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global1

(26,507 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:48 PM Sep 2025

This Is Not About The City Of Chicago - Tr**p's Most Formidable Opponent Now Is.......

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

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This Is Not About The City Of Chicago - Tr**p's Most Formidable Opponent Now Is....... (Original Post) global1 Sep 2025 OP
K&R for, thank Zeus that he's standing for something, "campaigning" or not. UTUSN Sep 2025 #1
Gov. Pritzker is a large part of it. However... GoCubsGo Sep 2025 #2
Makes me so angry bamagal62 Sep 2025 #5
Same here. GoCubsGo Sep 2025 #6
I also miss Chicago. bamagal62 Sep 2025 #7
I love Chicago. murielm99 Sep 2025 #11
Don't forget that it's the Obama's hometown. rubbersole Sep 2025 #13
Yup. That's what instigated all of the right's shitting on the city. GoCubsGo Sep 2025 #14
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was the first trigger. I am old enough that I watched the whole thing yellowdogintexas Sep 2025 #16
For a few years... GoCubsGo Sep 2025 #17
The Obama Library will be there. BadgerMom Sep 2025 #15
Newsom is also playing a part. Trump needs to get it from all sides, & that is beginning. Hekate Sep 2025 #3
you think it's now beyond Epstein? RussBLib Sep 2025 #4
Everything Trump does, is partisan bs! Emile Sep 2025 #8
Yes. IL Gov Pritzker knows this is about lies vs truth. ancianita Sep 2025 #9
I think Pritzker is why tRum shifted his more immediate focus to New Orleans Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #10
Yes. murielm99 Sep 2025 #12
Been wanting to visit Chicago for a long time! electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #18
our entire lakefront is open to the public. that's rare. mopinko Sep 2025 #20
I don't l think my chances are that good, but I'll let u know if I do. electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #23
tRump is a feeble fraud and a weakling. Blue Owl Sep 2025 #19
2 things that stick in his craw- we ran him out of town in 16. and his tower mopinko Sep 2025 #21
Trump has painted himself EndlessWire Sep 2025 #22

GoCubsGo

(34,980 posts)
2. Gov. Pritzker is a large part of it. However...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:01 PM
Sep 2025

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)
5. Makes me so angry
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:13 PM
Sep 2025

Because Chicago is such a great city. It’s beautiful. It’s clean. And, the people are amazing.

GoCubsGo

(34,980 posts)
6. Same here.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:20 PM
Sep 2025

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.

murielm99

(33,052 posts)
11. I love Chicago.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:27 PM
Sep 2025

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)
13. Don't forget that it's the Obama's hometown.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:33 PM
Sep 2025

Probably enough by itself for tsf to want to bomb the place.

GoCubsGo

(34,980 posts)
14. Yup. That's what instigated all of the right's shitting on the city.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:43 PM
Sep 2025

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)
16. The 1968 Democratic National Convention was the first trigger. I am old enough that I watched the whole thing
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:41 PM
Sep 2025

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)
17. For a few years...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:53 PM
Sep 2025

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.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
3. Newsom is also playing a part. Trump needs to get it from all sides, & that is beginning.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:04 PM
Sep 2025

Wow, does Newsom ever get under that orange skin.

RussBLib

(10,717 posts)
4. you think it's now beyond Epstein?
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:09 PM
Sep 2025

...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

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
10. I think Pritzker is why tRum shifted his more immediate focus to New Orleans
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:15 PM
Sep 2025

He hasn't figured out how to deal with Pritzker or Newsom.

electric_blue68

(27,146 posts)
18. Been wanting to visit Chicago for a long time!
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:58 PM
Sep 2025

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)
20. our entire lakefront is open to the public. that's rare.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:56 AM
Sep 2025

do come. lemme know, i’ll buy u a beverage.

electric_blue68

(27,146 posts)
23. I don't l think my chances are that good, but I'll let u know if I do.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:21 PM
Sep 2025

👍
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)
19. tRump is a feeble fraud and a weakling.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:59 AM
Sep 2025

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 we’ve 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)
21. 2 things that stick in his craw- we ran him out of town in 16. and his tower
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:58 AM
Sep 2025

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)
22. Trump has painted himself
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:23 AM
Sep 2025

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.

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