The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 10 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 2 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Carolla: Los Angeles homeless housing units cost $900,000 to build
“When they build homeless units that are 400 square feet, they're 900,000 dollars a unit.”
Carolla: No Malibu structures rebuilt one year after Pacific Palisades fire
“And that's what I said eight hours after the fire, and it's been a year, and there's I'm in Malibu. There's nothing rebuilt in Malibu.”
Carolla asserts COVID-19 was never dangerous to healthy young children
“Shutting schools down for COVID may be the safest thing to do, but you damage kids, you cause a lot of collateral damage, and it was never dangerous to healthy young kids in the first place.”
Carolla notes LA County Health Director Barbara Ferrer is not a doctor
“They hired some dumb witch named Barbara Ferrer, who's not even a doctor, and she just makes the declaration to shut everything down.”
Carolla: Union pressure forced Rochelle Walensky to walk back school reopening comments
“At some point, Rochelle Walensky of the CDC announces they should open schools, but that gets shut down. Really quickly by the school unions. And then she announces that she was not speaking officially. That was just sort of her opinion off the record.”
Carolla predicts progressive cities will collapse while freedom-focused states thrive
“All the people that are tired of living in a nanny state, being told we're going to get rid of your internal combustion engine and replace it with an electric car and all that kind of stuff, they're just going to, they're going to self-segregate. They're going…”
Carolla predicts proposed wealth taxes will increase California outward migration
“Yes, it's definitely going to drive migration up”
Carolla predicts Trump economic gains will deliver a conservative 2028 victory
“I think Trump's fiscal stuff is going to kick in in the new year, and I think people are going to start reaping the benefits of that, and I think if that happens, and gas is cheap, and interest rates are down, and home ownership is up, and employment is up, th…”