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Scott

I don’t know if people are following the election in California but something seems incredibly off. The top two candidates will go on to a run off election to see who will be mayor of Los Angeles.

Spencer Pratt has run a great campaign. Bass the incumbent has done a terrible job and LA is a complete mess. Raman is the 3rd candidate, a far left person.

On the day in person Pratt got 34% of the vote, Bass 29 and Raman 26. Raman gave a tearful concession speech.

But now the mail in votes are swinging heavily Democrat. Not to Bass but to Raman! Raman needs those votes to force Pratt out of the race.

And lo and behold, she gets 37% of the mail in votes received after election day. She only got 20% of the mail in votes received on election day.

They say mail in votes swing heavily Democrat but they didn’t swing to Bass. She got 38% of the mail in by election day and only 34% of the mail in after election day. They only swing to Raman.
(Source manny ottawa Instagram)

Pratt got 27% of mail in before election day and only 19% of mail in after election day.
How can Raman get so much of the late mail in vote and Bass numbers fall?
Basically the stats don’t add up. Raman suddenly gets surges of support for the numbers she needs to knock Pratt out of the race.

In California you can’t vote out the Democrat, no matter how bad a job they do. The elections are rigged in my opinion.
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June 10, 2026 8:04am
- MCōs
  
  “I don’t know if people are following the election in California”
  
  Not many people in LA apparently where less than 30% of registered voters bothered to vote.
  
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  June 10, 2026 9:00am
David Garrett

And another one:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360990490/police-arrest-sudanese-suspect-belfast-stabbing-st

It’s an attempted beheading – very much favoured by adherents of the religion of peace, and the attacker is Sudanese – but police “have no reason to suspect the attack is terrorism related”

At least it seems as if the British people – at long last – are finally waking up and saying “enough”.
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June 10, 2026 8:41am
- Cassandra
  
  This guy moved from Dublin to Belfast to clim asylum, presumably because the Poms are even more generous than the Irish. UK vetting is hopeless. How do you vet someone from Sudan? The UK needs to review its immigration policy. So does NZ!
  
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  June 10, 2026 8:51am
  - David Garrett
    
    Cass: I find it deeply concerning that despite the overwhelming evidence from Europe that Islam is totally incompatible with European values, the issue is not even on the political radar here.
    
    Meanwhile the 1.5% of our population that are Muslim reproduce like rabbits, while our birth rate is much less than replacement – and there is no sign that that will change any time soon.
    
    And for the umpteenth time I make the point that no matter how well you vet Muslim “refugees”, you can have absolutely no idea how their children – born in the country which took in their parents – will turn out. Until we can accurately and reliably tell that, we shouldn’t be letting even one more in.
    
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    June 10, 2026 9:06am
Tauhei Notts

California must be a source of knowledge for our country’s legislators. Our country must learn from California’s mistakes and ensure that our election results are fair and PROPER.
I have found on a number of occasions that to learn from my mistakes is an expensive exercise. To learn from the mistakes that others make can be very cost effective.
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June 10, 2026 8:42am
artemisia

The widow of a high profile person is very unhappy with the coroner’s findings, telling the media the report did not deliver justice. She wants an inquest to be held “saying it was needed not only to rigorously test the evidence but also to honour the cultural and spiritual needs of the family and wider Pacific community”.

The coroner’s findings as reported in the media look to an outside observer to traverse the specific circumstances widely. Could it be this the widow is unhappy about?

The Coroner found Fa’anana died of cardiac disease arising from complications of diabetes, obesity and hypertension after suffering a cardiac arrest during the event at Te Komititanga Square.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/597572/former-green-mp-efeso-collins-family-devastated-and-disappointed-after-coroner-s-report
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June 10, 2026 8:55am
- David Garrett
  
  art: Spot on. Obesity and the diabetes that often follows it is a massive problem among Islanders. Every day in downtown Nuku’alofa I see people who are clearly morbidly obese – sadly some of them are children. They will not make old bones. Some won’t even reach 30.
  
  A visiting palangi doc of my acquaintance says that every single day he sees patients to whom he says “you are eating yourself to death”. Said patient(s) often return a month or two later and they are even bigger.
  
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  June 10, 2026 9:10am

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