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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      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.)

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          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.

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

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

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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

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

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      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?

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          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.”

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            “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).

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    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.

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

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    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. 🙄