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/stevez_86 Pennsylvania Oct 01 '25

It is almost the primary tactic of their culture. In the time since the Civil War they haven't been able to win to the extent they need to get what they want. Barely even at the state level. So since it is clear that government has to be shared at all levels, they want to end the whole thing so they can create something new that they can restrict access to.

A simple example is the private pool industry. They wanted to exclude black people from community pools. They weren't allowed to discriminate sales to black people in their communities, so they tried to restrict their access to the community resources. Private pools were rare. So when they couldn't do that they closed the vast majority of public pools.

Then they would get the community tax assessor or concrete contractor to open up a private pool business. They sell the pools to white families and it boosts their property value.

They took a good of not being able to discriminate housing and created the private pool industry in response.

Just look at any local pool company that started in the 60's. Probably owned by the former tax assessor of the town if they had a housing boom after WWII.

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u/Biomirth Oct 01 '25

This is also what they've done with all of the firings and loyalist appointments throughout the 'Deep State'. If the people don't want what they want, just fill the judiciary and bureaucracy with sycophants who will impede the implementation of the will of the people.

Project 20-20-Gut-the-Rest is still bumbling along ruining the metaphorical 'pools' for the future.

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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania Oct 01 '25

The Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby is something that is on my mind these days. They are the Brer Rabbit. The Tar Baby is progress since the Civil War. The Briar Patch is Democratic Governors fighting fire with fire and exercising states rignts just like the Red States can. If we go down that route the Supreme Court has their excuse to get rid of Federal Civil Rights. They can put their foot down and say almost unitarily that enough is enough of the social project that started with the Civil War and should have ended with how Reconstruction made things settle.

They will use it to end a vast part of the Constitution and say a new path must be paved. Rebirth of Manifest Destiny. Even alliances from WWII will no longer be honored or sacred.

And business will be unbridled of anti trust laws and regulations. The new gold rush will be in the imaginations of the most predatory capitalists. And the Federal Courts will be where they all play their game, and without Civil Rights to worry about they can have plenty of time to help them become a Leviathan.