Pratt win is unlikely. In the best case, he will survive the primary. And then, either Bass will support Raman, or the other way round. I think pigs will fly before supporters for Bass or Raman will vote for Pratt.
I live here too. Do you think they acknowledge the suicide? My impression is they have no idea their side could ever do anything with bad consequences and that they are in fact fighting fascism all the time
> I am simply astounded that anyone paying any attention could want whoever the current mayor is to remain in charge. <
My logic brain would be "astounded". But my empirical--hey, look what's going on!--brain is definitely not.
We just had the worst administration in American history. Just open border treason waving in the Mayorkas Millions, squashing wages, driving up rents and house prices, raising inflation, crapifying schools, clogging highways, endangering/killing American drivers, eating taxes ... just intentionally making life much shittier for Americans and making the future much, much shittier for "our posterity".
And 48.3% of voters said, "More please! Just make it even sillier and vapid!"
It's interesting to me that Kemp & Ratturdberger claimed the 2020 election in Georgia was totally on the up & up yet the FOLLOWING legislative session passed election reform.....
Spare us the sanctimony Tina. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back. These Repubs (Glitch McConnell, etc.,) used the energy of the Tea Party and later MAGA to get elected and re-elected then constantly tell us we're horrible while reaching across (only going one way) the aisle to hold hands with their good friend Joe Biden. Tell us again why Georgia is a purple state.
It’s one of those California questions, like, “How can you have a star-studded concert to raise money for the victims of the wildfires, and the victims of the wildfires see not one penny of the $150 million raised?”
The answer is obvious. The money needs to be dispersed by a large organization of well paid career parasites. Members of these”help” groups are experts, thus need to be well compensated. After oversight is complete, the tiny residual which remains is given to a similar operation.
Did anyone here read "Bel Ami" by Guy de Maupassant? In the novel, he was describing the end of 19th century French politics, but it could be lifted word for word. It's nothing specific to California.
> Why do elections in California take ten or twenty times as long to tabulate as elections in, say, Paraguay? <
Because then the authorities have time to make sure the right people win?
Mail in voting is fraud friendly joke--by design.
> Nor do these Third World countries have to provide, by legislation or court order, ballots in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, Navajo, Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Panjabi, Punjabi, Hmong, Mixtec, .... <
Minoritarianism on steroids. And since you have to--nominally--past an English language test in order to become a citizen, these non-English ballots are an open declaration that we aren't serious about our own immigration laws and immigration is basically a big fraudulent looting operation.
~~
Again while the STEM guys have delivered the goods, everything social and political--everything delivered by our verbalist elites--is a dysfunctional dystopia.
We don't have to live this way.
We could be living in a highly functional incredibly prosperous white nation, but instead live in a slumping toward Brazil craptopia.
I still don't get your deal with verbalists. I saw street interviews about the mayoral race and one woman said she was voting for Bass. Why? Uh well there was this great Ramadan celebration and didn't she do that? Or have something to do with that?
There's no verbal trickery here. It's dumb people who can't figure out cause and effect, voting for whichever person or party makes them feel good.
I'm a wordcel and a shape rotator and society needs both. A better solution would be to require voters to show some knowledge of issues and how policies cause effects. But of course tests are already outlawed.
> I'm a wordcel and a shape rotator and society needs both. <
Agree we need folks who "do verbal". Particularly we need conservatives who think and speak clearly about what's going on, why its nuts and how to stop it.
My point with "verbalists" is again that the STEM, "number" folks have generally continued to deliver the goods over my lifetime. (Sure we don't have our flying cars or fusion energy yet, but ... overally not bad.)
But the verbal folks--the lawyers, journos, politicians , etc. often "high SAT" score people, think Bill Clinton--have delivered nothing but cultural and political disaster. Just dumb idea after dumb idea and lots of--surprise!--verbalist heavy bureaucratic and legal process making it harder to fix mistakes or do much of anything. Our verbalist elites have been a disaster during my lifetime. That's just reality.
I tend to agree with you that STEM people tend to deliver the majority of worthwhile things (mostly because I am one of them) but I can also admit based on my failed startups and genera business involvement that those sales and marketing people and managers (good ones obviously) are necessary for the great stuff we come up with to get anywhere.
> A better solution would be to require voters to show some knowledge of issues and how policies cause effects. But of course tests are already outlawed. <
Once you get away from this ridiculous idea of "inclusion!"--that everything's better the more people are represented, it is quite easy to propose "better".
I'd argue that the people who produce and actually have a *stake* in the future should call the shots. In my utopia the franchise would be limited to married with children men (representing their family's interests) who are productive, net tax payers. I might even throw in a military service requirement if you make that a Swiss style norm. Criminals, welfare cases, psychos, homos, druggies, deadbeats--do not get a say. Single men do not get a say. They need to get married and have kids first. Single women--LOL.
Once you are back to responsible family men making decisions with an eye to their own children's future ... the decisions will be much, much better.
(And, yeah I'm sort of implying here Erik, that you should find some nice, level-headed young woman and knock her up. Trust me, it's fun!)
Thanks. I appreciate that you are implicitly okaying one of those verboten "age gap" relationships for me. If you have the woman available I would even convert.
OTOH I do take some comfort from being childless. All the stupid I see gathering these days will bear its most horrible fruit after I am gone. I would likely be a lot more anxious if my kids and grand kids had to deal with this.
I actually like your proposal. If we had that (and respect for equal protection) I would relax, secure in the knowledge that even though I didn't get to vote, that things would continue to be run sensibly.
It wouldn't bother me if you went more libertarian, more law and order of even tried out nordic social safety net things...just as long as it was being run well I could adapt.
Dumb people manipulated by verbally adroit people, and propaganda repeated and reinforced until it becomes core belief which can't be debated. People who live in a world of abstract ideas and refuse to believe what their own eyes tell them.
Who did Steve Sailer favor in the California governor election (in the all-candidate, open primary period)? I know Steve says he doesn't do direct political endorsements. That just makes some of us wonder more.
Robert Stark (b.1985 Los Angeles native White-male), who is basically favorable to Sailer's views but from a different generation, says the best candidate overall was San Jose mayor Matt Mahan. But he never got off the ground.
Xavier Becerra the likely winner for California governor from early results.
(Technically Becerra will still need to win against Steve Hilton in November. But he can run a Prevent Defense kind of thing till then. Like the one guy they brought out to run against Massie in Kentucky did...).
What is the best explanation for this figure, Xavier Becerra? --- How did Becerra wind up percolating up to the very top?
It seems in Sailer's output he's mentioned the name Xavier Becerra only occasionally (I find only about 5 times over 15 years in published writings, always basically "in passing").
"We’re going to give democracy time to work." -- Tom Steyer (D-billionaire), at his California Governor election-watching results event, 9pm hour June 2, 2026, referring to slow vote-counting.
Has a race ever taken weeks... only to see a Republican win? I don't think so. The bizarre thing is how my allegedly smart Democrat friends think this is perfectly normal.
I think it was the Republican Korean lady in Orange County with a name that sound like a rapper -- Young Kim? She usually loses in about the 4th week of vote counting, but one time she astonished me by winning a seat in Congress in the post Thanksgiving vote-counting.
It's an interesting question. On the other hand, British, French and German elections take less than 6h to count. And yet, they produce very similar results.
I think a real game changer would be if we'd do the tripartite voting process like Prussia had in the 19th century. In a nutshell, a third of all votes was reserved for the fewest voters who contributed to a 1/3 of all tax revenue, the next third to the mid-class voters who contributed another 1/3 of all tax revenue, and the last third to the rest. That made the elected totally dependent on the tax payers.
We’re at 63% of votes counted here in Los Angeles 14 hours after the polls have closed. The rest of the ballots are coming by mule train. They need to be converted to Braille to allow for hand counting by the disadvantaged blind.
90% of Californians vote by mail and California is a postmark state which means that ballots can arrive in the mail after election day as long as they are postmarked. California also actually tries to follow the vote by mail process to verify that the rules were followed unlike some other states.
If a state is claiming 99% percent of votes counted by the morning after the election day then it is an in-hand state, starts processing mailed ballots early, and does little to follow all of the rules on voting by mail. Think Florida.
I appreciate the clap back message, TT; I am generally taciturn and reserved.
Anarchotyranny even in a nominally Republican-governed state!
Because their elections are rigged.
Are you watching the Mayor’s race Steve?
I’m fascinated by the possibility of a Pratt win.
I'm all in on Pratt, donated $25 since I can't vote for him.
Pratt win is unlikely. In the best case, he will survive the primary. And then, either Bass will support Raman, or the other way round. I think pigs will fly before supporters for Bass or Raman will vote for Pratt.
This AM I saw Bass in the lead with Pratt in second but they pointed out that fraudulent --I mean mail in--votes tend democrat so who knows.
I am simply astounded that anyone paying any attention could want whoever the current mayor is to remain in charge.
I live here and I can assure that the majority of Los Angelenos are enthusiastically committed to suicide.
I live here too. Do you think they acknowledge the suicide? My impression is they have no idea their side could ever do anything with bad consequences and that they are in fact fighting fascism all the time
> I am simply astounded that anyone paying any attention could want whoever the current mayor is to remain in charge. <
My logic brain would be "astounded". But my empirical--hey, look what's going on!--brain is definitely not.
We just had the worst administration in American history. Just open border treason waving in the Mayorkas Millions, squashing wages, driving up rents and house prices, raising inflation, crapifying schools, clogging highways, endangering/killing American drivers, eating taxes ... just intentionally making life much shittier for Americans and making the future much, much shittier for "our posterity".
And 48.3% of voters said, "More please! Just make it even sillier and vapid!"
"Astounded" is no longer within reach.
Now do Fulton County
It's interesting to me that Kemp & Ratturdberger claimed the 2020 election in Georgia was totally on the up & up yet the FOLLOWING legislative session passed election reform.....
Spare us the sanctimony Tina. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back. These Repubs (Glitch McConnell, etc.,) used the energy of the Tea Party and later MAGA to get elected and re-elected then constantly tell us we're horrible while reaching across (only going one way) the aisle to hold hands with their good friend Joe Biden. Tell us again why Georgia is a purple state.
Do you like Secretary of State Brad fartknocker too?
It’s one of those California questions, like, “How can you have a star-studded concert to raise money for the victims of the wildfires, and the victims of the wildfires see not one penny of the $150 million raised?”
The answer is obvious. The money needs to be dispersed by a large organization of well paid career parasites. Members of these”help” groups are experts, thus need to be well compensated. After oversight is complete, the tiny residual which remains is given to a similar operation.
In other words it’s a racket.
Did anyone here read "Bel Ami" by Guy de Maupassant? In the novel, he was describing the end of 19th century French politics, but it could be lifted word for word. It's nothing specific to California.
> Why do elections in California take ten or twenty times as long to tabulate as elections in, say, Paraguay? <
Because then the authorities have time to make sure the right people win?
Mail in voting is fraud friendly joke--by design.
> Nor do these Third World countries have to provide, by legislation or court order, ballots in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, Navajo, Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Panjabi, Punjabi, Hmong, Mixtec, .... <
Minoritarianism on steroids. And since you have to--nominally--past an English language test in order to become a citizen, these non-English ballots are an open declaration that we aren't serious about our own immigration laws and immigration is basically a big fraudulent looting operation.
~~
Again while the STEM guys have delivered the goods, everything social and political--everything delivered by our verbalist elites--is a dysfunctional dystopia.
We don't have to live this way.
We could be living in a highly functional incredibly prosperous white nation, but instead live in a slumping toward Brazil craptopia.
I still don't get your deal with verbalists. I saw street interviews about the mayoral race and one woman said she was voting for Bass. Why? Uh well there was this great Ramadan celebration and didn't she do that? Or have something to do with that?
There's no verbal trickery here. It's dumb people who can't figure out cause and effect, voting for whichever person or party makes them feel good.
I'm a wordcel and a shape rotator and society needs both. A better solution would be to require voters to show some knowledge of issues and how policies cause effects. But of course tests are already outlawed.
> I still don't get your deal with verbalists. <
> I'm a wordcel and a shape rotator and society needs both. <
Agree we need folks who "do verbal". Particularly we need conservatives who think and speak clearly about what's going on, why its nuts and how to stop it.
My point with "verbalists" is again that the STEM, "number" folks have generally continued to deliver the goods over my lifetime. (Sure we don't have our flying cars or fusion energy yet, but ... overally not bad.)
But the verbal folks--the lawyers, journos, politicians , etc. often "high SAT" score people, think Bill Clinton--have delivered nothing but cultural and political disaster. Just dumb idea after dumb idea and lots of--surprise!--verbalist heavy bureaucratic and legal process making it harder to fix mistakes or do much of anything. Our verbalist elites have been a disaster during my lifetime. That's just reality.
I tend to agree with you that STEM people tend to deliver the majority of worthwhile things (mostly because I am one of them) but I can also admit based on my failed startups and genera business involvement that those sales and marketing people and managers (good ones obviously) are necessary for the great stuff we come up with to get anywhere.
> A better solution would be to require voters to show some knowledge of issues and how policies cause effects. But of course tests are already outlawed. <
Once you get away from this ridiculous idea of "inclusion!"--that everything's better the more people are represented, it is quite easy to propose "better".
I'd argue that the people who produce and actually have a *stake* in the future should call the shots. In my utopia the franchise would be limited to married with children men (representing their family's interests) who are productive, net tax payers. I might even throw in a military service requirement if you make that a Swiss style norm. Criminals, welfare cases, psychos, homos, druggies, deadbeats--do not get a say. Single men do not get a say. They need to get married and have kids first. Single women--LOL.
Once you are back to responsible family men making decisions with an eye to their own children's future ... the decisions will be much, much better.
(And, yeah I'm sort of implying here Erik, that you should find some nice, level-headed young woman and knock her up. Trust me, it's fun!)
Thanks. I appreciate that you are implicitly okaying one of those verboten "age gap" relationships for me. If you have the woman available I would even convert.
OTOH I do take some comfort from being childless. All the stupid I see gathering these days will bear its most horrible fruit after I am gone. I would likely be a lot more anxious if my kids and grand kids had to deal with this.
I actually like your proposal. If we had that (and respect for equal protection) I would relax, secure in the knowledge that even though I didn't get to vote, that things would continue to be run sensibly.
It wouldn't bother me if you went more libertarian, more law and order of even tried out nordic social safety net things...just as long as it was being run well I could adapt.
Dumb people manipulated by verbally adroit people, and propaganda repeated and reinforced until it becomes core belief which can't be debated. People who live in a world of abstract ideas and refuse to believe what their own eyes tell them.
Great summary.
You forgot Jive!
BALLOT INITIATIVE: PROPOSITION WE FINNA RAISE DAT MINIMUM WAGE, NO CAP
Who did Steve Sailer favor in the California governor election (in the all-candidate, open primary period)? I know Steve says he doesn't do direct political endorsements. That just makes some of us wonder more.
Robert Stark (b.1985 Los Angeles native White-male), who is basically favorable to Sailer's views but from a different generation, says the best candidate overall was San Jose mayor Matt Mahan. But he never got off the ground.
Matt Mahan struck me as a sensible technocratic choice. California is halfway to Idiocracy so no way Jose.
In my next life, I want to be a California public sector worker.
As Uncle Joe taught us, "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
Xavier Becerra the likely winner for California governor from early results.
(Technically Becerra will still need to win against Steve Hilton in November. But he can run a Prevent Defense kind of thing till then. Like the one guy they brought out to run against Massie in Kentucky did...).
What is the best explanation for this figure, Xavier Becerra? --- How did Becerra wind up percolating up to the very top?
It seems in Sailer's output he's mentioned the name Xavier Becerra only occasionally (I find only about 5 times over 15 years in published writings, always basically "in passing").
> What is the best explanation for this figure, Xavier Becerra? --- How did Becerra wind up percolating up to the very top? <
The obvious thing is he's Mexican in a state that now has a Latino plurality. (Even though not among voters, that will eventually catch up.)
Insert you favorite Lee Kwan Yew quote. Bottom line, end of the day, with diversity politics heads toward ethnic politics, ethnic counting.
The odd thing is actually having ugly, unpleasant Karen Bass types still around who do not represent modern Los Angeles--a Latino city--at all.
The Irish and Italians used to run Chicago, Boston and NYC. Those days are long gone.
"We’re going to give democracy time to work." -- Tom Steyer (D-billionaire), at his California Governor election-watching results event, 9pm hour June 2, 2026, referring to slow vote-counting.
With 48% of precincts reporting:
- Steve Hilton, 27%,
- Xavier Becerra: 26%,
- Tom Steyer 20%.
- Chad Bianco: 11%
- Katie Porter: 5%
- Matt Mahan: 5%
- Antonio Villaraigosa: 1%.
- Eric Swalwell: 0%.
I'm an issues voter but no way I could listen to Tom Steyer, Billionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht's irritating croak for the next four years.
What is this new speech impediment? Did he copy it from Newsome? Young people need elocution lessons
Has a race ever taken weeks... only to see a Republican win? I don't think so. The bizarre thing is how my allegedly smart Democrat friends think this is perfectly normal.
I brought this up a while back and Steve mentioned one case in which after weeks of counting the Republican won. I don't recall the specifics.
I think it was the Republican Korean lady in Orange County with a name that sound like a rapper -- Young Kim? She usually loses in about the 4th week of vote counting, but one time she astonished me by winning a seat in Congress in the post Thanksgiving vote-counting.
The list of languages is surely now out of date. It should include
AI slop
pretrained large language models
passive-aggressive body language
far-right dog whistling
vibe code
Apple Vision gaze-and-pinch navigation
Jafaican
Rust
Newspeak
"AI slop"
Why is voting necessary when they can just ask AI for the results?
YooKay Roadman
It's an interesting question. On the other hand, British, French and German elections take less than 6h to count. And yet, they produce very similar results.
I think a real game changer would be if we'd do the tripartite voting process like Prussia had in the 19th century. In a nutshell, a third of all votes was reserved for the fewest voters who contributed to a 1/3 of all tax revenue, the next third to the mid-class voters who contributed another 1/3 of all tax revenue, and the last third to the rest. That made the elected totally dependent on the tax payers.
Isn't that the point?! Keep counting until you get the result you want.. The real question is WHY is Thune blocking passage of the Save Act?
My conclusion, most legislators are being bribed, legally and illegally.
We’re at 63% of votes counted here in Los Angeles 14 hours after the polls have closed. The rest of the ballots are coming by mule train. They need to be converted to Braille to allow for hand counting by the disadvantaged blind.
All is well.
90% of Californians vote by mail and California is a postmark state which means that ballots can arrive in the mail after election day as long as they are postmarked. California also actually tries to follow the vote by mail process to verify that the rules were followed unlike some other states.
If a state is claiming 99% percent of votes counted by the morning after the election day then it is an in-hand state, starts processing mailed ballots early, and does little to follow all of the rules on voting by mail. Think Florida.