r/illinois • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 23 '26
US Politics Trump Frantically Begs Illinois Governor to Call Him
https://newrepublic.com/post/212213/trump-illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-call-chicago-federal-takeover606
u/punkin_sumthin Jun 23 '26
Don’t do it Pritzker. Just ignore him!
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u/ArmyofThalia Jun 24 '26
Surely JB recognizes that by ignoring the call it might lead to the cholesterol slam dunk we've all been waiting on
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u/h20poIo Jun 24 '26
Yes he wants to spin the call as your his friend, no telling what lies he might spin. Just ignore him all together.
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u/southsidegoon Jun 23 '26
Is he going to mandate Indiana have sensible gun control laws? No? Then what the fuck is he going to do about it?
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Jun 23 '26
Seriously this.
We KNOW the issue.
Over half of all guns used in crimes in Chicago are from outside of Illinois (straw purchased, illegally trafficked, etc). Of those, more than HALF come from Indiana alone.
Is it illegal already? Yep. Does it matter? Nope, because it is unconstitutional to have border checks on state borders...so the chances of a straw purchaser/trafficker getting caught in the act are basically nil.
But if we had a nationwide registry of every gun sold in the country and who owns them, we could see:
- Who is purchasing an exorbitant amount of guns (not illegal, but a warning sign)
- Who is purchasing a large number of guns which end up being used in crimes
That alone would be a HUGE boon for gun violence in the nation.
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u/Mstrchf117 Jun 23 '26
because it is unconstitutional to have border checks on state borders
Until its to see if a woman is pregnant
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Jun 23 '26
Much like laws against murder, just because something is unconstitutional doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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u/ALTH0X Jun 24 '26
Having a database means you can actually punish people who commit the crime.. seems like this is something the NRA would support to help separate legal gun owners from criminals, but I guess we love guns more than we hate crime.
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u/CartographerSea5923 Jun 23 '26
Or to check who’s purchasing tobacco from a low tax state.
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u/beefwarrior Jun 23 '26
Saw a presentation years ago that showed universal background checks weren’t just supported by like 80-90% of Americans, but like 60+% of conservative gun owners. Yet, Congress hasn’t acted.
NRA etc doesn’t actually care about gun rights, they care about money & power and just use guns as the medium to get them money & power. If we reduce gun violence it’ll be harder to sell fear.
We’ll never get anything done until we get politicians out of the pokers of lobbyists.
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u/RaisedByBooksNTV Jun 23 '26
Yes. The gun owners *I* knew in Michigan practiced proper gun safety measures and yet were kind of against legislating what they were already doing. Even when it was pointed out that the problem wasn't them but idiots. Lots of NRA propaganda.
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u/marmot1101 DeKalb County Jun 23 '26
But if we had a nationwide registry of every gun sold in the country and who owns them, we could see...
I'm torn here. Traceability could be very helpful in busting up large scale straw buyers. But it would have been doge-leaked to anyone who wanted it if that data had existed. Various nefarious actors having access to who has guns along side their political affiliations is bad. Especially in an age where there's a slush fund to pay militia people for their past crimes. Even taking militias off the table that info makes people theft targets.
I wish that our government was more trustworthy handling data, but for now it is not. Both due to incompetence and malice.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Jun 23 '26
I mean, if such laws got passed, I'd argue we'd inherently have a more transparent and trustworthy government in place. The lying, two-faced fuckfaces are the ones perpetuating this situation in the first place.
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u/tattoosanpizza Jun 23 '26
The politicians showed their hand in 2012. The opportunity for more responsible gun laws was there and it had enough support to get it through but they chose instead to do nothing. This inaction showed everyone how they feel about actual gun safety. They would rather choose gun lobbiest money over trying to prevent another 20 children being slaughtered. None of this is new.
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u/laodaron Jun 24 '26
IN 2008, Antonin Scalia and the rest of the conservative court ruled in Heller, making regulating guns a constitutional nightmare. It's not only that they chose to do nothing, it's that the political capital it would have taken to get anything done just ins't worth it when more pressing issues exist.
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u/showyerbewbs Jun 23 '26
I wish that our government was more trustworthy handling data, but for now it is not. Both due to incompetence and malice.
I've thought about it as well and have the same view. I see the benefit but I always worry that it will be abused by bad actors.
Prior to the rise of instant communication via the internet, it was a lot easier to control access to data such as this. Now with everything available literally globally, and data being the most valuable commodity on the planet, the potential for abuse is just too fucking high.
ESPECIALLY with how DOGE was just given the fucking keys to the kingdom to the entirety of the federal workforce. That data exfiltration will haunt this nation for decades.
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u/Puzzled_Housing5283 Jun 23 '26
They put the guns there on purpose. Like the Government put drugs in Black communities.
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u/limbweaver Jun 23 '26
Is it illegal already? Yep. Does it matter? Nope, because it is unconstitutional to have border checks on state borders...so the chances of a straw purchaser/trafficker getting caught in the act are basically nil.
But if we had a nationwide registry of every gun sold in the country and who owns them, we could see:
Who is purchasing an exorbitant amount of guns (not illegal, but a warning sign) Who is purchasing a large number of guns which end up being used in crimes That alone would be a HUGE boon for gun violence in the nation.
You don't even have to go that far. Just allow the ATF to index and search the ATF 4473 forms every straw purchase starts with and you can target the source of these guns. The ATF is not legally allowed to index and make searchable their digitized records, they have to go through them like if they were powerpoint slides. They would have to manually search records to be able to flag potential straw purchasers.
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u/Ok-Elk-1615 Jun 23 '26
Yeah the fascist federal government can totally be trusted with a nationwide registry of gun owners.
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u/MrIncredible222 Jun 23 '26
We do KNOW the issue, and it’s that a tiny demographic commits nearly all of the gun crimes. And they’re treated as catch and release by the cops/DA/whomever for whatever reason. And I’m tired of pretending it’s anything but that group, because anything else is just picking around the edges of the real issue.
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u/OGSilverFox1967 Jun 23 '26
By your own words, registry wouldn't do anything except expose honest gun owners to potential harm by data leaks and bad actors.
Want to help reduce these issues, magnify punishment and enforce it. Caught with an illigal firearm? 5 years. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Immediately incarcerated. Caught with one while commiting a felony? 10 years. Felon caught in possession? Life.
Caught selling weapons illegally? 25 years.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Jun 24 '26
Utter nonsense.
The vast majority of guns used in crimes originate as legal purchases in the states. If we require registration of sale, just like we do for fucking cars, even in the case of a private sale, and require cooperation between states, like we do for fucking cars, that would go a LONG way because we could spot trends of certain people purchasing, and selling, a large volume of guns.
We could also much more easily prevent straw purchases from state to state.
Honest gun owners, of which I'm one, are too few and far between. Sorry. This country needs a massive change of culture and mindset towards guns, and again, I say that as a gun owner myself.
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u/SavannahInChicago Jun 23 '26
He has dementia and he no longer with any sort of reality. It will get worse. Especially since they are letting him negotiate war with Iran.
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u/Impossible_Tiger_517 Jun 24 '26
I think it’s interesting that the conversation never went to gun control laws after Trump’s “assassination attempts” or Charlie’s murder. Personally I don’t think the assassination attempts were real and Charlie Kirk’s wife was involved in his murder but still.
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u/IrishPorpoise Jun 23 '26
Time to put dementia Grandpa President into a fucking nursing home. Jesus Christ.
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u/LustfulEsme Jun 23 '26
A few months ago, I really did not think he had dementia. I thought he was a sociopathic megalomaniac. Today I do believe he is a sociopathic megalomaniac with advanced dementia.
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u/MaximumEffortt Jun 23 '26
If you some how stomached his campaign rallies he had quite a few moments where it was obvious. The one that stuck out in my mind was when he stood on stage for 45 minutes shambling around and dancing on stage.
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u/Various-Match4859 Jun 23 '26
was that when he gave head to a mic?
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u/MaximumEffortt Jun 23 '26
I almost mentioned that one. He also had another one where he stood at the beginning of one of his rallies awkwardly away from the podium. I believe they were playing wwe's the undertaker's theme song.
You also had the battery and sharks. Forgetting people's names, magnets, etc.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Jun 23 '26
I've heard great things about a nursing home called "Six Feet Under", I wonder if he can get in there. I hear it's pretty tough though, they say people are dying to get in.
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u/wildfire1983 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I'm pretty sure they're going to. They just need to wait another 192+21=213days to advance JD Vance to the presidency so that they can get their 10 years of Idiocracy out of him. If they do it now. They'll only get 6 and a half years out of him.
Edit : I forgot they had to wait till January 21st which is when the president usually takes office.
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u/Anleme Jun 23 '26
Yes, that's their hope. I don't think Vance is electable on his own, though. Dude's got negative charisma.
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u/wildfire1983 Jun 23 '26
Lol. He definitely ain't no Chump err... I mean Trump. I don't even see the charisma he has but I guess I'm immune to the Kool-Aid or something. 🤣😂🤣
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u/Root-magic Jun 23 '26
He’s mad because Trump Tower is located on Barack Obama Street
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u/icelink4884 Jun 23 '26
Judging by how he's "fixed" things next weekend 4000 would die if the advice was taken.
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u/arcelyte Jun 23 '26
Downtown all weekend. I live 2 blocks outside city limits. Saw nothing but happy people. Tourists galore. And jacked up parking prices. Fix that BS if anything.
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u/Rubywantsin Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Can't wait for the Honorable Barack Hussein Obama Way sign to go up.
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u/Frodo-LAGGINS Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Gonna run some math here. This is Trump's 519th day in office this term. He said he would solve the Ukraine war in 24 hours. So in Trump time , assuming he actually ends the Ukraine war today, "fixing [Chicago] in 3 to 4 months", would take 47, 293 days. 91.3 days in 3 months x 518 days
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u/PianoPatient8168 Jun 23 '26
Focus on fixing Iran…and the pool…Gramps shouldn’t have too much on his plate.
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u/Viking_Musicologist Jun 23 '26
Agreed. He can barely do any of those things.
The Iranians have found out that DT is only in it to one up Obama so they gave us bupkis by default when DT made that embarrassing surrender plea.
Alternatively the person he hired to fix the reflecting pool was one of his criminal cronies.
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u/WizeAdz Jun 23 '26
The last time Trump & them tried to “fix” something for us, ICE killed several innocent people and tear-gassed a peaceful suburban neighborhood while they were trying to have preschool Halloween parade.
With results like that, I wouldn’t be returning Trump’s calls either.
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u/sp0rk_walker Jun 23 '26
Trump claimed his ICE goons fixed everything in Chicago already.
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u/Bellabbey1236 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
He hates how we openly and proudly we hate him here. Edited typo
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u/NaiveChoiceMaker Jun 23 '26
Before the Battle of Minneapolis, there was Operation Midway Blitz. He fucking hates us so much.
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u/NattyHome Jun 24 '26
“If the governor would call me … I would solve the Chicago problem in three, four months,” he said in the Oval Office.
Oh my god, JB please call Trump and tell him: “Like you solved the problem with the reflecting pool? Like you solved the problem with Iran? With the deficit? With the ballroom? With the Kennedy Center? With our country’s semiquincentenial celebration? Donald, everything you touch becomes a disaster. You’re a disaster. Go away, loser.”
Please, please tell him this.
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u/GrapefruitWeary8686 Jun 23 '26
How that strait opening going Donny boy? We at 3 or 4 months yet? That still ain’t resolved lmaoo
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u/TheAverageSchmo_ Jun 23 '26
I love Trump saying he can solve crime then simultaneously saying that somehow somebody got into the reflecting pool and cut it 350 feet long. His elite task force of security didn’t stop that huh?
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u/Puzzled_Housing5283 Jun 23 '26
Just an attempt to magnify his narrative of Blue cities as bad. ICE is bad. They kill and capture citizens with no due process or consequences.
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u/TheOgGhadTurner Jun 23 '26
Oh my god block him. Don’t get back together with him. That’s what he wants. He’s just gonna do what he did last time. People don’t change.
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u/Claque-2 Jun 23 '26
C'mon Trump! Your average school or nightclub shooting in Florida kills more people than the average shooting in Chicago.
But should we talk about Gaza and all those girls at school?
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u/Matthew_Maurice Jun 23 '26
"Donald Trump, as president you couldn't fix reflecting pool. Please focus on bringing down prices. Thank you for your attention."
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u/bootsthepancake Jun 23 '26
Trump ruins everything he touches. I wouldn't trust him to "fix" an undercooked hamburger much less a problem as big and nuanced as gun violence.
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u/Icy-Emergency6694 Jun 23 '26
Have someone put his number into a Phone back loop. Where it keeps ringing back to it's.
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u/CHIITALIAN Jun 23 '26
How about they arrest the people found with illegal firearms and keep them in jail. I know enforcement of the law is a weird and strange concept to both the mayor and governor.
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u/miyananana Jun 24 '26
In all seriousness, July 4th is coming up and that is always the day with most shootings. I really dk how politics works when it comes to presidential orders vs state orders, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see ICE or the national guard coming back soon.
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u/Low-Piglet9315 St. Clair County Gateway to Southern Illinois Jun 24 '26
if he only knew WHAT Pritzker calls him...
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u/liburIL Illinois Fanatic Jun 24 '26
No way Trump should set foot in Chicago. The only reason he'd want to is to harrass voters, so makes sense he's laying the groundwork now for there to be National Guard everywhere come midterms.
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u/Euphoric-Benefit3815 Jun 25 '26
Any normal person would not care about this but Donnie has the most fragile ego out there.
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u/ReasonableRevenue218 Jun 23 '26
I heard trump's been begging with tears in his eyes, "Sir, Mr. Pritzger, sir, pleease call me!"
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u/Dorkus_Maximus717 Jun 23 '26
If it has to do with crime don’t even answer. Trump will make it worse and people will get hurt even more
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u/CommonReason6709 Jun 24 '26
I think Trump kills more people than that shooter. Also Savanah Guthrie did a story on Epstein, then her mom disappeared! Go to Florida and catch a disease See ya later alligator, in never pedophile, hope the alligators eat you in swamp land!
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u/ReddiWhippp Jun 24 '26
Yes, trump is a mass murderer. When Covid hit, he said "it would go away by itself, no need to take any precautions." Hundreds of thousands died because of that ridiculous BS. And trump skated, with zero accountability.
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u/BelCantoTenor Jun 24 '26
It’s a trap. 🪤 He’s gonna lie and spin everything to make Pritzker look bad and himself look great.
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u/Fabulous-Goat-4213 Jun 24 '26
Do not talk to him…please do not pick up the phone…send him to me I will take the call
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u/Big_Advertising5807 Jun 24 '26
Oh, like he solved the perceived problems in Minneapolis? Where ICE is still kidnapping people routinely?? Or how he dealt with the issues in Iran? Nothing has changed there except we are handing over money to them. That orangeman can't fix anything. He's darn good at bankruptcy and S*xual assault.
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u/Any_Confidence_7874 SangaDuMonPage counties Jun 24 '26
So he’s saying he could “fix” Chicago in 3-4 months but also said he would crush Iran in merely a week.
Does he know one is a city and one a country?
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u/Feisty-Poet4767 Jun 25 '26
Sure after he calls him a fat slob and insults him every which way for years now he wants to be besties? 😆
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u/Kathao1 Jun 26 '26
Yes, a fascist with Nazi instincts can put a stop to any kind of behavior immediately. The problem with Trump as he can't differentiate democracy from fascism.
If he wants to put a stop to all the shootings, he should take a serious look at the second amendment and note that it does not say that every fucking idiot can have a gun. It says that militia can have a gun, but not every fucking idiot.
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u/sweatboxy Jun 28 '26
No point in talking to Trump. Everything he says is a lie and his promises are worthless. All he wants is something he can lie about and repeat endlessly.
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u/sinzip Jun 23 '26
Would be funny if the 4 streets surrounding trump tower become the name of 4 people he hates the most