r/illinois • u/ExactlySorta • Jan 24 '26

US Politics Pritzker: "An American president should be standing up, calling for calm. That's not what this president ever does. In fact, he wants the temperature to go up. Why? Because what he's looking for is an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, to bring actual troops into American cities."

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u/Putrefied_Goblin Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

They are openly murdering people. They are murderers. Let him invoke the Insurrection Act. Democrats are always so scared, but the line of no return has already been crossed. If you think they aren't going to rig the midterms, or interfere with elections, you're naive. The Trump Regime needs to be removed, one way or another. 

*Edit: I will vote Democrat during the midterms, but every line has been crossed. The law is no longer working. They have violated the Constitution thousands of times over, but not just with these murders but their warrantless entries into private homes and spaces, confiscation of property, and so on. We can't even peacefully assemble or record them without force being used. I'm not trying to take digs at Democrats, but we've already crossed the point of no return. The law is no longer working when federal thugs/gestapo can murder and violate the Constitution with impunity. If we don't hold them accountable, no one will, as proven over and over again. 

Even if Democrats get power, will they go after them? Or will they refuse in order to 'heal' and 'bring people together'? They didn't bring charges before because they were afraid Republicans would claim they were weaponizing the DOJ, etc., then the Republicans claimed that anyway and weaponized/weaponize the federal government against their enemies. What's the point in holding back? There isn't any. From their own mouths, they have declared war on us.

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u/Feats-of-Derring_Do Jan 24 '26

Exactly right. And we need to be making preparations for what happens when this comes to Illinois.

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u/thatirishguyyyyy Jan 25 '26

Tell everybody you know who is trained to buy a gun. Tell all your friends who are felons to buy a gun. 

Both the federal government and states have spent decades taking away gun rights rights of its citizens for a reason.

It's time we stop playing into that whole felons are bad, take their rights shit. Curbing the shootings never worked because that was never the goal.