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There appears to be a concerted effort on the part of Los Angeles journalists, their progressive journalisming friends, and what seems to be Google maps (dare I even question their neutrality) to make the Los Angeles fires and specifically the all-consuming Pacific Palisades conflagration…go away.





In fact, in some instances, it’s almost as if they never happened.

I wonder why?

Well, yeah. That could be a big reason – they’re worried.

They should be.

Lake Balboa resident Jose Meraz is looking for a mayor who will turn L.A. around, cleaning up streets that he says are “filled with garbage.”

Schoolteacher Tracey Schroeder, a Republican candidate for state Assembly, is unhappy about crime, open-air drug use and the slow rebuilding effort in the wake of the Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes.

Greg Whitley, a resident of Reseda, said he’s frustrated with homelessness and the influx of what he called “criminal illegal aliens.”

“I live with the Spanish community. Great people,” he said. “But these illegals that come here for criminal reasons, they’re making them look bad, and they don’t like it.”

All three showed up outside a five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks on Saturday, looking to speak with reality TV personality Spencer Pratt, now waging an insurgent campaign for Los Angeles mayor in the June 2 election.

The first knock on Pratt came from TMZ’s skeevey Harvey Levin, and his Lurch-like sidekick in what was, I guess, supposed to be a bombshell exposé.





Many goose-screaming-WHAT-HAPPENED-TO-SPENCER’S-HOUSE-chasing-morons memes later, Levin seems to have crawled down from the ill-advised attack on a man who doesn’t live where he lived because his house burned down, and his trailer at long last got its hook-ups last week, after months of waiting. He’s now reduced to doing these sad sort of CYA confessionals after getting his ass handed to him – ‘Well, I never really liked Karen Bass, and it sucks around here.‘ Not just once by a direct rebuttal to Levin’s face from Pratt.

But now again, in a quick little rap video mocking the entire episode.

Pratt does not let any grass grow under his feet, thinking about how to respond.

Sadly for progressives, they’re what General Honoré once coined as ‘Stuck on stupid.’ Instead of learning from TMZ’s horrific misstep targeting a fire victim for not actually living in his non-existent home, they’re running with it.

Pratt had a conversation with Adam Corolla, where he was honest and said that if Bass or Nithya Raman won the mayoral race, he foresaw no way he could continue to live in the ongoing wreckage that was Los Angeles, and he would move his family away.





To my point about progressive journalists, the Xweet below belongs to one Marlow Stern, who is the chief correspondent for Variety and, even worse, a teacher at Columbia University.

A New Yorker.

Marlow Stern is a longtime entertainment journalist—chief correspondent at Variety, ex-senior editor at Rolling Stone, Daily Beast, and Newsweek. He graduated from and now teaches at Columbia Journalism School. His mother, Irena Choi Stern, was assistant dean for alumni relations there for a decade and a former writer for NYT and others. No public info points to major family wealth, but clear elite journalism/academia connections.

He joined the ‘Spencer doesn’t live here anymore‘ able-bodied assist effort for Team Bass/Raman from the safety of the Big Apple. 

Clever fellow that he is, Marlow doesn’t get it, not no way, not no how.

And – this is the important part – he has no intention of ever getting it, because to understand would be helping the enemy. What he is doing is chanting the mantra so all the correct talking points go out to the feeble-brained, easily manipulated foot soldiers. Focus on the fact that Pratt doesn’t ‘live’ there, not that he couldn’t if he wanted to, because that circles back to the mayor.





Lather, rinse, repeat.

The obligatory goose.

And as Marlow blocks everyone who points out the obvious or drops a goose on him, he himself is angry that Pratt got mad at him for ‘the simple truth.’

THIS IS WHY YOU ONLY HAVE GOBLINS

The gremlins on Google appear to have been working their own malign magic to assist the goblins of lefty journalism.

The beauiful bungalows and modern mansions of Pacific Palisades have made a miraculous recovery in the satelite views of the area devasted by the fires.

Maybe Spencer Pratt is pulling our leg.

WHUT

And this is true. 

In the comments on those Xweet, it depends on where you live, what view on Google maps you’ll see when you search for ‘Livorno Drive, Pacific Palisades.’





There are a number of differing results, so I just checked myself on Google Maps (results have also been different on Google Earth YMMV, too).

Judging by all the pristine rooftops and lot sizes vs. house sizes, I’ll take the third house from the right. 

Looks perfect.

These two IPs showed entirely different views, which led to some hypothesizing about IPs…

…which also turned out not to hold water. The views LA residents see avry.

So, after reading the cellular discrepancy, I used my cell, and on the Street View choice that came up first, it’s all blown out, bulldozed, and burned. 

But, when I hit the now available satellite tab, guess what?

All the pretty rooftops reappear.

Back to the drawing board on that. 

And it’s not as if the Google satellite views were just switching over now. They have been the overhead view for some time.





I would hate to think that Google is consciously doing this, but then again, who are we talking about?

They left ‘Don’t be evil‘ behind a long time ago.


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