Illinois Nazis? Really?
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?
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.
The Chinese and Soviets did it all the time as well. Very common tactic to control resistance.
True
China still does.
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.
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
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.
Justifiable absolutely. But justification doesn’t win wars or stop death.
Justification doesn’t really come into it. A state starting a shooting war with just national guard soldiers is a recipe for losing.
Guess we better do nothing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Or maybe deploy Illinois guard 1:1 for every Texas Guard member they send. Put body cams on all of them, too, streaming live…
deploying your military on your own population is one of the last things you want to do as a commander
Time for California to invade Texas while they are gone.
“No units have been activated and we do not have an order or preparatory command for any mission,” deputy director of public affairs for Illinois National Guard William Grove tells Axios.
Saw this from 3 hours ago, looking like that’s not planned.
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Reread the text, this is from the IL National Guard
Youre right. Quote is of IL guard, but it’s the TX guard that’s likely to be deployed
Civil war lets go!
(I don’t like war, just in case that it was not clear)
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
Postponing an election has never been done in the history of the Republic. Not even when we were at war. Not even when we were at war with ourselves…
… So, when they do it, I expect the Supreme Court to uphold it with a 5-4 margin claiming that they had a personal seance with George Washington, who told them that this is what he had in mind all along
The Republicans hold a majority in both houses of Congress right now
Thank you, just found it: Republicans 220, Democrats 215.
Most of us do. Still kinda seems like it’s where we’re headed though
I wonder if Pritzker has the balls to deploy the Illinois National Guard to prevent them from entering?
They’ll just help the texans.
I think the Illinois guard will be busy invading the White House…
Lotta great sub sandwich places in Chicago
The Texas National Guard is not prepared for the amount of damage that a deep dish pizza can inflict on a human body.
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.
🤣
Be careful or you may be charged on a count of assault w/ a Deli weapon.
I do not advocate any sandwich violence
Any action resulting in the loss of a perfectly fine sandwich being used as a weapon as a trajectory shall remain a non factor provided the sandwich is from Subway.
Fucking hero.
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…
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.
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…
military ID spots at the hardware store
That’s… eh… really weird. America, your problems aren’t new.
As an American, I have never seen Military ID parking spots. Don’t know where that guy is from.
Figures it would be Bakersfield
Yup. Kern County didn’t get the nickname “Kerntucky” for no reason.
If you’re being sarcastic it isn’t clear. “Just following orders” is never an excuse. The Nazis tried to use that one.
I am trying to say this as politely as possible:
if that wasn’t clearly sarcasm then you need to desperately work on your reading comprehension.
Or maybe, just maybe, everyone communicates differently and sarcasm is hard to portray in written communication. Go eat some and chill a minute. I’ve heard plenty of people say the exact same thing you just said and did not mean it as sarcasm, which makes it even harder to tell.
You are what ruined Reddit. You, personally.
You could just as easily have said, “Hey, I’m having a hard time trying to determine if you’re being sarcastic, could you please clarify?” and then waited for response to decide to include the bit about Nazis in you reply.
Reading is hard, huh?
I would imagine for LD, dyslexic, or really tired, yes.
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
I want to know when
Then un-deploy them dipshit. Alabama was way ahead of you on this.
Illinois has troops they can deploy in DC too, bud
