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Chicago residents reject Trump's plan to send in National Guard as a 'terrible idea'
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 8/25/25 | Emmanuel Camarillo and Kaitlin Washburn

Posted on 08/25/2025 5:35:43 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Send in the troops to Chicago? For Portage Park resident John Trotti, the answer is clear.

“I think it’s a terrible idea,” the 41-year-old said. “I think it’s a misuse of the resources that the military has and the authority that they have over what a state can and can’t do.”

Trotti was among several Northwest Side residents Sunday who rejected President Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard into the city next month as part of his monthslong campaign against immigration, homelessness and crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: astroturf; chicago; chicagosunlies; crime; jumanjiville; wakanda
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Isn't the northwest side one of the better parts of Chicago?

Why didn't the Sun Times ask anybody in the south side?

1 posted on 08/25/2025 5:35:43 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Let them stew in their own juices. They vote for it.


2 posted on 08/25/2025 5:36:54 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: DallasBiff

Somebody’s lying.


3 posted on 08/25/2025 5:37:18 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DallasBiff

Send the Guard to red state blue cities.


4 posted on 08/25/2025 5:37:43 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DallasBiff

Asking a liberal news-spewer about public opinion is akin to asking Kamala to speak a real sentence.


5 posted on 08/25/2025 5:40:00 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DallasBiff

What the President does cannot be rejected by the powers that be.

At best, there can be only disagreement.


6 posted on 08/25/2025 5:41:16 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: DallasBiff

Chicago is a very dangerous place. It has been 30 years since I traveled there. It is much worse now.

All cities where the ComDem’s run a Lawless rule, ARE DANGEROUS.


7 posted on 08/25/2025 5:43:14 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: FRiends

But did they ask ‘Bad Leroy Brown’ on the South Side? Yeah, I didn’t think so!


8 posted on 08/25/2025 5:45:36 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Somebody’s lying.

Chicago Sun Times.

9 posted on 08/25/2025 5:48:47 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: DallasBiff

When honest citizens flee the big city who is left? It ain’t rocket science.


10 posted on 08/25/2025 5:49:10 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are you now, or have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: DallasBiff

Make DC Great Again first… then places in swing states


11 posted on 08/25/2025 5:51:22 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkle, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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Several Chicago "Northside" residents reject Trump's plan to send in National Guard as a 'terrible idea',
12 posted on 08/25/2025 5:52:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Have you noticed how EVERY migrant scumbag has a prepared sob story ready for the "media"? )
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To: DallasBiff

How many did they actually talk to, and they went to areas they already knew the answer they would get. This is propaganda, again. Thanks for sharing.


13 posted on 08/25/2025 5:54:17 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: silent majority rising

i see no pictures of the people they spoke with- most likely pasty white liberals- the same ones protesting the actions in DC...


14 posted on 08/25/2025 5:59:39 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: DallasBiff

In the sense that the National Guard is not charged with police functions, I agree with the poster.


15 posted on 08/25/2025 6:00:00 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: DallasBiff

They asked somebody from Portage Park about crime in Chicago? Might as well go all the way and ask people on the Gold Coast while they’re at it.


16 posted on 08/25/2025 6:03:20 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: DallasBiff

The people in South side should get up a petition to have president trump send in the troops, and that way the right can say that the left lied about support for the idea by only posting surveys I, the safer areas of chicago!


17 posted on 08/25/2025 6:04:09 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: DallasBiff

THAT!
And, isn’t Portage Park a suburb?
As opposed to a neighborhood of the city of Chicago proper?
How does this translate to the “Back of Yards” neighborhood?
Or Hegewisch?

#WhitePeopleProblems?
or, #WhitePeopleOpnions?


18 posted on 08/25/2025 6:04:39 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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To: DallasBiff

You know why. They only talked to rich white liberals.


19 posted on 08/25/2025 6:05:40 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DallasBiff

Says the white liberal living in a safe area and never visits
Chicago proper because of the crime..


20 posted on 08/25/2025 6:06:02 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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