Hey Americans who keep voting like your votes matter, have you ever considered that perhaps YOU are the problem?
This week you’ll be hearing a lot about poor Spencer Pratt and the weird mail-in-vote surge that suddenly erased his second place finish, essentially ending his campaign against the fire-enabling insanity of liberal policies that have turned more and more of LA into an open-air homeless drug market.
Playing a rigged game, then complaining about rigged results, is getting REALLY old. Despite all that tiny hat money removing Massie, I guess it’s still shocking to some LA voters that funny AI ads and much-needed criticism of the Homeless Industrial Complex can’t beat decades of established electoral tricks.
To see how the major media outlets in LA will depict the retarded expectations of Pratt voters as being dumb and wrong, here’s the Los Angeles Times explaining to voters how their inability to track confusing media electoral updates led to the wild expectations of electoral success now crashing to the ground of supposed reality:
Since election night in California, a single theory of election fraud has taken root like no other among online conspiracy theorists, bot accounts, conservative influencers and people close to President Trump. It proved to be a simple misreading of the voting data.
Late on election night, an update of vote counts in the Los Angeles mayor’s race appeared on election results pages of various media outlets including the Los Angeles Times. It showed leading Democrats Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman receiving tens of thousands of new votes, and leading Republican former reality TV star Spencer Pratt receiving no new votes.
Some observers of the vote tally immediately took screenshots, with some shouting fraud. Others ran statistical analyses that showed it would be impossible for a candidate such as Pratt — running second in the race — to receive zero votes in such a large batch of ballots.
The problem? Just a few moments later, according to the LA Times, this happened:
In fact, the update that showed zero Pratt votes was followed one minute later by another update that showed tens of thousands of votes for Pratt, and none for Bass or Raman.
There was no batch of votes that included zero votes for any candidate, as Los Angeles County’s own data show plainly.
But the claim fit into the broader, false narrative being pushed relentlessly by Trump and other Republicans in recent days, that California Democrats were cheating.
If you’re STILL not understanding how this “misreading of data” between votes cast, and media reports reporting, fueled conspiracy theories, the LA Times has an academic expert to provide more condescending context about this “simple mix-up”:
Justin Grimmer, a political science professor at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who researches and evaluates claims of election fraud, conducted his own data analysis of the vote updates, and came to the same conclusion.
He said there was an initial update with no Pratt votes, but a second one 41 seconds later with no votes for Bass or Raman — leading him to believe the single batch of ballots was just reported in two back-to-back updates rather than one.
“Because they came so close together, it looks like it was just a sequence of updates,” he said.
Grimmer said news outlets are “thinking about speed” and the best way to get people the most accurate information as quickly as possible, but “haven’t quite adjusted to being in this world where there’s this group of people who monitor these data feeds as if they are official government reports.”
“It leads to these horrible tweets about there being evidence of fraud,” he said.
Does THAT satisfy your sense of outrage you silly Spencer Pratt voters?
While legacy media in LA does damage control over their sloppy coverage of the Los Angeles Mayoral race, local media in Missoula continue to show how very effective they are at NOT reporting on certain developments impacting Missoula’s version of the Homeless Industrial Complex, like a book author with “lived experience” coming to Missoula to offer something called a SOLUTION to the intractable problem our local leaders get paid to not fix.
Before getting to wear a cap and gown (like my oldest kid wore on Saturday), Ginny Burton was doing hard drugs and committing felonies. Then, thanks to a stint in jail, Ginny turned things around. By 2022 she was making appearances with big media figures, like Tucker Carlson.
Did ANYONE in local media cover Ginny Burton’s appearance in Missoula? Nope. Nor did any local official find the time to come and listen to what she had to say, which can be summarized by the main points of her 10-point “Gabriel Plan”:
While Ginny Burton beat a mean meth addiction and wrote a book that could be applied to systemic retardation, Missoula liberals are more prone to embrace Stephanie Land’s story, the former homeless woman who translated her poor choice of male partner into a very popular book and Netflix movie after getting “educated” in Missoula on how to participate in an astro-turfed outrage campaign against a much-needed municipal move to curb “urban camping”.
To get a sense of how eagerly Land’s story was jumped on and turned into a mass-published narrative and Netflix flick, here’s a Seattle Times article from around the same time Burton was appearing on Fox News:
Land’s story unfolds in a Pacific Northwest landscape. That homeless shelter (and subsequent transitional housing) was in Port Townsend; the tiny, mildewed studio apartment she later shared with her daughter was in Mount Vernon; the city to which she and Mia eventually moved was Missoula, Montana, where Land slowly worked her way through college in her 30s — and finally realized her longtime dream of becoming a writer. (She’ll be in Seattle on Monday, Feb. 11, for a Q&A and book signing at Elliott Bay Book Company.)
“Maid” was born as a college essay called “Confessions of the Housekeeper,” but quickly it grew. “I sent a pitch to (the online magazine) Vox that wasn’t really a pitch, it was more like, Dear Editor, I wrote this in college, maybe you might like it,” recalled Land, in a telephone interview this month from her Missoula home.
She sent two paragraphs from the essay, describing her experiences cleaning for an early client: the Sad House, the home of a frail widower “dying slowly in a shrine that hadn’t changed since his wife had passed away.” In “Maid,” Land writes that before the Sad House, she’d thought of cleaning as “a mindless job and something to pay my bills, but now it felt like the work had an unexpected imprint on my life, and the vulnerability I was exposed to somehow relieved me of my own.”
Vox’s response was quick: “They emailed back almost immediately, offering me $500 — a huge amount of money, the most money I thought I was ever going to make,” said Land. The resulting story was published on Vox in July 2015.
Going back to Pratt, there will now be more endless cycles of clipped social media outrage expressing dismay that he was electorally robbed, and demanding investigations, and blah blah blah…but why should anyone OUTSIDE of Los Angeles really give a shit about any of this?
Yesterday I published my first impression of the Coroner’s Inquest for Ross Robertson. Besides a Missoulian article inaccessible to the non-paying public, no other media reported on the very troubling scenario of a man in a mental health crisis getting snuffed out by local law enforcement.
It shouldn’t be the job of unpaid locals and volunteers to fill the void left by failed politicians and complicit non-profit “leaders” to address the systemic issues plaguing our community, but that’s the reality that vote-casting hopefuls are continuing to ignore because it would mean doing something more significant than filling in bubbles on a ballot every other year.
To those who aren’t waiting for election results to take action in your own community, thank you. The audiences might not be noteworthy yet to local narrative controllers, but that doesn’t mean something significant isn’t happening.
Thanks for reading!
