Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."
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When we put this administration out of its misery, we need to make sure that all the people who supported this REGIME, are held accountable. None of this bullshit we didn't know he would go this far. We know who they are Family, Friends and Co-workers. As SPOCK said REMEMBER.
Take note, JB Pritzker isn't just another media darling, but is one of only 50 governors that are actually running a state. He's not known as being crazy on the left, but quite moderate.
The American Democracy can fall and it has enemies not only foreign, but in Washington that want its demise.
His education reform is fantastic. We’re reaping the impact of No Child Left Behind. Pritzker is focussing on giving more funding to schools with lower test scores, the opposite of NCLB.
Dear liberals, Russia has not been communist for over 30 goddamn years.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are both capitalist and strongly anti-communist, trying to use the hammer and sickle or paint them as anything but the end result of capitalism just makes you look ignorant.
Donald Trump is the perfect bloated idiot icon of late stage capitalism.
Neither Trump or Putin are remotely communist and trying to associate them with communist iconography just makes you look like the fox news conservatives that call everything they don't like communism.
The Soviet Union wasn't "Communist", it was Stalinist and totalitarian. So is the Russian Federation. The economic model has nothing to do with it, just as Trump's vision for the US is oligarchical rather than capitalist.
I moved from IL last year, and I can’t say how proud I am to have voted for JB two times and how much I miss him now. I lived in Chicago for over 30 years, and JB is the best governor I’ve ever known. He’s the real deal!
This is all facts. He’s an amazing leader. Look what he did with Covid supplies and the states credit rating. He feeds the kids. Pot is legal and he’s just a good good dude. I adore him.
Yes! I moved from Evanston to a new state a couple of years ago and Pritzker was the best governor. I was living there when Covid hit and he managed it so effectively and with real leadership.
I’m not sure it is an ignorance of constitutional norms by the Trump administration or by GOP members of Congress. I think they are fine with destroying our constitutional republic. The ignorance may be from the U.S. citizens who are supporting this administration and the GOP.
Also, there was a depression with banks closing in Europe & the US during the time of Hitler. Now, yes, there are lots of poor people in the US whereby at least 40% of the population has less than $10,000 in their savings but it’s a little bit better than The time of Hitler
We don't have to accept this America. Howwvere we do have to respond and not be afraid of the repercussions because there will be some. They will not go quietly into the night, but, nor should we. Freedom isn't free. Keep that in mind!
Please, Gov. Pritzger, we need your voice as often as possible. You don’t have to roll over and kiss the butt of anyone, and that’s important for as many of us to know as possible. Keep shouting down the know-nothings.
Yes but it all depends on the climate… he’s gonna win on kindness… he’s not the intellectual like Pete or the rah-rah’s like AOC… but he is cool, calm, collected and most importantly kind.
I been screaming it for a long time. I could see it coming. Maybe it’s because I studied European and Russian history, maybe all those nights as a kid when the sirens went off to get RAF fighter jets up over the North Sea during the Cold War.
Technically it's a constitutional republic surrendering to a two-bit fascist foreign regime. But Neville Chamberlains always act like they know everything and Benedict Arnolds just gotta take dirty bucks.
Amendment 25 allows removal of a president who has the "inability" to carry out duties.
"…permits the vice president… the cabinet or a body approved “by law” formed by Congress, to jointly agree that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Yes. But that's more of a medical thing. He's not that he's traitorous. I don't think there is a mechanism. It may be something they have to do on their own.
It (25, Section 4) was, apparently, considered as an option on 6 January 2021, after the Washington unpleasantness.
Otherwise, good, old-fashioned military coup, beckons.
There are three "special elections" (aka bye-elections) for Congress coming up. Swinging all three, would remove the GOP majority, giving Dems a one-vote majority.
The PEOPLE in the military are, unfortunately, as susceptible as the general public to the same misinformation that allowed the orange a$$hole to get re-elected.
Even more unfortunately -- cult members have no concept of the honor needed to live up to pre-existing oaths.
Yup. Pretty much every one of my Jewish loved ones think the same. Everyone loves him, but we all know what a layup a Jewish billionaire would be for Republicans.
JB is showing up in the power vacuum of the Democratic Party right now. Do not forget that he too is a billionaire. He’s worth 3.7 Billion. America needs to band together to fight fascism, all Americans. But to be clear: it’s immoral to be a billionaire.
In Illinois we were screwed out of a gubernatorial ticket consisting of a Dem and a DSA, and instead given the "choice" between Pritzker and a Kennedy in the primary, then Pritzker and a nutjob in the general. Progressives were pissed.
Pritzker got in to office and we knew he was going to continue
the time-honored Illinois governor tradition of fucking the people over and committing felonies. But then...he didn't. He started doing good things, progressive things, things that activists had been fighting for for decades. He seems to actually just want to help make the world better.
None of us expected this. I don't know why, but he seems to be aware that he doesn't need more money. He seems to know how privileged he is. Maybe he's empathetic because he was orphaned before he was an adult, I don't know. The family does have a long history of philanthropy in Chicago.
My bet is that he has someone wise currently in his life who is keeping him grounded, someone who can constantly correct the brain-cooking that immense wealth tends to create.
He's not the only very wealthy person who's turned out to have a public spirit; FDR was another, surprised everyone too. Listening to Pritzker he sounds like someone from a time when American leaders were of the American people. I don't understand why, but I'm glad we have some decent billionaires.
I think there are a handful, but I don’t totally disagree. I like Pritzker in general, but I think getting the left to vote for a billionaire in ‘28 is gonna be a hard pill to swallow and would be a disastrous idea for the Democratic Party.
I know what you mean, but he's been building progressive cred for almost two terms now. If you still have an account on the bad place, "Socialists for Pritzker" is pretty active over there and while the memes are tongue-in-cheek, the support is sincere. It was a shock to us, but he's genuine.
What’s important to Americans anymore? That they can have a beer with the President? That POTUS is a meme? Super bro POTUS? I honestly don’t know… any which way, I don’t know that anyone on the national stage is fitting for ‘28.
I live in Illinois. Pritzger has consistently supported and championed a progressive agenda. While there are improvements that could be made, he's an example for others to follow. Yes, in the big scheme of things, billionaires shouldn't exist but until they're outlawed, JB's doing it mostly right.
I’m with you. We don’t need a single billionaire but Pritzker supports programs that help regular folks. He is probably one of the few people who will fight hard enough to actually beat MAGA.
He is you dipshit. Why wouldn't he be? You want AOC, Newsome, or Kamala to run again? Pritzker, Mark Kelly, or Shapiro is the way to the White House next time. Americans need something tangible to vote for, not these idealists. Btw JB is what Trump Dreams of being, it would be peotic to have himnext
Here's a man who used his immense wealth to gain the Governor position of a failing blue state that has a negative population growth and record budget overruns.
He was a tyrant over the IL citizens during covid and had no problem doing it.
Pritzker, Walz,Newsome, other State Governors need to band together and help us fight just like the State AGs are doing together filing suits in courts
We need a 10 million person March in DC to stop this insanity
We need Democratic leaders to lead
We will support and go with them
When Republicans get elected they are always asking Democrats to be the cleanup crew. Dems have had to do it over and over. Watch the mainstream news to get the truth. Not right wing nonsense so you will know how to vote!
He’s a billionaire with humility, compassion and decency unlike the present, billionaires in office musk and Trump . Warren Buffett said if the wealthy were taxed adequately, there would be no need for subsidies for the poor. We have universal healthcare, but the wealthiest get the welfare.
People had better start believing he doesn't care about court orders, he's going to do what he wants too, and if he takes the country down the drain, he's sure he'll survive because rats are great swimmers.
I’d like to hear Gov. Pritzker acknowledge the plight of the Palestinians including their right to sovereignty just like Ukrainians or any other People on Earth.
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Yeah what are we going to do and how do we do it? Where are our leaders??? We need direction from the people that we voted for because this is not okay!
There are a few. Bernie Sanders is doing a national tour. The media will ignore him. He’s attracting huge crowds as usual. The media will ignore that too.
Major change happens through grass roots movement not leadership, religious freedom, women’s suffrage, civil rights, workers rights etc. Leaders will take initiative but only when pushed by the people. I’m no expert on how, but history has shown nobody is coming to save us from the top.
1) The best people to fight this are the GOP constituents of the GOP congressional members. I'm a Dem. I'm going to protests, writing/calling my congressional members (all Dem), boycotting Co's that support 🍊🤡 polices. Speaking up against their lies on socials, & to friends. The folks showing up at
2) the GOP townhalls are being heard. The congressional members need to fear their constituents voting them OUT OF OFFICE more than they fear 🍊🤡 & his ilk. Congress has the power to reel him in, impeach him, and apply the 25th Amendment. If this group won't do it VOTE THEM OUT!
This is what all the donor states need to do. Our superintendent of public schools has advocated for this here in Washington State. We’ve yet to see what Ferguson will do but he sued Trump around 100 times as AG between 2016-2020, so he doesn’t shirk from a fight.
She issued a separate statement after the lunch meeting, after trump ordered an investigation of her state, and said she was not afraid of him. She also said some things about predetermined outcomes. I’m not swearing this is verbatim from her statement, but I think it’s true.
I have been dismayed by misinformation floating around this platform. The moderation team does a good job, but when it's an image like this instead of a text post it makes it harder for them to catch.
That's a shame, because image posting is valuable for art, photography, etc.
I'm from Maine and proud our governor stood up to #45. An excerpt of her explanation for the back & forth between the 2 of them, I shared in a pinned post. The above reference, I can not find.
Ignoring standards, protocols, laws, ethics is something Frump has done his entire career & he showed it frequently ways when POTUS the 1st time.
I appreciate the Gov’s voice, but that more big voices didn’t ensure Frump couldn’t run again is the more surprising thing, looking from the outside in.
They ignore court orders because no one actually follows through with punishment for ignoring them when it comes to Republicans. Neither Musk nor Trump have ever once faced consequences. It's time they do.
That would require the US Marahals Service (fully chokehold-controlled by one person: Pam Bondi) to violate orders from AG Bondi to not enforce any court order when the order can negatively influence a Republican or Trump Supporter in any conceivable way. https://www.usmarshals.gov/
Not only does this budget steal from the American people but it sets the foundation for this century's Holocaust. For the purge of those in nursing homes, assisted living homes and seriously ill people. 77 million people are on medicaid. These cuts mean certain death for thousands if not millions.
These people are either on drugs, mentally unstable, full of hatred/evilness, have no grandparents or hate them, or all wrapped into one. What kind of person thinks it’s okay to unalive the elderly??? 😳🤯
It’s purposeful eugenics culling.
People don’t realize that the Nazis Aktion T4 program was designed to purify the German population and began there before the Camps for the Jews.
I am convinced we are living a reenactment of the Hitler years orchestrated by Musk and his nazi friends. Amy Goodman has a great interview on apartheid and the paypal mafia. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHSgVk84B0
We all are only encouraged to do what we can, nothing more. This is a long fight, there will be plenty you can and participate in, like general strikes and boycotts of buying certain products.
CNN can F right off, and MSNBC can go to H too. They are ratings whores with nothing to offer. Any credible journalist that loses their show there needs to realize how lucky they are to be free from the tyranny!! Get together and do a show on YouTube and your viewers will follow!!
It’s time we remind these people WHO they work for & WHO pays their salary. IF they work for Elon & Trump, get a paycheck from them. Oh wait, Trump & Elon paid by taxpayers funds too!
Here’s how you find your congressional representatives, email & phone.
The king of Illinois himself said that???, the current legacy of the (Democratic) corruption in the state that has been a long, slow declining road to hell to now? Where I couldn't even get an unemployment check from the miserable people at IDES...Despite being illegally fired for going on FMLA
I’ve seen this coming since I read “1944” by Jay Winik. Saw everything the Republicans have been doing since the Reagan regime was what the Nazis were doing to gain power. Warned too. But I was called the crazy one.
About a yr ago when I first began to have concerns abt Biden's re electability - I thought if anyone had the juice and gravitas within the Party to replace him, it was yr gov. Barring God knows what's coming, but I believe if there's a '28 election, he's definitely running
I definitely think he's going to run. He's one of the few speaking up that can realistically be a candidate and I think Dems would back him. He can run with AOC on the ticket and then in 8 years she can run.
Dems will find a disabled minority gay that doesn’t speak English nor live in North America as a candidate. Then blame the results on “cheating”. They don’t want anybody that could win an election in the US. Have no fear.
I've been saying that the Democrats should actually just be the new Conservative party and we should get rid of the GOP (since they are Nazis now) and have a more modern, advanced party introduced. But I'm trying to be realistic and hopeful, I suppose!
Have you always wanted to promote losing candidates so that the Nazis could take over?
That’s what happened, didn’t it?
At least you can feel good about yourself. The smell of the ovens will bring a smile to your face knowing that you supported a different losing candidate.
There's certainly some substance behind the idea that Democrats would blame losses on cheating. More than substance, in fact, there are verifiable facts behind that assertion.
But your obvious perspective in this matter belies your self-proclaimed 'fucknazis' moniker.
You clearly support nazis.
Tapper talking to him like he's maybe overstating his case is classic CNN. Meanwhile, CNN continues to hire propagandists who are aggressively lying to the public in service of an autocrat who is destroying our democracy.
Sadly folks ignored the signs that Trump didn't care about law..
Trump has never followed through on promises so he left hints who he was folks just ignored it cause he played race card to them and they ate it up
The two most unexpected events I have seen in my lifetime were the fall of the Berlin wall and now the treacherous capitulation of the USA to the Russian dictatorship. Humanity seems to make progress a tortuous process.
Geez the Bullshit never ends with you guys. Biden ignored every order he got about the Border and The Student debt crisis. and your phat arse was nowhere to be found. And Nobody is going to vote for you. We already KNow every GOV of Illinois is totally crooked.
As a German: Pritzker is right. That's really what happened in my country. I hope Americans are better human beings, if not - there will be again a lot of victims.
Meidas Touch said Judges have the ability to deputize State Ag's and make holding cells/tanks. They COULD do SOMETHING. Time to do it!! (That was my take of what I heard. Not a quote.)
If there no longer following the constitution, what stops people from marching in masses and pulling his ass out? The constitution IS the document that STOPS us from doing that, isn't it? NO Constitution, no constitutional laws to follow. No Federal Government? Is it really what republicans want?
The GOP tactic of blind obstructionism, beginning in 2009, is responsible for Trump and their political power. We can retake that power by refusing to compromise— ever.
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MAGA: we don't care as long as 👑🍊💩 is in charge
That about sums it up folks.
The left is in complete denial about both.
If major change isn't implemented very soon this will become very ugly.
Profound incompetence in the Dem party that they can’t better channel the gravity of the moment.
Literally just need a strong team and be acquainted with facts.
https://bsky.app/profile/michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social/post/3liuabr5c4s2b
https://youtu.be/gFg9hR6eEYA?si=4Lx77pnZt7UX6xPK
He put his cronies at the head of Justice, the FBI, of Defense and fired 6 top-level military officers...
Everything is in place for him to rule Putin-style and nobody will stop him this time around...
Mark my words: this will end in a military uprising or a civil war.
The American Democracy can fall and it has enemies not only foreign, but in Washington that want its demise.
Israel Second
America fucked
⚖️🤘🤨🤘⚖️
#RESIST (AF!)
The entire government has been captured.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/25/us-news/trump-says-us-will-sell-5m-gold-cards-to-foreigners-green-card-privileges-plus/
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are both capitalist and strongly anti-communist, trying to use the hammer and sickle or paint them as anything but the end result of capitalism just makes you look ignorant.
Is a criminal and putins puppet. Trump is a Russian asset.
Neither Trump or Putin are remotely communist and trying to associate them with communist iconography just makes you look like the fox news conservatives that call everything they don't like communism.
The Soviet Union wasn't "Communist", it was Stalinist and totalitarian. So is the Russian Federation. The economic model has nothing to do with it, just as Trump's vision for the US is oligarchical rather than capitalist.
Arguably, the Founding Fathers set up the Articles (fed gov) & Amendments (people/states) separately to prevent a consolidation of power over people.
NY v US, 505 US 144 (1992) Justice O'Connor's ruling. Trump's overreaching.
Try calling it a *dictatorship*, because half the people in this country don't know what an "authoritarian" is
voting for him would be the most enthusiastic vote I would ever get a chance to have but.. I share his fears
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Sorry, Jesus. I know you get tired.
"…permits the vice president… the cabinet or a body approved “by law” formed by Congress, to jointly agree that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Otherwise, good, old-fashioned military coup, beckons.
Even more unfortunately -- cult members have no concept of the honor needed to live up to pre-existing oaths.
He's a good man.
What's keeping so many other dems from saying so?
They won’t vote for women. They won’t vote for gay men. Regardless no matter how qualified they all may be.
Pritzker may be our guy! Let’s start the “rallies” —- NOW!
As long as one is a decent person, who cares about their religion?
Church and state need not mix, if we are to progress.
Trump and the conservative “Christian” right have reversed human progress.
Where do you get that misogyny and homophobia shit!?
What ever you define them to be.
We need to win and end this nightmare.
Pritzker is a smart, decent individual - who doesn’t put up with Trump’s shit.
That’s what we need — NOW!
Pritzker got in to office and we knew he was going to continue
A human failing.
https://youtu.be/phcbwdhLhmE?si=k0xi21hhs0NC_2WK
He was a tyrant over the IL citizens during covid and had no problem doing it.
We need a 10 million person March in DC to stop this insanity
We need Democratic leaders to lead
We will support and go with them
@governorwalz.mn.gov
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@governor.ca.gov
THE GOP CERTAINLY HAS.
DON'T WAIT TOO LONG, WE MAY NOT MAKE IT.
Thank you
And Schumer will peek out of his office to shout "We will not be defeated!" then he will call his limo service for a ride home.
#PritzkerFor2028 let's gooooooooo
#NoNazis
Fuck them let Elon fund the government
I'm so happy I don't watch Tapper anymore.
or burn oil for Trump to turn earth into hell
That's a shame, because image posting is valuable for art, photography, etc.
I appreciate the Gov’s voice, but that more big voices didn’t ensure Frump couldn’t run again is the more surprising thing, looking from the outside in.
People don’t realize that the Nazis Aktion T4 program was designed to purify the German population and began there before the Camps for the Jews.
We need to be out in the streets resisting, showing them that we cannot be stolen from or controlled
#USProtests
#3E
#R50501
A death made possible by sane-washing assholes like jake tapper of cnn…
Here’s how you find your congressional representatives, email & phone.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
That’s what happened, didn’t it?
At least you can feel good about yourself. The smell of the ovens will bring a smile to your face knowing that you supported a different losing candidate.
But your obvious perspective in this matter belies your self-proclaimed 'fucknazis' moniker.
You clearly support nazis.
Yeah, not Nazi at all.
Why do you assume Americans are decent people?
Have you been blocked from reading history?
Trump has never followed through on promises so he left hints who he was folks just ignored it cause he played race card to them and they ate it up
It’s happened before.
Then why are you?
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html.
All over USA.
Time to power up and do what Sanders are doing.
Visiting Republican districts.
Win them over !
Maybe we'll get there one of these days, but we can't defeat this until we can start naming it.
Want to take OUR country back?
👇Here's where to start👇 #BeRelentless
When Bolton is assassinated, most people will understand.
Of course it may be too late to do much about it.