Posted on 05/15/2026 4:00:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber
New York City and Chicago voters made the most injudicious decisions possible electing Zohran Mamdani and Brandon Johnson to be their mayors. Both democratic socialists are inept yet destructive, unserious yet dangerous, demagogues who spew venom and traffic in incendiary divisive rhetoric. Their deranged policies will bankrupt their cities, financially, morally and culturally. Will Los Angeles voters do the same?
Actually, they already have. The question is, will they repeat their mistake and reelect Karen Bass? The current mayor is a Fidelista and a member of the Venceremos Brigade, a Cuban “enterprise that had a goal of encouraging the health and survival of a despotic, evil regime.” She reportedly was the group’s Southern California leader.
Or will voters carry City Council member Nithya Raman, whose “socialism could drag LA” to a “Marxist 19th century” dystopia, into the mayor’s office?
Reality television star and angry Palisades fire victim Spencer Pratt is making a splash as an outsider whose fed-up-with-it rhetoric resonates among many. He’s polling at 22% to Bass’ 30% and Raman’s 19% for the June 2 primary. The fact that Bass and Raman are polling anywhere north of low single digits is not encouraging.
The media, always invested in the most far-left candidates, have done everything they can to make Pratt look like a lightweight fool, but his loud honesty about the real-life trials of living in Los Angeles — the squalid homelessness, a perpetual public safety crisis, incompetent and unaccountable governance, to name a few of the many difficulties — rings truer every time he speaks. Pratt is the rip-sawing candidate the city needs to wake it from a progressive slumber that’s leading to decline.
Even if he doesn’t win, he’s giving California Democrats exactly the rude treatment they deserve. His artificial intelligence-produced videos are appropriately brutal, portraying Bass as a clown, a comic book villain and an incompetent who lists last year’s fires — which took Pratt’s Pacific Palisades home — as one of her accomplishments she’s running on.
Gov. Gavin Newsom also takes his well-earned lashes as an out-of-touch French royal eating cake, as does former vice president and failed (thanks be to God) presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who is presented as a useless lush. The entire California Democratic machine is made of political parasites who should be ridiculed out of public life. Pratt’s takedowns are a good start.
The mayor’s race is as much, if not more, about Angelenos than it is about the candidates. Everyone grumbles and complains in Los Angeles, including the Democratic voters, who, inexplicably, dutifully pull the lever for far-left Democrats, expecting things to change. This election offers them a timely chance to change direction. If they don’t take it, then all the blame lands on them, not the self-dealing hustlers and dedicated leftists they elect.
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I have talked to many educated people in California, but they are truly brainwashed.
If Los Angeles doesn’t elect Spencer Pratt
it’s over and done with
This election is more important than the midterms. If Pratt wins, it will have a huge impact.
“Will they repeat their mistake and reelect Karen Bass?”
https://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3
Don’t hold your breath. Pratt has no chance.
Why do you say that, because he won’t get the votes, or because they will cheat?
The democrat party election rigging machine in California decides who’s elected, not the voters.
Citizens threaten to travel to LA and voter for Spencer Pratt — there is no ID required!
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2055375029701955632
Yes! Saul Alinsky ...Hold them to their rules.
LA County has the largest illegal alien population, so those people will of course vote for Bass, but honestly, has LA hit rock bottom yet..I dont know, and I dont know if they even give a damn enough to want to change things. I saw a woman today on the corner of Robertson Blvd/Pico Blvd outside of Elat Market sitting on the floor screaming her head off, and I was thinking “Yeah that Bass, one hell of a job you are doing there LOL” you would think Bass burning cities to the ground, watching people burn to death in their homes while she partied it up in Ghana would be enough for people to drop her but who knows. The ones who like her are the ones who dont even live in LA County, like the majority of the LA Media, they dont even live here, either in Ventura County or Santa Clarita Valley, so what do they care..for them, seeing a Republican or supposed Republican win is worse than anything in the world
“Citizens threaten to travel to LA and voter for Spencer Pratt — there is no ID required!”
I heard that idea this morning on a podcast. It is interesting. How much $$ to charter a bus, round trip, TN to Los Angeles?
“If Los Angeles doesn’t elect Spencer Pratt
it’s over and done with”
...and should be. This is the most obvious opportunity to turn away from the disaster known as Socialism/Democrats. If they fumble the ball here, they deserve everything they get.
My tolerance level for the democrats is below the basement, currently. I don’t care what they have to say, I just look at what they’ve done.
Yeah
Agreed
That idiot lesbian Karen Bass is the most
Incompetent and Negligent DEI hire ever
I mean after Joe Biden
And Kamala Harris
Indeed
Ignorance Is Bliss is a state motto personal or organizational
Unlike New York City, which remained America's financial center even through the decline of 1965-93, Los Angeles is losing its principal industry, entertainment, which looks like it is in a terminal decline. White and Black American flight from Southern California and their replacement by Asians and Latin Americans with no memory or parental narrative of the Los Angeles of the post-World War II era make the possibility of a West Coast Giuliani in 2026 very low.
There are still many black voters in City of Los Angeles...Most of them will vote for Bass, not Pratt...Yes, there are more Hispanics than blacks in City of Los Angeles...But, many of those Hispanics do not vote...
I saw a woman today on the corner of Robertson Blvd/Pico Blvd outside of Elat Market sitting on the floor screaming her head off, and I was thinking “Yeah that Bass, one hell of a job you are doing there LOL”
That area is not a "bad" area...But, crazy homeless people are also found in "good" areas...
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