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 10:47:47 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 16:10:50 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>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.
>
Laughter!
As opposed to the previous administration that did everything they
could to prosecute Trump for absolutely nothing.
>>
>> They have a serious problem in Chicago.
>> Funding illegal migrants when students in the school system can't read or write.
>
>Cite, please!
Really?
"One-fifth of Illinois adults are functionally illiterate, according
to the National Center for Education Statistics. That means they
cannot understand the meaning of sentences, locate information on
pages or complete simple forms, all of which would affect their
abilities to hold many jobs.
In Cook County, 25% of adults are functionally illiterate."
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/1-in-5-illinois-adults-is-illiterate-but-its-1-in-4-in-cook-county/
" Chicago Public Schools third- through eighth-grade state test scores
increased in 2024, with reading finally surpassing 2019 levels. But
for Chicagos 11th grade students, both reading and math remained
below pre-pandemic levels.
State test scores are in for Chicago Public Schools, and fewer than
1-in-3 students could read and fewer than 1-in-5 do math at their
elementary grade level in 2024.
It was worse for the districts 11th graders: fewer than 1 in 4 could
read and math scores dropped nearly a percentage point from 2023.
The Illinois Report Card released Oct. 30 showed 30.5% of CPS students
in third through eighth grade read at grade level in 2024 compared to
25.9% the previous school year. Math proficiency increased to 18.3% in
2024 from 17.5% in 2023.
Among Chicagos 11th graders, only 22.4% could read at grade level in
2024 and 18.6% performed math proficiently, up just one-tenth of a
percentage point in reading since the previous school year and down
nearly one percentage point in math. Both reading and math proficiency
for Chicago 11th graders remained below 2019 levels."
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/fewer-than-1-in-3-chicago-public-schools-students-read-at-grade-level/
And no it's not good news as the authors try to portray.
>
>> Crime running rampant and not just this weekend, but EVERY WEEKEND.
>
>And yet less crime than many, many other US cities.
So?
>
>>
>> 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.
No it isn't.
>
>If Trump is actually trying to address the problem of crime (he's not),
>then why isn't he starting where crime is worst?
If you're going after a huge problem, why wouldn't you start with the
most notorious areas?
>
>>
>> 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".
Somehow in your mind that is an answer.
It's not.
>
>>
>> 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.
Here's an easy solution: Tell the damn governor to do something so
that these steps wouldn't be necessary.