Gov. JB Pritzker points to Trump Guard deployment inconsistencies
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The federal government has emphasized the Guard's mission would mainly be to protect federal immigration enforcement agents and property.

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.”

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    Progressives are always saying that democrats and republicans are making it so they can’t vote or run progressive candidates in primary

    This has got to be the biggest load of crap I’ve seen in quite a long time. Liberals are always the ones whining about how everyone needs to fall in line behind their god awful candidates and ideas and blaming everyone else when it blows up in their face. This garbage might be believable to someone who doesn’t pay attention to politics, but not to the rest of us. For the past decade, progressives have been blamed non-stop over liberals losing their seats in government. I’ve seen you on numerous occasions whining that its our fault Trump and the Republicans control every branch of government after the '24 election. Whining that we should fall in line. Whining that Joe Biden couldn’t accomplish a god damned thing because of Republican opposition. Whining that we need to “vote blue no matter who.” So you can take your blatant disinformation and stick it where it belongs.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Whining that Joe Biden couldn’t accomplish a god damned thing because of Republican opposition. Whining that we need to “vote blue no matter who.” So you can take your blatant disinformation and stick it where it belongs.

      Show me one comment of mine that says either of these two things or admit to lying.

      My main account was at Lemmy.world before I moved to piefed.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 hour ago

        They have no power in any arm of the government which is what the Americans who bothered to vote wanted.

        This is pretty much all they can do for the next two years.

        https://lemmy.world/post/26251387

        He has a point that the democrats stepping up and shutting down the government is going to hurt more people than keeping it running.

        Elon is pissing off a lot of people with DOGE why should the democrats stepping in and take all the blame?

        https://lemmy.world/post/27288745/15957354

        If Hillary made it in 2016 we’d have a much better supreme court and Roe v Wade would still be a thing but you sure showed all the libdems

        https://lemmy.world/post/20999933/12964742

        It’s nice to see the majority of the democrats are reasonable people and will continue backing Biden.

        https://lemmy.world/post/17524695/11154621

        You just perfectly described the ‘leftists’ who sat home instead of voting for Harris.

        https://lemmy.world/post/24241574/14458290

        Need I go on? Are you going to continue to deflect from the argument and move goal posts rather than responding to anything relevant to the discussion?

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
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          50 minutes ago

          For the first comment it was made seven months ago when Trump was president so it doesn’t fit either of these two lies you stated.

          For the second comment it was about DOGE when Trump was president so it doesn’t fit either of these two lies you stated.

          Third and fourth was about making the better of the two choice, Clinton vs Trump or Biden vs Trump when progressives didn’t have anyone with a chance so not blue no matter who.

          I stand my my fifth comment but it also isn’t anything to do with complaining about Biden not accomplishing anything (because I think he got a lot done there are gullible people who fell for right-wing propaganda and believe otherwise) and not about ‘vote blue no matter who’ because that’s not in my beliefs.

          So nice deep dive into my comments to find jack shit.