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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:50 PM Sep 2025

How should Chicago greet the national guard?


15 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Provide road maps to Birmingham, Jackson, Memphis and St Louis
9 (60%)
Bring them trash sacks and litter picking spikes
2 (13%)
Conveniently stage bags of mulch around the city
0 (0%)
Promptly alert on any masked thugs pretending to be police
2 (13%)
Ask them why they haven't been deployed to fight fires or prepare for hurricanes
0 (0%)
Other
2 (13%)
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How should Chicago greet the national guard? (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2025 OP
All of the above leftstreet Sep 2025 #1
"Bring them trash sacks and litter picking spikes" Intractable Sep 2025 #2
Charge them for crossing state lines with intent to riot. GreenWave Sep 2025 #3
Dispatch tow trucks for any and all illegally parked vehicles like they did in San Francisco & LA hlthe2b Sep 2025 #4
Greet them with Streets & San salt trucks. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2025 #5
I would quietly, as if helping them, AnnaLee Sep 2025 #6
a free bottle of Jeppson's Mallort for each one DBoon Sep 2025 #7
+ struggle4progress Sep 2025 #8

hlthe2b

(114,697 posts)
4. Dispatch tow trucks for any and all illegally parked vehicles like they did in San Francisco & LA
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:23 PM
Sep 2025

I don't have the video previously posted, but that made me laugh the rest of the day...

AnnaLee

(1,405 posts)
6. I would quietly, as if helping them,
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:28 PM
Sep 2025

escort them to federal buildings and let them know that they are there only to secure the federal and all else is currently still state or local.

DBoon

(25,148 posts)
7. a free bottle of Jeppson's Mallort for each one
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:30 PM
Sep 2025

one taste and they will head straight out.

This really is from their official Web site. I swear.

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