New report shows renewables are a drag on Australian productivity

New report shows renewables are a drag on Australian productivity. By Joanne Nova.

For some reason the pursuit of global teenage-girly weather-control has meant Australian workers are less productive. Who could have guessed that attempts to stop storms, floods and droughts in a hundred years would not make us richer today? I mean, apart from everyone?

In the last 25 years we’ve spent 126% more on capital costs but only improved output by 14%.

Now even the Productivity Commission is warning that renewable green investment is holding back the nation.

Australian productivity was rising until it suddenly fell off a cliff around May 2022 (see the graph below). Coincidentally this was the moment the moment the Albanese Labor Party first got elected and went gangbusters with renewable energy. It seemed to be worthy of an annotated arrow, so I added that in…

 

 

Matthew Cranston in The Australian:

Australia’s falling productivity levels have been driven down by the replacement of coal-fired power plants with billions of dollars in renewable energy projects, the Productivity Commission has declared, as it warns governments to make only the most efficient, cost-effective investments.

After Energy Minister Chris Bowen made a push alongside the UN’s top climate official this week for further investment in renewable energy, Productivity Commission deputy chair Alex Robson released a study showing that such investment had “contributed to a productivity decline” and Australians were working harder for less …

Estimates have placed the government’s annual spending commitments to climate and renewable energy at more than $9bn a year.

So wasting all that money on renewables (including the Snowy Hydro debacle — we could have built four nuclear power plants for the cost of that white elephant) and blowing up coal power stations has made us poorer!? Incredible.

I could have explained to them the errors in the climate models that meant the whole exercise is a waste of time, but our ruling class was determined to go electric and virtuous. Have you noticed that the climate predictions have not come true? Or that the official IPCC climate data showed it’s been warming since 1650, until they rewrote history in 2000? Or that it’s not warming nearly as fast as the models say it should, despite all the finagling with dodgy thermometers?

It’s not just immigration that lowers our productivity.

Swiss referendum on immigration

Swiss referendum on immigration. By Tom Fairless in the WSJ.

With its valleys filling up, some here are pushing to replace natural barriers with something even more unyielding: a population cap.

Disgruntled by rising living costs and disillusioned by unfulfilled economic and social promises, the Swiss are at the vanguard of industrialized countries questioning the benefits of immigration, even the high-skilled workers many vie to attract. On Sunday, they will vote in a referendum to put a hard ceiling on the country’s population.

Since 2000, the number of foreign-born residents has jumped from around one in five to one in three — the second-highest level among rich countries next to tiny Luxembourg [and about the same as Australia], and compared with one in six in the U.S. That represents an enormous demographic shift …

The “No to a 10 million Switzerland!” proposal from the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, or SVP, aims to limit the permanent-resident population, which includes both foreign nationals and Swiss citizens, to below 10 million until 2050, from a current 9.1 million.

The vote, open to citizens 18 and older, is expected to be close. …

If passed, the initiative would force the federal government to restrict family reunifications for resident immigrants and new asylum claims the moment the population hits 9.5 million. If it touches the 10 million ceiling, Bern would be constitutionally required to tear up its free-movement agreement with the European Union, risking access to a market that absorbs over half of Swiss exports….

The economic reasons for mass immigration have turned out to be false throughout the West:

For years, Western politicians pitched immigration as a cure-all — or at least a necessary evil — for the ills of aging societies. It would fix labor shortages, underfunded pension systems and lackluster productivity growth, they said.

But a historic influx of foreigners across the West, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, doesn’t appear to have solved those economic problems. In some cases, it might even have made them worse: raising demand, and therefore prices, for things like housing and adding pressure on social services like healthcare. …

Governments like Canada’s “pushed the idea of immigration to solve problems, and it just didn’t do anything,” said Mikal Skuterud, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Immigration can provide an economic boost if migrants are more highly skilled than the general population, Skuterud said. But if their skills broadly match the population, it will likely have little impact on productivity or labor shortages.

Economic output per hour worked, a measure of productivity, has broadly stagnated since 2017 across countries that received the largest inflows, including Australia, Canada, Germany and the U.K., according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Social-welfare systems remain under pressure and labor shortages largely persist….

Mass immigration is a Ponzi scheme, [Thomas Matter, a wealthy banker and SVP lawmaker who helped initiate the referendum] said, because newcomers also need goods and services, including, eventually, caregivers.

He argued that immigration was like a sugar high for an economy: It lifts top-line growth, but has struggled to lift GDP per capita, the more important metric. …

The ruling class has ignored earlier explicit instructions from the voters:

Switzerland has been here before. Sunday’s referendum comes more than a decade after a 2014 vote to curb immigration narrowly passed, requiring the government to reintroduce quotas for foreigners moving to the country.

The initiative was never truly implemented, however. Parliament found a loophole as it sought to preserve economic ties with the EU. The SVP initiative is designed to ensure the government can’t slip out again. …

Cheap labor has sapped Europe’s productivity, and thus its economy and well-being:

The large number of EU immigrants has likely held down Swiss salaries and weighed on productivity growth, said Bertschi Group Executive Chairman Hans-Jörg Bertschi, whose logistics company has around 3,000 employees.

“The pressure to improve productivity in industries and the service sectors has disappeared,” he said.

So if the ruling class are so determined to persist with mass immigration, even after then economic reasons have proven false, what is their real reason? Perhaps it’s simply votes, so the left team can keep paying itself big salaries from taxpayer money. Also, some corporations love it for the cheap labor (isn’t that like union busting with scab labor?). Obviously there are next to no benefits for most of us, only costs.

Immigration post Belfast

Immigration post Belfast.

Censorship, by Peter Hague:

When the British government complain that social media inflamed the riots in Belfast, what they are actually saying is:

“If people know how badly we have betrayed the country, they will kick off”

It’s an accidental confession that their entire ideology has failed.

Commenter:

Given they have taken injunctions out to stop reporting on the Afghan mass immigration and refused FOI requests regarding Mass Migration because of “public backlash” they know full well it has failed.

Welfare generosity, by Megan Basham:

We’re seeing with the British and American public are people who have been incredibly generous for many decades. They HAVE welcomed many many foreigners.

And if you look at Ilhan Omar, you see how that generosity is so often repaid. With ingratitude, entitlement, and smears about systemically racist systems even as they leap to the front of the line in social programs and college admittance over native populations that happen to have white skin.

So no, they don’t want to welcome more foreigners in. People tend to feel less generous when their generosity is unappreciated.

 

Low trust, like the third world, by Wretchardthecat:

Europe might have to revert to low trust society rules as a price for open borders.

The dream of a Europe without internal frontiers is dying on the altar of multiculturalism. Just as drug store shelves have been locked down in inner cities to protect against a lawless few so too must the public life fall to lowest common denominator.

The general principle is so often overlooked:

Get use to it, they said, by Upstate Federalist.

And, again, the only argument from European leaders and media is “this is just your life now and you have to live with it and we will arrest you if you complain about it.”

GB Politics:

An Imam’s home was “fire-bombed” in the early hours of this morning in Bolton, England, as widespread unrest continues over attempted beheading by Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodi.

Reverso, by Right-wing Blackbird:

Firebombing is part and parcel of life in the big city and it’s important that the Muslim community doesn’t look back in anger. Backlash against peaceful Englishmen will not be tolerated.

Sir Keir Starmer:

The horrific attack in Belfast last night is sickening.

I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened.

Commenters give Sir Keir an earful:

This should’ve been the turning point. But the system you support and are a part of is hellbent on inflicting daily African violence on British people. …

Bullshit liar …

Are you going to try to blame Elon for this too? He’s the one who’s “whipping up division”, right? Nothing to do with the barbaric savages you’ve let in your country. BlAmE eLoN. …

And of course the obligatory statement forced out of the victim’s family:

Patriots are doing it for themselves

Patriots are doing it for themselves.

Miranda Devine in The NY Post:

War Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a great speech on D-Day in Normandy.

He told the Europeans they were committing civilizational suicide by allowing themselves to be “invaded” by unassimilable migrants.

It was the kind of warning you give to a friend who you see is making a terrible mistake. …

“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?”

Naturally, he was pilloried by out-of-touch elitists on both sides of the Atlantic.

But Hegseth was absolutely right, and his weekend comments echo earlier, ever more forceful warnings from Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Europe’s greatest challenges are self-inflicted — existential civilizational decline caused by unprecedented mass migration and a coinciding loss of confidence in Western values, or what Vance calls “self-hatred.”

Two terrible murders currently dominating UK news effectively demonstrate the points being made by these American statesmen.

Brad Essex at Red State:

Nations that cannot control who enters their territory lose the ability to define and defend their own character. 

[The D-Day veterans] fought for concrete realities: secure homelands, accountable governments, and the right of free peoples to chart their own course.

Why has Britain become a safe haven for the world’s most violent men? Hugo Timms at spiked.

The real immigration ‘loophole’, ‘Achilles heel’ … is the fact that the British government first refuses to prevent illegal immigration, and then does nothing to remove illegal migrants once they have crossed the border. The financial cost of this failure is catastrophic — and its human cost incalculable.

Election after election, the British people have begged for a controlled immigration system — one in which they know who enters the country, and with clear rules over who stays and who doesn’t. Successive governments have promised this, only to fail more dismally than the last.

It is by far the biggest concern of voters, yet it is the one the authorities refuse to get a grip on. As Belfast has so tragically shown us — this is not only unsustainable, it is highly combustible, too.

Politicians only have themselves to blame for the Belfast riots. Michael Deacon at The Telegraph.

Sir Keir Starmer added: “The scenes in Belfast [on Tuesday night] were shocking and completely unacceptable.”

I’m sure every decent person shares these sentiments. We don’t want riots. But when are our politicians going to wake up and accept their share of the blame?

The uncomfortable truth is this. If, at election after election, for decade after decade, people keep voting for proper control of their country’s borders, and politicians keep ignoring or belittling them, it’s inevitable that some of those people will think: “Voting doesn’t work. And peaceful protest doesn’t seem to have much effect, either. So we need to find an alternative way to make politicians listen to us.” And that alternative, I’m afraid, is what we’ve seen in Belfast.

I don’t for a moment condone it. Obviously, I want rioting to be averted. But I’m afraid there’s only one way to achieve this — and that’s for politicians like Sir Keir to give the public what it so plainly wants. Because if they don’t, even the slowest-witted among them must now be able to see what will happen.

I fear, however, that they will once again merely resort to lecturing us about the dangers of “division”, and spend more time talking about the rioting than about the atrocity which triggered it. Anything but confront, or even acknowledge, the real source of the problem. …

For all our sakes, though, they urgently need to realise that while setting fire to buses may not be justified, the public’s anger is. We’re sick of having to live like this. We don’t want to live in a country where binmen are slashed to death while walking the dog.

We don’t want to live in a country where hotel workers are slaughtered with screwdrivers. And we don’t want to live in a country where innocent pedestrians run the risk of being beheaded in the street. Britain has quite enough problems as it is, without importing more of them. So, from now on, we would like our Government to put our safety first.

 

Lozzy B.

When people realise that there is no political option or solution then people naturally take matters into their own hands.

When 3rd world savages are stabbing little White native girls & are trying to behead White men in the middle of the street while the government mass imports more of these same people that display this same cultural behaviour then of course the people will do everything in their power to prevent more suffering, pain & violence against their people.

Populism arises when the ruling class fails. Rioting is next, then revolution.

How the Left Cheats in LA

How the Left Cheats in LA. By Nicolas, 30 ans. (See earlier.)

Ballot harvesting is where someone completely unaffiliated with the voter can collect and submit their ballot for them. It is perfectly legal in California. Here’s how it works.

This flow is completely legal:

  1. A homeless person arrives in LA, where they are eligible for cash assistance, SSI, food stamps, healthcare through medical, and an array of other taxpayer-funded services.
  2. They are registered to vote by an NGO (many such NGOs exist and explicitly do this).
  3. They do not have to provide a residential address or any proof of residency to vote. they only have to provide a mailing address, which can be anywhere (church, NGO HQ, homeless shelter). Their home address can be “a park” or “an underpass”.
  4. Their ballot is mailed to the homeless shelter (or whatever address the NGO elects for them).
  5. The only verification done for the mail-in ballot is “signature verification” and uniqueness (only one vote per person is counted theoretically).
  6. The signature can be an X. if they register with an X, they can sign with an X. That is sufficient to pass verification. Signature verification is also deliberately loose. The signature does not have to be a perfect match.

Now consider the hypothetical scenario, which is fraudulent, but virtually impossible to detect:

  1. A homeless person cycles through the LA system. They get registered with their mailing address listed as the NGO HQ or homeless shelter.
  2. They “sign” their registration with an X or nondescript, easily replicable signature.
  3. They disappear, never seen again. or they exist, but it doesn’t matter. They don’t get purged from the voter rolls for 4-8 years typically.
  4. The address where they registered receives their ballot for several cycles.
  5. Operatives are aware that they have X amount of votes to make up. they fill in X many thousand mail-in ballots themselves. The ballots are manually postmarked (permitted). They forge the signature to match whatever signature (could be an X) was submitted upon registration.
  6. Ballots can be accepted even if they are postmarked at 11.59 pm. Polls closed at 8 pm. (You would need an accomplice who is a USPS employee.)
  7. The only fraud checks are de-duplication (if the homeless person through some miracle voted in person, only one of their ballots would be counted) and signature verification.
  8. Because very few of the homeless people in question would have voted in person, this gives NGO operatives tens of thousands of possible mail-in ballots to submit unilaterally.

Undetectable:

The big problem is that there is NO way to detect this type of fraud.

NGOs that register homeless people to vote exist. That isn’t a secret. Ballot harvesting is fully legal. Voting by mail is encouraged. Signature verification is as loose as possible. De-duplication doesn’t solve anything, since few homeless people vote in person. and no one in power locally is going to spend political capital on rooting out such fraud, since they are all wholeheartedly committed to “voting rights”.

In a situation where fraud is undetectable, the absence of hard proof of fraud is not evidence that no fraud exists.

Scale?

Raman has gained around 20k votes since election night. She is around 3k votes ahead of Pratt now. There are over 72k homeless people in LA county.

Who would devise a voting scheme like that, except if they intended to cheat? Over 80% of Americans polled say they want voter ID, but the Democrats fiercely resist.

 

Canada’s about face: They cut immigration way back then rentals and housing prices fell

Canada’s about face: They cut immigration way back then rentals and housing prices fell. By Christopher Brunet.

For years, Canada’s political elite insisted the housing crisis was caused by everything except immigration. It was a supply problem. A zoning problem. A financing problem. A speculation problem. A foreign-buyer problem. A NIMBY problem.

But never a population problem.

Anyone who suggested that record immigration levels might be overwhelming Canada’s housing and healthcare systems was treated as if he had committed a moral offense. You were not making a basic supply-and-demand argument. You were “blaming immigrants,” “scapegoating newcomers,” or spreading racist conspiracy theories. …

While the stock of “temporary” foreign workers remains high, the flow has effectively been throttled. In 2025, Carney’s first year in office, Canada saw negative population growth for the first time since Confederation in 1867! …

 

 

There is still an incredibly long way to go. But while Carney hasn’t completely shut off the tap — a political impossibility given the institutional momentum — he is at least forcing the ship in the right direction. It doesn’t excuse the years of elite gaslighting that got us here, but it is a stark departure from the Trudeau status quo.

Carney essentially stole Pierre Poilievre’s homework, but kept it quiet, technocratic, and respectable. No cringe slogans. No culture-war theatrics. No obvious permission structure for leftists to accuse him of xenophobia. That reflects a deeper understanding of the Canadian psyche. Many Canadians know the country imported people faster than it could house them, but they are too polite and still recoil from anything that feels cruel, crude, or openly anti-immigrant. Carney gave them a way to support restriction without feeling as though they had crossed a moral line. He did things politely and quietly.

The vibe is shifting. …

Housing prices went down!

The desperate bidding wars that characterized the Canadian rental market have completely disintegrated

Average asking rents across Canada have fallen year-over-year (YoY) for 19 consecutive months as of April 2026, and in April 2026, the national average asking rent for a house dropped by 7.9% YoY …

 

House prices in Brampton, Ontario, which has the highest South Asian population in the country, are in freefall

My shocked face just jumped out the window.

The about-face, but “no one was to blame:”

The numbers don’t lie, even if the politicians do. For a decade, they weaponized the language of tolerance to protect a broken economic model that enriched slumlords, corporate fast-food franchises, and strip-mall colleges at the expense of an entire generation of young Canadians.

These liars and traitors will never apologize. They will never admit that the “racists” and “conspiracy theorists” were simply describing supply and demand.

But the taboo is broken, the numbers are moving, and the old consensus is dead. …

The clearest sign that the taboo has shattered is that Liberals are now beginning to outflank Conservatives from the right. Eric Lombardi, a candidate for the Ontario Liberal leadership, is openly running on what amounts to a mass-remigration platform, calling for Canada to unwind its temporary-resident population from roughly five million people nationally to well under one million over the next five to ten years.

That would have been politically unthinkable two years ago. Not from a fringe populist party. Not from a Conservative backbencher. From a Liberal. Yet here we are: the party that spent the Trudeau years treating immigration restraint as a moral crime is now producing candidates who are willing to say, in plain language, that millions of temporary residents must leave.

This is how completely the politics have shifted. The Conservatives spent years trying to make the immigration-housing argument acceptable. Carney quietly absorbed it into government policy. Now Liberals are beginning to run ahead of the Conservative Party itself, using the language of administrative realism rather than nationalist revolt. What was racist in 2023 is Liberal pragmatism in 2026.

Coming to Your Australian Suburb?

Coming to Your Australian Suburb? By Craig Kelly.

A 60-year-old man from Gladstone Park, Melbourne, was ripped from his sleep on 24 July last year when his home was brutally invaded by a vicious Sudanese gang.

He was repeatedly stabbed, shot in the arm, and mercilessly bashed with a hammer — all while he begged for his life, crying “Take what you want, I’ll give you whatever you want.”

The animals even filmed their own handiwork for their sick entertainment. …

 

See the video (X won’t embed it, too graphic)

 

This is the direct, bloody result of decades of suicidal leftist empathy — reckless mass migration and pathetic soft-on-crime policies that have turned Australian suburbs into hunting grounds for imported thugs.

Leftists desperate for political power and virtue signallers that like to feel morally superior — have created a toxic environment over the past two decades where anyone who dared telling the truth trying to sound a warning was smeared as “racist” for simply pointing out that our migration policies are deliberately importing the wrong people — people who refuse to assimilate and bring waves of savage violence with them. …

The gutless major parties have failed Australia for years. The only party with the backbone to confront this crisis head-on is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

Alternatively, keep voting Labor, Greens or Teals for more of the same.

The barbarism in Belfast

The barbarism in Belfast. By Brendan O’Neill in spiked.

People are sick of paying the blood price of bourgeois virtue. That is increasingly how it feels to working-class communities — that they are expected to absorb the risk of letting in tens of thousands of unvetted men, while their betters absorb the glow of righteousness that comes with crying ‘Refugees welcome’.

 

The victim of the attempted beheading, Stephen Ogilvie, survived — fortunately the attacked only had a boxcutter. He was helping the same man who attacked him move in as a next door neighbor just four days before the attack.

 

The activist class in their leafy suburbs are shielded from the social consequences of their moral theatre. It is the lower orders who suffer the fallout. Working-class girls who suddenly have 800 men from fuck knows where in the hotel at the end of their road. Women like Rhiannon Whyte, murdered by a Sudanese ‘asylum seeker’ from the very migrant hotel she worked in. This poor man in Belfast. It seems their suffering is a small price to pay for the moral gloating of our rulers.

This is why people are angry. Not because they’re racist. Not because they want all non-whites cast out of the kingdom. Such defamatory classist bile doesn’t wash anymore.

No, it is the pathological nonchalance of the establishment that infuriates them, and the green light that such institutionalised cowardice gives to certain wicked men who come here. That image of the suspect in Belfast seeming to punch the air with bloodcurdling delight as his exhausted victim fought for his life – this will be burned into people’s minds. It deserves to become a defining image in the life of our nation. For it grimly embodies the twin horrors of an individual’s murderous intent and a state’s murderous indifference. …

Isn’t there now a case against officialdom of reckless endangerment? Every week there are reports of horrifying rapes carried out by illegal immigrants. Working-class women and girls have suffered sickening abuse at the hands of men who came on small boats under the noses of our apathetic, cowardly rulers. People have been murdered, too.

Ah yes, but the newcomers vote for our ruling class, who shower them with welfare and receive taxpayer jobs.

Drew Pavlou:

Australia’s public broadcaster ABC News just accused @elonmusk of ”inciting racial tension” in Belfast because he did not censor footage showing a Sudanese refugee attempting to behead someone.

They’re angrier at Elon than at the stabber.

 


Elon Musk:

The news orgs that say this instead of caring about innocent people being beheaded in the streets are scum of the Earth

Britain is Broken:

Police are now using WATER CANNONS against protesters in Belfast.

Amazing how these were never used against Floyd protestors.

Black Dumpling:

They sent heavily armored British police. Sent them in force. Sent them with [water] cannons.

Not to stop the grooming gangs. Not to stop the stabbings, the gougings, the decapitations. Not to stop the slaughter of children.

No, they were sent to stop you from talking about them.

Consider.. for decades these self same officers knew little British girls were being subjected to some of the most horrific abuse possible. And did nothing. Stood down. Looked the other way.

But now word’s gotten out. Now there’s discussion. Now there’s concern. Now the natives are realizing that the whole children getting knifed thing isn’t nearly as rare as they were told. Constantly.

Possibly related:

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Migrants rule, natives suck

Migrants rule, natives suck. By Marco Rubio, via QTheStorm.

Americans work 40+ years. Pay taxes. Follow the rules. Build the country. Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.

Meanwhile, a new able-bodied arrival from Cuba, 28 years old, doesn’t work, receives $1,500 a month of benefits because he is a refugee. A year later, he has traveled back to Cuba 15 (fifteen) times.

New arrivals can receive more support from the same system they never paid into. The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line.

The same sort of thing is happening around the Western world.

The third world wouldn’t come to the West if there was no welfare for them. Duh.

 

 

UPDATE:

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Even the left is starting to get it — they are crumbling

Even the left is starting to get it — they are crumbling. By Bitcoin Teddy.

Bill Maher just went so hard against Islam, it left his guests in stunned silence.

It all started when Maher recalled how people overused the term “Islamophobia” after 9/11.

He says that moment was the “beginning” of a “wokeness” that forbade you to say this out loud:

“There is such a thing as Western civilization. Remember after 9/11, if you said ‘clash of civilizations’? It was the beginning of sort of that wokeness where, ‘Oh, don’t say that. That’s Islamophobia.’”

“No, it was a clash of civilizations. The civilizations are very different, and OURS IS BETTER!”

[Guests stare at each other in silence].

Maher continued: “And if you’re not clapping, spend a week in a Muslim capital, you wouldn’t last.”

 


Commenters:

“Spend a week in a Muslim capital” is overstating it. A week in Jakarta, Ankara, or Kuala Lumpur would be pleasant. Cities run by Islamists, like Tehran or Damascus, are the problem.

After two or three generations, the descendants of Poles in England are indistinguishable from the English, except for their funny names. After two or three generations, the descendants of Pakistanis in England set off bombs on the Underground.

Multiculturalism is a purely ridiculous and uneven exchange

Multiculturalism is a purely ridiculous and uneven exchange.

Thomas Sowell:

What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture. And you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Restore Australia:

7% of the planet’s population are Europeans. These Europeans are expected to house the third world. They are also expected to be hated by the third world. They are also expected to praise the third world. They are expected to house, pay for, donate to and support the third world. They aren’t ever allowed to criticise the third world and they certainly aren’t allowed to have nations of their own, or speak in such terms.

This small 7% is being demographically erased and the justification for doing so is that we have been historically and currently the most economically, technologically and culturally advanced civilisations on earth. This small 7% is told to house 93% of the planet’s population in their tiny portion of it. The third world aren’t expected to do anything in return, they can have their own nations, their own culture, their own customs and their own preferences.

Multiculturalism for me, but ethno-nationalism for thee. The hypocrisy and idiocy is astounding.

And our ruling class fell for it, tripping over themselves to be more “virtuous” than their fellow elitists. Remember, populism is when the populous rejects the ruling class because it is failing.

Since 1970, every western country has voted against immigration on every one of the few occasions it was ever on the ballot — e.g. Brexit. Yet the Western ruling class inflicted mass immigration from the third world upon us anyway. They broke it, now they fix it.

Democrats steal another election: LA

Democrats steal another election: LA.

The LA mayor’s race was a three way race, with the top two qualifying for the runoff election. Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and City Council member Nithya Raman are projected to advance to the November 2026 runoff election for Los Angeles mayor, defeating reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the primary.

 

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:
🔵 Bass: 38.1%
🔴 Pratt: 27.9%
🔵 Raman: 20%

Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:
🔵 Raman: 37% (+17% surge)
🔵 Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop)
🔴 Pratt: 19% (-9% drop)

 

3rd place jumps to 1st in *every* ballot drop *after* Election Day

ChatGPT can’t find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days AFTER Election Day, to overtake 2nd place.

Florida counts 90% of ballots in 1 hour. California is at 72% after 5 DAYS.

“Late votes are disproportionately for Democrats” struck me as believable. “Late votes are disproportionately for whichever Democrat needs to come in 2nd to keep a Republican out of a two-man runoff” is not.

Trump responded to the impossible results coming in after election day, writing, “No way this could have happened. Rigged Election!”

How fringe is Raman? She campaigned with the Jew hating, Al-Qaida-loving, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker, who said the U.S. deserved 9/11.

34 of 47 European counties completely forbid the practice of mail in voting … They’re way to the political left of the US.

So yeah, there probably was a lot of fraud. Any time you mail out 23 million ballots, you can expect a considerable number of them to be filled out and returned by someone other than an intended registered voter. I understand that the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles is trying to look into the situation, but the same shoddy practices that make fraud easy also make it hard to prove.

California’s voting system is designed for cheating. By Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California:

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants) …

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot. …

California is blocking a federal audit of its voter rolls. …

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon [Federal AG] sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

How long has this been going on? Well:

NOVEMBER 30, 2010: Four weeks after losing the election as AG of CA, Kamala Harris wins due to mail-in surge from LA. Harris won by less than 1%.

Election stealing by the spooks, by BDW:

Fmr CIA officer here. Let me share how elections get stolen — and the role of intel agencies.

We all know that the CIA and NSA create and execute clandestine operations that are designed to go undetected. That ranges from recruiting human spies, tapping phone systems, and altering devices of all kinds. Yes, that necessarily includes voting machines.

The CIA and NSA have teams to execute all of these operations and missions at the direction of a President, even those ops that are deemed impossible… like machines locked in rooms that are inside secure facilities, unhooked from the internet or whatever device that could tether them to the outside world.

Those tough intel operations require extensive planning, exquisite trade craft, supporting operations (HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT), and a degree of luck.

For many years, everything that I’m saying was understood by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Historic footage from Congressional hearings show both Ds and Rs saying that they were alarmed about voting systems with so-called “unhackable machines.” They knew then — correctly — that such a suggestion or claim was ridiculous. They were briefed by NSA and CIA teams on how they “hack the unhackable” every month without leaving a trace.

This is why Taiwan and others are resolute on conducting elections the old fashioned way: same day voting only, in person, IDs, paper ballots, a counting process that is open to the public to watch and monitor, and results announced that same night.

If Taiwan can do it with ~24M people, any US state can do it. Refusal to do so is an intentional choice to open your electoral systems to vulnerabilities.

That’s what we’re now seeing across the United States, and primarily in Democrat-dominated locales. Including Los Angeles. Those politicians choose broken systems.

California’s ~30 day process to tally votes is obviously and intentionally vulnerable that a reasonable person understands that it allows for manipulation and assured electoral outcome by a dominant power (Democrats, in this case).

And like any good intel op, you do it such that there are no fingerprints left behind — whether that be with machines, mail-in ballots, harvested ballots, etc. If you own the ops environment, anything is possible.

Still, mistakes happen in any op. In the event of disclosure, you do what we often see Democrats and the media do: deny, smear, and make counter-accusations to preserve intentionally broken systems.

Folks, this is not about Spencer Pratt. This is about the future of what’s left of our Republic.

Evil, seditious forces have broken our electoral systems and gained great power using them. Mayor Bass is but one, using the machine that her Democrat Party has built to sustain her and Leftist power. It’s the modern, Golden State version of old Chicago, NJ, or Huey Long corruption.

They will deny it, obviously. Because admission means loss of power, money, and likely prison time. There’s no incentive for them to clean up what’s broken.

Bottom line: Mr. Pratt’s earnest desire to run a righteous race to fix his city faces long odds. He didn’t just run against Karen Bass. He ran against a corrupt machine.

But if nothing else, he has shown his fellow Angelinos and the nation that, once again, we have an existential problem in our electoral system with intentional vulnerabilities and electoral fraud that naturally flows from the brokenness.

Now it’s up to the rest of us to fix it.

There are solutions, none easy or polite. But we must do so — and by whatever means necessary — or the Republic falls to Communists and Cuba-trained agitators like Karen Bass.

UPDATE: Wall Street Journal editorial:

President Trump’s charge that Democrats “rigged” California’s jungle primary has naturally elicited eye-rolls given his habit of crying fraud whenever he loses an election. But he has a point that the state’s Democrats have designed a leaky election system to juice their votes. …

California sends mail-in ballots to all registered voters who have until Election Day to send them back. … The state also lets third parties including unions, campaigns and political parties collect and return an unlimited number of ballots on voters’ behalf—a practice known as ballot harvesting. This can result in large dumps of mail-in ballots that support a particular candidate. …

Democrats legislated election rules to make it exceptionally easy to register and vote with the intent of boosting turnout among young and low-propensity voters who lean left. But these rules also create openings for fraud and improper voting….

Federal prosecutors last month indicted a California woman for paying homeless people on Skid Row to register using her former address, meaning ballots would be sent there. She agreed to plead guilty. …

A woman from Orange County, Calif., was charged last fall with illegally registering her dog to vote and submitting ballots on the canine’s behalf. One ballot was counted, the other was tossed. The fraud was caught because the woman reported herself. …

There’s no evidence so far that fraud has affected the results of the L.A. mayoral race, but the delayed results are a disservice to democracy. The state’s loose voting rules and dilatory counting fuel distrust in elections, and play into the hands of Mr. Trump. You’d think Gov. Gavin Newsom would care about this, but as long as progressives are winning, maybe not.

How ballot harvesting works in LA.