Spencer Pratt

SRM and I finally agree on something: L.A. is a cesspool!

I'm sort of a native-Angelino. Was born in L.A. at Queen of Angels Hospital in 1957. Never lived there though, as my parents lived in Palos Verdes.

Is pokerfan655 one of those guys whose mind shattered when Obama was elected?

Every time I read something like this about a place with a huge population and sky-high house prices I always think of this classic joke:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29...

Don't call homeless people or drug addicts (or anyone else) garbage humans. That's offensive. Just say that the presence of those people in a place makes that place a "cesspool."

Problem solved!

In all seriousness:

1. Pratt has no chance of winning.

2. Probably not much of anything would change under Pratt, given that neither the Board of Supervisors nor the City Council would be particularly sympathetic toward what he want to do anyway.

3. Pratt wants attention, and just being a 'serious' candidate is a big W for him.

I haven't surveyed anybody in San Clemente. I only moved here about nine months ago and have no friends here.

Most of my friends live in north Orange County, not in fancy neighborhoods like San Clemente.

Of course my sample-size is very small and of not statistically meaningful.

I assumed Pratt had no chance of winning, especially after Kelhus told me that the progressives just add as many "fakes votes" as necessary to keep guys like Pratt from winning.

Might be malware link!!!

My anti-virus program went bezerk when I clicked on this link!!

KS: my anti-virus had no problem. Link (and article) are fine inho.

What in Sam Hill are you talking about?

Pratt has proposed actually getting help for these poor folks addressing the cause of their problems (often drug addiction), not just ignoring or warehousing them.

And human feces in the streets is practically a literal cesspool. Not the people themselves. DUCY?

My comment had nothing to do with Pratt's proposed policies.

Did you note well the important distinction between my agreeing with Hole's "L.A. is a cesspool" comment, and my disagreeing with him for referring to homeless folks as "garbage people?"

The former is a consequence of not dealing intelligently with homeless folks, while the latter is dehumanizing homeless folks themselves.

Even 'more sicker' is that Bass has a roughly 99% chance of being re-elected in November. Unlikely much will ever get better in L.A. until/unless one-party rule comes to an end there.

Did you just move? You told me not very long ago you lived in Tustin.

Also, in fairness unless you are going somewhere very niche like a Laker game or a museum or something, Southern California suburbs are more or less just as developed as the city itself. So if you live as far away as San Clemente there wouldn't be much of a reason for most people to ever go to Los Angeles city, as you would have to pass 10 different cities that are all 100,000+ people that have most of the amenities Los Angeles itself does to get there.

I very rarely end up in Los Angeles City. But I am not really avoiding it. There is just no compelling reason to go there.

Missed this post. Fair enough.

When you vote in person no one checks ID or verifies you actually live in the city. And if you mail in no one checks anything. The way it works If you are able to get your hand on a ballot you can pretty much vote.

I guess it is possible everything is on the up and up. But the system is pretty much designed to incentive shenanigans. So there should be little reason to assume there isn't any.

Also, even if he makes the November election (mail in ballots will be trickling in for weeks, again if you wanted to devise a system to be cheated, this is pretty much the system you would choose) Pratt isn't doing anywhere near the numbers Caruso was (the guy who lost to Bass last election). So no reason to expect he would be particularly competitive in November.

I am sure we will also hear all of these conspiracy theories for all the fraudulent census because of the huge incentives democrats have to lie about how many people live in your household and how many rooms you have.

If you believe this you gotta blame republicans for not having a serious, experienced candidate

Given that L.A. is about 75% or so registered Democrat, there is little chance that even a 'serious and experienced [Republican] candidate' would have much chance of winning. (Even though the mayor's office is 'non-partisan.')

Republicans should do a deep dive on why educated, productive cities are so heavily democratic. I’m sure you blame democrats for losing welfare rurals and not the rurals themselves.

Maybe its the democrat voter that is uneducated as many of those cities are cesspools . Canada has the same issue

I'll probably be broiled in oil for pointing out that the demographic with the lowest average education-level is also the one that supports Democrats the most.

(Note well that e_d himself brought education into the discussion.)

I myself think education is a dumb metric btw.

AI begs to differ

Three things:

1. I believe your AI thingy is absolutely true.

2. Your AI thingy has literally nothing to do with my post.

3. Have a nice day!

4. Five of every four American's are bad at math.

Ahh, so it's a racist thing. I get it.