In a prior to election day, which was June 2nd, 2026 here in Los Angeles, I used to think a cynic was a person who thought that everything was going to go wrong and there was hardly any point in trying.

But after that election, I realized, no. Now, the real cynic is the person who just doesn't care anymore.

Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Little here with Steve Green and Scott. As you probably know by now, the election for mayor of Los Angeles, which was a runoff election. If any one of the three leading candidates had a clear majority, they would have simply gone on to beat the next mayor. But Karen Bass, the first mayor in 20 years to not win on a primary, finished election day ahead by a couple

of points, and Spencer Pratt, who I was very fond of and most people who don't like the idea

of your city burning down because there's no water in the reservoirs that we've already been

taxed for, was in a very commanding second place

with something like an eight-point lead over the number third character. Well, as it turns out, California didn't have the vote count by the end of that day, and they didn't have it by the end of the day after that either, and they didn't have it at the end of the day after that either, and it took a week for them to finally get everything together, at which point we found out that, no,

it's not going to be Karen Bass versus the reform candidate of Spencer Pratt. It's going to be

Karen Bass versus her longtime associate and protege, Ms. Rahman. I'm just going to say this one time,

just so you understand where I'm coming from on this.

I believe that election was stolen and I don't think there's any question about it.

And here's my evidence, okay? This is not just because we didn't win.

I understand the boats come in late in mail boats and progressive districts, all of this.

But after the election was over, election day was over, not only did Rahman realize how far she was behind

Pratt and give a concession speech during which she cried, but when the vote counting continued

after Election Day, what we found was that Bass's count was flatlined, but Rahman's count

was continuing to climb. They're both progressive politicians.

Bass was more popular than Rahman on Election Day.

Her number should have been higher.

So to me, that's just prima facie evidence that the whole thing was rigged.

But this comes back to the cynicism thing, guys.

I don't know what level of punishment it's going to take, Steve. We'll start with you.

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