Raging Stephen Miller Suggests Slapping Handcuffs on Blue State Governor
Stephen Miller said that Governor J.B. Pritzker could be arrested for engaging in a “criminal conspiracy.”
When asked by Fox host Will Cain on Friday under what authority a governor could potentially be arrested, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff said that the Department of Justice “has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.”
Miller’s statement comes after President Donald Trump claimed that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Pritzker should be “in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.”
On Oct. 23, the Illinois governor signed an executive order establishing the “Illinois Accountability Commission,” which will track “abuses” and hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “accountable” following the Department of Homeland Security’s launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago.
We do not need another billionaire president.
We need a president that comes from 50k or less a year and actually understands the reality of tens of millions of working poor.
I 100% agree with you on what we need, but I’m also a realist about what our options will actually be. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to put any politician on a pedestal, no matter who they are. Realistically, it’s almost inevitable they’re going to fuck up and break your trust at some point. They’re politicians.
Having said that, AOC is far and away my number one choice, and if she runs during the primaries she already has my vote on lock. I am skeptical for many reasons that enough Americans would actually put their support behind her so that she could reach the nomination. Ignoring the many pessimistic reasons I think it’s unlikely, the least pessimistic would be A. She’s young, B. People will use her age and the fact that she has only held office as a house rep. to claim she’s too inexperienced to become president.
His wealth aside, Pritzker has supported increasing taxes for people making above 250K in his state, protected unions, and legalized
recreationalpossession of marijuana.I actually think he and AOC could make a really competitive ticket. Having a truly progressing VP who then ran for president seems like a more likely path to one day getting her elected president than her jumping straight from the House to the presidency, even more than if she ran for Senate then president.
It will all depend on who ends up running/winning the primary, but as of this past week, I heard Harris is considering running again. I’m saying this as someone who voted for her (out of self interest but still), dear God please don’t.
Most important though, presidency aside, hopefully this is just an empty threat, but if Miller/Trump actually ends up trying to arrest him to prove a point, he needs people ready to stand behind him, even if you wouldn’t support him as a candidate.
Anyone who makes this claim after watching Donald Fucking Trump get elected president is full of shit.
Yeah, and anybody that thought Trump was the safer candidate in 2024 after living through 2016-2020 is also full of shit.
Outside of primary elections, I’ve never voted for a presidential candidate that I was actually excited to vote for, with the only exception being the very first election I voted in (Obama, who surprise, still turned out to be a politician even if he did some unquestionably good things in addition to the bad and the irresponsible while he was in office).
I voted for Hillary bc she was unquestionably the lesser of 2 evils in 2016, but I honestly wasn’t all that surprised when Trump won because people can rationalize a lot of bullshit.
I would have preferred Warren or Sanders, but I voted for Biden in 2020 even though I worried he would be a one term president. I figured we were kind of shooting ourselves in the foot setting things up for whoever Republicans ran in 2024 bc I thought there was no way in hell it would be Trump.
I voted for Harris in 2024, again because she was unquestionably the lesser of 2 evils. I wasn’t exactly surprised more people didn’t bother to vote for the lesser of 2 evils, but I was surprised that Trump somehow managed to get enough support to win in 2024 after nearly killing us all in 2020.
Always expect everyone (politicians, voters, and the establishment) to “surprise” you with how full of shit they can rationalize being, even if a choice should be obvious. That way even if we all lose once again, at least you’re prepared.
People have the memory and attention span of a gnat and Trump is [somehow] quite good at channelling voter frustrations, which have not subsided at all.
JB Pritzker, if he becomes president, will do what every Democrat has done for the past 30 years.
Say the right things and continue rolling the progression of fascism forward. What Dems say they support does not matter because they won’t do anything meaningful to make it a reality, and when the Schumers and Jeffries of the world do nothing to stop the speedrunning of fascism, all they offer is sternly-worded letters.
I agree Democrats helped pave the way for the presedence of executive overreach. We’re seeing Trump take advantage of the path that was laid out before him and taken advantage of little by little by every president that came before him.
Except, like you mention that’s also what will happen with any Republican except it will be a full speed locomotive into modern day concentration camps (as we’re seeing now) instead of a gradual roll towards executive overreach that lead us here. The system is broken. That’s actually something both sides seem to agree on. If we could possibly throw some speed bumps in front of the slow rolling train, we can also work towards building a barrier to stop it in its tracks.
If we can fight disinformation and maintain enough democracy and freedom of information to actually pressure our politicians (which given what just happened with AIPAC, I believe we still can) we may be able to reverse the slow moving choo choo train that set the course for executive overreach and unilateral decision making.
Pressure Congress to:
Overturn Citizens United. If they did it for Roe vs. Wade they can certainly do it for this bullshit that didn’t even exist until 2010.
Decrease executive power
Get bipartisan support for a constitutional amendment to enact SCOTUS term limits rather than allowing the next democratic president to begin a never ending precedence of court packing by every new president to one up the president that came before them.
These are not partisan issues. These are things that need to be done if you actually care about keeping America from turning into an authoritarian wasteland regardless of who is in power.
We don’t have the power to do any of that. It’s the billionaires in the driver’s seat at the federal level.
The only power you and I have is local now. That’s it.
Like yesterday, when I read about 40,000,000 being kicked off SNAP. I sent some money to one of my local food banks. That’s the extent of my power, and yours. JB Pritzker will maintain that power structure and make it worse. There’s nothing we can do to change that.
You don’t have the power to do that. Congress does.
You have the power and responsibility to campaign for (if you choose) and vote in your best interest (the very least you should do) for a candidate that doesn’t support over throwing democracy. That goes for every election from the local level to the president.
From there you have the power and responsibility to pay attention to what those people do, and maintain pressure on every elected official to do what’s right for the people over profit because that’s literally their only job. When they don’t do their job, you should call them out and tell others about it. You have the power to fight disinformation, spread information and ideas, and refuse to shut the fuck up about things that are important to you.
Are there many people making 50k a year who understand the higher-order details about running a country, though?
Lol there’s no way Trump understands the high order details of running a country
Yeah and he’s a shitty president at best so maybe it’s an important attribute.
He is shitty because he thinks he is smart and doesn’t need to listen to experts. Someone dumb, but self aware would be infinitely better.
Exactly, and an indictment of the aggressive cluelessness of American voters too. I prefer intelligent people making informed decisions, regardless of their net worth.
Yeah that’s fair
While I wholly agree, I think if anyone at all could convince billionaires to part with their money, it might be another billionaire. Not that I think it’s a great idea to give it a shot, it’s not like we haven’t seen the results
The only reason billionaires say they support higher taxation is that they know definitively it is never going to happen.
Oh probably, but no one else will ever convince them either, just closer