The narrow road to the deep north
Now why would Trump hate Chicago in particular?
The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as the White House targets Democrat-led cities amid weeks of protests against the federal government’s immigration enforcement campaign.
The lawsuit opens a new front in the legal battles the White House is waging against state and local officials, coming just hours after a federal judge blocked a similar deployment of the guard to Portland, Oregon.
“Defendants’ deployment of federalized troops to Illinois is patently unlawful,” the lawsuit says. “Plaintiffs ask this court to halt the illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional federalization of members of the National Guard of the United States, including both the Illinois and Texas National Guard.”
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The lawsuit asks the court to order the administration to stop federalizing or deploying any National Guard troops to Illinois, and to declare the federalization of National Guard troops more broadly as unlawful. Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the defendants named.
In a statement, a White House spokesperson said the president “will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities.”
Selected American cities. Chicago seems to annoy him particularly.
Could that be because it’s due north of Mississippi, and thus a mecca for the Great Migration? In other words is it too black for his taste?
The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, argued the deployments are politically motivated, claiming Trump has a long history of making “threatening and derogatory” comments about Chicago and the state of Illinois, dating to at least 2013.
Among other examples, it calls out a September 6 social media post by Trump in which he said Chicago would “find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” referring to the president’s rebranded name for the Pentagon.
He’s still furious that the Central Park 5 were not executed.
Because Obama, who will ever be his superior in every regard.
He also hates Chicago because we humiliated him in the 2016 run. See, his rally organizers, desperate to fill the stadium for his Chicago rally, offered free tickets for the asking. An estimated 25% of those tickets wound up going to protestors.
In classic TACO fashion, a flunky came onstage about 10-15 mins before the scheduled start to tell the crowd (falsely) that CPD had said the rally wasn’t safe, and so they were canceling. They then emptied everyone into the streets outside, with the protestors catcalling and mocking the True Believers who were lined up for the busses (because a large chunk of the 3/4ths who did support had been brought in from outside the city).
Here is my proposed amendment for the US constitution, aimed at stopping the present drift towards fascism:: Nobody whose name is or rhymes with DUMP, FRUMP, GUMP, GAZUMP, HUMP, JUMP, LUMP, MUMP, PUMP, RUMP, SUMP, THUMP or TRUMP can ever be elected President.
“The lord your god is a jealous god, and you shall have no other gods before me.”
Trump cannot bear being anything but the central figure not only in his own story, but in everyone’s.