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: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 19:56:39 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-09-02 07:40, NoBody wrote:
> 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.
So if Trump is applying resources in places where the problem ISN'T worst...
...does he want those communities where it IS worst to be hellholes?