FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas “is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois,” per the Austin American-Statesman. www.statesman.com/politics/tex...
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Let’s hear from Greg.
sep 3, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
Did they set Pritzker up? Make him look reactionary?
sep 3, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, they'd better not.
sep 3, 2025, 2:18 am • 4 0 • view
If anyone would try it, that wonky eyed effer Paxton would be the guy. After all - he was the mastermind behind the (unsuccessful) 2020 election lawsuit. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release... bsky.app/profile/anna...
sep 3, 2025, 2:32 am • 4 0 • view
My "I'm Not Preparing to Kick Off Civil War II" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions that should have been answered by the t-shirt.
sep 3, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It's Abbott, would he tell the truth if he had sent them to Chicago?
sep 3, 2025, 2:42 am • 8 0 • view
Hopefully, means that the brush back pitch from the Khan has worked.
sep 3, 2025, 2:25 am • 5 0 • view
Wouldn't be preparing if they were already prepared, just sayin'.
sep 3, 2025, 2:21 am • 16 0 • view
Yeah, I would also lie about an invasion I'm planning. Why should anyone believe anything the fascists say?
sep 3, 2025, 2:23 am • 10 0 • view
Interesting. I tend to believe Pritzker. Seems like someone would be able to find out for certain.
sep 3, 2025, 2:24 am • 280 16 • view
Abbot may be attempting to avoid a lawsuit. Exactly where are Texas forces now? Are they on a federal base in Illinois, I wonder.
sep 3, 2025, 2:29 am • 10 0 • view
Best bet: Imagine what The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Strait would do, including a leak to Pritzker, and that's probably what happened. Modern Republicans make me grateful for their utterly daft incompetence.
sep 3, 2025, 3:03 am • 1 0 • view
So, they were preparing, but hadn't asked Abbot yet.
sep 3, 2025, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
That's my guess. Why would Abbott say no? Maybe someone in his regime told him they'd be the tip of the spear in a legal quagmire and/or he's butt-hurt about coming across as an obedient lap dog in Trump's redistricting scheme.
sep 3, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
He might be smart enough to realize there's no way getting involved in this implicates him in some highly illegal shit SCOTUS wouldn't want to touch.
sep 3, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Abbot's a ghoul, but I'm not sure he's a "I'm going to be the patsy/fall guy for an illegal invasion"-level ghoul.
sep 3, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Ha! Ha! “someone would be able to find out for certain.” Ha! Ha! Who would you get the “certain” information from? Greg Abbott? Ken Paxton?? Ted Cruz??? Ha! Ha! This guy????
sep 3, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
There are lots of civilian employees who work at GLNB. They'd know. If any are here, please contact OP off-board.
sep 3, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 1 • view
The folks who work in the on-base commissary and daycare know everything.
sep 3, 2025, 2:41 am • 5 0 • view
Pritzker said the Guard was already in place, not preparing. Don’t fall for the old tricks.
sep 3, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
Hints at internal conflicts in TX decision circles. (I speculate.)
sep 3, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
He's getting his info from the Trump admin, what are the odds they didn't ask Texas yet?
sep 3, 2025, 2:30 am • 8 0 • view
Zero
sep 3, 2025, 2:44 am • 0 0 • view
I'm thinking pretty high. My theory is that finding out the plan is what prompted the leak. Someone overheard that it would be Texas, realized the legal implications, and told Pritzker.
sep 3, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Perhaps plans were changed in the glare of the light of day 🤔
sep 3, 2025, 3:35 am • 4 0 • view
I thought Pritzker is quoting Trump since he’s the one threatening to send in the Texas guard
sep 3, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Did anyone see a convoy with Texas plates drive into Illinois? Did they pay any tolls?
sep 3, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
At the bare minimum, Pritzker calling it out may make it harder to deploy them, what with sunshine being the best disinfectant and all ...
sep 3, 2025, 2:27 am • 85 3 • view
He called it to prevent it
sep 3, 2025, 3:04 am • 3 0 • view
You would think.
sep 3, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
I’m all in with my Governor Pritzker. I wouldn’t trust Abbott as far as I could spit.
sep 3, 2025, 2:50 am • 2 0 • view
My read is that Abbot’s using a technicality to undercut Pritzker: even though they’re TXNG units, if they’re under federal orders, it’s not *Texas* preparing to deploy them to Illinois.
sep 3, 2025, 2:41 am • 7 0 • view
I do shit I didn't prepare for all the time.
sep 3, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Legally, you can't do that, unless the other government accepts that. Otherwise it's title 10, where the feds are on the hook to pay.
sep 3, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
No National Guard Troops, just Tiny Tyrant Terrorizing Texas on Tires expanding to Democrat run cities with his besties who were given ICE badges. -Proud Boys -Patriot Front -General Flynn’s Holy War army from Christo-fascist churches & tele-evangelical MAGA churches ICE mandate is to hire bigots.
sep 5, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s a relief. God know God knows Gov. Abbott would never lie.
sep 3, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Then why are Texas National Guard troops 38 miles north of Chicago?
sep 3, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
don’t believe him, only reason he would not deploy them to Illinois is he has plans to deploy them to the blue dot cities in his state which he has already done to thwart participation in the no kings protests
sep 3, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Abbot and his office choose their words. Just because they say they "aren't preparing" as in the TX governor won't be giving the order. Rather, he's cool with federalizing them and letting the order come from DC instead of Austin. Win win for Abbot and the admin.
sep 3, 2025, 4:36 am • 0 0 • view
Pritzker should then announce that anyone invading his state will be recognized as an unidentified hostile force and will be met with equal force (since Abbott says they aren't preparing for this: that means the invaders would be impostors OR they are "unprepared" and a liability to populace)
sep 3, 2025, 8:12 am • 2 1 • view
Brain worm: the naval base isn't Illinois, it's fed property. I wouldn't put it past him.
sep 3, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Technically I suppose Abbott would also be guilty of a felony in Illinois if he ordered the Texas Guard to invade
sep 3, 2025, 2:28 am • 14 1 • view
Perhaps the key word is "preparing"...?
sep 3, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
Yessireebob. Abbott is known for being truthful. 🤣😉
sep 3, 2025, 4:49 am • 1 0 • view
What is it worth?
sep 3, 2025, 2:22 am • 1 0 • view
There are so many ways to split hairs in this statement such that it is meaningless. Abbot *could* say that TX would not command their national guard to go to another state without the consent of that state’s governor but does not have control when federalized.
sep 3, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view
Not “preparing” because they’re already there or even already en route?
sep 3, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
As one of Greg Abbott’s constituents I can unequivocally state that I wouldn’t trust this turd as far as I could throw him.
sep 3, 2025, 3:35 am • 5 0 • view
I second.
sep 3, 2025, 4:13 am • 3 0 • view
So they are. Copy.
sep 3, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
I was thinking about that. Couldn't JB just deploy his own state's NG? This situation is so stupid.
sep 3, 2025, 2:23 am • 3 0 • view
Good boy
sep 3, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
Blue states need to announce they will not send their NG, rescue teams or utilities workers for recovery efforts to any state that sends NG across state borders without the host state’s approval.
sep 3, 2025, 2:42 am • 15 2 • view
"soft secession"
sep 3, 2025, 7:06 am • 0 0 • view
Wouldn’t it be something if the blue states reminded red states what they contribute to their well-being through acts like this?
sep 3, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The words of these creatures are worth less than dog shit
sep 3, 2025, 2:19 am • 4 0 • view
If you recall, Abbott sent buses full of migrants to Chicago before Trump was reelected. He dumped them in various spots, unannounced. So, now he can go back to pick them up? Also, there is still clean up from the summer flooding in Kerrville that Texas National Guard could help with.
sep 3, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Correct. They are not "preparing". They already prepared them.
sep 3, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
Abbott must have said this with his fingers crossed behind him.
sep 3, 2025, 2:47 am • 1 0 • view
I don't believe a word coming out of Abbott's orifice... I mean office.
sep 3, 2025, 2:47 am • 8 0 • view
…oh?
sep 3, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
I’m not sure that pronouncement changes anything.
sep 3, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
Not deploying until trump orders him to
sep 3, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
Spot on.
sep 3, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
Can we please avoid civil war?
sep 3, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
Obviously weasel words. They haven't been given the order by Dear Leader yet so they aren't technically preparing.
sep 3, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, Texas might not be be but TRUMP is. So whatever, fascist fucker.
sep 3, 2025, 3:49 am • 2 0 • view
They're still lookin' for their spurs
sep 3, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
Then again they lie like dogs.
sep 3, 2025, 2:22 am • 4 0 • view
Just because they say they aren’t “preparing” doesn’t mean they aren’t already there.
sep 3, 2025, 2:28 am • 29 0 • view
If they were already deployed, their families would know and so would the rest of the world. It's not something they can keep secret.
sep 3, 2025, 2:51 am • 7 0 • view
Yeah, at the very least there’s a state guard patch on their uniforms. Pretty sure that impersonating another state’s guard member is verboten, with harsh penalties.
sep 3, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
And Illinois state police should escort them out of the state.
sep 3, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
Hopefully not because they already have
sep 3, 2025, 2:19 am • 7 0 • view
I wonder if he has a history of being full of shit
sep 3, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
So Texas is invading Illinois... Checks bingo card...
sep 3, 2025, 2:32 am • 3 0 • view
So it's a ghost national guard. Great
sep 3, 2025, 2:19 am • 2 0 • view
Abbott is just another Tangerine Tits. Don't believe a word he says. He sent 4 thousand of them to Ca.
sep 3, 2025, 2:40 am • 4 0 • view
It’s what a civil war might look like.
sep 3, 2025, 2:52 am • 4 0 • view
I would be more reassured if I thought they were above blatantly lying
sep 3, 2025, 2:37 am • 3 0 • view
If Texas, Florida, or ANY red states send troops into blue states, blue states should remind them first-hand what it feels like to lose a war. Seems like they may have forgotten what it feels like to lose a civil war.
sep 3, 2025, 2:39 am • 12 0 • view
I don't believe Gov Abbott any more than I believe President Trump. Both routinely lie about most everything!
sep 3, 2025, 2:20 am • 46 0 • view
i guess let us know if a civil war starts?
sep 3, 2025, 2:30 am • 2 0 • view
🤔 then who are they 'staging' at Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago?? abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
sep 3, 2025, 3:40 am • 5 3 • view
He’s lying.
sep 3, 2025, 2:45 am • 7 0 • view
he’ll rebrand them, borrow them, enlist them, re-designate them - SOMEHOW- to make it sound legit for his base. He’ll get shut down by all Illinois judges, and they’ll appeal to SCOTUS … Where they’ll make some BS ruling to allow it. We’re way past fucked.
sep 4, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
I think you are actually inches away from another civil war, followed by worldwide unrest using the decline of the USA. Let’s hope this time the civil war will end with full measures on the party not playing by the constitution, and the civilized world will sustain w/o their once trusted partner.
sep 3, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
If Abbott said it, it’s not worth much.
sep 3, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Abbott's office says so, now, but it wouldn't shock me if it was being discussed between Abbott and his favourite new Caesar.
sep 3, 2025, 2:28 am • 3 0 • view
Possible it was being planned but then it got leaked?
sep 3, 2025, 2:37 am • 9 1 • view
Nola instead.
sep 3, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
If they do invade "to fight crime" then they'd damned well better go to the areas where all those shootings occurred, not stage for photo ops in Grant Park, around museums, in downtown loop, in "magic mile" north shore region.
sep 3, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
But unfortunately, we don’t know if he’s being honest.
sep 3, 2025, 2:22 am • 12 0 • view
I'll err on the side of him being dishonest.
sep 3, 2025, 4:10 am • 5 0 • view
Yeah, the call from Pritzker to Abbott 🔥🔥🔥
sep 3, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view