How Elections Work In This Dimension

NEWSFLASH: Elections aren't held on TikTok, Instagam, or X Twitter, sucker-ass chumps!

Red Mirage, Blue Shift, Online Cope

What Spencer Pratt’s viral campaign tells us about online hype, election fraud spin, and what we'll see in the 2026 midterms.

However, the season finale is upon us, and it’s taking the form of a proliferation of predictable conspiracy theories promoted by people who should know better.

The LA mayoral primary’s devolution into conspiracy tropes, Polymarket screenshots, and Grok fact-checks is useful because it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count.

"People who should know better". The problem is not that they should know better, it's that they don't care, & are hoping to lie themselves into power. You know, completely evil Republicans.

[Agents of Influence]

Sayonara (さようなら), Spencer

Spencer Takes A Pratt-Fall

Los Angeles Times:

Nithya Raman surges past Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayor's race, closing in on runoff with Karen Bass  —  Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman surged past reality television personality Spencer Pratt in the city's mayoral primary election Sunday, capping off a five-day turnaround after she fell behind to Pratt on election night.
Scott Bland / NBC News:   Nithya Raman leaps past Spencer Pratt in tight, unresolved race to make L.A. mayoral runoff

Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:   Nithya Raman Takes Lead Over Spencer Pratt After Sunday's LA Mayoral Primary Update

Jordan Conradson / The Gateway Pundit:   JUST IN: Democrat Nithya Raman Just 1 Point Away From Knocking Spencer Pratt Out of LA Mayor's Race After Pratt Railroaded in Latest Ballot Dump - Pratt Responds!

Jamie Paige / New York Post:   Spencer Pratt's lead over Nithya Raman nearly vanishes in bombshell ballot drop

Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:   Nithya Raman Closes in on Spencer Pratt as Mayor Vote Count Becomes ‘Hills’-level Drama

Voted for Raman; this makes me feel slightly better. Screw every two-bit Nazi Republican who voted for Pratt. Real piece of work; for what exactly is he qualified? "Reality Show" performers are would-be actors who can't act but are obnoxious jerks. America loves obnoxious jerks. Seen the "President"?

Previously on Web of Evil (& Ennui), Spence sez: "'They' are raping the dogs!!" And that HYDROXYCUT® crap didn't do much for that pudgy face, did it? They must've dumped his useless fat ass & then he decided on running for Mayor as his next scam. That anyone voted for this show biz puke is a complete & absolute condemnation of the species Homo sapiens.

Still Life W/ Flies

As you start your wknd., a reminder of your fate, mortals. Memento mori.

Almost appears posed. Not by this reporter.

Garbage Species

Spent just over a hr. in the outside world, 'though not voluntarily & for no good reason. (I will slit the throats of everyone who "works" at the new bullshit property management company, when I am finished w/ the slumlord & the fuckwads at the previous bullshit management company.) & saw nothing but ugliness & trash.

Your entire species does nothing but generate garbage & shit. Get off the planet!!

Primary Day 2026

Exclusive: House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations, sources say

Interesting these accusations are a bit late to affect this election. Gomez is this reporter's Representative, & because he's no radical, I'd already voted for the DSA-endorsed candidate, Angela Gonzales-Torres, 'though I suspect that incumbent Gomez will win.

Never been less interested in an election. All scum, all the time. Almost didn't arse myself.

Yesteryear In L.A.

Claimed to be downtown, but it's Western Ave., from north of Melrose Ave. to just north of Wilshire Blvd. I know it well.The area w/ the furniture stores still has many furniture stores, 80-ish yrs. later, & the St. Charles Ap'ts. are still there.

[Los Angeles History on Facebook.]

The Naked Lunch

Uncropped & uncorrected because I don't care anymore.

Local Action

Drooling idiot, self-professed "media whore" & a literal prat.

Spencer Pratt on Fox News: "What these demons are doing to these poor dogs -- they're raping the dogs" pic.twitter.com/0qVNDrVJT4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 30, 2026

Every accusation is a confession. How could anyone even imagine "dog-raping" unless they were dog rapists? Bow wow wow yippie yo ki yay, you sick fuck!

[Hullabaloo]

Queer As A Quail!

Straight Outta The Closet

A world of secret hungers
Perverting the men who make your laws
Every desire is hidden away
In a drawer... in a desk
By a Naugahyde® chair
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" — F. Zappa

Ashley Parker: “President Trump delights in playing what he calls ‘the gay national anthem‘ whenever he wants to rev up a crowd. He’s obsessed with Elton John, was once friendly with Liza Minnelli, and has a Liberace-esque flair for gilded interiors. One of his favorite sports to watch—mixed martial arts—is basically sweaty, semi-naked dudes. And he is a deep and vocal admirer of the physique of fellow men…”

“Some of Trump’s allies note that years before gay marriage was legalized, Trump had gay friends, took pro-gay stances, and allowed gay people to join his private club in Palm Beach starting in the mid-1990s. Ric Grenell became the first openly gay person to hold a Cabinet position when Trump appointed him acting director of national intelligence…”

“To be clear: Trump says he is attracted only to women and, in fact, has been married to three of them. He once hosted the Miss Universe pageant, was caught on tape saying that he loves to grab women “by the pussy,” and was found civilly liable for sexually abusing a woman. Loads more have accused him of sexual misconduct…”

“But there’s also little doubt that Trump has unabashedly embraced the aesthetic—the je ne sais quoi—of a certain kind of gay man.”

Fat bastard's probably spent the last 70 yrs. trying to resist his hidden desires. Is this the root of his innumerable mental & emotional problems, or would he have been a royal piece of shit anyway? All the "pussy-grabbing" sounds like Don Juan Syndrome to this reporter:

A male paraphilia in which insecurity about masculinity and/or latent homosexuality is masked by multiple sexual liaisons with different female partners, without emotional commitment, but not as a paid gigolo, hustler, or call boy

It obviously doesn't like women. See also: Roy Cohn.

[Political Wire]

Surf Sunday

From this reporter's salad days.Two more I liked from HTV's list. The surfin' Trashmen are from ... Minnesota.

And to make it a Top 40 radio-style 'tween the adverts set of three under-three-mins. tunes, the Lawrence Welk version:

More Music, More Often!

Hot Rod Music

Continued from ...

Waiting For Juice

Bonus electric-powered Google robot.

I wish I could juice myself up. I'm about half a level above catatonic, & could barely rouse myself to make it the few blocks to the supermarket & back.

Gun News

I hope Cuba is doing this too.Others defending themselves:

According to LADWP, the employees were attempting to perform a scheduled water shutoff when the incident occurred. The workers, who were unharmed, moved to a safe location and contacted LADWP Security and the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dunno what a "scheduled" water shutoff is, but if the DWP employees were trying to cut off the water, what the hell's he or she supposed to do? And what did the heat do to the irate property owner/renter? Inquiring minds want to know, mynewsLA.com!

70 Yrs. Ago Today In Railroading History

Image by O. Winston Link. ©East Bumfuck Historical Society Collection. Used w/o permission.

A.T.S.F. Locomotive 2342 & Caboose 1353 pass the bean elevators at East Bumfuck, 19 May 1956.

Local Naval Railroading History

I remember going past Seal Beach NWS on the Five & seeing many large spherical mines in the open, probably this Mark 6. Did the Navy have nukes there? Ask & the Navy says they "neither confirm or deny". Is that a "Yes"?

Untitled

Can't be bothered.

Pearls Clutched & Panties In A Twist

Not that this web-log is in any way opposed to grilling.

Fake news thinks it's "owned the libs" again. "Foreign Communist", "Transnational Invaders" (That's a new one to me.) & "socialist". You tell 'em!

Jamie Paige / New York Post:
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell / RedState:   LA Mayoral Hopeful Blames Your Carne Asada—Not Homeless Fires—for Wildfire Risk

Grateful Calvin / twitchy.com:   From Our Singed, Smoked Hands! Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs in Los Angeles

Natalie Sandoval / The Daily Caller:   Spencer Pratt's Opponents Propose Dentists For Meth Heads, Ban On Backyard BBQs

John Nolte / Breitbart:   Left-Wing Tech Organization Pays Full Salaries of 80 MSM Journalists

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   LA Mayoral Race Focuses On the Big Problem Facing Angelenos: Grilling!

Dmitri Bolt / Townhall:   Nithya Raman Wants to Ban What? See Her Latest Proposed Fire Prevention Policy

Ace of Spades HQ:   Foreign Communist Candidate for LA Mayor Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs Because the Transnational Invaders Instinctively Make Endless War on American Normies

Britta Miller / Washington Examiner:   Spencer Pratt roasts Nithya Raman in barbecue video

Brodigan / Louder With Crowder:   Spencer Pratt drops the PERFECT response to his socialist opponent's attempt to ban you from BBQing in your backyard

All very funny. It certainly wasn't "homeless fires" that started the Eaton fire, it was SoCalEd's high-tension power lines. The Palisades fire was set by a deliberate arsonist, & smoldered for a wk. because the L.A. City Fire Dep't. didn't fully extinguish it. Homeless people are forced to use fire, but their fires are usually in concrete-lined river bottoms & burn little but brush.

Note to Brodigan / Louder With Crowder: BBQ-ing doesn't stay in "your backyard".

And a note to Nolte of Breitbart: Who finances your little operation? Billionaire Nazis?

Dunno who this Spencer Pratt is (A prat w/ a surname for a first name?) but he would seem to be the darling of the droolers. Vote accordingly.

Exercise In Composition

Friday Freak Out

From about 60 yrs. ago. TTG was on Highland just south of Sunset. Let's boogie ..."All-frantic, non-stoppadelic!"

An Angry American's Thursday Threat Matrix

Raw Footage, Direct From The Stovetop Of Doom!!

In which a righteously angry American threatens your pathetic asses w/ death at his hands. I've wasted 72.5 x 365 days in your horrible world & every day has been a slap in the face & an insult to my intelligence by & from you slack-jawed, brain-dead fuckwads. My disgust overwhelms me.

Just stop existing so I can stop hating you all! Why is that so much to ask?