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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Great investigative reporting. Do Bass and Raman voters even ride the metro or know anything about how crime ridden it is? Spencer is continuing to shine the light on the communists. Palisades has been abandoned with no police patrols at night. Perhaps World Cup fans are getting a preview of the inevitable Olympics disaster in 2028.

PKsweets's avatar

And that was my thought exactly

Nothing works in LA

And yet they vote in the people who sit there rake in the dollars and give it to their friends and don’t use it for what it was intended

Except that we now know that the NGO‘s that have these high and mighty titles are nothing but fronts graft and corruption and fraud

And the California state legislature is on track to pass the law, but they’re calling colloquially “ to stop Nick Shirley act” because nobody wants to turn off the faucet of money that lines their pockets

Thank you, California Democrats

Reality Seeker's avatar

Not sure they are actually being voted in. The vote cheating is rampant here. I have been involved at various points in the voting process from voting to counting over the years and have seen the games with my own eyes.

Daniel K's avatar

Is it mostly ballot harvesting to blame?

Reality Seeker's avatar

CA has rules designed for cheating. I have seen all of the following: Required to post the precincts' registration lists outside of polling places with who has and hasn't voted updated every hour. That means that people can see who hasn't voted, with their info, and since no ID, that means an imposter can cast a vote. Now that everyone gets mailed ballots, and CA refuses to update voting list, there are people receiving ballots at their homes for people who moved or died years ago. Apartment complexes and dorms at the colleges (UCLA, etc.) have hundreds or more ballots laying around for people no longer residing there. Ballot harvesting at the dorms, on skid row and homeless encampments (money), and at assisted care/nursing homes. Then counted at County Registrar Offices staffed by county employees who are SEIU members. Boxes of ballots sitting around "protected" by these staff, "secure" at night (?). These staff make it difficult to monitor their behavior by observers while counting votes. Signature verification is a joke. When an observer (like me) notices something wrong, our attorney then must rely on the supervisor to judge (haha). Finding boxes of ballots in the trunk of a car days after election day. Etc...

Gary Edwards's avatar

They ain't no Snake Plissken

jay's avatar

I thought he was dead!

Gary Edwards's avatar

Snake lives on forever!

DemonHunter's avatar

But really, who is?

Bonnie Geller's avatar

Welcome to Canada where criminals, meth heads, and homeless seem to have the right to go anywhere at anytime and commit all sorts of crimes including sexual assault on buses, subways, and streetcars, without paying a cent, and drivers are threatened with being fired if they intervene.

Cara C.'s avatar

Interesting that one of the actions that made NYC a better place, back in the day, was arresting fare-beaters.

Rebecca DeWinter's avatar

A progressive, equity-achieving agenda that results in misery and unfairness; who would have thunk...

Rick Gordon's avatar

… and the odds are (100 percent) that the mayor or even worse, the crazed councilwoman will be re-elected. Kudos also to the outgoing governor who wants to bring California to the rest of the us.

Greg's avatar

Suicide of the West.

Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Everything the Dems touch turns to dross.

Victor Erimita's avatar

I’ll bet the enforcement mechanism would operate quickly and efficiently against anyone trying to defend themselves, though.

Roger Beal's avatar

Did the Metro agency SJWs ever ask the black passengers who use the trains to get to work, if they might prefer a "lily white experience" to the current shytshow of stoned thugs threatening and literally crapping on passengers?

Graham Cunningham's avatar

The elephant in the room here is that LA residents actually VOTE for this madness....in their millions.

There is a common right-wing political narrative where all this crazy stuff gets blamed on a so-called ‘Woke elite’. In this telling of our hyper-progressive dystopia has simply been foisted on a great mass of grounded and well-adjusted citizenry entirely unwillingly. The more dispiriting truth is that if there is such a thing as a ‘Woke elite’, it is a very big group of people.... perhaps comprising a majority of all those who have been through tertiary education. That’s one hell of a lot of people to label an elite. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/everyone-has-lost-control-of-the

Stephen Woodward's avatar

How is Los Angeles a viable host city of the 2028 Olympic Games absent a safe, accessible mass transit system?

Daniel K's avatar

They'll post on all their boards that residents should "Avoid congestion. Take public transit", like they did for FIFA. Vistors will be safe in their Ubers, perhaps.

William Lomax's avatar

GREAT ... Damn ... Question ... !!!!!!!!!!!

David Silverberg's avatar

Great report Chris. Ironic how LA politicians wanted these subways to show what a great progressive city LA is-- and got a system that showed what a cesspool LA is.

paula yokoyama's avatar

Two words..Karen Bass. And just think, San Marino also in L A County has the Huntington Museum and Rose Garden. Homes are all single family and cost from 3.9M to 20M. You can eat lunch at the Rose Garden Tea Room for $60. There are no homeless and little crime. Next to that is Pasadena..also no homeless. Think about it.

Dick Minnis's avatar

And yet the voters who are endangered by this idiocy continue to vote for progressive Democrats. They enable their own destructive environment to exist. Like most addictions, supporting Democrats won't end until they situation reaches rock bottom.

Dick Minnis

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Julie's avatar

I know that it takes an incredibly long time after the election day to determine who has won. I think that there are less voting for these hoodlums than it appears.

Adam Cassandra's avatar

Great piece with lots of case specifics. If states can take over failing school districts, can they take over failing cities? If the state fails to do it, can the Feds? In the meantime, cut all federal funding to California, I'm sick of my taxes being sent to these frauds.

What is government good for? Seriously, even the better ones deliver lousy schools, bad roads, and abysmal police response times -- all at high prices (taxes). As for the bad ones, what do the collectivists running LA do all day? Surely even they must get bored with pretending to work, full-time virtue-signaling, or whatever. Do they all have side hustles?

Even the developing world is better than this. At least there one has no expectations other than knowing you'll get service in exchange for a bribe.