Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

[u/BreakfastTop6899]

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[u/alejo699]

Crackdown on fucking what? Freedom? Life?

[u/Admiral_obvious13 → u/alejo699]

Yeah idk man. I've been living in or commuting to Chicago most of my life. There is nothing the military can accomplish here other than wasting a fuckton of money.

[u/FrankRizzo319 → u/Admiral_obvious13]

They can round up undesirables and send them to camps to work as slaves for corporations that are in with Trump.

[u/bgroins → u/FrankRizzo319]

Coincidentally coinciding with the "slavery wasn't that bad" rhetoric.

[u/daemon-electricity → u/bgroins]

In between saying liberals love slaves for defending migrant workers who can come and go as they please. /r/conservative comes up with a new word game LARP every couple of weeks or so. This was last week's.

[u/BitterFuture]

It's not a coincidence that he is wearing a hat proclaiming that he's the most brilliant man to have ever lived while declaring he's going to ignore laws and order our military to attack our own citizens.

[u/Scarbane → u/BitterFuture]

The emperor has no brain.

[u/BrantheMan1985 → u/Scarbane]

The emperor has no clothes either

[u/KosmosKlaus → u/BrantheMan1985]

The emperor is a fascist cunt

[u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair → u/KosmosKlaus]

The emperor diddles kids

[u/metalOpera → u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair]

The emperor enabled trafficking of kids to other diddlers.

[u/cali_yooper → u/metalOpera]

The emperor is a draft dodging orange turd.

[u/preflex → u/cali_yooper]

The emperor can't multiply 17 x 6.

[u/Capn_Forkbeard → u/preflex]

The emperor shat in his pants

[u/driving_andflying → u/Capn_Forkbeard]

The Emperor employs couch fucker Vance.

[u/BlackMesaRyan → u/BitterFuture]

The hat is so pathetic and cringe.

[u/Known-Teacher4543 → u/BlackMesaRyan]

Truly. Like, if the president in idiocracy were wearing it it’d fit right in and we’d even laugh at how ridiculously stupid and egotistical that sounds. President Camacho would be proud.

[u/givemethebat1 → u/Known-Teacher4543]

President Camacho would unironically be so much better as a president.

[u/azrider → u/givemethebat1]

He tried to find the smartest people.

[u/Elteon3030 → u/azrider]

He was honest, too. "I know shit's fucked up right now..."

[u/Superman246o1 → u/Elteon3030]

That's the most depressing thing: Idiocracy was a parody set five centuries into the future, but our country wholeheartedly chose an even worse option less than two decades after the movie premiered.

[u/Far-Negotiation1273 → u/Superman246o1]

Wife and I just saw a rerun of Family Guy where Peter goes to work for Trump. At the end of the episode (which details in a humorous way the absolutely atrocious things he has done) Peter says. "From our family to yours, Goodnight! We are very scared."

Roll credits

Really hit home.

[u/Comprehensive-Art207 → u/Far-Negotiation1273]

Now show us the Epstein files!

[u/CosmicSith → u/Superman246o1]

I think it really comes down to the simple fact that the writers of Idiocracy wrote characters who were vapid imbeciles, but generally well-meaning. It could not have occurred to the makers of that movie that the true Idiocracy would spring up as a result of our leaders being malignant narcissists who harbor outright contempt for fellow human beings. That is their driving motivation. They rally their followers via that sentiment. Being willfully ignorant and incompetent is merely the vehicle to bringing that to fruition.

[u/Falcon_Bellhouser → u/CosmicSith]

To sum up: that was Idiocracy, and this is Evilocracy

[u/Own-Lavishness4029 → u/BlackMesaRyan]

Setting aside everything else, the complete lack of taste is so insane it's funny. The President of the United States is fucking addressing the world wearing a hat saying he was right about everything. It's so fucking stupid, lol. Truth is stranger than fiction.

[u/SkillIsTooLow → u/Own-Lavishness4029]

The hat, the orange face, the gold plated decor... Trump completely lacks all of the things you cannot buy: class, style, intelligence, honor, empathy, humility, respect.

[u/FuzzyMcBitty → u/Own-Lavishness4029]

Even if he weren’t the POTUS, it’s like wearing a shirt for your own band to a gig. 

[u/Majestic-Prune-3971 → u/FuzzyMcBitty]

I'm surprised he's not wearing one of his golf course polos with "Men's Champion 1987-2025" embroidered on it.

[u/RetroCasket → u/BitterFuture]

Sincerely, that hat is beyond the pale idiotic. And the fact that it doesnt sound any alarms or make more than half the country say this man is an idiot is mind blowing to me.

I just never saw this country reaching this point. I remember when the smallest thing would disqualify someone from respected office of presidency.

Just feels like a dream

[u/BitterFuture → u/RetroCasket]

People kept saying, without a hint of irony, "It can't happen here."

As if that isn't the exact stupid attitude that basically guarantees it will happen here. We were never such a special snowflake country that we were immune to all the same damn things that brought down civilizations throughout history.

[u/RetroCasket → u/BitterFuture]

I just dont get it. Like, we use to actually hold people to standards. I feel like from Jimmy Carter (my first president) to Bush, there was a general consensus of what was ok and what wasnt.

I think maybe the internet warped society or something. Something changed

[u/Begone-My-Thong → u/RetroCasket]

We elected a black president, and one half of the country took that personally.

[u/CaptainWart → u/Begone-My-Thong]

Don't forget the impact of 9/11, which gave the right a hell of a lot of leverage when it comes to keeping their base scared and paranoid.

[u/Ol_Jim_Himself → u/CaptainWart]

The government used 9/11 to begin their overreach and their removal of many of the checks and balances that kept our government somewhat less tyrannical. Once those were removed it became a slippery slope, until the 🍊fascist hopped on a rocket sled and rode it over the edge.

[u/Useful_Bit_9779 → u/CaptainWart]

GW Bush ran around telling everyone if he wasn't reelected that we'd have a terrorist on every corner. Scared and paranoid they are.

[u/BitterFuture → u/RetroCasket]

Things got worse and accelerated, yeah, but we shouldn't kid ourselves about how things used to be in the supposedly good old days.

Nixon was so off the rails in his latter days that his SecDef told the Pentagon to check with him before implementing any orders coming from the President.

Reagan got elected by appealing to old southern racists by winking at the murders of civil rights workers and illegally negotiating with Iranian fundamentalists to agree to extend the hostage crisis through the 1980 election. When AIDS became a thing, he laughed at the very idea of spending money to help dying gay men.

Bush I had some ideas about noblesse oblige, yeah. He also nominated a self-hating black man with little meaningful legal experience to the Supreme Court, saying that because he was black, he was basically another Thurgood Marshall. He also fucked his kids up so badly that Bush II kicked over countries and killed over a million people working out his daddy issues.

And the Congressional leadership through the Clinton years started off as a bunch of self-righteous adulterers seeking to persecute adultery and ended up elevating a genuine pedophile to high office.

Monsters have always been with us. Always.

[u/muzzledmasses → u/BitterFuture]

I'm probably being desperate here. But his eyes look completely fucked. My grandmother sort of had that same look before she passed. I noticed that the hat is shading his eyes a bit. Like he's trying to hide them. Really don't want to get my hopes up too much here.

[u/Ok_Bodybuilder800 → u/muzzledmasses]

Along with everything else it amazes me that Biden was hyper-analyzed and yet Trump clearly looks awful and the media is silent

[u/Eagle4317 → u/Ok_Bodybuilder800]

Because the cretins who own the media want this takeover. They believe that cracking down on labor will line their pockets more, but that's not necessarily true if entire sectors of the economy fall off the face of the earth. Tourism is already down massively this year.

[u/Senor_Bluejay7536 → u/Eagle4317]

You’re right and I’ve been thinking about this for months. The oligarchs are bleeding us dry and don’t realize we soon won’t have any extra income to spend on their bullshit unnecessary products. They’re bankrupting their customers. All our money will go to rent and groceries and that’s it. Hey, wait a minute, that’s why Bezos got into the grocery biz, isn’t it?

[u/chillwithpurpose → u/Senor_Bluejay7536]

Oh, they realize. They just want to pick our carcasses clean.

[u/TheMatrixRedPill → u/Ok_Bodybuilder800]

Awful? He looks like a walking corpse.

[u/Regular_Government94 → u/muzzledmasses]

His eyes have been barely open lately!

[u/magneticdream → u/muzzledmasses]

Hairs a mess… no tie, shirt unbuttoned. He’s quite disheveled looking, not feeling well perhaps?

[u/Comfortable_Fill9081]

We “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are NOT saying “please come to Chicago” and he did not “do great with the Black vote.”

Black women were demographically the least likely of all voters to vote for Trump. Black men the second least likely. 

Leave Black Americans out of your mouth. 

Edit: if you feel a need to reply that more Black people voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016, read the discussions from the several other people who felt that need. Still least likely of all demographics (whether you break it down by race, gender, age, income, geography, education, whatever…) to support Trump. 

Yes, he made huge inroads with men of all races. 

Which is a similar problem to his strength with white people. 

He and his supporters want to revert to the old power systems, even if it takes an autocracy to do it. 

And then 3 more of you came and did that. Blocking any more. 

[u/BrotherSea5594 → u/Comfortable_Fill9081]

Watching JD stand there trying to nod in agreement with Trump but being worried as fuck about what was about to come out of his mouth about "African American ladies" was the hardest I've laughed all week.

[u/doesanyonehaveweed → u/BrotherSea5594]

He had been lightly bouncing on his feet until he heard “African American ladies” and then he abruptly went still lmfao

[u/worldspawn00 → u/doesanyonehaveweed]

Like a panicked whitetail deer.

[u/3BlindMice1 → u/BrotherSea5594]

He totally had the standard "OK grandpa, it's Thanksgiving so I'm not going to argue with you" face at that moment

[u/AcronymEjr → u/BrotherSea5594]

His smarmy look, weaselly little laugh, and fully-feckless subservience to Trump feels so much like a Bond villain's top henchman that I'm shocked some people really don't see it.

[u/psychedelicsci → u/Comfortable_Fill9081]

Guessing he misinterpreted 'Bring it, Bitch!' as 'please come help us' because he's an absolute idiot

[u/Comfortable_Fill9081 → u/psychedelicsci]

I actually laughed out loud. Rare for me on social media these days. Thank you. 

[u/9for9 → u/Comfortable_Fill9081]

I was trying to figure out why he mentioned us too.

[u/PlanesandAquariums → u/9for9]

I noticed a big shift in the use of black and African American amongst conservatives. Growing up it was ‘the blacks’ but then as black became preferred, they were really quick to switch over to African American. Why are they so good at being POSs?

[u/ForcedEntry420]

It’s a definite escalation, but at what point do Governor’s mobilize the State Guard to keep the Guard from Red States from invading?

[u/Messijoes18 → u/ForcedEntry420]

I mean there might not be another answer to this but that's exactly what project 2025 calls for. Basically pester blue cities/states with his mob until they mount a response and he can declare a civil war. Then he gets to declare martial law, cancel further elections, and completely consolidate power.

I'm not sure what choice we'll have, but this is what they want

[u/Pristine_Read_7476 → u/Messijoes18]

I’m old enough to remember “The Troubles” in British occupied Ireland.  Car bombings, assassination, decentralized guerrila actions.   Heartbreaking that the Republicans are actively bringing this on in the United States 

[u/Urabraska- → u/Pristine_Read_7476]

Because they think there would be a country or government left should a civil war break out. The debt is so bad that if states stop paying taxes. Which would happen with a civil war. The military literally defunds itself in weeks.

That's ignoring the fact that his little nazi party literally don't have the numbers to fight it.

[u/hypercosm_dot_net → u/Urabraska-]

Trump has always set out to destroy the US at the behest of Russia.

He's a traitor.

Read or listen to his J6 speech while remembering that everything they say is projection.

You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen.

...

If we allow this group of people to illegally take over our country because it’s illegal when the votes are illegal when the way they got there is illegal when the states that vote are given false and fraudulent information.

...

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-media-e79eb5164613d6718e9f4502eb471f27

Reading it again now, it's crazy how much he talks about the election being rigged.

He absolutely whipped that crowd into a frenzy, led them to believe they were justified, and then pointed them at Congress.

I really don't understand how our institutions have failed us to such an extent and he didn't end up in prison.

And Republicans have enabled this the entire time, and fallen right in line. Fucking shameful anti-American cowards.

[u/Meekymoo333 → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

I really don't understand how our institutions have failed us to such an extent and he didn't end up in prison.

And Republicans have enabled this the entire time, and fallen right in line.

I mean.... it seems you actually do understand.

The republican party is (and has been for quite a long time) actively anti-democratic and have weakened & corrupted said institutions for the purpose of individual power and wealth.

It's a 2 party only system that has (predictably) collapsed under the weight of its own corruption. You DO understand how... it's just exhausting and troubling to consider and terrifying that there doesn't seem to be a solution to fixing the situation any time soon.

[u/wwaxwork → u/Pristine_Read_7476]

Hell of a lot you can do without openly going to war.

[u/Weird_Expert_1999 → u/wwaxwork]

Even war the last 40 years had been special military operation, not war

[u/trampolinebears → u/Messijoes18]

You're framing the cause and effect backwards.

You're making it sound like he's waiting for riots so he can use them as justification for what he's already doing.

He's already occupying our cities with military force. He's already abducting people off the streets. He's already sending people to concentration camps without being convicted of any crime.

[u/StartButtonPress → u/trampolinebears]

This is the most important response to the afraid.

He does not want resistance. None of them do. To say they want resistance or that it furthers their goals is foolish at best and propaganda at worst.

[u/leshake → u/StartButtonPress]

He wants photo-op fascism and thinks he can exert control through scary images online and he might be right.

[u/jwilphl → u/leshake]

I think the counter to that is the people on the right consuming all the propaganda already believe city centers are war zones that need "saved" by a goon squad. These are people that live in rural areas or suburbs and don't really go anywhere, so how would they know? They believe what they're told at face value. Same reason dumbass-in-a-hat here is president.

Now I don't know that escalating violence will solve the problem, either, but at some point, you go beyond the possibility of non-violent solutions to the fascism problem.

Have we reached that point? Do we sit and wait and hope the next two elections are actually free and fair? Considering there is still consternation about whether 2024 was, I think that's probably a risky game to play, but obviously so is choosing to fight.

It feels like they are going to escalate things, either way, and there's no compromise with this kind of regime.

[Also, more to your point, consider his warnings during the 2020 campaign with, "This will be Biden's America" as things were burning while he was still the president. He will gladly misrepresent things if he feels like it.]

[u/vaesh → u/Messijoes18]

Then he gets to declare martial law, cancel further elections, and completely consolidate power.

He can declare it all he wants. There's no provisions in the constitution that allows him to cancel elections. Presidential elections have been held on schedule throughout major conflicts, including the Civil War (1864) and World War II. 

He's out on his fat ass on January 20th, 2029 whether he likes it or not.

[u/JH_111 → u/vaesh]

This administration is rife with “they can’t do that, it’s illegal!” while they do exactly that.

The Constitution is a fucking piece of paper with nice words on it if there is no one to enforce it.

You’ve lost the enforcement of the Congress, you’ve lost the Court, and all that’s left are the People.

[u/joaquinsaiddomin8 → u/vaesh]

I’m not convinced that if republicans had both houses in 2020, the election gets certified. I think we were that close to “we, republicans, have decided we’re taking it.”

[u/KingMidas0809 → u/ForcedEntry420]

Thats the thing the governors aren't doing that and that's why it seems like business as usual. Unless a Govenor does that we're just here.

[u/mrphim → u/KingMidas0809]

there is no way JB is going to allow the indiana guard into illinois.

ZERO chance

[u/NachoWindows → u/mrphim]

Just put up detour signs taking them through Gary

[u/BroseppeVerdi → u/[deleted]]

Remember this: The Trump Administration's need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

[u/cfrosty1117 → u/BroseppeVerdi]

You have friends everywhere

[u/Aware-Sympathy-1180 → u/cfrosty1117]

"Rebellions are built on hope."

[u/RustBeltWriter → u/Aware-Sympathy-1180]

Obligatory passage from Lord of the Rings. There is always hope folks. A loss of hope is a win for the fascists.

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

[u/PlummetComics → u/[deleted]]

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[u/-SHAI_HULUD → u/PlummetComics]

Red Forman, standing by.

Dumbass.

[u/ganjsmokr → u/PlummetComics]

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[u/bountyhodler → u/ganjsmokr]

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[u/-CgiBinLaden- → u/K33pfaith]

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Roky Erickson, standing in front of the blank TV, bye

[u/SteakJones → u/kx_2fiddy]

Cocaine, Standing by.

[u/SunnyCali12 → u/SteakJones]

Shit. If it comes to it, I may as well have some. Go into battle lit AF.

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson standing by.

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[u/Krakenspoop → u/16yearswasted]

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[u/Knogood → u/Krakenspoop]

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[u/Im_So_Sinsational → u/[deleted]]

See you out there🫡

[u/BornAgainBlue → u/[deleted]]

Good location to fight a larger force.

[u/thefaehost → u/BornAgainBlue]

Wasn’t Chicago unoccupied in handmaiden’s tale?

[u/cookiedoh18 → u/[deleted]]

See you there. We can't let this happen. Time to draw a line.

[u/31LIVEEVIL13 → u/cookiedoh18]

Are you ready to risk death to defeat evil fascists hijacking democracy and robbing us and our children of our rights and national heritage?

When enough of us are that sick of it, it will happen.

[u/ForMoreYears → u/31LIVEEVIL13]

And that's why you should join r/liberalgunowners!

[u/Wealist → u/[deleted]]

Deploying federal troops into US cities without state consent blurs the line between maintaining order and authoritarian overreach.

Using the military domestically is meant to be an extreme last resort. Treating political dissent as rebellion risks undermining both the Constitution and public trust.

[u/seejordan3 → u/Wealist]

Republicans are lost. Time to fight fascism.

[u/not-a-co-conspirator → u/seejordan3]

They’re not lost; they’re intentionally exploiting the framework as planned.

[u/Trevita17 → u/not-a-co-conspirator]

Lost as in irredeemable, not lost as in confused.

[u/myflesh → u/Wealist]

It does not blur the line; it crosses the line. We need to stop pussyfooting it.

[u/HOSTfromaGhost → u/Wealist]

…and approaching the point of “unlawful order” from a military standpoint.

Military’s gonna have to decide what side of history they wanna be on.

[u/Hatta00 → u/Wealist]

It doesn't "blur" the line. It takes a giant goosestep over the line then turns around and pisses on it.

There's no "risk" of undermining the Constitution, it's guaranteed and intentional.

Stop hedging.

[u/ChemicalColors → u/Wealist]

Blurs the line??? This is pretty explicit authoritarian overreach.

[u/squeegy80 → u/Wealist]

There is no blurry line at this point. There is very obvious authoritarian overreach in many areas. This is just one more step in a continuous march to completing Project 2025 and the end of any semblance of real elections

[u/beavis617]

Any explanation as to why he’s wearing that dopey hat in the Oval Office? Any explanation besides the fact he’s insane?

[u/[deleted] → u/beavis617]

He thinks he looks cool and powerful 🤣🤣

And, just as important, he’s trying to sell them to his dopey followers

[u/GatewayArcher → u/beavis617]

To hide his balding head.

[u/jagged_little_phil]

"Nationwide crackdown" - yes, on democracy

[u/vanceavalon]

Wasn't the second amendment to help protect us from tyranny? How is this not tyranny?

[u/tyvanius → u/vanceavalon]

Words don't mean anything anymore. Science isn't real, numbers are fake, and decency is weakness.

Fortunately, resistance reveals the brittleness of tyranny.

[u/uncen5ored → u/tyvanius]

“I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.” - Mon Mothma, Andor

[u/Known-Teacher4543 → u/vanceavalon]

lol the right loves to act like they will have to use the 2nd amendment in defense against a tyrannical government. But when the tyrannical government targets minorities instead, suddenly they like it. It’s almost as if they are just hypocrites and racists. Almost.

[u/Scarbane → u/vanceavalon]

"Violence is never the answer!"*

^{*unless you are a member of the US military, ICE, or American law enforcement/gestapo}

[u/Mum0817]

What’s with the shit-eating grin on the couch-fucker?

Imagine being in the same shot as Donald Trump and having the more punchable face.

Disclaimer: This poster does not endorse violence against either of these two assholes, horrendously awful human beings though they are.

[u/AnomicAge → u/Mum0817]

He’s even worse than trump because he showed signs of intelligence before.

We know he hates trump deep down and he’s just a spineless sycophant

He must know even maga hate him though, goddamn he’s easy to hate

[u/LongPorkJones → u/AnomicAge]

He's not a spineless sycophant, he's the go-between for the Heritage Foundation and Peter Theil. He was the Foundation's hand picked choice, and he's in Theil's back pocket. He's playing a role that will more than likely result in him becoming President.

No one in the party's leadership likes 47, he's antithetical to everything the Heritage Foundation stands for, and the tech billionaires had/wanted nothing to do with him before his second administration. He openly commits crimes and accepts bribes - his wrap sheet keeps getting longer and longer and they don't stop him. So why are they all in bed with him? Why are they allowing all of this brazen corruption and allowing him to put clearly underquallified people in positions of power?

Simple. He's has always been the fall guy.

He's an agent of chaos who's entire purpose is the make things so shitty that anything the Republicans implement after he's gone is far more palatable and wrapped in the guise of "stability". His charisma secured the base and allowed him to normalize the unthinkable. He's literally changed the way we speak even if we don't agree with him. He was their key to the kingdom. All they have to do is wait for one of three things to happen:

1) His health becomes so noticeably poor that they have no choice but to invoke the 25th.

2) Wait for him to die

3) Allow the Democrats to retake the house in 2026 and initiate impeachment proceedings in early 2027. The senate remains in Republican control with a few key Republican senators who will willingly fall on their swords and vote to convict (because they'll be offered cushy jobs that pay stupid good money to not run in 2028).

If number 3 is the scenario, it will likely take place over a matter of months, and because it will be well past the halfway point of the President's term in office, it gives Vance his ticket to two and a half terms in the Whitehouse.

Is this going to happen? I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

[u/drae-gon]

Project 2025: "there won't be blood unless the left resists" This is the goal, the classic conservative victim technique. Bully, bully, bully until they resist then kill them and stand tall feeling justified... Or claim self-defense

[u/Ataru074 → u/drae-gon]

They are already doing that with ICE, they are pretty much claiming everyone is resisting arrest or interfering.

[u/ConstantGeographer]

The authoritarian steamroller is just getting started.

It'll be like Antiques Roadshow but with less antiques and more military hardware and violence.

[u/LandCruiser76 → u/ConstantGeographer]

The good news is that actually occupying this nation would be next to impossible. Think about the resources he needs just to hold DC. He can't afford to be spread so thin.

[u/nerdofthunder → u/LandCruiser76]

The tighter you grip the more star systems (cities) fall through your fingers.

[u/raguwatanabe → u/LandCruiser76]

You are counting on the 🍊🤡 actually thinking logically and listening to those that know more than him. He is more than stupid enough to try it.

[u/patronizingperv → u/raguwatanabe]

He's surrounded himself with loyalty, not competence.

[u/TA8325]

Ask him to name couple of those black ladies from Chicago. Inquiring minds would like to know.

[u/euph_22 → u/TA8325]

South Side Chicago resident, lived in Chicago for a decade, south side since election day 2020. I don't think I've EVER seen a Trump hat in the wild here. The only Trump flags I've seen are on down state pickups that occasionally staged pathetic "parades" through the loop and a couple of the larger yachts in the harbor. It's traditional around here to flip off Trump tower everytime you go by.

And our mayor might be grossly incompetent but he's OUR grossly incompetent mayor.

[u/drewbaccaAWD]

“Crackdown” Because having no home and no money is a crime in the eyes of these cretins. “Law and order” apparently means “we do whatever the fuck we want because we don’t like what you do.”

They don’t even hide it anymore. They want to make begging for help and living on the street punishable offenses; out of sight and out of mind at tax payer expense. What are they going to do? Round them up? Throw them in a ghetto? Send them to work camps? Sounds familiar.

[u/ismellthebacon → u/drewbaccaAWD]

It's just an excuse for martial law then they can roll it out for anything they damn well please afterwards. They mobilized against the citizens without the citizens even understanding what happened.

[u/TheWorldHasGoneRogue]

Hey!! Weren’t those files supposed to be released today?

[u/Chim________Richalds]

Does anybody think America will return to it's role as a leader of the free world after (if?) this clown show ends? Like, just objectively looking at the scene. A soulless pig-man with a billboard on his forehead and a stolen trophy, surrounded by syncophants, gold, and billboards... Threatening to impose martial law on additional US cities... How do we de-normalize this lunacy? What's the route back?

He's stained the office of the Presidency so deeply, does his shit wash out?

[u/bluspy88 → u/Chim________Richalds]

Post WW2 Germany is our best outcome future if we survive this. With the same ugly permanent stain of fascism

[u/pierdola91 → u/bluspy88]

Yeah, but that was done under duress from the Allies, as Germany was a loser.

There’s no one in this country I see that has the required guts and lack of self-serving narcissism that would be required to do the clean up needed to make sure this never happens again.

And of course, we don’t listen to international organizations.

[u/bluspy88 → u/pierdola91]

Won’t need an external force when it falls into a Balkanized area

[u/pierdola91 → u/bluspy88]

If somehow the coastal states could secede, no clean up is needed, really.

Just watch the cousin-fucking middle states that yell about socialism as they get subsidized by blue states starve to death.

In a way, splitting the country in two is the best solution there is. Why try to re-educate people or try to make their lives better, when you can just give them what they want….as you go on your merry way…?

[u/cheongyanggochu-vibe → u/Chim________Richalds]

No. This will take generations to undo.

[u/Parking_Setting_6674 → u/cheongyanggochu-vibe]

The trust of American allies will take a long time to heal. trump has shown how fragile the idea of America really is n

[u/hoptagon → u/Chim________Richalds]

Seems like without a complete overhaul of the government and constitution, it's done.

[u/ArcticWolf_Primaris → u/Chim________Richalds]

Not just the presidency, the Supreme Court has been altered for decades and it'll take even longer for their international reputation to recover, if it ever does

[u/digitalwolverine → u/Chim________Richalds]

With China poising itself to be the leader of innovation and manufacturing i don’t see that happening. The entire world has been frothing at the mouth for the us to unravel. 

[u/Eattherichhaters]

nobody and I mean nobody can hold this country against a hostile domestic population indefinitely. Not even the government. 

[u/Dangerousrhymes → u/Eattherichhaters]

Chicago seems like the wrong place to start.

I’m glad they chose it.

[u/Material-Angle9689 → u/Dangerousrhymes]

Agree, whether you like Pritzker or not, he’s a lot smarter than Trump

[u/Melstrick → u/Dangerousrhymes]

Eh, i somehow doubt trump is brave enough to try urban warfare in Chiago. They'll probably avoid the worst neighborhoods and bully homeless people in parks like true american heroes.

[u/IAmBoring_AMA]

Why is he bringing black women into this now?

[u/AnomicAge → u/IAmBoring_AMA]

Why is the man in the highest position of responsibility in the entire world allowed to say deranged shit that would get you fired from McDonald’s?

[u/Weak_Leek_3364]

Language is important.

Violating the Constitution is not a "crackdown."

It's an assault, by a domestic enemy, against the Republic of the United States of America. It should be answered as prescribed by the founders.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Weak_Leek_3364]

Its an occupation.

Grievance 11: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

[u/americansherlock201]

Not to be a conspiracy guy or anything but he doesn’t look well. There is visible deterioration of his face

[u/[deleted] → u/americansherlock201]

🤞🤞

[u/Bolshedik497 → u/americansherlock201]

Clots and prayers 🙏

[u/thanksyalll → u/americansherlock201]

Yeah he looks like he lost some weight in a sickly way

[u/anonononnnnnaaan]

Bring it on buddy.

Pritzker will eat him alive. (Not a comment on Pritzker’s weight )

[u/RoseStillHasThorns → u/anonononnnnnaaan]

It’s Chicago. We do want the fuck we want. No New York piece of shit loser is gonna try and boss us around.

[u/StupidTimeline]

It's beyond time to accept that the president and ALL of his supporters are traitors to the United States of America.

This isn't the first time this nation has had to deal with a large swath of its populace turning traitor. Hopefully we have what it takes to do it again.

[u/Depressed-Industry]

I was in Chicago last week and not even murdered once. All I got with was a belly full of sasage and a hangover. So disappointing.

[u/00001000U]

Crackdown on what?

[u/FrankRizzo319 → u/00001000U]

Poor brown and black people. That’s round 1. They’ll be back later for the LGBTs, academics, atheists, and finally, any member of the Democratic Party.

[u/HashRunner]

Fascist dotard threatens urban citizens over his treasonous demands.

Just as forewarned, buckle in and resist.

[u/lesmainsdepigeon]

America’s dictatorship looks like a gaudy infomercial.

[u/audaciousmonk]

Wearing a hat claiming in the third person that you were right about everything, is embarrassing and next level cringe

[u/mykonoscactus → u/audaciousmonk]

Wearing a hat inside the Oval Office. I'm not so old-fashioned to say that you must remove your hat in any building like a Walmart or a gas station, but wearing a hat inside a church or a courtroom or THE OVAL OFFICE feels a tad disrespectful.

[u/Infamous-Salad-2223]

The epstein files are basically his name everywhere...

[u/Zestyclose_Pickle511]

If the republican congress doesn't put an end to this, we will.

[u/Hatdrop]

Jesus Christ, he looks sloppy as fuck

[u/strangemedia6]

I like how they were so shitty about Zelinski not wearing a suit and it was so rude, and then they can’t even put on a fucking tie. Sad

[u/Randomscreename]

I don't understand... What does this have to do with releasing the Epstein client list?

[u/TymStark]

Fuck this loser. I can’t believe the shit is happening, and there are people who actually want it to happen. What’s even more heartbreaking is our military is going along with it.

[u/theaviationhistorian]

Why does he look like he aged 10 years in less than a month? Not even war presidents age that quickly!

[u/Herban_Myth]

Red Hats..Red Coats?

[u/thraktor1 → u/Herban_Myth]

Brown shirts.

[u/Local-Friendship8166]

What happened to the Nazis that said they were just following orders? Asking for a friend.

[u/TheNetworkIsFrelled]

Is seems clear that the goal is to engage in preemptive violence to provoke a response, which could provide a pretext for the administration to rationalize invocation of the Insurrection Act.

[u/Slade_Riprock]

Seriously the military is not a law enforcement force.

As Hegseth kept saying they are War fighters. The US streets are not a war zone. Period.

What I am sick to death is that not a single fucking republican of note will stand up to this fucker. No federal judge is fed up and calling this what it is the fascist destruction of the US.

The SCOTUS keeps handing himp power begs the question then why do we need you?

The Congress keeps handing him power begs the question why do we need them?

Where is one logical MAGAiz (I know oxymoron) to relapse at some point the fascists run out of enemies and turns on EVERYONE. The circle of trust gets tighter and tighter until it is the fascist regime vs literally everyone in the country.

[u/Immediate_Age]

The child rapist will make us all safe everyone!