St Onge says Supreme Court ruling secures 40 House seats for GOP

Business (2)

• St Onge states the United Arab Emirates left OPEC after 58 years, tired of OPEC's production caps that idled a third of its capacity, costing the nation $30-40 billion annually.
• He claims OPEC's share of global oil exports fell from nearly 90% in the 1970s to just over half today, weakening its pricing power. A full cartel collapse could drop oil prices to $40-45 and gasoline to $2 per gallon.

Politics (6)

• St Onge says 4.5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since last July due to tightened rules, but another 30 million recipients are either scamming the system or do not genuinely need assistance.
• St Onge notes SNAP enrollment exploded from 3 million in 1969 to 45 million when Obama left office. He argues 80% of current recipients may not need aid, based on Massachusetts's enrollment jumping from 3-12% of residents 25 years ago to 15.4% today.
• He states the European Parliament's 'Democracy Shield' would create a censorship body that already oversees the takedown of 80 million posts monthly, with an independent study finding up to 99.7% of those were legal.
• St Onge claims European authorities arrest over a thousand people per month for speech violations. He cites a UK think tank estimating thought crime policing consumes 650,000 hours annually while 90% of violent and sexual crimes go unsolved.
• He argues Argentina's President Javier Milei cut housing costs 70% in two years by eliminating rent control and deregulating leases, which tripled rental listings and brought 200,000 vacant units to market.
• St Onge contrasts this with New York's 1.4% vacancy rate and 50,000 vacant apartments whose owners refuse to rent, despite 165,000 families waiting for housing. He notes St. Paul's rent control crashed building permits by 80%.

Politics (11)

• Spencer Pratt says LA Fire Chief Bobby Garcia told him the initial Palisades fire response failed because crews did not attack the fire on both sides to contain it.
• Pratt alleges Mayor Karen Bass never called in fixed-wing air support during the Palisades fire because she was in Africa, and her deputy mayor was on house arrest.
• Pratt claims the LADWP drained the five-million-gallon Palisades Reservoir in June 2024, removing a key wildfire defense next to his home before the January 2025 fire.
• Pratt asserts the official homelessness count is cooked, citing a RAND Corporation study that suggests a 30% increase contrary to the city's claimed 17% decrease.
• Pratt describes a corruption scheme where NGOs buy buildings for inflated prices with city funds, citing a Westwood property bought for $29 million six days after being on the market for $11 million.
• Pratt states that under California's Homekey rules, the state withholds funding if housing requires residents to be drug-free, which he says enables addiction.
• Pratt argues crime stats are down only because people have given up calling 911, and he cites an incident where police refused to arrest a man assaulting people and vandalizing cars on Wilshire Boulevard.
• Pratt claims the city's animal services head said it was culturally insensitive to cite or ticket people without an address, leading to unchecked animal abuse on the streets.
• Pratt claims an anonymous billionaire has offered to be a fund czar and provide $500 million to help restore Los Angeles if he is elected mayor.
• Pratt says his campaign's viral ad, contrasting his airstream with the mansions of Bass and Raman, broke every political ad record in history.
• Pratt states his plan to address homelessness includes building a Matt Hess-style compound with separate facilities for veterans, families, and addicts in a natural setting, not urban prisons.

Education (1)

• Pratt says LAUSD spends $23,000 per student and teachers average $101,000 salaries, but the district ranks 170th in California with only 46% of students meeting English standards.

Culture (1)

• Pratt argues that to revive Hollywood, the city must prioritize independent filmmakers by removing fees and safety barriers, as studio production has largely left.

Politics (2)

• Lisa Lerer says Democrats emerged from their 2024 defeat as a party in crisis, with polls showing large swaths of voters don't like or know what the party stands for. This identity crisis is playing out in contested primaries.
• Lisa Lerer reports Platner has a history of controversial online comments on race, gender, and sexuality, and had a Nazi insignia tattoo he later covered up. Democratic voters' fury at the establishment appears to outweigh these concerns.