From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism
Subject: Re: Illinois governer rebuffs federal intervention to prevent Chicago
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 16:10:50 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-09-01 15:03, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-09-01, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-09-01 10:05, NoBody wrote:
>>> Shouldn't the governor take a hint and enforce laws in Chicago?
>>>
>>> At least 53 people have been shot, seven fatally, across Chicago over
>>> Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims
>>> wounded, according to police.
>>>
>>> The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed
>>> threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago
>>> over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor
>>> Brandon Johnson.
>>>
>>> Trump on Saturday sent a warning to Pritzker in a post on his social
>>> media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying
>>> Pritzker "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"
>>>
>>> Pritzker, a Democrat, responded in a news conference a week ago to an
>>> earlier Trump threat to "straighten out Chicago, just like we did
>>> D.C.," by saying that the president's plan was "unprecedented and
>>> unwarranted. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is
>>> un-American."
>>>
>>> https://abcnews.go.com/US/35-shot-weekend-chicago-governor-rejects-trumps-threat/story?id=125134744
>>>
>>> Yeah cause crime and murder is better....
>>>
>>
>> So why isn't Trump sending troops any of the 91 other cities in the US
>> that have higher rates of violent crime?
>>
>> Or the 21 cities that have higher rates of murder and non-negligent
>> manslaughter?
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate>
>>
>> If this is really about making people safer, shouldn't you be sending
>> people to where they will do the most good?
>
> The governor and mayor of Chicago were both all over the airwaves singing
> from the same hymnal, page 99, "Threat To Democracy" song.
> They are both disgusting.
The federal government under Donald Trump IS a threat to democracy.
>
> They have a serious problem in Chicago.
> Funding illegal migrants when students in the school system can't read or write.
Cite, please!
> Crime running rampant and not just this weekend, but EVERY WEEKEND.
And yet less crime than many, many other US cities.
>
> And as usual the left is squawking "what about xxx city and yyy city which have higher
> crime rates" and so forth.
Yes. Because that's valid.
If Trump is actually trying to address the problem of crime (he's not),
then why isn't he starting where crime is worst?
>
> Tell that to the families of the people who lost their lives in Chicago over this and
> seemingly every weekend.
Tell it to the families where it's happening more often that aren't
getting this "support".
>
> Again, it puzzles me why the left isn't concerned about protecting the citizens within
> their own communities?
> It makes no sense at all.
>
> This is why the democrat party is cratering.
It puzzles me why you can't see the danger here.