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“You are a failure, an absolute failure!”: Fed Up Citizen Totally Humiliates Mayor Karen Bass, Heckling Her to Her Face [WATCH]
American Tribune ^ | May 18, 2026 | Will Tanner

Posted on 05/18/2026 7:00:51 PM PDT by Red Badger

Things got absolutely wild at a Mayor Karen Bass event in Los Angeles when she was approached and called out by an irate resident who called her out for her many governmental failures, not least of which is the disastrously bad homelessness situation in LA and the massive amount of city funding spent on dealing with it, to no good effect.

As background, Mayor Bass is currently facing a stiff primary challenge from Spencer Pratt, who is running on handling the massive disaster that has been her response to homelessness, vagrancy, and the Pacific Palisades fire that wiped out thousands of homes and from which the city has still not rebuilt.

But it was the homelessness issue that came up as she appeared for a public event and was hammered by a heckler, who approached her and yelled, “An ambassador here to talk about homelessness inside safe. We have spent how much, Karen? How much?”

Continuing, the heckler noted the obscene amount of money that has been spent on doing absolutely nothing of note that has been good for the city, given the massive nature of its homelessness problem, saying, “$400 million to house what, 1500 people permanently? You are a failure, an absolute failure.”

Building on that, and pointing to the absurdity of doing media event puffery when the initiatives on which she has embarked have been such failures, he said, “And you come here for your little media event, you have failed the city of LA, Karen. We are spending hundreds of 1000s per person in inside safe. Half of them end up back out on the street!”

Still not done, he then pointed to how disgusting the city of Los Angeles is thanks to the sorts of vagrancy she allows, and the city street sanitation budget she cut, presumably to instead fund some ridiculous and woke initiative. He said, “The city is filthy. You’ve cut funding for everything. You’ve cut funding for street services, for street lighting, for sanitation.”

Then, as the guards approached and tried to move him away, he snapped, “Don’t touch me. Please don’t touch me. You could be nice. I don’t care about, I don’t care about your media, though the people of LA have real questions. I let you go talk. You guys don’t want to have your little rally for Karen Bass.”

Concluding, he said that he is done pretending to be polite as the woke, ridiculous mayor drives the city into the ground with her obscene and absurd policies, saying, “I don’t give a damn about Karen Bass, she has lied to the voters, and she’s been an absolute failure, and everybody just sits around just pretending.”

Watch the incident here:

VIDEO AT LINK.........

Later on, as Bass started trying to talk, he yelled, “It’s higher now than when you entered office. It’s higher right now than when you entered office!” He added, “Karen, you deserve no credit. You’re taking credit for their work, Karen. Karen, you’re taking credit for their work. You are so shameful.”

Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video


TOPICS: Government; Outdoors; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: california; losangeles

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1 posted on 05/18/2026 7:00:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
The guy is just as critical with the media hacks that are there to cover Bass spew her drivel.

He says right to their faces that they are covering for her and not asking her any of the questions that she needs to answer.

The media complain to him about his disrupting their coverage but he just keeps putting it back in their faces.

He’s great!

2 posted on 05/18/2026 7:09:32 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Red Badger

Karen Bass is a Lesbian Democrat LGBTQ+ DEI hire

Completely Incompetent

Completely Uncaring

Completely Useless


3 posted on 05/18/2026 7:15:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: hole_n_one
Is there ANYONE here on FR that guy didn't represent?

Is there ANYONE who doesn't feel his anger & frustration at the politicians and the media for the HORSESPIT job they do? For the GASLIGHTING?

Anyone?

That man spoke for me. I've felt that way for well over 30 years. He's 1,000% spot-on.

4 posted on 05/18/2026 7:15:40 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Red Badger

Bass is much worse than a “failure”. She’s a traitor to the United States of America and to the State of California.


5 posted on 05/18/2026 7:19:26 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Texas Texas Again)
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To: Red Badger

Do yourself a big favor, and go listen to the audio from that Heckler’s commentary. It was hysterical. It was powerful, because, whoever he is, the man was articulate and had all his facts in order.

This guy maybe some kind of reporter or Stand Up Comic. The Mayor Bass approved camera crew was very careful to never allow this Heckler to be seen during the broadcast. He would not be ignored!

**If I didn’t know any better, I would say he sounded just like now-retired Talk Show Host Chris Matthews.
But that would be ‘impossible’!


6 posted on 05/18/2026 7:21:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Failure as a responsible human being.


7 posted on 05/18/2026 7:25:48 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (@!@)
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To: Red Badger

Fascist liberals want him and anyone else with a difference of opinion, silenced.

I hope this gets wider coverage than “The American Tribune”.


8 posted on 05/18/2026 7:36:57 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: SaveFerris

Not to mention a disciple of Fidel Castro. But, other than that......


9 posted on 05/18/2026 7:45:57 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Texas Eagle

Figures...

Just Faker Bill de Blasio


10 posted on 05/18/2026 7:55:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Texas Eagle
Not to mention a disciple of Fidel Castro. But, other than that......


11 posted on 05/18/2026 8:00:20 PM PDT by BlueLancer (POOKIE'S TOONS - https://www.therightreasons.net/forum/35-todaystoons/)
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