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.

Mike Solana:

[W]hat'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.

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If you had to distill all of this criticism into something coherent, I think it might just be that Pratt reminds libs of Donald Trump, who they hate, and he talks about crime, which is bad for lib politicians? People also have a lot to say about the AI-generated campaign advertisements fans have produced on Pratt's behalf, which many pundits incessantly credit to the candidate himself. But it's not clear why they hate these things other than their general appearance of effectiveness, and, again, Pratt has nothing to do with them. Still, I do agree the guy's a little bit like Trump, just not in terms of disposition or, from what I can tell thus far, any of Trump's most popular positions.

Pratt is another funny, charismatic white guy from the world of entertainment who obsessively discusses an extremely popular issue we are not, as good upstanding people in a one-party state controlled by the DNC, supposed to discuss. In the case of Trump in 2016, that issue was immigration. To a certain extent, Trump's winning issue continues to be immigration. But for Pratt, the winning issue is the obvious fact that many of LA's homeless 'victims,' who Americans are expected to imagine as exclusively a class of sweetspoken, down-on-their-luck single mothers, are in fact violent drug-addicted criminals.

Running as a Democrat in a city controlled entirely by Democrats, from the bureaucrats who run the place to the reporters who cover the bureaucrats, is mostly a sweet gig. But when things start to crumble as badly as they have in Los Angeles, and you've completely defeated the neutered Republican Party you're supposed to keep around for purposes of witch burning, the act of noticing problems becomes taboo.

An honesty taboo, if you will.

It truly feels like we're all expected to lie. We're expected to understand the good people are in charge, and they are doing their best, and any pointing out of their (many, many (MANY)) enormous failures can only help the bad people. Then, we are expected to believe the bad people will lead us to some truly heinous moral horror merely in the name of baseline functioning government. I understand this seems ridiculous, but I genuinely do think it constitutes the underlying psychology of a one-party town, in which not even Democrats are supposed to tell the truth.

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Nothing has thus far painted a starker difference between the taboo-shattering Pratt and the incumbents who torched LA than the sitting councilwoman, herself responsible for a myriad of the city's problems, who is somehow framing herself an outsider in the race for mayor.

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.

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When you shatter the honesty taboo and talk about problems created by the One Party, most people simply will not give a shit that you're a reality television star who clocks as just a little bit retarded. This is because the average person is starved for the truth, and if you tell it to them they will find you intriguing, fascinating, mesmerizing. Then, a good amount of people will decide that you're a hero. In 2026, heroes are memed, and in this age of attention he who is memed makes money.

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Obviously, there's something a little bit retarded about choosing a former reality television star with no experience to run the second largest city in the country. Like, no shit, if a sane person with a lot of experience running a city who agreed crime should be illegal and reservoirs should be filled with water were an option, he'd be the obvious choice. But he's not an option, and we're living in a world post-Obama. Is the prospect of a reality television star in office somehow really more ridiculous than a "community organizer" like Karen Bass? Or a former rap star turned, for like five minutes, state assemblyman like Mamdani?

I agree wholeheartedly with this. In 2016, I desperately wanted a candidate who adopted Trump's positions but who was a more professional, less impulsive, more disciplined version of Trump. That option was not available (though I kidded myself into thinking that Ted Cruz would fit this unmet need).

At some point, the political establishment of the Uniparty will have to accept that simply insisting we have to vote for the buttoned-up stuff shirt who will sell us down the river because look, his stuffed shirt is so nicely buttoned up!, is not a winning message.

Ask John Cornyn.

BEHOLD THE TASTEFULLY-CREASED TROUSER
AND BE JOYOUS, PEASANTS!

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Is this not the defining aspect of our culture today? Politicians will stand up and say the most retarded things ever said in their position, but they will dress well, they will say these things with an aesthetic of thoughtfulness, they will not violate the honesty taboo, and we will be expected to support them over the 'bad guy' who thinks the local hobo jerking off under a bridge should pack his shit up and go.

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Alas, we are not living in the thinking man's world this summer. This is Pratt Summer. And I'm feeling just a little bit retarded myself.

RedWave Press
@RedWavePress

Greg Gutfeld: "I walk around New York... I see a half n*ked crazy motherf*cker on the street shooting up or taking a crap. Like you're saying that."

Spencer Pratt: "My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, it's the look around candidate. You look around and see with your own eyes what I am saying. And it's true."

"That's why I'm going to win, because my opponents just lie and they've had 10 years combined that they have created everything that they are looking around, and seeing."

"No more of this, we're going to stop this. We're going to get all of the tax money that these two have been stealing to put these n*ked drug addict zombies that are going number two and number one in front of your houses, your businesses, maybe trying to machete you or st*b you. We're going to get them mandatory medical treatment. Not an empty bed. They need help to get off f*ntanyl and super m*th."

Overton
@overton_news

Greg 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.

Another great ad by a supporter:

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 menancingly close -- saying that it she didn't thing 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.

Pratt is pounding this foreign communist interloper and election ringer:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

May 28

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Spencer Pratt just DROPPED THE MIC after they played the clip of Nithya Raman saying, 'he doesn't have the experience' to be mayor

"That woman has had almost 5 YEARS. She's been the chair of the homeless housing department for the last 3 years. The drug addicts that are attacking moms that are NAKED in front of kids, that is on HER and Mayor Bass."

"This is a woman who fought in her own district for moms that didn't want drug addicts selling drugs, being naked in front of kids in front of the school."

"She's fighting them on camera saying there's no difference between one foot and 500 feet to have naked drug addict encampments in front of kids!"

"So when these people talk, you're literally listening to a lunatic...she's not even going to be a conversation. We should just focus on Bass."