2) Second, here are all 15 points our man makes in the one minute video above. Who knew you could pack that much info into just 60 seconds? Me? I have to unpack it, and that's what you see here...
3) So who is this man, @shestokas? To me, he's my Declaration of Independence and Constitution guy. His book on Jefferson's Declaration was a turning point in my life, no kidding.
4) I'll never forget meeting him on a podcast. I do forget which one it was, and who was doing the interviewing. I only remember @shestokas himself. I've never heard anyone else speak with the fire and passion he does, over how America was built.
5) I don't remember how it happened, but somehow I won Dave as my teacher. He explains things to me. And I learn. And the stuff he knows. It always puts me in awe. I consider him to be a national treasure, today's greatest Constitutional scholar. That's who he is to me.
6) Point 2: he's running for Attorney General of the Great State of Illinois. I kid you not when I tell you, I'm in awe of this. He's got a stunningly successful law practice. He can do anything he wants. Yet, he's throwing his hat in the ring and fighting to become AG.
7) I've probed @shestokas on this. His passion for Illinois is only surpassed by his love for America. More than even America he loves the law. For him, there is no freedom without law. He knows everything there is to know about the law's, about freedom's history.
8) You might not believe, much as I love him, that I was NOT an easy sell. Attorney General of one of the most corrupt states in America? What are you thinking, @shestokas? It was the national impact of the role that got me.
9) But there was more. He has a plan for winning. Oh man I'm a sucker for that. So many Republicans show up with no plan to win. You can believe me. I've spoken to them, vetted them, been taken in by them, and given my support. But no plan to win. At least, not a real one.
10) #MakeCrimeIllegalAgain. Now that's a slogan. One of @shestokas' friends called him up at 2:00 or 3:00 one morning with its epiphany. What a concept. Crime should be illegal. It isn't. That is what we've lost in America, and Illinois leads the loss. Wow.
11) Dave's fourth point is that the primary is June 28. We need all the support we can get for this primary. But more, check out yesterday's thread on topic. Primaries are more important than general elections. Check it out..
12) @shestokas' most important point is #5. The Office of the Attorney General has but one boss, The People. The AG is NOT under obligation to the Governor, or the Legislature...and certainly NOT to the Chicago Corruption Machine. The People. That's who will be Dave's boss.
13) I'm going to have to ask him. @shestokas, do you realize you're an absolute, in the hole, 100% radical? You're 100% outside the normal politician role. And they're going to come after you, oh my, like maybe even you can't imagine. The People? Dude. You really up for it?
14) I jest, a little. Of course @shestokas is up for it. He knows Chicago. He knows Illinois. He knows the law. He knows corruption. He knows America's history and the history of America's law. He knows how we became a two-tiered system where Hillary is safe but you and I aren't.
15) We'll pick up on his points 6 - 10 tomorrow. Stick for now with amazing fact that @shestokas knows his job is to represent the people. That, I'm telling you is radical. That is shocking. It shouldn't be. But it is.
Of the 15 points made, we’ll analyze points 6 – 10 below…
2) And here are all 15 points:
3) Number 6 is the hardest of all 15 for me. 400 felony prosecutions. 10,000 misdemeanors. His opponents have zero prosecutions. Those numbers are simply amazing to me. @shestokas is clearly ready to #MakeCrimeIllegalAgain. He will prosecute crime. Consider that.
The quote is famous: "Do we have a Republic or a Monarchy," Ben Franklin was asked? Ominously, he replied, "A Republic if you can keep it." Please note that he was not asked about a Democracy. Let's discuss that.
2) It's not that difficult, really. A Republic is WHAT we are. Democracy is HOW we do it. We honor the vote of the majority in our elections...for representatives who create the laws, and for executives who execute those laws. That's a Republic.
3) From just this much we can see that the founders did NOT have a crystal ball. Remember, they were against political parties and could not have imagined the two-party system we have now, and have had ever since the turn of the 18th into the 19th century.
Cheaters are boring. Their illogic is stupid and insulting. It leaves a bad taste in the mind. But someone has to call these cheaters on their fake polling, and that is my job.
2) We have to begin with the math. They called 677 Likely Republican Voters. (More on that below...) Half in Chicago, half in the rest of the state. Chicago has almost 4 million people, Illinois almost 13. But half and half, eh? Can you say slanted...a little slanted?
3) Now we're told that our man @shestokas hardly even makes the race, whereas DeVore and Kim have 20 and 18%. Hmm. How is this explained? Wait til you hear!
"There are teams that are fair-haired, and those that aren't so fair-haired. Some teams are named Smith, some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis."
~ Mike Ditka, Head Coach of the Chicago Bears, January 1986
2) We're going to dive right into politics. If you want the story - and it is a GREAT one! - behind Ditka's so-politically incorrect claim, do Czech out this article (did you see what I did there?).
3) My people - you know, the Scopellitiskis - are from the South Side of Chicago. I know the Grabowskis. They're rough, ready, hard-driving, hard-working, hard-drinking, hard-patriots. You do NOT disrespect America around them. They'll give you what for. Seriously.
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2) Dave Shestokas is, to my eye, one of the most important candidates in America today. He is precisely the kind of man we want in public office in general, and in specific he is flawlessly qualified to become the Attorney General in Illinois.
3) A peerless Constitutional scholar, Dave is 100% dedicated to MAKING CRIME ILLEGAL AGAIN. Let's focus on a single type of crime, one that has national implications: Election Fraud in 2024. With Dave as Illinois AG the Fraud Machine will quiver with fear. I mean that.
It is part of the playbook to create chaos and destruction, when what you wish to do is topple a society. Consider this video from 2020:
2) Who could have imagined that the wealthiest part of Chicago's downtown might be subject to such lawless violence. How can our nation lose sight of the fact that without law there is no freedom? It truly boggles the mind, and be clear, we face precisely such and worse, today.
3) In coming analysis, we're going to learn a great deal more about the office and obligations of the Attorney General, and specifically Illinois' AG. But there is something profoundly general, national about this topic. Every one of us faces loss of freedom through lawlessness.