Pritzker: Trump is Preparing to Deploy Troops to Illinois
Pritzker: Trump is Preparing to Deploy Troops to Illinois
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Pritzker: Trump is Preparing to Deploy Texas National Guard Troops to Illinois
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Pritzker said the Trump administration has begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois.
So he's not gonna try to nationalize Illinois' Guard, he's gonna use the Texas guard and deploy it to Illinois? That seems all sorts of wrong. It makes it more like an invading force....
I wonder if Pritzker has the balls to deploy the Illinois National Guard to prevent them from entering?
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Yeah, the Roman military used to do the same. Lots of places they conquered, they'd recruit soldiers. But they'd always deploy those units in other places. Turns out, it's easier to brutalise people who aren't your neighbours.
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It's a lot easier to shoot people who you don't identify as your fellow churchgoers and friendly neighbors especially when they demonize blue cities to subhuman levels for at least the last 40 years.
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That would be an actual act of rebellion and kick off an incredibly destructive war. He's far more likely to encourage nonviolent resistance and to try and get guardsmen from Texas to defect
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That would be an actual act of rebellion and kick off an incredibly destructive war.
Let's be very fucking clear about this: Pritzker deploying the Illinois national guard would be an entirely justified and very legal act of defense. Trump attacking the state using the Texas guard is the act of war.
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Or maybe deploy Illinois guard 1:1 for every Texas Guard member they send. Put body cams on all of them, too, streaming live....
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Time for California to invade Texas while they are gone.
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Civil war lets go!
(I don’t like war, just in case that it was not clear)
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If we end up in a civil war, does that mean election is cancelled?
This is the onlyreliablepiece I can find online:In order for a federal election to be postponed, Congress would have to enact an amendment to the 1845 federal law and the president would have to sign it. The chances of that occurring are very slim since the House of Representatives is controlled by Democrats, the Senate by the Republicans and the Executive Branch also by a Republican. Even if Congress and the president agreed on postponing an election, a judicial challenge would be likely.
From:
https://bbklaw.com/resources/postponing-a-presidential-election-and-the-law
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Most of us do. Still kinda seems like it's where we're headed though
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I wonder if Pritzker has the balls to deploy the Illinois National Guard to prevent them from entering?
They'll just help the texans.
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I think the Illinois guard will be busy invading the White House..
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Lotta great sub sandwich places in Chicago
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The Texas National Guard is not prepared for the amount of damage that a deep dish pizza can inflict on a human body.
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Jesus man, if you're going to post shit like that, at least hide it behind a spoiler tag with a graphic violence warning or something like that. That poor cop's family might be browsing.
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🤣
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Fucking hero.
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But hey folk, remember to not criticize the us military and national guard for doing this. They are Just Following Orders and doing otherwise could lead to actual consequences for them!
And on a more personal/selfish note: This... puts a bit of a wrench into my plans to visit some friends out in Chicago at the end of the month...
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Letting them continue to do this with no resistance leads to actual consequences for all of us. I don't know what the right answer here is, but it's certainly not to sit idly by and watch it happen.
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It is to, bare minimum, villify the military like the strong arm of fascism it is.
If some of those soldiers want to fucking protect the country, they are more than welcome to and we will glaze them to hell and back. But, until they grow a spine, they are monsters and should yearn for the days of the Vietnam War.
If you see jackboots on the street? Berate them. Boarding early for a flight? Ask them how they feel being pawns of ICE. Parked in the military ID spots at the hardware store? Hmm, that looks a lot like a tesla to me...
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The billionaire wants the poors to stay seated and let it happen...
“It breaks my heart to report we have been told that ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades,” the governor said. “Let’s be clear, the terror and cruelty is the point.”
Pritzker added that the Trump administration may use any pushback to immigration operations as pretext to deploying National Guard troops.
“If someone flings a sandwich at an ICE agent, Trump will try and go on TV and declare an emergency,” he added, while urging Chicagoans to “not take the bait.”
If the state government protected it's citizens, then citizens wouldn't have to do it themselves
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I want to know when
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Then un-deploy them dipshit. Alabama was way ahead of you on this.
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Illinois has troops they can deploy in DC too, bud
Illinois Nazis? Really?