Behind the Protesters are the Ballot Harvesters

It’s interesting that our liberal friends are all fainting this week because of the death of Renee Nicole Good on January 7 at the hands of an ICE agent during a “peaceful protest” where she was using her SUV to block ICE operations. Almost exactly five years ago on January 6 our liberal friends had no problem with a Capitol police officer shooting Ashli Babbit as she climbed unarmed through a broken window into the Capitol in an “armed insurrection” against the United States government.

What is going on with our liberal friends training divorced mothers of three to engage in protest against ICE agents searching for illegal aliens as prescribed by law?

Let’s analyze the January 6 and January 7 narratives from the liberal point of view.

For our liberal friends the violent Capitol riots on January 6 were an existential threat to the System. OMG! What if the Senate had thrown out the official results of the 2020 election and considered alternate slates of Electors! It would have been the end of the world as we know it.

Er, no, dear liberal friends. But we might have got a look into the national problem of mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.

For our liberal friends the peaceful protest against ICE in Minneapolis on January 7 was a noble effort by devoted activists to prevent the deportation, by an authoritarian regime and its ICE thugs, of innocent migrants just trying to make a living.

Er, no, dear liberal friends. Peaceful protests have nothing to do with the case.

The situation in Minnesota is that the electorate is probably slightly Republican. So how do our liberal friends manage to keep Minnesota blue? Perfectly simple. Minnesota goes Democrat

mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.

Exactly how Democrats win elections in California - including in red areas like Orange County.

If (God Forbid) Gavin Newsom wins POTUS in 2028, he'll federalize this voting tactic.

Just got an "election preview packet" in the mail (California) - for my husband who has been deceased for six years. No doubt he'll get a ballot this year as well. He also just got "toll violations" - three of them - from the DMV - for his car - which I turned in five years ago.

And I already explained why this happens and you wanted to throw straw-men up about it. The OP article lays it out. My parents were union stewards for AFSCME, so I saw first hand what went on in that cesspool and the political influence and gaslighting they exerted on the multitudinous MN membership. that was and likely still is a contiguous voting bloc for the DFL (the MN democrat party) and the DNC nationally. Add that to the other public unions and the other contingents here in (again) the two/three largest counties mainly Ramsey and Hennepin, you get a recipe output of the majority of votes being for the D party. Throw in fraud and ballot harvesting and this rings true in perpetuity.

There just aren't enough people outside of these areas to generate enough voting pressure to overcome that. You may be able to see a different story in MI, not true for MN - the dynamics are different. We came probably as close as ever last presidential election:

2024 General Election Results

Candidate	Total Votes
Donald J. Trump and JD Vance	1,519,032
Kamala D. Harris and Tim Walz	1,656,979

Still, we were 137,947 votes shy of having the popular vote. 90K or so of that can likely be attributed to the somali population, a good chunk of the rest from other leech party candidates on the ballot. The electors take what they see and do what they will, but generally they are looking at vote totals and are supposed to be voting/pledging based on that.

But like I said before, we can throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore nearly half of the disenfranchised voting population to appease a reductively reasoned approach to kicking a state out of the union or somesuch because, well, hey! They always vote democrat for pres.

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