I'm sure that Republican in the debate, Spencer Pratt, running on a reasonable platform about governing LA with the interests of its (legal) inhabitants in mind, will totally win the unbiased, legitimate, totally-not-rigged election.
I forwarded your post to the local Dem. mayor, whom I know personally. The Fed drug raids are necessary, but NOT sufficient. The Park itself would require BIG$$$ infrastructure improvements, way beyond that pathetic chain link fence.... And, many junkies just need expedited MAID service....("M.A.I.D."?).... Why prolong their misery?....
The City did that’s who you saw hitting the pipe and the fap motor.
A City vendor.
That’s the city.
What, $40B NGOS upper class income annually to see to the care, feeding and “public housing” and amusement of their clients. That’s their City of god in action.
That’s it.
Now go tell the Republicans to resume Chamber of Commerce activities for a kinder gentler less rapist predators labor base and diddling around with the Tax Code. The slight increase in public order and actual lower crime statistics for now means the Democratic Party will shortly resume power and get back to normal politics of building an open air prison.
Truth is if the Democrats ever RETVRN to being anti crime again we’ll return to being a one party system.
I’m struggling to understand the progressive mindset. Public anger has been growing about crime, the homeless, the crazies, the addicts, and the deterioration in general. Taxpayers continue to flee. Progressives claim to “help," but none of their ideas work, no matter how much money is spent. So what do they expect? That their ideas will suddenly begin working? That people will just put up with failure and keep spending more forever, in the name of “social justice” and “fighting fascism”? There’s something going on psychologically that I don’t understand.
The politicians know that a certain segment of the population will never leave. The ones who leave oppose the city leaders, so the city leaders are happy to see them leave. California and LA are fabulously wealthy, so there is always enough money to plunder and then divide the spoils among all the politicians and their foot soldiers.
What is going on is that it’s easier for the politicians to retain power and money by letting the city intentionally devolve. So that’s why all this bad stuff it’s happening. The politicians are intentionally letting it happen because it serves their needs.
The question is always “Cui Bono?” The answer to “to whom is it a benefit?” tells you why something is happening. Even if what is happening is chaos and mayhem. The question remains.
I don’t see how that’s sustainable. Do the same people who claim to worry about the sea level and the average temperature 50 years from now really not see that cities can’t be governed like this indefinitely? Eventually the tax base and/or the voters leave or revolt, and it won’t take 50 years.
But it is sustainable because America and California and LA are fabulously wealthy. If you ranked the top 50 countries of the world by GDP but then added in US states, 20 US states would then rank in the top 50 GDPs in the world, displacing 20 countries. That’s how rich the US is.
Cities and states can be governed like this for a very long time. Look at any Third World dictatorship in a sh*thole country. They’re usually led by dictators who are fabulously wealthy and can maintain power for decades. If it can be done in the poor Third World for decades, it can be done much more easily in wealthy California and LA. The money and resources are there to do so.
Sorry to say but millions of voters won’t leave, and odds are the people won’t revolt, and if they do revolt they will be beaten down.
You are correct that more people will leave and the tax base will suffer, but even if that happens there will be more than enough $$$$ for the politicians to continue their grift with.
What incentives do the politicians have to improve LA if they can keep their power and wealth as the city continues to devolve? They have none. Plus it’s really difficult to plan and improve a city, that’s hard work. But it’s easy to let the city devolve. You just sit back and watch.
Spot on - if I may add something, going by experience from over here, it is that any (Socialist) Democrat government will create a tax-equity system where well-run states or regions have to pay an extra "temporary" tax supposedly to help the less fortunate states/regions in the nation fix their problems.
We've had such systems - several parallel ones - since 2005, and all that's happened is that the net receivers?
Have made sure to still have the very problems they get money for "solving".
Expect the next Democrat president to try to implement something like that in the USA, to lock you in, down and out in the grift called democracy forever.
Obama had some sort of plan like that to tax the counties outside of blue hellhole cities to defund the cities.
The left is also all-in on wealth taxes, which is a dire warning to anyone with assets in a blue state. You must leave.
Here is the real purpose of the California “billionaire” tax. The Marxists know full well that the billionaires will leave. They do not care, because the real money is held by the people below the billionaires. There’s only a handful of billionaires, but there’s millions of Californians with high asset amounts.
The purpose of the billionaire tax is to NORMALIZE THE IDEA OF TAXING WEALTH DIRECTLY! Get it? Once the idea is normalized, the Marxists will go after everyone by lowering the thresholds.
Oh look! No billionaires are left? Guess we have to lower the thresholds!
The Marxists are just like Mafia Loan Sharks. Can’t pay up? What does the loan shark say? “Too bad, give me my money!”
The difference is in what is meant by "sustainable".
You or I would view the sustainability and improvement of the system as such as the point.
Karen Bass and others like her view the point of the system as something to profiteer off of, and any sustainability is secondary to that or ignored completely, or at best rationalised as "somebody else's problem/fault" and "somebody else's responsibility to fix".
Any revolt of any kind has nothing to do with them. They think the way a bad parent blames their children for the bad parenting.
Agree, R. It seems that sustainability, to "Karen Bass and others like her" is defined as: Can the grift continue? One suspects that may be their ONLY consideration.
Over the years, I have had the misfortune to know, and (attempt) to work with some of these cretins. And can categorically state, that many of that group are barely, or only peripherally, aware of "sustainability" as you or I define it.
And the saddest thing is, they know, with absolute certainty, that they're right.
The politicians running this show are deep state, which means they are beyond evil. Also, most if not all, are communist and all that goes with that. They are psychopaths, which means they enjoy torturing people. Their mission is to destroy everything good and beautiful and to turn this planet into a version of hell. I'm in my 70s and have watched this whole show all my life, have done tons of research on these people. I've seen it up close and person, as my dad, an extremely honest man who loved America, was an advisor to a past president. Deep state did everything they could to completely, utterly ruin him. I saw this up and close and personal and learned a lot about deep state and how it works. These people are byond evil and are here to destroy everything good, IMO.
Yes, because they can't govern the way they want - completely - because the "other side" keeps interfering. It's /not their fault/, they just need to be able to do /everything/ their way without reproach and it will all work out in the end.
My point exactly. All of the anti human policies we see in all blue cities and states have a definite strategy behind them. When you see a pattern emerge in multiple locations, that’s a strategy being implemented, not coincidence.
Good people get confused because they can’t understand why politicians are letting people suffer and why they they are letting once beautiful cities become ugly, but good people must understand that this is all an intentional strategy by evil people.
The evil must be called out, like Spencer Pratt is doing, and the evil people must be removed from power.
Money? Power? Is it that simple? But destroying the systems that hold civilization together is demonstrably counterproductive to those ends.
The people who support politicians of this stripe seem to think it’s the right and compassionate thing to do but these DSA “public servants” are a disaster to every municipality and sate they touch. If one of these ghouls makes it to POTUS, we’re doomed.
You nailed it. Money and power plus some adulation from the masses to stoke their psychopathic egos. They’re truly evil people because they are fulfilled more by money and power than concern over destroying civilization.
While good people like us think destroying civilization is counterproductive and horrible, they obviously don’t, because they’re doing it!
Good people think destroying civilization is demonstrably bad, but because they’re evil they don’t. Again, the proof is that they’re doing it without a care and are really reveling in it. They enjoy it and love to rub our noses in it. And their counterparts are doing it all across the US.
Please understand that when they do something that appears to be counterproductive to us, to them it serves a primary purpose: accumulating money and power.
So all of the intentional policies that sow chaos and mayhem need to be judged from the perspective of evil and not from our perspective. From our perspective none of this makes sense, from the evil perspective everything makes sense.
Our only way out is cutting off their funding and throwing them in jail. But like all Mob bosses, they’re insulated. So then you must go after their foot soldiers to make being a foot soldier too painful. In short, we must relentlessly fight this evil however and wherever we can.
"So then you must go after their foot soldiers to make being a foot soldier too painful. In short, we must relentlessly fight this evil however and wherever we can.”
Well said. I try but their powers of resistance are astonishing and their methods of avoidance rival the tactics of a two year old in the throes of a full on tantrum.
1. You’re not allowed to judge, virtue drilled since earliest childhood
2. Progressive social circles are composed of at very least 50% cluster B and at best 50% victims of cluster B
3. In permissive environment you eventually do something not virtuous by objective standards and cluster B hold it against you, forcing you to project your normal psychology onto cluster B degenerates, and you’re not allowed to judge
Envy, resentment, misery. Thats the Leftist (progressive, commie, liberal fascist, etc) mindset in a nutshell. Everyything they do (or dont) is motivated by this mindset.
The progressive mindset is to complain dramatically. If they solved a problem they could no longer complain about it and the money would stop flowing for it. Then they’d have to start all over again with some new thing and that sounds like work.
Kinda like doctors wanting to manage your malady rather than cure it.
We see this in our neighborhood social media group: "Why can't the HOA do something about these kids riding electric bikes on city streets in our neighborhood?"
Because the HOA can't enforce traffic laws - have you called the police department if you're concerned things are illegal/unsafe?
No, of course not. They don't want to do something... they want someone else to do something.
I see that there are Blue people, some with money, that are moving in as the Red people leave. I see this in my formerly Blue state; I've got a very leftist friend that is itching to move there now.
One must view the left clustering in blue cities and states as a net positive. Then it’s much easier to avoid them. The negative is that the blue city or state is then ruined.
Narcissists controlled by the cynics who control mass media.
Narcissists need to see others seeing them as they want to be seen; the media tells them X belief is what smart and moral people believe. So narcissists will do whatever 'X' is to be able to see other people seeing them as smart and moral.
Look up the symptoms of narcissism, you'll see an almost exact correlation of symptoms with Leftists.
I think the plan is clear. The elite want all rational people to leave. They will keep degrading all services and the quality of life until this happens. Then the elite will claim the territory for themselves at bargain prices, removing all the remaining social ills/people with soulless resolve and declare their own Elysium on Earth.
Yes there is something “psychologically” wrong with these people. The majority of the older ones all ran to get the C*V*D jabs, and they are vaccine injured in the frontal lobe of their brains. The “cognitive decline” is more pronounced in the older Boomer set, (my group), but younger people are being affected as well. “ There’s no there there” in these people.
That's because it cannot be understood in its entirety as a psychological phenomenon. They are hypnotized by mindf!ck experts, Papaya. (Sorry, but that's the technical term.) And the "conservatives" aren't much different.
I strongly recommend Susan Kokinda's perspectives. Here's a good place to start, even if you can only watch the first 6 or 7 minutes. She is describing the larger power-system umbrella under which localized intractable, unbearable, cascading-failure mayhem like this sad LA park falls. Also the installation of an entirely ineffective, even insane, political and media class.
"In 125 years [since the assassination of President McKinley], no president has come this close to dismantling the [UK] imperial architecture. President Trump has thrown Free Trade out the window, he's threatening the power and independence of the Federal Reserve, he is closing off the strategic chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz, he's replacing London's shipping insurance racket, he's sanctioning their offshore dirty money operations, and he's pulling the plug on NATO."
And, we suspect, they are using automation, coupled with Five Eyes intel systems, to pfutz with elections all over the world. That's how the Karen Basses and Governor HairGel types get into, and stay in, power.
Their propaganda (hypnosis) machine is massive and effective. Its hypnotic effects are well honed owing to their expertise derived from intelligence work (including media run by intel operatives, like Robert Maxwell).
That is the psychological element. But it's part of a much bigger economic, financial, and political system. Part of that system uses anarchy and mayhem and assassinations to leverage situations and power...and keep normal people in a state of terror. (Remember the "terror alert" rainbow charts, which would tell you how scared you have to be today?)
What has been called "globalism" is this City of London system that includes the trafficking of people, weapons, influence, money, and drugs, using intelligence networks/methods, and the destabilization of sovereign nations to create lucrative risk premiums (and "insure against" them as in the case of Lloyds of London).
Do you remember Danny Casolaro and Gary Webb and Don Bolles? Three journalists who started digging into the connections. The first two in CA/LA, the third in AZ.
Karen Bass is a confirmed clown - and the Spencer Pratt videos are proof in case no one has previously noticed. MacArthur Park is a symbol of all that is wrong and failing with LA. It graphically and tragically represents the dereliction of duty and accountability on the part of LA City government under her failed leadership. When will the citizens of Los Angeles wake up and install leaders that address the fundamental issues of safety and sanity?
MacArthur Park is a symbol of all that is wrong and failing with the Blue Model, and with the people who run institutions all over the country. The brittleness, the symbol-focus, the inability to perceive reality, the self-hypnosis.
Behind the scenes of the Blue Model are the cold, hard calculations of a few who then use their foot soldiers along with the useful idiots to implement their strategy. Everything we see has intention behind it.
If the same thing is happening in multiple locations at once, that’s not happenstance. All of this LA garbage happened in Chicago, which is why I now live in North Carolina.
Even better said Chris. LA is only one of many sad examples of the Blue Model’s failed assumptions and complete absence of real world perspective in governance.
Looking at the Blue Model from the perspective of the citizens, it is an obvious failure.
But when you look at it from the perspective of the politicians, the Blue Model is a complete success.
The Blue Model and its horrible results are not random, they’re intentional. And the proof is that the results are the same in all blue cities, they just vary by degree.
The arts are the last holdout of infantile self importance. I know because I was an enabler over there for years. It’s all one big happy family until someone thinks for themselves and then the knives are out.
I really can’t comprehend the Progressive cult. It’s anti-human. People are the cannon fodder to the ambitions of politicians so filled with empathy and compassion to allow other humans to drive off a cliff. It’s disgusting. Lucifer is laughing. God is weeping.
It’s simple, Laurence. They are addicted to their own endorphins. Every social justice warrior gets a hit each time they remember how good and superior they are. They also are blessed with 'consequences blindness' so they can’t even see the downstream effects of their stupidity.
LA is the dystopia one gets with One Party government. There are no checks and balances, no ramifications for doing a bad job.
Bass and the rest of the Democrat permanent aristocracy are like the old Soviet Politburo - they don't really care what the "little people" want.
Never forget that Bass is a literal Communist. She was a member of the Vinceremos Brigade and loved Castro so much she went to Cuba for his funeral. She's a machine politician who has never had a private sector job and has never had to suffer the consequences of the policies she forces everyone else to live under.
I think she actually enjoys the disparity that her progressive policies creates. As a lot of folks above have pointed out, Bass and her ilk are evil pathological people who in some way feed off the misery they create.
There's a lot of money and power in it, and these people are addicted to money and power like the MacArthur Park denizens are addicted to super-meth and fentanyl.
Heartbreaking. Hopping in Mr. Peanody’s WABAC machine, I have happy memories of visiting my beloved aunt in Los Angeles. She would do a kids’ day and take us to Knott’s Berry Farm. After we’d panned enough pyrite, she would treat us to an exciting foreign lunch (it didn’t take much for us) and some “California” school clothes.
We’d end the day with a picnic at MacArthur Park. None of us were hooked on fentanyl. It was nice.
Our local “news” stations seem only to be totally incurious or uninterested in “reporting” anything beyond a specific, tidy little box of a “story” that really doesn’t reflect badly on anyone specifically in LA Ciity government (“Ooh, that might be bad for our progressive leaders!!”). For example, KTLA-5 in typical, usual fashion only reports, as you mentioned, what the feds reported. They don’t actually report on anything that actually visibly happened. Like they can’t actually open their eyes and see what’s in front of them. No mention whatsoever of Bass’s little “No Feds” signs in the midst of an obvious fed-dominated operation. No sticking around 5 minutes afterwards as you did. “I see nothing!” (and only old boomers like me remember the Sgt. Schultz refrain). It truly is a sad, but really despicable, clown show. And, watch Bass, or the true Commie, get re-elected/elected.
The drug dealers going back as soon as the cops left is as predictable as what will happen to the proposed lithium mining in West Virginia if the Democrats win in 2028. The Fed govt will shut that down immediately because otherwise we might not be dependent on China for this valuable resource (but they'll tell us it's for the environment).
Chris, I’m glad you’re documenting the absolute failure of Los Angeles government to control crime in the city. This is beyond parody. The writers of Reno 911 couldn’t dream this up. I’ve driven on Alvarado Street many times past MacArthur Park, and the Black Hole of Calcutta is peanuts in comparison.
The fencing on Alvarado is hilarious. Completely predictable that someone would cut holes in the fence, and also predictable the city wouldn’t fix it.
Degeneracy on display through your, uh, unflinching gaze? I guess that’s journalism?
I’m also glad you’re bringing this saga and photos to a wider audience outside of California. Everyone should know what one-party Democrat rule looks like, and that it could be coming to their city and state next.
Why am I reminded of Vietnam and well, most of America's foreign adventures since that time.
We show up enmasse, affect an immediate change, then relinquish the territory gained to its fate only to have to show up again later to do the exact same thing all over again.
Lather....Rinse...Repeat...a perpetual Ground Hog Day on endless loop.
This is a story replicated all across America hundreds if not thousands of times a year and lord knows I've seen this endlessly replicated in my profession over the past almost 30years.
The bigger question then becomes the WHY.......
I suppose my rather cynical take as to the WHY would be that if you "fix" something properly once, then you have inadvertently killed the goose who lays golden eggs. However, if you temporarily "fix" something then eventually said something will need "fixing" again and again and again. Essentially assuring that your goose will forever be laying golden eggs for you. This is obviously not some profound or new insight as many many others have made similar such observations before in regard to the military industrial complex, healthcare, government etc.
I suppose then the real WHY question becomes why we the people continually tolerate such behavior and I'm afraid the answer to this is contemplatively very depressing.
The two primary(only?) functions of city government are public safety and functional infrastructure. They are also the hardest and least appreciated things. The former because of suicidal liberal empathy and the latter because, well we don't hand out trophies for doing what's expected.
Now, focusing on climate change, jetting off to Ghana for God knows what, pontificating on social justice? That's easy and comes with an added bonus of zero possible accountability.
Government jobs, especially elected ones, have become a perverse cosplay of rent seeking faux Mother Teresas.
The do have sprinkler system, if it works they just step aside wait and move back. About 6 days ago I the cops kicking everyone out but they just move right back in. Yoshinoya even has an alarm making a God awful sound it doesn't even affect them.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli describes the raid:
https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/2052134629772300726
He's doing more than anyone else in Los Angeles, but it won't stick if the city won't persist.
And just yesterday your article brought a brief bit of optimism. Unbelievable.
That's how it is around here in the "City (and County) of Angels" ------- it's like being on the Roller Coaster from Hell.
I'm sure that Republican in the debate, Spencer Pratt, running on a reasonable platform about governing LA with the interests of its (legal) inhabitants in mind, will totally win the unbiased, legitimate, totally-not-rigged election.
Right?
I forwarded your post to the local Dem. mayor, whom I know personally. The Fed drug raids are necessary, but NOT sufficient. The Park itself would require BIG$$$ infrastructure improvements, way beyond that pathetic chain link fence.... And, many junkies just need expedited MAID service....("M.A.I.D."?).... Why prolong their misery?....
The City did that’s who you saw hitting the pipe and the fap motor.
A City vendor.
That’s the city.
What, $40B NGOS upper class income annually to see to the care, feeding and “public housing” and amusement of their clients. That’s their City of god in action.
That’s it.
Now go tell the Republicans to resume Chamber of Commerce activities for a kinder gentler less rapist predators labor base and diddling around with the Tax Code. The slight increase in public order and actual lower crime statistics for now means the Democratic Party will shortly resume power and get back to normal politics of building an open air prison.
Truth is if the Democrats ever RETVRN to being anti crime again we’ll return to being a one party system.
I’m struggling to understand the progressive mindset. Public anger has been growing about crime, the homeless, the crazies, the addicts, and the deterioration in general. Taxpayers continue to flee. Progressives claim to “help," but none of their ideas work, no matter how much money is spent. So what do they expect? That their ideas will suddenly begin working? That people will just put up with failure and keep spending more forever, in the name of “social justice” and “fighting fascism”? There’s something going on psychologically that I don’t understand.
The politicians know that a certain segment of the population will never leave. The ones who leave oppose the city leaders, so the city leaders are happy to see them leave. California and LA are fabulously wealthy, so there is always enough money to plunder and then divide the spoils among all the politicians and their foot soldiers.
What is going on is that it’s easier for the politicians to retain power and money by letting the city intentionally devolve. So that’s why all this bad stuff it’s happening. The politicians are intentionally letting it happen because it serves their needs.
The question is always “Cui Bono?” The answer to “to whom is it a benefit?” tells you why something is happening. Even if what is happening is chaos and mayhem. The question remains.
I don’t see how that’s sustainable. Do the same people who claim to worry about the sea level and the average temperature 50 years from now really not see that cities can’t be governed like this indefinitely? Eventually the tax base and/or the voters leave or revolt, and it won’t take 50 years.
But it is sustainable because America and California and LA are fabulously wealthy. If you ranked the top 50 countries of the world by GDP but then added in US states, 20 US states would then rank in the top 50 GDPs in the world, displacing 20 countries. That’s how rich the US is.
Cities and states can be governed like this for a very long time. Look at any Third World dictatorship in a sh*thole country. They’re usually led by dictators who are fabulously wealthy and can maintain power for decades. If it can be done in the poor Third World for decades, it can be done much more easily in wealthy California and LA. The money and resources are there to do so.
Sorry to say but millions of voters won’t leave, and odds are the people won’t revolt, and if they do revolt they will be beaten down.
You are correct that more people will leave and the tax base will suffer, but even if that happens there will be more than enough $$$$ for the politicians to continue their grift with.
What incentives do the politicians have to improve LA if they can keep their power and wealth as the city continues to devolve? They have none. Plus it’s really difficult to plan and improve a city, that’s hard work. But it’s easy to let the city devolve. You just sit back and watch.
Spot on - if I may add something, going by experience from over here, it is that any (Socialist) Democrat government will create a tax-equity system where well-run states or regions have to pay an extra "temporary" tax supposedly to help the less fortunate states/regions in the nation fix their problems.
We've had such systems - several parallel ones - since 2005, and all that's happened is that the net receivers?
Have made sure to still have the very problems they get money for "solving".
Expect the next Democrat president to try to implement something like that in the USA, to lock you in, down and out in the grift called democracy forever.
Obama had some sort of plan like that to tax the counties outside of blue hellhole cities to defund the cities.
The left is also all-in on wealth taxes, which is a dire warning to anyone with assets in a blue state. You must leave.
Here is the real purpose of the California “billionaire” tax. The Marxists know full well that the billionaires will leave. They do not care, because the real money is held by the people below the billionaires. There’s only a handful of billionaires, but there’s millions of Californians with high asset amounts.
The purpose of the billionaire tax is to NORMALIZE THE IDEA OF TAXING WEALTH DIRECTLY! Get it? Once the idea is normalized, the Marxists will go after everyone by lowering the thresholds.
Oh look! No billionaires are left? Guess we have to lower the thresholds!
The Marxists are just like Mafia Loan Sharks. Can’t pay up? What does the loan shark say? “Too bad, give me my money!”
The difference is in what is meant by "sustainable".
You or I would view the sustainability and improvement of the system as such as the point.
Karen Bass and others like her view the point of the system as something to profiteer off of, and any sustainability is secondary to that or ignored completely, or at best rationalised as "somebody else's problem/fault" and "somebody else's responsibility to fix".
Any revolt of any kind has nothing to do with them. They think the way a bad parent blames their children for the bad parenting.
Agree, R. It seems that sustainability, to "Karen Bass and others like her" is defined as: Can the grift continue? One suspects that may be their ONLY consideration.
Over the years, I have had the misfortune to know, and (attempt) to work with some of these cretins. And can categorically state, that many of that group are barely, or only peripherally, aware of "sustainability" as you or I define it.
And the saddest thing is, they know, with absolute certainty, that they're right.
Excellent point: “can the grift continue?”
Of course the grift can fail at some point, but each grifter hopes it happens under the next grifter.
The sea level and temperature nonsense are simply a different type of grift by the same people, the purpose is the same.
Control and money.
The politicians running this show are deep state, which means they are beyond evil. Also, most if not all, are communist and all that goes with that. They are psychopaths, which means they enjoy torturing people. Their mission is to destroy everything good and beautiful and to turn this planet into a version of hell. I'm in my 70s and have watched this whole show all my life, have done tons of research on these people. I've seen it up close and person, as my dad, an extremely honest man who loved America, was an advisor to a past president. Deep state did everything they could to completely, utterly ruin him. I saw this up and close and personal and learned a lot about deep state and how it works. These people are byond evil and are here to destroy everything good, IMO.
Spot on! Everyone needs to understand this then fight these evil people.
Yes, because they can't govern the way they want - completely - because the "other side" keeps interfering. It's /not their fault/, they just need to be able to do /everything/ their way without reproach and it will all work out in the end.
Read this yesterday, it was illuminating.
https://generalcitizen.substack.com/p/the-dsa-pyramid
My point exactly. All of the anti human policies we see in all blue cities and states have a definite strategy behind them. When you see a pattern emerge in multiple locations, that’s a strategy being implemented, not coincidence.
Good people get confused because they can’t understand why politicians are letting people suffer and why they they are letting once beautiful cities become ugly, but good people must understand that this is all an intentional strategy by evil people.
The evil must be called out, like Spencer Pratt is doing, and the evil people must be removed from power.
Agreed, Ataraxis, but what is it they WANT?
Money? Power? Is it that simple? But destroying the systems that hold civilization together is demonstrably counterproductive to those ends.
The people who support politicians of this stripe seem to think it’s the right and compassionate thing to do but these DSA “public servants” are a disaster to every municipality and sate they touch. If one of these ghouls makes it to POTUS, we’re doomed.
You nailed it. Money and power plus some adulation from the masses to stoke their psychopathic egos. They’re truly evil people because they are fulfilled more by money and power than concern over destroying civilization.
While good people like us think destroying civilization is counterproductive and horrible, they obviously don’t, because they’re doing it!
Good people think destroying civilization is demonstrably bad, but because they’re evil they don’t. Again, the proof is that they’re doing it without a care and are really reveling in it. They enjoy it and love to rub our noses in it. And their counterparts are doing it all across the US.
Please understand that when they do something that appears to be counterproductive to us, to them it serves a primary purpose: accumulating money and power.
So all of the intentional policies that sow chaos and mayhem need to be judged from the perspective of evil and not from our perspective. From our perspective none of this makes sense, from the evil perspective everything makes sense.
Our only way out is cutting off their funding and throwing them in jail. But like all Mob bosses, they’re insulated. So then you must go after their foot soldiers to make being a foot soldier too painful. In short, we must relentlessly fight this evil however and wherever we can.
"So then you must go after their foot soldiers to make being a foot soldier too painful. In short, we must relentlessly fight this evil however and wherever we can.”
Well said. I try but their powers of resistance are astonishing and their methods of avoidance rival the tactics of a two year old in the throes of a full on tantrum.
However, I’m not giving up.
Thanks for being there.
Spot on
It’s 3 components:
1. You’re not allowed to judge, virtue drilled since earliest childhood
2. Progressive social circles are composed of at very least 50% cluster B and at best 50% victims of cluster B
3. In permissive environment you eventually do something not virtuous by objective standards and cluster B hold it against you, forcing you to project your normal psychology onto cluster B degenerates, and you’re not allowed to judge
'Another million dollars will fix everything. Just one million dollars more. Think of The Children . . .
Envy, resentment, misery. Thats the Leftist (progressive, commie, liberal fascist, etc) mindset in a nutshell. Everyything they do (or dont) is motivated by this mindset.
They must have all of the chaos to be able to stay in power.
The progressive mindset is to complain dramatically. If they solved a problem they could no longer complain about it and the money would stop flowing for it. Then they’d have to start all over again with some new thing and that sounds like work.
Kinda like doctors wanting to manage your malady rather than cure it.
We see this in our neighborhood social media group: "Why can't the HOA do something about these kids riding electric bikes on city streets in our neighborhood?"
Because the HOA can't enforce traffic laws - have you called the police department if you're concerned things are illegal/unsafe?
No, of course not. They don't want to do something... they want someone else to do something.
I see that there are Blue people, some with money, that are moving in as the Red people leave. I see this in my formerly Blue state; I've got a very leftist friend that is itching to move there now.
One must view the left clustering in blue cities and states as a net positive. Then it’s much easier to avoid them. The negative is that the blue city or state is then ruined.
Totally agree. The state is already ruined with its one-party domination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoralization_(warfare)
There is a serious problem with the word 'progressive' which might give you food for thought. I like anagrams and they expose a lot of truth.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/progressive-and-politics-what-does?utm_source=publication-search
According to definition, what is going on psychologically speaking: Insanity.
It´s called impotence. You´ll get it when you turn seventy.
Narcissists controlled by the cynics who control mass media.
Narcissists need to see others seeing them as they want to be seen; the media tells them X belief is what smart and moral people believe. So narcissists will do whatever 'X' is to be able to see other people seeing them as smart and moral.
Look up the symptoms of narcissism, you'll see an almost exact correlation of symptoms with Leftists.
I think the plan is clear. The elite want all rational people to leave. They will keep degrading all services and the quality of life until this happens. Then the elite will claim the territory for themselves at bargain prices, removing all the remaining social ills/people with soulless resolve and declare their own Elysium on Earth.
Hard to do when the only people remaining don’t pay taxes, though.
Yes there is something “psychologically” wrong with these people. The majority of the older ones all ran to get the C*V*D jabs, and they are vaccine injured in the frontal lobe of their brains. The “cognitive decline” is more pronounced in the older Boomer set, (my group), but younger people are being affected as well. “ There’s no there there” in these people.
Progressivism is a century older than Covid, though.
If you consider the results of prior programs and don't think immediately of doubling down on failure, voting Democrat might not be for you.
That's because it cannot be understood in its entirety as a psychological phenomenon. They are hypnotized by mindf!ck experts, Papaya. (Sorry, but that's the technical term.) And the "conservatives" aren't much different.
I strongly recommend Susan Kokinda's perspectives. Here's a good place to start, even if you can only watch the first 6 or 7 minutes. She is describing the larger power-system umbrella under which localized intractable, unbearable, cascading-failure mayhem like this sad LA park falls. Also the installation of an entirely ineffective, even insane, political and media class.
Behind the third assassination attempt on DJT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6LMzfdiak
"In 125 years [since the assassination of President McKinley], no president has come this close to dismantling the [UK] imperial architecture. President Trump has thrown Free Trade out the window, he's threatening the power and independence of the Federal Reserve, he is closing off the strategic chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz, he's replacing London's shipping insurance racket, he's sanctioning their offshore dirty money operations, and he's pulling the plug on NATO."
And, we suspect, they are using automation, coupled with Five Eyes intel systems, to pfutz with elections all over the world. That's how the Karen Basses and Governor HairGel types get into, and stay in, power.
Their propaganda (hypnosis) machine is massive and effective. Its hypnotic effects are well honed owing to their expertise derived from intelligence work (including media run by intel operatives, like Robert Maxwell).
That is the psychological element. But it's part of a much bigger economic, financial, and political system. Part of that system uses anarchy and mayhem and assassinations to leverage situations and power...and keep normal people in a state of terror. (Remember the "terror alert" rainbow charts, which would tell you how scared you have to be today?)
What has been called "globalism" is this City of London system that includes the trafficking of people, weapons, influence, money, and drugs, using intelligence networks/methods, and the destabilization of sovereign nations to create lucrative risk premiums (and "insure against" them as in the case of Lloyds of London).
Do you remember Danny Casolaro and Gary Webb and Don Bolles? Three journalists who started digging into the connections. The first two in CA/LA, the third in AZ.
Susan also has a Substack.
https://susankokinda.substack.com/
Susan's colleague Barbara Boyd is no less outstanding. You can find them both here:
https://www.youtube.com/@PrometheanAction/videos
Karen Bass is a confirmed clown - and the Spencer Pratt videos are proof in case no one has previously noticed. MacArthur Park is a symbol of all that is wrong and failing with LA. It graphically and tragically represents the dereliction of duty and accountability on the part of LA City government under her failed leadership. When will the citizens of Los Angeles wake up and install leaders that address the fundamental issues of safety and sanity?
MacArthur Park is a symbol of all that is wrong and failing with the Blue Model, and with the people who run institutions all over the country. The brittleness, the symbol-focus, the inability to perceive reality, the self-hypnosis.
Behind the scenes of the Blue Model are the cold, hard calculations of a few who then use their foot soldiers along with the useful idiots to implement their strategy. Everything we see has intention behind it.
That´s like saying that the rooster has already planned its entire day, just by crowing at dawn.
If the same thing is happening in multiple locations at once, that’s not happenstance. All of this LA garbage happened in Chicago, which is why I now live in North Carolina.
Even better said Chris. LA is only one of many sad examples of the Blue Model’s failed assumptions and complete absence of real world perspective in governance.
But it works for the politician’s world.
Looking at the Blue Model from the perspective of the citizens, it is an obvious failure.
But when you look at it from the perspective of the politicians, the Blue Model is a complete success.
The Blue Model and its horrible results are not random, they’re intentional. And the proof is that the results are the same in all blue cities, they just vary by degree.
Right. What Chris is describing is a necessary side effect of success.
Chris, if interpretive dance and urban murals don’t solve the problems then they can’t be solved. But they can dance and paint and, yes, write harder.
This is the way artists think and artists are attracted to the west coast and NYC like flies are attracted to dung and corpses.
Interesting observation, Leonard.
The arts are the last holdout of infantile self importance. I know because I was an enabler over there for years. It’s all one big happy family until someone thinks for themselves and then the knives are out.
I think that she is doing a great job.
At finishing off what the fire didn't destroy.
I really can’t comprehend the Progressive cult. It’s anti-human. People are the cannon fodder to the ambitions of politicians so filled with empathy and compassion to allow other humans to drive off a cliff. It’s disgusting. Lucifer is laughing. God is weeping.
It’s simple, Laurence. They are addicted to their own endorphins. Every social justice warrior gets a hit each time they remember how good and superior they are. They also are blessed with 'consequences blindness' so they can’t even see the downstream effects of their stupidity.
LA is the dystopia one gets with One Party government. There are no checks and balances, no ramifications for doing a bad job.
Bass and the rest of the Democrat permanent aristocracy are like the old Soviet Politburo - they don't really care what the "little people" want.
Never forget that Bass is a literal Communist. She was a member of the Vinceremos Brigade and loved Castro so much she went to Cuba for his funeral. She's a machine politician who has never had a private sector job and has never had to suffer the consequences of the policies she forces everyone else to live under.
I think she actually enjoys the disparity that her progressive policies creates. As a lot of folks above have pointed out, Bass and her ilk are evil pathological people who in some way feed off the misery they create.
There's a lot of money and power in it, and these people are addicted to money and power like the MacArthur Park denizens are addicted to super-meth and fentanyl.
Also very true.
Heartbreaking. Hopping in Mr. Peanody’s WABAC machine, I have happy memories of visiting my beloved aunt in Los Angeles. She would do a kids’ day and take us to Knott’s Berry Farm. After we’d panned enough pyrite, she would treat us to an exciting foreign lunch (it didn’t take much for us) and some “California” school clothes.
We’d end the day with a picnic at MacArthur Park. None of us were hooked on fentanyl. It was nice.
Ha! The City of LA would rather lock up razor blades than these bums.
Decorum is important when falling into the abyss, apparently.
Big thanks for dipping back in to check the situation at the park! Sad but not a surprise.
Biggest non-surprise is MSM present but stoicly not reporting the reality before them. As they have always failed.
Or more likely simply doing as told.
Glad you're going Nick Shirley on this.
Our local “news” stations seem only to be totally incurious or uninterested in “reporting” anything beyond a specific, tidy little box of a “story” that really doesn’t reflect badly on anyone specifically in LA Ciity government (“Ooh, that might be bad for our progressive leaders!!”). For example, KTLA-5 in typical, usual fashion only reports, as you mentioned, what the feds reported. They don’t actually report on anything that actually visibly happened. Like they can’t actually open their eyes and see what’s in front of them. No mention whatsoever of Bass’s little “No Feds” signs in the midst of an obvious fed-dominated operation. No sticking around 5 minutes afterwards as you did. “I see nothing!” (and only old boomers like me remember the Sgt. Schultz refrain). It truly is a sad, but really despicable, clown show. And, watch Bass, or the true Commie, get re-elected/elected.
Only citizen journalists can make a difference going forward.
The drug dealers going back as soon as the cops left is as predictable as what will happen to the proposed lithium mining in West Virginia if the Democrats win in 2028. The Fed govt will shut that down immediately because otherwise we might not be dependent on China for this valuable resource (but they'll tell us it's for the environment).
Chris, I’m glad you’re documenting the absolute failure of Los Angeles government to control crime in the city. This is beyond parody. The writers of Reno 911 couldn’t dream this up. I’ve driven on Alvarado Street many times past MacArthur Park, and the Black Hole of Calcutta is peanuts in comparison.
The fencing on Alvarado is hilarious. Completely predictable that someone would cut holes in the fence, and also predictable the city wouldn’t fix it.
Degeneracy on display through your, uh, unflinching gaze? I guess that’s journalism?
I’m also glad you’re bringing this saga and photos to a wider audience outside of California. Everyone should know what one-party Democrat rule looks like, and that it could be coming to their city and state next.
I believe it was Hunter S. Thompson who compared journalism to a chimpanzee masturbating in an alley
That's unfair to chimpanzees.
In Fear and Loathing, the word 'shit' appears 70 times. The word masturbate, 0 times.
Raids like that are a performance for the proles, not actual law enforcement.
And just before tonight's debate.
Why am I reminded of Vietnam and well, most of America's foreign adventures since that time.
We show up enmasse, affect an immediate change, then relinquish the territory gained to its fate only to have to show up again later to do the exact same thing all over again.
Lather....Rinse...Repeat...a perpetual Ground Hog Day on endless loop.
This is a story replicated all across America hundreds if not thousands of times a year and lord knows I've seen this endlessly replicated in my profession over the past almost 30years.
The bigger question then becomes the WHY.......
I suppose my rather cynical take as to the WHY would be that if you "fix" something properly once, then you have inadvertently killed the goose who lays golden eggs. However, if you temporarily "fix" something then eventually said something will need "fixing" again and again and again. Essentially assuring that your goose will forever be laying golden eggs for you. This is obviously not some profound or new insight as many many others have made similar such observations before in regard to the military industrial complex, healthcare, government etc.
I suppose then the real WHY question becomes why we the people continually tolerate such behavior and I'm afraid the answer to this is contemplatively very depressing.
The two primary(only?) functions of city government are public safety and functional infrastructure. They are also the hardest and least appreciated things. The former because of suicidal liberal empathy and the latter because, well we don't hand out trophies for doing what's expected.
Now, focusing on climate change, jetting off to Ghana for God knows what, pontificating on social justice? That's easy and comes with an added bonus of zero possible accountability.
Government jobs, especially elected ones, have become a perverse cosplay of rent seeking faux Mother Teresas.
100%. They don't do the primary functions, but then they also find a thousand other meaningless functions to play at.
Install a water sprinkler system covering the entire park. The sprinklers go off every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day.
The do have sprinkler system, if it works they just step aside wait and move back. About 6 days ago I the cops kicking everyone out but they just move right back in. Yoshinoya even has an alarm making a God awful sound it doesn't even affect them.