Max Rockatansky

@TomSteyer Hey asshole, what about your company?

At this point, Chevron is basically on the ballot. Vote accordingly.

@JosephKahn LA was a shit show in the early 90s and was a significant benefactor of the 94 Clinton Crime Bill and three-strikes. Things got a lot better. But then came Prop 47. After Prop 47 hit the streets, homelessness increased, leading us to our present predicament.

The problem with LA is the "Everything's Fine" people. These are people that came to LA after its heyday and during its decline after the financial crash of 2008. The more recent the transplant, the less they are aware of what Los Angeles used to be. They have no idea all the areas that used to be lively, or that there was a world class music and night life scene. If you mention there weren't homeless people shitting on the streets everywhere, they call you a MAGA fascist because unhoused people have rights too and Everything's Fine. If you mention entire neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades did not burn down, they say you should not be blaming the mayor for the weather (which is controlled by global warming Republicans) and Everything's Fine. You can say it's really not normal for so many shops to be closed all over Los Angeles with empty storefronts, and they'll say something about equity and that Everything's Fine. The street vendors on sidewalks in front of KoreaTown restaurants that are shutting down? That's totally fine because that's LA culture (no it fucking isn't newbie). Crime? Everything's Fine. These theater kid transplants from Michigan say why are you complaining, move somewhere else. They don't know what they don't know. Then they drink a $20 Erewhon smoothie thinking that's the height of LA culture. Everything's Fine.

@KarenBassLA @EunissesH @YsabelJuradoLA WTF are they feeding the one on the right?

Progressive L.A. City Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez and Ysabel Jurado are fighters for our communities, and I am grateful for their support. Together, we will keep protecting Los Angeles from Trump and ICE, making our city more affordable for families, and creating a City Hall that works for everyone.

@TomSteyer California has the highest gas prices and highest utility rates due to policies you specifically championed such as Crap and Trade. Voting for you to lower utility rates is like hiring an arsonist to be the fire marshal.

If you like how things are going in California and how much everything costs, I’m not your candidate. If you think we need real change, I’m your guy.

@_hamilton_matt LADWP leadership has been a political shit-show since Garcetti took office. LADWP needs a pocket-protector wearing hard nose engineer as its CEO. Instead we get complete circus acts approved by unions and NGOs.

Scoop: DWP’s then-CEO didn’t know that reservoir in Palisades was empty until the day of the Palisades fire. That + other details on how the reservoir hangs over the LA mayoral election, with Spencer Pratt hounding Mayor Bass about the empty reservoir lamaterial.com/p/santa-ynez-r…

@nithyavraman Nah, think I’ll pass. I like my car’s catalytic converter where it is.

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@spencerpratt Sandy Fire winds: 18-37mph Palisades Fire winds: 60-100mph

Man, if only we had this around the Palisades. Perfect demonstration of how fuel breaks save lives. Keep in mind, the winds over the #SandyFire here are stronger than they were on the IA of the Palisades Fire, and yet…

@bot750341 @Codie_Sanchez 10% is massive in a constraint market ….light weight idiot. Now inject $56b.

@MaxRockFalcon @Codie_Sanchez "never impacted" is not what i meant by "not the main cause"... dense idiot. if you think 10% supply grab is what has caused quadrupling of the median wage to median home price ratio over the last 5 decades, you are mistaken.

Young people today don't hate rich people they are mad that... - they were talked into too much student debt - they can't buy homes - their wages are up 2x while houses up 9-10x - inflation is eating them up and they own no assets No wonder they don't like capitalism. They haven't been able to truly participate in it yet.

@bot750341 @Codie_Sanchez $56b of foreign investment and corporations own 9% of residential land.

@bot750341 @Codie_Sanchez BlackRock bot says what? Yeah, because adding a bunch of high power cash buyers to any market never impacted price and availability…

@mixedstein @jamesonhaslam $56b of foreign investment and corporations own 9% of residential land. I’m not your economics professor. If you can’t comprehend the impact those two numbers have on the housing market, you need to take a community college economics course.

@MaxRockFalcon @jamesonhaslam Still waiting.

somebody is going to disappear Ezra Klein for saying out loud that labor unions make housing unaffordable

@mixedstein @jamesonhaslam C’mon, you BlackRock simps know the truth. How does it feel to outbid a single mother looking for a home? You vampires are something else.

@MaxRockFalcon @jamesonhaslam Please provide a citation for this verifiably false claim.

@mixedstein @jamesonhaslam usatoday.com/story/money/pe…

@mixedstein @jamesonhaslam nar.realtor/newsroom/inter…

@nithyavraman Homelessness stayed between 35k and 40k in the years following the 08 crash. So your assertion that homelessness was the result of austerity measures is bullshit. In reality, homelessness took-off following the passage of Prop 47, which reduced penalties for drug use/possession.

There is no more urgent or possible moment to end the racial, environmental, and moral crisis that is homelessness in LA. Our leaders have finally been forced to listen. The path is not complicated: fund services. Fund housing. Fund care. Defund the police.

The Homeless Count numbers are awful. A 14% rise *before* the pandemic. Huge increases among families, youth, and seniors. Los Angeles has failed to address this crisis. It’s time to transform our current approach -- which is rampant with racism. (thread) laist.com/2020/06/12/hom…