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Link without paywall:https://www.thedailybeast.com/raging-stephen-miller-suggests-arresting-blue-state-governor-jb-pritzker/

Stephen Miller said that Governor J.B. Pritzker could be arrested for engaging in a “criminal conspiracy.”

When asked by Fox host Will Cain on Friday under what authority a governor could potentially be arrested, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff said that the Department of Justice “has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.”

Miller’s statement comes after President Donald Trump claimed that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Pritzker should be “in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.”

On Oct. 23, the Illinois governor signed an executive order establishing the “Illinois Accountability Commission,” which will track “abuses” and hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “accountable” following the Department of Homeland Security’s launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Fascist.

By definition.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Calling it now, this dude will be the first to flee to Argentina.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

That's actually a really good bet, when Trump inevitably dies, all of Miller's protection also dies. Right now Miller is essentially the most powerful man in the world because he's exceedingly good at being Trump's personal little Wormtongue. Trump is checked-out and bored with life in general, he only wants adoration and golf, so he's basically letting Miller and a few other close "advisors" make all the calls.

Miller thinks he's going to take over for Trump, he thinks he's going to retain power and be the Wormtongue for Vance, he thinks he can sustain the momentum and that Trump's base will like him and follow him.

I look forward to the rude awakening. He is so hated that I wouldn't be at all surprised if the right suddenly digs up dirt on him the moment Trump is out of the picture and can't pardon him. (I mean, some serious allegations that will actually get someone canceled from power - like messing with rich people's money in some way.)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would he need to flee to Argentina? He's winning.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because Trump won't live forever and few of the factions pulling Trump's strings likes him.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reagan didn't live forever and we're still sucking from the sewage hose of his politics 40 years down the line. Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol didn't flee the country when Bill Clinton took office.

few of the factions pulling Trump’s strings likes him

He's very close with a certain selection of billionaire Zionists (Larry Ellison, notably). And his wife is straight up fucking Elon Musk. He'll be fine.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If winning means being criminals and losers... then sure, he's winning. People like him end up with their heads on a pike.

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nazi America is getting insane.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

funny because Miller is jewish too.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Almost as funny as Israeli jews commiting a genocide.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Which specific ethnicities are deemed untermenschen and which are deemed ubermenschen isn't what determines or not if somebody has a Nazi mindset. The ethnicities deemed to be in those categories are only important when talking about historically very specific groups of people with a Nazi mindset.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

There have always been Kapos.

[–] Mastershelf@lemmy.zip 92 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I never thought I would find myself joining the war on states' rights on the side of states' rights.

That's because the entire issue is that the people whose ideologies you are fighting against don't actually have consistent ideologies. Their ideology boils down to "what is beneficial to me to gain power that that specific time." Once that time has passed and the opposite becomes more beneficial to them, they will switch sides, because that's all that really matters to them.

When states' rights becomes convenient to them again, they will switch back to supporting them just as effortlessly as they switched to states' rights not being important. There is no end, there is no bottom, they have no shame. They only have the pursuit and expression of power. Which honestly explains why so many of them are rapists and kiddie diddlers since both of those are about gaining and executing power over the powerless.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's like that saying the inmates are running the asylum. The Confederates are running the Federal government.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 27 points 2 days ago

Which is why I maintain that the civil war never ended, it just went cold.

Andrew Johnson was the first victory of the south in the long cold war that followed.

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I prefer, "the clowns are now running the circus.".

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In high end circuses, the clowns are the most experienced acrobats and performers. There's a decent chance the clowns are the coaches for the new performers doing the fancy stuff. It takes a ton of practice and experience to do acrobatics and gymnastics "badly" without getting horribly injured.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not only that but clowns running the circus is a pretty apt example of Socialism. The clowns literally own the means of production. The better they are at clowning and clown-like activities, the better the circus is and the more money the circus makes, thus the more money they make. They'd have incentive to make the best circus they could make.

[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I would feel pretty dang proud to be a clown, plus I get to wear the awesome wig

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It would be funny if people went to protests dressed as union soldiers with signs like "slavery lost".

I feel like it would infuriate the miller and carlson types.

The Governors failing to protect the people who the governor sued the federal government for sending there. What the hell judge would ever be able to uphold any of it. Is it possible, maybe but it's like me going to a bar and being told to leave because I was banned, sneaking in the backdoor, the bar tender telling me to leave and then throwing a punch at the bouncer and expecting a judge to say the establishment failed to keep me safe when the bouncer threw me on the curb.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not? The US was designed to have a weak federal system.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because states rights has long been a bigoted dogwhistle. Early on it was states rights to have slavery, but rejecting states rights to declare every person on their soil free; then it became about Jim Crow, then abortion and gay issues and to a lesser extent cannabis, but only when the federal government was considering banning the bigoted option. The people chanting states rights about abortion aren't anymore and are cracking down on the rights of pregnant people to leave their states to get an abortion.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

States rights were also a profound force against slavery.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know exactly who needs to be deported: Stephen Miller.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I could think of better punishments.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

arrested for engaging in a “criminal conspiracy.”

Speaking of conspiracy, I just have to ask: Are we sure Stephen Miller isn't just campaigning for Pritzker 2028 at this point?

It's like I've become so used to kayfabe, narrative control, and psychological manipulation at this point, that now I'm suspicious somehow I'm playing into their hands by believing anything they say.

Like the more Stephen Miller obsesses over him and runs his dumb fascist mouth about how much he hates Pritzker, or about how Pritzker keeps using the rule of law and jurisdictional autonomy to interfere with the Chratzi agenda, the more I feel inclined to support Pritzker.

Fox News and Miller are somehow turning a 60 year old billionaire into the "bad boy rebel" fighting against Trump.

Are they really too dumb to realize they're giving this guy's presidential campaign free advertisement before he's even announced any intention to run.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Handcuffs need slapped, for those that are breaking laws and violating constitutional rights. That is not the governors.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dude needs to go back to Transylvania

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We don't want him. We have enough problems with our own fascists.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought they elected someone with a respectable degree that would have morals? Dr Acula is not a good leader?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Lexington, KY has more than enough problems without him.

For those that don't know, Transylvania University is in Lexington, KY. The reason for this is that when the university was founded, the town was called The Transylvania Colony. Guess who settled there?

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Transylvania is in Romania right?

The original region, yes.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Lol, more like (Dr.?) Frank N Furter, as portrayed by the fabulous Tim Curry, but yes. Romanians. Lexington, KY may as well be a colony of the people from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania. Lexington remains the second highest per capita LGBTQ+ city in the US just behind San Francisco.

~~Edit: also for those that don't know, the suffix "vania" means "forest or woods" in Romanian.~~

Therefore Pennsylvania means "Penn's Forest," and Transylvania means "across/through the woods."

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Silva" means forest in Latin. The name Transylvania(it's written Transilvania in Romanian) is a Latin translation of the Hungarian name for the region. In Romanian the region is known as Ardeal.

The "vania" suffix is not a thing that means "forest" In Romanian(source: me, a Romanian speaker).

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fair enough. I was taught the wrong etemology of the words.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

dracula tepes?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

vlad dracula tepes? he dint bring his magical teleporting castle with him.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Lol there's no "duty to protect" the supreme court even if they rule against this they set 60 years of precedent against this

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That impotent little maggot having another tantrum? 🥱

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

ITS HIS kink, to be humiliated by someone more powerful than he is.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Someone that is stymieing Taco's criminal conspiracy is not engaging in a "criminal conspiracy".

[–] BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

So Miller is mad because the governor won't protect the invading army of thugs? Is that what this is? He can't be serious. 🙄