LA Mayor Karen Bass Makes Insulting Comparison to

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is working for re-election. A 12 months after the horrific failures of the Palisades and Eaton Fires that raged while she partied in Ghana on the taxpayers’ dime, you’ll suppose she’d either slink under a rock or take some accountability. 

Instead, she is making the rounds of D-List Democrat podcasts, like former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, to reinvent and manufacture a document that does not exist. Bass’ latest revisionist take: The 2025 L.A. anti-ICE Riots have been comparable to rowdy sports activities followers when the Lakers gained the championship. Apparently, flaming Waymos and Mexican flags are now customary at championship parades.

Bass also ranted that the National Guard wasn’t needed to quell last summer season’s unrest, and alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are just modern-day slave patrols.

Bass and Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) clearly use the same comms individual.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is pushing back, claiming that anti-ICE protests last 12 months did not devolve into riots, and likening the vandalism and clashes between protesters and police with the actions of followers after a Los Angeles Lakers championship.

Bass was on the “At Our Table with Jamie Harrison” podcast when she remarked on the federalization of National Guard troops and the deployment of a number of hundred Marines to the town amid a number of days of anti-ICE demonstrations. 

While some protesters voiced their anger at ICE lawfully, others set automobiles, including automobiles belong to the California Highway Patrol and Waymo, on fire and violently fought with police, while elected officers maintained that the demonstrations have been peaceable.

“Nothing was going on. OK, we have some protests,” Bass told Harrison. “You want to know the protests, in my opinion, equaled a Lakers championship.”

“You know what happens after a championship right? A few knuckleheads hang around. They’re drunk, they start vandalizing things. There was no riot here.”

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RNCResearch: Incompetent LA Mayor Karen Bass says there “was no riot” in LA last summer season when violent mobs took over the streets of LA.

BASS: “Nothing was going on…we had some protests…the protests, in my opinion, equaled a Laker championship…a few… pic.twitter.com/tUpYOBi0i1

— Republican Women of Mercer County 💪🇺🇸 (@RWOMC) January 6, 2026

This is nothing new. Bass was floating down that river in Egypt back in July, after the National Guard was deployed to quell the chaos from the June anti-ICE protests. A reporter confronted Bass about this, and she flat-out denied at the time that any riots had occurred.

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Mayor Karen Bass just refused to denounce the attacks on ICE officers and claimed once again that LA never had any riots.

How do these morons keep getting elected? Liberals can’t be that dumb can they? pic.twitter.com/IzQawIPUt5

— Based Bandita (@BasedBandita) July 9, 2025

So, Bass is infamous for her revisionist history; this is what communists do. In December, RedState’s Bob Hoge reported that Bass recorded a podcast interview and admitted that both sides “botched it,” referring to the horrible response to the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires. But before the podcast aired, Bass’s workers rushed to have the reality scrubbed.

Bass continues in her lies and malignant language toward ICE and the brokers who select to serve their nation in this method. Later in December, Bass said in a GWN interview that the major motive Hispanics be part of Border Patrol is because they need the money, blaming it on Trump’s financial system. It’s insulting, but even more insulting is that Bass still holds the title of Mayor of L.A. when she ought to have resigned or been recalled a 12 months in the past.

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The Los Angeles Police Protective League, who are as disgusted with Bass and her lack of management as the bulk of Angeleans, begged to differ. After all, it’s their rank-and-file who suffered the smoke inhalation, bodily accidents, and destroyed automobiles and gear from those CHIRLA-funded, astroturf protests, while Bass reportedly commanded the police stand down. 

When President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard, Bass took to every digicam she may to rant about being invaded and demanded that the National Guard get out of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file officers with the Los Angeles Police Department, disagreed. 

“We disagree with anyone who characterizes the numerous times these protests turned into riots,” the assertion from the union’s board of administrators to Fox News Digital states. “All one has to do is look at the videos of the Waymo vehicles destroyed, the CHP car set on fire, the vandalism of property, looting of businesses and injuries to police officers to call that criminal behavior what it was, a riot.” 

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For every one of these tried reinventions, somebody wants to put up the video document that proves Bass is a fraud and a liar. On the one-year anniversary of the lethal fires that destroyed Pacific Palisades and Altadena, Bass is yet again attempting to fake she had nothing to do with the destruction and that she is doing all the things she will be able to to help residents rebuild.

“One year after the fires, are you surprised that so much of that anger is directed at you?” Haskell requested

“A little, but again, I do understand the anger,” Bass responded. “To see all of the construction taking place, that’s hopeful, that’s inspiring to me. But it’s still painful, and I understand grief. So I understand people’s emotions, so if they need to focus them on me, you know, whatever, whatever it takes for them to heal and get through this. I don’t take it personally.”

It’s Bass’s world, and you are not in it. Angeleans need to make it their personal objective to see that this girl doesn’t get re-elected.

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