DECLINE IS MOST DEFINITELY A CHOICE:
One of the most dangerous things about @spencerpratt is that if he wins he will clean up Los Angeles and show that it can be done in New York, Chicago, Seattle, etc. None of our cities have to be like this.
As goes California, so goes the nation.
— Josh Rainer (@JoshRainerGold) May 19, 2026
Beyond Karen Bass, as Iowahawk noted about Nithya Raman:
Of all the Hot Dog Guying ever Hot Dog Guyed, this is the Hot Dog Guyest https://t.co/ppQRPM77XS
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 7, 2026
I'm just absolutely amazed at the gall of someone who had never once lived in Los Angeles, moved there in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fucking Thirteen for a city government job, founded a "homeless outreach" "non profit" in 2017, ran for city council in 2019 on a "fix…
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 7, 2026
Tweet continues, “in 2017, [Raman] ran for city council in 2019 on a ‘fix homelessness,’ promptly firehosed infinite taxpayer cash at other ‘homeless non-profits,’ and now suddenly says ‘it’s not okay for people to be sleeping on the streets.’ ‘We can fix this’? Yeah, we can, if the ‘we’ doesn’t include you.”
People generally nod their head in agreement that there exists a Military Industrial Complex with a financial interest in endless wars. At this point we should also agree there's a Homeless Industrial Complex with deep financial interests in perpetuating homelessness
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 7, 2026