Three hours of standing up in the sun along Route 14 was enough for me.
I wore the hat that shaded my neck, but I should have been smart enough to wear long sleeves.
Almost three hundred photos were enough.
The first sign of political doings were happening near McHenry County College was GOP gubernatorial aspirant Gary Rabine’s bus at the intersection of Route 14 and Ridgefield Road.
People were camped at the bend in Route 14,
Next, there were state dump trucks parked in a row across from the eastern entrance to MCC.
I cannot figure out why.
The west entrance to the auditorium and classroom parking let was blocked by Crystal Lake Police.
Supporters of Donald Trump were on the sidewalk near the stoplight at Lucas Road.
A steady stream of people who had parked on Lucas Road crossed over to the junior college side of Route 14.
And what should appear again but Gary Rabine’s bus heading toward Crystal Lake.
Driving in the opposite direction, I found the eastern MCC entrance was blocked.
Turning back onto Route 14, I saw the first of the motorcycles bearing Trump flags.
The second time around, I noticed the “MCC Welcomes President Biden” sign, which he will not be able to see because the helicopters landed south of the complex.
More Trump supporters had gathered on the sidewalk near the traffic signal.
I parked on Lucas Road and walked to Route 14.
Most of the signs were homemade.
After parking on Lucas Road, this lady carried so many signs from her car that it took two trips to get them all across Route 14.
Those privileged enough to have their names on the entrance list lined up for Secret Service approval on Tartan Drive.
There was not an organized parade of Trump motorcyclists, but ones drove by every once in a while.
The Illinois State Police were present.
Looks as if today was not a good day to pick up garbage.
A big clue that Biden was coming by air, rather than by surface transportation drove across Route 14 to the college campus.
For some, the demonstration was a family affair.
As the “Trump Mom” waited for the light to cross Route 14, she held up her sign for me to photograph.
The sing of the woman with her said, “Trump Won.”
Another “Trump Mom” brought her children.
Her daughter had a sign of her own.
Meanwhile, the line for the privileged few allowed into the wherever Biden was to speak got much longer.
A third motorcyclist decided to try to gain admittance.
People had a long wait to walk across Route 14.
A school bus was allowed to get in line.
People keep arriving to demonstrate against Biden.
Most TV crews came early. The one from WLS did not.
Meanwhile, the sidewalk was filling with Trump supporters.
Then, about 10:45, a caravan arrived.
Perhpas there were vulnerable people riding in some of the vehicles because there were ambulances.
the name on the side of a bus provided a clue as to where the vehicles originated.
Cars were still lined up to pass Secret Service inspection.
The contingent with the largest banner was the Proud Boys. One said he was from Palatine.
Not all of those on the sidewalk were identified at Trump supporters.
And the cars with people planning to attend the Biden event kept coming.
As I walked around, I kept finding messages I had not seen before.
People drove by to show their support for Trump.
One man had a enlarged Trum cardboard face.
Here is another Trump flag I had not seen before.
Then, I noticed a liberal counter demonstration across the road.
More than just the woman seen above were on the other side of Route 14.
Another Trum flag caught my attention.
Governor JB Pritzker did not escape criticism.
Below you can what appears to be the leader of the Proud Boy contingent.
The Proud Boys apparenlty have two flags.
This sign expressed knowledge of where Joe Biden is from.
Besides a chair, this Trump support has a flag, a sign and a tee shirt with a message.
The next sign I saw ticked my funny bone.
In addition to Trump supporters, there were those supporting the Pro Life position, one that hard put to identify with any current Democrat (although in the 1970’s, there was at least one Pro-Life Democratic Precinct Committeeman, Darlene Dagenhardt, who represented a Nunda Township precinct near the current location of McHenry County College.)
The next thing that caught my attention was license plates issued to State Representatives.
The largest Trump sign was one that said, “Trump Country.”
Fond another homemade “Count Every Legal Vote” sign.
Another new homemade sign appeared.
“Cheatin’ D’s. Dominion and Democrats.”
It doesn’t appear as if anyone mass manufactured signs for this demonstration.
Another Trump flag I had not previously seen.
Someone took the time to make a number of signs, which were posted on the hill above the Route 14 sidewalk.
A fair number of signs concerning human trafficking.
Another flag with which I am unfamiliar.
There were pro-police signs.
I kept finding different flags.
Governor Pritzker and President Biden took some heat on this sign.
This anti-Communist symbol was on the back of the sign above.
More support for the police.
A car drove by with a Republican Party flag.
I noticed that latecomers were now on the west side of Route 14.
New signs kept popping up.
I finally found a Biden supporter with a sign.
One lady had a question about the President’s son.
An unidentified police helicopter flew over McHenry County College.
Too high to read signs like this anti-Biden message.
Former Johnsburg School Board member Steve Rooney was back visiting from Florida. He apparently could not resist a good political show.
Here’s a man for whom Biden is not a favorite.
Former Johnsburg School Board member and Republican Precinct Committeeman Steve Rooney stood across Route 14 from me with a “Don’t Tread on Me’ flag.
Before I close off the photos I took today, let me close out with a photo of a Biden flag draped out a car window.
Someone else can share photos of the aircraft leaving Crystal Lake (or send them to calskiner2@gmail.com and I’ll post them)
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More coming.
The dump trucks – they are for hauling away the doofus, elements of his regime and Democrats.
The first helicopter was a decoy.
Just like the decoy Biden, who was not elected President.
Nice touch with the campaign buss!
Thanks Gary Rabine!!
bred winner i think you mean dumb and dumber…LOL
Love the Bus too!!!!
LOL….
i’m sure freddie flintstone was vying for his next employment job with puppetman.
come on homie how much it gonna cost me….
just name your price….
these people are on to me here…
i get no respect being a carrier toilet king…
Those are V-22 Ospreys (technically not helicopters)
What do I know.
Thank you for bringing us this report and the photos.
Dump trucks are easy to understand – what with all the trash in town.
Notice that the former Vice President is only visitin
Why not Suran Built vs Mum?
Why not see Pam Mueller?
The ice cream is of course, understandable.
Grandpa Joe-Joe needs a treat before nappy-nap time.
His second in command is a political prostitute… but to be fair she’s used to a lower position (without the knee pads, of course).
For those of you p
The crime, corruption, and immorality is YOUR doing.
He puts his Depends on, one leg at a time and follows your instructions.
Unless the hair smells different, ol’ Joe wouldn’t know he left the house.
Oh, how delightful a ‘mean tweet’ would sound about now!
Yes… you.
I mean you – the skid-marks of society.
The looting complainer-class that will soon harken back to the days of drunken, unbridled power.
You think things will change now, don’t you?
Perhaps… but thank heavens my countrymen aren’t nearly as dim as the lot of you.
Like so many of your heroes reign (Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao) this time in history will also come to an end.
Perhaps without the death and destruction historically connected with such governance, but even if it comes to that, I’m confident that our losses will be mostly helpless mouth-breathers – and so we shall be all the better for it.
Joe Biden: Don’t let McHenry County hit you in the ass on the way out.
My goodness… the tree of liberty looks thirsty, doesn’t it?
Probably in case they needed a road closed and to keep it from being penetrated, like a quick roadblock, probably filled with sand?
Save Jill the trouble of impending burial.
Put Biden in the Garbage truck TODAY!
Then, crush the “waste”.
Those are Ospreys, not helicopters.
The dump trucks reminded me of the “scoops” used for crowd control in the 1970s movie Soylent Green.
No scoops on those dump trucks, but possibly there for use in case road(s) needed to be blocked that a speeding car/truck couldn’t simply crash through.
Dump trucks are rolling armor, rolling roadblock.
Back in the day, Presidents arriving in Chicago and heading downtown in a car would roll down the Kennedy surrounded by a ring of garbage trucks.
Gets the job done.
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Maybe lunch for the Governor.
The WWG insanity is a QANON thing.
The dump trucks are for road closures if necessary.
Why did you leave out the white supremacist proud boys from your pics?
Keep it classy McHenry County
Those “Flying Machines” were not helicopters, they are U.S.M.C. V-22 Ospreys.
Cal – my response above was missing half the text – what happened? Here it is again, corrected:
Dump trucks are easy to understand – what with all the trash in town.
Notice that the former Vice President is only visiting the more liberal downtown business owners:
Why not Benedicts vs Olympic?
Why not Suran Built vs Mum?
Why not see Pam @ Mueller Interiors?
The ice cream is of course, understandable.
Grandpa Joe-Joe needs a treat before nappy-nap time.
His second in command is a political prostitute… but to be fair she’s used to a lower position (without the knee pads, of course).
For those of you paste-eaters that voted for this clown-show:
The crime, corruption, and immorality is YOUR doing. The decline of American values is on YOUR hands. Don’t blame Grandpa Joe – he puts his Depends on, one leg at a time and follows your instructions.
Unless the hair smells different, ol’ Joe wouldn’t know he left the house.
Oh, how delightful a ‘mean tweet’ would sound about now!
Yes… you know who I’m talking about.
I mean you – the skid-marks of society.
The looting complainer-class that will soon harken back to the days of drunken, unbridled power.
You think things will change now, don’t you?
Perhaps… but thank heavens my countrymen aren’t nearly as dim as the lot of you.
Like so many of your heroes reign (Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao) this time in history will also come to an end.
Perhaps without the death and destruction historically connected with such governance, but even if it comes to that, I’m confident that our losses will comprise of mostly helpless mouth-breathers – and so we shall all be the better for it.
Joe Biden: Don’t let McHenry County hit you in the ass on the way out.
My goodness… the tree of liberty looks thirsty, doesn’t it?
Cal,
In the 16th pic from top,
WWG1WGA stands for “Where we go one, we go all”
As AlabamaShake said, it’s the 7 character acronym used by people who believe Q-Anon conspiracy theories.
Before Lin Wood was banned from Twitter, his home page had WWG1WGA, which along with Wood’s rhetoric prompted Twitter to permanently suspend his account.
Thanks.
Cal, you want to know what “WWG 1 WGA!” means?
That means “WHERE WE GO ONE WE GO ALL.” It is a statement of solidarity and it is associated with Q-Anon, whose main focus is to end child trafficking by an occult cabal of elites.
SHAKE is to AFRAID to say it! LOOK! He won’t say it! He KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT but he won’t say it! HAHAHAHAHHAA HE’S AFRAID!! WHY IS HE AFRAID TO SAY IT?!?
Keep these pictures coming. They are fascinating!
Was it a good time???
I’m pleased to have people more expert than I reading the blog.
Thanks.
I am doing this post pretty much in the order in which I took the photos.
The Proud Boy shots just went up.
Wow, great pictures of a lot of really dumb and pathetic people.
People – Trump lost.
He’s over.
Get over it.
Chicago’s “very own” tv station had a reporter, Mike Lowe, state at 6:04 PM today that Crystal Lake is normally “a sleepy northwest suburb”.
What a dope.
This is what is supposed to be news by a Chicago tv and radio news station.
Sleepy indeed.
This is the mentality of mostly left wing media. Highly disrespectful.
So Crystal Lake is sleepy and Chicago is “with it” per this news station with 100+ shootings over the July 4th weekend in their town, Chicago.
Chicago not sleepy.
They have an incredible amount of shootings and murders daily and it is ho-hum just numbers reporting by most of the media from that city.
Proud Boys is NOT a white supremacist group.
Even Wikipedia and the Anti-Defamation League are clear about that.
Shake either knows better and is lying or he may just be misinformed.
I’m not saying they are great people.
They’re definitely hooligans who like to fight, but they are not white supremacists.
Excellent pictures by Cal and his staff.
Too bad that the usual and normal media does not cover County events as well as Cal.
Should Cal be considered for the Pullitzer?
Where was Catalina Lauf???
Pi chin’ a Lauf.. I mean loaf.
✌️😎
Pinching
Trump Is No More…
These people need to turn off Fox and I use the term loosely “News” and get out into the real world.
Trump LOST and he lost biggly using his own term. Most of America wants to move forward. All these Trump supporters live in the past.
Stanley Kubrick’s last flick “Eyes Wide Shut” tried to bring the Biden, Clinton, Epstein etc. darkness out in 1999. So that anti pedo sign was on target!
https://thefallingdarkness.com/stanley-kubrick-said-pedophiles-run-the-world-claims-nicole-kidman/
Thank you for this very detailed article.
You covered this event very well.
I love all of the flag pictures.
Its great how creative passionate people can be.
My Make America Proud again banner definitely stood out.
Thank you for not perpetuating the lies from the left about us.
We are good men that help each other become better men.
Most of us joined after seeing innocent people harassed and attacked by antifa and other radical leftists at events like today’s.
Thanks again and God bless.
Doctor Duh – if the first one is “a decoy”, then it’s not exactly a decoy, now is it?
✌️😎
Trump won in 2020 ?
Well, as Lincoln pointed out, you can fool some folks all of the time.
🤔 I’m sorry, but did the CPD not need PH1 today?
Did crime stand still in all of Chicago?
And the photos above of PH1 clearly shows identification, look at the tail number – N91100 –
Wonder why they didn’t use Troy1, formally Omaha1, that would have made more sense? 🙄
To # Trump is no more.
The people that are supporting biden/harris are the pathetic fools.
Looks like you are obviously one of them…
drinking the koolaid, watching CNN & the View.
Ignorant, uneducated people like you are contributing to the destruction of this great country.
Wake up.
Dang I missed the crowd but I was on the other side with other great Patriots.
Nice job everyone!
Hope we stick with it and keep showing our 45 we are still behind him!
WWG1WGA=Where we go one we go all
LOL correcting, you’re hilarious…
why would I be afraid to say it?
I was just typing quickly and didn’t feel like typing the whole thing.
**Q-Anon, whose main focus is to end child trafficking by an occult cabal of elites.**
Q-Anon’s main focus is ridiculous conspiracy theories that never seem to come true.
Alabama is back to his lame disinformation Democrat game.
The nation is like it was in1860.
He makes shi… up.
His ‘insurrection’ is my resistance.
I can’t wait till the righteous rage boils over.
Like a heavy spring wound and wound and wound…… the energy has to be released.
My prediction:
when the BLM/Antifa thugs start attacks through reparations riots on the near suburbs of the rotten, rioting Democrat misgoverned cities, some of the besieged families & homeowners will be forced to open fire on the darling marauders…….
15 killed, 26 killed, the number doesn’t really matter…..and then the full force of the Communist regime (Deep State, FBI, etc. ) will be upon them, showing the world and domestic fence sitters here there’s only one type of reaction to take.
—tired of all the false flags.
Yes Primate, Trump did win in 2020.
When people lose faith in elections, the corrupt system stands starkly for the Big Lie it really is.
The swamp cannot be drained. It must be nuked.
Soon the mass firearms confiscations will begin.
The disarmament of the White middle class is essential the Pentagon’s new plan.
https://thinkaboutit.news/shocking-the-document-that-proves-their-plan-to-kill-you/
These “people” would have been way better off and done a lot more toward saving themselves had they just knocked down those four obelisks on route 14 instead of marching around like fruitcakes getting NOTHING accomplished. People just refuse to see the gravity of what they are facing.
https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/who-or-what-are-powers-behind-biden-administration
Hixon
Oh, now the Pentagon is in on it.
One of my younger brothers works at the Pentagon and I’ll be seeing him next week.
I better clue him in on the “new plan”.
Would you please give me the details ?
Hixon claims I “makes shi… up” (with zero evidence to support his asinine assertion), and then goes on to claim that the Pentagon is in on a conspiracy to disarm the white middle class.
Cool cool.
There are folks like me who could not tell this was a helicopter from Chicago.
Seems to me “Chicago Police” should have been on the aircraft.
The Emblem of the City of Chicago WAS on the first copter.
Therefore it is the Chicago Police PH1 copter.
That’s the only emblem I need on it to know that’s where it came from.
Seems to me it doesn’t need to say where it came from.
It was there to watch the Thumpers.
And being PH1, we know the weaponry mounted on it.
Bat … there is no “weaponry” on PH1 or PH2 … “Troy1”, maybe!
The 2 PH helicopters (also used by Cook County Sheriff’s Police Task Force) have multi-band radios, including citywide “simulcast” … they are equipped with LoJack vehicle detection systems (for times when a LPR hit has been detected) Infrared systems for day/night/infrared & a night vision system to use with NV goggles, plus video recorders.
No “weapons” of any kind.
It is absolutely fascinating how these two PH’s assist CPD & LEO’s on the ground (almost on a daily basis) – when weather cooperates !!
(The photo above is actually PH2, not PH1 – PH1’s tail ends in YY, sorry!) … Aviation Nerd Here!
Isn’t it interesting the bashing of true patriots that are not giving up or settling fir the attempt to destroy America!
Would like to know what the handful Biden supports are proud of- other then their sex lives that no one cares about (Rainbow flags are such brave and beautiful stupidity)
One woman told me if pritzker sucks then I should just move!
I’m the lady with all the signs and passion btw.
Ha !
Not sure what that implies about the rest of her common sense and logic- hopefully she’s not raising any offspring to also be slaves to the Illinois machine?!
Im no quitter and will fight this states corruption that has plagued your family and my family for generations.
Even if your against my Trump love
Q is the plan that will save the world
And it’s going to be biblical !
If you think it’s a conspiracy theory that has proven true – maybe your just too thick in the head and lazy to look into it
Besides liberals and Democrats are always lazy looking for hand outs- they prefer to be told what believe Bc their tv told them so
Lol
Wwgwga ( besos haters)
Thanks for the report from the ground.
Surprised at the statements of not seeing several of the flags before or not knowing an Osprey from a helicopter.
Appreciate all the pics of the signs and captioning what they say.
Thank you for that.
Way to Go J.A.FRT…..
Thank you for documenting all these morons.