As The Gateway Pundit reported just days ago, Spencer Pratt has rocketed from reality TV personality to serious threat in the Los Angeles mayoral race — recently overtaking incumbent Democrat Karen Bass in new polling thanks to his viral, no-BS campaign.
Bill Maher, who recently admitted on his HBO show “I know I’m supposed to hate him. I DON’T!” and called Pratt a “nice guy” who is “very honest” with no advisors, just got a full dose of that honesty in the newly released Club Random episode.
Maher tried to pull Pratt into the liberal weeds on California’s insane solar regulations and taxes. Pratt wasn’t having it.
Instead of getting dragged into a technical policy debate, Pratt delivered what many frustrated Angelenos would likely consider a far more important point.
MAHER: “This is a state that is constantly overthinking everything, and over regulating everything.” “Trust me, I know. I did whole bits about how it took me three years to get the solar turned on.” “Solar! Something they want you to have!”
PRATT: “But now they’re taxing you, I think, for having it.”
MAHER: “They are?”
PRATT: “I think so.”
MAHER: “What do you mean you think so?! You have to know!”
PRATT: “I don’t need to know about solar, you know? I need to focus on making sure the moms are safe and the animals are not being abused. That’s my party.”
Maher kept pushing that a mayor must master every detail. Pratt shut it down with pure common sense:
PRATT: “Solar panels…we’re about three years from worrying about solar panels. We need to get all of the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks and then I can worry about solar panels.”
MAHER: “We can’t walk and chew gum at the same time?”
PRATT: “With the state of LA right now, solar panels, you’re gonna spit that gum out.
I love the idea of getting drug addicts treatment and giving them job opportunities. And if we need more solar panels, personally, I think we’ve got to investigate the LADWP and ask why you even need a solar panel.
You pay so much money for regular electricity that we’ve got to figure out why our rates are going up 10% or more every month, and we’re not getting better electricity. Alkaline water isn’t coming out of our taps.
So I’ll get back to you on the solar panels, but they’re a little lower on my totem pole. My priorities are making sure people aren’t dealing with home invasions every single night, right? Making sure you’re not destroying your suspension because we haven’t fixed the roads.
I’m basic. That’s why I’m resonating. People who are struggling to live in LA right now because it’s so expensive—and who are stepping in human poop—don’t care about your solar panel problem right now.
Maybe they will once I get rid of the poop and make it more affordable to live there. Then they may want solar panels.”
WATCH:
Spencer Pratt drags Bill Maher out of his liberal bubble and brought him back down to earth.
Maher was annoyed that Pratt didn’t know the specifics about taxes on solar powered energy, but Pratt humbled him with the REAL problems Angelenos care about.
MAHER: “This is a state… pic.twitter.com/OvfHVkVzCh
— Overton (@overton_news) June 1, 2026
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