The Banana Republic of California is acting like a banana republic again | Hour 2

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And no, I am not one of these people who thought that Spencer Pratt was going to win the mayorship of Los Angeles. I did not think he was going to win. In this for because they have a jungle primary out there in California. This was the system that the Democrats developed in order to essentially lock out any Republican from ever being one of the options available on a ballot. A jungle primary is where you have a whole mess of people and I think there were like sixty plus people on the ballot for mayor of Los Angeles something like that, and the top two voteiners, those top two finishers they would then square off in a general election. And so obviously the idea here is that you end up only with a Democrat on Democrat general election. It prevents Republicans from being able to field a candidate for a general election. Okay, that's why they did the jungle primary. And when it looked like a couple of months ago that, for example, the governor's race had two Republicans that were leading in the polls, Sheriff Guy Bianco and the and the former Fox News guy Steve Hilton, who I think is still I think he's still either in first or second place, I forget. But there was this real possibility looming that the Republicans could actually end up with both of the top two voteiners in the primary, and as such the Democrats would be locked out. So of course Eric Swalwell was then set ablaze as a sacrifice in order to get him out of the race, because again, all of the allegations against him were pretty well known throughout Democrat circles in California and DC. People knew about. His his let you know, his letch riskness, literacy, is it electeracy? Oh, I'm thinking leprosy anyway, that you know, his lecherous behavior. But then they they they held fire until it became apparent that this was a real risk that he was splitting. He and the other Democrats in the governor's race were splitting the support and so he had to go. So he goes and even get gets kicked out of Congress for his lecherousness, his literacy, and so he's out and that then sort of solidifies the support around Xavier Bessera, the former Health and Human Services secretary. And so I think he's either, you know, top in the polling, he's one or two, well, I should say in the because they're still counting votes. So I like they're gonna be counting votes for like the next month. It's ridiculous. And that jungle primary system was then when it became clear that that you could end up with two Republicans before Swellwell dropped out. That's when you had Democrats talking about in one even was. I think they filed legislation to get rid of the jungle primary system because we can't have a situation where Democrats get locked out. That's not the point of the jungle primary system. The point is to lock out the Republicans. So if there came a point where Republicans were the only ones on the general election ballot, can't have that. So let's ban the jungle primary and go back to party primaries, right as most states have party primaries. But that would mean that a Republican would always be on the ballot, and so they just don't. I mean, this is how you protect and save the democracy, of. Course, right is you You. Don't allow voters to have a say with the Republican candidate. You just majority rules. And so we want the majority rule to solidify as early as possible in the jungle primary, and so you don't get an option in the general anyway. So then Trump got involved and Trump endorses Hilton, which then that bleeds support away from Sheriff Bianco. So he he I think finished like fourth or something he's in like fourth or fifth place whatever. And so the dream of you know, hoisting the Democrats on their own juggle primary petard is dead and we are now seeing the fallout from that. But in the Mayor of Los Angeles race, okay, in this race particularly, and again I did not believe that Spencer Pratt was going to win. This is Los Angeles, even though he's a native Los Angelino, even though he got his house burned down by the uh, you know, the poor policies and planning and response of the current existing administration, even though all of those mistakes were made, and and he's running around saying we're going to clean up the LA. In fact, he's sort of expressing this thing that people on the on the left side of the political spectrum they pay lip service to, but they don't really believe in it. They call it the abundance of gen and this they're not serious. This is why, because Spencer Pratt is actually an abundance agenda kind of a candidate. He's not running as a Republican. He's talking about cleaning up the streets, right, He's talking about no more poopin in the streets, no more you know, homeless people and encampments and all of that stuff. These are quality of life issues. These are the things that local races are supposed to be about. However, he is a he is a Republican, and because of that, they will not elect him because the machine in Los Angeles is Democrat and it's like an eighty twenty Democrat city. So I was never under an illusion that Pratt, that Pratt would win. It would have been awesome if he did win and make it into the general that had been That had been cool, why because he would be able to then keep hammering away at Karen Bass, the current mayor, a completely incompetent, ineffective, and dangerous leader literally trained up in you know, revolutionary Cuba to you know, take the revolution to the shores of America. And so when you wonder, like, why are these Marxist revolutionaries, you know, why are they so bad at running cities? Reassess your assumption. Your assumption is that they're trying to actually run the city. Well, my assumption is that they want to destroy the city, because the only way to usher in la revolution is to destroy things to such an extent that the populace clamors for your solution right, you break it in order to sell the fix. So what we are seeing in Los Angeles while they're counting the ballots for the next seven years is a really really weird statistical anomaly, which is that Karen Bass surged ahead to Spencer Pratt, which is to be expected. Again, it's an eighty twenty Democrat controlled city, okay, And as the ballot counting continues in perpetuity, you would expect to see Bass and Pratt and the third place candidate, Ramen noodles I believe no, Sorry that's saying no. Her last name is Ramen. I don't think she is connected to the Ramen fortune though, Nitya Ramen. You would expect to see a steady increase on all of their ballots, particularly among Ramen and Bess, right, because it's a heavy Democrat city, so you would expect to see both of their totals going up because they're splitting that Democrat vote. Pratt would eventually level out, which he has. But what's really interesting is that as they count up all of the ballots that have arrived late, that have been picked up from the ballot harvesting boxes that are placed all over the city, and such Ramen, the third place candidate, is getting way more support than bass is and that is statistically improbable. Okay, Why is Ramen just like mopping the floor with the top two voteiners, right? Why is she able to surge ahead with all of these late mail in ballots. It's a brainbuster, It really is, it really is. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. 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This from Joel Pollock, writing he's the opinion editor at the California Post, which is a sister publication of the New York Post. They launched this I think within the last year the California Posts. Half of America is watching LA count its votes with a sense of deja vous. The spectacle of a candidate who is leading on election night suddenly falling behind when mail in ballots are counted is what caused many to regard the twenty twenty election as fraudulent. He says there was no proof of fraud then, just as there's no proof in Los Angeles. But the process does not inspire confidence. So here's the thing. Let me just pause here for a second. Okay, this is a much better line of attack for the purposes of debate. Okay, because you saw it happen with Trump when he was interviewed over the weekend by Welker from NBC News, and he stormed out of the interview right and what was she asking him about the twenty twenty election? Was it stolen? Was it fraudulent? Was it raged? Right, it's like, there's no point in having that argument because that's the way it ends. There's no there's no movement in anybody's position. Okay, this argument is the stronger argument, which is that the way the California system is set up does not inspire any confidence. In the results. Even if you on the left want to argue that the results are one hundred percent legitimate and valid and accurate. Right, you cannot defend the system that they have created in California because nobody really believes that it is those things that it's accurate. There's just too there are too many safeguards that have been ripped down, and so you're undermining public confidence in the election results. And if you don't have confidence in the election results, then that is the threat to the democracy. He says. The fact that we're being told by incumbents that everything is a okay only deepens the suspicion. It was always possible that socialist nithyat Ramen would take second place ahead of Pacific Palisades fire survivor Spencer pratt I used an analogy from auto racing, which is that Ramen was drafting off of Pratt, letting him do the tough work of attacking incumbent Karen Bass and take all the attacks in return, and then scooping up voters who decided they could not reelect Bass but would not vote for a Trump like Republican. Yet, assuming that Ramen does qualify for the general election ahead of Pratt, it would have been better to know that on election night, not days or weeks after the fact, if there were in fact fraud, this is exactly what it would look like, right. That's the thing. You can't assure me that there isn't fraud, because if there was fraud, this is what it looks like. I don't have to provide any evidence. I'm telling you that. To see the number of ballots coming in after the deadline, after the or election day, and they're still counting all of these things, and all of a sudden there's a massive break, not for the incumbent, not for the one who was winning, but for another Democrat whose rise in the election results would just so happen to help the Democrat machine. Assuming are sorry, he says, those who defend California's system as necessary for fairness and accuracy, cannot explain why other Democrat run states managed to count their results relatively quickly. Yeah, this is something that does not occur anywhere else in the free world. Okay, California is the outlier when it comes to the counting of the ballots and the length of time it takes to do so and the lack of safeguards they have in place. He says winning is all that matters to Democrats after two years out of power, and he said pundits will search for explanations that are tied to Trump, but it's the assertiveness of his administration, not any particular failures that has roused his opponents. So regarding the numbers, Robbie Starbuck, who's a visiting fellow at Heritage, he says, Spencer Pratt is likely going to be overtaken. It actually has been now by Nythia Rahman, and he has a graph here from election day through last night. Nythia did this by suddenly winning first in every new ballot drop, so every batch that was coming into the Board of Elections for counting, she was winning. He says, North Korean elections have far more self respect even they would find it absurd for the third place candidate to suddenly jump to first place in every ballot drop days after an election. It's just ludicrous. Andrew followed. At turning point, Usa says, as Robbie knows, I win a lote actions for a living, I have never seen one more obviously stolen than this one. These results cannot naturally occur. Note how returns from Ramen sore on June fourth and June fifth and then even surpass Bass and Pratt returns. He says, this is impossible. Statistically, this does not happen. Like you're better, You have a better chance of winning the power ball, like multiple times than for this to actually have occurred. I mentioned the data, So let's do the data. Okay. In the mayor's primary in Los Angeles, you've got election night, Karen Bass at about one hundred eighteen thousand votes, Spencer Pratt at about eighty six thousand, and Nitya Rahmen of the Noodle fame at about sixty two thousand. Okay, so she's only down by like twenty four thousand to Pratt. Pratt is down by like forty thousand to Bass. Then you got the the next day, and Bass surges from one eighteen up to one eighty five. Pratt goes from eighty six to one thirty, and Ramen goes from sixty two to just seventy one. Okay, so Bass and Pratt both pick up like forty fifty or even well, I mean, Pratt goes from like that's like a plus thirty thousand, Bass is like a plus seventy thousand, but Ramen only goes up by like eight thousand. Okay. And then comes. The early ballot, mail in, late ballot, vote by mail ballot, all of the harvested ballots, all of this stuff starts getting dumped, and Bass picks up thousand, Pratt picks up forty thousand, and Ramin picks up eighty thousand, and she keeps leading in all of these batches. This is what has got people scratching their heads thinking this doesn't look right. You don't normally see the third place candidate racking up the kinds of numbers that she is racking up, like we are to believe that it was only her supporters. Apparently, that we're using all of these voting mechanisms available, right, the ones that get counted last all were used by her supporters in overwhelming fashion. Kind of weird. So weird that the US Attorney Bill Essali said, protecting the integrity of California's elections is a top priority for my office. California's election system as serious structural vulnerabilities. Universal vote by mail with no voter ID requirements creates conditions where fraud can go undetected and unpunished, eroding public confidence. Without commenting on any specific investigation, my office has multiple election fraud investigations underway in coordination with the FBI. We will follow the evidence wherever it leads. My office also is working closely with the Assistant Attorney General Harmey Dillon to conduct a comprehensive audit of California's voter rolls. The state has stonewalled every effort to verify that only eligible US citizens are registered to vote. This case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. My office will not look the other way. We will investigate and prosecute every legal vote deserves to be counted. Every illegal vote cancels one out. Justin Levitt, an election law expert who teaches at Loyola's Law School in Los Angeles, he says that essal's announced and is basically a bunch of noise made for an audience of one referring to Trump. Okay, well, then no, that would be an audience of two. Because I'm listening. I am also listening to this. He says it's not normal for the US Attorney's Office to announce investigations when there hasn't already been public awareness of wrongdoing. Levitt, by the way, worked for the Biden administration, so take that. Comment with a grain of AsSalt. David Strom at hotair dot com said homeless people being paid to sign petitions with other people's names and addresses, hundreds of ballots being sent to addresses with no people, voter rolls with dead people, illegal aliens, and untraceable homeless people that never get cleaned up. Each of those people are sent to ballot by law, they are collected, then by somebody. They are then voted and delivered on demand. If the system really were designed to produce results that most people considered fair and legitimate, which should be the primary goal of any voting system in a functioning republic, would you design a system that introduces so much suspicion and doubt and the answer to that question is obviously no. He says, it's not my opinion that this isn't the case. It is objectively true, because we have hundreds of examples of voting systems in democratic republics designed to achieve outcomes that people willingly accept even when they lose. None of them look remotely like California's, and almost every one of them delivers final results within hours. They are transparent and secure, using counting methods with oversight by members of all the parties involved. They rely on paper ballots, and that minimize absentee voting. The overriding goal is to ensure that people accept the outcome as legitimate, because that's a baseline requirement for any form of government in a democratic republic. Without that, trust collapses and the govern uerman then is seen as illegitimate. Just as high social trust used to enable stores to put their products on shelves and expect people to pay at the register when they exit, stores in blue areas now need to put everything behind barriers, under lock and key because that trust, that high trust, is being abused and stores are being ransacked, and eventually the system collapses entirely. The stores close and then liberals complain about food deserts and pharmacy deserts. Right, those things don't happen by accident. He says, liberal policies destroyed social trust in retail, and they are doing the same in voting. As I said, this is by design. Democrats have created this system in California in order to tear down as many safeguards as possible, and they do it under this guise of accessibility, making it easier to vote. Right. You've heard Brett Winner will talk about this on his show right here on WBT three to six weekdays. He still gets ballots from California. He hasn't lived there in what probably pushing seven years or something, six or seven years, and they still mail him ballots. People are I see this all over social media, people posting pictures of their ballots they were mailed and they don't live in California any longer, and they may throw them away, but not everybody does. And when you hear about like the signature markings and stuff like that that are acceptable, you realize, like this is intentional. It's to make the systems as unsecure insecure as possible. That's the only takeaway. You would do nothing different if you were trying to make it insecure. This from John Fund at the National Review. Growing public concern over election integrity is a big factor behind the rise of a statewide initiative in California to finally require voter id for both in person and mail in voting, a proposed measure that has qualified for the November ballot. By the way, this is supported by like seventy one percent of Democrats. This is popular among every single demographic. California has deliberately slowed down ballot counting to accommodate its chaotic expansion of mail in voting. Even the Washington Post editorial board calls the Golden State in this regard a quote national embarrassment. It is New York Times says California's elections are in the pre Telegraph era. Yes, although for some reason they claim, somehow this is a gift to Republicans because again, when the scandal involves a Democrat, then the story is the Republican's reaction to the scandal. Right, you don't want to you don't want to focus on the story of the scandal. If the Demots are the ones that are involved in the scandal. You want to focus on how this benefits the Republicans. They're seizing, they're pouncing the system is a designed mess. A voter can return a ballot in any county in California, no matter which county that voter is registered in. A decade ago, California legalized ballot harvesting, which allows anybody to collect and deliver a limitless number of mail in ballots, which increases the risk of fraud or coercion. The state mail's ballots to every registered voter, twenty three point two million of them. Ballots received by officials up to seven days after election day are then counted North Carolina, you'll recall, just change this back to election day and Democrats through a hissy fit, and Republicans did it anyway, overruled them. So now all the ballots have to be in the Board of Elections by election day, by like the time the polls close. Oh, I was just going to go to Steve Okay. And then there's the issue of signature verification. Los Angeles uses machine scanners to compare signatures on mail in ballots and they compare them to all signatures in a voter registration file. In California, every county sets its own threshold for ballot authentication or sorry authentication. So every county has a different standard when they use these machines that are looking at the signature on the ballot envelope and on the ballot and then what's on file. And so one county could set it low, right, you could say, hmmm, if it's like ten percent accurate, that's good enough for us. You know, handwriting changes over the years. We hear all of these excuses from Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, ballots that meet or exceed the authentication standard, even if it's set really low, those are automatically approved, and they very rarely ever get a manual review. Okay, nobody's going back and checking. California's opaque and drawn out voting system makes it very difficult to detect criminal behavior. As Hans von Spakowsky and I wrote in our book Our Broken Elections back in twenty twenty one, quote, the real problem in our country is that we have systems that are so deliberately sloppy, or where rules are so loosely enforced that you can't tell where the incompetence ends and any fraud begins. For example, preliminary and unofficial data suggests that an unusually high number of the ballots that arrived on election day in LA have pushed Ramen's numbers higher, and they have come from downtown areas where the homeless population is concentrated. I'm sure, right, nothing happened there, Right, This is just a whole bunch of skid row voters that were like, oh, yeah, you know, I just wanted to wait until the last possible moment here because I didn't know if a Democrat was going to drop out, like Eric Swalwell, So I wanted to wait until election day before I did my mail in ballot. Do you believe that? Seriously? In California, he says, it seems that dysfunction has been developed into an art form. Sean Farash says, so California has been found to have hospice fraud, snap fraud, homeless shelter funding fraud, healthcare medicare fraud, immigration fraud, and other forms of fraud. But no voter fraud. No, no, no, no, We're not going to do that. I mean, yes, We'll build the governments at the state and federal level out of billions, nay, hundreds of billions of dollars will do that. But when it comes to election fraud, no, that's a brideline for us right there. We're not going to do that, even though that elects the leadership. That then opens up the spigots for all of the financial fraud that we are engaged in. But we are not going to do that. Never, we have principles here. They expanded their vote by mail options. They have permanent universal mail in ballots. Every registered voter gets a ballot mailed to them automatically, whether you live in the state or not. Any longer ballot harvesting third parties then collect and deliver ballots. That's legalized. That's been expanded. And then in twenty twenty four, Senate Bill eleven seventy four was signed and it locked in the state wide no voter ID standard. And why did that happen Because a local jurisdiction voted for ID, so they voted for voter ID. They put it in place, and then the state Life legislature came in and said, you can't do that. Why would you do such a thing. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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