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Dennis Donovan

(27,780 posts)
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:26 PM Nov 8

IL Gov JB Pritzker to a Trump federal govt: "You come for my people, you come through me,"

Democratic Coalition
This is awesome - we want to see more governors standing up to Trump's impending attacks on their residents 👇

“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom, and opportunity, and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. You come for my people, you come through me,” Pritzker said.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4em3DcR

#ResistTrump

MeidasTouch
3:21 PM · Nov 8, 2024



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3catwoman3

(25,771 posts)
5. JB is an excellent. Governor.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:38 PM
Nov 8

Although we live in the one Chicago/Cook County collar county that is red, I’m glad I live in Illinois.

Lovie777

(15,325 posts)
6. Blue states are sticking together!........................
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 03:43 PM
Nov 8

sending law enforcement, national guards, military will be televised, and the majority of American will see the brutality, although shithole's cult will enjoy it.

roamer65

(37,246 posts)
8. Governor Whitmer of MI will have his back as well.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 04:08 PM
Nov 8

And so will blue Michiganders.

We are of the same cloth.

Yavin4

(36,692 posts)
9. Stephen Miller is on record saying that the plan is to use National Guardsmen from Red states to invade Blue states
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 04:10 PM
Nov 8

to carry out deportation orders.

Magoo48

(5,566 posts)
19. Nope, not gonna work in California.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:10 PM
Nov 8

Anyway, in the California Republic, by a large margin, we don’t like fucking Nazis.

keep_left

(2,551 posts)
12. I've felt for some time that we're beginning to see the early signs...
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 04:25 PM
Nov 8

...of a kind of "soft secession" by several states. It started with things like sanctuary cities, ignoring FDA scheduling of cannabis, the devolution of abortion law to the states, and other similar movements over the last 20 years or so. And the ties that bind were further stressed by the Trump regime's disastrous mismanagement of Covid. Of course, the courts weighed in long ago on the question of "hard" secession (not possible; the Union is a one-way street), but I really wonder what the country is going to look like in another 20 years. The 2024 election will definitely be seen as a major inflection point.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219672176#post3
https://democraticunderground.com/100219025512#post26
https://democraticunderground.com/100219019557#post2

roamer65

(37,246 posts)
13. The Union isn't a one-way street.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 04:28 PM
Nov 8

To victors always belong the spoils.

The South couldn’t back it with military victory, that’s why they are still in the Union.

We seceded from the British Empire and backed it with military force. Therefore we became an independent nation.

keep_left

(2,551 posts)
14. Well, here I'm talking about *peaceful* or at least *relatively peaceful* secession.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 04:50 PM
Nov 8

IANAL, but I know that the lawyers and scholars say it's a one-way street. States can't vote to leave or litigate their way out of the Union.

As for violent secession, we fought a war that resulted in more than 600,000 deaths as a direct result of the conflict, with secondary casualties adding to a grand total of more than 1,000,000 deaths. The level of savagery in that war even today is totally incomprehensible (see the "Battle of the Bloody Angle", for just one example). I can't imagine what Civil War 2.0, fought with modern weapons, would even look like.

roamer65

(37,246 posts)
15. I see a stronger devolution of powers coming.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 04:53 PM
Nov 8

The blue states are gonna take a long test drive of the 10th Amendment.

Cha

(305,909 posts)
17. I love Gov Pritzker's Attitude! May all the Dem Govs
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 05:01 PM
Nov 8

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have such Moxie! TY!

ETA~


FakeNoose

(36,066 posts)
18. And unlike Chump, he's a TRUE billionaire ... as well as a TRUE Democrat!
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 05:55 PM
Nov 8

Thank you Governor JB Pritzker!

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