But it reminded me of something else that got plenty of attention not too long ago. I'll bet you remember this Kamala Harris ad:“You are not alone.” Yoga moms, silent majority, and a preference cascade all in one. Whether or not Angelenos elect @spencerpratt as LA mayor, he and his team are revolutionizing politics. pic.twitter.com/l4pwOSmNUH
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 17, 2026
Both ads depict women as inhibited in expressing their personal political preference but speaking woman-to-woman and conquering that inhibition.
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Ah yes, but the Kamala ad was about hiding your preferences from your husband. Spencer's is more spot on about having to hide it from liberals and democrats who will ostracize you for even thinking of not voting for the leftist candidate.
Ha. The ballcap-wearing yahoo who patronizingly calls her "Honey". What, no wife-beater shirt?
The Pratt ad is much more grounded in reality.
Right. In the Harris ad, the inhibition continues as the woman goes back to her husband and lies (by omission). But we don't know her whole story. Some people see that ad and picture the woman proceeding to ally with other women and ultimately leave her oafish husband. She deserves better!
The Spencer Pratt ladies almost immediately form a new alliance and gain momentum. Seems like every woman they meet will merge with them and the criticism and ostracization they feared will melt away like magic.
Wow even with the “uncanny valley” AI that is a pretty powerful ad, giving AWLF an opportunity, one could say permission to vote for the guy with an R after his name. That appears to be the intended target audience.
Some people ... picture the woman proceeding to ally with other women and ultimately leave her oafish husband.
If the purpose of something is what it does then the target audience of the Harris commercial was women who think they are striking a blow for liberation by voting for a woman who never won a single vote in a Presidential primary. As Mike Wolf points out, very different from the target audience for the Pratt commercial.
Think of the recent Democrat nominees of note: Biden, Harris, Hillary, Walz, and the latest Bass, not a charismatic bone in their collective bodies.
Brilliant.
The ads gives yoga moms permission to vote for Pratt when they may not otherwise do so. “You are not alone.”
I just hope the Dems don’t steal the election from him.
A rather off-putting lineup there, Hump.
Vote for Spencer Pratt!
As a strategy, Pratt should absolutely target ALL his resources to the white liberal women of LA because that is the Left’s stronghold, but also the most vulnerable to fear. Almost my whole family still lives in SoCal and the chaos and dirt and disorder is wearing on people. Many fear doing things that used to be routine. The right will vote for change. The left needs clear permission to do so.
And lucky for Pratt many influential women in LA are in the same business he was in. It’s a very club-like situation in Hollywood. And he is in it.
Same idea, different target audience. The subtext of the Harris ad was "you can vote for Harris without your Dumb Redneck Husband knowing it". The subtext for the Pratt ad is "you can vote for Pratt without your Uber-Woke Friends and Neighbors knowing about it".
There was no excuse for Eat, Pray, Love (2010)
Pratt’s angry taxpayer persona is contagious. People have been lulled into thinking they can’t do anything about what’s going on. He’s very effectively reminding them of their power - their vote. Hopefully they’ll speak up and out on other common sense issues. I sure hope he wins. He deserves a shot at fixing LA.
Am I the only one who finds both ads off putting? The Julia Roberts ad is phony and rather cringey. The AI ad is less cringey, but it transcend phoniness and enters a whole new dimension of synthetics.
Here in Omaha, the battle for the Blue Dot just finished the primary. Denise Powell defeated two women and a man.
On Election Day, she wore a shirt that read, “Elect Women.” My response on FB was, “You mean like Sen. Joni Ernst or Sen. Deb Fischer?”
The candidate is Denise Powell. Her campaign theme was the angry white woman that hates Trump. In one TV ad, I think she even said “pissed off.”
Over $5m was spent for her.
This campaign is big test to see whether stressed out blue-tyrant zones are ready and will accept a campaign based on "hey let's just stop doing stupid stuff!" It's a pretty simple theme. It might just work.
California pols are truly loathsome, which gives Pratt a chance. His ad campaign is brilliant at pointing out the myriad sources of loathsomeness.
I didn’t see the Pratt ad as directed at women. Women are in the ad but I figured it was aimed at everyone in L.A. who felt the pressure to hide their political preferences. That’s just not a phenomenon only with women.
Is a yoga mom in reality the same thing as a trad wife?
The Harris ad is about dividing people. The Pratt ad is about uniting them.
As others have pointed out, despite being superficially similar, the ads are really opposites.
First, and most obviously, the Pratt ad is grounded in reality. There is a risk to admitting you’re not blindly following left-wing diktats. There is no equivalent risk on the right.
Second, the Harris ad is about the oppression within your own family and hiding your true feelings from those you are supposed to love—you are alone in your family and freedom comes from deceiving that family. The Pratt ad is about oppression from strangers and the freedom that comes from finding you are not alone.
Yah, that’s where I went too Ann…the Julia ads were kind if roasted and their pick didn’t win but that doesn’t mean the ad wasn’t effective…
True, Eva, but women are key to Pratt's campaign. Men generally will not need permission to vote the way they want. The very herd-like AWFLs of LA do in fact need that permission structure to buck their usual reaction to anyone not espousing leftwing propaganda. Almost the only thing that can penetrate such a bubble is cold hard truth. His other ads do the truth-telling while this one gives them an option out of the insane "do the same thing elect the same people" cycle that they have been in for decades out West. I've been around these people my whole life.
I guess this campaign will prove out whether my experience and hunch are both correct.
Am I the only one who finds both ads off putting?
No but I don’t think we’re the target audience.
Next up: Karen Bass shows Los Angelenos how to change their car’s air filter.
…go ahead and say they’re different and point out the obvious political differences but the key common denominator is the subversion of the candidate they’re choosing…
The Harris ad is feminist, divisive, anti-male.
The Pratt ad is multi-ethnic. The two white ladies, with trepidation, reveal they want to vote for Pratt. Then they lie to the black lady, who they assume is a Democrat. And she announces she's voting for Pratt. Then the Asian lady comes in. And it's unanimous in the United Nations.
The Harris ad is annoying, because it assumes that married women are oppressed and scared of their husbands. It's feminist delusional about the state of the USA. The AI ad, paradoxically, is more genuine, because people are afraid of being judged for voting Republican. That's a genuine fear because social pressure and coercion is an ongoing tactic of the left.
Females in power on the left have gone headlong into "I'm going to do what I want no matter what you want" recklessness.
Among others, see Ketanji Brown Jackson, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Letitia James, Kathy Hochul, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Abigail Spanberger.
These lefty women are absolutely not inhibited, and seemingly unconcerned about potential payback from competitors and opponents who'd eat them for lunch. Run your schemes, speak with a forked tongue, and grab a bottle of poison. Welcome to the shadowy female strategy of the late Roman Empire.
Non-political women are often forgiving to a fault, even to those who'd destroy them (see transgendered athletes). An effort to persuade females from the right or for grand unity versus lefty "team woman" is merely a recalibration that balances female temperament with functional reality.
The Harris ad looks down on women and despises men.
So powells an idiot, shockah
“Men generally will not need permission to vote the way they want”
The women in the Pratt ad aren’t seeking permission, they’re determined to vote Pratt. They just don’t realize they're in the majority of voters. Hiding your preferences around liberals is something everyone does.
In reality it's often the meek husband being bullied into voting the way his political wife wants him to.
Both ads are about fear, and using your vote to address your fears. The Harris ad assumes that women are afraid of men -- afraid of husbands -- and encourages women to fight the patriarchy, blah blah blah.
The whole Pratt campaign is about using your vote to address your fears. Are you afraid of crime, aggressive homeless people, drugs in the street? He's reminding people that they are afraid of the status quo, and they want change.
This ad is addressing the subtle and not-so-subtle ostracization tactics of the Democrats. Don't be afraid to vote for Spencer Pratt. Don't be afraid to speak out. You might be surprised to find that many people are in secret agreement with you. The ad is kind of brilliant in that it's encouraging a word-of-mouth campaign. Talk to your friends and neighbors about what is going on in the city.
From his comments, I don’t think Shellenberger sees it as a women only ad: “You are not alone.” Yoga moms, silent majority, and a preference cascade all in one. Whether or not Angelenos elect @spencerpratt as LA mayor, he and his team are revolutionizing politics.”
The Harris ad harks back to a time when Hollywood leads the way. Listen to Hollywood! They know what is best.
The Pratt ad suggests that Hollywood is finished. AI is the future.
The Harris ad is what coastal bubble-dwelling consultants imagine about "flyover state" people. They think the local yokels are ignorant of the big city and outside world, extremely extremely extremely conservative, that women are cowed, and there are no political debates in families or communities. If they've never been there or ran away to the city as a teen = free to imagine anything.
Harris lost badly, so this wasn't a good concept.
Steve said...The subtext for the Pratt ad is "you can vote for Pratt without your Uber-Woke Friends and Neighbors knowing about it".
Tell me you didn't watch the Pratt ad without saying you didn't watch the Pratt ad.
The woman in the thumbnail literally announces to another woman she's going to vote for Spencer Pratt in the first 10 seconds of the ad.
The Harris ad is what coastal bubble-dwelling consultants imagine about "flyover state" people.
Exactly.
Honestly she burned half the city what will she do for an encore
I don't think that either ad holds a candle to the classic "Manly He-Men Voting For Harris" ad.
Oh that was a riot
Soft core femme for the lady votes...and lil meade too!
Pornhub.com ann
Get those needs met, grrl
Nobody will tell
Let there be SMILFs…
Spencer is sexier than Karen
But he's not gonna fuck ya literally
I don't think the Pratt ad is "women empowering women." No, it's encouraging women to not be afraid of women.
Lol dave knows
Even sexually sophisticated boomer women like ann need to be granted permission...
Its a throwback to their daddy kink...
I think Pratt's ads have been brilliant so far, but I think this one misses badly. Up until now, the tone of the ads has been bold and irreverent. This one smacks of the usual professional campaign consultants' targeting of certain demographics with psychological conversion strategies.
A much more effective approach, in my view, would have been to use the same kind of bold thinking in that yoga locker room chat. Instead of confirming the need to keep quiet until you get social acceptance and permission, have the women simply say matter of factly, "Honestly, yes, we're voting for Pratt...we're intelligent, independent-thinking women...aren't you?" Or something along those lines. This ad just confirms that you have to keep waiting for that social permission.
This ad is all about female stress. It opens with the main character trying to breathe and relax. She's trying to relax because of all the crime and violence and homelessness and drug markets and shit in the streets. So she's in her yoga class, breathing and relaxing.
Then she says, "I got to tell you something. Promise you won't get mad?"
Voting Republican is a provocative act. It upsets people and ends friendships. So she's taking an emotional risk. Now that she's relaxed, she's adding a little emotional drama to her day. It's an intimate conversation. Two white women, two Karens, whispering in the locker room about that bad boy, Spencer Pratt.
And another woman -- an outsider -- overhears their conversation. And the stress ramps up. Oh no! I've outed myself as a Republican! But then they find out that everybody likes Spenser Pratt. Oh my God, it's a preference cascade at the yoga class.
Shellenberger seems to think the ad is about the silent majority realizing they are in the majority and they can win this thing if they go vote.
The women in the Pratt ad aren’t seeking permission, they’re determined to vote Pratt.
Okay. Still IMO the intent of the ad is to give other liberal Hollywood women permission to vote that way, maybe even share their thoughts cautiously as the women in the ad do. Maybe I'm wrong. But I spent 60 years around these people and their paranoid and strict adherence to "norms" in the business. YMMV
Saint Croix, the Spencer Pratt campaign and its brilliance thus far is about ENDING the need for any stinking "preference cascade" in order to make it OK for someone to vote for their real choice.
Of course in context "preference cascade" and "permission structure" describe the same thing.
Had they voted for Caruso the city wouldnt have burned downtown wouldnt look like raccoon city
Irony is, liberal white women are the reason LA and California are a complete mess. In the Pratt ad, you have women who are 'crossing over' for the first time, because the shit they voted for previously, just got too close to home.
I both disagree with Planetgeo (7:50) take on this one "missing" and agree with him (8:00) that this ad could be a catalyst signaling real change. Women have more persuasive power in regard to politics within a family than is generally acknowledged in our culture. The Harris ad was kind of ridiculous in that it inverted that normal structure to portray the cartoonish "afraid to tell her man the truth" kind of weak woman that lefties really believe in. Women are much stronger than the weird binary the Left uses where your either a ball busting girlboss or a beat down wimp woman.
Very odd that the left is so damned binary isn't it?
But then look who those women marry! Look at Harris's husband, Pelosi's husband, Hillary!'s husband...
The two ads were a similar theme, but very different. There was the overt feminine sexism in the Harris ad, secretly thwarting the boys to vote for a woman candidate.
But this ad is different. The main character is a woman who's afraid to say how she would like to vote, but you'll notice that the rest of the ladies are not reticent at all - they're quite forthright about declaring their voting intentions, much to the main character's relief. This is a subtle psychological prod, hey if this lady can do it, I can too ! I think this ad is more effective, but that could be my bias showing.
We know that these ads have all been predicated on A.I. graphics, but I wonder if they've been using other A.I. features to help produce them. I wonder just how much human input there is, being aware that this is, after all, Hollywood. There hasn't been much 'inside baseball' that I've seen on what is churning these things out. Wouldn't it be wild if some tech oligarch had an advanced A.I. that was using all of its skills to turn these things out, interacting with experts to iterate ads, tune them to perfection for persuasive effectiveness.
And who is Spencer Pratt? Sure, he's a, outrage politician with a stake in this outcome and some educational background in politics, but he seems to have been an Establishment fringe player up until now.
His house burned down last year along with 17,000 others
Women control and guide culture with a one-generation lag. First, they "mainly" decide whether to have zero, a few, or a lot of babies. Second, they instill values and educate the very young, fixing many core beliefs long before adulthood. See the "Was the mother a Jew?" rule of accepting mixed Jewish babies.
When stable over time, women facilitate everything from Mormon to Chinese to Islamic patterns. When falling headlong into "eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" hedonism and/or making no babies for any reason...well, it was fun while it lasted...
Free to choose extinction. Yep.
"Permission structures." The "I eat carburetors for breakfast" ad was supposed to give men "permission" to vote for Harris. With the Julia Roberts narrated ad, Harris is trying to get women who already lean Democrat out to vote. Pratt is fishing in a pool of yoga moms who have been very unlikely to vote against the Democratic Party nominees. Is he the candidate they'll cross over for?
Note that the subtext of the Harris ad is abortion: "In the one place in America where women still have the right to choose." To what extent was that heavy hint a motivator to vote for Harris among married, mid-age women in the heartland? Could it have put off some women in that demographic?
Note too that this may have been a non-official ad from "Vote Common Good." The Pratt ad may be from the campaign. So many effective AI non-official ads have been made in support of Pratt, that legislators may crack down on AI ads.
Pratt was affluent and someone with connections in showbiz, but politically speaking was he really an "Establishment fringe player"? It's hard to say what kind of mayor he would be, but doesn't that label describe Reagan or Trump as well?
The Pratt ad didn't go into the women's reasons for voting for Pratt. That would have spoiled the ad aesthetically, but it was "off-message" and perhaps not so effective in the end.
what are the options to Pratt?
more fires?
more taxes?
more homeless?
more jobs moving to Georgia?
my question isn't "why would someone vote Pratt?"
my question is: "why wouldn't they?"
“why wouldn’t they”
Ah, just taking a stab at it here…
Like every blue area, there will be a huge number of people who benefit either directly or indirectly from Democrat grift. This would include public/government employees as well as those who benefit financially from the myriad number of organizations funded by the left’s money laundering operations. These folks are fanatical in their support for Democrats and, more importantly, tend to be the ones who count the votes.
"...His house burned down last year along with 17,000 others ..."
Yes, that's what I meant when I said he has a stake in this. But I've never heard of Spencer Pratt outside of this campaign context. I've seen a picture of him with a Republican Senator in 'stage background' press conference settings. How did this bland-looking chap with seemingly no history suddenly manifest a campaign with this kind of momentum and focus. With other candidates, they have a sense of having a strong character, a sense of drive and purpose toward power. All of Pratt's drive and purpose is manifested in A.I. hero characters. Who is shaping his campaign so effectively? I would bet it isn't Spencer Pratt. Again, there hasn't been much 'inside baseball' on what should be some rich material, if there were any journalists out there.
Its kind of like the grown up grrl version of trans contagion...
"I'm doing this. Shhh. You should do this too, to be in our club."
Glad this ad doesn't represent women in my life. Independence can't be bought. Know thyself. Don't follow the crowd or jump on the bandwagon, big grrrls. This isn't hair, makeup and style class to copy each other.
“The Spencer Pratt ladies almost immediately form a new alliance and gain momentum. Seems like every woman they meet will merge with them and the criticism and ostracization they feared will melt away like magic.”
Hee…yeah, there was definite Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibe.
But the ad should have a warning: “This stunt performed by professional AI models. Don’t try this in real life.”
And I think the odds of Pratt winning the Mayor's seat are long ones. So far, all of his ads have been putting up a burning city packed full of problems. Not all Angelenos will see it that way, and more importantly, Pratt does not bring much to the table to show a track record that he can do anything about it. He's just an Angry Guy with a Burned Down House. Could be wrong; we'll see.
I have to wonder whether the Pratt campaign couldn't find enough hungry female actors in LA who were willing to appear in an ad supporting him, and so had to use AI. We do know that, however free you may feel to be an open Republican voter in other places and walks of life, actors in LA - especially the unknown ones who are trying to break out or break in or whatever you call it - absolutely have to be progressive.
I am reminded of - was it in Big Bang Theory, where Penny, still trying to be an actor, gets a commercial for... I think it was "feminine deodorant"?
My husband, a Southern Californian by birth and upbringing who pounded the table insisting that "California is a red state" for years after that was no longer true, is pretty obsessed with the gubernamental primary and, to a lesser extent, this mayoral race. He thinks (correctly in my opinion) that Pratt and Hilton have no shot. Our little household vacillates between despair over what California has become and hope that enough people there will reawaken - someday - to what that beautiful, fortunate state has in its favor, and take it back from the loons.
Regenerating women of 2026 meet degenerating women of 2024 at the Althouse blogspot.
Jamie, while getting people to appear in a Pratt ad might be an issue I think it is more likely that the primary motivator for using AI is speed and cost.
Aggie.
At this point what does LA have to lose? I've found Compton less threatening.
“Pratt does not bring much to the table to show a track record that he can do anything about it.” The point of Pratt ought to be made by all non-Democrats is that Democrats are a bad joke and no one could do worse.
Heh. "Gubernamental." AI came up with that one all on its own. Y'all know what I meant.
narisco.
I found out that there are really two reservoirs that service the Palisades and Malibu. Both have been down for "repairs" for years. One of them was built specifically to provide water for fighting fires.
"This new Spencer Pratt ad may be somewhat innovative in its forthright use of AI:"
While I don't respect AI when searching for facts, I don't get the bugaboo about AI generated video. So what? Also, I am reminded of the recent episode where people couldn't tell a real Monet from a fake.
It’s called a “preference cascade” and the Pratt ad is telling the voters that a preference cascade is happening and it’s moving away from left wing extremists who want to screw with people’s lives and towards him.
And there’s someone subtle in this ad. There is a claim about online influencers which seems empirically true: “It’s just that beautiful women are always on the cutting edge of social trends.”
@Jamie, using real people is expensive and takes time. Pratt’s team is cranking out a variety of good ads cheaply and quickly. Welcome to the new reality.
"I found out that there are really two reservoirs that service the Palisades and Malibu. Both have been down for "repairs" for years. One of them was built specifically to provide water for fighting fires."
The fact that anybody, much less a majority, would vote to reinstate this level of incompetence/crookedness is really damning of the electorate involved.
I think it's going to be Pratt vs Bass in the general and she's doomed.
San Francisco -- which is to the left of L.A., as far as I can tell -- finally gave up on the socialist shit-show and elected a normie for mayor. He's been doing a great job, according to Pratt.
It's inconceivable to me that L.A. thinks that Bass has been doing a great job. She's been awful. UCLA did a quality of life survey, and it's the worst rating they've ever seen.
Mayor Bass has 25% support in that poll. Or, to flip it, 75% of the city does not support her.
I would be amazed if she is re-elected.
@Rustygrommet, the woman Karen Bass put in charge of those reservoirs had an annual salary of $750,000.
Both are pretty bad, but the Kamala one wins out as worse due to the cloying music, horrible writing and pathetic performances.
I'm not a fan of AI video-as-substitute-for-realism movement. I'd prefer if you're going to use AI to create, let your imagination run wild.
I lived in California for several years. I confirm that all non-progressive political opinions MUST be kept to oneself otherwise you could in no particular order, lose your job, lose your friends, be subject to HR’s struggle sessions, be subject to raging Karen’s in your face, etc.
"I would be amazed if she is re-elected."
I will be amazed if she isn't. That's just my level of disrespect for democrat voters.
Both ads are cringe as the kids say.
I know they are just targeting the very small percentage of voters who might be influenced by ads like this (you know, morons), but it's still amazing that it could be effective as the difference in who someone votes for.
Kamala ad is worse. The Pratt AI ad would have to have a soy-male stereotype presuming the leftist vote choice to be as bad as the Kamala ad.
"...At this point what does LA have to lose?..."
Have you ever seen mistletoe? It's a parasitical plant that grows on trees. Mistletoe taps into the tree's vascular system to feast on the carbohydrates that the tree's leaves intended for growing the tree. It becomes plain in winter, when the tree's leaves drop and all the mistletoe is still there, thriving. You have to climb up and cut it all off, manually - it's the only way to keep it in check, laborious - and even then, it grows back. Eventually, if left unchecked, the tree starts to lose its leaves - it no longer has the vitality to put out new ones, with the mistletoe taking most of its nourishment. In the end, the tree becomes increasingly barren, and the mistletoe starts dying - that's when you know the tree is in the end stages to being dead, too far gone to save.
California is like that. A state blessed with abundance in almost every single way, it has a parasitical infection that has taken over the system. California is a state that is victim to its own natural blessings.
Even if Californians were smart enough to start shedding Democrats, they are well dug in now, pervasive. Debt is piling up. Fewer leaves are sprouting. Whole branches are leaving the state. But there is still a long way to go before the tree topples.
"How did this bland-looking chap with seemingly no history suddenly manifest a campaign with this kind of momentum and focus."
Someone didn't watch The Hills and it shows.
Harris WALZ
What a freaking nightmare.
Walz is a criminal.
Hollywood can drop dead
@Saint Croix: San Francisco -- which is to the left of L.A., as far as I can tell -- finally gave up on the socialist shit-show and elected a normie for mayor. He's been doing a great job, according to Pratt.
They are different flavors of left, don't like each other much, and have long considered splitting the state in two or three or four pieces.
SF/Bay Area: Tech elite left; know-it-alls who want everyone in EVs and Priuses; hippies; pot growers; utopians; vegans; Eastern Religion fads. HOWEVER, SF has a large old-time Chinese population that could pivot elections if it didn't vote left. Consider the culture/politics of China/Taiwan, etc. as the root orientation.
LA: Hollywood, hedonism, movies, rock music, filming p0rn in luxury houses per a special law, Playboy Mansion, Malibu, and Beach Boys fun in the sun. HOWEVER, the local elections are decided by Mexican, Korean, Filipino and other immigrants who depend on state assistance. Consider the politics of those countries.
A blond, a brunette, and a black woman. All Pretty - but not beautiful. Not too young - but not old either. And all thin and in shape. Hits it perfectly.
"...Someone didn't watch The Hills and it shows. ..."
It shows what? So Spencer Pratt was a character on a reality show 20 years ago? On MTV? Oh, brother. Like I said, Pratt does not bring much to the table to show a track record that he can do anything about LA's problems, and the more interesting story hasn't been reported yet.
Pratt is going to lose.
1) Many LA voters who cared have already left the city.
2) Many LA voters have insulated themselves from the chaos, and they will keep voting dem.
3) City employees and teachers will keep voting hard line Dem. They are often enough in low turnout city elections.
4) Dems have ballot harvesting machinery operating.
5) The fact that a socialist had a chance at all should tell you - the American urban city is becoming harder left not more centrist.
and yes that is all very depressing.
GOP should take notes from Pratt's ads.
"Someone didn't watch The Hills and it shows."
That's a bad thing? I don't even know what The Hills is. I could look it up, but I have to rearrange my sock drawer.
Their track record is destruction
“Both ads are cringe as the kids say.”
That ain’t teh sitch, Howard.
L.A. made a wrong turn many years ago and now they are fucked for life, as they say.
This may be their last chance at regaining some semblance of sanity.
This election really is a battle of philosophy.
"Good people" who think they are good, will vote for the free dental work for junkies party. They don't mind that services are abysmal. They assume government is doing the best it can. If we just could tax more and spend more, things would get better. I hate to say it but this shallow thinking is pretty pervasive.
The other view is we have some serious governance problems and service is abysmal and we're being held hostage by homeless elements and the NGOs who subsist of the problems. You need to be a person who looks deeper at problems. Who knows money doesn't solve things if the system is dysfunctional. Its much harder and "meaner" viewpoint.
The second viewpoint is very annoying to a voter who is not voting for actual results but is voting as a "me" signal. I'm a good person signal!
The second view requires more work, deeper understanding, and realizing its not so easy. That is not a "I'm a good person signal" that is a vote that says "I may have to do something mean and put the junkies in a camp"
“ I have to rearrange my sock drawer”
At least that’s one thing that I don’t have to do anymore. Proper male Sox are white and black. Being retired, it’s mostly white these days. So, it’s the bottom right drawer for white, and the bottom left for black. Been that way since I first had two sock drawers.
Then, there is my partner. Everyday underwear got one drawer. All color coded, of course. And none the same. Then dressier underwear and bras in another, sorted again by color, but in sets. I too have two drawers, one for newer underwear, one for newer. White, of course, for simplicity. Thankful for being a guy - being a woman is much too complex for me. Too exhausting.
Bruce still wears tight whites. Lol
"Pratt does not bring much to the table to show a track record that he can do anything about it. He's just an Angry Guy with a Burned Down House."
Bass does have a track record. And she's just a Rich Communist with a Mansion That Hasn't Burned Down.
Between the two, who is more likely to "do anything about it" for the typical Angeleno?
The line, "Did you make the right choice?" in the Harris ad is delivered wrong. He smirks and bends his head forward. It's like a liberal's idea of a conservative man. I think he should have asked in a strong, confident manner.
This was a problem with the whole campaign. They were fighting their imagined idea of the right and it bore no resemblance to what people are really like.
It is a real thing. Since George W in 2000, I have occasionally worn Republican paraphernalia during election season. Every time I do I get people whispering their support to me and telling me I'm brave to be wearing a T-shirt. During the Biden year's I would get this when wearing an American flag T-shirt.
I have for quite a long time voted for the most outspokenly anti-Dem candidate, on the theory that anything else sends the wrong message.
One issue I have with the Pratt ad is that the women are a little too perfect--trim, healthy, pretty, well-spoken. Sort of a Stepford wives vibe which I think may work against its message.
But when it comes to women--What the hell do I know?
Maybe Spencer should do an AI ad with his face superimposed on Howard Beale--"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Pratt's trying to help the lucky little ladies in the city of light see which way the wind blows. Last time it blew a wildfire down to his house.
The Harris ad is so insulting to women. Yeah, get back at your loud-mouth Trump supporting boyfriend or husband. Secretely vote for harris. Ha, that'll show him.
If Pratt has the Cute Perky Tits vote, then he's my guy too.
@Mary Beth: This was a problem with the whole campaign. They were fighting their imagined idea of the right and it bore no resemblance to what people are really like.
This has been the problem with the "Party of Science and Truth" left since Barry Goldwater ran for President way back when. Small town people often hate their origin and go to colleges/cities. They then badmouth everything and everyone as 'rednecks.' Those born in cities visit County Fairs once or twice to see cows getting milked.
I hope Pratt will be ridin’ that voter Storm, Rabel…
gspencer If Pratt has the Cute Perky Tits vote, then he's my guy too.
Another distraction from the high price of gas and the missing Epstein files!
"That's a bad thing? I don't even know what The Hills is. I could look it up, but I have to rearrange my sock drawer."
I wasn't talking to you.
The women are AI? Really? You could have ... er, did ... fool me.
Curious how the Harris ad plays into the "smart, knowing women -- dumb, oblivious men" meme so common in recent advertising. One might wonder, if she's so smart and he's so dumb, what keeps them together. One might also turn it around: how many guys needed a "permission structure" to go against their wives and vote for DJT?
The ad is a modern-day "Emperor's New Clothes." Though in that story (at least the version I know), it's a child who speaks up. All the adults are cowards.
The first ad is fundamentally optimistic the second is weirdly menacing paranoia. It's one thing for peers to consider each other's approval, another to be afraid of your husband. The second ad isn't aimed at married women, it's aimed at validating single women.
What evidence is there that a dem will change their vote because of some meme video making the rounds of YouTube, Facebook, tiktok, etc.
Many of Spencer Pratt’s most prominent supporters don’t live in Los Angeles, or even California. So why does it feel like they do?
I assume, like Trump, Pratt‘s been endorsed by Gary Busey.
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