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Episode Date: June 10, 2025

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Oh, Jesus. Do you think North Korea is laughing at us right now? No, they're probably trying to give us advice. Donald. Donald, here. Here, no, no, no. Pick up the phone, Donald. I know what to do.

I know what to do, Donald. I can help you. And oh, yeah, yeah, they did have, we'll wait and see how this evolves. But they did interview the mayor of L.A. and she went on basically a damage control to justify why this is normal. Let's go live now to Los Angeles Mayor of Karen Bass. Hi, Mayor. Thank you so much for joining us.

Great job. Hi. So what are you and your police force? I know how busy you are preparing for the hours ahead. What are you expecting on that front? Well, I just have to say that if you dial back time and go to Friday, if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night.

I will tell you. What a great concept. We're not going to riot if you just don't enforce the law. Yeah. You know if you don't want any problems, you can't make us do your laws. Great. What a really good way to look at it. Yeah, we're going to riot and destroy things if you make us follow the law.

That it is peaceful now, but we do not know where and when the next raids will be. That is the concern because people in the city have a rapid Ristampans network. If they see ice, they go out and they protest. And so it's just a recipe for pandemonium that is completely unnecessary. Nothing was happening here. Los Angeles was peaceful before Friday. This is the first time that there's ever been a riot in L.A. If you guys didn't know this.

And before Trump was the president, there weren't any problems in L.A. at all. Trump comes in and he just fucks everything up. When we find out when and where the other raids are going to happen, that will determine how the police respond. Mayor Bassett's Wolf Blitzer here in the situation room as well. The state of California, as you well know, is expected to file a formal lawsuit over President Trump's deployment of the National Guard, perhaps as early as today.

Your own police chief says the level of violence he's seeing in Los Angeles is, quote, disgusting. So even your own police chief is roaching out on you. More boots on the ground? Well, no, I think the issue here is state power and state sovereignty. And so we do not believe. And what the governor is doing is separate from what's happening in the city. But what was the reason that the president had to take the power from the governor and federalize the National Guard? Because he wasn't enforcing the law?

Like, what a ridiculous question. I think everybody knows the answer to this. Because he wasn't enforcing the law and he actively said that he wasn't going to. That's how it works. Like, you want to talk about states' rights, go ahead. But last time I checked, the federal government won the Civil War. The night before this action was taken, there was a protest that got a little unruly. Late at night, it was a hundred.

A little unruly late at night. Bro, they were lighting cars on fire. This shit was a PVP server. What are you talking about? 100 people. 27 people were arrested. There wasn't a reason for this. So let me get this straight.

Because you didn't arrest a lot of people, it wasn't a problem. Oh my God. Where do these people come from? The concern. And if there was, the way it happens traditionally. is, is that requests are made on the local level of the governor to send National Guard troops. No requests came from the city of Los Angeles. What has happened now is an entirely different situation.

The city of Los Angeles, they act like they're like an independent country. Like we're going and doing this. And keep in mind, where are they? Where are the American flags? Do you guys see a single one? Nope. That's right. That's because this is America.

You know, and speaking of now, there are also, what, about 500 active duty U.S. Marines over at Camp Pendleton, not too far away, awaiting possible orders to mobilize. Governor Newsom has said, for what? What do you mean for what? To keep these people from burning down your city again for the like 30th time? Let me just point out, Mayor, Governor Newsom has said that President Trump is, quote, putting fuel on the fire. And you've called the deployment of National Guard troops to your city a chaotic escalation. Why is this an escalation? Well, again, it's an escalation that didn't have to happen. Why were there?

They just had to not enforce the law, and it wouldn't have been a problem. Easy. It's simple. Yeah, they just had to do what we said, and then we wouldn't have let them burn down the city, obviously. You know, we had been told that he was going to go after violent criminals. It wasn't a drug den. it was a Home Depot. It was places where people are... Trump ran on deporting all of the illegal aliens.

He ran on deporting all of them. This is a total fucking bullshit comparison. He said this 50 fucking times. I'm here. We're going to get rid of everybody. So, well, she's saying that he bait and switched them. He didn't bait and switch them. This is exactly what he said he would do. Working.

So what was the point of doing this? And then knowing that in a city like Los Angeles, and we had talked about this for a long time, that has a very sophisticated, long-term immigrant rights, organizations and institutions, that if these random raids were going to happen, then there was going to be the danger of a backlash.

And you add... No, the thing is that, like, this is what I'm, I find is so funny about this is that they think that like, oh, well, there's a danger. We might just start causing a bunch of problems. No, that's not how this works. You don't get to decide this. You're

part of the United States. Like, you have to follow federal law. It's so weird why this is happening. Trump caused this. I know he caused this. And that's why I think that he should use martial law to make sure it stops

happening. Because the problem, really is that like, and you're right, if Trump had never removed any illegals from L.A., nothing bad would have happened. But you understand what you're saying, right? You're saying, well, he can't do what he was elected to do or these people are going to riot and burn down the city. And again, this is the law, right, following the law. Like, there's a reason why he did that.

There's a reason why he won. on to that the National Guard and it felt like fuel for a fire that was unnecessary given the point where it has escalated to do you think the National Guard is needed now no I don't think the National Guard is needed now bro this same frame shit is literally on fire it's actually on fire No, guys, this is fine. Need it now. Things in L.A. are calm.

I will tell you that I'm saddened by the extent of the vandalism in the form of graffiti all through the downtown area. But it is important for people to know that even in down... I wonder, like, I mean, what about the guy indiscriminately breaking out windows in the LAPD headquarters with a skateboard? Like, how isn't this guy a meet? Like, this isn't an ice protest. This is just a retard. Like, why isn't he in jail? Town. This is isolated to a few streets.

This is not citywide civil unrest taking place in Los Angeles. A few streets downtown. It looks horrible. You just watched it being calm asthma. Focus on the 10 seconds clips is not sensationalized. Well, it's calm now. And this is what happens, right? Is that things start out fine?

And also, it's not entirely calm because these people are blocking traffic and they're blocking the roads. there's a form of power that they're using in order to do that. Like, I mean, people have the right to drive around and go around than the city. And if you shut down public transportation, and also, like, this is about yesterday, too. It's not even about today. So it's not sensationalized. It's just the reality. Everybody watched it happen.

It's obvious what's going on. People committed crimes. Yeah, they're like throwing bricks at police officers. I mean, it's absolutely unacceptable. And those people that set cars on fire or did other forms of vandalism will be sought to be arrested and prosecuted. This is not the way to promote a cause like immigrant rights. All right. I want to play some sound.

It's not immigrant rights. And this is, see, they keep doing this. Have you guys noticed this? This is going to be the leading cause of xenophobia in America in probably, what probably already is, to be honest with. you, but like it's going to just keep getting worse, is that the intentional and deliberate conflation of illegal and legal immigrants, them doing this is extremely dangerous. And it puts a lot of like legal immigrants that actually have gone through the system or have come to the country through the proper channels. It puts them in the crosshairs of a bunch of angry people

that are mad that they're being lied to. Asians are illegal too. I mean, I'm sure some of them are, right? I mean, but it's a matter like what somebody is. Somebody could be white and illegal. That's not an issue. Yeah. And let's see here, immigrant and illegal is so different and it's very dangerous.

You're right? Yeah. And I think that this is the problem. And this is what I think is going to be the result of this. I think that people on social media are going to throw the baby out with the bathwater. And you're going to have levels of protection. isolationist xenophobic rhetoric that we haven't seen for years, like at least in our lifetimes, maybe since September 11th. But like that was only about like one group of people. I think in

general that's what's going to happen. And the reason why is that when people hear that all immigrants are like this, they're going to start using that language too. That's what they want. Well, I mean, they're going to get that. That's what's going to happen. I'm just telling you right now, like that's what that's what it's going to be. And it all, as I said, it already did start happening with the H1BV. or thing. Because that was a form of legal immigration and people are still against that. And it's because of language like this that it's happened. From police chief Jim McDonald, let's listen. This violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated now since the beginning of this

incident. What we saw the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to that is getting increasingly worse and more violent. Tonight we had individuals out there shooting commercial grade fireworks at our officers. That can kill you. And we have adapted our tactics to be able to have a chance to be able to take these people into custody and to be able to hold them accountable. We are overwhelmed as far as the number of people out there engaged in this type of activity. So, you know, you had officers injured. We also heard. We started in chat-law to fuck our first amount right to protest. I hate the history. You're not protesting by throwing bricks at people and breaking windows.

like nobody is against protesting legally but the problem is that the people are not doing that and they actively don't want to do that you need to understand that the goal of these protests is to terrorize people and to make them afraid of speaking out and pushing back against it that's why for example you had like 20 people

that went and like collectively attacked and bullied that one woman who was disagreeing with them they don't hate the police they want to be the police this entire premise that this is about free speech It's absolutely not. And if it were up to them, you wouldn't be able to say anything. So this entire, like the content, like, don't fall for this bullshit.

It's 100% what it is. Police Chief McDonald talk about officers being targeted with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks, other projectiles. He has also said that, you know, he's overwhelmed by the number of protesters. What are you doing as mayor to make sure your police force has what it needs right now? Well, first of all, I'm completely. in sync with the police chief. And let me just add that some people might think, because they don't get arrested right on the spot that they've gotten away with something and the message that I would send. Well, because usually they do. That's the reason why.

There's tons of videotape and people who didn't get arrested today for committing violent acts don't plan on the fact that you get off because you can be. I would plan on it. arrested in the next few days and next few weeks. So it is completely unacceptable, and those people that commit crimes will be arrested and prosecuted. I am completely in alignment with that. I know that when help is needed, that the police chief will call on that help, mutual aid from other cities or from the sheriff's department, when that is needed. But I hope that it is not needed anymore. The rage should stop, especially on people's workplaces. The impact. What do you mean? So they should just stop enforcing the federal law?

This is the negotiation. Stop enforcing the law or we're going to continue burning down the city? It's insane. The fact that that can have on our local economy, we are a city of immigrants. And I worry about the people who were detained on Friday, whose families still have not been able to reach out to them. The lawyers have not been able to go in and deal with their clients. This is unprecedented. This has not happened before. And so surely that doesn't have anything to do with these massive riots and the civil unrest

and all the police officers being preoccupied with all the burning cars. Surely that doesn't have anything to do with it. Again, you want to talk about chaos. Well, this is what contributes to chaos. Policy. There are due process concern, certainly. But back to what we just heard from the LAPD. chief. You said that you're totally in sync with the police chief. He is saying that he's overwhelmed,

that his forces are overwhelmed. What more do you need to hear from him to bring in more resources to bring him the support that he is saying he needs? Well, what I was saying is, is that the support he has called on and he has received that support from the sheriff's department and from other police departments. And so I can sure see that. He was describing a situation. where we cannot bring it under control here. I think you should talk to him a little bit further. But what we are seeing, for example, there's nothing happening on our streets now. I love the fact that they're interviewing her with this and there's the footage of these people spraying pepper spray.

And there's officers fighting back. And there's all this shit happening literally right next to her. It's so obvious. It was being contemplated. there was nothing happening on our streets. As I mentioned, that evening, there was a protest that got out of hand. It was a protest of a hundred people. None of that warrants federal intervention, and that's my point.

Well, if it's a protest of 100 people, then why can't you just arrest them whenever they're committing crime? Like, if you've got 100, think about how problematic that would be. If you have 100 people trying to fuck stuff up, that would be awful. She just lied that the police was apparently not. involved, but they were? Why are the police not doing their jobs and clearing the streets for the public to use them? Well, because the police listened to the government, and the government's telling them not to do that. That's the reason why. Right, but you also acknowledge that you don't know if there's going to be other immigration raids in the city. So, I mean, that raises the

question, what are you doing to prepare for that potential scenario? There could be more violence ahead. Well, you know what? It's a very difficult thing to plan. We have 88 cities in our county. The raids could take place anywhere. They don't have to take place in Los Angeles. For example, the unrest that you saw on Saturday was happening in an adjacent city. You see, it's always the language, whether it's saying immigrant instead of illegal alien or even illegal immigrant, not drawing any distinction, calling it unrest. It's always the language that these people use in order to lie.

Los Angeles. It was the city of Paramount. So it's very difficult to prepare for something when you have absolutely no idea when and where it's going to take place. What you're saying is true about the Trump administration. They want you to fear speaking out against them the way he's running the country and walking all over the Constitution's causing this? Last time I checked, I mean, like, deporting illegal aliens isn't against the Constitution. I'm pretty sure that's actually the law. Like, I mean, Trump is going too far by deporting illegal aliens?

I don't think so. You know, Mayor, the Trump orders are Tom Holman has now walked back some comments suggesting that you or Governor Newsom, for that matter, could face arrest if you obstruct federal authorities. How do you respond to Holman, and do you have any concerns potentially about being arrested? No, I'm not concerned about being arrested. I can't imagine an opportunity, I can't imagine a situation where I am going to interfere with federal agents. So it was something that was inappropriate to say. And what I am going to focus on is bring our city together. We cannot allow ourselves to be divided.

We are an international city, the diaspora from just about every country in the world. An international city, for sure. lives here and so this is a time to stand together and it's also a time to appeal to the administration please dial this back this was not necessary it has i think they need to dial it up i i think this is the problem is that they let this they let these people run wild and what happens is that when these people feel like they're able to get like a a small win it emboldens them to keep going and I think that really like I think that they just need to completely fucking like stomp this shit out like that's that's actually my opinion totally stomp this shit out like bring in the uh the military bring in the National Guard fucking uh martial law curfews

arrest all these people make the little camps where you can hold them in do the entire fucking thing and you can stop this very very fast And if anybody is throwing rocks or anything like that, I think use deadly force against them. Like if you're using rocks and you are using deadly force against police officers or the National Guard, I think they should be authorized to use deadly force back against you. Now, I don't support shooting anybody for a non-deadly reason, obviously. But if you're using deadly force and you're trying to actually hurt somebody, something needs to happen.

Bro, wild take. That's not a wild take at all. These are citizens. These are people, these are real people that are wearing these outfits. You don't have the right to put their lives at risk by throwing deadly objects at them. You don't have the right to do that. That's just not how it works. Yeah, you realize you're talking about starting a civil war, right? No, I don't think so at all.

I think most people support this. I think they absolutely do. sense of fear. Yeah, and this is the problem is that this is the one-sided compassion that I think a lot of these people have, is that they have all this compassion for these illegal aliens, but they don't have any compassion for the police officers that get bricks thrown at them and get pepper sprayed and hit and heard and yell that and everything. And getting yelled doesn't really matter, but like, I mean, you have these people that are like enduring a lot of like physical damage and they're getting hurt. And there's, there's no sympathy for them at all because these are acceptable

targets. And so it's again, it's the dehumanization of a group of people based off of like, again, the fact that they're trying to uphold the law. That's what's happening here. No sympathy for Lake and Riley. No, no. And this is the problem is that there's no sympathy for any of the people that are negatively affected by this. There's only the sympathy for the people that are breaking the law and doing things that are wrong. Too big of a roundup would look like a Holocaust? Absolutely not. I mean, like, there's, it's not, like, there's like a few hundred people that are doing this. And if you did this, if you arrested, like, maybe, let's say, like, 200 people in a day, there probably would be less people out there the next day, especially if you kept doing it day after day.

Because eventually you're going to have, and especially if you charge these people with actual crimes, which I think that they are committing crimes. Because, like, at the very core of this, I don't want anybody to go to jail for something that they're not doing. but these people aren't actively breaking the law and they're actively destroying property. They are, you know, fucking like making the government and like the police not able to do their job. They're stealing things.

They're doing all kinds of stuff. So I'm not saying to put people in jail for protesting. That's ridiculous. But whenever you're throwing bricks at police officers, you're breaking in and looting stores, you're setting things on fire, you are obstructing police from being able to do their job, you're standing in front of cars,

you're throwing things at them in general. and you're standing in the street and blocking traffic, like these are all illegal things that you shouldn't be able to do. So I'm not advocating for any sort of crazy police state or jailing protesters. I'm advocating for the rule of law so people can live in a safe society because I know what the result of this is going to be. And this is what's going to eventually happen. You're going to have more Kyle Rittenhouse situations where you're going to have people that are counter protesters that are going to come out to these riots and start shooting them. That's what's going to happen.

And so, and when that, and it's the same with driving through them with a car or something like that. And when that happens, then it's chaos. Then it's really, really bad. Because like now, like, what do you do after that? It's the escalation. Why aren't they there yet then? Well, because it just hasn't gotten that bad yet. I think that's the reason why.

And so as soon as you start having that happen, and then you have both sides that are using violence against each other, you want to talk about a civil war. That's how to let a civil war start happening, which, by the way, I don't think that we're anywhere near that. That's what's happening? Yeah, of course. Almost happened yesterday with that ban.

Yeah, and you're inventing clear black and white situation in real life or not straightforward. I mean, you don't even use proper English. I mean, I don't even, I don't think you even know what you're saying. it is it is black and white there are no bricks of peace stealing and burning down uh like like there's never a time where burning down a car or burning a car that you don't own in a public space in the middle of the road is okay it's never okay and so that's the issue the majority people vote for this and yes and this is also like again going back to what i said initially

this is something that people democratically voted for. And you can see a majority support, not even a plurality, but a majority support on these mass deportations. So these are people who are trying to, you know, like again, they do not respect the results of the election. They don't care about that. They're pushing for this, even though people don't want that. What are states' rights?

States have certain rights, but the majority of the rights, and the ability to uphold federal law is mandatory. And also if states want to have rights, the fact is also states have a lot of privileges that they get. They get a lot of privileges from the federal government. And without those privileges, many of these states would not exist. And I think that really none of them would. If any state broke off from the United States,

it would immediately, like, ruin that state. It would turn into an awful country instantaneously because they don't exist in a vacuum. it's only democratic movement? Yeah. What about Canada? I don't know about that. Someone said deportation is illegal, brained liberals.

Yeah, people are going crazy and thinking they're justified. They flopped hard for controlling the issue. I think it's National Guard left right now. I'm more of a states rights person, but we already fart a civil war over this. Federal government supersedes all. It is what it is. Defying it, you'll end up like the Confederacy. Exactly.

Right? Like, these people are literally advocating for another Confederacy. And again, like, I'm not advocating. for anybody to go to jail for protesting, but when you're breaking the law, that's not protesting. And that's the big issue that these people have. It's not that they're against this issue. It's that they think that anything they do in service of pushing against this issue is justified. It feels deliberate. It's like, how can I deliberately create chaos in a city? Nobody needs that right now. Have the protests, mayor, impacted police responses?

to other parts of your big city? No, I do not believe that is the case. Again, I will reemphasize that what you are watching is taking place on a few streets downtown. Obviously, it is terrible what you are looking at. But I don't want people to leave with the perception that the city of Los Angeles is experiencing citywide unrest. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I want to share the CBS poll. It shows 54% of Americans approve of the Trump administration's program to deport illegal immigrants and minority 46% disapprove. It's got to be bad if you're getting cooked by CNN over this. Even CNN is like, yeah, well, what about the fact that most people agree with this? Are Democrats out of touch on this issue? Yeah. Well, I think if you do the polling in Los Angeles, I'm not sure it would be that way.

Okay, so I guess if everybody in a certain area wants to bring back slavery, it's okay to do that, right? What a stupid argument. What a stupid thing to say? This is embarrassing. Considering we are a city of immigrants. Yes, exactly. You go back to factory reset mode the moment that you hear something that is just completely indefensible. And people might approve that policy.

But do people really approve the federal government coming in and seizing power from a state and from a state? city. So yeah. Yep. Absolutely. Democrats have a supermajorie in California. You're barking up the wrong tree. If Republicans said a super majority in, uh, if Republicans at a super majority in another Southern state, do you think they should be able to bring back slavery? No. Oh, well, of course not, because that's totally different, right? Because this is something that optically looks bad. You don't actually believe what you're saying. You're only arguing in favor of this because it's something that's beneficial for your goal. The principle of what you're saying is that the state has the right to govern itself. You don't believe this. You don't believe this. And again,

I can give you 10 different examples of things that are bad like this, too. The principle, is it slavery is bad? Yes. Well, having illegal labor where they're not able to, they're being taken advantage of. They're not being paid the right way. And also, it's against the law. It's literally against the federal law. It's that simple. I think they play with words, deport immigrants legally, which the port people is against the law? Yeah, I know. It's only fair if I benefit from it. Well, this is, this is all I'm really saying is that a lot of the people that make these arguments and try to bring this kind of stuff up, the moment that you turn this logic around on them, it immediately doesn't make sense. So like, for example, if a country or a state wanted to

get rid of abortion, like to make abortion totally illegal, we had Roe versus Wade for a very long time because of that. If a state wanted to allow child marriage, for example, the federal government would not allow that either, even if 95% of the people in that state wanted to be able to do that. So this entire premise and the idea of this is total bullshit. And this is the problem, right, is that people make these arguments, but they make these arguments from an emotional perspective. And when they're approached from a logical perspective or an emotional perspective that they disagree with, the argument immediately doesn't make sense. And it's because it's a bad argument. Well, I drill down a little further on that poll because I do not believe that Americans support

the federal intervention in a city takeover or state takeover. Right. And just to be clear, the poll talks about American sentiment as it pertains to illegal immigration. But it does say that the majority of Americans, we should note, disapprove of sort of some of the tactics that are being used to your point, Mayor Baas. Thank you so much for joining the show. Let's turn to... Surely. Yep. Yeah, definitely.