Spencer Pratt details his mayoral campaign against Los Angeles corruption, alleging criminal mismanagement caused the Palisades fires through empty reservoirs and policies protecting endangered plants. He exposes a "homeless industrial complex" where NGOs siphon hundreds of millions in relief funds via fraud, while DSA-backed officials defund fire services, forcing firefighters to self-fund ballot measures. Pratt condemns Mayor Karen Bass's leadership, citing record-low approval ratings, rising violent crime fueled by fentanyl, and a legal system releasing armed criminals on no-cash bail. His proposed solution involves federal audits, mandatory drug treatment, and clearing encampments to restore safety, arguing that current narratives ignore addiction's root causes to justify ineffective bureaucracy. [Automatically generated summary]
To be clear, I never wanted to run for any political office or have anything to do with politicians.
What happened was.
After spending a year uncovering how my house and my parents' house burned down and my neighbors burned alive and 7,000 houses burned, and then I realized there's a cover up going on, all the negligence, and I keep posting about it.
I have all the facts, I have all the whistleblowers, I have all the evidence, and business as usual.
And I see that nobody is stepping up to run against the mayor who's responsible for this disaster and so many other disasters.
So it became to the point where I got so sick of just being a As the younger people say in the comment section, a yapper.
I felt like I was just yapping.
I'm like, I'm making these videos.
I'm telling the truth.
I got a congressional investigation.
I went to Washington.
I met with everyone possible that I could do as just a citizen.
And I was like, okay, well, game on now.
I'm going to go into your headquarters and just take your job and then remove all these toxic entities that are destroying our way of life in Los Angeles.
So the narrative was, God, there were a lot of terrible, stupid, fake narratives.
And one of them was climate change.
That was the craziest one.
The climate change is causing the fire.
Look, I lived in LA for 29, 30 years, whatever it was.
And I guess it was, yeah, somewhere around there, maybe even more, whatever it was.
When I lived in LA, fire season happened every year.
This is not climate change.
This is not some new thing over the last couple of decades.
I was evacuated three different times.
I used to live in Bell Canyon, and my neighbors, three of the homes right across the street from my house, burnt to the ground in 2018.
There's always been fires in Los Angeles.
But the lack of preparation, For the Palisades fires was astonishing.
The fact that the reservoir was empty was criminal mismanagement.
I mean, it was just insanity that everybody knew that we had fires, like massive fires, that it was a dry place, and when the Santa Ana winds would blow, if something caught fire, it was a real problem.
We had known that forever.
And when you see all these people that are passing the buck and moving the blame, and then The fund, when they had that big charity thing for the fire, and you found out that hundreds of millions of dollars was raised, you know, if you're looking at it like an irrational person, a rational person would say, Oh, this is great.
All these people who lost their homes will have some funds from this and they'll be able to rebuild.
And then you find out that the money was given to, what was it, like 108 different NGOs?
We were told climate change, and with the climate change, because I've spent hours and hours arguing with people that will argue with that, I go, okay, great.
The climate change.
Changes, right?
So we're aware of this dry weather.
It hasn't rained.
So what should we actually be doing?
Should we just say, oh, everybody should burn alive and houses burn down?
Or should we clear the dead brush?
Should we pre deploy?
Should we make sure that both reservoirs have water in it?
So the idea that climate change is the get out of jail, burn everything down excuse, it doesn't even add up.
So we know that.
So let's make a difference.
And I went and met with the Chief of the US Forest Service and talked to him for a few hours.
This guy, Chief Garcia, is one of the most famous fire chiefs from the hotshots.
And I quizzed him, and he told me this was not a surprise.
He said they all have a map.
I forget the name of this map that it goes to all cities and emergency personnel.
They have Photos, you look at them, he showed them to me.
Everything is bright red leading up to January 7th.
Bright red.
They knew this was coming to the point where Chief Garcia had all of his firefighters on the tarmac, kitted up in their helicopters.
He said his whole team was standing by their computers because it was so obvious this fire was coming based off of, if you want to say, climate change, because it had not rained.
It was record dry.
So this idea that they use that, it's, It's just an excuse.
And then the big one that everyone falls for to this day that is the best propaganda ever is hurricane winds.
We were told, you know, Newsom's doing the thing and he's saying the winds would come in the hurricane.
He lit his hair on fire.
There was no hurricane winds in the Pacific Palisades.
The max wind speed was 40 miles per hour.
And for the first six hours, when the helicopter is the initial attack, when you put out the fire, it was max, I think, 27 miles per hour.
So they got everyone with.
It's unprecedented.
It's hurricane winds.
It's climate change.
No responsibilities.
So now we go to fire aid.
This was another thing that just woke me up to, you know, we always heard about the homeless NGO scam and the homeless industrial complex, but living as a fire victim and watching all these celebrities go on stage, they actually took fire victims from Altadena on stage whose houses burned down and they raised this $100 million.
And as a victim, I'm thinking, okay, you know, we're going to get a few thousand dollars.
That's nice, or you know, you break a hundred million up, this should be a grand.
You know, even FEMA and these places, when you get that thousand dollar check, it's helpful.
You're like, oh, I just lost everything, every little thousand adds up.
So, when that happened, and nobody I know anywhere got money, and Sue Pascoe from Circling the News, a local journalist whose house burned down, she spent months investigating, calling up every single NGO who did you give money to, which victim?
Nobody got money.
And even the law firm that they hired to do the cover up for the fire aid, the law firm says in their own little three page document where they're defending fire aid, they say several of the money went directly to fire victims.
Well, I Google just to see because I know the definition of several.
I want to see what Google says several is.
It was definitely under 10.
So out of 200 plus.
NGOs, their own lawyers are saying several gave to fire victims.
And then you look at the three that they name, like, we gave gift cards to victims.
And if they'll do that to the people whose houses just burned down, of course they're going to do it to our tax money with the homeless industrial zombie complex.
So that was a real wake up that put me into, oh, here's where the.
$25, $30 billion goes, it doesn't go to solving anything or fixing it.
Well, I don't think before Doge and before Elon started investigating into a lot of these NGOs, I don't think anybody was really aware, or most people were not aware of how this all works and how there's a whole bureaucracy, like a business that's set up where a bunch of people get paid from this money to essentially make no improvements whatsoever in whatever the problem is.
Whether it's homelessness.
The homelessness is one of the biggest ones in L.A. because there was 24 plus billion dollars spent on homelessness.
And when people, when representatives have tried to do an audit to find out where this money went, Newsom has blocked it.
So, it's even worse in the sense that it's not going to just their salaries.
There are actual cases now with the DOJ and the Feds.
They're arresting people who are just stealing $30 million, $20 million, buying Bentleys, mansions in Brentwood.
So, the idea that it's just going to salaries and people are paying themselves out that's one.
But there are also people just straight up stealing money.
And you can't even figure out how they steal it.
For instance, this lovely lady came on my podcast.
She created her own charity type thing, the Integrity Project, to expose NGOs because she lives in Westwood.
And all of a sudden, one day on her block, in this, you know, she invested with her husband, have a nice single family house on this nice street in Westwood.
And the old person home, they were kicking all the senior citizens out.
And she's like, what's going on here?
And then next thing you know, the building's on the market for sale, and it's for $11 million.
Six days later, that building sells to a developer.
For $27 million.
Ends up this NGO, Weingart, who's one of the top.
I think they're at maybe $100 million just this year.
They haven't turned in their audit to the feds.
It's late right now.
But for instance, no one knows why it went from $11 million to $27 million over the weekend in three days.
So people pocket that money.
Here's the craziest part guess who?
So the grant, you know, Weingart gets a grant from the city of the state.
Guess who owns that building?
Not the city or the state, Weingart.
So, our tax money buys for 20 extra million dollars of property to have it as a homeless housing.
Each of these beds, because I think there's maybe only 70 beds in it, it's now six years later, approximately, totally not finished, not done, more construction, this or that.
They still get paid as operators.
So, these NGOs not only get the money for the grants to buy the building, then they get like a million dollars a year to be operators.
And here's the best part there's no mandatory that they have to actually put a body in the beds.
So, the scam is like I keep saying, this is a cartel.
This is mafia.
This is real mafia criminal stuff going on.
And the problem is so, one thing I'm so excited to do when I'm mayor, and people in the comment section will be like, oh, he's so stupid.
You can't do that.
I've met with the IRS criminal investigation team three times in LA, twice in Washington, D.C.
And they are so excited for me to be mayor because all they need is one document from each of these NGOs and these grants, and they can open.
These investigations on fraud.
Right now, they know the fraud and the crimes are happening, but if the city doesn't hand over the document and the NGO doesn't, they say they can't just open up these cases without that one document.
So, first week as mayor, I'm bringing in the criminal investigation team, the IRS.
Here's all the NGOs we're working with.
I guarantee you, 95% of them already just call and they're like, oh, Mayor Pratt, we're good.
We're actually going to Seattle.
We don't want to work here.
Once they know someone's coming to, Stop the cookie jar stealing.
And then when people are like, oh, LA has no money, how are you going to do all this stuff?
LA has plenty of money that we're just letting our tax money just be stolen and to increase a problem.
Homeless, since our current mayor, Karen Bass, has joined the city power, she's increased homeless.
They reference numbers.
They reference numbers that she'll be like, oh, we removed 1,500 people this year.
But she doesn't say, oh, 1,500 were removed into the cemetery because they OD'd, not to mention how much tax money we're spending on just keeping zombies alive.
I met with firefighters a few days ago at the Hollywood station, and they were telling me the amount of Narcan they go through.
So one night, I talked to MacArthur Park, their fire station, he did 17 overdoses.
In one night.
So if they're not there, given the narcotics, the amount of people dying is even more insane.
Right now, six people are dying a day in the street.
And then they say, oh, this is compassionate.
These people have rights.
No, these people do not have rights for us to just die.
We need to protect these people as humans.
And again, that's why my whole thing is enforce the law.
It is illegal to just be doing fentanyl on the street.
So if we come in and we give you mandatory treatment, Not jail if you're not, you know, some of these people are just straight going to jail for animal abuse.
They're torturing animals all day long on Skid Row.
The videos that I get sent, once you see them, you can't unsee them.
Not to mention now I'm working with all the rescue ones, the ones they text me and they're just like, Spencer, we have to stop this.
And the city knows they call the cops all day long.
The cops come and they say, I mean, LAPD's hands are tied.
If the mayor and the city attorney don't have like enforce the law, they just get away with it.
So we're, In Mad Max life in Los Angeles.
And people like to say, oh, it's not, it's, I'm from LA.
I've grown up.
And I keep saying, I'm fighting to get LA back to what I grew up.
It was beautiful.
It's why I wanted to be on a TV show and be famous and be part of Hollywood.
It was magical.
Not even mention Hollywood is now gone.
The fact that Hollywood Boulevard should be the greatest tourist attraction in the world, you couldn't pay me right now to go on Hollywood Boulevard, step on human feces, the smell of pee.
Inhaling fentanyl.
Everyone can just smoke fentanyl in the streets now.
It's psycho.
So, again, why did I. Once you start digging in and you spend all your life now exposing this, because again, they burned my house down.
They burned my mom's house down.
I have to.
They put me in the game.
And once the bubble's gone, all I have is this energy to stop this.
Not to mention now the amount of thousands of messages I get every day from every part of the city sending me photos.
There's parents that, when they drive to school all across the city, this is not just one unique area, they have to have their kids in the backseat staring at an iPad not to look out the window because meth addicts will just be having sex on the side of the street.
And the DEA will tell you 90% of these homeless people have a drug problem.
We have a drug addict problem.
These aren't people that just like missed a paycheck and we need to get them help and get back.
This is a drug problem that needs mandatory treatment, not handing people needles and pipes and saying, oh, here's a million dollar bed.
If you're a fentanyl zombie hanging upside down, you don't care about a million dollar empty bed because you're just high, you sober up and you go get high again.
Man at the center of the deal, since identified by federal prosecutors as Brentwood landlord and developer Stephen Taylor, bought the property on Shelby Drive in 2023 for $11.2 million.
Purchase record shows.
Okay, so this is exactly what you're talking about.
$27.3 million to pay for that acquisition came from taxpayer grant funds authorized by city and state officials, according to grant documentations.
LA Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Newsom touted the purchase as a key tool in the fight against homelessness, the fight against homelessness that they're losing.
The deal called for Taylor's involvement to be kept secret, according to a confidentiality clause included in the purchase contract.
Obtained through a public records request that changed last month when federal authorities announced criminal charges against Taylor.
He's accused of submitting fraudulent documents to borrow money from private lenders when he bought this and other properties.
So, news conference, region's top federal prosecutor, Bill Assale, said the investigation is ongoing.
Taylor was arrested in August when the case was under seal and pleaded not guilty.
Court records show it's the first of the two known criminal cases brought so far by the federal task force.
Assale assembled in April to investigate fraud and corruption around the use of billions of dollars earmarked to combat homelessness in Southern California.
So, these people are just buccaneers.
They're just buccaneers.
This is a.
Just a gigantic criminal enterprise that exists under this guise of, you know, being kind.
So that case only exists because of that mom, Samantha, did 7,500 of her own public records requests on that senior citizen home.
And then the FBI came to, she started posting it, and the FBI knocked on her door and said, Can we meet with you?
And she gave them all of her files.
So it's back to what I was saying the feds wouldn't even got that story.
If this woman, Samantha from the Integrity Project, didn't do 7,000 public records or Chris and build this case on her own because she was, what's going on in my next door neighbor?
There's a bunch of employees that are getting paid.
So, and getting paid substantial amounts of money.
You know, my friend Colian Noir found this out about San Francisco.
So, he went up to San Francisco.
He saw all this homelessness and he's a lawyer, but he's also, he doesn't know what's going on over there.
He's like, wow, what's going on?
Do they need more money?
He's like, no.
What's going on is they're actually incentivized to have more homeless people because the more homeless people, the bigger the bureaucracy grows, the bigger you can have your homeless foundation, your homeless task force, whatever it is.
And these people are making quarter million dollars a year plus, which is insane.
And he showed the list of the salaries of all these people.
How are you getting paid when the problem keeps getting worse and all you're doing is hiring more people and they're getting paid more money and more projects and more grants and more homelessness?
And it's not getting any better, but the money keeps coming in.
So you're incentivized to keep the problem and increase it.
I grew up and I was well aware of the military industrial complex, but even with that, they track the bombs and the fighter jets.
This, it's even.
It's even crazier because there's no, I think we serve, they use the word serve and cared for.
They don't track results.
They say, oh, we house 1,400 people for a night, two nights.
You know, it's not like we're getting people have bracelets and we're tracking them and they're getting air tags.
We have no idea what's going on.
So again, I keep saying, as mayor, I'll enforce the laws because you cannot be a crazed drug addict zombie just running amok naked on the street.
That is why I thank God our amazing Democrats in California made this year SB 43.
And that means if you can't manage your own mental state, you can come in and have a hole, the psych hole for 72 hours.
And if it seems like, oh, this person needs real treatment, it can go to 45 days.
And then it can go up to a year conservatorship.
And as mayor, what I keep telling people is once you start enforcing the law, first off, people who just want to do drugs and live on the streets, they will leave LA because they'll see, oh, this mayor is not playing around.
We need to go somewhere else, or they're so crazy and we're gonna help them get medical treatment, or they're one of these dog abusing type people, and I'm gonna put them under the jail to the point where once they get from under the jail, somehow, if they ever get out, they will never come back to LA because now they've been under the jail and they're gonna go under two times more till they end up in prison.
Because if you abuse animals, once again, once you see what I've seen, we're talking they're stapling dogs' eyes closed, lighting.
The shelters alone, where it's the city is doing mass murder because they're not giving these people enough funding.
And I'm convinced now they must make money off of euthanizing.
So, there's the street issue with the zombies abusing dogs, and then the city just mass murdering dogs because they're not getting the proper funding and facilities, and they're not spaying and neutering and enforcing all the laws to keep street breeders from just flooding the streets with the dogs.
So, back to you enforce the law, and this isn't impossible.
I've met with a lot of people that have real estate in Los Angeles and they have real estate in San Francisco, and Mayor Lurie came in.
And he started enforcing the law and just saying, you can't do this.
And he has cleaned up the city pretty well.
You know, there's obviously people that say he's not doing enough.
And again, I'm sorry, what city is this?
San Francisco.
And so he took the call from the feds and he said, I'm going to do this.
And he's doing a solid job.
Again, I'm going whole next level because I'm not concerned about optics.
I'm not concerned about, oh, Spencer's doing this.
He's so mean.
No, what's mean is letting people live on the street in human poop and dying on the street.
And these people I run against, they're all the same.
Before my house burned down in the Palisades, my wife was ready to move because every morning in front of Palisades Elementary, that then burned down and across the street at my son's preschool at Methodist, there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front of kids at 7 45 in the morning.
You call LAPD, they pull up and they go, You don't know why?
Because they can't before I saw.
She'd go around the corner and she'd go number two in front of Joe's barbershop.
I would know because I had to step over the number two because I'd always park right near Joe's barbershop.
It's so weird to see, you know, because I lived in LA for so long, and when I first moved there in the 90s, there was nothing like this.
It was nice, you know, I mean, it was a lot of traffic, but that was it.
There was some crime, but it wasn't that bad, and everything just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
And it didn't seem really bad until Skid Row was always bad, and Skid Row was bad.
On purpose.
So, for people that don't know, and we looked into this because I found out about Skid Row, I knew it existed, but I found out about it when we were filming Fear Factor.
So, one day, because we filmed a lot in downtown LA and a lot of these abandoned warehouses and buildings, and we were in one of these warehouses and we left the set and I drove home and I took a wrong turn and I went down near the outskirts of Skid Row.
And it's hard to believe that it's real if you haven't seen it.
When you're talking.
Just blocks and blocks and blocks where there's nothing but homeless people.
Just people on the streets, camped out, wandering through the streets.
There's no cars driving whatsoever, garbage everywhere.
And the idea that that's never been cleaned up is fucking insane.
So, what we found out is that that was an area a long time ago where they started moving people.
I don't know when was this.
This was the Jerome Hotel, right?
That's what we talked about?
That's what it was.
So, there was a documentary on the Jerome Hotel.
And when we looked into it, it turns out that what they would do is they would find vagrants, which is the old school term for it, and they would find them in Beverly Hills or Hollywood, and they would just move them to downtown LA to Skid Row and leave them there and keep them there.
They had food there for them, they had kitchens, they let them camp out on the street, just stay here.
And it ruined all Cecil, the Cecil Hotel.
That's right.
So, uh, This is where they so Cecil Hotel was like this beautiful hotel that existed in downtown LA, and now it's just like it's in zombie land, and the whole area is filled with fucking just everything around it is homeless.
Like the sheer volume of it is impossible to describe unless you go there and see it.
And the fact that that's never been addressed, that no one does anything about it, and it's gotten to 50 entire blocks of nothing but homeless people no businesses, no nothing, nothing's functioning.
They need somebody to come and say, Oh, we're done with this.
And that's why I'm excited to actually be a mayor that's in these streets.
And here's what they keep saying Oh, you can't do this because the city council, they're all in on it.
You know, 90% of them, because they have four of these socialist DSA members on the city council that actually want to destroy our way of life in Los Angeles.
Go on the DSA, Democratic Socialists of America's website, and they're not Democrats.
They hate Democrats.
They use the word to hide their true agenda of socialism.
So they want to keep taking as much of our tax money.
And the main lady I was talking about with that, 60 million, she's one of these DSA people.
She's bragging about taking $16 million of our tax money to give 40 plus people or 50 people $250,000 each to live in a tiny home.
That is not a working solution.
We need to have a plan to get these people back into society, not Bankroll an entire existence of Los Angeles where we're like, oh, you can just be a drug addict and we're going to pay for you because.
And again, as mayor, I want to have full accountability and transparency where that's what everybody that's paying.
There's a lot of good people that are fine with paying as much tax as they want if you're helping people get off the street, if the lights work, if the streets work.
Well, there's been a concerted effort to put those people in the government, right?
And, you know, a lot of people point to George Soros, and he's one of them, and his Open Society Foundation is one of the people that likes to do that, particularly for very progressive prosecutors and DAs.
But there's more than just him.
There's a whole machine behind it.
And this is what I don't understand.
Because if you wanted to destroy a city, if you wanted to destroy society, you would do it exactly the way they're doing it.
So, what is their incentive and why are they doing it this way?
I don't, you know, there, I have to block them usually on social media, but they have a vision that everything in California and Los Angeles should be high density.
How then we need to build these seven, nine story structures to have more affordable housing.
So they want to get rid of single family homes and put seven story buildings on.
So the NIMBYs, not in my backyard, they fight these people on X.
So, You know, to be honest, I'm not either of them.
They try to, I'm fine with more housing, but I also want people to have single family homes.
And I think the fact that we lost the idea where we can't fight for the California dream to have a front yard with grass and it's gotten so expensive and impossible, that should be the problem.
Not that, oh, we've given up.
Nobody should ever get that.
We need to build these seven story prison like structures and give anyone who can't afford just a box to live in.
Well, it's also insane to try to do that with the Palisades because the Palisades has always been a wealthy neighborhood where people with a lot of money spent a lot of money and also paid a lot of money in taxes and had these beautiful homes.
And the idea that you're going to take that over with low income housing, well, those people are going to move out of there.
A misconception, though, because I'm from the Palisades and I grew up, the Palisades just became this wealthier, you know, famous people in the last, let's say, 10 years.
We haven't even, you know, we just touched on it, but nobody's really talked about what happened, how this fire started, you know, why we're on the fire.
So people would think about the Palisades fire and they go, oh, January 7th.
Well, what happened?
The fire for January 7th actually started on New Year's Eve.
So there's a case right now, it's kind of fallen through the cracks.
It may not go forward.
There's an arson case.
Supposedly, allegedly, this guy lit a fire at New Year's Eve with a lighter or a cigarette and there was an eight acre fire.
Now, According to witness testimony, there are about 30 people that saw fireworks go into this site called at Lockman, Skull Rock.
So at New Year's Eve, the eight acre fire starts, LAFD responds.
But the issue, what people don't understand, when they respond, they can't come up there with heavy dozers.
So, a dozer, like a bulldozer, has a rake type thing on the front, and they clear around the fire and they make a fire break even when the fire is going.
Ideally, you'd want the fire break before, which Because of California state parks and plant over people policies, we don't have fire breaks.
So, dead fuels, dead brush has been growing around lots of communities for 50, 60 years.
So, right now, the Palisades burned down.
But what's next is Brentwood, Hollywood Hills, Sunland, Tahunga, what else?
Bel Air.
All these are going there.
I'm sorry, people, you live here.
They're all going to burn down if we don't come in here, make fire breaks.
300 feet because when I met with Chief Bobby Garcia and I asked him about fire breaks, the purpose of the fire break is to give firefighters a chance to dig in.
And when they drop the retardant, if there's not a 300 foot break, then all the retardant just falls through the different levels of the foliage and it doesn't make a moat.
So if you have a break, it creates a moat type situation.
And now the firefighters have a chance to get up there and respond.
So back to January 1st, they couldn't bring their dozers up.
We now have text messages because Again, I'm one of the lead plaintiffs suing the city of LA, LADWP, and the state of California state parks.
So I have all the text messages public now, but we have the texts from the park rangers, the LAFD, and they're joking about, of course, I'm not bringing any dozers.
I know the rule, you know, protected plants.
Keep in mind, I never knew about this plant.
It's called milk vetch.
Nobody respectfully cares about milk vetch, but somebody in the environmental world cares more about milk vetch than 12 people.
Burning alive because the plant that was protected is the reason pretty much these people burned alive.
So they do their best, you know, the LAFD puts it out, but now we know that the fire was still smoldering.
We have hiking footage of the next day and the day after in the state park, Topanga State Park, hikers, tourists.
We have a guy who lived down the street.
Of course, he had his own drone that had not only a regular drone, he had a thermal imaging drone.
So the whole hillside is just smoking.
And we now have.
A firefighter Pike on his subpoena video, he says that he clearly saw smoldering pockets of coal that he didn't want to touch.
And he informed his chief, Hey, we can't pull the hoses.
And the chief said, Pull the hoses.
Not just Pike, multiple firefighters have now said that it was all smoking.
After meeting with so many firefighters since, I've realized the fire department is so understaffed, so underfunded, they're operating a fire department.
From the 1960s, with 50% more calls now.
80% of them are for zombies to overdoses.
30% of the fires are zombie encampment fires.
So to me, now I'm trying to get in that chief.
I spoke with that chief on the phone and In my mind, it's a budget thing.
Everything's just like, oh, we don't have, you know, clocks ticking.
We don't have the money to stay up here with the hoses.
Because three years earlier, that same area in the Highlands, I think they left the hoses up in the Palisades for 18 months.
You leave the hoses up because it stays hot and they have them up.
They pulled them the next day.
So I think it's a funding thing.
I mean, the chief, Chief Crowley, who Mayor Bass fired in retaliation for telling the truth, seven weeks before the Palisades fire, she wrote a memo to Karen Bass and said, I am dangerously underfunded.
I cannot keep Angelino safe.
What does Mayor Bass do?
Cuts another $17 million from the fire department.
So, in my mind, the chief's like, I can't, I don't have the money to leave guys up here.
So the state parks' own manual says they're supposed to close this park to make sure it's not a dangerous condition, obviously, and to monitor it.
Did they close the state park?
No worse.
Guess what the state park rangers asked the firefighters to do?
And there's photos.
It's mind boggling.
They asked the firefighters to take dead brush and fuel and they carry it and they put it over the fire break from a day earlier around where they made the fire break around that January 1st.
They take the dead bushes and they cover up the fire break.
So if you wanted to be cynical, do you think that having this $400 million and keeping it in there and keeping Funneling money into homelessness and not into the fire department is simply because the fire department is not profitable.
You can't siphon money off of the fire department.
The fire department basically just goes to fight fires, it goes to equipment, people's salaries, maintaining the fire departments.
The fire department, LAFD, their union, all the members, huh, get like choked up.
I feel so, because I met with these, you know, I keep meeting with these guys and you hear from their heart, you're like, huh, this is so heavy.
They had to take their own money.
To get on ballot measure a million dollars, they all pooled it together to get a ballot measure this coming election to get a half cent on sales tax in LA so that they could have money to fund actual things they need to keep a half a cent on all that.
But the point is, they need to go out of their own pocket to get a ballot measure because they know they will never get funded by the city to keep Angelino safe.
That they got to go out of it and make sure there's only one way to look at it.
You would look at it like, well, what would be the logical reason?
Why would they allocate so much money towards homelessness and so little towards the fire department?
When the fire department is, you know, I've said this before, but if you want to talk about like socialism that works, the fire department is socialism that works.
If you really care about socialism and that's the thing that you really believe in, there's certain aspects of socialism that are applicable in a healthy community.
One of them is the fire department that your money should go, we should pool some of our taxes to go to make sure that we're all protected.
The fire department doesn't just protect the rich people, it protects all people.
Fires break out, the fire department comes in, regardless whether you have any money or not.
We all pool our money together for the fire department.
It makes sense.
But if it's that, you can't steal that money, right?
So there's no way you can figure out the homelessness.
It's vague, it's weird.
You could hide it.
It's like you're counting bodies on the street.
Oh, one, two, three.
Let's write 5,000.
Like you don't have real accounting for these people because it's so chaotic.
But, fire department, you know the employees, you know the fire department, you know where the trucks are, you know where everything is.
You can't steal that money.
But, that homeless budget, boy, there's a lot of wiggle room in that homeless budget.
And if you wanted to be cynical, you would say that's why they fund the fire department so little and they fund the homeless so much.
So, when you become a DSA member, so right now she's a city council member, and when the DSA gives you an endorsement, you sign a contract with them to co govern.
So, right now she's not representing her district.
As an American citizen, a Los Angeles, she's representing the Democrat Socialists of America.
So she has the record lowest approval rating in the history right now.
So UCLA just did a poll about a week ago.
I'm number two to Karen Bass.
She has.
I think approximately 20 something percent.
I think I have 13 percent with 40 percent undecided.
Those 40 percent, I keep saying, those are my voters.
Those are people that are fed up.
They know they're not voting for Karen Bass.
They just don't know.
There's a guy named Spencer Pratt that's saying, we need common sense.
We need to clean these streets.
No more fentanyl at the park.
Parents need to feel comfortable taking their kids to school without seeing met zombies having sex on the side of the street.
We're talking common sense.
Political, what I'm running on, not to mention the mayor is a nonpartisan race.
There's no letters on it for a reason.
The mayor is supposed to represent all of Los Angeles, period.
It's not a, you'll never get me ever doing these performative politics, talking about national issues, doing the bait and switch stuff where, oh, talking about over here why I destroy your actual local government.
That's the problem.
Everyone gets caught up in the media and they follow what's going on in different states and different politics and the federal government when.
The people that really affect your life, who are destroying your way of life, are your local government, your mayor, your city council, your fire commission, your police commission.
When I'm mayor, I'm wiping out this fire commission.
We're putting actual experts that know what they're talking about, not these rando political pointy lunatics.
Same with the police commission.
You need to have people that pride themselves in law enforcement and want accountability and want the best from the police department.
You know, the police department is the lowest it's been in 30 years in Los Angeles.
Just last week, the federal government paused a $400 million payment that was coming because they said all these federal audits aren't showing the book.
So just the money is just coming.
And we're just talking LA, which is the epicenter of the whole state of California.
You know, all this fraud that you keep hearing about everything, it all comes from LA and then goes out to California.
It's like LA is the death star, you know, and that's why I'm coming in.
Well, Nick Shirley started doing investigations into all sorts of other fraud that's all around Los Angeles with hospices and all these different things.
And they're finding hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.
Instead of saying, Wow, thank you for uncovering this fraud, they passed a bill that if you film things and you go to a place and identify that place, and then somehow or another, those people get harassed or something because of it, you could get fined.
So, I was already saying on my own podcast, my plan as mayor, because everyone kept being like, Oh, you need Nick Shirley.
No, what I need is all of Los Angeles to be a Nick Shirley.
I, as mayor, am going to offer cash bounties.
If you film any fraud, city workers doing something suspicious, any type of scams, and you bring it to the mayor's office and we check it out, I'm going to pay you.
So now I got to deal with the state, you know, if that passes.
But I was already going to just make the city become these Nixon.
Criminals like the Gotti, all these people we used to think were mobsters at the Italian shops back in the day.
They couldn't even comprehend what's going on right now.
And then, even on the city level, like when I went and met in a fire station, they were telling me about how if a refrigerator breaks, this is mafia stuff, if a refrigerator breaks, you know, firefighters, they know how to take the refrigerator and they put it out.
The city person comes in, they go, Oh, no, put that back in.
You can't have that taken in.
So they make them put the broken thing back in before the next person comes.
And then It costs like $50,000, and this only one city contract can fix it.
It's not for, you know, up for bid.
And that is where all this extra money that isn't going to actually getting these firefighters with any.
The fire station I was at, they had a fire truck that should have been in retired in Mexico 10 years ago.
And instead, they like pay to put a new back bumper on it.
And they just, it's, these guys have to pay out of their own pocket for the blinds, the paint, and they do it because they live here.
So sad where LAFD used to be the symbol of great, like the goat firefighters that everyone looked to, how we've just let it fall apart.
Same with LAPD.
We have just no pride in what's happening is the Olympics are coming.
And what I keep telling everybody is we are going to have a terrorist attack.
It's because we're not even safe for our streets right now.
They're not even protected.
If we do fires alone, all a terrorist cell needs to do is get five of those black e bikes and they need to go on a windy day leading up to the Olympics, go around.
With road flares, tossing them out on all the 50 years of dead brush.
The entire city will look like a nuclear bomb went off.
And by the way, there's a lot of evidence that a lot of the fire in the Palisades, not just the initial fire, but subsequent fires, were caused by arson.
In fact, my friend Andrew filmed some guys doing it.
Well, that's how also these DSA people get support because they've destroyed the city so much.
You look around and you think, oh, the American dream is broken.
Capitalism is broken, but they're the ones that broke it.
So if you're just like a young 20 year old looking around, you're like, oh my God, there's zombies everywhere, rents so much, all the restaurants are closing.
This system doesn't work.
But what they're not looking at is who's Breaking the system that did work, the one that I grew up in that was so beautiful.
Over a hundred restaurants in LA have closed this year.
Over a hundred.
And these aren't chains.
These are people that put their life into this.
These are chefs, and they can't make it in a place that was a go to food spot.
And that's you trained up, you know, ready to go with the sidekick.
Imagine a lovely lady that just wants to walk her little dog.
Are just dog walkers.
They're like, I am scared to walk my dog.
I won't say which newscaster, but I had a newscaster off camera recently and said, Everything you're saying is true.
She goes, Every morning I have to get up at 5 a.m. because it's the safest time for me to do my morning run.
Every day, naked zombie.
She said, I'm running by a naked zombie trying to.
Can you imagine?
Not, you know, you and I don't want to go walk on the street, but just like a woman with their little dog or moms with strollers.
And it's not, it's across the entire city.
I watched, News in Spanish where these underpasses in South Central or East LA, these families have been coming to the news and they're like, please, because they're having to take their kids under these underpasses with encampments to get to the schools.
It's not just like a Hollywood thing or a valley, it's everywhere.
Mandami is a custom built Manchurian candidate, 20 years in the making.
He's a star.
That's why he's got the smile.
You can't take this bootleg wannabe and try to cook her into it.
So they drop this.
Fake hit piece on me the day the UCLA poll comes out that has me in the lead and not the one that they had just run some fake DSA, you know, BS poll that nobody believed.
So we're gonna put, and then she's tweeting or exing or whatever you call it like, my new plan, homeless is not working.
Oh, so you just announced you're running for mayor.
The best part is, she's had six years to not say any of these problems until she's running for mayor.
These politicians are just, it's the problem back to the people.
The problem is, people have jobs.
People aren't paying attention like me.
They just hear the little fake, I care, this isn't working.
Oh, she's a city council member.
Oh, she's a Democrat.
No, she's not.
She's not a Democrat.
I'm the one who's been fighting for Democrats for the last year and a half to expose all of this fraud, our literal city letting our town burn to the ground.
So that's when I really stepped up.
So I watched this movie, Hotshot, a documentary on fires.
And I see in this documentary, 100 mile per hour, I think it's the oak fire in the film.
And you see 100 mile per hour wind.
And the firefighters are just standing there with like garden hoses, and you're seeing that 100 mile per hour wind does not mean everything burns down because this community has fire breaks.
So then I like see who this guy who like lived with these hotshots for six years.
So I find him on X and he's live streaming talking about how the Palisades fire before anybody was not started on January 7th, but a rekindle from that first fire when the LAFD, this is where it gets so conspiracy Chinatown movie type shit.
They hired a crisis PR firm, the lead company.
Here's the best part guess where they got the money?
The mayor's office, where they got the money to hire the crisis from the LAFD Foundation.
They used charity money to hire a crisis team to alter the after action report that says all these things that went wrong to make the mayor, Karen Bass, look good.
So when they're like, oh, Spencer, you don't have the experience to be mayor, well, I promise my deputy mayors that I have on deck, they aren't calling in any bomb threats to City Hall.
So we're already starting ahead of the curve.
Also, I'm not going in to steal taxpayer money, I'm going in to stop all this.
So again, I really believe there's enough common sense people that see that I'm not doing politics.
I don't want to do any of this.
Politics are, it's a job.
These people are career politicians.
I never wanted to be a career politician.
Before my house burned down, I was selling my healing crystals.
They, just to be clear, they have no magical powers.
They all burned in my house.
So, anybody, you know, you're buying them, they, you know, I thought that I had protection energy.
They don't.
So, you know, and feeding hummingbirds and taking my kids to school.
That was my dream life.
And they burned it down.
And now they have their worst nightmare coming to just.
Not to mention, these people would just get away with all of this.
They keep getting away with it.
That's the problem with the media.
What I've learned from being.
Part of the television world, and you notice why do they let the mayor and the city councils get away with all of you know talking about this at the end of the day?
That's their talent, it's like a soap opera, they got to keep filming with the mayor and the city council.
If they just air them out, they're not picking up the call, it's like a production, exactly.
Well, this is the thing that Newsom always chimes in about how much money California brings in, how many venture capitalists are in California, how much money in tech is in California.
The amount of money Hollywood made for Los Angeles from the grips to the camera operators to the glam people to the costume.
People don't understand.
People hate, like, oh, Hollywood, stupid movie stars are so rich.
They forget about the ecosystem that connects to that, say, Tom Cruise, that makes some.
The amount of money is.
Gone.
And for instance, just last week, they finally got Baywatch to come back to LA.
Baywatch starts shooting for like two days and then they kick him off the beach.
There's all these permit problems.
So I write a sub stack calling this out, calling out the mayor.
Next thing you know, they come back and the mayor makes a deal.
What's the funniest thing right now is whatever I post and do, the mayor is now doing, like I said the other day, I'm getting rid of the whole fire commission.
This fire commission has been there for like 10 years, I think, after I do this post or whatever.
Boom, four out of five of the fire commission resign.
So they're trying to just get ahead of all the things of what I'm saying, which is fun because I already am like the mayor.
Which is, that's the problem with all of them, they're all in a, ready for this?
The lady, Janice Quinones, that was in charge of the LADWP that drained.
So in the Pacific Palisades, there was the San Inez Reservoir.
It had 117 million gallons of water.
When it was created, the engineer, he's on the cover, LA Times back in the day, and he's talking about he built this for wildfire protection.
Now, in their defense, the city and LADWP says, that was drinking water.
It was No one was drinking this water, I promise you.
So there was a tear on this drinking water, allegedly the firefighting water.
So they drain the entire Reservoir because of a little tear that would have cost $120,000 to repair for over a year.
This woman was making $750,000 a year as the head of LADWP, twice her predecessor that Mayor Bass brought in.
Keep in mind, if you make that much money, do you know what the people below her are making?
$500, $400.
These people get so much money and they spend over a year to fix a tear.
And it's back to the mafia thing.
Oh, I'm sure it's like, oh, we got to use this contractor because we don't have an open bid.
Oh, that's too cheap.
Who knows the conspiracy to why they didn't tear it?
So, while that's drained next door to my house that I watched weekly, the local LAFD would do training, they'd hook up to it.
I had a 5 million gallon reservoir for firefighting.
So, while they're doing that one, they're like, oh, we should fix this one too.
They drain that one.
And they're like, oh, we drained it.
When we refill it, there's some issues.
We can't refill it.
They leave two reservoirs empty.
Back, rewind what I told you in a season.
That's the driest ever.
That they've actually had a fire, I think in 2019, where there wasn't water in the reservoir.
And thankfully, there was no wind.
And they had to drive water tenders up onto the hillside for the helicopters to dip because that's the key.
What people don't understand is like, oh, nothing could have stopped this fire.
You know, people that defend these people.
If the reservoir had the water in it, the helicopters, these $17 million helicopters that Newsom loves to do the photo shoots in front of, how fast they are, would have had to fly.
Less than 30 seconds from the origin of the fire again when the winds were fine for six hours in the initial thing.
But instead, those helicopters had to fly all the way to Malibu to Pepperdine College and all the way to Encino to get the water for the helicopters to fly all the way back to where the fire was next door to where the empty reservoir is.
So they spent 66% of their time not fighting the fire going to get the water.
So it's back to like why I say it's Chinatown with Jack and Listen.
We have this LADWP that these people get all this money.
They increase everyone's rates.
This year, everyone's rates went up 11%.
They're going to go up 7% annually for no reason.
You're not getting alkaline water out of it.
I'm convinced we used to joke, like, oh, there's fluoride in the water.
How much fentanyl is in our damn water right now?
I mean, we're not getting better water for that 7% increase.
They're doubling everyone's trash, even though.
The entire city has more trash.
I talked to this guy, Juan from Clean LA.
He goes around, he's from Ecuador.
He does these mingas where he moved here from Ecuador and he said it's the dirtiest thing he's ever seen his whole life.
So he just started cleaning up trash and posting it.
And now people will give him GoFundMe money and he cleans more of the city than the city.
And I had him on my podcast.
I said, What's the problem here, Juan?
And he said, People don't care, Spencer.
And I said, So I'm mayor, I hire you.
Are we going to get the city clean?
He's like, Spencer, they want a billion dollars.
Next year for the trash.
He's like, I can do this for easy $500 million.
I said, okay, you're hired one.
I said, what are we going to do with them?
He's like, we got to fire all these people, Spencer.
They don't care.
He said, it's dirtier than any third world country he's ever been.
So they're doubling our trash rates, they're doubling our sewage.
So more money, more money.
It's back to taxes.
Oh, the rich need to give more.
If the quality of life just keeps getting worse and worse, why would anybody with money stay in California or Los Angeles?
When they know the fraud, the waste, the corruption.
People that are rich, billionaires, whoever they are, if the city lights all work, right now, the two mayors I'm running for let, you know, about the copper theft?
There's no working lights in the city of LA because they let, they got rid of the copper task force because they obviously can't fund the LAPD.
So they let everyone steal all the copper.
So everything's dark in the whole city.
So Mayor Bass goes last week and makes a press conference.
I solved it.
I'm going to spend $200 million and we're going to do solar power lights.
You think these thieves aren't going to then pivot to stealing solar batteries and slaying those?
No, we got to stop the criminals.
The best video right now, I think, there's a couple of good ones.
This Nithya Raman, the Democratic Socialist who's running for mayor, she is asked about all the Cadillac converters that are being stolen.
She said, Well, Toyota is making these too easy to steal.
All these moms and parents are saying, We don't want these encampments where there's two known gangs selling fentanyl through holes in the tents.
The zombies are everywhere.
These parents are saying, We don't want these encampments, which are illegal.
They're asking them.
The city council member to enforce the law, and she argues with the parents and says, There's no difference if the encampment's one foot or 500 feet from the school.
All the parents boo her, and she goes, Whatever, and rolls her eyes.
These are the people that are going to show up and vote for me.
Well, there's a giant amount of people in California that have been red pilled that just realize like whatever you thought your government was when you thought you were voting for a progressive, kind, compassionate government that is a sheep outfit over a wolf.
It's not what you have, it's not what you're getting.
What you're getting is organized crime.
What you're getting is organized crime that is using this filter of compassionate, Caring, inclusive government.
And it's not real.
It's not real.
What you're getting is more homeless, more crime, more murder, more chaos, more, maybe not more murder, maybe just more shootings.
Yeah, but even that, like, well, you're going to just let someone break into your house and steal your childhood's whatever, whatever they're stealing, whatever, steal your fucking jewelry and heirlooms and whatever you've worked your whole life to earn.
And that's why I get so, my hardest thing every day now is just staying not too pumped up because now that I'm in this fight and I have all the messages all day long, everywhere I go on the street, people, old ladies hugging me, crying like, please, I'm scared.
The pressure I feel to get in here and just undo this, unplug this.
And I met with a lot of business owners and they said the mayor, the city council, they all know what needs to be done, but they don't wanna push the buttons.
Somebody needs to just come in and push them up.
If there's one thing I know, I will push these buttons and we're going to get the city under control because it just starts with enforcing the law.
So I have a deputy mayor that I can't say who he is because of fear of retaliation at this point, because of issues with the city right now who's in power.
But this deputy mayor who will help me enforce the law made it very clear.
Once you start enforcing the law, criminals leave.
They know, oh, the gig's up.
They will go somewhere else.
Once you start making arrests, people will leave.
This idea, oh, there's no room in the jails.
Where are you going to put all these people?
Once you start enforcing law, they will leave.
And it's as simple as that.
He was suggesting for two weeks, you go around the city, you put up signs, no more fentanyl at the park, no more open drug use, no more encampments.
You have a two week countdown, you tell everyone, you give them a warning.
So if you want to leave in advance, you know, most of these people, which is what I hear the most from law enforcement, are not from Los Angeles.
They have been flown in, bust in, back to the business.
There's a body business where they bring Homeless people to the city to make the money off them.
They're from all over the country.
They're brought here because this is the epicenter where they're making all the money.
So, you don't think these NGOs, when they hear Spencer Pratt's the new mayor, he's got the IRS criminal investigation team, they're going to take this scam, I'm sorry, to other states and cities.
The show is going to go on the road and they're going to open up shop where there's a mayor that lets this go down and it will stop in LA.
And this trickle down effect when restaurants don't have zombies in front of them, you can go back to having outdoor seating because it doesn't smell like human poo.
The whole town smells like, the whole city smells like human poop and pee.
It's crazy.
So, when you get rid of that, not to mention, you know, my best plan?
Los Angeles love the white suits and during COVID, they love CDC.
I'm bringing in the CDC because do you know how much typhoid and medieval diseases are in these encampments that nobody's swabbing?
Mayor Pratt is bringing the CDC in.
We're going to swab all of them.
And once we get those test results back, I promise you, The federal government will be shutting down streets with white tents and hosing things down with chlorine, God knows what, because people are living in the sewers.
I don't know if you saw last week that lady pops out of the sewer.
That Juan from Clean LA did a video, it went viral.
She's living in the sewer.
The whole full thing.
What's with poop and pee?
You know what type of diseases are going on in there?
CDC will clean these streets.
Again, people are like, oh, Spencer is not going to have the resources.
With the Olympics coming, We have Homeland Security.
We got DEA.
Another thing, we're just letting.
I talked to the dog rescue people.
They say you stand on Skid Row or any street in LA, you can watch the drug dealers just pulling up in Escalades, Teslas, all the nicest cars, just slanging, no problem.
Mayor Pratt, DEA is coming in.
ATF, we have so much funding when you bring the feds in to enforce the law to get the streets ready for the Olympics.
The current administration, they want to play pretend.
So, right now, what I've learned is all the smartest, brightest people would never want to come work in LA because they know any of their ideas are not going to be used.
The system is in play.
The amount of private industry, like for instance, a CEO's house burned down who sold his company to Warren Buffett.
We're talking big.
Legit CEO, he said, I'll come in, I'll work for a dollar a year.
You know, there's people like this that want to get LA back, that I'm going to surround myself.
People like Rick Caruso, he wants to get building.
You lean on these people that they talk about it, they just don't want to go into this toxic environment that you can't, it's a cartel.
They know there's only so much they can do unless there's a mayor like me that's going to let them do it.
I just got a phone with Steve Mosco.
He was the president of multiple studios, Sony.
I'm going to bring him in with an Avengers team for Hollywood.
How we clean up all these permit issues and get Hollywood back and make the incentives make it.
So, and they know what they're doing, they know the game, they play the game, they listen to whatever the top dogs say, and they follow business as usual, and the money keeps getting moved around.
One of the things we need to touch upon, back to climate change and him going to Munich, and he talks about the fires, it's 365 days a year, it's climate.
That's interesting for somebody whose fire service, the CAL FIRE, He only pays them seasonal.
When the Palisades fire hit, most of Cal Fire was down for the season.
If it's a 360 forest, and that's why the only reason Brentwood exists and didn't burn all the way, just like the Palisades, is that Chief Garcia was ready with the U.S. Forest Service because he fought the feds to make sure he has a real fire service that's 365 because he understands it could pop off whenever.
So he had all his tankers and helicopters, they came to Palisades and saved the day.
So this idea.
They just talk, talk.
Oh, I spend all this money on all these things, but then you don't.
And again, I'm going in there to stop these people.
Not, I don't have a new utopia of what LA should be.
I want LA back.
I want the LA I grew up in.
I want my two sons to be able to, once we win all our lawsuits against Gavin Newsom and his state park, to rebuild in the Palisades and grow up in the city of LA that I grew up in, that it was, you could dream.
No, she wasn't even running until three hours before the last where you have to fill it out.
But when everyone saw I was going to win and be the mayor, they.
So the real conspiracy is, it was my conspiracy.
I don't know if it's real, that Karen Bass and Nidia are working together just to block me to make sure, because it's a jungle runoff.
So June 2nd, the top two numbers go to November.
I was 1 billion percent.
Going to November until one hour before she just pops up after she'd already endorsed Mayor Bass.
They were doing photo ops together a week before.
They're close.
Mayor Bass endorsed this Nithia lady.
They're like a team.
So, two hours before that last minute where you have to sign to where they announce the final candidates, she's had a year to run for mayor, or plus you could have announced it's just to block me from going to November.
But what they don't understand is people that will vote for me would never vote for her.
Or Karen Bass.
They're actually picking off their own stats.
If anything, what they're doing is making me the mayor on June 2nd.
Because if you have 51% of the vote, I just become the mayor on June 2nd.
And I think they're in for a big surprise and they're underestimating how angry everybody is in the city of LA.
And I think I become mayor June 2nd and it won't even go to November.
I think they really are underestimating how angry everybody is because there's people that I talk to that used to be just hardcore Democrats, hardcore leftist progressives that are really saying, Like in hushed tones, we really need a Republican.
We really need like some no nonsense Rudy Giuliani person.
I hate to say that.
I hate to say it, but that's what we need.
We need someone who's going to be really tough on crime and clean everything up and stop all these people from having tents on the street.
There's so many people like that that are just quiet about it.
They don't want to talk about it openly and publicly because they're afraid of being shamed.
I'm actually excited because I finally feel like there's hope.
Because when your house burns down and your mom's crying because her house burned down every single day, everyone you know's house burned down, you go through a dark, just All my tax money.
Like, I should be a millionaire.
You know, because I got some big checks.
People always say, oh, he burned all of his money.
They don't understand living in LA in the entertainment business with a manager, an agent, a business manager, your taxes in LA, your state taxes.
It's very hard to keep all that money.
So they're like, oh, he burned the.
No, I, regardless, the amount of money I put in to the city of LA and the state, my house should still be here.
So it's a very sad moment.
And then it, Then you start uncovering, oh no, this is almost strategic.
This is, you know, a lot of people reached out after with the Lahaina and they're like, oh, they Lahaina'd you.
This is a land grab.
And I was like, no, no.
And then you start going down, you're like, I'm not even arguing with these people anymore because of how the writing was so on the wall.
It's so on the wall, the entire insurance industry dropped everyone in the Palisades leading up to the fire.
It was that flagrant.
There were 70 year old people, 70 year old plus.
I talked to 80 year olds that got it dropped.
By their insurance, January 1st, been paying 40 plus years, didn't even get to re up, lost everything, no insurance.
If all the insurance companies are dropping an area, it's very clear that they know what's about to happen.
So, your city leaders, your mayor, everybody, your state, they should be getting ready or saying, Oh, wow, everyone's dropping this.
What can we do?
Oh, we need to clear the dead brush.
We need to make the water in the reservoirs there.
Just obvious things.
So, I don't even argue with the land grab things because here's a crazy thing that I never did the math for.
This hurts.
So, your house burns down.
You lost everything.
Now you got to buy stuff over again.
Now you're paying the city sales tax.
So, the people who just let your house burn down, now you're giving them tax to rebuy underwear, rebuy shoes, rebuy.
So, they're making money now off of your house burning down.
Not to mention, you got to start buying things to actually maybe if you're lucky, not only 14 people in 15 months have built a house.
What's even crazier is most of these houses burned down on January 8th, when now there's no wind and they just didn't figure out, let's drive water in from all.
Again, when you're on Lahaina, you're on an island, I'll start arguing, oh, it's hard to get resources.
When everything's burning down on January 7th and you already realize you effed up, and now you're hearing the fire department saying, oh, the fire hydrants are empty, there's no water, it's red alert.
Get enough water tankers from the whole state, every city, drive in water.
I have videos from January of moms walking in front of my son's elementary school.
It's totally there.
My son's preschool, 12 o'clock, totally there.
By the afternoon, all this is gone because there was no, they didn't bring water in.
So, for instance, all these properties that burned down, like I said, it's years of passed down family property.
So, when you pass that, you pay that old tax rate.
Now, these 7,000 dirt lots in the next couple years, guess what the new tax rate is?
They're going to have, when somebody buys that, they're now paying 2027, 2028 Pacific Palisades tax rates, not 1970, you know, your grandfather's tax rate because, you know, you still lived in the house.
So there's like 100 plus billion they're going to make just in taxes.
So the idea that, oh, why would they ever let that happen?
You start thinking, oh, well, they don't care because not only do they make a lot of money, they can rebuild it, they can try to put, You know, affordable housing and do this, these complex things.
Nationwide, and hopefully that'll get passed soon.
But there's so many regulations in California that make fucking no sense, like no sense, particularly in Los Angeles.
They make no sense.
And it's just they just want to keep you like a child, and they are the people that are supposed to be the overseers of everybody, and they're looking out for you.
And it's gross.
And it's just business as usual.
They want to keep moving in a direction of more regulation, more rules, less rights, more restrictions.
One last thing that's speaking is this is so crazy.
Do you know right now in LA, if you're just a mom and pop landlord, not, you know, not, they always like to say landlords are like Krula DeVille level, like, you know, just like a mom and pop, maybe you own one apartment building with units.
If you have like a drug addict, crazy person living in there, most of them now also with their Section 8 scammer and Range Rovers have two cars.
If you want to get them out, they can go a whole year with not paying these landlords and then they have to pay.
100 grand in legal fees to try to get them out.
So then they settle with this criminal that's just abusing this loophole in this system.
They'll give them 50, 40K to just leave.
That person's not put on any list.
And then they go do it to another apartment building.
So a lot of these apartment buildings, they don't even want to rent out to people because they can't afford to then have one of these people.
So again, with this housing, and then ready for this, the city council, if it was not 170 million, it's 200 million, just gave 170 million to the lawyers that sue the tenants for these people.
But there's no fun for the tenants to then defend themselves.