I’m feeling pretty disgusted with the left’s most recent outrages though I’m hoping that some good can come out of it all.
As I’m writing this late on Sunday, it looks like the cheating creeps who control elections in deep blue and deeply corrupt – but I repeat myself – California are on the verge of having stolen Spencer Pratt’s second-place finish in the LA mayoral race, and have bumped Steve Hilton down into the second spot behind Xavier Becerra in the governor’s race.
I’m not normally somebody who throws around accusations about stolen elections. Partly because they are often untrue, and partly because even when they are true, complaining about them rarely helps.
I think politicians who lose in a close race never want to look in the mirror, and are sorely tempted to blame their loss on fraud. Hillary Clinton clearly lost in 2016, and Stacey “M-1” Abrams lost Georgia gubernatorial elections in 2018 and 2022, yet both women claimed for years afterward to have won, based on no evidence. Many Dems still believe – or pretend to believe – that Bush stole the 2000 election from Gore, and the 2004 election from Lurch Kerry.
There was plenty suspicious about 2020 – including Covid-enabling, fraud-friendly use of many millions of unvetted mail-in ballots, plus around 8-10 million phantom voters for Biden who had not shown up before or since. Trump was a constant in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and he was no less hated in 2020 than he was in ’16 or in ’24. Hillary got 65.8 million votes in ’16, and Que Mala got 75 million in ’24. Given population growth and other electoral trends, we would have expected the Dem candidate in 2020 to get around 70-72 million votes.
Yet Biden got 81.2 million (!), a wildly anomalous number for which no convincing innocent explanation has been offered. As is often the case, Occam and his famous razor indicate the most likely explanation: uniquely loose and fraud-enabling election rules allowed/enabled/produced around 10 million extra votes than would have been expected, given known demographic realities.
However, even though Trump had a better argument to make in 2020, there was no way to gather enough evidence in the short time before the election had to be certified. And since he couldn’t come close to proving that the election was stolen, it was a losing gambit with horrible optics to complain about the election being stolen. In that case, his best strategy was to stop the complaining (which is not a skill in his wheelhouse), and instead to use the obvious flaws in that election to help fuel his attempt to come back and whip the Dems beyond their ability to cheat in 2024.
Which, because God exists, and He loves us, Trump did.
But there’s a difference between stolen elections and corrupt ones, and California’s system is obviously corrupt, and should spur national outrage. There is no legitimate reason in a first-world country for vote counting to take weeks after either a city or a state election! Most US states – and all the red ones, as far as I know – have a decision within 24 hours, with very rare exceptions involving razor-thin margins. Most established nations in the world can do the same, too.
The only non-laughable explanation for why a state delays final vote counts for so long is so that they can cheat. And all legitimate voting rules are common sense ones. Everyone should be required to provide ID and proof of citizenship to vote, as every developed nation in the world requires! Mail-in ballots should be used by only a very few people, with very clear reasons to do so (e.g. serving in the military abroad, or being home-bound due to serious health problems), and those ballots should come with extra documentation and get extra scrutiny.
And they should be required to be received on the day before election day, so that they can be counted along with the day-of votes! There is no reason for people who don’t want to vote in person to be allowed to wait until election day to mail their ballot, thus requiring an extra week or more for everyone to wait in limbo for results. Especially since corrupt scumbags can use that time to figure out exactly how many votes they need to “create” to steal an election.
(If you want the extra convenience of mailing in your vote, the least you can do is to mail your ballot a week before election day. If that’s too much to ask of you, you can either vote in person on election day like the rest of us, or else GFY.)
Third-party ballot harvesting and unobserved ballot drop boxes are ridiculously corrupt on their face, and should never be allowed. The same goes for mailing ballots to every voter in the state, especially when blue-state voter lists are notoriously full of dead people, those who moved long ago, and fraudsters.
Having said all that, the shenanigans in CA right now are obviously working exactly as they are intended to. On election day, Spencer Pratt was a close second to Bass, with Nithya Rahman coming in a very distant third. Even with all of the supposedly legitimate votes still out to count, there is no reason to expect that Rahman could honestly make up so much ground from those outstanding votes. Even in far-left districts, the late vote should have split between the two far-left candidates in roughly the same ratios that the early and day-of votes had done. Yet Rahman’s totals were disproportionately increased, just enough to edge out Pratt.
Unexpectedly!
Even if the Dem machine had been smart enough not to cheat so blatantly, they still would likely have prevailed in November. Democrat numbers in LA and CA are lopsided enough that if the top two finishers had included a Dem and a non-Dem, the former would probably win, and California’s slide into a degraded, Third-World status would continue unabated.
But this is ridiculous! What I’m hoping for now is that every honest, productive citizen in California will follow in the footsteps of the millions who have already fled the state, so that all of the future victims of crime, financial predation and eroding quality of life will be the leftists who voted for exactly that. And may God have mercy on their souls.
More importantly, I’m hoping that this outrageous debacle might finally be the straw that breaks the RINO’s back. I hope every Republican in the country will flood John Thune’s office – and the offices of every other Republican in the Congress – to demand that they pass the SAVE Act.
If that means killing the filibuster, so be it. That’s not our first choice, and most of us would like to uphold that traditional check on power. If we had a principled opposition who would meet us halfway and play by the rules, we’d keep the filibuster, and pass the SAVE Act by the kind of wide, bipartisan margin that all polls show that the American people would support.
But we don’t have that kind of opposition. Look at California. And at New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Chicago, and at how the Democrats with a thin majority in Virginia acted.
Look at the Southern Policy Law Center’s soul-withering dishonesty, and how no congressional Democrats (except maybe Fetterman, and one or two others?) will even acknowledge that, let alone condemn it. The latest revelation is that the SPLC was able to nearly triple their revenue after they paid off the KKK to stage the Charlottesville rally, and then wildly exaggerate and lie about the “existential threat of white supremacy” ever since.
We may not be able to stop crooked blue states from holding crooked local and state elections. But we cannot allow California-style fraud and cheating to create crooked national elections.
And the voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements in the SAVE Act should be the LEAST that we can expect from even a RINO-influenced Republican congress.
So get on it, everybody!
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