Aggregator
Trump posts bizarre AI video showing his face on pizza, the prez riding a camel and more — all to a celebratory song
Justin Trudeau’s 18-year-old son makes modeling debut in raunchy ad campaign
Grisly scene as bear fatally struck by car in SoCal
Patrick Godfrey, Drew Barrymore’s ‘Ever After’ co-star, dead at 93
Patrick Godfrey, Drew Barrymore’s ‘Ever After’ co-star, dead at 93
Dramatic shift in LA mayoral candidates’ odds of winning as ballot counting stretches on
NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill ‘cowers in corner’ with Delaney Hall migrant detention center under siege, critics say
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie reunite with royal family at cousin Peter Phillips’ wedding
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie reunite with royal family at cousin Peter Phillips’ wedding
Feds Launch Probe Into California's Elections
Days after California’s primary election, the votes are still being counted, and the winners are still unknown, and no one, save for California officials, seems happy about it.
“The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world," Political data analyst Nate Silver wrote on X on Tuesday.
"Like honestly 'it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election' is failed state sh-t and should be much more stigmatized. The fact that it's tolerated is bad too a textbook example of learned helplessness."
And President Donald Trump is now demanding answers.
Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday, targeting what he called the deliberate manipulation of California's governor and Los Angeles mayoral races.
"There's BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California. Votes are all tied up," he wrote.
"May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???"
In a follow-up post, Trump escalated further.
"The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES."
He then singled out mail-in ballots specifically.
"Here we go with the very late and massive numbers of MAIL IN BALLOTS."
United States Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, confirmed in a post on X that his office “has multiple election fraud investigations underway” in California, and is coordinating with the FBI in Los Angeles.
“California’s election system has serious structural vulnerabilities. Universal vote-by-mail with no voter ID requirements creates conditions where fraud can go undetected and unpunished, eroding public confidence,” he wrote.
In a post on Substack, Nate Silver noted that California averaged 38 percent of its votes counted after Election Day across the last five general elections. In the 2022 midterms, half of all votes were tallied post-Election Day. Silver did not spare California from the comparison its leaders apparently dread. "California likes to tout that it's larger than many countries," he wrote, "but most developed countries are able to wrap up nationwide elections more quickly than California can tabulate its votes. Colombia held a presidential election on Sunday, and 99.98 percent of the result was in on Monday morning. Japan also counts most of its votes overnight. And in the UK (not exactly a poster child for state capacity), you can generally expect to have calls for all 650 parliamentary seats the morning after the election."
Silver posted a chart showing that California is the slowest state in the nation to count votes.
It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy. pic.twitter.com/KIvABnIKgn
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 5, 2026California Secretary of State Shirley Weber offers a rather weak excuse for her state’s handling of elections.
"I know the value of being fast for some folks," she said. "For me, accuracy is far more important."
That line might land better if California's sluggishness were actually producing superior accuracy.
Still, Silver's data suggests the state's election administration has major structural problems regardless of how long the counting takes.
The state began nudging counties toward all-mail elections in 2016, applied the model statewide during the pandemic in 2020, and finally made it permanent in 2022. Under current California law, every registered voter automatically receives a mail ballot, and any ballot postmarked by Election Day and received within a week afterward counts as valid. Each of those ballots must be individually opened, verified, and processed before it can be tabulated. The result is a counting operation that drags on for weeks while the rest of the country waits. The system California guarantees maximum delay and minimum accountability, all while breeding distrust in the system.
U.S. Attorney Essayli says his office is conducting a “comprehensive audit” of California’s voter rolls, and will “not look the other way” from fraud, and promised that his office will “investigate and prosecute.”
“Every legal vote deserves to be counted,” he said. “Every illegal vote cancels one out.”
Tyler Durden Sat, 06/06/2026 - 14:35Knicks now overwhelming title favorites after shocking start to NBA Finals
Watch: Leftists Are Crying Over Trump's Beautifully Restored Reflecting Pool
Authored by Tim O'Brien via PJMedia.com,
You just knew this day would come. President Donald Trump is really sprucing up the nation’s capital ahead of the country’s celebration of its 250th anniversary. One of the signature improvements has been the restored reflecting pool that sits between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
As I noted on April 25, the very act of fixing this deteriorated site was universally attacked by the left, which is par for the course when it comes to leftist reaction to everything Trump does. Keep in mind, earlier reports indicated that traditional Washington had this project pegged at a cost of $300 million and years to complete. Trump got it done in months at a fraction of the cost – somewhere around $13 million when all is said and done.
Perhaps most significantly, the pool is stunningly beautiful. The navy blue that Trump chose as the base color for the pool’s sealant adds to the richness of the entire look of it. Knowing that the people who repaired the pool sealed all of the leaks and addressed infrastructure problems provides reassurance that, with some basic routine maintenance, this iconic landmark will shine for years to come.
The water is ON, the Reflecting Pool is reflecting, and D.C. is looking better than ever.
We are so back. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/J3xE33XiA5
In the process, Trump is making leftists cry. Not tears of joy: tears of regret that they have to admit they actually like it.
A Democrat in DC says she hates she’s forced to admit the Reflecting Pool now looks good.
“I thought it was a stupid idea to paint the Reflecting Pool, but it looks really good. It makes the reflection look extraordinarily prominent in a way it did not before, and I hate that.” pic.twitter.com/yVTHm4rHUh
You may remember that when the project was first launched, leftists came up with every excuse in the book as to why it was a dumb idea. The blue color was a problem, with leftists turning to AI to come up with gaudy swimming pool blue renditions of the project, and then reacting negatively to their own fake imagery. They were still using their AI pics up until the water was turned on.
The reflecting pool no longer reflects, it absorbs thanks to Trump. pic.twitter.com/j20BNsy50F
— James Tate (@JamesTate121) June 4, 2026As the project proceeded and it appeared the final product might actually be tasteful, leftists then started to complain about the cost. That’s right: Something they were willing to spend $300 million on over a period of years under a Democrat administration now costs too much at $13 million over a couple of months.
@POTUS originally estimated the repair & painting of the Reflecting Pool would cost roughly $1.8 million. Federal contract records indicate that the Department of the Interior ultimately paid $13.1 million, putting the project nearly $11.3 million OVER THE INITIAL ESTIMATE. https://t.co/dirx70hRI2
— DC (@D_L_Hopper) June 5, 2026The same leftists who want to give millions of illegals free housing, free food, free health insurance, thanks to you, the taxpayer, all of a sudden care about a project that wouldn’t be necessary if the Obama administration didn’t already screw it up. Barack Obama spent $34 million over a couple of years on this, and it was a mess in the end.
🚨 NEVER FORGET: Obama spent $34 MILLION of your tax dollars renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
No Media meltdowns.
It took 2 Years to complete.
Here were some of the reactions when it reopened 👇🏻
pic.twitter.com/2v9RjBaLsb
In a “feel-good Friday” Truth Social post, the president kind of punctuated the whole event in Trump style.
🚨 NOW: President Trump NUKES FROM ORBIT the Washington Post for lying about the Lincoln Reflecting Pool renovations
"The Great Reflecting Pool, that stretches between The Lincoln Memorial and The Washington Monument, just opened to “rave reviews” but, maliciously or not, some… pic.twitter.com/SWjYK5sUku
What’s the moral of this story? The left will never be happy about anything, but on the rare chance you catch them liking something that Trump did, it will most certainly bring them to tears.
Tyler Durden Sat, 06/06/2026 - 14:00