Now that Spencer Pratt is safely out of the picture for one-party Democrat rule in California in the wake of the skanky primary, all of a sudden, the mainstream media, which carried water for his opponents, is interested in reporting the truth about California’s ruin under one-party Democrat rule.
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Here are two news items that came out today:
When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!pic.twitter.com/lIXV0OkQrf
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) June 14, 2026
And this, from the Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles has one of the deadest downtowns in the world, according to a new survey.Out of 75 of the top cities around the world, L.A. ranked among the lowest for vibrancy in Gensler’s 2026 City Pulse report released this week.Around 65% of those surveyed found DTLA vibrant compared to more than 80% vibrancy scores for New York, Chicago, Sydney and Shanghai.The urban planning and consulting company surveyed 35,000 city residents on how they ranked their city for a variety of statements. Los Angeles ranked 20th-lowest globally and 11th-lowest among 34 U.S. cities in vibrancy.Downtown Los Angeles needs more people to return to downtown to work, shop and eat if it wants to boost its scores, said Kelly Farrell, the managing director of Gensler’s L.A. office“L.A.’s kind of central problem is that businesses have left L.A. We need them to bring the offices back in,” she said. “Bring the people back in so they’re staying after work and interacting with those businesses that are in the area.”
Both reports are absolutely damning and detailed.
Zakaria, a longtime center-left commentator for anti-Pratt CNN, lays out in his thesis as: “The paradox of California today is a successful economy attached to a failing model of governance.” He then goes point by point into the state’s fiscal overspending, its exclusionary housing policy that shuts the middle class out of the market, its loss of population, its execrable education with high costs and “dismal” results, ranking bottom of the barrel in all measure. The homeless industrial complex is another problem, and the state’s failure to add jobs is a damning indictment, with the slow motion collapse of Hollywood and its film industry Exhibit A. High taxes, high costs, and high regulations plague that and everything else, making Los Angeles, as he quoted someone, “a sunny version of Detroit.” He summed it up as a problem of a one-party state with no competition, which no one sane could argue with.
It sounds sensible as commentary, but why wasn’t this news before the primary? Why was Zakaria on to do his thing after the primary, when all competition was shut down through skeevy means, and not before, when voters could decide? It seems the news was withheld until the threat of Spencer to the establishment was stomped out.
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Meanwhile, the full report on the dead city, which came out on May 20, is here. Somehow, the report, too, had to wait until after the election, three weeks actually after the long counting period seems to have produced its results, even though it would have been more useful before the primary. Now voters who voted for the two socialist candidates can rue their decision if they have any brains, or else the Times is paying lip service to the failures that have made Los Angeles the kind of city no one wants to go to.
What a sorry picture. They had their chance to report this news in both chances, and they waited instead until after the primary got the result they wanted. They allowed their commentators to denounce Pratt, who was highlighting this disastrous decline of the state, as ‘MAGA.’ Now they are singing a different tune. They blew it.
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