Weekend at Mussolini’s: Trump's Secret Menu for a Chicago Military Siege

Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square? Was fashion the reason why they were there? They disguise it, hypnotize it. Television made you buy it - System of a Down, "Hypnotize"

THE BLUE LETTER

How J.B Pritzker must react to any Trump troops in Chicago

Trump’s War on Chicago Is a War on Democracy

As is clear, when we saw Linkin Park in Chicago two weeks ago, chaos(!), violence everywhere!

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Friends, Donald Trump isn’t interested in crime, unless you mean finding more ways to commit it.

The minute the 34-count felon and adjudicated rapist with the three other indictments for numerous counts and 20-something sexual-assault accusers showed up in D.C., the percentage of criminals in The District went straight up.

And we’re not even including whatever Don Jr. is on when he’s in town and live streaming with eyes more bloodshot than Antietam.

Trump, you see, has a new plan to show America just how the “law and order” of a criminal works: he’s been bragging to anyone stuck listening that he’ll send U.S. troops into Chicago.

Governor J.B. Pritzker, who’s been outspoken on what a fascist prick Trump is, wants no part of it. Neither does Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson. And why would they?

Contrary to the lies spewed by Trump and his racist cabal of weathercocks, homicides in Chicago were down by over 30%, shootings down by 40%, over the past year.

In much the same way crime in Washington, D.C. is at a 30-year low. Yet Trump, for a pretext to send in the National Guard, pretended its violence was as rampant as his lifetime exposure to venereal disease.

But, this would only matter if what Trump is doing—as well as what he plans to do in 19 red states—had any relation to crime. Of course it doesn’t.

And of course Pritzker and other Illinois officials know this, and made clear it is illegal for Trump to send troops into Chicago:

“JB Pritzker emphatically dismissed Trump’s warning, saying the president ‘has absolutely no right and no legal ability to send troops in to the city of Chicago.’”

First, there’s that whole “posse comitatus” thing that bars presidents from deploying the military against their own citizens. Yes, Trump doesn’t care, and he has already been shut down by courts for treating the Pentagon like his personal MAGA militia.

But, in addition, while D.C. has always (and shamefully) been kept in a state of constitutional limbo, Illinois has no such issue. From the Chicago Sun Times:

Even Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara, who has been supportive of Trump over the years, said the president doesn’t have the same jurisdiction that he has in Washington D.C.

“The president says a lot of things that aren’t necessarily doable. They’re more, I would say wishes or dreams,” Catanzara said.

“It’s a different environment than it is in D.C. They do have federal jurisdiction in D.C. They do not here in the same realm. The National Guard in D.C. is his National Guard. It doesn’t belong to anybody else… I can’t even imagine a world — short of an L.A. kind of riot situation — where it would be legally feasible.”

This is the same Catanzara who’s been accused of falsifying police reports and posting racist messages on social media. And even this goon is like, uh, no, the a-hole can’t do that.

But again, this was never about crime. Trump wants tanks where there should be teachers, soldiers where there should be social workers.

Anyone who thinks dropping the 82nd Airborne into a major American city ends peacefully, probably also believes Trump’s cerebral matter isn’t some amalgamation of delousing powder and a horseshoe crab using his skull for shelter.

So here’s the real reason we’re going through this trauma as a nation. One, control. Trump always has to be the Big Man. Two, the Epstein files—look over there everyone!

And three, and perhaps most important, always look at the data points and connect the dots. Trump is the most unpopular President ever at this point. The aforementioned Epstein files and the tumultuous, taradiddle of the TACO Trump tariffs.

The purposeful destruction of the lives of his own voters whether they be a rancher, a government worker or a small business owner.

Even immigration—with the cruelty of the images of kids being thrown to the ground, deported while they have cancer—has become a losing issue for him. Unless you happen to have been the crappiest Superman of all time.

So do the math.

If Trump had two issues he brandished based on racism to help him win in 2024, immigration and crime—both bs, as his pipsqueak, porn-monitoring minion, Mike Johnson, blocked a bipartisan immigration bill—and now immigration is gone, what does he have left?

He has to go all in on crime.

So, first, he sends in the National Guard to places like Chicago. This is a stunt guaranteed to escalate violence, not calm it—because when you treat very specific citizens like enemy combatants, conflict has a way of erupting.

Then he can send out those images—in between brunch bites of the KFC Crispy Thigh Meal—and say “see, told you they’re criminals. They’re animals. We won’t allow this!”

And if he does it in Chicago, well then he can do it in reddish/purple states with blue cities, like, I dunno, Ohio?

We have Sherrod Brown running for an open Senate seat, as I wrote about recently, and he only lost by 3% in 2024, over-performing the top of the ticket by 8%! Meaning, he’s poised to win with Trump in the dumper and not on the ballot.

But what if Trump sends in the National Guard to pick fights, harass, get images to share of non-white violence with the message he’s fighting for you, Klan-adjacent, atavistic, white-exurban guy.

And can use those same Guardsman to threaten and scare Latino, Black and other “undesirables” into staying away from polling places. With some help from gerrymandering—and every single other way he can cheat—he can potentially hang on even if he has a 35% approval rating.

I’ve already heard the messaging, sadly, repeated by people I know. And I’ve seen it, too, as have you.

It’s why when there was a brawl outside a nightclub in Cincinnati, the two worst residents of Cincinnati of all time—and this includes Cincy-born Charles Manson—Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance, spread it nationally.

Among the victims, was a white woman, and among the attackers, Black men. Wink-wink.

This is why you look for the dots to connect, because unlike the message-challenged DNC, the wholly Beelzebub Republican Party coordinates their messaging. Nothing is just said or written without purpose. I’ve heard this garbage because it’s been on their email lists, talk radio, Fox “News.”

The point is they’re building a narrative with right-wing media. And they know corporate media with just repeat it without a second thought.

And we cannot let them get away with it, we must resist by, as Malcolm X said, “any means necessary (I’ll add non-violently, unless in self-defense).

Now think of swing states or seats with GOP Governors, and how they may take this strategy on a road trip to Atlanta, Savannah, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Austin and on and on. See my point?

They get to try to trick Americans into thinking crime is out of control by baiting violence, and suppress voters with any number of lies about illegality or violent attacks on election day—or perhaps they won’t give any reason at all.

Illinois and Chicago leaders are denouncing this power grab because they can see it for what it is: Trump consolidating power the way every strongman does—by manufacturing crisis, then using it to justify crushing dissent and halting a fair vote.

It’s the same playbook Putin, Erdoğan, and yes, our orange-hued friend’s very own matinee idol, Viktor Orbán, have run with sickening success.

Today, it’s Chicago. Tomorrow, coming to a city near you. This is the creeping normalization of a domestic occupation force. If Democrats don’t shout this from the rooftops, they’re handing Trump the keys to authoritarian rule with a bow on top.

For example, if Trump wants to stop crime in Chicago, they may wanna SPEAK UP about the longest serving GOP House Speaker, Denny Hastert, who lived in prison for not nearly enough time for molesting teenage boys. Or Republican 2022 Senate candidate, Allison Salinas, recently arrested for actually planning a hit (because, MAGA!).

Or wirth respect to Trump’s clear worry about crime in general, besides not having self-arrested, maybe ask him why he hasn’t sent troops in to watch the 1,600 January 6th terrorists he pardoned, including one now advising the DOJ, who was caught on film encouraging his terrorist pals to murder cops.

Or how about Paul Manafort? Roger Stone? Dinesh D’Souza? Peter Navarro? Tom Barrack? Rick Gates? Michael Flynn? Maybe look into the Pete Hegseth settlement with the women he was accused of assaulting?

If Trump’s really worried about crime, there are a lot of folks all around him who have been accused of it—even convicted. He could start with them! Alas, again, it has nothing to do with crime, as nothing Trump ever does has anything to do with what he claims it does.

Part of the whole being a narcissistic, sociopathic, congenital-liar thing.

So, my friends, to be clear, this isn’t just another Trump tantrum. It’s a trial balloon for American fascism. Every time he ignores the law and flexes the military at us like his own private security firm, he’s daring us to get used to it—and what it will in turn do to us, and democracy.

And if we do just get used to it, we’ll wake up in a country someday soon where the military enforces political loyalty instead of protecting the nation.

Trump has always been a wannabe tyrant. Sending troops into Chicago just proves he’s willing to make it official.

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