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

David Strom12:00 PM | May 21, 2026

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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

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