What's Happening In the LA Mayor's Race Is Extremely Critical for America

Summary

Podcast Summary: "What's Happening In the LA Mayor's Race Is Extremely Critical for America"

Louder with Crowder | May 5, 2026

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Episode Overview

Steven Crowder and his co-hosts tackle the Los Angeles mayor's race, arguing its results might have critical implications for the rest of America. The conversation uses pop culture touchpoints like the Met Gala as springboards for broader critiques of elite liberal culture, left-wing activism, and the Democratic Party's policy trajectory, especially in urban centers like Los Angeles. Along the way, they dissect recent events (notably the Palisades fires and ensuing political narratives), mock political adversaries, and weigh in on the platforms and backgrounds of the main LA mayoral candidates, seeing the race as a test for the direction of big-city politics in America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Pop Culture Roast: Met Gala as Symbol of Elite Disconnect

• The episode opens with a lengthy, often mocking review of the 2026 Met Gala, positioning it as the epitome of out-of-touch, narcissistic, and hypocritical liberal American elites.

• Crowder’s litmus test: “If you're an environmentalist ... and you endorse or have your own perfume or cologne line…I will never listen to you again.” (11:01)

  • Met Gala is described as "just an opportunity for them to put on their sluttiest dresses, reveal as much...while they're pretending it's philanthropy." (25:01)
  • The event is ridiculed for “postmodernism destroying art” and for “look at me” excess.
  • Jokes and satirical "docu-series titles" mock the event’s superficiality and sexualization.

Memorable Quote:
"This is what happens when people don’t have talent... It's the equivalent to real life clickbait. I have to outshock the next person."
— Steven Crowder, (21:27)

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2. Palisades Fires: From Climate Change Narrative to Left-Wing Terrorism

• Crowder critiques the mainstream media’s initial framing of the devastating 2025 Palisades fires as solely caused by "climate change."
  • Plays news clips insisting climate change is to blame. (34:20)
• Reveals new reports that the fires were actually caused by an act of left-wing terrorism—calling out the lack of comparable media attention now that details undermine a favored progressive narrative.
  • 12 dead, 7,000 homes lost, $150B damage. (36:12)
• Argues that leftist rhetoric and class warfare stoke politically motivated violence far more than right-wing actors, citing polling on political violence acceptability:
  • “Leftists under the age of 45 are [much] more... accepting, and by the way, encouraging of violence.” (36:50)

Memorable Quote:
"Ultimately, what's the endgame when they go, 'climate change'? ... The end game is to tax you more, take more control over your life, make you beholden to international governments..."
— Steven Crowder, (36:34)

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3. LA Mayor’s Race: Stakes, Candidates, and Ideological Lines

• Crowder frames the LA mayoral race as a proxy for the wider ideological battle in American urban politics.
• He contrasts three main candidates:
  • Karen Bass (incumbent, mainstream Dem, past ties to Cuba & socialism):
    • Mocked for her history "propping up Castro's Cuba," framed as a “communist sympathizer.” (48:03)
    • Associated with Los Angeles's escalating problems—homelessness, budget deficit, quality-of-life decline.
  • Nithya Raman (city council member, Democratic Socialist):

    • Criticized for “identity politics” and especially for pro-illegal immigration, sanctuary city, and rent freeze policies. (53:13)

    • Her rhetoric: "No human is illegal," is lampooned as evidence “the left doesn’t want to be American.”

      Notable Quote:
      “No, Angeleno is illegal. No human is illegal.”
      — Karen Bass, (54:00)
      “Of course someone can be here illegally ... It’s a fundamentally different worldview.”
      — Steven Crowder, (54:10)

  • Spencer Pratt (reality TV villain, outsider):
    • Initially mocked, but Crowder defends outsider candidacies by linking Pratt to Trump: "Reality show isn't a disqualifier... We've seen it with President Trump."
    • Points out Pratt campaigns on tough-on-crime, pragmatic homeless policy, anti-red-tape, and small business support—policies Crowder finds less ideological and more practical.
    • Emphasizes that, despite his unserious media persona, he’s outpacing establishment competition in fundraising and momentum.

Memorable Exchange:
"If someone in Los Angeles today votes for Karen Bass, they're mentally ill. I mean, you already have the results. You already know how this is going to go..."
— Steven Crowder, (47:18)

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4. Media Narratives, Woke Ideology, and Tribalism

• Crowder repeatedly argues that the media and Democratic elites use clickbait and “manufactured narratives” to manipulate public perception, especially relating to urban crisis events.
• Warns against allying with "Bernie Bros" or Democratic Socialists, even on shared issues, due to fundamentally different worldviews on speech, borders, and citizenship (62:05).
  • "You will never be able to vote for a Democrat candidate who will shun wokeness, social engineering, censorship, open borders."
• Crowder’s thesis: For conservatives, “tribalism” is rational because the left fundamentally opposes the American identity, values, and the rule of law as he sees it.

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5. Viral Misinformation & Muslim Immigration Panic in Texas

• Near the end, Crowder debunks a viral image showing a Texas Costco supposedly "converted into a mosque," revealing it as a fake, AI-generated image.
• Crowd cautions the right not to fall for or spread such fabricated clickbait, arguing the truth about immigration and demographic changes “is horrifying enough” without needing fabrication.
• Urges the audience: “You don't need to lie when the truth is enough.” (66:36)

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Important Timestamps

• Met Gala Satire & Cultural Critique:
  07:58 – 28:53 (see especially 11:01; 21:27; 25:01)
• Palisades Fires & Media Framing:
  33:54 – 36:46 (Media clips & deconstruction)
• Political Violence & Left-Wing Rhetoric:
  36:50 – 39:54
• LA Mayor Race Discussion:
  40:01 – 59:51 (47:18—Crowder on Karen Bass supporters)
• Candidate Platforms & Critique:
  48:03 – 55:05 (Bass’s Cuba ties; Raman’s platform)
• Tribalism & Conservative Strategy:
  61:27 – 64:22
• Debunking Viral Misinformation:
  66:36 (Costco/Muslim panic example)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "If it can bite down a tree, it can kill you." — Steven Crowder, on beavers (07:52)
• "Nobody wants to see this but them. And it's an obscene amount of money to put this on. ... This is just, it's just self glorification non stop." — Steven Crowder, on the Met Gala (16:48)
• "If you want a list of her diseases or ailments... [Lena Dunham] might give that cerebral palsy training a run for the money." — Steven Crowder, on Lena Dunham (21:27)
• "This is the kind of rhetoric that we've heard from the left. The Bernie Bros..." — Steven Crowder (36:12)
• "Let's not just kill billionaires because they've been successful. We need to actually look at their character." — Steven Crowder (36:34)
• "She was endorsed by Kamala Harris, which is like the black dot on the pirate ship." — Steven Crowder, on Karen Bass (47:18)
• "If 20 people get together and vote to rape 5, is that virtuous? It's democracy now." — Steven Crowder, critiquing "Democratic Socialism" (51:45)
• "You don't need to lie when the truth is enough." — Steven Crowder, on viral fake news (66:36)

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Tone & Style

• Irreverent, edgy, and (intentionally) politically incorrect
• Heavy on satire and parody—especially in culture segments
• Mocking, scathing tone toward progressives, media, and elite politicians
• Direct appeals to conservative "tribalism" over unity with the left

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Conclusion

This episode uses the LA mayoral race as a lens for discussing deeper trends in American urban politics, left-wing activism, “woke” ideology, and conservative strategy. The hosts favor red-pilled rhetoric, lambasting liberal elites and media hypocrisy, and elevating outsider, populist, or anti-establishment candidates (like Spencer Pratt). The episode blends pop culture mockery with serious warnings about policy, political violence, and media manipulation, advising listeners to shun leftist unity campaigns and always verify sensational content.

For anyone tracking big-city politics, media narratives, and the direction of American urban governance, this episode encapsulates conservative skepticism—and suspicion—toward the current progressive trajectory, particularly as embodied by LA’s political class.

Transcript

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[Steven Crowder]

There's two seconds left. I can't do it. I can't do it.

[Josh]

Do it live.

[Steven Crowder]

Flannel. There's no. Guys, can you. Do you have a welcome to lineup live on Rumble? You know, all that stuff you guys, do you know how to does. Is there any way to not have flannel shrink? No. The shirt fit fine, and now it doesn't fit fine. So I gotta roll this up. All right, look, I guess we're just thinking about wardrobe today because the Met gala happened last night. How much. How much Satanism and sodomy can you fit in a room? Well, turns out about that much. Also, we're gonna be talking about the, you know, remember the Palisades fires? Remember that? It was a big deal. Yeah. Left wing terrorist, we're told climate change. Left wing terrorist. Which brings us to Spencer Pratt, running for mayor. A lot of people think this is kind of a circus, you know, a clown show, but I'll make the case. Hey, you know what? People who were on reality shows, that's not a disqualifier. We saw it with President Trump, and I understand at one point in time, but compare that to Kamala Harris. Let's compare Spencer, PR, villain of that show the Hills, to an actual communist who is training up to become allegedly a domestic terrorist and praising communist regimes. This is where we find ourselves. Also, Texas is becoming far too Muslim for my tastes. We'll see about yours. On with the show. You've not been taking your foundation. I see.

[Gerald]

How'd you know that?

[Steven Crowder]

I see? Because you had a momentary lapse in neuromuscular control which would suggest a magnesium deficiency due to your poor dietary habits, general slothfulness and clearly missing a dose of foundation. Don't miss another dose.

[Gerald]

Thanks. Yeah, thanks. I'll get this cleaned up. If I just find the towels.

[Nithya Raman]

How did you do that?

[Steven Crowder]

The Prestige.

[Nithya Raman]

Okay. How.

[Gerald]

How did he. How'd you get over there?

[Nithya Raman]

The Prestige.

[Steven Crowder]

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[Gerald]

Steph.

[Josh]

My a bitch looking for some swim in drawers and nearly puked all over the floor.

[Steven Crowder]

I started to rage.

[Josh]

I nearly got aids. Black trainee bulging out on the webpage away from the web store. I did sneak. I'd rather not help with brazen freaks.

[Steven Crowder]

Adidas has seen the touch of wokeness hand. Now we see the latest, most gayest brand Adidas.

[Josh]

Not my Adidas.

[Gerald]

What?

[Josh]

More like a pig penis. A penis.

[Steven Crowder]

A penis. Click Rumble premium and join now for 99 annually or 9.99amonth to get the entirely ad free experience and an ever expanding roster of content creators and free speech.

[Gerald]

It's.

[Josh]

Oh, well.

[Steven Crowder]

And I forgot to ask you, what's your favorite Cinco de Mayo tradition? Mine is not even acknowledging it.

[Josh]

Margaritas.

[Steven Crowder]

Is that an actual Cinco de Mayo tradition? Of course. I don't really understand it. I don't either.

[Josh]

I don't do it.

[Gerald]

I beat my wife.

[Steven Crowder]

Ah, very nice. Like a dia de la Muerte pinata.

[Gerald]

Yeah, it has nothing to do with culture.

[Steven Crowder]

No, no, no.

[Gerald]

It's just a good excuse to drink and beat her.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it's just a get out of white privilege free card.

[Gerald]

Everyone's so busy with their queso. I just hit her.

[Josh]

Jeez, Josh.

[Steven Crowder]

Captain Morgan. How are you? Hop too many Katman Cokes. You too will be a little bit punchy.

[Josh]

Yeah, no, no, I'm fine. Not celebrating at all.

[Steven Crowder]

You'll be punch. You'll be. You'll be punch drunk. She'll just be punched.

[Josh]

That was Josh, not me.

[Steven Crowder]

NotFirestein on X is where you can. Because it's not Josh Firestone. He was banned and not restored. Josh Firestone. How are you, sir?

[Gerald]

Good, good. I just pressure washed my sidewalk recently.

[Steven Crowder]

Very nice.

[Gerald]

And now my neighbor's look like good.

[Steven Crowder]

That's the.

[Gerald]

It's like. It's like a white sidewalk and then just nasty, you know, gray blackish sidewalk and the nice green gray. It Looks like God is shining upon my house.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, exactly. That's. It's not quite the screw you that the leaf blower is.

[Gerald]

Oh, I use.

[Steven Crowder]

That's my favorite.

[Gerald]

I use that every morning before I come to work.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, I actually blow. I blow everything from my good neighbor's yard into my yard to blow it along with my things, into my bad neighbors.

[Gerald]

That is some dedication.

[Steven Crowder]

It is.

[Gerald]

I respect that. That is petty.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, his wife shouldn't have clipped my hedges.

[Gerald]

Now wait, what?

[Steven Crowder]

Reached through my fence and clipped my hedges.

[Gerald]

Is the fence like your zipper?

[Steven Crowder]

No, this is not a euphemism. She reached through my fence and clipped my hedges.

[Gerald]

Oh, that's even worse. Like your actual bushes.

[Steven Crowder]

Brought it upon herself. Brought it upon themselves. Speaking of bringing something upon yourself, you have to really screw up to get a beaver this mad. But New Jersey gonna. New Jersey. Here you go. Yes. That is a beaver attacking.

[Gerald]

That's a Pokemon. Come on.

[Steven Crowder]

He just whips.

[Gerald]

How come nobody's punching it?

[Steven Crowder]

I mean, you have to screw up like pretty significantly to get a beaver. That. If there's a den, avoid it. They're not particular. They're not aggressive on the. I know some beaver, but as a general rule, you just need to follow some simple guidelines. Be quiet. If there's a dent, just avoid it. Just don't go there. They must have been screwing with it. Flicking it. The good news is the beaver is okay, survived and was able to complete his dam by the end of the day. So. Oh, well. Maybe that beaver wasn't so innocent after all. One of those legs was blue.

[Gerald]

Was that avatar?

[Steven Crowder]

He's been building it for a long time.

[Josh]

I see.

[Gerald]

I see. Decomposing.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, here's a general rule of thumb.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

If it can bite down a tree, it can kill you.

[Josh]

I've never thought of it like that, but that's true.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And for French Canadians out there, remember you guys, if you remember that. So, tale of the little beaver. He too kills people. Oh, really? It was a cartoon. It was a cartoon, of course. French Canadian cartoon about a beaver that kills people. Speaking of beaver, an obscene amount Met gala happened last night and we're going to break down the worst dress. And by worst dressed, I mean I guess you would say most occult, like, it's time for entertainment minute. Now, let me be clear. This is obviously it's easy fodder for content, we have a seven plus one. But I've said in the past that one of my litmus tests or barometers is if you're an environmentalist or you're a Hollywood sort of leftist and you endorse or have your own perfume or cologne line. I will never listen to you again. It is a completely unnecessary product that is wasteful, that is toxic. In most instances, you just are doing it out of pure greed. There is no need for it. It is excess capitalism, consumerism run amok according to their worldview. Worse than that is the Met Gala. So this is an event, you guys know, to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right? The Met. And they spend tens of millions of dollars. And people dress up in these outfits that, again, cost tens of thousands of dollars that are completely unnecessary, will never be worn again. Copious amounts of energy consumed to put on one big giant. Look at me outdo each other festival. This one was sponsored by Jeff Bezos. And of course, that means that the 1%, the ultra elite, wealthiest, hunger games in real life, 1%, were protested by the absolutely psychotic, extreme 1%.

[Hannah]

He perpetuates. Inc. Created a system that prioritizes profits over people. He also prioritizes you prioritize rivets.

[Gerald]

And he's not the only one prioritize her spine.

[Steven Crowder]

Now, it took me a while to figure out what this is, and I will tell you what it is. Those. Are

[Gerald]

those airplane bottles of rum?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, exactly. So the left is so bad at, like, for people who think they have the corner on art, well, postmodernism has destroyed it for them. That, in case you're like, well, what is that? That's meant to signify Amazon workers don't get enough time for a bathroom break, so they pee in bottles. So they decided that they were going to fill up miniature bottles. Now, of course, it's just water and food coloring.

[Josh]

Come on.

[Gerald]

They didn't even really pee.

[Steven Crowder]

You'd see it and you'd be like, why are you. Why are you. Why are you leaving sample cologne bottles around? Why are you leaving airline liquor bottles around? No, no, no. That's to symbolize the plight of the worker. You've already lost my attention.

[Gerald]

You could have kept my attention had you just peed on a statue.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, just.

[Josh]

There you go.

[Gerald]

Gotta watch that.

[Steven Crowder]

Just pee on a person.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, well, I mean, it's already degenerate enough. Look around. It's the Met Gala.

[Gerald]

But we printed stickers. I think somebody was dressed as a fire hydrant. Oh, right.

[Steven Crowder]

Was it R. Kelly?

[Josh]

Every year, same outfit.

[Steven Crowder]

Before we get into it, we're gonna get into some of the worst outfits. And by the way, Met Gala, there was more trans. It was more bizarre and less cleavage. Usually met G is just. It's just an excuse for tits. That's all it is. It's just tits. And it's not considered pornography because it's art and Versace did it. But here are some honorable fashion mentions that didn't make the cut. I can't see Sarah.

[Gerald]

She's protesting the rich.

[Steven Crowder]

What are you wearing? Oh, my gosh. I'd want my eyes wide shut. Oh, is that to contain her crabs?

[Gerald]

Yeah, it's a caboose.

[Steven Crowder]

It's a crab fisherman's cage.

[Gerald]

Oh, my God, there's flounder.

[Steven Crowder]

Madame Butterfly. Oh, that's. That's Bad Bunny dressed up like mortician Colonel Sanders. What is that? Cardi B's prolapse. That's following her.

[Gerald]

I. I think that is what it is.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay. Feathers. A look that kills. We can't wear feathers now. Those are fine.

[Gerald]

Yeah, that looks fine with that.

[Steven Crowder]

It's rocket boobs. Blast off. It is. He looks like cousin Eddie banged Vega Gayer with this pleated skirt. And I was like, well, look, you know, in our culture, Polynesian culture, we rock.

[Nithya Raman]

Lava.

[Steven Crowder]

Lava.

[Gerald]

He's not wearing pants.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, so he's dressed like a trans planter's peanut guy.

[Gerald]

Oh, she's the black pearl.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

All right. Wakanda's in the building.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay. I always like when there's a chubby white guy in a cummerbund.

[Gerald]

I wonder if that last person was like, how do I get all my friends to get in for the same $100,000 price? Yes, I know. They're part of my costume.

[Steven Crowder]

It's an ensemble arch piece. Like, is this guy really a dancer? The 290 pound white guy in the cummerbund, Is he really?

[Gerald]

No, it's music. It's music. Oh, it's not just three guys with the same drum.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, it's his Zambian heritage. It's called Cradle of Civilization. Now, please give me $400 shrimp.

[Gerald]

This is how Beyonce invented country music.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. So here are. Those were just honorable mentions. Let's go through the top five most retarded. Yeah. Moments from this year's Met Gala. And by the way, you can watch these full clips in context. We provide all the references Every. Every show, 11am Weekdays always give you the references. Sam Smith wore this outfit designed by his boyfriend. No surprise here. I miss when he was just a regular gay.

[Gerald]

Help me get up the stairs.

[Steven Crowder]

He looks like Elizabeth Taylor banged a demonic rooster.

[Gerald]

I don't even know who Elizabeth Taylor is.

[Steven Crowder]

She was fine

[Josh]

just not this century.

[Gerald]

So he's fine.

[Josh]

The hell is that awful dude?

[Steven Crowder]

Maybe next year you can dress as a bottle of Ozempic.

[Gerald]

It's a lot simpler.

[Steven Crowder]

Or as a corpse. I was wrong about who made his outfit. It was actually designed by male efficient. So that's what it's. Yeah, there you go. Now just a Satanist gay guy. This next one, you're gonna say that whatever we say here is meant to, and I'll allow it. Yep. I wrote a long time ago and sold this spec script for. It was about diversity before it was a whole thing. This is in 2013. I wrote the legend of this, the most diverse human being who ever lived. And I believe it was a. It was a black single mother, trans woman, quadriplegic with rickets. And here's the thing. That's absurd, right? It was meant to be as silly as humanly possible. But this next person, Aaron Rose, Philip, comes really close. And you know, the worst part is some Devil wears Prada fashion designers are laughing in the back room. They don't care about this person.

[Gerald]

Oh, man. In front of the stairs. That's cold.

[Steven Crowder]

Simon Burch and blackface. Now, this person is a black disabled trans model with cerebral palsy, originally from the Caribbean. What? And someone actually wrote this in praise. This person, they wrote, the first black transgender woman with quadriplegic cerebral palsy signed to a major agency, breaking barriers with every step.

[Josh]

Oh, no.

[Steven Crowder]

This is what real representation look looks like. Met gal. So really, this is what real representation looks like. So there's a bunch of black, transgender, quadriplegic, cerebral polly. Finally, something for me.

[Gerald]

Send him down the catwalk.

[Steven Crowder]

It's the cat roll. Don't even know what to say. They're just sitting. They're just sitting there going like, yeah. You think that they expect this person to have a career? No, they're just using. They're using this virtue signaling at their expense. It's like, okay, okay, a trans person,

[Gerald]

they go to the doctor. They're like, what would you like to change about yourself?

[Josh]

Yeah, everything.

[Gerald]

Just my genitals. Yes, that's it.

[Steven Crowder]

We have a ground everything else procedure that can help none of your actual afflictions, but make you think you're a woman, huh?

[Gerald]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Steven Crowder]

There you go.

[Josh]

That'll make life better for you, right?

[Steven Crowder]

Just picture him like Jack Nixon, the Joker, just smacking the mirror, laughing maniacally. All right, get out to the Met gala, because what the hell's the difference at this point? This is what it's just talk about when these people will talk about Donald Trump being a narcissist. Is there anything more narcissistic? Here's why it's so narcissistic, because nobody actually cares. Nobody wants to see this but them. And it's an obscene amount of money to put this on. It's not even. I mean, the original intent, for example, of fashion shows, if you go back originally, is to model the clothes so that consumers, people who need to make informed decisions, go, oh, I think that that might look good. I might be interested in that. This is just, it's just self glorification non stop. There's no purpose to it other than look at me, look at me. Here's Heidi Klum wearing. She looks like a Statue of Liberty had sex with a negative Italian stereotype.

[Gerald]

Shut up. Oh, God.

[Steven Crowder]

What the are we even doing?

[Gerald]

It's like clinging to her body.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, and people screaming, yeah, why? Why? Like I get it. If someone scores a goal.

[Gerald]

Hey, gargoyle, look over here.

[Steven Crowder]

Who are you? Unfortunately, she actually to leave early to get back to her shift in Athens, so. Oh, yeah, you weren't that. And just in case she was busy walking through.

[Gerald]

She looks like one of those street performers in Vegas.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Gerald]

That don't move unless you touch them on the face and then they beat

[Steven Crowder]

the out of you. Well, that must just be you.

[Gerald]

Ah, well, you know, it is sinking. I learned my lesson.

[Steven Crowder]

There was a guy used to do that in Montreal, Statue of Liberty. And he would do. And then he would. Once he was done street performing, he'd hop into his Mercedes and drive off.

[Gerald]

That's awesome.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, he made a lot of.

[Gerald]

That is awesome. I love that guy.

[Steven Crowder]

There was also a street performer on the subway who would play the entire Star wars theme song with three flutes, one in his mouth, one in each nostril. What that guy deserved the Canada has great bums.

[Gerald]

There was a bum in Vancouver when I went to Vancouver with the boys when I was young, he had a sign said, we'll take verbal abuse for change.

[Steven Crowder]

Good.

[Gerald]

We yelled so many things at him and he pretended to be sad and took pictures.

[Steven Crowder]

No, he's covered pollen. That's what we all want to do with the bum. Yeah, we'll get to Los Angeles in a second. So according to a writer at Womenswear Daily regarding Klum, she wrote even the detailing on Clumsy created a deceptively veiled appearance. A headpiece full of floral elements featured as well. The model's entire look enveloped Klum's body with gray Contacts added and painted. Hands, face and even teeth. We wouldn't know unless you wrote about it and we don't care. No, enveloped.

[Gerald]

More like priority mailed.

[Josh]

But it's enveloped.

[Gerald]

More like a box.

[Josh]

Just be clear. Enveloped is not a word.

[Steven Crowder]

Enveloped. Enveloped. Sorry, Enveloped, not envelope. I've never. How do you. No, he admonished me, though.

[Gerald]

Yeah, yeah, but you corrected him for saying the wrong word. But then I built off of his wrong word with a joke about how she looks more like a larger parcel than an envelope.

[Steven Crowder]

Or route. Huh? Which one? Route or route?

[Josh]

It depends.

[Gerald]

It's.

[Steven Crowder]

What is it you're going to travel a certain.

[Josh]

It's Route 66. Yeah, but I run a route on.

[Steven Crowder]

See, we always say route.

[Josh]

Yeah, we.

[Steven Crowder]

Screw Canada. There's a bunch of stuff. All right, that's my fault. Laina Dunham, in case you were just like, hey, we need some ugly people. What's funny is we just. We were just watching that you saw some. Where they said feathers are a bad look or what? Feathers are a deadly look. What was it again? I don't know. We're saying you shouldn't wear feathers. I haven't. I'm not gonna lie to you. No, no. I think this.

[Josh]

I was in support of something.

[Steven Crowder]

I haven't done as much research on this segment as I usually do to

[Gerald]

prepare something about birds of a feather. Eat together.

[Josh]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Steven Crowder]

Anyway, the point is, I think it was anti feather. And here's professional victim. That's what you have to do when you have no discernible talent. Laina Dunham wearing a feathery red dress.

[Gerald]

She's dressed as her own coronary artery.

[Josh]

Completely clogged, So it's getting winded. Going up the stairs.

[Steven Crowder]

She said that her dress was inspired by the painting Judith Beheading Holofernes.

[Josh]

What?

[Steven Crowder]

Holofernes by Artemisia. I don't. I'm not going to read this. I don't know. Anyway, the point is she's just trying to go like, look, this is what it's inspired by. Yeah. How much you. I'm willing to bet that's bullshit. I'm willing to bet that you're making it up also. It doesn't look like that painting.

[Josh]

No, it doesn't.

[Steven Crowder]

This is what happens when. When people don't have talent. When it's just. It's. It's the equivalent to real life clickbait. It's just, oh, I have to outshock the next person. This is what Lena Dunham, by the way, does with diseases or ailments. She's someone who is actually claimed to have. If you want a list of her diseases or ailments, and I don't know how you have all these things, she might give that cerebral palsy training a run for the money. Ehlers Danlos syndrome. As someone who actually suffers from genetically testable, I doubt she does. Endometriosis, fibromyalgia, long Covid eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized social anxiety disorder, colitis, an eardrum rupture, ptsd, migraines. She has all these things, but she's out there in a dress representing a beheading painting in front of cameras and loud noises. I would be.

[Josh]

I would have a lot more respect for if she was actually beheading somebody on the way up. That would be fun to watch.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Gerald]

Or if she'd come out and said, hey, I'm the Scarlet Bitch. Yes, hey, own it.

[Steven Crowder]

And then Sam Smith, there's only room for one witch. That's me.

[Josh]

I'm more satanic than you.

[Steven Crowder]

And what's funny about this, this next part is sometimes they don't get the memo. It's like, you ever. You ever have one of those times where you. You wear, like the same shirt as your buddy or something? You're like, ah, we shouldn't have done this. Well, apply that to hand tits. Here you go.

[Gerald]

Ah, to be addressed.

[Steven Crowder]

So hands on her breast. Avant garde.

[Gerald]

Well, you've got a golem on your back.

[Steven Crowder]

He has a whole person on his back.

[Gerald]

It's coming out his ass. This is my Siamese brother. We lost at birth.

[Hannah]

Oh, no.

[Steven Crowder]

She wins. She has overhanded. She has hand butt.

[Gerald]

Those fingers move.

[Josh]

Four, five. I think she has five.

[Gerald]

That one actually looks cool. I'll say it.

[Steven Crowder]

Do you think the first lady with the hand tits came in and saw that second lady with four hands was

[Gerald]

just like, I told you we needed more hands.

[Steven Crowder]

Told me there wouldn't be anyone else with the hand breasts. Come on, Artemis, Donatella, by the way, this is where she got those hands.

[Gerald]

Stop it.

[Steven Crowder]

I remember as a kid watching Labyrinth, and one of those hands takes the opportunity to grab Jennifer Connelly, which, you know what? Hats off. It's a victimless crime. Game respects game.

[Gerald]

It's not a victimless crime. Somebody was groped and sexually assaulted on set.

[Steven Crowder]

She thought she was descending to certain, certain doom. And so at that point, a little bit of. A little bit of a titty honk is not that bad.

[Josh]

And she saved her life. It was just all Contextual and not let her continue.

[Gerald]

You know what they say. Don't. Don't crowd surf if you don't want your butt fingered.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, I think that's what they say. I don't know.

[Gerald]

My grandma used to tell me that. Yeah, my grandma used to tell me that. She was big into concerts.

[Steven Crowder]

If that. They do that to me, then they will live in the eternal stench. Another labyrinth reference,

[Gerald]

by the way.

[Steven Crowder]

We're just gonna move past that. I guarantee you a midget was exploited for that movie. These old films like back then, just put a midget in a mask. It'll be scary.

[Gerald]

Yeah, they were right.

[Steven Crowder]

Do I need to walk a certain way? However you normally walk. That'll be good. Yeah, just how you normally walk. I mean, let's. Oh, God.

[Gerald]

It was better than I thought it would be.

[Steven Crowder]

It's better. No wonder. You have a life expectancy of like 40. You're all disproportional. This is perfect for a scary film. So the Met Gala look, it's just. It. It just crystallizes everything that you hate about the Hollywood elite, and they really think that they're accomplishing something. It's really an opportunity for them to put on their sluttiest dresses, reveal as much of their. Basically not be accused. Not be charged with public indecency while they're pretending it's philanthropy. And we have word that Netflix is actually in development for an exclusive docu series on the Met Gala because they have to get as much mileage out of it as possible. Which brings us to this week. Seven plus one. You forgot the van in the chamber. I can't believe we're 24 minutes and we're still in the Met Gala. All right. It's fun.

[Josh]

It's good times.

[Steven Crowder]

This is seven plus one Met Gala docu series. Titles. Documentary titles. Yeah, they're releasing the film. They already have the rights. Okay, Number seven, There will be tits.

[Gerald]

Daniel Day Lewis.

[Josh]

You can get those in a weekend.

[Gerald]

Come on.

[Steven Crowder]

I hate most penises. I've abandoned my dong. All right, That's a boob. I have two milkshakes. I motorboat them up. It brings all the boys to the yard. You're just a boy. Seven plus one. Seven plus plus one Met Gala docu series. I take it up with Netflix. Number six. Josh.

[Gerald]

I don't agree with it, but. No country for old dits. There's plenty of country for old tits at my ranch.

[Steven Crowder]

Gravities. Gravity's coming for you, friendo.

[Gerald]

Call it heads or tits.

[Steven Crowder]

I have to know what I stand to gain everything. Milk.

[Gerald]

Double D's

[Steven Crowder]

Number five, Jerry Cal Morgan, Dances with Whores. Hey.

[Josh]

No.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, you know what?

[Josh]

Now we know why he. Reservation.

[Gerald]

Pocahontas. Pocahontas All.

[Steven Crowder]

Golly, this is my favorite. As far as their proposed titles, again, seven plus one Met Gala docu series titles. Number four, Demolition Tips. Well, that's just perfect for those on audio. I don't know what you're doing with your life.

[Gerald]

Who cares? How to use the three seashells. Let me see this movie.

[Steven Crowder]

Number three, Josh.

[Gerald]

Requiem for a Double D. Hey.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, well, that's very Met Gala.

[Gerald]

It's a trippy movie.

[Steven Crowder]

And number two. Gerald. Why not? Oh, why's your mic off?

[Josh]

Sorry, I had to cough. Tits Over Iwo Jima.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, Gerald. And that's actually. I would argue it's the better film. Over Tits of Our Fathers, I prefer. That's your preference.

[Josh]

Okay, listen, that's not objective.

[Steven Crowder]

I feel we've awoken a sleeping titty.

[Gerald]

I mean, there were lots of other great. There were lots of the great tit war movies.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, there were. Behind Undertaker Tits, Thin Red Tits.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

The longest hit. Bridge Over River Tit. Hacksaw Tit. A River Run Through Titan.

[Josh]

Plus one within this one.

[Steven Crowder]

Which actually brings us to the number one title for the Netflix Met Gala docu series, Tit. It's just. I mean, it's just. It's.

[Gerald]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

And the plus one. Snatch this has been this week. Seven plus one. You forgot the van in the chamber. Now, we watched the Met Gala, so you didn't have to. You know, guys, if you are not yet a member, what do we have to do here at Loud Earth Crowder? We actually. We are willing to do what is necessary. We are willing to torture ourselves.

[Josh]

Steven, what are you doing?

[Steven Crowder]

Josh has to get ready for the show. We gotta get him amped.

[Gerald]

Gotta get amped. Gerald.

[Steven Crowder]

This is border.

[Josh]

No, this is actual torture now.

[Gerald]

Nah, I think Steven's fine.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, I can take it still. Steven, you're gonna turn Josh into a sociopath. There are better ways to get pumped.

[Gerald]

Amped.

[Josh]

Fine. Amped.

[Steven Crowder]

Here, try this.

[Josh]

It's a blackout coffee. Strange animal brew, right? It's got the best beans, best blend. How could you forget?

[Steven Crowder]

You made it. It's been a long morning. It's a pretty good idea. No, no, no, no, no.

[Gerald]

Here's me, baby.

[Steven Crowder]

You're supposed to drink it. Your hands drink eye drops. Gerald, that'd be dangerous. I can't do this anymore.

[Gerald]

Oh, yeah? Hit me again, baby.

[Steven Crowder]

You can take it go to blackoutcoffee.com Crowder. You use the promo code CROWDER for 20% off your first order. And try the new exclusive Strange Animal brew. Yes. I chose the beans. It is the blend that we drink here exclusively. And now I'm making it available to you.

[Gerald]

I'm so am.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Done. Tits. We just kept going with the set

[Josh]

plus one war movies.

[Gerald]

Tit harbor.

[Steven Crowder]

The darkest tits. All right, welcome those who we were covering the Met gala. We are not supporting the degeneracy. We are just calling it out. Yeah. What was that? Did you. Did you just clear your throat with a Peewee Herman? You went. You just said the word of the day.

[Gerald]

All this Diz talk just got me peewee'd up. Not Doug at all.

[Steven Crowder]

They did him wrong, by the way. Peewee Herman. The story that we. There was. He didn't. He didn't do anything that they claimed he was in the theater. He did that, but.

[Josh]

So he did some things that they claim.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, they claim that he had all kinds of. Just.

[Gerald]

So I heard he was masturbating in the theater.

[Steven Crowder]

It was in an adult movie theater that there were, like, you could pick 20 people out of there. But then the problem is, they said that he had a bunch of underage pornography. He did not. He had old bodybuild bodybuilding magazines, and they claim that one of the guys looked. The model looked like he could have been 17. He had, like, hundreds of old school bodybuilding magazines, you know, guys and Speedos. It's nothing compared to what we have today. And he just went away because, like, you know, kids shouldn't. Kids shouldn't have to. To. To deal with this.

[Josh]

And in fact, they probably did him a little bit wrong outside of that.

[Steven Crowder]

But, yeah, I probably shouldn't have a kid show. I don't have a problem with them having a kid show in the theater. Well, that was. But that was just gay. That wasn't the issue was the. It was the magazines that they said he had all kinds of depraved magazines.

[Josh]

No, I know he may have lied about that, but the Wanken in the theater part is enough to be like, no kid show for you.

[Steven Crowder]

You want to know how far we've come? Arnold was stopped at the. Was stopped by customs for bodybuilding magazines. They said it was pornography.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, that's right. And now you see the Met gala.

[Josh]

Well, they were. They were gay, you know, lifting mags.

[Steven Crowder]

No, they weren't. They weren't. Those were his private photos with Joe Weider.

[Josh]

How do you think you could want

[Steven Crowder]

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[Steven Crowder]

Let's go to this next one.

[Josh]

You lift his weight.

[Steven Crowder]

So do you remember, Remember, you guys remember the palisades, the fires? 2025, you guys remember that was. It was huge. Was a tragedy. A lot of people lost their fires. A lot lost their fires. Let me restart this. You guys remember the Palisades fires?

[Gerald]

No.

[Steven Crowder]

2025? It was awful. They were huge. Of course it was mismanagement. You can directly attribute it in a lot of ways. A lot of the fires, not these specifically, you can attribute them to the city government, the state government in California because of environmentalism. But in this case we now know that it was not that. Here's what we were told it was. Let's go back to then. All right. Remember, the media wanted you to know it was climate change.

[Gerald]

Climate change intensified the hot and dry

[Steven Crowder]

conditions, turning vegetation into and then heavy winds help the fires go where they normally don't.

[News Reporter]

According to this statistical model, peak January

[Steven Crowder]

fire weather this extreme is about 35% more likely to occur in the current

[News Reporter]

climate than it would have been if

[Steven Crowder]

the climate were 1.3 degrees cooler. So without anthropogenic warming, you're seeing it

[Gerald]

across the spectrum right now in my state included, which is one of the most blessed and cursed states as it relates to to climate. We're on the tip of the spear of climate change. Simultaneous droughts, simultaneous floods. Oh, see it now. I'm heat hots are Getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier. You saw one of the most devastating wildfires in America in the middle of winter in Los Angeles in January. Hundred mile hour winds attached to fire up.

[Steven Crowder]

Is it, is it climate change? Because down here is. Maybe we thought like that you guys wouldn't do controlled burns. Or maybe the fact that you guys had to protect the waterways because of a smelt of fish, not because couldn't

[Gerald]

swim, not because the fire was here. Then the wind took it to here. Yeah, but then we didn't have any water so we were all under down here.

[Steven Crowder]

That's right. And I feel like this helps.

[Gerald]

We had to pull back a little

[Steven Crowder]

bit with an urban demographic. Well, that brings us to now. Turns out it was actually a left wing terrorist attack. But you know, that happens a lot.

[Gerald]

Tonight, new insight into the man accused of sparking last year's deadly Palisades fire. An inferno that reduced neighborhoods to ash and left 12 dead. Court documents revealing the accused arsonist, 30 year old Jonathan Rindernacht, was fixated on Luigi Mangio, winter soldier, the man charged with the high profile murder of a Helicopter Healthcare CEO in 2024.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep. Oh, so don't expect this to be all over the media as the climate change narrative was also prior to the firebrander connect, he was searching Free Luigi Mangione. He was searching. Let's take down all the billionaires. And this is why you don't hear me engage in sort of what you see from the Marxist right, the class warfare. I have problems with corrupt billionaires. I don't think any business should be too big to fail. I don't like it when they lobby the government so they get preferential treatment and you get screwed as a result. I also know people who may not be billionaires, but I know a few people who are really wealthy. The most generous two people I've ever known in my life have been the wealthiest two people have known. So let's not just kill billionaires because they've been successful. We need to actually look at their character. This is the kind of rhetoric that we've heard from the left. The Bernie Bros who kind of came into the Trump fold and now they're going back to being Bernie Bros. And these are the results. Left wing terrorism we know is far more prevalent right now in the United States than they'll try and claim right wing. But that comes from the splc. He also also allegedly it was stated that he did this quote out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as were basically being enslaved by them, do you mean the Gavin Newsoms of the world? Now, remember this fire? 12 people died, 7,000 homes gone, $150 billion in damages. And if we look at this right, we were lied to, by the way, from those on the left. They immediately jumped to conclusions because they want to push a narrative. And ultimately, what's the end game when they go? Climate change. When they go, These fires are started by climate change. The ultimate end game is to tax you more. The ultimate end game is to take more control over your life. The ultimate endgame is to make you beholden to international governments, to countries across the ocean who have no interest in your well being in the name of worshiping Mother Earth. That is the end game. The truth is leftist violence, and that is in line with what we know to be true. Leftists under the age of 45 are far more accepting and by the way, encouraging of violence than those on the right. 26% think political violence is acceptable. It's over 50 sometimes. If you include the, I don't know, conservatives under 45, only 7%. When asked if violence is always acceptable, you get Democrats, 38%. Unacceptable, sorry, or sorry, it's always unacceptable. I'm sorry. Yeah, always unacceptable. Only 38% of Democrats, 77% of Republicans, gosh, 44% of Democrats say it's sometimes acceptable. You combine that with, hey, is it acceptable? Well, you know that these billionaires are killing you by killing the planet and they're killing you by living high on the hog. This is not new, by the way. What's going on? Oh, details on the Palisades fire.

[Josh]

So, hey, good.

[Steven Crowder]

Coming up on scene. I'm glad that they're actually covering it.

[Gerald]

Yeah, well, we'll see what details they have.

[Josh]

Yeah, details are, we don't know what happened, but he looks white.

[Steven Crowder]

Right? This is the worst possible scenario for the left. Yeah, it's not climate change. You lied about that. You were caught with your pants down. It was an act of terrorism. And it was one of your guys who was acting specifically on your rhetoric. Do you think it's that much of a leap when you're talking about states that want to have a leaving tax? That's how much they vilify the wealthy while they praise the homeless. Hey, I don't know if you know this. There's a good percentage of homeless people who are assholes and there's a good percentage of people who are wealthy who are decent people. It comes down to, are you running your business honestly and are you living with integrity? The left doesn't see that when people out there say, man, the left and the right, it's a uniperity. They just want to pit us against each other, man, so that we don't turn towards the elites. Then you're about to hear some real BS from them going, yeah, it's the rich. Oh, okay. But you're not being pitted against another group of people and their only sin is being successful. You are far more likely in this country to be successful because you've created something of value than corruption.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

The exception would be dc, Hollywood, New York.

[Josh]

You also have to lie about them and say that they're not paying their fair share, that they're not contributing to society, that they're taking advantage of loopholes. Like you have to depend on the stupidity of the person that you're speaking to to get them riled up against this class of people. Plenty of bad people in all different groups. There are plenty of people that take advantage of their workers, completely prioritize profits over anything else and will do anything to get it. But there's plenty of people that are paying for everything that you have in your life that is federally funded or locally funded. And you need to be nice to those people because they do it just like everybody else is supposed to do it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep.

[Josh]

Just be thankful.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. I just find it funny when I say, like they want to say, it's not left versus look, let me ask you this. And this is where I made the case for tribalism. I guarantee you that if you line up, let's say, I don't know, let's just pick a round number. 100, 100 billionaires or multi hundred millionaires. I am going to disagree with quite a few of them on many issues. If you line up 100 leftists, I am going to disagree with them on all issues. So why would I say let's unite, man, the right and the left. Because it's the when I know that I am precluded from agreeing with them on anything. If you line up, for example, I don't know, you could say Hispanic Americans, black Americans, line up 100. I guarantee you I probably will disagree with them on a good amount of social issues. I will disagree with 100 leftists on all issues. So when people talk about uniting, why would you unite with the one group who you are guaranteed will destroy you if given the chance against a group where it's a 50, 50 shot that you may be on the same page? You tell me who's pitting who against who and let's go to this next. This is, you know, the mayoral election in Los Angeles. I want to just sort of present something here. We're going to, at some point in our lifetime, we're going to have a fitness influencer, someone who dabbled in fitness influencing, be president. It's just going to happen because this is the. We've now grown up in this era where everyone's life is on social media for everyone to see. So things are changing. What used to be considered outside the bounds of decorum or tradition, it's no longer particularly relevant. And so a lot of the hit jobs that take place that you've seen in the media, that used to be used, they just sort of fall on deaf ears. So Spencer Pratt is running for mayor in California. Now, full disclosure, I never watched the show the Hills. As I understand it, Spencer Pratt was seen as quite a douchebag, was named, like, one of the top reality show villains of all time. Him and his wife. They're still married, by the way. So that says something. It's very rare in Hollywood and people saying, I can't believe that this guy. What are his qualifications to run for office? Well, remember we heard that with Donald Trump.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

When he was running, we heard you have a reality show star as the Republican nominee. Well, no, no. We had someone who really, in his later years, actually created and was starting in a reality show as a way to build his brand. Because he was a real estate mogul, he was already a billionaire. This was a man who successfully run a business. And sure, you could say, all right, he has multiple divorces and he has some controversy that's followed him. But a reality show star who was a successful businessman with some controversies was running in the last election against Kamala Harris. So if your choice is reality show star who wants to close the borders, reality show star who wants to get rid of red tape, reality show star who wants to return America to our roots versus someone who slept their way into office, came dead last in the primary when they actually tried to compete and was then coronated because they helped cover up the demented old circus monkeys dementia. I choose the reality show star also because the platform is one that shares my values more readily. You're now hearing the same thing about Spencer Pratt. Hearing, oh, he was a reality show 20 years ago. He's a reality show contestant. Okay. 20 years ago, you have the mayor, Karen Bass, who allegedly went to Cuba 20 times, was supporting a communist regime. Which one's worse? I just don't care anymore. I don't care. Neither one of Them is qualified. One is distinctly unqualified. One is distinctly precluded from receiving your vote. If you believe in any traditional American values. Los Angeles is in bad shape. And this is one thing that happens. So I always find it funny when someone who's a member of the party of the incumbent or the incumbent themselves goes it's time for. And they list a bunch of improvements they're gonna make. It's like as opposed to what you've been doing. Yeah. Time for change. Yeah.

[Nithya Raman]

From what?

[Gerald]

That's what Kamala did.

[Steven Crowder]

That. Yeah, time for change.

[Gerald]

It's your administration, dumbass.

[Steven Crowder]

Exactly right. Los Angeles, what does that led to? It has the single highest homeless population in the country.

[Josh]

Unsheltered. That matters. New York has a higher population, but they're all in shelters.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, unsheltered homeless population. And you gu. In fact check me check the references links in the description. So I'm sorry. Well, it's beautiful. Unsheltered homeless as opposed to New York where they require shelters because it gets cold. 48,000. It's insane in Los Angeles. The city has a $1 billion budget deficit from 24 to 25, despite what Gavin Newsom says and soft right wing host let him get away with. 54,000 people left Los Angeles county and a lot of that was their wealth base. The largest decline in the country. So enter an unlikely hero. A guy who is running for office, who was a reality show villain. Spencer Pratt. The race is on.

[Nithya Raman]

The fact that our streets are safer. The fact that now we will have our street lights back on basic services.

[Steven Crowder]

Those some accomplishments while she leads are they support is relatively weak for an incumbent. A recent someone who votes for her 40 today is mentally ill. Undecided. LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman. She was first elected to the city council in 2020 as a Democrat and Democratic socialist. She was reelected in 2024. Rahman was an ally of LA Mayor Karen Bass, even endorsing her reelection. Then Raman launched her surprise campaign in large part because she feels Bass is failing to properly address the homeless crisis.

[Nithya Raman]

If I don't get in and we have four more years of these current plans and this current direction and not a real 180 change, everyone is in big trouble. The fire was not what motivated me to go after becoming the mayor of Los Angeles. It was the months after and discovering the layers of city negligence and then the coverups and the lies.

[Steven Crowder]

I tell you what, he's actually been putting up a pretty strong campaign which honestly you shouldn't even need. That Strong of a campaign against Karen Bass, who got her start at Hasbro. To be clear,

[Gerald]

does your person wear glasses?

[Hannah]

Yes.

[Gerald]

Your personality wear a hat? No. Is your person A?

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Nithya Raman]

Are you Karen Bass?

[Karen Bass]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah,

[Gerald]

right.

[Steven Crowder]

Guess who? It's usually the B. I can't think of anything else. When I see Karen Bass now, I know people and I see people on the right saying like, is this the best we can put up? Maybe not. It's the choice you have in Los Angeles. And I truly believe that if someone in Los Angeles today votes for Karen Bass, they're mentally ill. I mean, you already have the results. You already know how this is going to go. To give you an idea, the LA quality of life satisfaction rate is at an all time low. This is the lady who oversaw the Palisades fires. She was endorsed by Kamala Harris, which is like the black dot on the pirate ship. And as Spencer Pratt has pointed out, Bass actually did. Oh, we did get the clip. Great Formative years she spent them propping up Castro's Cuba.

[Nithya Raman]

Karen Basura is a communist now. When I was 19 20, I was living in an apartment on skid row getting my political science degree at usc. That's as LA as it gets, dude. But do you know what Karam Masura was doing at that age? You guessed it. Going to Cuba to support the communist revolution and Fidel Castro's oppressive regime. What? Karen Basura is a card carrying member of the communist front group, the Venceremos Brigade, an anti American communist solidarity organization in which she actively worked for years to undermine the US and prop up the communist revolution in Cuba. Does this sound normal to you? Who in the heck spends their 20s supporting a violent communist dictatorship in a foreign country? What were you doing at 19 years old?

[Steven Crowder]

And I'll give you the answer to that. Every single leftist who's run for office have known every single democratic socialist. At some point they've either praised, gone to contribute to or propped up a communist or socialist dictator. That's just reality. We've done that whole segment. You can check the link in the description. This comes by the way, from the Atlantic. So it's confirmed. She did travel Karen Bass to Cuba. Cuba to work quote construction in the 1970s. Did you guys see what happened with Nick Shirley recently? Compare it to Hasan Piker going to Cuba. Oh man, this is great. While the power goes out in the city, Nick Shirley was followed by security. They stripped him of his cameras. If you are not, you do not get to visit Cuba and do work there unless you are approved by the government, which means you have to be a communist sympathizer. How do I know? I've been to both Havana and Guantanamo Bay. It's well known. Anyone who gives you a glimpse of Cuba that says actually it's great, that is paid for and approved by the communist government. She also went with the. Like you just talked about the Vince Ramos brigade, which was formed, quote, to. In an act of solidarity with the Cuban revolution by working side by side with Cuban workers and challenging U.S. policies toward Cuba, by the way, Cuban revolution, they killed a lot of people, to be clear, and thrust that country into abject poverty. Jailed dissidents, People here talking about freedom. You couldn't do that in Cuba. No, this is what this lady was doing. This is what she believes. Or you take your chances with someone who happened to be kind of a dick on a reality show. I don't care anymore.

[Josh]

Has Karen Bass come out and distance herself from that past? Has she renounced?

[Steven Crowder]

She wouldn't do that because she needs the votes of those hardcore lefties.

[Josh]

Ah, that's right. So she still believes all of this.

[Steven Crowder]

Think about this for a second. Do you ever think of this? It's like when Nick DePaolo, he says, I truly believe that the Democrat Party is an actual threat to the United States. They're not a political party anymore. You could be in California and you could be surrounded by neighbors who would rather you live under the Castro regime. And that's not a reach. That's what they believe.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Why are these people in the United States? I'll give you the answer. To subvert the United States. They want to turn the United States into Castro's Cuba. They want to turn the United States into Chavez's Venezuela. They want to turn the United States into the USSR where Bernie Sanders and Tim Wall spent a bunch of time. They want to turn the United States into Maoist China. As Anita Dunne flat out said when she looks for inspiration and advisor to Barack Obama. Why do they think that? Why are they still here? Because they want to turn this country into the countries they actually admire. Which brings us to the third candidate, Nithya Rahman. She's an LA council member, Democratic socialist, which is such a stupid term. They go, it's democratic socialism. Oh, okay, great.

[Josh]

Dresses it up.

[Steven Crowder]

So enough of you vote. Hey, if 20 people get together and vote to rape five, is that virtuous? It's democracy now. Just do a couple hundred thousand people voting to take someone's wealth, to take food out of their kids mouths, that's what you See in Cuba and Venezuela, but it's democratic. She's been dubbed la's Mamdani. Things that she believes rent freeze, defunding the police, and of course, making sure. And this is a long video, but you need to watch this. Making sure that illegals are welcome and guaranteed, of course, social benefits, taxpayer dollars. They have a home in Los Angeles.

[Karen Bass]

To me, there's nothing more beautiful than how many different kinds of people call Los Angeles home. More than a third of residents in LA county were born in another country. 10% of the nation's undocumented residents live in LA and Orange County. 10% of LA county is undocumented. And 13% of all undocumented youth live in LA. Our immigrant communities are facing real threats. Threats from Trump's hostile policies. We can fight these horrors from City Council. We can support Angelenos and enact our progressive values by implementing policy that really works. We must quickly pass legally binding sanctuary city protections where we end all cooperation and information sharing with ICE and other immigration authorities.

[Josh]

Wow.

[Karen Bass]

City hall has dragged its feet on supporting the Justice Fund, which provides counsel for those are who facing deportation. We must fully support this fund and expand who gets access to it.

[Steven Crowder]

So you have to New York. Your tax dollars will pay for lawyers to protect illegal aliens, including violent criminals.

[Karen Bass]

Ensure that all residents, regardless of documentation, can vote, feel welcomed, safe, and part of the collective of this city. We need language justice at City Hall. As a city that represents residents who speak a range of languages, we must be committed to providing city information, interaction with city services, and political debate in all languages we had so much love.

[Steven Crowder]

If the Bay Area is Sodom and Gomorrah, Louisiana, that's a city that really

[Karen Bass]

welcomes, supports and protects our residents. No Angeleno is illegal.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure they are.

[Karen Bass]

No human is illegal.

[Steven Crowder]

Sure they are.

[Karen Bass]

We must and we absolutely can pass protections at City hall to ensure that all Angelenos can thrive.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. And here's the first. Here's the fundamental difference between my perspective and the left. No human is. Of course, someone can be here illegally.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

No LA residents are no Il. No Angelino. Would you say no Angelenos are illegal? No, of course they're there illegally. Of course they are. They are not citizens of this country. They are not entitled to be in this country. That's a fundamentally different worldview. So if they believe they are just as entitled as you are, even if they don't speak the language, even if they don't like this country and you have to pay for them, that's democratic socialism. This is why I can't join with the left. You see this a lot. Like, we need to come together. We need to unite against a common enemy. How do you unite with someone who wants to steal from you to fund illegal criminals? That's our worldview.

[Gerald]

You.

[Steven Crowder]

It's absolute insanity. And it's. By the way, that was scrubbed. That was scrubbed from all the social media. You know why? Because it's intensely unpopular now. Yes, People feel free to say, you know what? I actually, I don't agree with this.

[Josh]

Yeah, maybe everybody should speak English and we don't have 229 versions of every single thing the city produces. How about that? Yeah, that seems like. It seems like a simpler scenario to me and one that you can actually put into practice. Say, hey, fantastic, you came here. Here's how you learn English. You should have done this beforehand. But here, get caught up and then you can read the signs.

[Steven Crowder]

The truth is, this all comes down to one question. What does it mean to be an American? Does it mean anything? And the left doesn't want to ask that question because they don't want to be American. That's why they spend time in Castro's Cuba, in the ussr praising Maduro, praising Chavez, praising Mao. Take your pic. They can't. Well, what does it mean to be American if we don't have to share language, we don't have to share religion, we don't have to share a basic set of values, code of conduct, laws to follow. That's what they're saying with that. No, Angeleno is illegal. Okay, so you're just as American if you don't speak English. You don't share our values, you don't follow the laws, you don't pay taxes, you don't even like this country. You're just as American as the person who follows the laws, speaks English and will fight for this country. What does it mean to be American? What they mean is blank check and votes. They don't care. They don't like. They absolutely hate America. The reason they are still here is to subvert it. Let's compare that with Spencer Pratt, reality show star, don't care. He wants to be tough on crime. He wants treatment, recovery based homeless policy, which frankly is probably more generous than I would be. He wants improved crisis and emergency systems. He wants to reduce red tape, small businesses, which by the way, we know a lot of businesses have left Los Angeles. And you know what? For a reality show contestant who has come across as prickly in the past, he's actually done a pretty good job with his campaign game right now.

[Nithya Raman]

This is where Mayor Vass lives. You notice something? Or here, where Nithya Raman's three million dollar mansion sits.

[Gerald]

They don't have to live in the Met.

[Steven Crowder]

They've created where you live.

[Nithya Raman]

This is where I live. They let my home burn down. I know what the consequences of failed leadership are. That's why I'm running for mayor. For my sons and the rest of us Angelenos that want to stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city. We are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back. Anithya Raman saying it doesn't matter if homeless drug addicts are shooting up, defecating and exposing themselves to your kids right in front of their schools. The insanity that women are exposed to every day in Los Angeles ends when I'm the mayor.

[Steven Crowder]

Now, I wouldn't have bet that he's going to win this. To be clear. There have been a lot of people who've tried. He is leading in fundraising right now, though. That's significant. It's collage C6, and I still wouldn't bet that he would win. I still think you should get out and vote if you're in Los Angeles. Comment below if you are, if you're a resident. But I will tell you this. I'm a little more convinced when I've tuned in to the left's programming and I see that there is a genuine fear amongst them that this guy's going to win.

[Hannah]

People in California really are excited about

[Josh]

him, by the way.

[Steven Crowder]

Kind of seems like he's going to win. I think so. I think so. I mean, I know, you know Karen Bass, like, she does not have a lot of people going for her. I can see him winning. He's got a lot of momentum.

[Hannah]

I think so, yeah. Rogan just endorsed him.

[Steven Crowder]

I mean, oh, Rogan, the great mind. I know of the universe Rogan. What a idiot. Oh, my God.

[Gerald]

Yeah, but I don't even know your name.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, you may say that Rogan is not a member of mensa. Fine. When's the last time you actually hosted, like, a bioengineer? When's the last time you hosted a nuclear physicist? When's the last time you hosted a Nobel Prize winner?

[Gerald]

The last time anyone cared about your endorsement?

[Steven Crowder]

It's.

[Gerald]

I don't even know whose name. I don't know who that guy is.

[Steven Crowder]

It's a nighttime gossip show hosted by a homosexual. So anyone else could maybe say, like, oh, Rogan's an idiot. Except for you. And by the way, could he. He's at 11% to. Bass is 25% right now.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Undecided is 40%.

[Gerald]

That's a lot, dude.

[Steven Crowder]

And you know what that. That means that undecided is. Well, I'm a lifelong liberal and I'm selfish and I want stuff for me, but I was promised a bunch of greedy bullshit that didn't come to fruition. So these people are going to be voting out of their own selfish interest. But still, that could lead them to voting for anyone other than Karen Bass, which actually brings us to a cowshe chicken right now. As far as the betting odds. Bass is at 28%. Ramen is at 56%.

[Josh]

Yeah. Geez.

[Steven Crowder]

That's bizarre. Pratt is at 18%.

[Josh]

I think they believe that most of that 40 is going to break for her.

[Steven Crowder]

I guess they are. They think probably because of mum Donnie. They probably think, you know, what if.

[Gerald]

Or because of the D next to her name.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gerald]

Because people don't. They don't want Bass anymore.

[Steven Crowder]

No, Bass is out.

[Gerald]

That's. I don't even think that's a question. I think Bass is. I think it's between Pratt and whatever her name was.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald]

Ramen.

[Steven Crowder]

How fast Top Ramen do you think we get into identity politics in this race? If it ends up being between the two where she talks, There are.

[Gerald]

She's already in it. She's already doing identity politics. It's all they do.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep. Yeah.

[Josh]

But we even called this out. Do you remember the undercover story that we had with one of the Mamdani campaign officials, talking about how this is kind of a test case for Mamdani and they've got people around the country they want to go to next. That's what's happening right now. Her surprise launch of her campaign came after Mamdani won. That's the entire agenda right now. And so, as Republicans and conservatives, you've got to get good candidates to run in these races. And I'm not saying he's not one. He may be one, but it's not like we've put up our best and brightest against this offensive yet.

[Steven Crowder]

Right.

[Josh]

And you really have to do that because there's a lot of people out there that want to come out and vote for something different, but when you give them an opportunity to vote and it really doesn't seem like a serious candidate, like in New York, it didn't seem like a very serious candidate, unfortunately, they go, well, I'm not gonna switch my vote for that.

[Gerald]

Well, Spencer Press not really coming out of the RNC Pipeline, is he. He's not like GOP endorsed or like a Republican. What you're saying they don't have any serious Republican candidate. I don't even know who was supposedly running for mayor of Los Angeles that was a Republican.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. I mean, I will tell you.

[Gerald]

Are they even trying.

[Steven Crowder]

I think at one point Larry Elder did or was he running for.

[Josh]

He ran, I thought, for governor.

[Steven Crowder]

With a governor.

[Josh]

California.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. That's quite a bit more difficult. I'll tell you this, though. I see this trend now of people who claim to be on the right, maga, people who claim to be America first. And they go, you know, it's still. Because I want to help Americans and I don't want wars, you know, whatever it is, you know, insert entitlements here. He goes, so I don't care about right versus left. And they'll vote for the socialist. Let me ask you, who do you think engineered, quote, unquote, woke, where do you think that comes from? And do you think, considering that this goes back to the founder of the feast, when you talk about Marx, when you talk about communism, Marxism, socialism, and the necessity of identity politics, do you really think that you can uncouple Democratic socialists from language being compelled and enforced and gender being eliminated? And do you really think that you can remove the woke from that? It's foundational to the worldview. So when people go, yeah, but I want. At least you're gonna be looking out for helping Americans because it's just a foreign policy issue. Realize that the Bernie Bros out there who are returning to their roots, and we can see these analytics, right? We saw Bernie Bros come into the Trump fold, and now they're going back to the Bernie Bro fold. You will vote in Canada. You will vote in Europe, not the least of which is immigration policy. You will never vote for a Democrat candidate as long as you live. You will never be able to vote for a Democrat candidate who will shun wokeness, social engineering, censorship, open borders. Even if they campaign on being moderate, they can't do it once they're in office. It's forbidden for a member of the Democrat Party. So be very, very careful when you talk about linking arms with these people. Yeah, it's democratic socialism. At least it's more looking out for Americans. There can be a national view of socialism. Not if you want a nation where you're allowed to speak freely, defend yourself, and you believe that we should have secure borders. It won't happen. You'll never be able to vote for a Democrat who. Who actually supports those things. Also, we've obtained the newest campaign ad announcing a fourth candidate who's also known for reality tv.

[Gerald]

Hi, I'm johnny knoxville and this is los angeles.

[Steven Crowder]

Don't fact check that it's been done before.

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[Steven Crowder]

I will tell you this too. We have to go. I've gone a little bit over time. We're going to go to Rumble Premium. Mug Club is Rumble Premium. Rumble Premium is Mug Club. If you are not a member, that's what allows us to call balls and strikes, is what allows us to keep the lights on. Hey, hopefully we've given you something of value. It's $99 a year. You get this wonderful hand etched mug. Become a part of the club or try it for $9 a month. Get 100% more. Show everything ad free. If not, you're gonna go on to watch Hayley Caronia. Before I go, though, I just want to. I want this to be seen by as many people as we can reach. The war against clickbait that we've been kind of waging lately. And this is something that does. Hey, you want to talk about where we can find common ground? Okay. We can't link arms with the left and vote for Democrats and hope for the best. But we can, as Americans, expect better from media personalities. We can expect better from people who are supposed to inform us no one is perfect. People make mistakes. But people out there right now, the unbridled greed and the clickbait that has resulted is incredibly damaging to the discourse because you have people out there who believe lies and base their opinions, base their worldviews on complete lies. So this one is actually circulating. I'll tell you why this is such a problem. It depicts a Muslim takeover of a Costco in Texas. Here you go. It says, this is a photo a Texas resident took while shopping at their local Costco in Texas. From don't mess with Texas to Costco's transformed into mosques. This is how we lose our country. Now, you look at that, and of course, that's upsetting. And by the way, you'd say this is the big reason that we need to be tight on immigration. We need to secure our borders. We need to know who's coming in and coming out. The problem is that's an AI Photoshop. The problem is that that's fake. The problem is, if you take that to a leftist, if you take it to someone who actually needs some convincing and they know that you are using fake information, you've now lost them forever. And here's the real problem. It's completely unnecessary. Someone. The only reason someone created that fake Photoshop and circulated it is for a few extra clicks of profit. Because the truth is horrifying enough. The truth, as far as the takeover, not always Islam, but Indian entire neighborhoods, for example, of H1BS in Texas. It's enough that you could post that and fight against it. But this person, whoever created this, was thinking, oh, my gosh, people have already seen the Frisco Costcos, and how do I cut through? I know. So I'll go one more and generate a fake one that seems even worse. You don't need to lie when the truth is enough. Here's a real video of a Texas Costco. Sam.