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Spencer Pratt Turns Reality Star Punchline Into Brutal Karen Bass Takedown

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Spencer Pratt is turning one of the easiest shots against him into a weapon against Karen Bass, blasting the Los Angeles mayor after she and her allies tried to reduce him to a washed-up reality TV punchline.

The latest burst came after Bass repeatedly dismissed Pratt as a “former reality TV star,” a line that gave him exactly the opening he wanted.

Pratt answered by resurfacing an old Los Angeles Times article about Bass’ trips to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade, then framed the contrast in the most brutal terms he could.

“When I was in my 20s I was on a TV show,” Pratt wrote on X. “When Karen Bass was in her 20s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the L.A. Times was still in L.A., and used to tell the truth…”

The article he posted dated back to 1983 and said Bass traveled to Cuba with the “6th Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade.”

The piece cited a 1973 intelligence document that described the brigade as a group that “trains revolutionary-prone Americans in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugar cane.”

It also said Bass was described there as a brigade leader who “returned from Cuba to the U.S.A. bringing back propaganda literature,” though the report said the document did not identify the source for that claim.

Bass denied wrongdoing and said the Cuba trips were educational and “had nothing to do with terrorism.”

But Pratt did not treat the old report as some buried historical footnote. He used it as a battering ram after weeks of escalating attacks on Bass, a feud that has only gotten louder as the Los Angeles mayoral race grows more personal and more celebrity-saturated.

His war with Bass intensified after California Gov. Gavin Newsom endorsed her.

During an appearance on Fox News’ “Saturday in America,” Pratt accused Bass and Newsom of being jointly responsible for California’s failures, especially on homelessness.

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“It’s not shocking because they’re alleged criminal partners,” Pratt commented. “They’re both complicit in laundering $24 billion to actually increase homelessness.”

He followed that with an even nastier broadside, arguing that the state’s decline is visible everywhere.

“Anybody with eyeballs in the state of California or Los Angeles knows that there has not been a reduction in one homeless person,” Pratt added.

“Actually there’s been an increase of naked drug addict zombies in front of every kid’s playground, every kid’s school, every coffee shop.”

Pratt has kept coming back to the same argument: that voters do not need spin, party labels, or celebrity validators to see what is happening around them.

Even in deep-blue Los Angeles, he has insisted that his support is not coming from Hollywood elites but from ordinary residents who think the city has stopped working.

“My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, is the ‘look around’ candidate,” the former reality television personality said.

“You look around and see with your own eyes what I’m saying, and it’s true. And that’s why I’m gonna to win, because my opponents just lie, and they’ve had 10 years combined that they’ve created everything that they are looking around and seeing. So I would say, no more of this.”

He made a similar case on “Gutfeld!,” where he mocked the idea that internet momentum does not translate into real-world support.

“This is my favorite thing the internet says. They’re like, he’s so big on the internet, but is he big in the streets? Yes, the people I’m surging with are the people having to step over the naked drug addicts and step into human poop to get their $20 matcha,” Pratt remarked.

“Those are the people that I’m surging the moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl, needles and naked drug-addict zombies with machetes that maybe will chop a limb off.”

He also said his coalition is not what his critics would expect.

The vast majority of his supporters are Democrats, Pratt told Greg Gutfeld, while arguing that his campaign is rooted in “common sense.”

While Bass has rolled out endorsement after endorsement from high-profile stars, Pratt has insisted that celebrity approval is not what he wants — even as celebrity warfare keeps making him more visible.

Bass announced Thursday that she had landed Jane Fonda’s endorsement.

“Jane Fonda has spent her life on the front lines — from civil rights to women’s rights to the fight for our climate — and I’m deeply honored to have her support,” Bass said in a statement to TheWrap.

“At a time when Donald Trump is attacking our city, our immigrant neighbors, and the freedoms generations of women fought to win, Angelenos need leaders willing to stand up and speak out,” The statement added.

“Jane has never been afraid to do either, and I’m proud to have her in this fight with us.”

That came just two days after Bass rolled out another celebrity boost, this one from Samuel L. Jackson.

“These are the times we need someone who understands government, who also understands the needs of the people, someone who will go in the streets and gather the people together, not someone who divides them. Karen Bass is that person. Karen Bass for mayor,” Jackson said in a video on Tuesday.

Pratt, at least publicly, acted unimpressed. “I actually don’t want celebrities to come out and endorse me,” he told Gutfeld.

“I don’t want anybody to endorse me except for the moms and the animal lovers in LA. That’s my entire vote.”

“I’m cool if no celebrity ever endorses me,” he added. “I actually love when the celebrities attack me because then I’m like, oh, I am doing so well.”

Dennis Quaid, Paris Hilton, Katharine McPhee, David Foster and others are some of the the celebrities backing Pratt.

Pratt has also said Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx are backing him behind the scenes, but neither alleged endorsement has been publicly released.

And while Pratt says he does not need celebrity validation, he clearly relishes a celebrity brawl.

Chelsea Handler went after him in an Instagram video last week and tried to tie him to Donald Trump while dismissing him as unserious.

“This is a reminder that a straight, white male, former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate,” Handler said of Pratt’s mayoral bid.

Days later, Drew Carey joined in with a more direct blast.

“Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Prattfall for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a–,” Carey wrote in a social media post, after first saying, “f–k this guy already.”

Pratt fired back by linking both Handler and Carey to Jeffrey Epstein.

“Isn’t it weird how the two comedians histrionically lashing out against me are both in the ‘Epstein files’? What are the odds?” Pratt wrote on X.

He also posted material involving Carey, including a message from convicted Epstein coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that said she was having dinner with him.

He also put up a Shane Gillis video that said Handler appears in the Epstein files after a 2010 dinner with Epstein.

Lisa Rinna got dragged in, too. After the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star said she did not want a “reality person” in the job, Pratt answered with another Fox interview clip and another hit on Bass’ past.

“The reality, pun intended… is that was from 20 years ago,” Pratt said when asked whether the biggest city in California should be run by a former reality TV star.

“If we look at what Karen Bass was doing 20 years ago, she was in Cuba learning how to make bombs with the people who would then go to bomb Capitol Hill.”

“Even though I may not have been the most likable character, it was still TV, versus trying to destroy America and going to Cuba 20 times and praising Fidel Castro,” Pratt added about his time on MTV’s “The Hills.”

“So, against my opponent, my background is pretty strong.”

In the caption aimed at Rinna, Pratt twisted the knife again: “Hey Lisa, if you’re against me because I was on a TV show in my 20’s, wait til you learn what Karen Bass was doing in her 20’s…”

Bass, for her part, has painted a very different picture of the city under her leadership.

In an interview with KBLA radio host Dominique Diprima, after Diprima lobbed a softball question suggested Los Angeles might be safer than the media lets on, Bass agreed with the framing.

“Reality is our streets are safer than they’ve been since … What? The 1950s?” Diprima said.

“Yeah!” Bass replied. “And gang homicide is down — and by the way, most of the homicides are gang related. It’s down to 1960 levels.”

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