Chris Moritz

Research • Finance • Policy • Author of Failed State: A Portrait of California in the Twilight of Empire.

[Chris Moritz @chrisgmoritz]

Thanks @TuckerCarlson for this opportunity to shed light on the sad and grotesque demise of California.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Nobody in the media ever mentions it, but Kamala Harris helped turn the biggest state in the union from paradise into a dangerous slum. Chris Moritz watched it happen.

Includes paid partnerships.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

California’s machine didn’t bury Spencer Pratt because he was on track to win Los Angeles. They buried him because he was already making the entire rigged operation look mortal.

That’s the part they can’t afford. A pragmatic outsider running on crime, homelessness, and basic competence ... using modern AI-driven ads instead of the same tired yard signs and mailers ... started cutting through the hopelessness they’ve spent years cultivating.

He wasn’t some generic Republican reciting talking points. He was showing people what a fixed city could actually look like, and too many were starting to pay attention.

So they moved. Not in November, when a Pratt run might have made Karen Bass uncomfortable. They moved now, in the primary, because five more months of him existing would have done permanent damage to the illusion that resistance is pointless in California.

The machine can survive losing. It cannot survive voters realizing the game isn’t as locked down as they’ve been told.

This was panic dressed up as inevitability.

When the establishment has to openly kneecap a candidate in the jungle primary just to protect the narrative, it tells you everything about how fragile their control actually is.

They didn’t kill his campaign to save the city. They killed it to save the con. And everyone watching just saw the mask slip.
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[Chris Moritz @chrisgmoritz]

It’s also a story about the grim realities of California’s fall from grace. The border, the fentanyl, the OnlyFans economy driven by the desperation of a lost generation. I started this show Season 3 and it felt like an epitaph to fall of the state. Even Nate’s demise at the hands of foreign gangsters and the cold, indifferent strangulation of California regulators—it’s all there.

[Amanda Milius @AmandaMilius]

People out here who don’t get the point constantly banging on how bad Euphoria is for the culture when it just completed the arc in the most biblical way bc they can’t deal w watching something you can’t watch w yr kids.

If you can’t read btwn the lines as an adult consumer of films and tv and haven’t seen anything a little “fucked up” & uncomfortable before just stick to Dinish DSouza and sleep well knowing you’re a cultural idiot.

The last shot and VO was so based and profound you couldn’t find anything like it anywhere these days.

[Chris Moritz @chrisgmoritz]

@nick_field90 Good for Joe! “never fuck with a Biden”

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Spencer Pratt is coherent and reasonable.

If he becomes LA’s next mayor he will return that city to safety and greatness.

Please watch the entire debate and judge for yourself.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Spencer should win for these ads alone!

[Chris Moritz @chrisgmoritz]

Who would have thought being insightful, independent, and true would rate? @TuckerCarlson is simply the GOAT (and like this best guy ever)!

[TCN @TCNetwork]

Tucker Carlson broke cable news ratings records at Fox, and today he’s reaching multiples of that audience independently, at 56.8 million views per episode across social media and podcast platforms.

[Chris Moritz @chrisgmoritz]

Yes. More of this. The visual decay of Los Angeles can’t be glossed over with Bass’s vapid and incongruous smiling. Enough! Way to go @spencerpratt !

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They not like us

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

As you go to work today and settle into the week, please study the form below. You will soon need to fill this out EVERY year and tell the government what you own and then allow them to tell you how much its worth.

That is the framework that is enabled by the Trojan Horse "Billionaire Tax" that is trying to get passed.

Give them credit: they cleverly use Billionaires as the hook, but build in the language and the framework that will allow the Legislature to simply extend the tax to everyone and make it yearly.

And this is where the form below comes in...

In this case, ask yourself, will it be you or the Billionaires that will be able to fill this out properly and avoid penalties.

As much as Billionaires can be pushed to do more for society, we all know that they have the infrastructure to manage these kinds of disclosures...middle class Californians do not and they will be the ones that get penalized in the end.

[Norgard @BrianNorgard]

Affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods continue to be under attack. Last night in the Hollywood Hills, a 70-year-old woman was violently strangled/robbed at her home. This will happen again tonight, it happens every night. The @MayorOfLA and @nithyavraman do nothing to keep us safe.

[@jason @Jason]

please listen to @RandPaul

[Chris Moritz @chrisgmoritz]

@Manu_Sisti Claude

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom’s office has confirmed that California is giving free sex-change surgeries to homeless illegal aliens.

They’re doubling down—and, inexplicably, suggesting that without state-funded breast implants and artificial vaginas, migrants will “die in the streets.”

[JT Singh @FranchiseMnA]

If W2 employees didn't have their taxes withheld automatically and had to separately pay quarterly/annual taxes, 95% of America would be republicans

Only when you have to write that fat quarterly check after seeing the money in your account do you realize how painful it is

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Spencer Pratt announces he is going to save Hollywood in Los Angeles if he’s elected mayor by eliminating “ALL fees”

“We need to make it free to shoot”

“What people don't understand when they think about Hollywood, they go, they think about movie stars and they think about the rich people and they go, oh, I hate these people. The people that are getting destroyed by Hollywood leaving Los Angeles are the sound people, the lighting people, craft and service, all the work and all these families, they're the ones that are suffering.

What the city doesn't understand is we need to have no fees. It's time to bring this business back. We need everyone to be able to work. The money will come from people being able to stay here, people going and getting to go food for the set. There's tons of money in the trickle down. We need to make it so it is literally free to shoot.”

California needs leadership like this

[Knights Templar International @KnightsTempOrg]

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Pope Leo XIV just declared the Iran War unjust.

Called it a war crime. Said it is “not solving anything.”

And told Americans directly — call Congress.

End this war.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: X has created a new powerful connection between Japanese and American users after their auto translations started allowing Japanese content to go viral in America which has allowed both nations to learn how they share many of the same values creating an even strong alliance in the process. X is the future, the future is now.

Aakash Gupta: “Japan worships American BBQ culture. Texas-style brisket restaurants in Tokyo have 3-hour waits. American Barbeque, a chain in Osaka, charges $80 a plate and sells out nightly. Japan's wagyu beef revolution was literally built by importing American cattle genetics in the 1800s.

Americans worship Japanese food culture in the exact same way. Omakase spots in NYC and LA run $300-500 a head with 6-week waitlists. Ramen went from a $7 lunch to a $22 "experience." Every serious American pitmaster now studies yakitori technique.

This tells you everything about why the US-Japan alliance is the most durable in geopolitics. Trade agreements and military bases hold countries together on paper. Genuine cultural admiration, where both sides look at the other's food and think "I want to be part of that," is what makes it stick.

A Japanese creator looking at a photo of guys grilling steaks in a backyard and saying "someday I'd like to join" is the most honest expression of soft power that exists. No government program produced that. A grill and 40 pounds of meat did.”

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

In this short clip Netanyahu:

-Insults Christians & Jesus Christ
-Asserts there's no purpose in being a good person
-Says we have no choice but to fight Israel's wars
-Subtly threatens us if we don't

[Louis Choquel @lchoquel]

4 months of heads-down building. Biggest Pipelex release yet.

New open language spec called MTHDS. A Claude Code plugin that writes, tests, and visualizes AI workflows for you. One API key for all models. A package manager to share it all.

Full drop 🧵

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Pray that the spell breaks and the world is saved.

[S.clips @whitesocksclips]

Nick GOES OFF about how the exceptional White men who founded this country are being replaced.

"Where is the White man who will stand up for any of our glorious past?"