First, the loyal fans who supported the Knicks for decades when the team sucked (emptying thier wallets for tickets, shirts, jerseys) get priced out of the building when New York finally reaches the Finals (by insanely wealthy patrons willing/capable of casually blowing $20k on a pair of tickets to a basketball game, many of them having just hopped on the bandwagon or purchased tix to Game 3 solely b/c MSG is “the place to be” this week).
Then those same loyal, working-class fans get a second middle finger from ownership. Due to Dolan's desire to host Trump, thousands of diehard Knicks fans are denied the chance to gather outside the Garden, watch the game on a big screen, and share a once-in-a-lifetime moment with the community that helped keep this franchise alive when nobody else cared.
Access is reserved for the powerful, rich and/or connected, not the fans who stuck with this team through 20+ years of misery.
The LA mayor stuff is the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard & makes no sense. Dem establishment/Bass wanted Pratt, not Raman, to advance.
Bass crushes Pratt in a 1-on-1 by 18 pt, while Raman beat Bass by 4.
Pratt's the rarity in LA less popular than the unpopular Bass!
Hard to believe Spencer Pratt lost the election despite having no experience, being highly unpopular and running in a 4:1 democratic stronghold.
Makes no sense.
@RonDeSantis This is a joke, right? “Less administratively competent” and you want Spencer Pratt to be the other option? Someone who has never held a job, no less a managerial one? 🤡 Psychotic.
@zackpeter To put “nobody knew who she was” and then immediately saying “nobody cared for her failed policies” is the perfect example at how idiotic you people are. If no one knew who she was, then how did they know about her failed policies? You people are so brain dead my God lol 🤡
The idea that Spencer Pratt, a Trump-endorsed registered Republican reality show star with no political or managerial experience, had a chance of winning in deep blue Los Angeles was ridiculous.
His ads were clever, and Karen Bass sucks, but Pratt had no chance.
Claiming the primary election was rigged against Pratt is nonsensical. Pratt was Bass's dream opponent! Nithya Raman can actually compete for Democratic voters, something Pratt was ill-positioned to do.
FINAL NOTE: Look at that pie chart and remember that 2024 was a GOOD year for Republicans in Los Angeles. Biden did much better against Trump in 2020 than Harris did in 2024. (I can't find the 2020 Los Angeles City totals, but in Los Angeles County, Biden was 71% to Trump's 27% in 2020 compared to Harris with 65% vs. Trump's 32% in 2024.
And remember that Trump's popularity has been steadily dropping. It's now at 39% according to Nate Silver's polling average. It was 51.6% when he took office in January 2025. Many Latino voters who voted for Trump in 2024 have turned against him. Trump would be lucky to score 20% in Los Angeles today!
@Aaron_Torres I can assure you that you are dead wrong. Many people who live here, including myself, think Bass is terrible and also would never vote for a reality star with no job experience to run a city as big as LA. This isn’t rocket science. 😉
@BrittRooted I live in Los Angeles and I can tell you that no one I know wanted to vote for a former reality star with no job experience, who blew his own $10 million, to run a state that has a larger population than 20 US states. Spencer Pratt is a wrecking ball to his own fortune. ✌🏻
@Heritage Ah yes. Let’s directly compare kidney disease to Down Syndrome. How medically illiterate are you? This is like comparing a broken leg and eye color. DUMB. You people are so disturbingly performative it’s sick.