L.A. Times: L.A. Is Great Already!

Spencer Pratt’s vision of a Los Angeles without homeless drug addicts shooting up in front of your children, child prostitutes being trafficked by illegal aliens, and arsonists’ fires burning down huge swaths of the city is “dark,” according to an Opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. 

Same author, same publication. LMAO. pic.twitter.com/zUCDZQ1zai

— Je Suis Charlie 🎤 🇺🇸 (@slashapu81) May 21, 2026

.@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.

I guess living in a clean, safe city is what “colonization” looks like, and we all know that colonization is evil, and the natural state of mankind without white supremacy is found in third-world cities. 

Pratt’s loudest fans fundamentally loathe modern-day L.A., and that should chill all other Angelenos. These haters would be his primary constituents and populate his brain trust if he does beat Bass — and if he lets them take over, heaven help the City of Angels.

I’m not discounting Pratt’s chances of winning — he’s too savvy a media pro to fully flop. I knew Bass and Raman would misjudge the anger of Angelenos, fail to capitalize on that rage and find themselves on the defensive against Pratt’s populist push. I also figured he would eschew politeness for the demonizing that has tainted past L.A. elections, from Yorty’s mayoral campaigns of the 1960s to the San Fernando Valley secession movement a generation ago to the continued charges of communism thrown at the democratic socialist wing of the City Council.

I don’t blame Pratt for jumping into the race after his life was upended. And I sure don’t underestimate L.A.’s middle-class malaise, long a reactionary force in city politics with a winning track record that spans decades. But I can’t trust the guy and his crew for just now beginning to say they care about reforming L.A., when all he has fought for is his dark idea of the city.

And if you think L.A. needs a complete makeover, then you probably never really loved it in the first place.

Those words are written by the L.A. Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, who admits that L.A. is not perfect, but then again, seems pretty unbothered by the fact that Pacific Palisades burned to the ground, making thousands homeless, and that almost literal zombies stumble in the streets, getting high on the taxpayers’ dime, making parts of the city look more like Havana than paradise. Sun, surf, and squalor. 

These Spencer Pratt videos keep getting better and better pic.twitter.com/21h3As31mh

— kevin smith (@kevin_smith45) May 20, 2026

Pratt is a dark, foreboding force, you see, while Karen Bass has been doing her best to implement her Venceremos Brigade-style vision. 

You Are Not Alone. Vote Spencer Pratt. pic.twitter.com/kbgHYeZzwe

— Gene Parmesan (@dsonoiki) May 17, 2026

Dark. Very, very dark. 

You know what’s dark? The idea that Los Angelinos don’t deserve better than what the Democrats have done to the city. What the Defund the Police advocates have done to crime. What the Homeless Industrial Complex has done to explode the homeless crisis. What the needle exchange programs have done to spread drug use. And what the people who can’t keep the reservoirs filled have done to firefighters. 

I think this might be my favorite Spencer Pratt campaign ad.

Satire when done right resonates more than any other linguistic device. pic.twitter.com/xHflxH99Cs

— Reeds (@ScarletReeds) May 17, 2026

Spencer Pratt’s videos hit home because people recognize they capture an essential truth about what has happened to the city that was once the envy of the world. 

Free taxpayer funded massages are being provided for the homeless on skid row in Los Angeles

A nonprofit called The Midnight Mission got $4,926,080 in government grants in just one year and heads to skid row to provide the homeless with massages and dancing

If you recall I also… pic.twitter.com/KhoXi5PREQ

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 20, 2026

Free taxpayer funded massages are being provided for the homeless on skid row in Los Angeles

A nonprofit called The Midnight Mission got $4,926,080 in government grants in just one year and heads to skid row to provide the homeless with massages and dancing

If you recall I also shared a video of construction workers who work near skid row saying there are people who come and setup foot massages for the homeless

California wants to make sure their multi-billion dollar homeless honeypot doesn’t just walk off and go somewhere else so they have to keep them happy on skid row

End all NGO funding. They shouldn’t even exist. Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for these programs

Pratt’s opponents are selling a status quo that puts money in the pockets of their NGO friends who are ripping off the taxpayers and profiting off the misery they subsidize. 

Spencer Pratt invites Nithya Raman during the Los Angeles Mayor debate to go with him under the Harbor Freeway and personally offer a bed to homeless addicts “who will stab you in the neck” because they don’t want treatment they want Super Meth. pic.twitter.com/yCiM7Y3fG7

— Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) May 7, 2026

His opponents say he is dangerous and violent for telling the truth, because as long as you spread The Narrative™ that everything is fine, then everything is fine. And for the political and NGO elite, it is more than fine; it really is great, just as it is for oligarchs in third-world countries. 

They not like us pic.twitter.com/78hducHDUE

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) April 29, 2026

Decline is a choice. Gustavo Arellano likes that choice. The NGO complex likes that choice. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman like that choice. 

HOMELESS TOURISM: More Than Half of L.A.’s Street Homeless Are Not from L.A.https://t.co/T9BbTtdqla

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) May 20, 2026

The volunteers making all those funny A.I. videos aren’t calling for something “dark.” They just want to live in the first world, not the third world. Port-au-Prince is a warning, not a model. Los Angeles doesn’t have to turn into Port-au-Prince.

6 homeless people die PER DAY on the streets of L.A.
Let that little nugget of information settle in for a moment…Unbelievable. https://t.co/5V9ga4jo5k

— MyNameIsNobody (@chrisfrantz) May 19, 2026

Is that so bad? Apparently so. If you clean up L.A., the NGO complex will lose its biggest industry. 

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