Spencer Pratt's run for mayor of Los Angeles is over, but the man isn't going quietly. Throughout his campaign, Pratt built a following on hard-hitting, AI-generated videos that made career politicians look like they were sleepwalking through the news cycle. On Sunday night, he proved that instinct didn't retire with his campaign. Pratt posted a 10-minute monologue to social media, and it's the kind of video you need to watch in full, not skim through in a recap.
Pratt didn't waste time getting to his point. "We've lost our damn minds," he said, opening not with a warning but with a verdict on where the country stands right now.
Pratt built his case around the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children in the family's basement before attempting to take her own life. What set Pratt off wasn't the tragedy itself. It was what he found when he looked at how the internet responded. "The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their WiFi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok," Pratt said, describing a wave of TikTok accounts defending Clancy and shifting blame onto her husband, the man who came home to find his children dead.
That's not a fringe corner of the internet. That's hundreds of accounts, by Pratt's count.
Pratt traced the sickness back further than any app. He argued the real damage started during COVID, when Americans were handed rules that made sense only if nobody questioned them, and the people writing those rules broke them without consequence.
"Our institutions completely eviscerated their own reputation and dignity," he said, pointing to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), who locked down his own state while dining unmasked with lobbyists at the French Laundry. Pratt zeroed in on the hypocrisy of a system that criminalized solitude while excusing crowds. "If you went paddleboarding, alone in the middle of the ocean, you needed to be arrested for killing Grandma. But of course, if you riot with 500,000 people, that's totally fine, because viruses take a timeout when it comes to social justice," Pratt said.
That betrayal, according to Pratt, didn't just make people distrustful of government. It rewired how they process reality itself. Once you've been lied to enough times by the people who told you to trust the science, every subsequent tragedy starts to look like a plot instead of what it usually is, which is just a tragedy. Pratt didn't dance around who benefits from that mindset.
"Luigi Mangione shot a healthcare CEO in the back, and communists celebrated him," he said, noting that women continue sending him love letters in prison even after his guilty plea.
Pratt then connected that same impulse to the Lindsay Clancy case, arguing that the sympathy flooding toward her isn't random. He described it as a hijacking of maternal instinct, something he called one of the most powerful and necessary forces in human nature, now rerouted by algorithms away from a mother's own family and “reallocated towards whatever group the algorithm has designated as the vulnerable class.”
Pratt didn't blame TikTok alone for that shift.
He pointed to decades of film and television that trained audiences to root for the villain long before anyone had a smartphone. He cited films like Dead Man Walking, which he said “planted the seed that vile criminals deserve her heartfelt tears,” and shows like Dexter that “injected it with steroids.”
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"Breaking Bad was so brilliant, but it made us cheer on a narcissistic, murderous criminal drug kingpin who destroyed his family over money," he said. He drew the same line through the Joker's transformation from an unambiguous lunatic in Tim Burton's Batman to a sympathetic antihero in Todd Phillips’ Joker decades later. Somewhere in that shift, Pratt argued, audiences lost the ability to recognize a true villain when they saw one, and that confusion didn't stay on the screen.
Pratt saved his sharpest material for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He described learning of the shooting while sitting in an interagency meeting in Washington, D.C., working on Palisades recovery efforts, surrounded by people who had known Kirk personally for years and were devastated by the news. What disturbed Pratt more than the killing itself was what came after it.
"The reactions that followed were far more grotesque and reveal a sad report on where we are as a country," he said, describing public figures on the Left who turned an assassination into a punchline within hours of it happening. Pratt made clear this wasn't a partisan complaint. "What have you become when you celebrate an assassination like this? I don't care what your politics are. This was a father, a loving husband," he said.
This isn't really about TikTok, or Lindsay Clancy, or any single tragedy. It's about a country that has lost its ability to tell the difference between a victim and a villain, and increasingly doesn't seem to care which is which as long as the story fits the narrative it already wants to believe.
Pratt closed the video with a line that should stop anyone scrolling past it. "We have no dignity anymore, and I don't know how we get it back," he said.
We've lost our damn minds.
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 24, 2026
The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their Wifi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok... pic.twitter.com/WhT1iXJ9Pj
I don’t know the answer either.
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