Gov. JB Pritzker called out the Trump administration on Sunday for defending its decision to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as necessary to fight violent crime in the city, even though the federal government has emphasized in court and Pentagon memos that the mission is mainly to protect federal immigration enforcement agents and federal property.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Pritzker said President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s ultimate goal is to bring in the National Guard to cities like Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to militarize the country’s Democratic-controlled enclaves as a form of political payback.
“They’re claiming in court that this is about protecting (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facilities and ICE agents and not about crime on the streets,” the governor told the program’s host, George Stephanopoulos. “But then you hear Vice President Vance and the president of the United States contravening that and saying exactly what they actually think. They just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize, especially blue cities and blue states.”
I see from the comments so far that the disinformation trolls discovered that Lemmy exists.
Basically, any action from a non-fascist approach is attacked based on who they are rather than what they do. They also define who they are with straw men and inference.
“Why shouldn’t federal troops empower the people in Chicago to live safe lives when the governor and the local mayor (Brandon Johnson) just simply refuse to do their job?” -Vance
What he’s saying is “why shouldn’t we be able to unilaterally make decisions for the people of a City in direct opposition to those individuals will and what they voted for? And why shouldn’t we be able to use force and violence to do it?”
I can only hope there is justice in this world and he gets to face a jury and is held accountable for his words and actions.
He also keeps saying:
You have to go thru me first!!
From behind his desk in the comfort of his mansion while citizens are beat and disappeared.
Who gives a fuck what he’s saying, he’s a multi billionaire that would rather all this happen than a progressive willing to fight have his office instead.
We’d be better off if the fat rich fuck had a heart attack today, it would at least redistribute his billions to a handful of people…
Pritzker has been seen around Chicago throughout this whole debacle, specifically at protests. Seems like he’s doing a little more than chilling at his office. Even when he said “you have to go through me” he was at a protest. I’m pretty anti-billionare, but at least this elected official is not cowering from the fascists.
Right? Fuck billionaires, but Pritzker is putting his money and his reputation on the line for his people. That’s more than you can say for literally any other billionaire at the moment. I swear some people can’t see nuance if it smacks them in the face.
The purity test, perfection-or-nothing mindset will the the death of progressive ideology.
The purity test, perfection-or-nothing mindset will the the death of progressive ideology.
I think your purity test has been the death of progressive ideology. This purity test is the reason Republicans can just run as Democrats in blue districts, get elected, and then ruin everything all while people scold those of us who point this out saying that we “need to fall in line” and excuse every bad action aiding Republucans as something necessary for some future action that quite literally never comes to fruition.
This lack of any meaningful goals or actions while taking every opportunity to spread empty rhetoric on TV is precisely why Republicans control every branch of government. It’s time for liberals to fall in line with the rest of us so that we can finally turn things around.
MAGA got pissed about how the RNC was running so they took it over.
Progressives just whine that their hands are tied and they can’t do anything about it and it’s fucking pathetic.
Progressives just whine that their hands are tied and they can’t do anything about it and it’s fucking pathetic.
You mean liberals and their army of online supporters right? The politicians that constantly capitulate to Republican demands while their online supporters tell everyone that they can’t do anything because they’re a minority in the government. The same online supporters who cry that its progressives fault that Harris lost the election and that we should have just supported pro-capitalist, anti-immigrant policies. That we should have supported genocide. That we should have been inspired by our supposed candidate befriending Dick Cheney and gaining his approval. The same online supporters who tell people “now is not the right time” to oppose Republicans because they might do something bad.
A majority of the Democratic party consists of right-wing liberals, so direct your anger at them for abandoning the country for their own personal gain. Direct your anger at the disinformation stooges tellling you “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” and that repackaged Republican policy is “the good” we’re supposed to rally around. They were supposed to be the opposition party but it turns out they’re little more than controlled opposition.
No I said what I meant and mean what I say.
Progressives are always saying that democrats and republicans are making it so they can’t vote or run progressive candidates in primary when really all progressives want to do it whine in leftist dominated online spaces and not put in any work.
Fucking depressing if neoliberals snatch the party back because you all fall for this and Newsom’s shit
