pirate wires #160 // the reality tv villain who just shattered the honesty taboo in los angeles, and the power of a local politician who talks about local politics
"Let the screaming and crying commence. With recent polling now in rough alignment with the betting markets, it looks like former reality television villain Spencer Pratt has taken second place in the race for mayor of Los Angeles. While on some level I don’t think many Americans are surprised — there’s just something in the air these days, like the burning stench of Karen Bass’s smoldering Palisades, that has us all bracing for oddities in government — the panicked punditry, from our nightly news circus to the rotting carcass of Rolling Stone, is wondering: what’s driving the popularity of a professional 21st Century clown like Pratt, with no experience in government, over a thoughtful, if imperfect, standard issue Democrat like Bass, in her nice professional pantsuit? In Los Angeles?
Well, I think it’s basically something like this: there really still just is tremendous political alpha in getting on stage and telling the truth. But in local politics it also matters what you’re telling the truth about, and a soccer mom of two will never care about Donald Trump while a meth addict’s shitting in her driveway. ...Homelessness, which is obviously not a housing problem but an enormous, endemic drug problem, is visibly out of control. The media insists crime is down, but the average person has eyes, and still remembers when the Santa Monica promenade was a nice place where people actually shopped. Red tape continues to hamstring rebuilding throughout the Palisades, and the city still has no coherent plan to prevent another fire of the magnitude that took the Palisades out, or anything even remotely resembling an honest account of what led to the single most destructive fire in the city’s history.
Nonetheless, our story here, according to the professional bootlickers who circle machine Democrats like those little suckerfish that live off the dead skin of a blue whale, is moderate, reasonable, experienced Karen Bass vs. radical, populist, Trumpian Spencer Pratt.
Probably the most fascinating aspect of the Pratt campaign is how angry his opponents have become in the face of the unbelievable controversy that is the mere existence of a Pratt campaign, with, from what I can tell, no actual controversial statement from Pratt. ...Back at the debate, there was a moment on stage when Spencer ended Nithya’s career, just after she finished mumbling through talking points arguing her approach to housing (more free modular housing units, “street medicine teams”) would fix the city’s endemic killer zombie problem.
“I will go below the harbor freeway tomorrow with her,” Pratt said, “and we can find some of these people she’s going to ‘offer treatment for,’ and she’s gonna get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl or supermeth.”
Nithya blinked, dumbstruck. It was, for her, the rarest of encounters with reality, something she and everyone around her had for years made careful, polite work of ignoring. Her options here were what, exactly? Her entire political identity was built around a lie: all of society’s problems reduced to evil greedy rich people withholding the meager funds required to lift a few good men out of unlucky misery. But that lie was so silly, so obviously untrue, it could only survive in total isolation from reality. Once Spencer pulled back the curtain, there was no more denying the truth. Nithya had nothing left to say because there was nothing left she could say. ...Karen Bass sounds like a leader, or at least in the standard-issue reptilian model endemic of the last few decades, while saying nothing at all, and so she is permitted to stand on a record of cataclysmic failure in every single dimension of city governance, while Spencer Pratt, who is at least indicating he understands what the various problems facing the city of Los Angeles even are, is treated like a criminal." .......
Spencer Pratt, Donald Trump, and the Democrat (and GOP Establishment) Taboo Against Simple, Direct Honesty
"They have built an Empire of Lies and demand we all pledge our fealty.
Bass is currently talking about how nice the city was when she was growing up, forgetting that she's been the mayor for almost four years, and Democrats have controlled the mayoralty since 2001.
So she's promising to return to the city to its glory days... before one-party Democrat rule.
And she's saying she'll address all of the problems she left unaddressed for almost four years.
Overton @overton_newsGreg Gutfeld asked Spencer Pratt if there is anyone who was affected by the fires in Los Angeles who are still voting for Karen Bass.
Pratt said he is in a constant battle against those who blame "climate change" for the fires and refuse to see the failures of Bass.
PRATT: "There's definitely lunatics."
"Their houses didn't burn down but they could have been saved by the U.S. Forest Service, who came in to save the day."
"But these people have convinced themselves the palisades burned down because of climate change and these imaginary hurricane winds that did not exist..."
"So for them, they go, oh, it's the winds. And it was the climate change. That's what it was."
"It wasn't that Mayor Bass was drinking in Ghana and defunded the firefighters by $17 million, that the fire chief said we needed to keep everyone safe."
"Or that her Janisse Quiñones, the LADWP CEO that got $750,000 -- drained both of the reservoirs that were for wildfire protection."
"So, I don't know why that message isn't getting to them. I keep trying to say that out loud a lot."
So yes, Democrats continue to claim that the fires were caused not by a leftwing arsonist who shares their admiration of the murderer Luigi Mangione, but by "global warming."
And they continue pretending that no one could have stopped the fires, even if the reservoirs had been filled, because "hurricane force winds" would have prevented helicopters from flying.
As Spencer Pratt said, correctly, during the debate, the winds never went above 35 mph on the first night of the fires. Helicopters could have easily flown, so yes, the disastrous decision to empty the reservoirs, which had been created precisely to fight fires, could have stopped the fire early. ...
Bonus: About the other Democrat plant in the race, communist incompetent and DEI clown Nithya Raman.
She's been on the LA City Council for five years, after carpetbagging her way in. She has been a partner with Karen Bass in creating the disaster.
And maybe is still a partner with Bass: Spencer Pratt says that insiders tell him that Bass recruited her ally Nithya Raman to "run against her," hoping that Raman would take second place and keep Spencer Pratt out of the run-off.
I believe him.
Protesters staged a simulated homeless encampment around Nithya's home so that she could experience the chaos and menace of strangers living outdoors on your street the same way Los Angelenos have to.
She is now whining to the media -- who amplifies this whine for her -- that this "crosses a line."
She says this threatens her family.
Except... people with families have been complaining about homeless criminals shooting up heroin and shitting in the street right outside their children's schools. Nithya blocked a regulation that would outlaw homeless encampments being any closer than 500 feet to a school -- which would still be menacingly close -- saying that it she didn't think 500 feet would matter as far as safety.
But put up a fake homeless encampment of non-drug-addicted bums outside of her house, and boy oh boy, would she like that 500 feet of distance." .......
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| ... a Plantastrophe |
Proverbs 24
19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious of the wicked;
20 for there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Thank You, Lord--California belongs to You, Lord Jesus!
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