Democrat Primaries Go Off the Rails + Ken Paxton Joins the Progrum

**Michael Duncan** (0:00)
It's still wild to me, and I know we talk about this every election year, that it takes this long in California simply to count the ballots.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:08)
How is it that Banana Republics are able to count their, it's almost like we have Democrats running the elections, they run it terribly on purpose. The elected officials there, like Ashbrook says, as part of a machine, do not care about the citizens.

**Michael Duncan** (0:26)
If you don't remember Tom Steyer, I love this guy, because he just spends hundreds of millions of dollars to get his ass beat. The bench is pretty thin in the Hamas caucus.

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**Michael Duncan** (2:45)
Welcome back to The Ruthless Variety Program. I'm Michael Duncan, along with Comfortably Smug and John Ashbrook. No Josh Holmes today, but we soldier on in his stead. He's out on assignment.
We have great news. There were Tuesday, the primaries in California and a lot of places across the country provided a lot of content for the Ruthless Variety Program today, I would say, fellas.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:07)
Oh, yeah.
I mean, there's a lot to spike the football on, because a lot of these results are basically the ideas we've been putting forward for months now, of how things are going for Democrats, what this is, and they take it hook, line and sinker. Everything we're predicting is happening, unfolding right before our eyes, and all that is hilarious.

**Michael Duncan** (3:28)
Yeah, especially in California, with this jungle primary situation where you've got these Democrats clawing over each other to try to win and make the runoff that will be in November. You get to see some great content out of California, but the one thing I want to flag first is the great work of Spencer Pratt. Let's put up Graphic Five, please.
So as of recording now, he's in the runoff, which is pretty incredible. The top vote getter being the incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, the person who let his house get burned down.

**John Ashbrook** (4:05)
Right, right. And you know, I think it's kind of amazing that, first of all, Spencer Pratt is one of the most exciting things to happen in American politics this year.
Just flat out. Everything about his campaign has been interesting. The ads have been like must see content.

**Michael Duncan** (4:23)
And he's got like an army of creators out there making AI videos and all this sort of stuff. Like guy definitely had a lot of energy.

**John Ashbrook** (4:30)
He really does. And like in his message to something that you always say, once you have their attention, what are you actually saying? And are you using that attention wisely? His message is actually perfect in my mind. Angry citizen, upset with the government, not doing what they're supposed to do to help the people who live in the city and he's standing up, he's doing something about it.