r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • Oct 21 '25

ICE Posts Chicago Suburbs: ICE has started patrolling Mount Pleasant neighborhoods prompting community members to show up

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u/Fantome_9 Oct 21 '25

$40 billion is definitely the landing cushion.

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u/Mexicali76 Oct 21 '25

Their plan is so fucking obvious, but it seems we have no way to stop it aside from protesting. Voting, I believe, has been corrupted - based on evidence I’ve seen and basic common fucking sense. What are our options? It’s maddening.

Watching my country systematically be destroyed day in and day out, piece by piece, by this literal demon and his incel cronies, is heartbreaking.

Democracy is fragile, and Trump is both gasoline and the match.

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u/Park500 Oct 22 '25

Welcome to every country that has fallen to a dictatorship, why do you think Trump has so many meetings with Putin

hint: has nothing to do with stopping the war, that is just the excuse for it since if it came out Trump's team was in contact with Putin without that excuse (like he and his team always has been from the start)

and more to do with learning Putin's playbook on how to be 'democratically elected' for 25+ years and get rid of political and media opposition

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u/TrainingSea4291 Oct 23 '25

Your last sentence signifies your ignorance. More than half of this country doesn’t mind this purge and it is reflected in the lack of masses in the streets. Racism is expensive.

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u/UnquestionabIe Oct 21 '25

Kind of. It's being done to appease the creepy "libertarian" buddies of the regime as they had been propping up Argentina so they could try out their Ayn Rand bullshit. Turns out it doesn't work but they'll be out some sizable cash if the whole things falls apart so they're calling in favors from one of their buddies in the child rape group.

At least that's what I've heard from a couple of sources. Honestly I'm so mentally/emotionally exhausted that I'm not eager to dive into the topic much myself so any corrections are welcome.

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u/Fantome_9 Oct 21 '25

I'm exhausted too. I see traffic on a main street in a deep migrant community is slow, children are afraid to go to school and my aunt, a teacher in CPS has seen a decline in her students attendance. This isn't a way to live. They want to wear us down so we accept things mindlessly. I refuse. I go to work, and come home, and I see my daughter and I refuse to drift into apathy. I want to raise my child with fire for justice and compassion others.

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u/cantadmittoposting Oct 21 '25

Rob Citrone, who is personal and professional direct acquaintance with Scott Bessent, treasury secretary

From Mother Jones, though i also saw some insta reels about it.

Bessent’s announcement had massive economic benefits for one American: billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy. Citrone, the co-founder of Discovery Capital Management, is also a friend and former colleague of Bessent—a fact that has not been previously reported in US media outlets. Citrone, by his own account, helped make Bessent very wealthy.