They spent $5.5M of your tax dollars on this. For 100 beds. That's $55K per bed. If you were to simply give somebody $55K, they could rent out a room in Van Nuys for 5 years. But then no contractor or NGO is getting their beak wet on the transaction. See the scam yet?
There was zero “Maga agenda,” whatever that means. The use of that term, @MayorOfLA, reveals your utter distrain, disrespect, and derision of the citizens of LA. @spencerpratt’s every comment and every plan was to solve the issues that have plagued LA for years, problems you refuse to attend to. Pratt is willing to sacrifice his privacy and time to actually solve these issues. You, on the other hand have for 4 years mocked or ignored our pleas to get the mentally ill off our streets, clear the encampments, fill the potholes and shave down the sharp road ridges, etc, etc. You are showing yourself to have no honor, no respect for LA, and no sense of responsibility. It’s shameful. Utterly shameful.
Bill Maher asks how Mississippi is kicking California’s ass in education, and Texas is “blowing them away” in green energy for “way less money.”
“Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California? Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We’re 37th in fourth-grade reading, they’re ninth.”
“Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months. About 1,000 days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to get my solar hooked up? It would have been quicker to build a windmill.”
“Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage. How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?”
“I’ll tell you why. Because you’re allowed to build there because every third person in Texas isn’t someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done.”
“Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment.”
“And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states.”
This is unconscionable.
The Governor of CA, an elected official meant to serve the constituents of this state, both individuals and their companies, is urging us to AVOID a company here. Incredibly unethical and disqualifying.
No doubt a spiteful response to @Chevron informing the CA citizens that the reason our gas is always outrageously expensive is because of the CA gas tax. That is a FACT cause by the CA Gov.
I will be intentionally buying gas at Chevron this week in LA.
.@latimes this is silly, isn't it?
Your own reporters have printed numerous stories about the demise of LA.
This is a very silly, childish clickbait title and article.
Los Angeles has become unaffordable, with crazy individuals roaming the streets, potholes and ridges popping our tires, an understaffed police force, an under-equipped fire department, a film and TV production business that is collapsing, and billions of our tax dollars just kind of getting lost in the wind.
I suppose if you just moved to LA last year, you've accepted this as some "normal" state, but anyone who's lived here for more than a minute knows exactly what LA is now.
It's not a "vision," just fact.
Don't be silly.
The LA Mayoral Race Is About Far More Than Los Angeles
Spencer Pratt winning would send shockwaves through the entire California political cabal. They would burn the house down before willingly surrendering power.
This Los Angeles mayoral election carries consequences far beyond LA, or even California itself. It is becoming a symbolic battle for the soul of the country — between a decaying political class clinging to ideology, patronage, and moral theater, and a public increasingly exhausted by corruption, incompetence, censorship, and civic collapse.
The real fear among the ruling class is not Spencer Pratt. It’s the possibility that ordinary people may finally stop obeying the script.
Do we continue allowing ideological extremists and failed elites to hollow out American cities while demanding applause for the destruction? Or do citizens finally reclaim the right to question, dissent, and fight back against the systems failing them in plain sight?
I can’t stop thinking about the LA copper wire thefts.
For background: in LA, thieves have been stripping streetlights of their electrical wiring and selling it for scrap. It is amazingly destructive: for every $1 of wire they sell, the city has to spend $100-$1000 on repairs. Literally, the thief might make a couple hundred bucks, and the city has to spend six figures. (Oh and the streetlights are out, which may lead to traffic accidents or other problems.) It’s an extremely antisocial crime.
Astoundingly, the city seems unwilling to do something about this. A guy invented a better way to lock down streetlights — they didn’t want it. The idea of “look for the thieves and put them in jail” has been unpopular for reasons unclear to me. Proposed solutions, like making scrap yards record who sold them copper wiring, seem ineffective.
The most cynical explanation for this is that the incentives lead to crime: the money spent on repairs is primarily spent on local union labor. For them, this is great. There’s a whole industry for servicing these problems. And the city gets to say that it is working on fixing the issues. Up to some limit, the more of these issues, the better.
Everybody wins: the thieves win, the laborers win, the repair industry wins, certain politicians and candidates win. Well, the actual resident, the taxpayer — they lose, but what are you gonna do? Live with the lights off? Vote for the tough-on-crime candidate? Unthinkable.
You can look at this as a system that has degenerated into being a recursive loop that drains the resources of its citizens
Holy Hell
I was told the useless anti-ICE signs Karen Bass put up all over Los Angeles cost taxpayers $25,000.
It turns out it’s a lot closer to $250,000…
Apparently, this was shot in 3hrs. 2:30hrs just driving to locations. Written the night before, improv’d half the lines. No consultants. No crew. He outdid the entire political elite, his first try. You are ALL underestimating just how talented & smart Spencer is. Fair warning.
🚨Gavin Newsom’s fire relief racket just got IRS confirmation: $800 million in “Fire Aid” for Pacific Palisades and LA wildfire victims never reached one single person.
It flowed straight into NGOs — including one Newsom and his wife personally created.
That group just quietly scrubbed itself from the website as the story broke.
Pure California grift.
🚨SHOCKING EXPOSÉ🚨
You won’t BELIEVE the jaw-dropping corruption exploding in California right now!
Over 100 insiders at the LA Water Department are raking in more than $500,000 a year—that’s way more than the President of the United States!
All rubber-stamped by Mayor @KarenBassLA and master grifter @GavinNewsom himself!
Another “triumph” from King Newsom’s playbook!
🚨🔥🚨🔥GOP—this is your nuclear October-November ad bomb for the election cycle!🔥🚨🔥🚨
Californians are FED UP with getting absolutely FLEECED!
🚨FULL STOP🚨
No wonder California is pushing a wealth tax… to bankroll Democrat politicians’ lavish corruption schemes!
The Democrat Party didn’t replace the Mafia… they UPGRADED it! 😱
This is literally mind blowing
Spencer Pratt exposes Los Angeles Department of Water and Power salaries
- Over 100 LADWP employees earn an annual compensation of over $500,000 per year each
- 26 LADWP employees earn more than $600,000 thousand dollars per year
- 4 top level LADWP employees earn more than $700,000 dollars a year
- The LADWP has a combined water and power budget of 11 billion dollars
I looked into it further, and get this
100% of leadership and oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are aligned with Democrats
Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass appointed the 5 member Board of Water and Power Commissioners, which sets policy and approves major decisions like executive hires and salaries
California is essentially run by the mafia
They are literally giving themselves $500,000 -$800,000 EACH and this is just one department
Residents that had their homes burn down by the Eaton Fire during the Pacific Palisades fires are now receiving water bills from the city
One resident hasn’t been there in a year, the property is so burned the meter doesn’t even exist anymore, but they’re getting bills
“This is ridiculous. How can they charge us for something that we don't have? We haven't used water in over a year — this is something that is outrageous”
“So you don't even have a meter still on this property?”
“No, there's nothing. It was, it was right here on the side of the house”
Yet they’re being sent bills…..
WOAH 🚨 Spencer Pratt just received an advanced copy of the House Judiciary Committee's report on Pacific Palisades Fire Aid
Of the $100 million dollars of Fire Aid raised
- $75 million has been LOST
- $100,000 went to voter participation
- $500,000 to political advocacy groups
- $100,000 went to a podcasters
- $500,000 went to bonuses, salaries, and money for consultants for nonprofit organizations
“This is just the tip of the iceberg and more letters went out today demanding that the recipients of fire aid money prove how they spent their funds. $75 million has been lost, but the scam is over.”