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2024-08-19 Home Front: Politix

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker downplays risks of 1968 Dem convention repeat: 'Whole different ballgame'

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Posted by Fred 2024-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 DNC host city braces for week of unrest as anti-Israel protests swarm the streets

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 00:25|| 2024-08-19 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The protesters are protesting something that is very far away from here

It's protest season for Marxists and their Anarchist buddies. Causes change all the time, the behavior doesn't.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-19 07:25|| 2024-08-19 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Things are going to get even more fun!

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-19 07:54|| 2024-08-19 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 a lot has changed in the last half-century

Look at chaotic Chicago, not the Dem convention, to see what disasters await under Harris-Walz

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 08:27|| 2024-08-19 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Programmed "disaster" for large urban logistical nodes. All existing order must be destroyed in order to "Build Back Better."

It's all about CONTROL.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-19 08:43|| 2024-08-19 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Chicago is flooded with cops for DNC as pro-Palestine protests begin

Means the 'burbs are 'open season'.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 08:52|| 2024-08-19 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I never noticed before how much Priztker looks like a chubby Alfonse Capone.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-08-19 08:53|| 2024-08-19 08:53|| Front Page Top

#8 This fat f*ck is planning on running for POTUS, giving America all the "blessings" of Illinois and Chicago

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-19 09:08|| 2024-08-19 09:08|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Jabba the Dem

Chicago Begins Erecting Miles of Security Fencing Ahead of Democrat Convention

Wonder who is paying for that and if they'll be taken down.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 10:01|| 2024-08-19 10:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Chicago was gripped by crime throughout the weekend as at least 11 people were shot, three fatally, at a time when the city's police department is stretched thin in anticipation of the DNC.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 10:20|| 2024-08-19 10:20|| Front Page Top

#11 "In addition to local police, members of the Illinois National Guard were mobilized and seen patrolling in camouflage uniforms"

Democratic lawmakers urge the Pentagon to keep the military out of US law enforcement

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 10:45|| 2024-08-19 10:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Per Chicago's ABC 7 channel, last weekends current casualties are 5 KIA, 25 WIA. "Whole different ballgame" means Chicago's population is far crazier and far better armed than in 1968.
There will be a lot of interesting amateur video being made there this coming week.

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-08-19 11:55|| 2024-08-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Today's James Howard Kunstler post:

There are many more ways for things to go wrong this week than the simple dynamics that were in-play fifty-six years ago in Chicago.

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-08-19 12:00|| 2024-08-19 12:00|| Front Page Top

#14 #11 - as long as they're paid by the state, they are not subject to Posse Commitatus.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-19 12:25|| 2024-08-19 12:25|| Front Page Top

#15 they are not ~~subject to~~ bound by Posse Commitatus

A speculative retrospective...

Clinton and 'martial law'

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-19 21:53|| 2024-08-19 21:53|| Front Page Top

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