L.A.’s 4 Seasons: Fires, Riots, Meth and Election Theft

Ann Coulter  

"The U.S. Constitution prescribes a single “day” for elections, but instead of Election Day, California has Election Season, giving activists a month to collect ballots, fill them out and submit them."

"The preposterous spectacle of the recent mayoral runoff election in Los Angeles may be a blessing in disguise—and not just for Republican candidate Spencer Pratt, who can now move his family to Miami. As the entire country saw, Pratt walloped the Indian progressive lady the night of the election, then watched as his lead vanished during a week of ballot “counting.”

"The switcheroo was surprising not only because the progressive lady, City Council member Nithya Raman, supports encampments of homeless drug addicts next to grammar schools (unless her kids are forced to gaze upon them) but also because the late-arriving ballots gave Pratt three new votes while delivering about 100,000 new votes for her.

"Allegedly, Pratt finished “third.” Voters will now have to choose between a communist in Mayor Karen Bass, and an admitted socialist in “second place finisher” Raman (a smug imbecile who makes New York mayor Zohran Mamdani look like Winston Churchill).

"Liberals have gone from saying You can’t prove we cheated to writing ponderous think pieces in The New York Times boasting about the genius of progressive leadership in our cities. Apparently, releasing criminals and decriminalizing crime has been wildly successful on all counts — homicide rates (“declining”), homelessness (“down”) and drug overdoses (“fallen pretty remarkably”). That’s why, the ponderous think piece by David Wallace-Wells continues, cities are not “shifting right, as many expected, but left.”

"Yes, it was simply the power of liberal ideas that won the day.

"Liberals accuse right-wingers of lacking every basic human characteristic, but do they really think we lack a prefrontal cortex?

"Of course the Los Angeles election was stolen, openly, audaciously, without an ounce of shame. Raman could not be identified by 10 out of 10 Los Angelinos. Couldn’t liberals stop insulting our intelligence and stick to Hahaha, we stole the election and there’s nothing you can do about it?" . . . More...

Memo to the Atlantic League, York Revolution Baseball Team Owners

 The American Spectator  

In short? This isn’t rocket science. Baseball-loving Americans go to baseball games to — shocker! — watch a baseball game. Not to get hassled about their politics, whatever those politics may be.

Broc Smith

"Play ball!

"Once upon a time, that call-out from a baseball umpire was the signal for a baseball game to begin. And for that matter, whether that game was being played by major league teams, minor league teams, college baseball games, or Little League teams.

"But now?

"Here’s a headline from Fox News Sports: “Pro baseball team forfeits Pride Night game after players refuse to wear themed jerseys, organization says,” with the subtitle, “The Atlantic League team called the players’ decision ‘completely inconsistent with our vision’ in a scathing statement.”

"The Fox story reports:

"A professional baseball team in Pennsylvania will be forfeiting a game on Thursday that was scheduled to be the team’s Pride Night after players refused to wear LGBTQ-themed jerseys, the team announced.

"The York Revolution of the Atlantic League, the same league where Trevor Bauer currently plays, said the decision “was not reached lightly” in announcing the forfeit to the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Wednesday.

"Then came this kicker in the story. It said: “The team was not afraid to throw its players under the bus in a rather scathing statement, saying it was ‘deeply troubled and profoundly disappointed by the decisions of these few players.’”

"And the “rather scathing statement” from the ball club? It reads in part:" . . .

"But the essence here, which one would have to be blind to miss, is that the team owners of the York Revolution, not to mention those who run the Atlantic League, have decided they are not really about baseball at all but view themselves instead as social activists supporting the latest far-left cause that catches their political fancy."

Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas

Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas

 "This is a book about morons. The morons that we'll meet don't have tobacco juice dripping from their chins, sunburned necks, or any other stereotypical manifestations of dimness. As the title suggests, Intellectual Morons focuses on cognitive elites who embarrass themselves by championing idiotic theories, beliefs, and opinions. It is a quite pedestrian occurrence for stupid people to fall for stupid ideas. More interesting, and of greater harm to society, is the phenomenon of smart people falling for stupid ideas. Ph.D.'s, high IQs, and intellectual honors are not antidotes to thickheadedness." . . .

The new policy that divides California taxpayers   "California voters will face a critical financial decision this November as a controversial new wealth tax officially secures its place on the ballot. The measure, known as the California Billionaire Tax Act, introduces a stark policy dividing Californian taxpayers, forcing a high-stakes debate between progressive wealth redistribution and economic preservation. Sponsored by the coalition Billionaire Tax Now, the initiative aims to leverage the state's ultra-wealthy to shore up public services. However, it has exposed a massive rift within the state's political and financial leadership, pitting public sector unions against top tech entrepreneurs and even the state's own Democratic governor.

California to vote on billionaire wealth tax in November

"The initiative, spearheaded by the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), proposes a one-time 5% tax on individuals residing in California as of January 1, 2026, with a net worth exceeding $1 billion." 

California's failed governor, Gavin Newsom, calls for a 'national' billionaire's tax - American Thinker   ". 

Steven Fiorillo: 

. . . "Let me be clear about what I am defending and what I am not. I am not a billionaire, nor am I carrying water for the billionaire class. I am defending entrepreneurship. I am defending the simple radical idea that any American with a good idea and a relentless work ethic can build something enormous out of nothing. That drive is the engine of our economy and a tax on net worth is a direct penalty for building that engine." ...

The murdered Charlie Kirk speaks about socialism.

DAC, the New AOC, Signals Something Communist This Way Comes |

"A New York congressional primary is emblematic of a broader ideological realignment within the party."

 Daniel Flynn: The American Spectator

"Surely cloaking Jews in the garb of their monstrous exterminators lays bare their anti-Semitism"

Indivisible

. . . "Not just DAC in NY-13, but in NJ-12 Adam Hamawy — a former friend of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman who testified for the defense during his trial for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center — represents a party that knows no leftward boundary. Its propensity for the application of hyperbolic rhetoric to Donald Trump and just about any issue, from the minimum wage to immigration, necessarily means a Manichean interpretation on events in the Middle East. Criticizing some of Benjamin Netanyahu’s military actions as, say, disproportionate and unwise, will not do. They must compare Israel to Nazi Germany and call its military actions “genocide.” They always go for Bacardi 151 or Everclear grain alcohol when the situation calls for a glass of wine or even some near beer.

"Surely cloaking Jews in the garb of their monstrous exterminators lays bare their anti-Semitism. It also reveals the users of such language as extremists who always reach for the harshest label to describe the people with whom they disagree.

"In the 2026 Democratic Party, it is always Year Zero and never Thermidor.   More...

Daniel Flynn: Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas:

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Socialism is winning our elections because it already won our classrooms; "If we surrender the classroom, the future of our country is at risk."

 Washington Examiner   

"The elections we are watching this summer are not the beginning of anything. They are the harvest of what was planted in our classrooms years ago. If we want a different harvest, we have to be willing to plant something different and to defend it when standing finally costs us something."

"Watch the reaction to the primaries in New York last week and you will hear a word that would have ended a campaign a generation ago: socialism. Candidates now say it with pride. Commentators warn, accurately, that the platform beneath it, abolishing borders, defunding the police, seizing private property, is something far more radical than the politics most of the public grew up with.

"Here is the question almost no one is asking: where did these ideas come from? They did not appear overnight on a ballot. They were taught. For two decades, they were cultivated, rewarded, and treated as obvious in American classrooms, first in our universities and then downstream into nearly everything else. The ballot box is the last stop, not the first. By the time an idea reaches an election, it has already won the lecture hall.

"While that long campaign played out, much of the church and a great deal of faith-based education fell asleep. We told ourselves the classroom was neutral ground. We treated education as a transaction for a credential and forgot that education has always been about formation. It is about the kind of person a student becomes. Where conviction went quiet, ideology moved in. It did not ask permission." . . .More...

Forget Obama and Biden - What Dems Want Now Is Much Worse   "What a mess Democrats have got themselves into!

"A galaxy of events, lousy leadership, election losses, dumb decisions, clumsy conclusions, and changing demographics have combined to put the ancient party of Andrew Jackson in a deep, deep hole. 

"The good news for Republicans is the Dems are still digging.

"The bad news is the extremists in that party are on the ascendancy for the moment. Three socialist candidates in New York City, in effect, were elected to Congress as Democrats last week after being endorsed by New York City’s socialist Muslim mayor." . . .More behind a paywall.