From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism
Subject: Re: Illinois governer rebuffs federal intervention to prevent Chicago murders - does nothing instead
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:40:59 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 19:03:47 -0000 (UTC), pothead
<pothead@snakebite.com> 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.
It seems they actually *want* people dead.
>
>They have a serious problem in Chicago.
>Funding illegal migrants when students in the school system can't read or write.
>Crime running rampant and not just this weekend, but EVERY WEEKEND.
>
>And as usual the left is squawking "what about xxx city and yyy city which have higher
>crime rates" and so forth.
Yep. Diversions all.
>
>Tell that to the families of the people who lost their lives in Chicago over this and
>seemingly every weekend.
>
>Again, it puzzles me why the left isn't concerned about protecting the citizens within
>their own communities?
>It makes no sense at all.
>
The politicians want their communities to be hellholes. It's the only
possible answer.
>This is why the democrat party is cratering.