{"id":393,"date":"2026-05-22T07:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:36:33","slug":"la-times-columnist-crawls-out-of-garbage-to-tell-world-he-loves-his-city-covered-in-poop-and-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"LA Times Columnist Crawls Out Of Garbage To Tell World He Loves His City Covered In Poop And Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>Having a good time in Los Angeles is easy. Don\u2019t wear open-toed shoes, don\u2019t make eye contact with the guy sprawled out on the street corner, charge that $17 smoothie to your credit card and take in a deep whiff of smog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=391\">3 Dead, 18 First Responders Hospitalized Responding To Hazmat Situation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano <\/span><span>condemned<\/span><span> Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt\u2019s \u201cdark vision of the city\u201d in a Tuesday article.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pratt\u2019s vision seems to be resonating just fine. If Pratt sounds harsh, it is because he refuses to conceal harsh realities with mild language.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is Arellano\u2019s perspective that demands scrutiny. Arellano takes issue with Pratt\u2019s <\/span><span>\u201cdoomsday message.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Instead of enlisting surrogates to push an uplifting vision for L.A.\u2019s future, Pratt elevates those who speak of the city as a West Coast Chernobyl.\u201d <\/span><b>(RELATED: Even CNN Got Karen Bass To Squirm With Peppering Of Questions About Homelessness)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>How could an honest observer of Los Angeles not be horrified by the fentanyl-addicted \u201czombies\u201d crouched under Los Angeles freeways, trapped in personal hells?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Pratt <\/span><span>argued<\/span><span> during his debate with Raman and Bass, \u201cNo matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistics say 93% of this is a drug addiction problem \u2026 Councilwoman Raman\u2019s plan for \u2018treatment first\u2019? I\u2019ll go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her, and we can find some of these people she\u2019s going to \u2018offer treatment\u2019 for. She\u2019s going to get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl, or super meth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>Pratt\u2019s critiques of city leadership are in no way incompatible with crafting an \u201cuplifting vision\u201d of Los Angeles. They are an essential step to bettering the city. One cannot solve a problem he cannot name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arellano initially argues that Los Angeles is already a pretty good, if not great, city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=389\">Trump Greases Wheels Of Deportation Machine With New Immigration Judges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Los Angeles \u201c<\/span><span>is nowhere near as apocalyptic as they make it out to be, when homicides are at their lowest since the 1960s, burglaries are down 30% from last year and unsheltered homelessness has dropped two years in a row,\u201d writes Arellano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then, the columnist pivots, arguing Los Angeles was never good in the first place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He scorns essayist Meghan Daum for calling Pratt the \u201cfactory-reset option\u201d for Los Angeles: \u201cResetting to when, Meghan? The 2000s of the Great Recession? The 1990s of anti-immigrant policies, the Northridge earthquake and the riots? The 1980s and its out-of-control gangs? The white flight of the 1960s? The 1950s of legal segregation and hideous smog?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is okay when Arellano criticizes Los Angeles, you see, but not when Pratt or other Angelenos do it. Arellano\u2019s list of grievances is made especially odd by his later assertion: \u201c[I]f you think L.A. needs a complete makeover, then you probably never really loved it in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It seems Arellano thinks the \u201canti-immigrant\u201d Los Angeles of the 1990s needed a complete makeover. <\/span><b>(RELATED: Spencer Pratt\u2019s Opponents Propose Dentists For Meth Heads, Ban On Backyard BBQs)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>A recent Arellano <\/span><span>column<\/span><span> is called \u201cHow I learned to stop worrying about noncitizens voting in L.A. elections.\u201d In it, he recalls his conversations with various Los Angeles political leaders, and how those conversations led him to overcome his initial skepticism of non-citizen enfranchisement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe proposal, already vilified in conservative media, isn\u2019t as radical as it seems. Noncitizens are already prohibited from voting in federal elections, but there\u2019s a well-established history of their participation in local ones, including in Vermont and Maryland. They can already vote in L.A. neighborhood council elections, and in San Francisco school board elections if they have a child in the district,\u201d writes Arellano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arellano also focused his insight on the <\/span><span>subject<\/span><span> of getting a colonoscopy for his 47th birthday. The article prominently featured a video of the interior of a man\u2019s body, with the thumbnail of the video displaying the insides of his intestines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=387\">Elon Musk On Track To Be World\u2019s First Trillionaire After Latest Move<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Our columnist\u2019s discernment seems ever so slightly skewed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times Columnist Gustavo Arellano condemned Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt&#039;s &#039;dark vision of the city&#039; in a Tuesday article.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[648,649,43,712,46],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-spencer-pratt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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