Michael Leonard

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[Michael Leonard @Michael78255]

@LangmanVince Very few NBA players put their hand across their hearts during the national anthem. I saw a few on the Spurs. How many on the Knicks did the same? And how about Knick fans booing the shit out of President Trump during the national anthem - that was classy, right?

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

@beyondreasdoubt Trump seems to actively enjoy going into adversarial environments sometimes just to show he can. Honestly one of his more entertaining traits, plus he gets the nice optics here of him saluting while a bunch of his political enemies boo during the national anthem

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

You know the Overton window has shifted when @GeraldoRivera starts sounding like a Republican on election security.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

Universal mail-in ballots
Virtually non-existent signature verification
Ballot harvesting
Late mail-in votes counted after Election Day
No Voter ID
Unkempt voter rolls

The left says "what's your evidence" of fraud.

No. CA elections aren't secure.

So, they're not real.

Period.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Failure to pass the Save America Act & secure our elections will go down in the history of this country as one of the greatest acts of betrayal by Republican Senators.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Peru's national election was last night
95% of their 27M ballots are counted

California's election was last Tuesday
72% of their 10M ballots are counted

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Let’s review. California:

- Made it illegal to show voter IDs
- Mass mail-in ballots across the state
- Allows people to print ballots at home
- Allows people to register anywhere in the state
- Allows ballot harvesting
- Allows people to register with “IDs” like gym memberships & insurance cards
- Allows people to hand-date ballot envelopes, no postmark required
- Has 853,000 + “ghost voters”
- Sanctuary state that harbors illegal aliens
- Refuses to turn over dirty voter rolls for verification
- Refuses to allow independent signature verification audit
- Refuses to allow ballot inspection audit

This isn’t exactly “subtle.” It’s a blueprint for stealing elections.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

While everyone is talking about the LA election, just remember that posting discrepancies about the 2020 election used to be grounds for suspension on Twitter 1.0

Trump himself was banned here

That's how bad it was before

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

BLOW HARD: This CNN NewsNight segment went off the rails fast as Charles Blow kept screaming at Hal Lambert who tried point out that there is voter fraud, Medicare fraud, home health care fraud, and H1B visa fraud.

“There is fraud all over the federal government, there is fraud all over states with federal funding. And yet you’re saying there's no voter fraud?”

Blow: LOUD NOISES AND SCREAMING!

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

Who would have predicted that when the minimum wage was artificially raised to $15+/hour, nobody would want to hire unskilled teenagers for that price?

[John Reese - Person of Interest @Rickisback_ON_X]

While Republican States are arguing about redistricting, the Democrat States are legislating their way to being able to legally cheat in elections making it impossible to investigate the crimes they are actually committing.

Wake up !

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

My guess now is the cheating Democrats will allow Steve Hilton to make it to the runoff so they can say “See, we don’t cheat.”

Then they’ll cheat big time in the runoff.

Either way, they’re going to cheat, as usual.

[Defender of the Republic 🇺🇸 @realdefender45]

I have a feeling a lot of Pratt voters ballots were not counted…

If you voted by mail, go check.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

What's happening in LA is extremely abnormal. How did Spencer Pratt go from a 77% chance of advancing to now a 0.5% chance?

California is now blocking the Feds from checking into the election.

Prior to the election in May, Governor Newsom signed SB 73. This law, effective immediately before the June 2 primary, prohibits unauthorized access, disruption, modification, or seizure of voter rolls, voter lists, or certified voting technology by law enforcement (including federal agents) without a court order or specific state election law investigation.

GIVE THE PEOPLE TRANSPARENCY

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

For those dismissing the possibility of fraud in CA vote, please remember that key protections we're told are built into the law turn out to be vaporous in practice:

--'You need to sign it' .... A mark or slash will do.
--'We check those signatures.' ... LA election workers told @jenlynncallahan they don't. https://t.co/svWWKDd6gu
--'Must be postmarked by Election Day' ... No! Fine print in regs lets voters self-date.
--'Ballot "harvesters" must sign the ballot envelope!' ... But the ballot's still counted if they don't.

All this doesn't mean there was fraud. Still ...

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

California just did something incredibly stupid at the worst possible time.

By openly kneecapping Spencer Pratt in the primary, the state didn’t just protect Karen Bass from a competitive November race. It handed the rest of the country fresh, undeniable proof that their election system is designed to prevent any real challenge from ever reaching the general election. And they did it right as the Supreme Court is preparing to rule on late-arriving mail-in ballots in Watson v. Republican National Committee.

That timing matters. This wasn’t some quiet, behind-the-scenes adjustment. It was a very public execution of a candidate who was gaining traction with a modern campaign and a straightforward message. Everyone watching saw it happen in real time. The ballot drops, the sudden surge of a no-name candidate, the abrupt removal of the only outsider who was making noise ... it was all too obvious to ignore.

What California just proved is that their system cannot tolerate even the possibility of a close or uncomfortable race. Not because they fear losing power overnight, but because they fear voters seeing that the machine can be pressured at all. That revelation travels. It feeds directly into the growing national understanding that what’s happening in places like Los Angeles isn’t normal governance ... it’s managed decline protected by procedural games.

They showed their hand. And they did it at the exact moment the highest court in the country is about to decide how much longer these games are going to be allowed to continue.
(article below)

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

If the vote swings wildly, process is opaque, and takes weeks to conclude, there's no way you're going to convince the losing side that there wasn't mischief - even if there was none.

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

LA Mayor
Monday 6/8 ballot drop.

33,378 Raman (41.4%)
25,121 Bass (31.1%)
14,672 Pratt (18.2%)

Nithya Raman crushing Bass
and more than doubling Pratt.

In the history of elections has there ever been a come from behind win like this?

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

Yea, man. Entirely no logic other than the fact that the rest of the civilized world bans the style of election that California and a few other blue states run.

That three-quarters of Europe forbids mail in voting of all sorts, that Mexico looks the other way on cartels but knows enough to see that uncontrolled mail voting is a farce, that starving African nations count colored stones in the town center for no other reason that the people believe the results and therefore confer legitimacy to the process selecting leaders.

This man’s brand of conservatism and inability to think straight and logically is a major reason the left has the dagger to the American throat even when they hold no federal power today.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Had AI run a statistical analysis on Pratt coming in 3rd based on the ballot drops.

See below:

The trajectory established in the first three batches showed the gap closing at 0.18 points per 1% of ballots counted.

The late batches closed the gap at 0.54 points per 1% counted.

The late batches were moving 3 times faster than the early batches established.

If the trajectory from the first three batches had simply continued, Pratt would still have been leading by +2.93 points at 83% counted. He was actually trailing by -0.40 points. The late batches moved 3.33 points further toward Raman than the established trajectory predicted.

The z-scores on that deviation are -7.81 and -11.29 for the last two batches. The probability of both late batches deviating that far from the established trajectory by chance is effectively zero.

The t-statistic for the acceleration between early and late batch rates is -6.225. With two degrees of freedom, anything above 4.303 is significant at the 5% level. This is well past that.

The plain English answer: The early batches established a clear, consistent trajectory. The late batches didn’t continue that trajectory they moved three times faster in the same direction. That acceleration is not explained by the trajectory that preceded it. The probability that it happened by chance is statistically indistinguishable from zero.