GOOD AND HARD, L.A., GOOD AND HARD:
In the words of Ed Koch: "The people have spoken, now they must be punished."
— Trevor Ewen (@trevor_ewen) June 8, 2026
UPDATE:
BREAKING: Nithya Raman just defeated Spencer Pratt after giving a concession speech on election night and then getting the largest number in almost every mail-in ballot dump.
They just cheated in an election right in front of our eyes.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 8, 2026
NEW
The campaign of LA Mayor Karen Bass is now directing its attacks against Nithya Raman as her presumed opponent in the general election.
Her campaign spokesperson, Alex Stack, just issued this statement:
“We look forward to winning a contest against an opponent who allows… pic.twitter.com/GIcc2E4uHA
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 8, 2026
Tweet concludes, “We look forward to winning a contest against an opponent who allows encampments near schools and fights against hiring more cops, yet is MIA on saving Hollywood jobs and fighting back when ICE invades LA.”
MORE:
The significance to outside observers of Spencer Pratt vs Karen Bass was not as a political race per se, but a diagnostic. A kind of recon by force they could watch from afar.
If you were looking to invest in LA, or in California the fate of Pratt was likely to predict your own.…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 8, 2026
Richard Fernandez’s tweet concludes, “How honest was city hall? How reliable was the state? None of the answers to these things are available from Google but you can infer it from observation. Thus ‘poor devil, he never had a chance’ can also mean ‘don’t go to that swamp. It’s full of reptiles.’”