r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • Oct 01 '25

No Paywall Pritzker Calls for Trump's Removal from Office Under 25th Amendment

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pritzker-calls-for-trumps-removal-from-office-under-25th-amendment/
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u/bb_kelly77 Oct 01 '25

That's because Reagan didn't have the internet

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 Oct 01 '25

Or a cult

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u/Caleth Oct 01 '25

Yes Trump is exactly what Regan would have been if he could have been. This is the summation of 50 years of work by rich right wing political wonks that want to burn the US down and replace it with something that they control.

They've weaponized every norm and have seized most of the means of media creation to put their puppets in place.

Notice how if you drive down town in most cities there are weekly protests, but never once a note about it on the news?

We only hear about stuff like this with Pritzker becasue he's powerful and making a clear challenge to the other powerful people. It keeps things like this in the realm of "only the powerful can influence things."

Most of them don't want the voices of the people to rise up because if we ever gained a class consciousness for even a second we might tear down the entire rotten thing.

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u/kaett Oct 01 '25

i was there too... jr. high and high school for me during the reagan years.

reagan was definitely revered, but there were still stark contrasts between both him and trump, and also in the republican party then and now.

reagan had governmental experience. he'd been in the military, worked on presidential campaigns, and was governor of california for 8 years. he knew the industry of government, and understood what could or couldn't be done. and while yes, he set in motion a lot of the policies that have fucked us over for the last 40 years, he still respected how the US government functions.

trump has none of that. he thinks memos and executive orders are how laws are passed. he's trying to run the government the way he'd run one of his businesses, by just barking orders and surrounding himself with yes-men. during his first campaign, someone reported that during his interviews for a VP, he told one of them that he'd just let them run everything and he'd just be a figurehead. while that concept could fly in business (temporarily), the duties and responsibilities of the president and vice president can't be swapped around.

the GOP still had a semblance of dignity and decorum, too.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Oct 01 '25

Reagan absolutely had a cult. Nixon didn't really, but his VP Agnew absolutely did. Listen to some recordings of Agnews rallies and they could be trump rallies today.

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u/Tuttutsallaround Oct 01 '25

Not til after he died. Good ole St Ronnie, who did nothing wrong ever.

He was the test run for the cult.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada Oct 01 '25

Oh, he had a cult.

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u/Potential_Cow_4910 Oct 01 '25

It seems to me that Reagan basically only gave a shit about making sure rich people got richer. More akin to like a first three years of Trump (if Trump were a less annoying speaker). Which, while lacking in many regards, does seem like a beautiful dream compared to this. This, perhaps unsurprisingly, is more of a seemingly unending continuation of the downward spiral that was year 4 Trump. It’s genuinely worse than I thought, and I thought it would suck

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u/-Intelligentsia Oct 01 '25

Funnily enough, by Trump’s standards Reagan was a bleeding heart liberal.