Valuetainment - June 06, 2025


＂Karen Bass Is A MARXIST＂ - L.A. Councilwoman Goes SCORCHED EARTH Over Police Budget Cuts

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scorched earth budget
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L.A. City Council passes a budget that trims police and fire spending. So as if that place is getting safer and safer, they decide to trim some more to make the place even more unsafe. The $13.9 billion budget limits new hiring in the LAPD and fire department to 60 employees, far below Mayor Karen Bass s proposed $480 and 227.

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00:00:00.000 California, L.A. City Council passes budget that trims police and fire spending.
00:00:05.840 So as if that place is getting safer and safer, they decide to trim some more to make the place even more unsafe.
00:00:13.640 Rob, if you got the clip, the L.A. City Council approved a $13.9 billion budget on Friday,
00:00:19.180 reducing Mayor Karen Bass's proposed public safety spending and trimming layoffs from $1,600 to roughly $700,
00:00:25.860 with Council Member Enes Hernandez stating,
00:00:27.320 we are in one of the most difficult financial crises that the city has seen in decades.
00:00:32.040 So every department put in an effort to make sure the city could stay afloat.
00:00:35.660 The budget limits new hiring in L.A. Department, L.A. Police Department to 240 officers and fire department to 60 employees,
00:00:43.380 far below Bass's 480 and 227, facing a nearly $800 million deficit.
00:00:48.660 The budget restores funding for programs like the Cultural Affairs Department and Streetlight Repairs,
00:00:55.080 while Matthew Szabo, the City Administrative Officer, warned in March that L.A.
00:00:59.200 faces a fiscal crisis due to a surge in legal settlements, lower-than-expected tax collections, and mounting personal costs.
00:01:08.080 Billionaire developer Rick Caruso criticized the cuts, asking, look around you, do we need less firefighters?
00:01:14.040 And noting, now we all have the lowest, now we have, we will have the lowest amount of police per capita in the history of the city.
00:01:23.080 Rob, play this clip.
00:01:24.860 We have Council Member Park, Council Member E.
00:01:26.500 What's this one here, Rob?
00:01:27.200 This is the city council meeting where they're discussing lower, I'm sorry, where they're discussing the budget.
00:01:34.740 Yeah, the budget.
00:01:35.480 And there's a city council person who goes off on the council for even considering the budget.
00:01:40.080 She goes, I mean, it's a four-minute clip, but I can play it a little bit faster, but she goes scorched earth on the council. 1.00
00:01:46.240 Council President, at the start of this budget process, we made a promise to maintain core services and minimize impacts to Angelenos.
00:01:53.520 But this budget doesn't reflect those promises.
00:01:56.480 It's bloated with homeless spending, a bottomless pit, and taxpayer boondoggle that doubles down on failure year after year.
00:02:04.960 And frankly, at this point, it's just embarrassing.
00:02:08.420 Hundreds of millions of dollars on bridge homes and home keys and interim housing sites,
00:02:13.920 and no one can even tell us which ones are operational and which ones aren't or how many beds we have.
00:02:19.140 Spending a million and a half dollars per door to build micro units of housing to give away to homeless drug addicts
00:02:25.520 when the vast majority of our own city employees can never afford a condo at that price.
00:02:31.320 Lhasa is in a free-for-all.
00:02:32.600 Literally no one is able to account for the billions we flushed down the toilet,
00:02:36.400 the county wisely pulling out, while we're over here at the city completely unprepared
00:02:40.300 and so unable to manage our own homeless affairs that we're about to be placed in receivership by a federal judge.
00:02:46.420 Again, it's embarrassing.
00:02:49.320 I don't think we should agree to spend another penny on homelessness
00:02:52.040 until we as a full council, not just the few of you who get invited into the conversation,
00:02:57.940 have the chance to chime in and actually cast a vote on whether we're finally getting a divorce from Lhasa
00:03:02.420 and what the future of homeless services delivery looks like in L.A.
00:03:05.800 But instead of fixing that mess, what did we decide to go after?
00:03:09.460 The increase we gave our fire department?
00:03:10.740 After all, we literally just witnessed in January with our own eyes
00:03:16.080 how desperately in need they are with literally half the staffing and funding they should have
00:03:21.040 for a fire department in the city of our size.
00:03:23.100 There are still 100 rigs sitting over at the boneyard,
00:03:25.820 but we're sitting here unable to say yes to the mechanics that we need to fix them.
00:03:29.540 We're shrinking LAPD in favor of expanding other programs that haven't been effective,
00:03:33.420 and we're doing it right on the cusp of major world events
00:03:35.360 and in the midst of a crime and homelessness crisis while our residents continue to be victimized
00:03:40.200 in a city where the former deputy mayor just pled guilty to calling in bomb threats to City Hall.
00:03:44.280 That's the state of our city.
00:03:46.260 Going after our neighborhood councils, the people who volunteer their time
00:03:50.160 to help guide us and do good things in our neighborhood and in our city.
00:03:54.700 All of our residents and taxpayers, all they want is a fully funded police and fire department.
00:03:59.180 They want the sidewalks fixed.
00:04:00.640 They want the streetlights to work, and they want their kids to be able to play at the local park
00:04:03.740 without having to step over drug and trash camps.
00:04:06.760 We are down rabbit holes of spending on things that no one cares about.
00:04:10.620 We haven't eliminated the price gouging that we do to ourselves.
00:04:13.460 Wow.
00:04:14.260 Is she a Republican or Democrat?
00:04:15.160 Just counting good conscience.
00:04:15.940 You can pause it.
00:04:16.560 She's a Republican or Democrat? 0.94
00:04:17.580 I'll have to check on that.
00:04:18.760 Her name is Tracy Park.
00:04:21.500 She is a city council member with Los Angeles.
00:04:23.640 Tom, your thoughts on this?
00:04:24.640 So I'll tell you what's going on.
00:04:26.220 Find out, right?
00:04:26.600 Karen Bass is a Marxist.
00:04:28.600 I will say it, and I'm not calling names.
00:04:30.760 I'm describing what I see based on her policies and her history.
00:04:34.980 She's a Marxist.
00:04:35.920 But guess what happens, Vinny, on June 2nd, 2026?
00:04:40.540 What?
00:04:41.380 The mayor election in L.A. will be June 2nd, 2026.
00:04:45.860 We are now one year from the election, and one year for the election, suddenly Karen Bass
00:04:51.260 wakes up in the morning and walks into City Hall with exactly what these people have been asking for,
00:04:59.940 what Tracy Park and people have been asking for.
00:05:02.260 This was not Karen Bass.
00:05:04.320 Karen Bass cut the fire department. 0.81
00:05:06.580 Karen Bass put that individual in the fire department that we saw.
00:05:10.400 And I don't know for certain her orientation where she was, but she self-describes.
00:05:15.340 But it was a DEI hire, apparently.
00:05:17.740 And so Karen Bass put all that in place. 0.93
00:05:20.040 Karen Bass cut the funding.
00:05:21.040 Karen Bass invented the bridge homes.
00:05:23.800 You heard her say bridge home.
00:05:24.640 You know what that is?
00:05:25.620 Giving you an REI tent to sleep next to a freeway, says, in a tent underneath the bridge,
00:05:32.680 so when it rarely rains, when it does rain in L.A., you don't get rained on.
00:05:37.080 Those are the programs.
00:05:38.460 And so talking about all this, million-dollar condos, Karen Bass was a Marxist trying to build a socialist L.A. 1.00
00:05:44.260 where we build everything for you.
00:05:46.540 And guess what?
00:05:47.820 But now, a year from re-election, suddenly Karen Bass, you know, gets religion and comes back with this budget. 1.00
00:05:57.480 But guess what?
00:05:58.720 All of her Marxist buddies on the city council, you know what they said?
00:06:03.280 No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:04.000 You may be running for re-election, but we're still Marxist, and there's still more of us, and we're changing this, and we're voting the other way.
00:06:10.440 And that's what the city council did.
00:06:12.520 Welcome to Moscow, California.
00:06:15.440 Look, brace for impact, because I'm going to offend some people that love California. 0.99
00:06:25.600 I don't give two shits about California at this point. 0.93
00:06:29.200 I mean, I used to go there every summer for 10 years, and then during COVID, I stopped going. 0.94
00:06:35.540 And to see what Los Angeles, San Francisco, California has turned into, good luck, figure it out.
00:06:43.620 I mean, there's a part of me that's like, burn it down and start over.
00:06:46.420 Oh, that almost happened.
00:06:47.580 So the taxes, the cost of living, the unfortability of the housing, the homelessness, oh, excuse me, not homelessness, the unhoused, because I don't want to offend anybody right there, the budget concerns, the regulations, the mental health, the stepping over drugs and poop in the streets, the actual poop maps, the crime, the mental health, the fires almost burned on your city.
00:07:11.120 And I'm here in Miami, and I'm like, why should I care about what you got going on at all?
00:07:16.740 Because you want to do the same thing, you want to have the same policies, you want to elect the same officials, you want to have the same people.
00:07:22.520 And what's the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and over again, and expecting different results?
00:07:28.960 Excuse me if I just enjoy the free state of Florida, and love living in Miami, and wish you the best in California. 0.99
00:07:35.620 I don't give a shit. 0.98
00:07:37.800 Yeah, I mean, thank you for your sentiment. 0.99
00:07:39.860 That was very emotional and powerful and life-changing and encouraging.
00:07:45.220 Anyway, I'll be in L.A. this weekend if you want to come check me out at the L.A.
00:07:48.640 You know what is crazy, though?
00:07:50.280 It's crazy when liberals start fighting liberal policies, realizing those liberal policies are what destroyed their liberal city.
00:08:00.100 And Tracy Park is a Democrat that supported a lot of these policies, that's got the state to be in the situation that's in right now.
00:08:07.120 And can you go to her Wikipedia?
00:08:09.520 Let me just read to see what her background is, because that talk she just gave was powerful.
00:08:13.380 Zoom in a little bit.
00:08:14.200 Okay, American politicians have certain memory.
00:08:15.480 I love you, City 411.
00:08:16.520 Having entered the race to challenge Mike O'Neill, became foreign-run to open civil rights. 0.63
00:08:21.240 Park was raised in Downey, California, Apple Valley, California.
00:08:25.000 Her mother was a school secretary.
00:08:27.020 Park graduated at John Hopkins University in 97.
00:08:28.900 She had a bachelor's degree in history after Loyola Law School.
00:08:31.420 Okay, she went to good school.
00:08:32.340 So, Jerusalem, 2009.
00:08:34.640 Brooklyn starts a law firm by the public entities.
00:08:36.960 Park entered politics in 2020 when she organized to block the city of L.A. 0.98
00:08:40.840 from converting a Ramada Inn in her street into a housing Ramada Inn for homeless people.
00:08:46.840 In July of 2021, Park announced her candidacy.
00:08:50.600 L.A. Council opened on seat to popular Mike Bonin.
00:08:53.260 Oh, I see what she did.
00:08:55.440 Announced his retirement.
00:08:56.740 The seat became open with Aaron Darling becoming a progressive candidate in the race.
00:09:01.260 Both Darling and Park advanced to the general election with Park narrowly beating Darling in the result.
00:09:05.700 Park was a registered Republican before switching to Democratic Party years prior to her campaign.
00:09:11.020 During the campaign, criticized Park for representing City of Anaheim.
00:09:14.300 Okay, so she... 0.96
00:09:15.480 You see what she did that? 0.97
00:09:17.340 Yeah, she went the other way. 1.00
00:09:18.460 She basically said, I can't get elected as a Republican, so let me convert to a Democrat,
00:09:23.340 but keep my same policies and mindset, and then when I'm in there, and I'm a Democrat now, 1.00
00:09:29.260 I'm going to go scorched earth on all you idiots. 1.00
00:09:31.180 Go a little bit lower. 1.00
00:09:31.780 And that's what she's doing.
00:09:32.680 And she's always voted not to use public dollars or make dumb decisions about homelessness.
00:09:37.960 She voted in favor of an ordinance and measure with saying to curtail homeless encampments
00:09:41.960 by banning sitting, sleeping, storing property within 500 feet of schools because it was people...
00:09:46.560 It was stink.
00:09:47.680 It was filth.
00:09:48.220 It was drug addicts, and she didn't want them near schools, and they were going to use open playgrounds, 0.56
00:09:52.600 put supplemental fencing there so that you have the school over here, and then we're going to sacrifice half of this giant playground. 0.91
00:09:58.040 What is her relationship with Caruso?
00:10:00.640 Does she have a relationship with Caruso?
00:10:02.140 Because I know Caruso's a Republican, acting like a Democrat, just so he could potentially win.
00:10:07.320 Yeah.
00:10:07.780 That's what you've got to do in order to win in California.
00:10:08.560 Can you see what is the relationship between Tracy Park?
00:10:11.480 Is there a connection with Tracy Park and...
00:10:16.680 What's Caruso's first name?
00:10:18.300 Rick.
00:10:18.920 Rick's Caruso.
00:10:19.800 Rick Caruso.
00:10:20.420 I'm thinking of Alex Caruso who's playing in the NBA Finals tonight.
00:10:22.560 My bad.
00:10:23.880 Rick Caruso, who's a stud, by the way.
00:10:26.180 Yeah.
00:10:26.400 There's no Republican, which I'm going to look at, I'm going to look at, I'm going to look back to Tracy Park,
00:10:30.120 a Republican, a Republican, a Republican, a Republican, a Republican, a lifelong Republican, switch to Democrat.
00:10:33.500 So both of them did the same thing.
00:10:35.980 Yeah, you've got to do the switcheroo.
00:10:36.940 Both of them went from the Republican to the Democratic side.
00:10:40.180 It's like the political version of being trans.
00:10:42.800 Wow.
00:10:42.960 Because you've got to make the conversion in order to get in there, and then when you're in there...
00:10:46.520 But you don't fully cut it off.
00:10:47.500 You don't cut it.
00:10:48.400 Oh, in California, you may have to.
00:10:50.320 They haven't cut it off yet.
00:10:51.280 It's just cross-dressing to get into the club.
00:10:53.140 There you go.
00:10:53.340 That's what it is.
00:10:53.780 Exactly.
00:10:54.420 All right.
00:10:54.720 Tom knows all about that great metaphor.
00:10:57.020 Some people have limits.
00:10:57.860 I grew up in L.A., the things you had to do.
00:11:00.040 Yeah.
00:11:00.580 Last year, we ran one of the coolest contests ever, and I thought it was going to be a basic dinner and meet and greet and all this other stuff.
00:11:08.260 It turned into a massive spectacle.
00:11:10.160 It was a Manette contest for two months for lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight, and super heavyweight, and even users got involved.
00:11:16.580 And we invited the top three.
00:11:18.100 You pay your flight, hotel, all that stuff.
00:11:19.460 But once you came here, we went to dinner together at Casa D'Angelo, top-notch dinner.
00:11:23.380 Then we went to the cigar lounge, and it was such a great time.
00:11:27.400 We stayed together until midnight.
00:11:28.600 We had six and a half hours of conversations.
00:11:30.800 I'm going to show you the highlight from last year.
00:11:33.340 Then I want to announce this contest for all of you guys to compete in from June to July, and the dinner will be sometime in August.
00:11:39.940 Rob, play this clip.
00:11:40.620 Go for it.
00:11:41.040 We just had our first Manette dinner.
00:11:45.020 Let me tell you, it was so awesome because we had the dinner.
00:11:47.380 It was absolutely an amazing experience.
00:11:51.720 The conversations, the networking, great.
00:11:57.980 People from all over the world, so I said, maybe I'll stick around for an hour, maybe an hour and a half.
00:12:02.920 But then afterward, we came right here at the cigar lounge.
00:12:08.880 I stayed till midnight.
00:12:10.820 We had six and a half hours of conversation.
00:12:13.900 That was fantastic.
00:12:15.260 Yeah.
00:12:15.660 So if you weren't there, you missed it.
00:12:17.380 We wish you were there, but I'll give you one counsel.
00:12:23.280 We're about to announce the next contest.
00:12:25.840 Do not miss the next Manette contest.
00:12:30.040 And I hope to see you there.
00:12:33.420 By the way, it was so great.
00:12:34.740 Deals were done.
00:12:35.700 Relationships were built.
00:12:36.940 Conversations.
00:12:37.480 So go download the app if you haven't yet, whether it's Apple or Google.
00:12:41.320 Start Manette-ing. 1.00
00:12:42.360 Ask questions.
00:12:43.780 Nowadays, we got Ray Lewis that's officially on Manette.
00:12:46.460 And he's responding back to people on Manette.
00:12:48.380 By the way, Stephen A. Smith's going to get active on Manette on today or tomorrow, starting his account for.
00:12:53.040 People can ask Stephen A. questions.
00:12:54.520 James O'Keefe.
00:12:54.940 Anna Kasparian.
00:12:55.920 James O'Keefe.
00:12:56.720 Paul Saladino.
00:12:57.720 Terrence Howard.
00:12:59.000 Cuomo.
00:12:59.360 There are so many great people.
00:13:01.260 Lindy Lee is crushing it on Manette, the way that it's going. 0.98
00:13:04.740 And by the way, who knows who's going to be at this dinner when we host this.
00:13:07.600 So if you like good conversations, if you want to come to South Florida, we're going to probably give you a tour to headquarters as well when you come down here.
00:13:13.200 Then go straight to dinner.
00:13:14.320 Then go straight to the Cigar Lines, which is a private club.
00:13:17.020 But some of you guys will have a chance to be a part of it.
00:13:19.800 And by then, we have a lot of new surprises with the private club.
00:13:22.560 So you'll get a chance to tour as well.
00:13:23.920 So download the app.
00:13:25.520 Start Manette-ing. 1.00
00:13:26.320 Start competing.
00:13:26.940 The update on the Leaders Bulletin will be on Manette.com.
00:13:29.720 Rob, if you go to Manette.com, just go to Manette.com.
00:13:31.980 And if you look at the contest, on the experts, that's how it works.
00:13:35.860 Okay?
00:13:36.180 If you look at it, lightweight right now at the top is Dean Mason.
00:13:39.180 James O'Keefe right now is second place.
00:13:40.780 Then it's Luis Concior.
00:13:41.720 Go to middleweight, Rob.
00:13:43.540 Middleweight right now is John Mason.
00:13:45.720 Then Lily Tam.
00:13:46.580 Then it's James Murphy.
00:13:47.860 Let's go to heavyweight. 0.60
00:13:48.940 Heavyweight.
00:13:49.440 Because everybody from heavyweight goes to super heavyweight.
00:13:51.400 So it's Daniel, number one.
00:13:52.860 Daniel.
00:13:53.180 Michael Maher, Matt Cipolla.
00:13:54.340 Then at super heavyweight is what?
00:13:56.780 Super heavyweight is Lindy Lee, myself, Timothy Ryan, Oshana Tom Sauce, Dennis Poneman, a couple
00:14:02.060 other guys.
00:14:02.620 By the way, the scoring will be the following.
00:14:04.300 To compete the next two months, lightweight will have to do a minimum of 200 points.
00:14:08.080 You have to be lightweight today.
00:14:09.240 You can go up.
00:14:10.360 But we're going to calculate your points from today.
00:14:12.000 Middleweight, you have to do a minimum of 400.
00:14:14.580 Heavyweight is a minimum of 400 points.
00:14:16.100 And super heavyweight has to be 1,500 points.
00:14:18.440 And the user's contest, go to user's rap, a new user goes out there, 200 points you score.
00:14:25.680 New users, existing user has to be 400 points.
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