Not-So-OK Boomer

Classical Liberal, Partly Paleo, No Solicitors. I write stuff.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

What going on now in LA and CA is the electoral equivalent of the Palisades fire. Same people too. If they want to burn your world, they will burn your world. And you will have to apply to them for a permit to come back and visit the ashes.

[piercheney @LVpolitic]

I’m not a big election fraud guy - but the 24,000 ballot drop showing Spencer Pratt didn’t receive a single vote, is just not realistically possible. Irreducible error rate is even more prevalent when functional literacy of LA is 50%.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

You don't think they know how to count votes? Ha!

They know how to count them.

And how to add them and how to subtract them.

They can even do fractions.

The system is not "a mess."

The opposite.

It's nearly perfect.

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

A seriously high quality Jewish joke I just came across.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

In case anyone was wondering that this looks like.
Bring back in-person voting in CA.
Return to special request mail-in ballots only.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

A good part of Republican messaging is pointing at California in horror, and saying: “See? Elect Democrats and that’ll happen to you.”

The monthlong vote count is not helping Dems’ rep for competence, which Dems are saying out loud recently.

[Not-So-OK Boomer @Rand_Simberg]

@thought_less_ @mattyglesias If and when we withdraw the Navy and other assets from the region with the straits still under Iranian control, and the uranium under Iranian control, morons like you can LOL to your shriveled hearts' delight.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

Ah yes, the Soviet Union. Famous for cutting taxes and protecting private property rights.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

I woke up six hours ago to these exact same numbers. I went on TV four hours ago to decry California’s disgraceful vote counting system. And as of one minute ago, the vote count has not budged by a single ballot since they stopped last night. It’s almost 10am out there.

[Jaeger Media @jaegermedia1]

Funny how the same people saying Spencer Pratt shouldn’t be mayor because he has no political experience were the ones pushing for Mamdani to be mayor of NYC despite never even having a job before.

We see you.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Counterpoint: totally understandable for people to claim fraud when a state takes a god damn month to count ballots, and races inevitably shift blue the longer counting goes.

Other large states like Texas and Florida do not do this. European countries do not do this.

Part of running legitimate elections is avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, and California has failed to do that.

[Not-So-OK Boomer @Rand_Simberg]

@thought_less_ @mattyglesias It means that he has paused before dropping the hammer, which remains poised to strike.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.

[Not-So-OK Boomer @Rand_Simberg]

@thought_less_ @mattyglesias I don't know what mental defect causes you to fantasize that that is "my argument."

[Not-So-OK Boomer @Rand_Simberg]

@thought_less_ @mattyglesias America has not "proven too weak to stop them." That's stupid on stilts. Trump has simply decided to give them too much time.

[Not-So-OK Boomer @Rand_Simberg]

When will he take the well-deserved fall for guacamole, which I've always rightly called "Satan's Vomit"?

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

@m0nster_b Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun in the UK.

Actually there shouldn't be any "allowed" about it. The bearing of arms is a natural right of free men, and any government that infringes on it renders itself illegitimate.

[Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 @alexplitsas]

One of the worst war films of all time, and the fact that it won best picture is representative of what sociologists refer to as “the [societal] gap between the military and civilian worlds. And when I say worst I mean god awful.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this.

Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a "DEI mayor." She is extremely powerful at the global stage.

She was actively involved in shaping foreign policy with the Obama administration, especially Africa. Her Ghana visit during the LA wildfires wasn't a vacation, it was part of a Biden delegate to greet Ghana's new President.

She was considered HUD Secretary for the Biden administration. Instead, she nominated the person who would become the actual HHS Secretary - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

Now, let me ask you. If a literal Castro operative gets elevated to this stage, what does this imply about the rest of the United States government?