Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.

Don’t know if people who live outside of LA can know how significant this is.

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was the first time I can remember where a shooting wasn't immediately followed by a demand for gun control. Selective Activism.

Throw a prayer up for @elonmusk a couple of times a day. He's doing what we tax payers have wanted since we all started paying taxes.

You can't just stay here because you "feel like it." No American gets to stay in other countries, just because they want to. Doesn't work like that anywhere.

When I was in Jr High, in addition to the standard math, English, history, foreign language, etc classes, we all had wood shop, metal shop, auto mechanics, home ec (sewing and cooking), and another class where they taught you how to do basic personal banking. Schools should bring back these "life skills" classes.

.@TheJusticeDept @PamBondi @NC_Governor @CLTMayor We won’t stop asking you for the status of this case until Iryna Zarutska’s murderer is punished. USA owes this to her and to us.

After all these @DOGE revelations, it’s clear that our taxes are too high.

Regardless of how you voted for the US Presidency, I don’t see how it serves you to root for his failure. There have been times the person I voted for didn’t win, but then you get behind the winner in hopes it will benefit us as a nation. I’m never going to root against the United States. Ever.

This is one of the consequences of the “trophies-for-everyone” upbringing of the early 21st century. Basically, children were shielded from processing emotionally challenging experiences. My theory is that their parents were the first generation that en masse went to therapy, and learned that much of their negative feelings about themselves were due to how their parents treated them. Most of these parents did the work and recovered from that experience. However, they also vowed to ensure that their own children would not be on a couch in 20 years, having to recover from these parents themselves. And so, these parents bubble-wrapped their kids’ feelings. They didn’t want them to experience defeat (hence trophies for everyone, and not just the winners). They eliminated the experience of a kid not being a guest and not the focus at a birthday party (by making sure the departing gift bags everyone got were full of items of greater value than the present they themselves brought). They eliminated the experience of the kids working out conflicts themselves (by the teachers at the schools insisting that the kids come to them immediately when a conflict with another kid arose). They eliminated the kid experiencing the poor results of not having done the class assignments (by parents calling teachers on the kids’ behalf to get a better grade (including college, btw)). All to say, this was child abuse. These parents handicapped these kids by not letting them process defeat, disappointment, being left out, frustration, etc as children, so they could build those coping skills. And so, now you have a whole batch of adults processing all that for the very first time, with no practice, and no muscles in those areas. Truly handicapped. Hopefully, these now-adults will learn these lessons on their own, but that takes guts. Now you know why this batch of kids created the Victim Olympics for their present-day adult selves.

.@ABC @TheView, you should have me on there instead.

"If individuals want to clean out their property, they can." Karen Bass. Resident in the crowd, "We can't get to our house" (because the Mayor's evacuation orders are still in place). Bass, "....But you will be able to go back.... soon." Get this completely inept @MayorOfLA out of Los Angeles.

I don't care what explanation is finally given on the "drone/UFO" situation or on the "bird flu" situation, I'm not doing another lockdown. Any politician who tries to implement one can fuck off.

In 2020, the Democratic Party was overthrown by the Woke Party. And the Woke Party has run the country for the past four years. It produced negative results. That experiment is over. The Woke Party can take its place in the American political graveyard with the Whigs and the Federalists. It’s over.

C’mon people. I don’t care what your politics are, but @FLOTUS looks rad here.

Kamala Harris was the least-prepared, most fiscally-irresponsible major party candidate for the United States Presidency in the history of our country.

I want every American to know that Gavin Newsom is the worst thing that ever happened to California. He kept CA shut down during 2020-2023, longer than almost any other place on the planet, destroying businesses and people’s lives. He was extremely committed to that. At the same time, he gave away over $30B of our tax dollars to fraudsters via the EDD, with NO oversight. I know from some people in the CA gov that the directive was “Get the money out there; we’ll worry about the fraud later.” Needless to say, it was never “attended to.” Caring nothing for his constituents and losing money are Newsom’s specialties. If he runs for President, you do not want him to do the same to the nation.

This is unbelievable. Maxine Waters just blamed “rich people” for the failings of @GavinNewsom and @KarenBass. She says the problem is that the rich in Pacific Palisades didn’t pay the taxes necessary to “provide the services.” The truth is that the wealthy of Los Angeles pay so much in taxes that Newsom and Bass had enough to lose billions of dollars every year due to fraud and ineptitude, and yet the state still functioned. How dare you, @RepMaxineWaters. What a repulsive and irresponsible statement. #PalisadesWildfire

The truly alarming breach of trust and safety is that many of us are just now hearing about USAID, and about the billions of our tax dollars that have been funneled through it.

Time to get back to being real. No more nonsense. foxnews.com/media/director-a…

All kinds of people we’ve never heard of, and whom we never elected, have had this access for decades. You will need a new argument, because right now all it looks like is that you and others are terrified we’ll see your names as USAID fund recipients.

I hope school children are being properly told of all the good things @elonmusk has done for this country and the world. He is exactly the type of person who should have a statue erected, honoring him.

Anyone want some prayer? If you don’t want to say what it is, but want some help, just say “yes,” and we’ll pray for you. God will know what it’s about.

To those "taking issue" with the things I've been saying lately: 1. There is nothing at all controversial with what I'm saying. I am expressing relief at a lifting of a spiritual heaviness that has been on our society for the past 4 years or more. I am looking forward to what follows. 2. If you are not familiar with my film and literary work, and are "confused" by (or verbally violent about) what I am saying, I invite you to watch my film VIOLET and read my books "FAME" and "FACE." VIOLET is a map to get from a fear-filled life to an instinct-filled life. "FAME" is about the life-cycle of Fame and how we put it on a pedestal and democratized the seeking of it. "FACE" is about women's faces getting older and why that makes people angry. All to say, this is the kind of information I deliver. I endeavor to free people from the fears that keep them from fully being themselves. The more people are themselves, the happier they'll be, and the more we all benefit. 3. I have never cared if I am talking to a "left-leaning" or a "right-leaning" media outlet when it's time for me to deliver something publicly. What I have to say is for ALL people, and not for just one set of people or another. What I am delivering is for everyone who needs to hear it, and that group is not divided along "party lines." 4. For those of you who have reached out to tell me to "beware of the group with whom you are associating," I say, "Fuck off." I have something to do here. If you don't like it, move the fuck on.

.@TulsiGabbard, I have been giving interviews for 40 years. I applaud your on-camera composure in the face of blatant rudeness, and your huevos in reciting to them the lies they've told about you. I pray that your emotions and resolve continue to be bulletproof against verbal weapons, so you can fully, and without distraction, become the Soldier you are meant to be for all Americans.

Inauguration Fashion Roundup. (Because there was a lot to look at.) Thread. 1. Gold star for @IvankaTrump. Very classy in her green dress, coat, and hat. A second gold star for her @OscardelaRenta dress the other night.

.@realDailyWire, I'm going to take this opportunity to clear up some confusion you and others have about my life and career, reflected in your recent piece on me. (link below.) 1. I am a filmmaker and author. I am not an actor. I have been writing/directing/producing films and writing books for over a decade. Acting is a past career of mine. I have not pursued any acting roles since at least 2012. imdb.com/name/nm0000868/ 2. Though your appreciative summary of my recent @X posts and essays is accurate, you unfortunately omitted the computer science degree I earned for UCLA in 2016, the success of my first film VIOLET, and the success of my best-selling books, Fame and Face, in order to support your position that very little has occurred in my life since 1987. You should rectify your piece to reflect the facts. 3. If you need a reference of my professional resume, here's a link my bio on my production company site. section5.tv/aboutus 4. I hope we'll see you covering the non-AI film festival I founded, the CREDO 23 Film Festival. It's 3/28-30 in L.A. We've been busy setting that up, signing up sponsors, and reviewing all the film submissions we received. My new avant-garde films, LOOK and FEEL, will premiere there. CREDO23FilmFest.com 5. I am also currently casting for my next film, NEED, as well as continuing to raise funds for my other films, like PANDAMAN, which is a satire about the woke army. 6. All to say, there's no need for you to omit very large portions of someone's life in your reporting in order to support an angle upon which you have decided. It can BOTH be true that my posts have been getting attention, and also my work as a filmmaker and writer has been numerous and successful over the past couple of decades. I have been in the press since 1982, and this "spin to match the journalist's angle" has happened many times to me. Fortunately, it is of great benefit to the public that we have the opportunity to rectify it like this, via social media. (Referenced article: dailywire.com/news/tinsel-to…)

I agree with @SpeakerJohnson. If someone has already been irresponsible with money and duties, like Karen Bass @MayorOfLA and @GavinNewsom, you don’t just hand them more money and imagine they’ll now do it all differently. There needs to be plan. Otherwise the people of Los Angeles will never see whatever federal money is sent to us. It will be squandered, like they have repeatedly squandered our tax dollars.

How would you feel if someone who worked for you had stolen $4,700 from you. That would smart. How about $47,000? Fury. $4,700,000? If you had that much cash, maybe it wipes out your entire family savings and you may never recover in your lifetime. Bigger? $4,700,000,000. How about that? over 4 billion dollars. $4,700,000,000,000. That's 4.7 trillion dollars. It isn't some made up number in a movie. It's an incredible amount of money, comprised of all of our tax dollars. Money we worked hard to earn, and paid in taxes that maybe put a big strain on our budgets that year. And some individuals in the government thought they could just burn it. Just throw it in the trash. That's what they thought of the results of our hard work. Thank God for @DOGE.

And yet, you did.

Please be more specific on the source of your outrage. I can’t think of one “hard working American” who doesn’t want to know where their tax dollars are going, and whether or not they are being just dumped into ambiguous initiatives, while they themselves are financially hurting.

Alert for people in the Hollywood Hills, from a neighbor: “They have video of two people on a scooter (masked of course) riding into lower Runyon Cyn Park and coming out 3 mins later, fire was first spotted 12 mins after that. The same two scooter guys, were actually seen by a resident, taking a small blow torch to hill side brush @ the top of Runyon Cyn Park, near Solar Dr, 15 mins later, so there were at least two ignition points, which is why it spread so quickly. The same two “scooter guys” were spotted (and chased) by a Laurel Cyn Neighborhood Watch Group last night.” @LAPDHQ @LAPDHollywood

Best thing filmmakers and series show runners can do right now is leave politics out of their projects. People are besieged with politics online and on TV. When they watch entertainment, they want a break from all that.

When you think about it, no newspaper should ever “endorse a Presidential candidate.” They are supposed to report the news, not tell you how to vote.

Don’t get pulled into the drama. Good things are happening.

That is a rocking photo, @hellomag @FLOTUS

You and Gascon and Bass sent out the invitations long ago to all criminals to come to CA and LA and practice their "craft." You boasted that you would not prosecute rioters, trespassers, looters, shoplifters, etc. And they came. From other states, from other countries. You created a hostile living environment for all of us. That anyone thinks they can loot and commit arson in Los Angeles or anywhere in CA with impunity is because YOU made sure they got an invitation.

How about when you murder people, you no longer get a pronoun at all.

Meghan Markle and Harry are no better than ambulance chasers. What a repulsive "photo op" they achieved. They are "touring the damage"? Are they politicians now? They don't live here; they are tourists. Disaster Tourists. #PalisadesFire

Wanted to tell you guys about something. I just found out that a bunch of women are trying to start a boycott of a needlepoint store that belongs to a good friend of mine, because they suspect that she doesn't adhere to the woke beliefs. These women didn't get the memo that the Woke Era is over. If you are interested in needlepoint, check out my friend's store's website (and if you're in NY, go on in and say "Hi"). theredthreadatelier.com

Tesla is literally the worst car to vandalize. It is equipped with multiple cameras, programmed to record disturbances to the car. Every vandal is recorded, and most are subsequently identified.

The @sydney_sweeney @AEO ads are so successful because after more than a decade of "don't look at me, how dare you objectify me, get your 'male gaze' away from me," Ms. Sweeney unapologetically invites you to look.

.@JesseBWatters, thanks for having me.

For anyone in the press trying to imply I'm on your "team," I do not care about political teams. I'm merely in favor of each individual freely living a life however they want, without impairing any other individual from freely living their own life. And that means no more Woke Oppression, with threats of destroying people's lives professionally and societally because they do not want to think like you. No more trying to control what other people think and feel. No more deciding someone is a heinous person just because they want to discus alternatives to a woke position. It's over. And I am fascinated that this far down the road in the "Creator Economy," with all the ring lights, tripods, and editing equipment available, that people don't have better production values in their online videos.

Let's take even a fraction of the USAID money that @ElonMusk and the #DOGE Boys have @DOGE'd up and give it to American teachers, schools, police, firemen, nurses, etc. Can you picture that?

The fact that 40,000 of you started following this acct over just the past two days for #SocialMediaVideoCritiques is evidence that we are starved for comedy. Comedy was first on the chopping block years ago, but we NEED it. #BringBackComedy

I don't ever want to hear another anemic defense of Biden's presidency. Nothing. #HunterPardon

I really want other CA voters to see the lack of sincerity, the dismissiveness, the dedication to pretentiousness, and the dereliction of care for the citizens of California. He has always demonstrated this. In every video. You cannot trust this kind of person with any role, and especially not one upon which our wellbeing depends. Gavin Newsom needs to be removed, before something worse happens here.

I like this guy’s school. Donation link below.

I am Hollywood. The New direction.

California residents, this is the moment to think very hard about whether or not you want @GavinNewsom (and Karen Bass @MayorOfLA for those in LA) in charge when we get the rain that brings mudslides, or a big earthquake. They have proven themselves to be completely inept at running a state and city, respectively. I am assuming they have no mitigation plans for either disaster. Sign their recall petitions and/or demand their resignations. We deserve responsible adults in these roles. We cannot afford to have another disaster while they are in these offices.

So far these protests against King Charles have been ineffectual.

I just talked to a friend whose house was partially destroyed in the fires. It's mayhem. Almost impossible to get to the houses. The officials "in charge" of screening residents don't seem to know the protocol, so it's different each day, because THERE'S NO LEADERSHIP from Karen Bass @MayorOfLA or @GavinNewsom. There's no consistency of protocol, there seems to be no plan, there's no guidance on debris removal, etc. My friend said that the only people who have this shit together are the scammers relentlessly contacting all the affected residents, because the Los Angeles officials MADE ALL THE FIRE VICTIM ADDRESSES AND CONTACT INFORMATION PUBLIC. It's like a competition to see who can be most incompetent. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @elonmusk @RickCarusoLA can any of you just take control of LA and help these people? No one "in charge" in LA knows what the fuck they're doing.

To everyone who was on that prayer chain the other day, I need a favor. Please pray for healing for my friend. Can’t give details, but I know the prayers will land correctly.

#TermLimits We shouldn’t have to wait 39 years to change the guard. Only Kings do that.

This account has become like some desperate, sad comedian wannabe who failed out of the comedy club circuit, and has now resorted to copying and pasting some decade-old jokes they found by scrolling through established comedians' @X acct.

Make sure you have a private life. Every so often, do something no one knows about. Go see a movie alone and don’t tell anyone. Press a flower in a book and tell no one. Drive to the neighboring town, walk around, and come back, and don’t tell anyone where you were all day. It will feed you.

Hey, everyone who was concerned with a dictatorship, you’ll be interested in Newsom’s moves. He’s making whatever decisions he wants, with no CA voter input. He plans on slapping almost a dollar per gallon on our already sky-high gas prices, and he’s talking about restricting use and/or banning our classic cars, etc. This is all because he has no idea how to make good on his ridiculous “promise” to make CA “emission-free by 2035.” So, he’s trying to force it on us all. He has also lost billions of our tax dollars through fraud and waste. We have some of the highest state income tax, so his fiscal irresponsibility is especially heinous. He is a complete disaster.

Los Angeles has always been dry. It has always had strong Santa Ana winds. It has always had a problem handling heavy rain, and in keeping hillsides from turning to mud. It has always had earthquakes. But to not do everything possible to mitigate the degree of damage when those events occur is to naively assume they're never occur again. That's like someone never buying insurance because they assume it won't ever be necessary. Or never getting any kind of vaccine, because they don't think they're going to "catch it." We get insurance because events might occur. We get vaccinated because we might catch it. In both cases, our preparation reduces the blow when the events actually land on us. Karen Bass @MayorOfLA and @GavinNewsom idea of preparation was to just cross their fingers that no event ever befell CA and LA. That is not leadership. That is not even basic management. That is irresponsibility and childishness. They are both complete failures and should be removed from office, so that adults can take care of this city and state.

I have not before seen the kind of negative reaction to a public figure's death as I have with Charlie Kirk. When public figures die, we almost always see an outpouring of admiration and sorrow. It's especially ironic when it is a figure who had in recent years been mocked by the public -- Michael Jackson comes to mind. Perhaps this is appropriate, that both those who loved, and those who ridiculed the public figure, together look at the best parts of that person's entire life and just focus on that, in their death. They're now dead, after all. But, with Kirk's death, the negative reactions have been stunning, particularly for someone who spent all his time trying to just talk to people about their differences. Then again, I can't remember a public figures death having so much positive and life-changing spiritual affect on people. Maybe that's the very thing that is causing the inexplicable aggressive reaction from some.

Anyone bringing up my brother to me for any other reason than to say you like his new upcoming show, or any of his past work, will be muted at best, and blocked at worst. I'm not interested in your fantasy about some imagined conflict between the two of us over your political ideologies. Really, it's sick. So, keep it up. It makes it easy for me if identify yourselves, so I can make an X setting adjustment to never have to hear from you, ever again.

Cannot tell you the fury many Los Angeles residents feel looking at these three people together. Complete ineptitude. Not just the decisions that led to the devastation of the #PalisadesWildfire, but all the other decisions as well.

A solid 1:30 minutes of absolute craven capitulation of responsibility. Gavin Newsom is a repugnant person. No expressed concern for the citizens of California is a hallmark of his time in office as governor. He is repulsive.

Dude, look at the election results from 5 days ago, federal and local, CA is not interested in any more of your nonsense.

LOL. C’mon, this is great.

No. We’re not doing it. Can’t think of anything more un-American. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @NancyMace @SenHawleyPress

Alan Ruck, killing it with this perspective. “It used to be Kings and Queens and Emperors, and now it’s Captains of Industry. And they think the world and everything on it and in it, everything in the air and in the ocean belongs to them…” 1/

Karen Bass @MayorOfLA and @GavinNewsom are like two players on a baseball team that don’t go to practice, don’t train, and hope the ball isn’t hit to them in the outfield. But, they sure like wearing those uniforms, hanging out in the dugout, and taking champagne showers in the locker room when we win. We the voters need to be the General Manager of Team California and Los Angeles and get these people off the roster.

His prep was probably having had guns pointed in his face over the course of his career.

BIG CONGRATULATIONS, MIKE!! Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, my bro @realmikefox, classing up the joint.

Newsom is the worst governor California has ever had.

Karen Bass @MayorOfLA, you are insane. You are talking like an abusive boyfriend trying to convince his girlfriend that the smacks to her face and body did not emanate from him. You have yet to step up in any way to confess your incredible irresponsibility to the city of Los Angeles. You appear to have assumed the Mayor job was ceremonial, like the Grand Marshall of a parade.

.@elonmusk, thankful to you for buying Twitter and giving us all @X. That move took some of the air out of the woke momentum balloon, before the election popped it altogether. Happy Thanksgiving to you.

Just because someone makes more money than you doesn't mean they are smarter than you.

A couple of years ago, insurance companies put in the necessary requests to the state of California to raise their rates. They were denied. So most of them pulled out of CA. It has been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get house ins here since then. Many of these now destroyed houses may be uninsured because CA wouldn’t let the companies raise rates to compensate for past fires, etc. #PalisadesFire

This @RFKJr_Official hearing is really boring so far. So many “passionate statements” asserting he is this way and that way. When he tries to answer or correct them, they interrupt him and repeat some part of their speech. Totally boring. We want to hear him talk, not listen to these shrieking Norma Rae speech attempts.

Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom should be prosecuted for fraud. They represented they could do the job of LA Mayor and CA Governor. Both represented they could do the job, but neither one was suited for their job. That's fraud.

Make America Fun Again #MAFA

The idea of RFK Jr regulating Kool-Aid was too much for him.

Could you shut up for a minute. #PalisadesFire

Curious if they had a permit for their demonstrations. Permits that allowed them to block the 101, tag the sides of the freeway, effectively shut down DTLA, tag City Hall, etc. Can you please tell us what that kind of permit is called. You are not enforcing anything that is "safe and lawful."

The best career advice I can give is to build a tight relationship with God, and do what He tells you to do. That will take to professional destinations you didn’t know existed.

Every utility company, every insurance company, every credit card company, every social media company has all this.

Karen Bass spoke at the Directors Guild of America three months after taking office as Mayor of LA, in February of 2023. I already didn't think she could do the job, but she really confirmed it that night with these statements: - She hadn't planned on running for Mayor. So, no forethought. - She appeared to know NOTHING about the entertainment business. This is like the Mayor of Las Vegas knowing nothing about the casino business. - She had not staffed her office yet. How do you not put that together before election day? She asked the crowd to recommend people, as if we were a live Craig's List. - She seemed unable to move off her "homeless campaign" speak. She suggested that film productions give jobs to homeless people. Random homeless people, when our business, FULL of experienced, talented people, was hurting from the decrease in productions. Karen Bass needs to resign immediately.

Geraldo Rivera will be with them, so not to worry.

#SocialMediaPostCritique - Confusing reference. Give more detail on your topic here. - Your two sentences seem unrelated. Bridge them with the reference (see above). - “Erosion” is physical by default, so think of another verb that will give you the irony that seems to sought in the “physical” mention. - Provide either source citation for the second sentence, or write a follow up essay. Otherwise, the reader is left confused by the reference.

I sincerely hope Senators and Representatives will now be forbidden from stock trading. People in these positions not only know what regulations, etc are about to affect a stock, they CREATE the regulations. I don't know how this deep insider trading is not already disallowed by Commissioner @HesterPeirce and the @SECgov. @realDonaldTrump

One of the classiest, most beautiful women on TV is @HARRISFAULKNER. Every single time.

Stop talking.

This is a lie. I’ve lived in LA for a long time and there have never been so many home robberies as there have been since you took office. It’s one of the reasons insurance companies have left the state (after your ins commissioner would not allow them to raise rates), due to having to cover this incredible volume of home robberies.

Because you would not allow insurance companies to raise their rates, they pulled out of the state all together. You did nothing to prevent that.

Yes.

You should be spending every minute of your day fixing the problems that have existed since your first month in office. - Are the homeless all in shelters? - Have all the off-line fire engines been fixed? - Does the @LAFD have adequate funding? - Have the reservoirs been filled yet? - Has the @LAPD been adequately funded, such that we now have a police force appropriate for the size of LA City? - Have all the damaged and pothole-ridden roads been repaved? - Have you tackled the outrageous power bills we’ve been getting for the past year? The list goes on. Only after you’ve done your actual job should you be taking the time to hold political press conferences. Do your job.

Pray. Even if you don't pray, pray. Praying pulls down the positive energy necessary to make our planet beautiful. Pull it down. Don't put up with this shit. Don't put up with this shit.

Karen Bass @MayorOfLA and @GavinNewsom should be replaced immediately. We already knew that the city and state was being mismanaged, before these fire disasters. This will only get worse. I am not willing to find out how unprepared the city and state is for a major earthquake, structure-destroying mudslides, water system poisonings, power grid collapses, or any of the other things that could befall us here. We have all the demonstration we need to want something different.

What's missing from both Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass is not just the necessary competence, but love. Neither of them has ever demonstrated a love for the citizens of Los Angeles or California. If you don't have both of these qualities, you cannot hold office here.

.@GavinNewsom, you are inciting violence. That is called “criminal incitement,” and it is not protected by the First Amendment. You are the governor of a state in the USA. Watch your mouth.

When you hear of the idea of Gavin Newsom running for President, remember this post. He has been the worst governor of California has ever had. We pay some of the highest taxes in the US, already have the highest gas prices, and then he decides to do this gas price hike. It’s obscene. And for our money we get rampant crime and a total disregard for California residents. He just does not care about any of us. And this is the exact same thing he will do to the entire United States of America.

If you want purposelessness, anxiety, depression, and worthlessness to overwhelm the population, sure.