Although "Operation Midway Blitz" is underway, Trump has now targeted Memphis. Tennessee has a GOP governor and is mostly MAGA, while Memphis is heavily Democratic with a way higher percentage of Black population than Chicago. IMHO, that explains Trump's decision. Thoughts?
The Guard is for show and not the problem, other than the appearance of using military force. The problem is ICE and other government agents patrolling neighborhoods looking for immigrants and arresting them indiscriminately. The presence of the Guard and ICE is terrorizing the city. God forbid that National Guardsmen fire on civilians.
I think about these poor kids, who have had their lives scarred by, ‘active shooter drills’ now being compounded by “active ICE drills” too. WTF kind of country do we now have to call our own?
Chief Justice Rubber Roberts and the five other justices in the Circle of Obfuscation in the US Supine Court have thrown their lot in with Trump and MAGA. Until we remove the rot at the top we will continue to see the abuse of the Constitution and the people it is supposed to serve. The checks and balances we had such great faith in have proven an illusion because the people whose duty it is to honor their oath of office are weak and easily subjugated. We have much work ahead of us but we are not without hope.
With Illinois' gun laws, masked and unbadged ICE agents are going to draw a lot of Chicago Police attention. Not much they can do about National Guard troops (or active military, like they have in LA) but the Chicago Police force might be a bit irritated at having kidnappings performed by masked thugs going on around the city. Trump and Miller might be all gung ho, but Noem's people better tread carefully. They may well make enemies of the LEOs that would otherwise be more supportive.
Heres the deal, in the end we will have no choice but to give trump what he wants. There are 425 million guns in private hands in the USA-divide that in half for the maga morons and we still have more guns than all the trump agency's combined. GI JOE training wont mean a thing, when you get shot you fall down. Bring all your peaceful protests out to the street-when everyone is out of work, no healthcare and all the fascist action by homan, bondi, hegseth, and all the rest , a lot of people on all sides will suffer-choose your side, dont bend over- do to all of them ,what they do to you.
At some point the military will have to decide whether to follow illegal orders or not. In the case of the interdiction of the boat off the coast of Venezuela possibly illegal orders to commit a war crime in international waters was followed. More to come? We shall see.
I am so disgusted and angry, I will refer to anyone who supports this regime as fascist nazis, period. If you voted for this, fck you, if make excuses for this, fck you, if you enable this fck you! That includes any sitting Dem who can't find it in themselves to do something, fck you, do better!
Happy to hear Chicago is winning the ICE battle. Keep it up. In Massachusetts ICE has arrived in Boston. Felon Trump is using his back up plan; substitute another blue city when he can’t intimidate the first chosen city. Good luck Boston. Stay strong.
Personally, I'd love to see a make-up crew make Brett Kavanaugh appear to be Hispanic, dress him up as those seeking day labor, and put him outside a Home Depot in Chicago. He can't speak; he has to pretend he doesn't speak English. He can have his wallet while he waits to be picked up so he can experience first-hand his "brief" stop while ICE deals with him. I don't wish him any physical harm, but he has no idea what he's talking about. We've always talked about university professors living in an ivory tower, but Supreme Court Justices not only live in an ivory tower, they've enhanced their fantasy of how the US works.
Have they? Or is it willful ignorance? Or is it deliberate gaslighting? At this point regardless of the answer, there must be court reform. These recent rulings are an unconstitutional gobbledygook that at the very least need an asterisk beside them.
This is heartbreaking to read…I live in the Seattle area and I am sure that city is on the target list. We have a strong history of protest back to early union formation days last century, and I hope the citizens can contain their anger. I’m heartened by Chicago and IL leadership and the care they are showing for their citizenry. Our civil society of grassroots volunteer organizations may help get us through this eventually.
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Although "Operation Midway Blitz" is underway, Trump has now targeted Memphis. Tennessee has a GOP governor and is mostly MAGA, while Memphis is heavily Democratic with a way higher percentage of Black population than Chicago. IMHO, that explains Trump's decision. Thoughts?
It does me good to see Chicago get ready to navigate this. I wish they didn't have to, but good on them for being prepared.
The Guard is for show and not the problem, other than the appearance of using military force. The problem is ICE and other government agents patrolling neighborhoods looking for immigrants and arresting them indiscriminately. The presence of the Guard and ICE is terrorizing the city. God forbid that National Guardsmen fire on civilians.
I think about these poor kids, who have had their lives scarred by, ‘active shooter drills’ now being compounded by “active ICE drills” too. WTF kind of country do we now have to call our own?
Chief Justice Rubber Roberts and the five other justices in the Circle of Obfuscation in the US Supine Court have thrown their lot in with Trump and MAGA. Until we remove the rot at the top we will continue to see the abuse of the Constitution and the people it is supposed to serve. The checks and balances we had such great faith in have proven an illusion because the people whose duty it is to honor their oath of office are weak and easily subjugated. We have much work ahead of us but we are not without hope.
With Illinois' gun laws, masked and unbadged ICE agents are going to draw a lot of Chicago Police attention. Not much they can do about National Guard troops (or active military, like they have in LA) but the Chicago Police force might be a bit irritated at having kidnappings performed by masked thugs going on around the city. Trump and Miller might be all gung ho, but Noem's people better tread carefully. They may well make enemies of the LEOs that would otherwise be more supportive.
Heres the deal, in the end we will have no choice but to give trump what he wants. There are 425 million guns in private hands in the USA-divide that in half for the maga morons and we still have more guns than all the trump agency's combined. GI JOE training wont mean a thing, when you get shot you fall down. Bring all your peaceful protests out to the street-when everyone is out of work, no healthcare and all the fascist action by homan, bondi, hegseth, and all the rest , a lot of people on all sides will suffer-choose your side, dont bend over- do to all of them ,what they do to you.
At some point the military will have to decide whether to follow illegal orders or not. In the case of the interdiction of the boat off the coast of Venezuela possibly illegal orders to commit a war crime in international waters was followed. More to come? We shall see.
Yay, Chicago. I hope the city manages to keep the Warmonger-in-Chief and his thugs out of yourwonderful city.
I am so disgusted and angry, I will refer to anyone who supports this regime as fascist nazis, period. If you voted for this, fck you, if make excuses for this, fck you, if you enable this fck you! That includes any sitting Dem who can't find it in themselves to do something, fck you, do better!
Thank you @AdrianCarrasquillo for your reporting. Important to know these best practices are being shared with Chicagoans from LA and DC.
I live just outside of Portland, Oregon and am hoping our leaders are also doing this. He seems to be griping about Portland again.
Happy to hear Chicago is winning the ICE battle. Keep it up. In Massachusetts ICE has arrived in Boston. Felon Trump is using his back up plan; substitute another blue city when he can’t intimidate the first chosen city. Good luck Boston. Stay strong.
Personally, I'd love to see a make-up crew make Brett Kavanaugh appear to be Hispanic, dress him up as those seeking day labor, and put him outside a Home Depot in Chicago. He can't speak; he has to pretend he doesn't speak English. He can have his wallet while he waits to be picked up so he can experience first-hand his "brief" stop while ICE deals with him. I don't wish him any physical harm, but he has no idea what he's talking about. We've always talked about university professors living in an ivory tower, but Supreme Court Justices not only live in an ivory tower, they've enhanced their fantasy of how the US works.
Have they? Or is it willful ignorance? Or is it deliberate gaslighting? At this point regardless of the answer, there must be court reform. These recent rulings are an unconstitutional gobbledygook that at the very least need an asterisk beside them.
This is heartbreaking to read…I live in the Seattle area and I am sure that city is on the target list. We have a strong history of protest back to early union formation days last century, and I hope the citizens can contain their anger. I’m heartened by Chicago and IL leadership and the care they are showing for their citizenry. Our civil society of grassroots volunteer organizations may help get us through this eventually.