Make Shit Work Again
People almost never come to our door after dark.
Because we live in a (what used to be) a quiet place, and random visitors after dark are almost unheard of.
So when the doorbell rang at 3:30am this morning I grabbed my shotgun.
I racked the pump and shouted for the person at the door to identify themselves. Turns out it was a lady cop.
Luckily the cops are used to armed homeowners around here. She shined a to flashlight identify herself, and I secured the gun and the dogs to see what she wanted.
Turns out two people were shot across the street in the park. She wanted to know if your security cameras captured any footage of the incident. So I checked the app, and no—there was no footage (because our cameras point the other direction).
And that was that.
But I couldn’t get back to sleep—mostly because of the adrenaline. But also because I couldn’t help but notice that things are getting worse around here.
This used to be a place where nothing happened.
And now things definitely do happen.
We used to live in LA. My wife and I did industry stuff. We had a good life as an urban childless couple, but then she got pregnant.
We thought about the daunting challenge of raising kids in LA, and opted to get out. So we found a place in the Mountain West where nothing ever happens.
It was a good place to raise kids. A place with good schools. A place where our children could wander the town by themselves.
But it’s not that place anymore. Since Covid the schools have gone to shit. And a few weeks ago my son was at the neighborhood park (by himself) when a gang member pulled a gun on a parent at the playground.
So early this morning I’m lying in bed, and I’m thinking about this. And I thought to myself, “We need to leave.”
But then I had another thought—a disturbing thought. I thought, “But there’s no place else to go.”
Because it’s almost everywhere now. Red State, Blue State, it doesn’t matter.
And if it’s not there yet it will be soon. And if you think you’re safe, you’re not.
Because this thing is coming for all of us.
***
My politics in five words:
I
Want
Shit
To
Work
That’s it.
I just want shit to work.
And I don’t really care how that happens.
I’m old enough to remember when shit did work. It never worked perfectly. But I don’t think shit has worked perfectly in the entire history of human endeavors. I mean, read the Bible—it’s all about shit not working perfectly.
But I grew up in a time when things ran fairly well—far better than they do now.
I’m not that old, but back in the day schools actually taught stuff. And there wasn’t choking bureaucracy in government and business and every other institution.
And we could TRUST those institutions—because they weren’t rife with corruption. And if minor corruption happened to be discovered it was A BIG FUCKING DEAL—because the media wasn’t bent, and they’d actually report on the corruption.
And things weren’t so expensive. A young person (me) could work a menial job afford a car and an apartment and still have money left over to take girls on dates. Because there was OPPORTUNITY for young people.
Now I could go on and on, but I’m starting to sound like an old man shouting at a cloud, so let me just say, trust me kids: SHIT USED TO WORK.
Spencer Pratt is about my age. He remembers when shit used to work.
He remembers when you could count on the fire department to not let a giant part of your city burn down with residents inside.
He remembers when you didn’t have to step over fentanyl zombies to take your kids to preschool.
He remembers when there wasn’t human shit on the streets.
He remembers when corrupt government officials were held accountable.
He remembers when we could go about our lives and not worry—because shit worked.
I can sum up Spencer Pratt’s campaign platform in four words: Make shit work again.
So can he win the LA mayoral race?
It depends on one question: Is it bad enough yet?
I think it is bad enough. It’s so bad that it can no longer be ignored. And I think most Angelenos feel the same way.
There’s a critical mass of people who remember when shit worked. They had no way to fix it. They couldn’t imagine a solution.
And then one guy stood up and said he could fix it.
Because none of these “intractable problems” are actually intractable. We know how to do this.
We know how to fix things.
We know how to Make. Shit. Work. Again.
What was lacking was The Will to do it. And Spencer Pratt has The Will.
No, I don’t live in LA anymore. But I’m pulling for Spencer. Because this election is so much larger than Los Angeles.
Because there’s no where else to run to.
Because we’ve got to make a stand. Somewhere. Anywhere.
So vote for Spencer. And if you can’t vote then make a small donation.
Because we have to make shit work again.
Because we don’t have a choice.
🚨 EXTREMELY ALARMING: John Kerry at the WEF just said the quiet part out loud:
"Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to hammer "disinformation" out of existence...
We need to win the right to govern so we’re free to implement change."
They don’t want to debate ideas.
They want to delete them.
The elite’s war on free speech is now on full display.
RETWEET if you still believe the 1st Amendment
is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
Let me know what you think,
and SHARE THIS so that others may too!
Explain this to me like I’m a small child.
Engaging in fraud pays out billions
Being a lobbyist for fraud in DC pays out millions.
Exposing fraud gets you notoriety but pays out nothing, invites lawsuits and death threats…
Given this, can the system truly ever change?
Stephen Miller says at the start of the administration they asked blue states to share voter rolls to remove non-citizens, but those states refused and even sued to block it:
"At the beginning of this administration, we asked every state—red and blue—to share with us their voter rolls so that we could scrub them against the DHS file of illegal aliens to remove illegal aliens from their voting rolls. Every blue state refused. In fact, they sued us to stop us from removing illegal aliens from the voter rolls—removing non-citizens from the voter rolls. That’s not the only thing. They don’t want to get dead people off the rolls. They don’t want to get felons off the rolls. They don’t want to get out-of-state voters off the rolls. They don’t want to get double and triple voters out of the count, because they want the fraud."
🚨HOLY COW: This video of @ElonMusk exposing Democrats for giving MILLIONS of illegal aliens Social Security Numbers and enrolling them in Medicaid needs to go viral.
Are you thankful for Elon?
Follow me: @ItsCarterHughes
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Rep. Steve Scalise is calling on the Senate GOP to bring the new and improved SAVE Act to a floor vote
The new bill requires both:
- Citizenship to vote
- PHOTO ID to vote
"I hope we get that vote on the Senate floor."
SAVE 2026! 🇺🇸
BREAKING:
A woman who married her brother calls a man that saved astronauts trapped in outer space with his own starship “one of the dumbest people on earth”.
This has been happening for years.
Ilhan Omar is the most obvious example. A large number of relatively recently arrived Somalis will elect only a Somali to Congress in that Minnesota district.
This is much more subtle, but just as bad, in many other parts of America.