August 21, 2026 • 8 mins
So the polls are saying Karen Bass is up by double digits...but the polls are made up — literally. Why would anyone just make up polls? This is obviously a hustle. I'll explain the licc to ya.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Media. You know, many times I've said on this show
that this is not a breaking news type beat.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here here's why.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's because when you do breaking news, you trying to
be first, and you got to move fast. And in
this algorithmic era that we're in where you know, being first,
and the fact that don't nobody read no mo, media
(00:34):
literacy is a joke and you can just kind of
say whatever you want and it can just be a griff.
If you ain't checking your sources and double checking your sources,
you are probably spreading some serious cap. Okay, Now, this
particular cap I'm finna talk about was clearly somebody hitting
the lick.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So this should be really embarrassing, But they k be more.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Embarrassing than Karen Bass is TikTok. This is a very
cali special one. But y'all, there's polls that's saying Karen
Bass was leading Nitthya Rahman by a marge by a
large margin, like by a lot. Here's the thing. Who's
(01:24):
the pole company. They're called Median Strategies. Median Strategies open
a x account August ninth. They had twenty followers. You
know what that tells me? They're not a real company.
And listen, they admitted it. They said, Oh, we made
(01:44):
all this up. We were just trying to see what
y'all would do word tap being with me? Okay, So listen,
(02:05):
there's this company called Media Strategies and in the mayor or, yeah,
in the mayoral race in Los Angeles, they were saying
that Karen Bass, the mayor we got now, was leading
Nitya Ramen by a large margin, like a way margin,
right and what And then they was like, nah, we
(02:28):
just made that up. They said this poll wasn't said,
a short term social experiment to see how polling information
could be distributed without verification.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You think we needed this experiment to know that people
pass around information without verifying? I mean, have you heard
of AI You think we don't already notice?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Check this out.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
They also claim that sixteen percent of its respondents said
that they voted for Pratt and that the voters of
those voters, eighty five percent were planning to vote for
Bass in the general, while about seven percent was going
to vote for Nitia right ms Ramen. Uh. They also
said this polling has a credibilit I'm getting this out
(03:14):
The La Times polling has a credibility problem.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Our fix. Here's our fix.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No partisan clients, no campaign, no party money, no numbers
that go wherever the data takes them when it's even
when it's inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Trustworthy polling rebuilt, right, it.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wrote in its first post that's what they say, and
they do it. And then they went around and they
made up numbers. Now you would leave that alone and
just be like, oh, these are cornballs. But then Karen
Bass retweeted the polls right. They also said that in
(03:56):
the Wisconsin gubernatorial race that the Democratic Socialis Francesca Hahn
was up by more than twenty percentage points and then
she end up losing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Then they said we.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Got Wisconsin wrong and by quite a large margin too.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's what they posted on August twelfth, and then the
next day they released the LA mayoral poll, which means this.
First of all, I've been trying to say this for
a while. Whenever I say the polls, say if you
trust the polls? Every time I bring up the polls
on this show, that's what I say, if you trust
the polls? Right, Because I'll give you example I've always
(04:35):
given you. Do you ever fill out questionnaires? You know,
at the end of the stuff when they say we're
gonna ask you if we have a quick five minute
survey at the end of this call, do you stay
on the call unless you really hate them?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You probably don't, right, I mean, are you talking about
yelp reviews?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I mean, have you ever been at a polling station
where you were supposed to vote and then somebody ask
you what you voted for or what you think you're.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Gonna vote for? You ever answered them?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
People? Do you know anybody that has what's the percentage
of people that you know actually responded to them things?
It's probably the same as mine, which is none. You
understand I'm trying to say, so you already should look
at the polls and be like whatever, Now these people.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Made this up. Now let me say this to y'all
as the consumer. I don't blame us for that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I feel like, if you running for office, that's y'all's job.
Y'all should verify if these poles is real or not,
or maybe that's not even the point. Maybe getting the
message out that it sound like they win and helps
them and they don't even care whether the polls are
real or not.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let me tell you why I know this because I
can't believe this lady think I'm gonna vote for her
after this?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Y'all remember how zoraon Mom Dottie how he been cooking
his social media game crazy? Why because this stuff really happening.
Dude was complaining about the potholes. My man stitch that
stitch that post got your baby filled in potholes. Somebody
did this in Los Angeles and was like, yo, all right,
(06:09):
let's try it out here, Karen, we got potholes right here.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Help me out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Karen stitched that mug and was like, I got you, baby,
We're gonna fill this thing up. And then the car
was parked there and they was like, oh, somebody uh
parked here, so we couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So but but we are here trying. We're showing up. Auntie.
All you gotta do is not post that video. Auntie.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You you know how lame you look. First of all,
you already copying, you already copying the boy the boys
flow bar for bar, line for line, and then you
copying it and not doing it right.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Sis, sis, none of y'all know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She was probably like, you know much stuff I gotta
do that I ain't got time to come out here
and do all these stunts. But if y'all say this's
gonna work, I guess it's gonna work up. Nobody's parked
here unless you doing a series, and then tomorrow you
gonna come back and like, Okay, the car's not there.
I don't want to tell them. I know it's you
never know what's going on. Car's not there, will fill
this pothole.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Got you? You ain't got the post of l A.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And she's like, we're showing up, We're doing the work,
and the polls are showing it nobody. You're nobody doing
their homework. But at the end of the day, here's
the thing, the homework don't matter. Why because this is
obviously a lick for Klshi, This is obviously a polymarket
(07:33):
move like you are.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Obviously this is the clearest lick. I don't ever see.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You just do.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You're friend, my friend, my brother in christ.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is not a science experiment, This isn't a social experiment.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You hitting the lick.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
This is one of the most obvious life and how
you're a full grown adult who trying to run my
city and you can't read a lick or maybe let
me let me, let me learn that, let me cook,
let me cook. Maybe they read the lick perfectly and
was like, actually, this might help either way. Y'all, listen,
(08:23):
ignore the polls, Tap in with me,
Media. You know, many times I've said on this show
that this is not a breaking news type beat.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here here's why.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's because when you do breaking news, you trying to
be first, and you got to move fast. And in
this algorithmic era that we're in where you know, being first,
and the fact that don't nobody read no mo, media
(00:34):
literacy is a joke and you can just kind of
say whatever you want and it can just be a griff.
If you ain't checking your sources and double checking your sources,
you are probably spreading some serious cap. Okay, Now, this
particular cap I'm finna talk about was clearly somebody hitting
the lick.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So this should be really embarrassing, But they k be more.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Embarrassing than Karen Bass is TikTok. This is a very
cali special one. But y'all, there's polls that's saying Karen
Bass was leading Nitthya Rahman by a marge by a
large margin, like by a lot. Here's the thing. Who's
(01:24):
the pole company. They're called Median Strategies. Median Strategies open
a x account August ninth. They had twenty followers. You
know what that tells me? They're not a real company.
And listen, they admitted it. They said, Oh, we made
(01:44):
all this up. We were just trying to see what
y'all would do word tap being with me? Okay, So listen,
(02:05):
there's this company called Media Strategies and in the mayor or, yeah,
in the mayoral race in Los Angeles, they were saying
that Karen Bass, the mayor we got now, was leading
Nitya Ramen by a large margin, like a way margin,
right and what And then they was like, nah, we
(02:28):
just made that up. They said this poll wasn't said,
a short term social experiment to see how polling information
could be distributed without verification.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You think we needed this experiment to know that people
pass around information without verifying? I mean, have you heard
of AI You think we don't already notice?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Check this out.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
They also claim that sixteen percent of its respondents said
that they voted for Pratt and that the voters of
those voters, eighty five percent were planning to vote for
Bass in the general, while about seven percent was going
to vote for Nitia right ms Ramen. Uh. They also
said this polling has a credibilit I'm getting this out
(03:14):
The La Times polling has a credibility problem.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Our fix. Here's our fix.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
No partisan clients, no campaign, no party money, no numbers
that go wherever the data takes them when it's even
when it's inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Trustworthy polling rebuilt, right, it.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wrote in its first post that's what they say, and
they do it. And then they went around and they
made up numbers. Now you would leave that alone and
just be like, oh, these are cornballs. But then Karen
Bass retweeted the polls right. They also said that in
(03:56):
the Wisconsin gubernatorial race that the Democratic Socialis Francesca Hahn
was up by more than twenty percentage points and then
she end up losing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Then they said we.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Got Wisconsin wrong and by quite a large margin too.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's what they posted on August twelfth, and then the
next day they released the LA mayoral poll, which means this.
First of all, I've been trying to say this for
a while. Whenever I say the polls, say if you
trust the polls? Every time I bring up the polls
on this show, that's what I say, if you trust
the polls? Right, Because I'll give you example I've always
(04:35):
given you. Do you ever fill out questionnaires? You know,
at the end of the stuff when they say we're
gonna ask you if we have a quick five minute
survey at the end of this call, do you stay
on the call unless you really hate them?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You probably don't, right, I mean, are you talking about
yelp reviews?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I mean, have you ever been at a polling station
where you were supposed to vote and then somebody ask
you what you voted for or what you think you're.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Gonna vote for? You ever answered them?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
People? Do you know anybody that has what's the percentage
of people that you know actually responded to them things?
It's probably the same as mine, which is none. You
understand I'm trying to say, so you already should look
at the polls and be like whatever, Now these people.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Made this up. Now let me say this to y'all
as the consumer. I don't blame us for that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I feel like, if you running for office, that's y'all's job.
Y'all should verify if these poles is real or not,
or maybe that's not even the point. Maybe getting the
message out that it sound like they win and helps
them and they don't even care whether the polls are
real or not.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let me tell you why I know this because I
can't believe this lady think I'm gonna vote for her
after this?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Y'all remember how zoraon Mom Dottie how he been cooking
his social media game crazy? Why because this stuff really happening.
Dude was complaining about the potholes. My man stitch that
stitch that post got your baby filled in potholes. Somebody
did this in Los Angeles and was like, yo, all right,
(06:09):
let's try it out here, Karen, we got potholes right here.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Help me out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Karen stitched that mug and was like, I got you, baby,
We're gonna fill this thing up. And then the car
was parked there and they was like, oh, somebody uh
parked here, so we couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So but but we are here trying. We're showing up. Auntie.
All you gotta do is not post that video. Auntie.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You you know how lame you look. First of all,
you already copying, you already copying the boy the boys
flow bar for bar, line for line, and then you
copying it and not doing it right.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Sis, sis, none of y'all know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She was probably like, you know much stuff I gotta
do that I ain't got time to come out here
and do all these stunts. But if y'all say this's
gonna work, I guess it's gonna work up. Nobody's parked
here unless you doing a series, and then tomorrow you
gonna come back and like, Okay, the car's not there.
I don't want to tell them. I know it's you
never know what's going on. Car's not there, will fill
this pothole.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Got you? You ain't got the post of l A.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And she's like, we're showing up, We're doing the work,
and the polls are showing it nobody. You're nobody doing
their homework. But at the end of the day, here's
the thing, the homework don't matter. Why because this is
obviously a lick for Klshi, This is obviously a polymarket
(07:33):
move like you are.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Obviously this is the clearest lick. I don't ever see.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You just do.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You're friend, my friend, my brother in christ.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is not a science experiment, This isn't a social experiment.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You hitting the lick.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
This is one of the most obvious life and how
you're a full grown adult who trying to run my
city and you can't read a lick or maybe let
me let me, let me learn that, let me cook,
let me cook. Maybe they read the lick perfectly and
was like, actually, this might help either way. Y'all, listen,
(08:23):
ignore the polls, Tap in with me,
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