Glad to see this has returned.  I know a few people quit posting due to the security risk.  No one made an announcement, and I just recently noticed.  So kudos to this being fixed.  Assuming we know that the new certificate is owned by James or whomever owns evo.

Sure, in a dictionary Minnesota is part of the Midwest, but compare them to the rest of fly over country and along with WI, and MI, they're the outliers.  Illinois would be red if not for Chicago.  Prior to Trump in 16, we had to go back to Regan for any of these states to have voted for the GOP. 

I've been dead wrong the past two elections, so even I don't put any weight in my own observation.  But all the polls are saying the economy, immigration and crime are at the forefront of the electorate.  The July jobs reports was horrific, we're at record inflation, and economists are throwing the R word around.  The border is a fucking disaster and Harris was the Border Czar.  Crime is the one area they have going for them as it has dropped 10% from where it's been the past few years.  But again, Harris is the worst one to put out on that issue.  Cause she is the one who bailed out rioters in Minnesota during the Floyd riots.  She was the first one to "reimagine policing" when BLM and the far left were demanding to defund the police.  And unfortunately, there is a lot of tape of Harris presenting herself as "woke".  That was the one area Biden had some credit, because he's the guy behind the 93 crime bill and didn't support the defund movement in 2020. 

Trump went on TV and said Harris wasn't a black woman.  If any other person in any other universe said that, it'd be over.  But nope, fucking kryptonite.  Because as you already said and know from your lived experience in Chicago, people, but black people especially, know Harris has nothing in common with their heritage and story.  People can smell bullshit and Harris is as fake, manufactured and insincere as they come.  To say nothing of how interesting it is that the Democrats who profess to be the guardians of democracy and freedom against Trump (their words, not mine), just installed a candidate with zero discussion or debate with the public.  It just happened without zero input from the electorate.  And I have to believe that this fundamentally undemocratic and unamerican process is going to rub more than not the wrong way when they finally acknowledge that.  And in that vein, I just don't see how two months from now people in PA, NV, GA and AZ are all of a sudden going to see Harris as the better candidate.  Especially with WW3 being moments away from starting in both Israel and Ukraine.  There's records to compare now, and one is objectively better than the other. 

But, like I said earlier, I have been wrong the past two cycles and haven't voted for the winning candidate in 20 years.  So the opposite of what I think is probably what's going to happen.

Digging this season so far, though I don't have a clue what their endgame is with Daemon and the Weirwood tree influence.  My favorite YouTube Preston Jacobs was lampooned for over a decade for claiming the weirwood throne at the vale was the cause of Robin Arryn's seizures, and the show took that idea and ran with it. 

Really really like what they're doing with Aemond. 

Vote dude. I know the south will be red regardless, but it’s an important right everyone should exercise. I don’t care who you vote for, but vote.

Welcome to the club, Mitch. Ain't it a lot easier and happier when you call out both sides?