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I don't know guys. Was in downtown Chicago yesterday. ZERO Harris/Walz gear or signs. Not that they won't win IL. This is a marathon with large potential close to election day to get the names at least in peoples faces. Hillary and Biden were much more prominent in Chicago during their runs in '16 and '20.

There's weird enthusiasm for Trump this run here in IL. I think people don't care about backlash from Karen's. Won't tilt the tide likely, but I believe it bodes well for Wisconsin being neighbors with the state. The shift here might be 1-2pts, but if you even get 1pt in WI Harris loses the state likely.

Also got in a discussion with a couple of blacks at a friends house. I've met them before. One from Illinois and one from Mississippi. I was drinking and was just blunt and asked them, you do realize Kamala is not black? I think I converted two voters that night just on that. Then the fact they're in the tree trimming/cutting industry. Again being blunt, your vote for Harris would be for Juan to take your job. I could see the light bulb turn on.

I don't like talking politics with friends. Don't put signs up in my yard. All my personal friends are voting Trump. Friends of my wife's that I'm friends with, I avoid it. But I'd guess 80% are Trump voters. I do think there's massive, massive cheating in Cook County, IL (Chicago). Dems have had cheating down for half a century in IL. It should be a swing state in my opinion.

Until IL can fix Cook, it's a dark blue state for ever.

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/police-find-72-stolen-campaign-signs-at-home-in-charlevoix-county-27-year-old-charlevoix-man-apple-airtag-election-donald-trump-kamala-harris-jd-vance-tim-walz-democrat-republican-gop

CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A 27-year-old Charlevoix man was arrested for larceny after police allegedly found 72 stolen political campaign signs at a home on Tuesday.

Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Tholen said an "adjacent county" has recently been investigating several thefts of signs.

"After reporting one of these thefts a homeowner placed an Apple 'AirTag' into a replacement sign and a camera was installed over the area of the sign," Tholen said.

Tholen said the sign with the Apple AirTag was stolen on Monday and was tracked to a residence in Charlevoix County on Tuesday.

"Police executed a search warrant at that residence and found 72 political campaign signs within that home—all advocating for the same presidential candidate," Tholen said. "The resident of that home was found to drive a vehicle that matches a vehicle shown on camera stealing the campaign sign."

The resident, a 27-year-old Charlevoix man, was arrested on larceny charges, as well as charges of concealing stolen property.

Tholen said that while police were at the residence, the man's aunt arrived at the home.

"She was interviewed by police and stated that she had told the man that she would pay him $10 for each sign he took that belonged to the presidential candidate. She claimed that this was a 'joke,'" Tholen said.

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/lawfare-is-jihad-against-our-country

You think the bankers are up to no good? No band of scoundrels has brought more chaos and grief to the life of this republic than the claque that gathers darkly under the banner of “Lawfare.” Its public face is Lawfaremedia.org, run by Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings senior fellow, but that gang functions only to lend a false-front of decorum to the operations of its Democratic Party activist lawyer-army led by Field Marshal Marc Elias, architect of the ballot fraud that has caused Americans to lose faith in their elections.

Marc Elias was the original expeditor of the RussiaGate hoax in 2016 from his perch at Perkins Coie, then Hillary Clinton’s campaign law firm, which laundered payments to Christopher Steele, front-man for Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS political PR shop, which concocted the fraudulent “dossier” and set in motion a train of DC intel blob legal shenanigans aimed at defenestrating Donald Trump from the White House — the Mueller Investigation, impeachment, etc.

While all that was going on through the Trump term, and with the Covid-19 Op providing cover, Mr. Elias engineered the 2020 changes in many states’ election laws and bylaws to permit large-scale mail-in voting, organized ballot-harvesting activities, and introduce the use of drop-boxes for receiving bundled votes. He and his George Soros-financed staff lawyers sued states that attempted to require voter-identification, and provided legal protection for Mark Zuckerberg’s $419-million-dollar assault on election precinct staffing in swing states. When the 2020 election concluded suspiciously, Mr. Elias and his gang joined lawsuits in every case where the balloting was contested and got more than sixty of them dismissed on the basis of “standing,” without the merits of the cases being heard. This is Lawfare.

This time around, 2024, Mr. Elias has done everything possible to ensure that millions of illegal aliens stuffed into swing states will have their putative identities attached to harvested mail-in ballots from addresses such as Walmart parking lots and storage units, and has filed lawsuits wherever a state threatens to require proof of citizenship for voting. He has also filed sixty peremptory lawsuits to obstruct attempts to audit any election count after November 5 — as if it is an affront to democracy to even ask questions about official misconduct.

A parallel Lawfare scam underway is the Democratic Party-sponsored 65 Project that seeks to disbar Trump-adjacent lawyers who attempt to challenge any voting irregularities in this year’s election. Its mission statement reads:

"The 65 Project is a bipartisan effort to protect democracy from these once-and-future abuses by holding accountable Big Lie Lawyers who bring fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results, and by working with bar associations to deter future abuses by establishing clear standards for conduct that punish lies about the conduct or results of elections."

Notice the term “Big Lie” to foreclose any inquiry at all into election fraud. That half the people in this country accept such an Orwellian con tells you the vital role played by the perversion of language in the Democratic Party’s war against the citizens of this land. Exactly who is to say, in advance of the event, that any objection to a vote count is fraudulent and malicious? Answer: the people who have maliciously committed fraud. The Democrats have been grooming the public for years with that phrase, the Big Lie, in exactly the same way that pedos groom innocent pubescents who accept the authority of any grown-up, no matter what debauchery they are subjected to.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3187544/green-party-presidential-candidate-files-suit-over-ohio-decision-not-to-count-votes-for-her/

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has filed a lawsuit in federal court over the decision of Ohio election officials not to count votes for her after her running mate was named by the national party after a state administrative deadline.

Cleveland.com reports that the lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. district court in Columbus by Stein, the person named as her running mate on the state ballot and three Ohio voters. It alleges that the decision infringes on their constitutional rights to free speech, association, and equal protection and the voting rights of the Ohio-based plaintiffs.

Patrick says

Yep. Counting ballots is an additive exercise. There should never be any subtraction.