Pratt lost to "The Machine". Gavin Newsom promised he would "break the glass" and release the Kraken, if necessary. Pratt's success in Los Angeles was just such a Democrat emergency. Pretty hard to beat the anti-Democrats at their rigged game. I never want to hear a peep from another Democrat about "saving democracy". They are the enemies of democracy.
The fix is in for Raman to be the next LA mayor. Yancey correctly intuited that getting Raman to 50% was too big a lift but knocking out Pratt was doable, and the real key in this round was keeping Bass under 50%. This also established Bass's ceiling of support since hardly anyone who voted Pratt will switch to her. The PTB know pretty well how many votes they need to harvest.
oh are you kidding? you're gonna hear it non-stop from them.. this is a straight psy-op now, designed to gaslight. this is so much more than an election. they are thumbing it so hard in our face while at the same time "lolol MAGA nut job" conspiracy hahahahahaha, they want us to break and react physically. they're desparate for jan6th x 100. they aren't gonna shut up about their democracy now. this is diabolical .
I thought the exact same thing as well. I am not a Californian, but this felt like a gut punch. I hope a whistleblower comes forward. None of this makes sense. If Bass had also gotten a bump, I would understand. Something is not right
The local yokels in CA municipalities may be able to continue playing counting games for local elections. But they may be cuffed sharply behind the ear once SCOTUS rules (soon) in Watson vs. RNC, which could force election counts that have federal offices on the ballot, to be counted much more quickly (curtailing ballots postmarked after Election Day).
What don’t you understand about Federal? Those are offices which impact all 50 States. The rest of the country doesn’t need to be held hostage to waiting for the world’s 4th largest economy up to 30 days to count its ballots, when the offices are Federal. If SCOTUS rules as I think they will, all States with mail-in voting are going to have to implement rules to no longer allow counting of ballots postmarked after Election Day for general elections. If you can’t get your shit together to postmark by the deadline, then your vote doesn’t count. After that, I expect the next case that will rise to Supreme’s is curtailing ballot harvesting, or allowing a person different from the voter to put that mail-in ballot in the mailbox. Although how this part would be policed, I’ve no clue.
It's called the federal enforcement of voting rights. You know, the Voting Rights Act? The Feds must step in when states deny the civil rights of their citizens. Not "both sides-ism."
Voters get the government they deserve. But neither LA nor NY can print their own money. When, as always happens with redistributionist governments, the money runs out and teachers' pension checks aren't mailed, there will be torches and pitchforks. If you live in one of those places, sell and move now.
I know people doing that, lifelong CA residents. They don't expect to get even half of the selling price of their homes, fees and taxes will swallow it up.
There is no need for the dems to rig the vote or commit voter fraud in California elections because they designed and set up the current system that guarantees they always win. That's how it works there. So there is no cheating per say, just a system they designed in such a way as to make sure they always win.
They don’t even try to hide the cheating. Even Raman thought she’d lost on election night - she probably really believes the votes legitimately broke for her. Such idiots.
I suspect she knows the fix was in, one way or the other. She either figured it out herself or her handlers explained what the Democratic machine just did for her.
I don't think for a second that he actually "lost". This was taken from him after the Dem machine realized he was going to face off against Bass, where he would have had a real chance in a fair election.
What utter bullshit. You got the transcripts with inadmissibilty rulings? I’ll wait. Send links. Come on, ante up with receipts. Put up or STFU. I noticed the 🍊 💩 ran from an interview just yesterday after a woman reporter challenged him on the evidence. What a snowflake.
There's always one progressive putz who will just respond to everything you say because they live to annoy others. His only purpose is to annoy you until you give up. Actually that's not true; he has another purpose: To make sure every literate human being continues to rightfully hate Boomers.
The actuality of him being a total asshole is where you need to be looking. But your post is long on assertion and very short on evidence. Don’t waste my time with this crap.
YOU look yourself. Here's a hint....if all 60ish possible cases regarding 2020 vote fraud had a trial in court, where's the court transcripts? Who were the jurors? Name the books that some of the dozens of jurors wrote after their time on the juries? By now, they'd write their books, have their interviews on TV, etc. What were their names? What were the exact rulings by the jurors, in each of the court trials? How long did all the court cases take? Were cameras and/or video allowed during the trials? The reason why you have nearly NO information on any of this (except for a couple/few court cases) is because the trials DIDN'T HAPPEN. Judges threw them out of court before discovery or jury selection, etc. (not really sure about the procedure - it's been a long time since "L.A. Law", which I stopped watching when it overtly pushed homosexuality). Put up or STFU - I remember 2020 and I was watching very very carefully and I DID NOT just swallow what the leftists (Dems and MSM) were dishing out. BTW, Trump didn't run out, he left the lying, evil that's rotten to the core.
No sane person things Biden got 81 million votes. Sorry, we're not buying it the Dems' lies. "Snowflake" has got nothing to do with it. But I note the lame attempt to win the debate by name calling.
Yes, impossible - 81 million Higher than Obama! I'll never buy it and where did those extra votes go in 2024? Some said "many died because of COVID"......NOT that many! Another person on X wrote "Geez, with these vote totals not in any way matching Biden's totals and the 2020 totals overall, maybe 2020 was stolen!" (paraphrased). Exactly.
You must have missed Time magazine's “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”, a conspiracy of wealthy techies, Democratic Party activists, and Biden operators who poured hundreds of millions of $$ into changing voting laws, and absorbing the role of government registrars in key precincts.
Or for example, how a batch of ballots in Pennsylvania came in late recorded 570,000 votes for Joe Biden and only 3,200 votes for Trump. That would be 99.4 percent of the votes went to Biden, and with that batch he won the election.
Or how on November 4 in Michigan at 6:30 a.m., 141,258 votes came in for Biden, and only 5,968 for Trump.
You forget that in Pennsylvania, it has been proven that more votes/ballots were counted, than their were registered voters to cast them! Of course this was after the alleged water leak that sent the vote watchers home. Lol and those mysterious new ballots /votes went for Biden, though none of those ballots showed any change for the down ballot candidates in other offices! Mysterious anomalies indeed! This will be the next State probed about the 2020 election process!
The principle you're looking for is called the prime principle of confirmation, which is based on Bayesian analysis. If some observation O would be expected in explanatory scheme X but not in explanatory scheme Y, then if we see O, it supports explanatory scheme X.
So, for example, we would expect to be able to see the horizon (O) if the earth is round (X) but not if the earth is flat (Y). The fact that we do see the horizon counts as evidence that the earth is round.
Scheme X is "officials are stuffing the ballot box for Raman", Scheme Y is "everything is kosher". You wouldn't expect O under scheme Y, but you would absolutely expect it under scheme X. So the fact that we're seeing it strongly suggests that something shady is at work.
The one thing I think few people realize is that all election departments in every County are run by a very select few of bureaucratic heavily Left-leaning Democrats and can completely control and manipulate elections with very little oversight. It'll be very easy for even in La as few as about eight people to decide what ballots get counted and what don't. Whatever gets put in the machine is gospel
I actually don't believe that the Democrats cheated that much. I think LA is just full of some of the stupidest people that have ever walked the Earth. It's also full of "tax consumers," because they've run so many "tax payers" out of town. Once the people who live off of government get a majority, they can simply continue to vote for free stuff. I think that explains what's going on here.
It is just so statistically unlikely for her to surge this fast and in this manner. It screams of ballot stuffing after it looked like Pratt was going to win 2nd. The elections department has zero safeguards to prevent a few elections employees from opening envelopes that were postmarked after 6/2 and then saying "all these arrived on time" or they weren't postmarked. Literally the only thing preventing malfeasance is their moral threshold and if they don't like Pratt (or Trump or any candidate) they can simply take the ballots from their envelope add them to the pile and then say "we have no idea what is what so we just have to count them all".
It's an omen for the blue states writ large. The rural areas of states like Illinois and WA/OR will be looking to disentangle. Seems inevitable that a reckoning is coming.
The entire system is rigged: no checks on who registers, no clean up of the voting rolls, mass mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, elections that begin a month before "election day" and continue for a month after, no signature checks, etc... It is a corrupt system from top to bottom.
You speak truth. Decades ago, an acquaintance went to LA for some business and said the same thing about the stupidest people she ever met. She said she cut the trip short because she felt her IQ going down, and joked if it was in the air or water
Once the Dems became so patently illiberal that they ran off a commie, pinko, fag like me, anybody is on the table. Wanting to reverse the destruction of the city doesn't make pepole "MAGA", in fact, it's gotten bad enough that large swaths of voters are walking away, which is why they need to summon Saint Obama to try to shame black males into continuing to vote against their best interests.
I lived there for 25 years and only left a couple years ago. Yeah, the genderwoo clowns in academia and the usual cast of Marxist antisemites will always vote for the likes of Bass, but they've been hemorrhaging "normal" voters of all stripes. Even here in the SF Bay Area, there is starting to be accountability thanks to the Aisan and Indian communities (Yes, India is technically South Asia, but it's big enough to be its own thing so everybody leave me alone, lol).
People have started paying attention and it's not good for the Democrats.
I sure as hell hope so. But im not hopeful. As for me, I'm taking my Indian self (and yes India is South Asia) from NJ to PA and then FL. To hell with these people. They'll never learn.
It seems the people picking up "mail in" votes days later from unmonitored ballot boxes liked Nithya Raman much more than actual voters did. The side that doesn't want election reform just happens to be witness to miracle after miracle, always timed perfectly when things looked bleak for their preferred candidate.
I guess her popularity just exploded right when nobody was looking, weird.
Spencer Pratt is just a normal person who thinks that the point of government is to provide roads, sewers, parks, public transportation, police departments, sidewalks, streetlights, fire departments and so on. The problem with today's Democrats is that they are full-blown communists who no longer believe in any of that. Today's Democrats believe that the primary purpose of government is to punish the Oppressors and liberate the Oppressed. And since all of that is totally arbitrarily determined, this mentality gives them totalitarian authority over the actual dispensation of basic rights to Life, Liberty and Property. Yes, you can be murdered - if you are an Oppressor. Yes, your property can be stolen - if you are an Oppressor. Who decides whether or not you are an Oppressor? The Democrats. Most Democrat VOTERS aren't smart enough or paying enough attention to understand what their Party has become, and so the communist revolution marches on.
Late ballot dump the other nite reportedly had 24,000 ballots, ALL for Rayman & NOT ONE for Pratt. Not only are they stealing elections but they’re shoving the middle finger in our faces while doing it.
That said, the DOJ has got to come up with the evidence of this, show the public & prosecute the felons. Simply carping about voter fraud & not producing any evidence is not going to change anything.
Have an apt in Studio City; time for me to close up shop & get the hell out permanently.
The question is how many ballots like yours are harvested and fraudulently returned. Don't want to be associated with these people in any way, shape or form.
I highly suspect that election fraud was involved to pull N.Raman into 2nd place and knock Spencer Pratt out of the run-off with Bass. Yes, it really is a worst case scenario for LA…..
Pratt being pushed out of the mayoral race through the use of fraudulent ballot creation and counting techniques is indeed a worst case for Los Angeles. But not for the reasons in this piece.
Now that he need not be accountable to the corrupted city council or any other elected officials, Pratt will be free to be go absolutely scorched Earth on the Bass' and Raman's and their handlers of the city. They were worried about 5 months of oppo? Now they're gonna get it for years. Pratt will not give up and he will not give in; he's a man on a mission.
Bloody thieves. Disgusting. The fact that all the submissions or "votes' that pushed him out were counted post election day tells the entire story. I hope someone very wealthy will fund the lawsuit Pratt should bring.
BAH I don't even live in CA and I was so excited about his campaign. But the machine churns on; normies be damned.
Universal mail-in balloting was created to facilitate ballot harvesting. That's all you really need to know about this election. CA national elections should be invalidated due to obvious fraud. So they will have no Congressional representation and no say in any national election because their election system is a threat to national security.
I never thought of this idea until someone mentioned it online. Republicans should've done this when they first took Congress in '25. No state's representatives will be seated until the state's clean up their voting laws.
Everyone with a brain could see this coming. I'll also be shocked if Hilton makes it to the runoff also (he has zero chance of winning even if he does). With no voter ID required and everyone being sent a mail in ballot, you can't stop it. The bright side is California will get more blue and continue its death spiral. In the end, a boost for Republican midterms as more people around the U.S. begin to see Dumocrat corruption.
Next census will remove quite a few House representatives from CA. Illegals will not be voting in a federal election as much as before. Federal will bring election investigation. People by the thousands are leaving CA and heading to TX and FL. Dem corruption in CA will get investigated, but sadly not soon enough.
First off, Califorinia doesn't provide federal tax revenue, the individual tax payers and businesses in CA pay THEIR taxes to the feds. California has the highest welfare, Medicaid, etc. costs and has the highest homeless. Also, CA was number 4 for ages and ages, but with the decade or more of people moving away and slow down in businesses (new and continuing biz - many biz left the state), CA went down to number 5 a while ago. Now it's back up to number 4, probably solely because of A.I.
Turns out letting the Palisades burn to the ground, with all those blue Hollywood donors forced to escape to their second home wasn’t enough of a wake-up call. These unconscious fools should have supported Spencer Pratt, because the next lesson will be even more loud.
Also, this won’t be a race between a moderate and a leftist, it will be a race between a Cuban trained marxist wrecking ball with a creepily permanent Joker smile, and another woketard marxist wrecking ball. What a non-choice for LA, for California.
But, hey, Kimmel can have Drew Cary on and talk shit about Spencer Pratt and of course Trump, frothing up the echo chamber. Should be a mild week long ratings bump, before the viewership resumes circling the drain.
Hang in there. This is one race. Remember that the Dems/Left NEVER give up. We have to adopt that perspective as well.
Pratt ran a brilliant campaign which did not manage to outrun the steal (I am sure many of Raman’s “votes” are shams). But his spirit and fantastic videos state a truth. Truth is the clarion call that will ultimately be heard. One example is Rudy Giuliani, who lost his first campaign to the incompetent David Dinkins in 1989. Four years later Giuliani won handily.
Who knows what spark will lead folks to lose the blinders that hinder their ability to see reality? There is a famous Biblical passage in Isaiah (6 iirc) on this point. Subsequently Isaiah has a beauteous vision of God, and appoints himself as a prophet.
One never knows who and when truth tellers emerge that can rally others. I do think Spencer Pratt is uniquely gifted and pray he finds other ways to share his message of renewal for LA.
I appreciate your positivity, but this has been happening for at least twenty years. There are no repercussions. Like a child, no discipline and the behavior continues. We knew there was no hope, so we finally fled our native state, and everything and everyone we knew and loved.
You are right that we’ve been on a long decline. My perspective is that we have arrested that, but most assuredly NOT in all places. The parasitic Left/grifters will fight like h-ll to retain power and their sinecures.
Ultimately despite how many omens that point toward inadvisable results, I put my hope in Christ…which. helps me retain a longer view. History shows us many periods of upheaval that take quite a while to resolve. (and fwiw, I think this has been underway since, at least the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, or alternately FDR, both of which fundamentally altered the bedrocks of the American Constitutional Republic.) Degradation of education and the most lunatic ideas of postmodernism, which arose in the 60s, have accelerated it.
Absolutely, our hope is in Christ. God is in control. That’s what keeps us going. We prayed about moving, selling our house. We live around friendlier people, many of whom are Conservative and Christian. The sale of our house experienced a miracle several days before closing, when they pulled out then suddenly agreed to close. We just enjoy where we are and do Bible study every night. I remind myself that we are in the world but not of it. It’s not easy to watch everything good be destroyed, but it is all foretold. We are, and have been, in the battle of good versus evil since the very beginning.
Sasha, love the article except for the last sentence. There is no “moderate” in this race. One is a no-talent hack Castroite, the other an economically ignorant Mamdani socialist. I’m so pissed at Rick Caruso for sitting this one out.
But there comes a point where liberal and woke laws, policies, and crazy culture get bad enough that it outweighs the positive climate and beauty of California.
N. Carolina is beautiful, from what I've heard, but I think it's to damp for me. A friend (although we haven't kept in touch in a while) moved to N. C. and she said it's "drippy".
Pratt lost to "The Machine". Gavin Newsom promised he would "break the glass" and release the Kraken, if necessary. Pratt's success in Los Angeles was just such a Democrat emergency. Pretty hard to beat the anti-Democrats at their rigged game. I never want to hear a peep from another Democrat about "saving democracy". They are the enemies of democracy.
I can't wait to see the look on Karen Bass's face when she is ahead by 10 on election night in November and ends up losing.
Which raises the question: who controls the machine? Is it the Establishment DNC? Or is it the far-left DSA (Democrat Marxists)
I agree (as I added on Althouse's blog).
The fix is in for Raman to be the next LA mayor. Yancey correctly intuited that getting Raman to 50% was too big a lift but knocking out Pratt was doable, and the real key in this round was keeping Bass under 50%. This also established Bass's ceiling of support since hardly anyone who voted Pratt will switch to her. The PTB know pretty well how many votes they need to harvest.
oh are you kidding? you're gonna hear it non-stop from them.. this is a straight psy-op now, designed to gaslight. this is so much more than an election. they are thumbing it so hard in our face while at the same time "lolol MAGA nut job" conspiracy hahahahahaha, they want us to break and react physically. they're desparate for jan6th x 100. they aren't gonna shut up about their democracy now. this is diabolical .
They always have been.
And Miraculously as soon as the 2 Democratic candidates were ahead for the runoff all the vote counting stopped. Who would have thunk it would happen
I thought the exact same thing as well. I am not a Californian, but this felt like a gut punch. I hope a whistleblower comes forward. None of this makes sense. If Bass had also gotten a bump, I would understand. Something is not right
Shades of 2020, Trump ahead at bedtime, Trump behind at daybreak.
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten O nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line
Chuck Berry, 1964
Sounds like the beginning of the song "Don't Call us, We'll Call You".
That’s the ending lyrics to song ‘Promised Land’
The local yokels in CA municipalities may be able to continue playing counting games for local elections. But they may be cuffed sharply behind the ear once SCOTUS rules (soon) in Watson vs. RNC, which could force election counts that have federal offices on the ballot, to be counted much more quickly (curtailing ballots postmarked after Election Day).
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/what-could-the-supreme-courts-decision-in-watson-v-rnc-mean-for-mail-voting/
What don’t you understand about Federal? Those are offices which impact all 50 States. The rest of the country doesn’t need to be held hostage to waiting for the world’s 4th largest economy up to 30 days to count its ballots, when the offices are Federal. If SCOTUS rules as I think they will, all States with mail-in voting are going to have to implement rules to no longer allow counting of ballots postmarked after Election Day for general elections. If you can’t get your shit together to postmark by the deadline, then your vote doesn’t count. After that, I expect the next case that will rise to Supreme’s is curtailing ballot harvesting, or allowing a person different from the voter to put that mail-in ballot in the mailbox. Although how this part would be policed, I’ve no clue.
It's called the federal enforcement of voting rights. You know, the Voting Rights Act? The Feds must step in when states deny the civil rights of their citizens. Not "both sides-ism."
What a great system!
Voters get the government they deserve. But neither LA nor NY can print their own money. When, as always happens with redistributionist governments, the money runs out and teachers' pension checks aren't mailed, there will be torches and pitchforks. If you live in one of those places, sell and move now.
I know people doing that, lifelong CA residents. They don't expect to get even half of the selling price of their homes, fees and taxes will swallow it up.
Covered California, (California's Obama Care) got over $60K from our capital gains taxes when we sold our home!
There is no need for the dems to rig the vote or commit voter fraud in California elections because they designed and set up the current system that guarantees they always win. That's how it works there. So there is no cheating per say, just a system they designed in such a way as to make sure they always win.
This isn't about Trump! Trying to equate anything going on in California to Trump is just TDS in overdrive, and frankly completely off point!
Trump doesn't hold office in California, nor has he ver, nor has he ever even lived in California!
The only way Trump lives in California is rent free in your head!
How could that happen? The KGB and STASI vet anyone going into the election machinery and counting rooms. Troublemakers end up in the concrete.
They don’t even try to hide the cheating. Even Raman thought she’d lost on election night - she probably really believes the votes legitimately broke for her. Such idiots.
I suspect she knows the fix was in, one way or the other. She either figured it out herself or her handlers explained what the Democratic machine just did for her.
She doesn't need to think
Pratt outstrips her 5-3 before the mail in votes are counted, and she gets 2/3 after election day......yeah, right.
Same as for the 2020 presidential election.
As soon as the D gets a vote ahead, “We declare the election over!”
I don't think for a second that he actually "lost". This was taken from him after the Dem machine realized he was going to face off against Bass, where he would have had a real chance in a fair election.
Totally agree. Even celebrities were starting to speak out for Pratt. Pratt did not lose the election. It was stolen from him by CA corruption.
Prove it - easy to throw out the allegations. Trump does it daily and did not produce a skerrick of evidence in 60 court actions (which he lost).
The evidence was / is there for 2020. The judicial system would not allow it to be seen.
What utter bullshit. You got the transcripts with inadmissibilty rulings? I’ll wait. Send links. Come on, ante up with receipts. Put up or STFU. I noticed the 🍊 💩 ran from an interview just yesterday after a woman reporter challenged him on the evidence. What a snowflake.
The statistical probability of Pratt not getting one of the 24,000 votes is 1 in trillions.
There's always one progressive putz who will just respond to everything you say because they live to annoy others. His only purpose is to annoy you until you give up. Actually that's not true; he has another purpose: To make sure every literate human being continues to rightfully hate Boomers.
The actuality of him being a total asshole is where you need to be looking. But your post is long on assertion and very short on evidence. Don’t waste my time with this crap.
Strait of Hormuz open yet? Asking for a friend
YOU look yourself. Here's a hint....if all 60ish possible cases regarding 2020 vote fraud had a trial in court, where's the court transcripts? Who were the jurors? Name the books that some of the dozens of jurors wrote after their time on the juries? By now, they'd write their books, have their interviews on TV, etc. What were their names? What were the exact rulings by the jurors, in each of the court trials? How long did all the court cases take? Were cameras and/or video allowed during the trials? The reason why you have nearly NO information on any of this (except for a couple/few court cases) is because the trials DIDN'T HAPPEN. Judges threw them out of court before discovery or jury selection, etc. (not really sure about the procedure - it's been a long time since "L.A. Law", which I stopped watching when it overtly pushed homosexuality). Put up or STFU - I remember 2020 and I was watching very very carefully and I DID NOT just swallow what the leftists (Dems and MSM) were dishing out. BTW, Trump didn't run out, he left the lying, evil that's rotten to the core.
No sane person things Biden got 81 million votes. Sorry, we're not buying it the Dems' lies. "Snowflake" has got nothing to do with it. But I note the lame attempt to win the debate by name calling.
Yes, impossible - 81 million Higher than Obama! I'll never buy it and where did those extra votes go in 2024? Some said "many died because of COVID"......NOT that many! Another person on X wrote "Geez, with these vote totals not in any way matching Biden's totals and the 2020 totals overall, maybe 2020 was stolen!" (paraphrased). Exactly.
You must have missed Time magazine's “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”, a conspiracy of wealthy techies, Democratic Party activists, and Biden operators who poured hundreds of millions of $$ into changing voting laws, and absorbing the role of government registrars in key precincts.
Or for example, how a batch of ballots in Pennsylvania came in late recorded 570,000 votes for Joe Biden and only 3,200 votes for Trump. That would be 99.4 percent of the votes went to Biden, and with that batch he won the election.
Or how on November 4 in Michigan at 6:30 a.m., 141,258 votes came in for Biden, and only 5,968 for Trump.
You forget that in Pennsylvania, it has been proven that more votes/ballots were counted, than their were registered voters to cast them! Of course this was after the alleged water leak that sent the vote watchers home. Lol and those mysterious new ballots /votes went for Biden, though none of those ballots showed any change for the down ballot candidates in other offices! Mysterious anomalies indeed! This will be the next State probed about the 2020 election process!
The principle you're looking for is called the prime principle of confirmation, which is based on Bayesian analysis. If some observation O would be expected in explanatory scheme X but not in explanatory scheme Y, then if we see O, it supports explanatory scheme X.
So, for example, we would expect to be able to see the horizon (O) if the earth is round (X) but not if the earth is flat (Y). The fact that we do see the horizon counts as evidence that the earth is round.
The application of that principle here would be, "O" is: during vote counting, Raman's numbers surge while Bass's and Pratt's remain flat. See here: https://x.com/LAMaterial__/status/2063411464694792206/photo/1
Scheme X is "officials are stuffing the ballot box for Raman", Scheme Y is "everything is kosher". You wouldn't expect O under scheme Y, but you would absolutely expect it under scheme X. So the fact that we're seeing it strongly suggests that something shady is at work.
Found the socialist.
You may be right. But it must be proven.
The one thing I think few people realize is that all election departments in every County are run by a very select few of bureaucratic heavily Left-leaning Democrats and can completely control and manipulate elections with very little oversight. It'll be very easy for even in La as few as about eight people to decide what ballots get counted and what don't. Whatever gets put in the machine is gospel
I actually don't believe that the Democrats cheated that much. I think LA is just full of some of the stupidest people that have ever walked the Earth. It's also full of "tax consumers," because they've run so many "tax payers" out of town. Once the people who live off of government get a majority, they can simply continue to vote for free stuff. I think that explains what's going on here.
I don’t disagree that LA is full of stupid people, but this CA voting system is designed to be rigged.
It is just so statistically unlikely for her to surge this fast and in this manner. It screams of ballot stuffing after it looked like Pratt was going to win 2nd. The elections department has zero safeguards to prevent a few elections employees from opening envelopes that were postmarked after 6/2 and then saying "all these arrived on time" or they weren't postmarked. Literally the only thing preventing malfeasance is their moral threshold and if they don't like Pratt (or Trump or any candidate) they can simply take the ballots from their envelope add them to the pile and then say "we have no idea what is what so we just have to count them all".
It's an omen for the blue states writ large. The rural areas of states like Illinois and WA/OR will be looking to disentangle. Seems inevitable that a reckoning is coming.
I do feel for the ‘tax payers’ and I hope that they can leave
The entire system is rigged: no checks on who registers, no clean up of the voting rolls, mass mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, elections that begin a month before "election day" and continue for a month after, no signature checks, etc... It is a corrupt system from top to bottom.
That's "what's going on here." Just so you know.
You speak truth. Decades ago, an acquaintance went to LA for some business and said the same thing about the stupidest people she ever met. She said she cut the trip short because she felt her IQ going down, and joked if it was in the air or water
Once the Dems became so patently illiberal that they ran off a commie, pinko, fag like me, anybody is on the table. Wanting to reverse the destruction of the city doesn't make pepole "MAGA", in fact, it's gotten bad enough that large swaths of voters are walking away, which is why they need to summon Saint Obama to try to shame black males into continuing to vote against their best interests.
I lived there for 25 years and only left a couple years ago. Yeah, the genderwoo clowns in academia and the usual cast of Marxist antisemites will always vote for the likes of Bass, but they've been hemorrhaging "normal" voters of all stripes. Even here in the SF Bay Area, there is starting to be accountability thanks to the Aisan and Indian communities (Yes, India is technically South Asia, but it's big enough to be its own thing so everybody leave me alone, lol).
People have started paying attention and it's not good for the Democrats.
I sure as hell hope so. But im not hopeful. As for me, I'm taking my Indian self (and yes India is South Asia) from NJ to PA and then FL. To hell with these people. They'll never learn.
It seems the people picking up "mail in" votes days later from unmonitored ballot boxes liked Nithya Raman much more than actual voters did. The side that doesn't want election reform just happens to be witness to miracle after miracle, always timed perfectly when things looked bleak for their preferred candidate.
I guess her popularity just exploded right when nobody was looking, weird.
Spencer Pratt is just a normal person who thinks that the point of government is to provide roads, sewers, parks, public transportation, police departments, sidewalks, streetlights, fire departments and so on. The problem with today's Democrats is that they are full-blown communists who no longer believe in any of that. Today's Democrats believe that the primary purpose of government is to punish the Oppressors and liberate the Oppressed. And since all of that is totally arbitrarily determined, this mentality gives them totalitarian authority over the actual dispensation of basic rights to Life, Liberty and Property. Yes, you can be murdered - if you are an Oppressor. Yes, your property can be stolen - if you are an Oppressor. Who decides whether or not you are an Oppressor? The Democrats. Most Democrat VOTERS aren't smart enough or paying enough attention to understand what their Party has become, and so the communist revolution marches on.
NY Post says 5.8 million registered voters, which sound consistent with LA info (need to divide 1.477 million by 25%)
We're not giving you a bailout when you demand one.
That's a lot of words for such a stupid comment.
It would have been a real surprise if the Democrats did NOT steal this vote.
The election was stolen in plain sight. They aren’t even trying to make the fraud look believable anymore. It’s all so brazen.
Late ballot dump the other nite reportedly had 24,000 ballots, ALL for Rayman & NOT ONE for Pratt. Not only are they stealing elections but they’re shoving the middle finger in our faces while doing it.
That said, the DOJ has got to come up with the evidence of this, show the public & prosecute the felons. Simply carping about voter fraud & not producing any evidence is not going to change anything.
Have an apt in Studio City; time for me to close up shop & get the hell out permanently.
did you vote?
Haven't been a resident since 2014 although they still send me ballots. I throw them away.
The question is how many ballots like yours are harvested and fraudulently returned. Don't want to be associated with these people in any way, shape or form.
Middle finger shoved in your face? That's not where they're shoving it.
I highly suspect that election fraud was involved to pull N.Raman into 2nd place and knock Spencer Pratt out of the run-off with Bass. Yes, it really is a worst case scenario for LA…..
Pratt being pushed out of the mayoral race through the use of fraudulent ballot creation and counting techniques is indeed a worst case for Los Angeles. But not for the reasons in this piece.
Now that he need not be accountable to the corrupted city council or any other elected officials, Pratt will be free to be go absolutely scorched Earth on the Bass' and Raman's and their handlers of the city. They were worried about 5 months of oppo? Now they're gonna get it for years. Pratt will not give up and he will not give in; he's a man on a mission.
Bloody thieves. Disgusting. The fact that all the submissions or "votes' that pushed him out were counted post election day tells the entire story. I hope someone very wealthy will fund the lawsuit Pratt should bring.
BAH I don't even live in CA and I was so excited about his campaign. But the machine churns on; normies be damned.
Universal mail-in balloting was created to facilitate ballot harvesting. That's all you really need to know about this election. CA national elections should be invalidated due to obvious fraud. So they will have no Congressional representation and no say in any national election because their election system is a threat to national security.
Bummer for them.
I never thought of this idea until someone mentioned it online. Republicans should've done this when they first took Congress in '25. No state's representatives will be seated until the state's clean up their voting laws.
Everyone with a brain could see this coming. I'll also be shocked if Hilton makes it to the runoff also (he has zero chance of winning even if he does). With no voter ID required and everyone being sent a mail in ballot, you can't stop it. The bright side is California will get more blue and continue its death spiral. In the end, a boost for Republican midterms as more people around the U.S. begin to see Dumocrat corruption.
Next census will remove quite a few House representatives from CA. Illegals will not be voting in a federal election as much as before. Federal will bring election investigation. People by the thousands are leaving CA and heading to TX and FL. Dem corruption in CA will get investigated, but sadly not soon enough.
First off, Califorinia doesn't provide federal tax revenue, the individual tax payers and businesses in CA pay THEIR taxes to the feds. California has the highest welfare, Medicaid, etc. costs and has the highest homeless. Also, CA was number 4 for ages and ages, but with the decade or more of people moving away and slow down in businesses (new and continuing biz - many biz left the state), CA went down to number 5 a while ago. Now it's back up to number 4, probably solely because of A.I.
Turns out letting the Palisades burn to the ground, with all those blue Hollywood donors forced to escape to their second home wasn’t enough of a wake-up call. These unconscious fools should have supported Spencer Pratt, because the next lesson will be even more loud.
Also, this won’t be a race between a moderate and a leftist, it will be a race between a Cuban trained marxist wrecking ball with a creepily permanent Joker smile, and another woketard marxist wrecking ball. What a non-choice for LA, for California.
But, hey, Kimmel can have Drew Cary on and talk shit about Spencer Pratt and of course Trump, frothing up the echo chamber. Should be a mild week long ratings bump, before the viewership resumes circling the drain.
Another obvious stolen election. So many methods used in California must be outlawed nationwide.
Hang in there. This is one race. Remember that the Dems/Left NEVER give up. We have to adopt that perspective as well.
Pratt ran a brilliant campaign which did not manage to outrun the steal (I am sure many of Raman’s “votes” are shams). But his spirit and fantastic videos state a truth. Truth is the clarion call that will ultimately be heard. One example is Rudy Giuliani, who lost his first campaign to the incompetent David Dinkins in 1989. Four years later Giuliani won handily.
Well how bad does it have to get before all of CA gets that message?
At this point give it back to Mexico.
LMAO! THAT'S THE BEST IDEA I'VE HEARD YET! ADIOS CaliFORNICATEia!
Then build a wall.
Poor Mexico! What did it do to deserve California back again? Oh, wait……
Who knows what spark will lead folks to lose the blinders that hinder their ability to see reality? There is a famous Biblical passage in Isaiah (6 iirc) on this point. Subsequently Isaiah has a beauteous vision of God, and appoints himself as a prophet.
One never knows who and when truth tellers emerge that can rally others. I do think Spencer Pratt is uniquely gifted and pray he finds other ways to share his message of renewal for LA.
This isn't the Giuliani days. I lived in NYC during those days. He was awesome. Dems are a LOT more radicalized and ideological now. It's sad.
I appreciate your positivity, but this has been happening for at least twenty years. There are no repercussions. Like a child, no discipline and the behavior continues. We knew there was no hope, so we finally fled our native state, and everything and everyone we knew and loved.
You are right that we’ve been on a long decline. My perspective is that we have arrested that, but most assuredly NOT in all places. The parasitic Left/grifters will fight like h-ll to retain power and their sinecures.
Ultimately despite how many omens that point toward inadvisable results, I put my hope in Christ…which. helps me retain a longer view. History shows us many periods of upheaval that take quite a while to resolve. (and fwiw, I think this has been underway since, at least the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, or alternately FDR, both of which fundamentally altered the bedrocks of the American Constitutional Republic.) Degradation of education and the most lunatic ideas of postmodernism, which arose in the 60s, have accelerated it.
Absolutely, our hope is in Christ. God is in control. That’s what keeps us going. We prayed about moving, selling our house. We live around friendlier people, many of whom are Conservative and Christian. The sale of our house experienced a miracle several days before closing, when they pulled out then suddenly agreed to close. We just enjoy where we are and do Bible study every night. I remind myself that we are in the world but not of it. It’s not easy to watch everything good be destroyed, but it is all foretold. We are, and have been, in the battle of good versus evil since the very beginning.
Sasha, love the article except for the last sentence. There is no “moderate” in this race. One is a no-talent hack Castroite, the other an economically ignorant Mamdani socialist. I’m so pissed at Rick Caruso for sitting this one out.
The apparent level of brazen corruption in LA is staggering.
Age 70.
Born and raised in Los Angeles.
Great days.
Moved out of Southern California five years ago into a new and beautiful state.
Sane, rational, and normal people your time to get out of California is running short.
It is later than you think.
A M E N
Agreed that California weather is excellent.
But there comes a point where liberal and woke laws, policies, and crazy culture get bad enough that it outweighs the positive climate and beauty of California.
Please tell me where you moved to. CA weather is hard to beat.
You’re only invited if you swear to leave your politics behind you. I moved before the mass exodus, and now support the locals’ point of view.
I'm a constitutional conservative; always have been, always will be. (And I'm a Christian believer).
Then, welcome to Western North Carolina (excluding Asheville, which is already well-established on the road to Hell)!
N. Carolina is beautiful, from what I've heard, but I think it's to damp for me. A friend (although we haven't kept in touch in a while) moved to N. C. and she said it's "drippy".