Mayor DumbBass' admission; Trump speaks from the Oval Office (06-10-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:29] So Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, the city, not the county, media is very intent on making sure we all know that, you know, the city of Los Angeles is not the county of Los Angeles and that the protests were actually not widespread, didn't really affect a lot of people, much like, you know, the towers that came down in New York on 9-11.

[00:00:55] It was just a very local area. Didn't affect all New Yorkers, like they weren't all prohibited from getting out of their buildings. Anyway, so this is a very important point the media is downplaying. But the mayor of Los Angeles, she came out and said it last night at a press conference, which is what I was saying yesterday. Now, I don't know if Mayor Bass listens to my program.

[00:01:23] I would guess no, but she might because this is what I was saying yesterday. And she now said last night. We need to stop the raids. There should not be happening in our city. It is not warranted. And it does any, the only thing it does is contribute to chaos. This was chaos that was started in Washington, D.C.

[00:01:49] On Thursday, the city was peaceful. On Friday, it was not because of the intervention of the federal government. So there you have it. It's not the deployment of the National Guard. It's the ICE raids. They're not even, by the way, ICE raids. Yeah. Spoiler alert. It was not an ICE raid that started all of this.

[00:02:16] It was a cartel criminal investigation raid. They were going after cartels and fronts. It wasn't even a mass deportation kind of a, you know, immigration raid. But there she is, flat out saying that they, the Trump administration is to blame for the riots because they are attempting to enforce the law.

[00:02:45] So any effort to enforce federal immigration law will prompt riots and it's your fault. I said it yesterday and now the mayor came out and said it last night. I can't believe she said it. She really is that stupid. That's why I called her Mayor Dumbass. Because she is. Holy smokes. Now, credit where it is due. At least she was in her city this time that it burned.

[00:03:16] She was there. So at least there's that. This was her. Was yesterday Monday. This would have been. Well, Saturday or Sunday. I think I think it may have been Sunday night or Sunday. This is intentional chaos. You know, I had talked to representatives of the Trump administration earlier on to tell them that the Los Angeles Police Department could control things that were happening here. And that there was no need. No need.

[00:03:45] To federalize troops. And so to have this here is really just a provocation and something that was not needed in our city. We're still recovering after five months from the city's worst natural disaster in decades. And now to go through a trauma like this that is really traumatizing the whole city because everybody knows somebody in a city where more than 50 percent are Latino.

[00:04:13] You know, this just sows chaos that is not warranted or needed in the city of Los Angeles at this point in time. All right. So that was when she was working off the talking point that the National Guard deployment was sowing the chaos. But last night it was stop the ice raids. And what she's saying there is that everybody is affected by this, not the riots, but the rates, the the the ice actions.

[00:04:41] I have said this many times about many different issues. I do have some sympathy for Democrats. Because not leftists, no sympathy for them, but but Democrats. In that. In the rare instances where they have to try to defend their philosophy or their positions on things and they're held to a stand, a consistent standard.

[00:05:11] They crumble. It's embarrassing. But here's why I'm sympathetic is because I would not be able to defend their positions. They're illogical. They're stupid positions. They make no sense. Yes. So I have some sympathy. Like you're trying to fight the good fight and make these arguments, but you become intellectually flabby because the media never challenges you on anything.

[00:05:34] So on the one hand, we're supposed to believe that the riots don't really matter because, you know, the media is blowing it all out of proportion and people are looking at their Twitter. That's what Brian Stelter, who's a potato on CNN. That's what he said that. See, it's all getting blown out of proportion because people keep seeing all these videos on social media. And it's the algorithm. And it's feeding everybody the information. And so they think it's way worse. And Los Angeles is a very big place, you know, so it's not all over L.A.

[00:06:01] But then the mayor is saying, well, but the ICE activity, that affects everybody. So that is widespread. See, so ICE doing a targeted operation against a cartel front business, that affects everybody. But the riots where they burn and loot and attack police officers and shut down various parts of the city.

[00:06:25] See, that is a very localized, targeted, minimal impact kind of an event. Don't you see? And what better way to express your pro-immigrant position than to loot a sushi store, which is what they did yesterday? They looted a sushi restaurant owned by immigrants. Yes. Yes. See, this is what I mean.

[00:06:52] There's no logic in their position. This also from last night's press conference by Mayor Dumb Bass. The National Guard is guarding the federal building. Now, there was an incident that I saw where there were vehicles that needed to get into the federal building. And so the National Guard cleared the area. And that's where I saw gas. No. Oh, wait a minute.

[00:07:19] So the National Guard was providing security to the federal facilities, which is precisely what the Trump administration deployed the National Guard to do. Because when they tried to call you and your law enforcement agency, you made them wait two hours while they were under siege. And so the Fed said, you know what? We're going to protect the ICE officials, the ICE agents and the facilities.

[00:07:47] Bass claimed that the National Guard's deployment was not necessary. But Fox News reporter Bill Melugin shared videos showing ICE agents in one of the vehicles being struck by rocks. Melugin also posted additional footage of photos and photos of the aftermath, including an image of an ICE agent's injury and a windshield damaged by a rioter's rock. By the way, do you think that the rioters would not burn an ICE vehicle with the people in it?

[00:08:17] Do you think they would stop? Why? In a riot, it's a mob rule mentality, right? And so what would be the limiting principle there? What is the guardrail in the mob?

[00:08:35] When you're torching vehicles and you're throwing concrete bricks at people's heads, why do you think that they would not, if presented an opportunity, why would they not torch an ICE vehicle with the people inside of it? I think they would. I do. I think they would. Around around a thousand individuals wreaked havoc in Los Angeles Friday night, surrounding a federal building, attacking ICE agents, deflating tires.

[00:09:02] Well, they slashed the tires and vandalizing government property, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The unrest caused significant damage and severe traffic disruptions, bringing several key city roads to a complete standstill. On Saturday night, Trump authorized the deployment of the National Guard to assist local law enforcement and warned Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom that the federal government would intervene if local authorities failed to restore order.

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[00:10:55] And he says, how about we rename the riots? How about J6 Part 2, LA Boogaloo? It did start on June 6th. I actually had this discussion with Brett Winterbull yesterday when I was leaving the studio and he was coming in to do his show. And, like, we talked about branding this as J6. Why not? June 6th.

[00:11:23] I'm going to keep, I'm going to do it. I'm going to conflate these two things, much like the left does with illegal and legal immigration. And so now J6 includes all of this. Why not? Carol, welcome to the program. Hello, Carol. Hey, Pete. How are you today? Hey, I'm good. What's up? All right. So on Facebook, all my friends, my liberal friends, are comparing these riots to January 6th.

[00:11:51] So my response to them has been really because I don't remember any cars being burnt on January 6th. I don't remember hearing a woman on a video screaming, my babies are in the car while they blocked her and beat on her car. It's just, it's not apples to apples I'm hearing.

[00:12:10] Well, so I would recommend that you are to shift the argument because you are arguing then from a defensive position based on their premise. I would challenge the premise. So say, well, okay, you think this is the same or not as bad as J6. Well, what was J6? Right. It was a riot, right? That got out of control and it was destroying federal property.

[00:12:38] So you were against that, right? They would say yes. Okay. Well, are you against this? Wouldn't you be against this for the very same reason? Wouldn't you be against this also because these are federal agents that are attempting to carry out the function of the federal government, which is immigration control. And these people are trying to obstruct that federal process.

[00:13:03] Much like you say the J6ers were trying to obstruct that federal process. It's the same thing then, right? You're saying it's the same thing. So shouldn't you be condemning this? Shouldn't you also be then advocating for like the FBI to start launching, you know, full investigations with facial recognition, go after these people for years, throw them in jail for years, like do all of the same stuff, right? Do you want the same kind of a thing? Same kind of an approach? Right. Right.

[00:13:33] I got that. Yeah. So make them defend their double standard. Yeah, for sure. For sure. But of course, it all comes down to, oh, well, you know, it's an ice raid and I attached them. There's a, I think she's one of the sheriffs in the county. And she actually came out and said, hey, I'm so tired of the media saying what this is. And it's not. It wasn't an ice raid. Correct. That's why I love how you said that before. It wasn't an ice raid.

[00:14:01] And honestly, he, until I heard her say that, I did not know that because the media is blasting it out there as a vice raid that we're going after these illegals and it's terrible. We're dragging them away from the kids and all this stuff. Where it comes out, it was a criminal thing, investigation going after these murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, probably. Yeah, they were, they hit front businesses for the cartels. That's what they were doing.

[00:14:28] And that's what people are now protesting against, that these criminal enterprises were searched and raided and people were arrested. Right. Now, here's the thing. And I, because I, I've seen my friends post and stuff like that. And I, I grew up with these people. I went to high school. I don't want to unfriend them just because of this kind of thing. We don't get nasty with each other. But it's like, it doesn't, it doesn't matter what Trump does.

[00:14:58] It's still all Trump's fault. Correct. Right. This was the, and this is the clip that I played from Mayor Bass, which was that the, the instigation was the ICE operation. Right. And then when they failed to protect the ICE officials and their facilities, then Trump sends in the National Guard. And now that's the instigation. That's the offense. It's, it doesn't matter. There's no, um, there, there's no guiding principle except whatever Trump is for, we're against. That's it. Exactly.

[00:15:27] So, yeah. Carol, I appreciate the call. Good to hear from you. It's a, look, it, I understand what this is like when you're arguing with leftists. That's why I let them, I let them say as much as they want to say. And then I attack the assumptions. I attack their premises because their premises are always wrong. They always inject some sort of crap into the underlying assumption and try to force you to argue that.

[00:15:56] And if you say, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm not even going to get to your downstream argument. I'm going to go after the origin, right? The, the, the, the foundational premise of your argument, which is what in the comparison of J6, J6, what's the, what's the argument there that one is okay and one is not? Or is it that both bad? So, okay, I'll agree with you. Both are bad. Now, what does that mean for what's happening right now?

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[00:17:48] Or check out all there is to offer at cabinsofashville.com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. All right, so during the break, I see Donald Trump is now taking questions in the Oval Office. So we're going to join this live. But during the break, he said he was asked about sending the National Guard to Los Angeles. And he said, look, I've been here before. We're not going to have the same thing that happened in 2020.

[00:18:14] I would tell these governors as their cities were burning, we'll send you the National Guard. Let me call them in. And the governors would not do it. And he said, we're not going to go through that again. We're going to go faster. The governors do not want to stop the rioting for whatever reasons. He says, and I don't know what those reasons are, but we're not going to let it happen again. By comparison, this morning it's very calm. We'll see what happens later.

[00:18:41] But they know if they go there, they're not going to get anywhere because we have the National Guard. We backed it up with a number of Marines, yeah. Mr. President, do you agree with Governor Abbott's student signing legislation to mandate 10 commandments in school bathrooms? Having to do with what? Do you have to take a look at it? I'm going to have to look at it. I did not hear what that question was about. How long will they be there until you think? Until there's no danger.

[00:19:13] It's easy. Look, it's common sense. You ask me that question. When there's no danger, they'll leave. You would have had a horrible situation had I not sent them in. Horrible. You'd be reporting on a lot of death and a lot of destruction that's not going to take place. I think if you look, every night it got less and less. They were met with very strong force, the bad people, the bad sick people that do what they do.

[00:19:39] But these are paid people in many cases, not in all cases, but in many cases. They really are agitators. I was wondering if you had any response to Mexican President Scheinbaum who condemned the violence. Have you been in touch with her at all? Said what? I was wondering if you had any response to what Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum said. What did she say? She condemned the violence in L.A. Oh, I do too. Have you been in touch with her at all? Well, you think I don't condemn it?

[00:20:09] I condemn the violence in L.A., ladies and gentlemen. But I also stopped the violence in L.A. And by doing what I did, I stopped the violence in L.A. That would have been, I think, maybe I'd ask Christy to speak to that. That would have been an unbelievable tragedy. We would be talking, I don't know, that would even be here right now. It would have been so bad. I'd probably maybe be out there. I don't know. But Christy, could you speak to that? Absolutely.

[00:20:36] So in 2020, I was a governor of a neighboring state to Tim Walz and watched him let his city burn. And the president and I have talked about this in the past, and he was not going to let that happen to another city and to another community where a bad governor made a bad decision. So Claudia Scheinbaum came out and encouraged more protests in L.A., and I condemn her for that. She should not be encouraging violent protests that are going on. People are allowed to peacefully protest, but the violence that we're seeing is not acceptable,

[00:21:04] and it's not going to happen in America. This president is standing up for the average American who wants to walk their child to school every day safely, run their small business, and provide for their families. That's the action that he's taking. He has every authority under the Constitution to send these National Guard under Title X into these communities and make sure that operations go smoothly, that law enforcement officers are protected, that they can continue to do their work without fear of being injured or killed or disrespected,

[00:21:34] and that they can go home to their families at night. So I'm incredibly proud of the president for activating the National Guard and for sending in these Marines because these Marines are specifically trained to meet the need that we have on the ground in L.A. right now. And Governor Newsom has done a disservice to the state of California for many years. The people there should never elect him into a leadership position ever again. The governor's a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent. When it comes to his railroad that he's building where it's like 30 times over budget,

[00:22:03] nobody's ever seen anything like it. Now it doesn't even go to San Francisco and L.A. It's way short of it. After years of work and overruns like nobody's, those contractors are some of the wealthiest people in the world, I guarantee you that, because that money goes to those contractors. They just did a number on the wallet of the people of California. That train, you should look at that train. That is the greatest. I've never seen cost overruns. I've seen cost overruns and great incompetence over my life.

[00:22:33] I've never seen anything like that. Mr. President, these protests obviously started in reaction to these large-scale ICE operations in Los Angeles. Should people expect to see similar operations in the rest of the country? And will similar protests see similar response? As you know, we're moving murderers out of our country that were put here by Biden or the autopen. The autopen really did it. The people, whether it's Lisa Monaco or whoever operated the autopen, these are criminals. The people are criminals that allowed these criminals into our country.

[00:23:01] And I don't think that Biden knew what the hell he was doing. I don't think he even knew about it. But when they opened up our borders for the whole world to come in, yeah, we're going to get them out. We're getting them out. We're starting to get acknowledgement from the courts that, you know, is a system. They come in without courts and they go out there. They want trials and everything else. I think that's starting to work out now. Judges are starting to see what a terrible situation it is.

[00:23:26] Many of those people that you saw on television last night are criminals that were allowed into our country by Biden. And they want to stay. And we don't want them. And they come from jails and they come from mental institutions and they come from all over the world, not just South America. And we're not going to let them stay. And this is the first perhaps of many or perhaps, you know, we didn't attack this one very strongly. You'd have them all over the country.

[00:23:54] But I can inform the rest of the country that when they do it, if they do it, they're going to be met with equal or greater force than we met right here. We did a great job. The people, you, Christy, and Tom Holman and all of the people, Pete Hexer, all of the people involved did an amazing job. We stopped a disaster. And it looks like a planned disaster. Not just this didn't just happen. They had weapons. They had tools. They had everything you needed.

[00:24:23] I mean, they were throwing iced water in bottles, in glass bottles at officers and at soldiers. These are, you could not use the word insurrection, but you could also use the word. These are very dangerous people. They're bad people. They were met with heavy force and they folded. And they may be there a little bit tonight. They may be there a little bit, but it seems to be getting less and less because they're going there and they're met with a very heavy force.

[00:24:52] And if they weren't, you would have that say right now would be on fire. It would be burning down. The rest of it, what's left over. Because the other fire was started because they wouldn't allow water into L.A. They wouldn't allow water into California because they had it all shifted out to the Pacific Ocean. And I turned it around and I told them to do it in my first term. And they didn't do it. We had COVID and they didn't do it. And I told them to do it. We did it in the second.

[00:25:21] Now we have billions of gallons of water flowing down. But Newsom should have done this. He's an incompetent man and incompetent governor. OK, any other questions? All right. So that's President Trump, obviously in the Oval Office taking questions. He's still going. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too. And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News.

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[00:26:43] He points out what I pointed out yesterday that the media is focusing on. Oh, this was just one part of Los Angeles and L.A. is big, everybody. Why should you care if your neighbors are in distress amid social unrest that spreads like a contagion? No, you certainly should not. Also, did we mention, have you accounted for the fact that Donald Trump is president? Right. There would have been no demonstrations at all if the Trump administration had not ordered immigration enforcement. Right.

[00:27:13] Have you taken that into account? And don't you remember that Republicans also rioted that one time like five years ago? And by the way, the reason why that was so bad is that Republicans don't riot. If conservatives, if Republicans are rioting, something is very, very wrong. Because they are not the ones trying to tear stuff down all the time. That's the left.

[00:27:40] If you thought that was bad, it follows that you cannot find other episodes of violent street action similarly egregious. Right. If you thought J6 was bad, then you must be fine with this, especially if the violence is perpetrated by vandals who subscribe to the politics of the left. That's the kind of inconsistency. That the left is arguing. Now, this attitude is on full display right now with the L.A. riots.

[00:28:04] He says it amounts to a tacit admission that the Democrat Party in California and elsewhere understands the extent to which it has become associated with violent hooliganism of this sort. Progressives own statements reflect their deserved insecurity and the extent to which they know that the rioters are their people. They know this. We know this. They know we know this.

[00:28:32] We know that they know we know this. Gavin Newsom said, don't give Donald Trump what he wants. Not that rioting is bad just because, you know, rioting is bad. No, no, no. Don't do this because it could hurt us. Senator Adam Schiff for brains plays directly into the hands of the he said it plays directly into the hands of those who seek to antagonize and weaponize the situation for their own gain. Don't let them succeed. Right.

[00:29:01] Noah Rothman points out the conceit in all of this is that the rioters can be reasoned with. Maybe they can be complimented and cajoled into abandoning their subversion. Perhaps if they are confronted with the potential for their activities to undermine the Democrat Party's political goals. Right. They might pacify themselves. Do these barbarians not read the Atlantic? The subtext is obvious.

[00:29:29] From the Democrat leadership down to the street thugs. We are all on the same side here, people. This is not helping us. So they don't want to condemn the rioters for rioting. The misconceptions fueling these appeals are illustrative of the problem that Democrats dare not acknowledge. They're right. Of course, these are their people, but they should not be. They don't have to be.

[00:29:56] But the party has for too long seen expressions of violent political passion as a force to be co-opted, to be harnessed and then wielded. They were open about the goals that informed this ill-conceived project, and we all saw them pursue it. Even today, amid the ashes of the Harris campaign's attempt to incorporate anarchistic violence into her coalition, Democrats cannot bear to admit their error, much less correct for it. And then he says this later on.

[00:30:26] Riots and criminal disorder erode faith in government. And accordingly, the party of government, the Democrats, they too have faith eroded in them because they're the party of government. Violent social disorder is a contagion that will expand unless it is stopped.

[00:30:47] Stopping it requires the early, overwhelming intervention by law enforcement, the presence of which discourages would-be participants from joining the melee. He's exactly right. That's what Trump just said in Trumpian fashion, but that's what Trump said. It would have been much worse. You have to meet this kind of violence with the threat of overwhelming violence itself against you. You may not like that.

[00:31:17] You may be a sheep in a world of wolves and sheep and sheepdogs, but that is true. When people are engaged in violence, usually the only thing that stops them from continuing is the perception or a threat of violence against them. Democrats don't have to sidle up subserviently alongside the president to display some fealty to these elementary propositions,

[00:31:44] but nor do they have to position themselves as hostile to the conditions that restore order once it has broken down. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalendershow.com.

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