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Gidney N Cloyd

(19,781 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 11:04 PM Jan 2017

I'm sure Trump's threat to send Feds into Chicago for the 'carnage' has nothing to due with this...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-donald-trump-chicago-street-signs-removed-met-1207-20161206-story.html

After much fanfare from Chicago aldermen over the righteousness of tearing down President-elect Donald Trump's honorary street signs, city workers quietly removed the placards over the weekend.

A city sign shop crew pulled down the remaining two street signs on Wabash Avenue near Trump Tower at 8 a.m. Sunday, according to Chicago Department of Transportation spokesman Michael Claffey. A third Trump sign was stolen months ago

The City Council voted a week before the Nov. 8 presidential election to take down the signs, citing the "caricature" of Chicago that Trump presented during the campaign through his frequent mentions of the city as a place overrun with violent crime. Aldermen also knocked Trump's pledge to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally in voting to take away the street sign honor.
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I'm sure Trump's threat to send Feds into Chicago for the 'carnage' has nothing to due with this... (Original Post) Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2017 OP
K&R... spanone Jan 2017 #1
Man, he's a thin skinned little shit. Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #2
Figures JDC Jan 2017 #3
K & R. n/t GP6971 Jan 2017 #4
add the ricketts family feuds mopinko Jan 2017 #5
Rahm's Ticket To Another Term As Mayor Of Chicago.... global1 Jan 2017 #6
Ah Ha! So that's' what's behind his little tantrum! smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #7
If he wants to send Feds anywhere, okwmember Jan 2017 #8
How come the "Oath Keepers" aren't on this? MountCleaners Jan 2017 #9
Yes he seeks revenge, not justice GusBob Jan 2017 #10
tRump hates Chicago because Obama is from there. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2017 #11
Isn't Obama setting up is post-presidential center there? Merlot Jan 2017 #15
Yup. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2017 #17
What Feds? murielm99 Jan 2017 #12
what you said... orleans Jan 2017 #18
How bully of him. Rex Jan 2017 #13
It would be interesting to see how tRumps brown shirts elmac Jan 2017 #14
Not to mention the enormous Woman's March last weekend. NBachers Jan 2017 #16
K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Jan 2017 #19
Why do I feel a Posse Comitatus Act violation coming? LudwigPastorius Jan 2017 #20

mopinko

(69,806 posts)
5. add the ricketts family feuds
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 11:11 PM
Jan 2017

w rahm, and the thickness of thieves, and getting 12% of the vote here, i think, nah. no sore spots there.

THIS.IS.NOT.NORMAL.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. Ah Ha! So that's' what's behind his little tantrum!
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 11:27 PM
Jan 2017

I knew there had to be an ulterior motive. He is becoming very easy to read. Every action of his is an act of vengeance toward some individual or group. He does nothing out of principle.

murielm99

(30,656 posts)
12. What Feds?
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:42 AM
Jan 2017

Is he going to get soldiers to fire on American citizens?

I can see all Chicagoans, no matter their allegiance, creed, color, getting behind a fight against something like this. Then there will be carnage.

I am waiting for him to start punishing blue states like Illinois.

orleans

(33,987 posts)
18. what you said...
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 01:42 AM
Jan 2017

"I can see all Chicagoans, no matter their allegiance, creed, color, getting behind a fight against something like this."

i thought the same thing
 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
14. It would be interesting to see how tRumps brown shirts
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:44 AM
Jan 2017

would deal with a few million angry protesters. Maybe there should be another march on DC at the same time, make sniffles really paranoid.

LudwigPastorius

(8,944 posts)
20. Why do I feel a Posse Comitatus Act violation coming?
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 01:50 AM
Jan 2017

I think we'll see the U.S. military patrolling the streets of an American city before all's said and done.

Maybe not this time, in Chicago, but we better hope and pray there's not another terrorist attack of the 9/11 magnitude any time soon.

In the event of something like that, Trump would suspend civil liberties as reflexively as a frog leg twitches when you hook it up to a battery.

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