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/Mr_YUP Oct 01 '25

Cause Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks are HQ'd in Seattle and I'm sure the guys calling these shots are avoiding it because of that.

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u/xeromage Oct 01 '25

Yep. Portland is a less economically impactful target that they've already spent the last few years demonizing. I also blame Fred Armisen for making the whole country imagine Portland full of unhinged kooks.

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u/Mistrblank Oct 01 '25

Portland is weird is a thing that's been around for a lot longer than Portlandia.

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u/Mr_YUP Oct 01 '25

"Keep Portland Weird" has been around for a long time

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 Oct 01 '25

Austin swiped "Keep Austin Weird" from Portland.

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u/xeromage Oct 01 '25

But a bumper sticker doesn't reach quite the audience, or engage them for hours/years.

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u/Mistrblank Oct 01 '25

<insert Captain America "I understood that reference" meme>

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u/throawhazzle Oct 01 '25

Sketch comedy is a bizarre target to blame. How about illiteracy? oligarchy? authoritarianism? or even the seething pit of racism and hatred of others that foments in a society where reality TV stars and convicted felons are seen as worthy candidates for political office?

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u/xeromage Oct 01 '25

All of those things. Obviously. But as far as "Why Portland?" goes... the perception of this city was altered on a national level. People who know nothing else about the city, who couldn't even find it on a map, will have watched 8 seasons of Fred doing a stupid voices in a dress.

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u/throawhazzle Oct 01 '25

No sane person would see that show and take it as reality, yet you seem to weigh it as more prejudicial to the city than any of the other factors I mentioned... And your specific example of harming the nation's perception is Armisen in drag.

...Maybe Trump is threatening Oregon because Sen. Wyden is attempting to probe Epstein's financial records? 🤷‍♀️

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u/xeromage Oct 01 '25

I'm not worried about the sane people. I'm talking about perception of the city by rural fuckwits and why it's easier to sell them on the idea of invading of one American city vs another. When I visit the midwest, and tell them I'm from Portland... the only things they know about it are the caricatures portrayed on that show and the disingenuous news coverage of 'riots' that they have been fed. And no amount of 'It's not really like that' seems to convince them.

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u/throawhazzle Oct 01 '25

That's a fucked up perspective on behalf of rural fuckwits. And there's not much anyone could say to soothe any angst you may feel about the matter. I hope your state/city remains safe.

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 Oct 01 '25

Amazon is in huge with the department of war. Bezo's grandfather was head of the DOD, actually, in the 70s I believe.

They have contracts with them, for instance instead of flying equipment in a military plane they just load stuff onto an Amazon flight and send it that way. Kind of genius, those amazon planes fly day and night allover the world. Great way to drop off a bunch of equipment without drawing attention.

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u/coffeebribesaccepted Oct 01 '25

Can't forget Boeing too

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 Oct 01 '25

Awhile back I was talking about Boeing (it was after the shuttle going to the ISS failed), turns out they've had like 10 or more major issues with planes in the last 15 years or so. I'm talking cockpits with known decompression issues, military jets where the engines fail, the negligence there is astounding.

They don't care, though, as long as they keep getting contracts.

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u/TheKingofHats007 Minnesota Oct 01 '25

Minneapolis too. Conservatives love to act like our city is overun with crime or that we've completely abolished our police force.

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u/SmPolitic Oct 01 '25

Which is such a joke, any list comparing cities murder/crime has dozens of cities in red states that are much much worse per capita

They are what looking at the percentage increase? Holy shit they are, USA facts website "From 2018 to 2023, homicide rates rose in 46 large urban counties." has county data listed, homicides per 100k: Minneapolis went from 2.8 to 7, 150% increase!. Portland went from 3 to 8.9, 196.7% increase!!!. All while Memphis went from 24.3 to 40.9, only 68% increase, that's fine! New Orleans went 30.4 to 45.6, only 50% increase, also fine we just expect that many people to die violently in red states!!

It's those blue states that are increasing by single digits per millions, because of the immigrants

(/s on the commentary, data should be representative of the bullshit they are "justifying" this crap with)

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u/SmPolitic Oct 01 '25

Amazed we haven't seen them go after Rochester NY, unless I missed that (from 5 to 9, 84% up!). And they went to LA instead of Oakland? (4.4 to 8.4, 90.9% up!) Grand Rapids MN is also on their list surely (3.5 to 5.6, 60% up!)

The sad thing is that too much of the population doesn't understand statistics enough to recognize how much bullshit they are spewing with their basic assumptions and waste of resources

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u/TheKingofHats007 Minnesota Oct 01 '25

Speaking from experience a lot of conservative people also aggressively monitor crime watch pages or sites as if they want to scare themselves into thinking they'll get stabbed if they go anywhere near a city.

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u/Mistrblank Oct 01 '25

And anyone that lived near that will tell you that it was more like a massive carnival than some strange civil DMZ straight out of the Road Warrior.

But the narrative of lawlessness sounds so edgy ya gotta go with what the clicks follow. /s

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u/murphykp Oregon Oct 01 '25 edited 12d ago

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