{"id":598527,"date":"2026-05-08T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=598527"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:20:00","slug":"an-epic-madness-burns-in-the-minds-of-californians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=598527","title":{"rendered":"‘An Epic Madness Burns In The Minds of Californians…’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘An Epic Madness Burns In The Minds of Californians…’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The California Death Trip<\/h2>\n
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\u201cHistory records no pity for parties that choose purity over competence, vengeance over vision, pathology over pragmatism. The long night is not coming. It is here. . . . \u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

– LHGrey on X<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Pacific Palisades fire ignited on January 7, 2025, in the very last days of the \u201cJoe Biden\u201d fake presidency. <\/strong><\/p>\n

6,837 total buildings destroyed plus about 1,000 damaged.<\/p>\n

The Altadena fire across town in Eaton Canyon was arguably worse<\/strong>: 9,418 buildings destroyed.<\/p>\n

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A Year After the LA Fires<\/em><\/p>\n

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana <\/strong>at the time to attend the inauguration of president John Dramani Mahama, part of a small U.S. presidential delegation sent by the \u201cBiden\u201d administration.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor<\/strong> for Public Safety, Brian Williams, overseer of the Police and Fire Departments, was on administrative leave at the time due to an alleged bomb threat against City Hall that he reportedly made<\/strong> in September \/ October 2024. The FBI raided his house that December, and in 2025 he copped a plea deal (guilty) to making threats involving fire and explosives. So, he was out of action during the fires.<\/p>\n

There you have the rectified essence of how the Democratic Party operates in America\u2019s biggest state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it not astonishing that Karen Bass is running for reelection? How could she possibly be forgiven? <\/em><\/p>\n

A large number of people employed in the movie business got burned out of their homes in the fires, and then city and state regulatory nonsense prevented them from rebuilding \u2014 on top of insurance company hocus-pocus that left families financially wrecked. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it a surprise that the city\u2019s flagship industry is dying now (film production down 32-percent on a five-year average)? <\/em><\/p>\n

What is LA without Hollywood?<\/em><\/p>\n

And yet the show-biz celebs are still coming out to pimp for Democratic Party politicians. <\/strong>This is the kind of thing that forces you to conclude that an epic madness burns as hotly through the minds of Californians as the fires that ripped through the canyons in 2025. I know from personal experience as a college theater major that actors can be exceptionally stupid, but that can\u2019t wholly account for what we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s primary debates had these villains on florid display.<\/strong> Because LA\u2019s ranked-choice mayoral primary race styles itself \u201cnon-partisan,\u201d candidate Spencer Pratt (a registered Republican) was on-hand for the debate. When the subject of LA\u2019s cataclysmic homelessness came up, drug addicts living (if you can call it that) in wretched, filthy encampments all over the public space of the city, Mayor Bass bragged that she\u2019d significantly reduced the problem, which is obviously and mendaciously untrue. LA City Council member Nithya Raman, who labels herself \u201cprogressive,\u201d bragged on putting the homeless into shelters (i.e., motel rooms at $100-K per person per year.)<\/p>\n

Spencer Pratt attempted to inject a little reality into the discussion about putting the homeless into homes:<\/strong> \u201cNo matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth, they are on fentanyl. The DEA [Drug Enforcement Agency] statistic says 93-percent of this is a drug addiction problem. These people do not want a bed \u2014 they want fentanyl or super meth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Pratt is currently running third in the polls.<\/strong> In ranked-choice voting, the top two winners in the primary will face off in the November election. Currently Bass is polling in the lead and Nithya Raman is running second. If the numbers stay that way, the winner in November could finish Los Angeles off.\u00a0Blade Runner<\/em>, here we come.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s still a chance that Spencer Pratt might place well in the June 2 primary just as Golden Tempo shot from dead last to win the Kentucky Derby last week.<\/p>\n

The seductions of the Marxist race hustle have worn a little thin, even for Angelenos.<\/strong> Karen Bass looks increasingly ridiculous grinning about her abject failures, which Mr. Pratt lays out relentlessly in plain talk. His reality-testing seems to be getting some minds right, gaining real traction. Nithya Raman has the charisma of a mung bean.<\/p>\n

The gubernatorial debate was equally edifying, especially the spectacle of Democratic Candidates Katie Porter\u2019s and billionaire Tom Steyer\u2019s rousing lack of self-awareness. Ms. Porter, renowned for dumping a pot of steaming mashed potatoes over her ex-husband\u2019s head, and for her crotchety way with the (friendly) news media and her own staff, made the astounding statement that \u201cthe public servants we have are focused on doing their job, which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities.\u201d That\u2019s their job? Hmmmm. Mr. Steyer went further and said he would arrest ICE agents going about their business. You think . . .? (I would think that a Governor Steyer would find himself arrested by the feds for attempting such a stunt.)<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s race is also a rank-choice contest. So, Republican Steve Hilton was on-hand to break the reality-optional spell that shrouded the stage like a poisonous miasma. <\/strong>After several Democrats made a show of deploring the grotesque homeless druggie encampments from Nob Hill to MacArthur Park, Mr. Hilton said \u201c[They] talk as if we\u2019re in some parallel universe where Democrats haven\u2019t been running the state for the last sixteen years.\u201d He shares the lead in the polls in the large field at 18-percent with Xavier Becerra, who was \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s\u201d Secretary of Health and Human Services, meaning, he presided over the vaxx mandates and lockdowns of the Covid operation.<\/p>\n

California is ground zero for the death dance of the Democratic Party.<\/strong> Symptoms are popping up all over the country, of course. Just this week, the FBI raided the headquarters of Virginia State Senator pro tempore L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) \u2014 and also raided the marijuana shop she co-owns next door to her HQ. The SCOTUS decision on Congressional redistricting has thrown many states\u2019 Democratic Party outposts into a fugue of terror as they stand to lose as many as a dozen seats in Congress. DOJ prosecutions are underway against prominent Democrats in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Many of their heroes could go to prison. Panic has set in. The Democratic Party as we know it these days is not long for this world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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