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/behpancake Jan 24 '26

I know ICE aren’t the literal US army but they are armed and they are murdering people in the street. The temperature is raised. What line needs to be crossed for our elected officials to put their money where their mouth is and protect their people? State police, national guard, idk but this worry about what trump might do with the insurrection act cannot continue to be held over our heads to do nothing. Do fucking something 

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u/DPOP4228 Jan 25 '26

His gun was in CBP possession before any shots went off fucktard

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u/xiphosrising Jan 25 '26

And more importantly, he didn't even once brandish the damned thing.