely on the shitty, racist assholes of the Greedy Old Pedophiles.
yellowdogintexas
(23,747 posts)It was insane and gave Chicago a terrible image.
Visiting Chicago has been on my bucket list for quite a while. I hope I can get there before I get too old to feel like traveling.
GoCubsGo
(34,980 posts)I lived through it, as well. That "terrible" image, most of which came thanks to the Chicago PD's excessive force, dissipated by the time Carter took office. I don't recall this level vitriol against the city during the Reagan Error, or under either of the Bushes. It was just another big city.
BadgerMom
(3,430 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)Wow, does Newsom ever get under that orange skin.
RussBLib
(10,717 posts)...one never knows if Trumps actions are due to his Mafia genes or intended as another distraction from Jeffrey Epstein.
The guy is dangerous, for sure. It rather blows me away that most every GOP'er is still staying silent on all this shit.
https://russblib.blogspot.com
Emile
(43,053 posts)ancianita
(43,321 posts)Thanks for your post.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)He hasn't figured out how to deal with Pritzker or Newsom.
murielm99
(33,055 posts)He is afraid of JB. He is focusing on NOLA because he is deflecting.
electric_blue68
(27,150 posts)Other than Seattle which I gave up on bc $$ re the distance from NYC, and it's llstill a money issue but less so; Chicago is the only city left that I haven't visited at least once that I have wanted to visit.
Once they announced Obama's Library I'm waiting for that to be completed for a visit, if I can.
From a shear geographical experience- the difference of being on Manhattan Island either southern, or northern tip the water surounds it.
Where in Chicago gently curves around Lake ?Michigan. Then you look northish to the big expanse of water.
Of course you do this when you are on parts eastern and southern Brooklyn, east, SE Queens, and looking southward in Staten Island.
But you don't get that experience in the rest of NYC except the north east section of The Bronx.
mopinko
(73,852 posts)do come. lemme know, ill buy u a beverage.
electric_blue68
(27,150 posts)👍
I remember there was a TV show set in Chicago where this guy would get the next day paper at his apt's front door the day before.
Then he was always trying prevent some bad thing from happening that appeared in the headlines.
Blue Owl
(59,511 posts)The only thing he has going for him is the corporate media which helps him fail upward.
If the majority of Americans simply stand up for the rights weve had as a nation since our founding, we could crush him like a bug.
It starts by turning off the TV news networks and his ass-kissing enablers
mopinko
(73,852 posts)is a disaster. never rented the ground floor retail, and still has unsold condos.
the only ppl who drink in his bar r the local magats.
that and the whole black, black, blackity black thing.
EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)into a corner. All his bluster has insured that he must make a move against Chicago. He can deflect toward New Orleans, but that's not what he said. He declared war on Chicago.
How's he gonna get out of this? As soon as he marches troops into Chicago, he will start Civil War 2.0. Does he think that the People in Chicago will not fight back? I think that the Governor there should parlay with the NG commanders and make a deal. In other countries, the police and military have switched sides to beat the tyrant.
Chicago, stock up as much as possible. Everybody, stock up. What if, in his zeal to cow everybody under his thumb, he simply woke the hive up, and everybody everywhere fought back to kick him out of the WH? I don't pretend to know if this is right or wrong. But, he's busy blowing up ships in the Caribbean, moving jets around to threaten other countries, and we need to nip that in the bud. Before he bombs Mexico, Venezuela, and anybody else around there.
Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think that all this would be visited on the US by a demented old man embedded in a twisted cult of ignorant assholes. We have to expel all of them from the government before it is too late.