July 15, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/15) - The LA Times has relapsed and is back to their misleading ways. More on the LA Times article discussing parents who leave their kids in the US because they had to leave the country since they are illegal. A deep dive into Mayor Karen Bass's love for Cuba.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's very difficult finding correct information, truthful information, just to
be able to bring it to you in the proper perspective.
Coming up after two o'clock, you may have heard that
there's a businessman in Santa Monica who is offering he's
got an organization, Santa Monica Coalition, and he's offering free
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playing flights or bus tickets one way out of town
if you're homeless, go back and rejoin your family and friends.
And it looks like, uh, there's there's a lot of
interest among the vagrants too, even even they're sick of
the los Angeles area. They're fed up with Kevin Newseman
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and Karen Bass. Although John Ally is based in Santa Monica.
We've had one on the show a number of times,
and he's like about the only person in Santa Monica
who's trying to fight the h the absolute rotten decay
that has taken over there. Every day, I just shake
my head. It's what happened to that, to that place
formerly a jewel which which reminds me I meant to
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mention this yesterday. Over the weekend, we went to Pageant
of the Masters in Laguna Beach, which is a great
event for two months every summer in Laguna Beach at
the Irvine Ball They bring paintings and sculptures to life.
It's hard to explain. You have to see it really
to understand it. We've invited many friends over the years
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and they say, well, what is it. I go, you
just have to see it. But what they have is
actors who recreate paintings and sculptures. And I know that
sounds ridiculous, but really it's great. And they reek with
lighting and with makeup and costumes they recreated so it
looks like a real painting up there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Are real sculptures. It's very cool.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And the theme this year was California, basically California Art,
and they took you on a tour to all the
great museums in Los Angeles and San Diego and Hearst Castle, Sacramento,
San Francisco and showed you some of the artworks recreated
by these live actors. And the thing was, it was
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such a happy show because it was about all the
beauty of California's history and it just reminded me of
me and my wife of when we moved here back
in the nineties and just how glorious this place was.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's like, oh yeah, I remember, I remember when California
was like that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It wasn't that long ago. I mean you go back
maybe ten years and it was like that. And it's
a tremendous show this year at the Pageant of the Masters.
But you know, driving home, I was like pissed off.
It's like, how dare these people do this? And I'm
talking about the progressives the bass knew some Garcetti, Jerry
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Brown crowd. How dare these progressives destroy so much beauty,
so much that we enjoy, And you know, I just
wanted to roll down the window on the four h
five midnight driving home, just scream my head off. But
it's a great show and you definitely should go this
year down to Irvine. Now, the El Segundo Times is
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suffering from a major relapse. There was a brief period
where the owner, Patrick sun Chian, got interested in the
content of The Times and he wanted to present a
more balanced news presentation, and he gave a round of
interviews and he just wanted them to present straight news
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and enough with the progressive left wing nonsense. And those
are the only opinion columns. And well, you know he's busy.
I mean, he's literally looking for cures for cancer, and
maybe he's got a hot lead on a cancer cure.
But once again the La Times has been left unattended
and they are putting out so many lies, so much bs,
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so much garbage every day that I can't stomach it.
It's a terrible way to wake up in the morning
because I know this stuff isn't true. I know it's
not true, and if you go to other outlets, it's
proven that this is a back of lies. Well, one
of the things they're doing is they have constant sob
stories about the immigrants who are deported or fear they're
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going to get deported, And I always use the me test,
what would I do? Would I ever go to a
foreign country, take my family there, or start giving birth
to babies in the foreign country, knowing that it's illegal,
knowing that if I'm caught, it's going to be a disaster.
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They're going to deport me. I'm going to lose everything
I have. I'm going to lose my house, I'm going
to lose my kids, potentially going to lose my job,
and whatever small games I may have made in the
last few years coming to America illegally, everything's going to
go open smoke, you know, real fast, and it could
be very sudden and very traumatic. And I'm thinking, why
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would you do that? During the last hour listening to KFI.
I don't know how often these these ads run. Christy
nom is always on the station. I don't know if
they did some market research and they think there's a
certain percentage of the CAFI audience is here illegally.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know how that works.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I see it every single morning, numerous times. When I'm
watching TV news, I'm seeing.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The TV commercial.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yes, yeah, well, some of the some of the channels
in LA you could see.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Why they might have a large migrant viewership. KFI. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
They spent a lot of money, and I'm glad. How
often do those commercials run? Eric, I gave you twice
a show? Oh yeah, I mean if not more. Yeah,
it seemed it seems like they're un constantly. So they've
made a big investment. Nobody can say that. And I
imagine on the Spanish language stations in town, they and
the Spanish television stations they made even a bigger investment,
so nobody could say they don't know what the law is.
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I mean, I just imagine if I tried to escape
to Poland, right and I start having kids in Poland
and I'm working illegally and I'm living illegally, and I'm
turning on the TV, and you know, the Polish president
is on TV or the Polish border security heads on TV.
It's like I'd be coming home saying, you know, this
is probably a bad idea. It looks like we got
a new president, there's a new policy. We knew this
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could happen. You know, we have to we have to
make other plans. I don't understand it was an act
so shocked and amazed. Trump ran on this for what
ten years from his very first words as a candidate
in twenty fifteen, you realized it is over ten years.
We're in the eleventh year of the Trump era, and
he followed through. And so why in the world would
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you come here not knowing there was a great risk
that if he gets elected, all the laws were going
to change. No, well, actually the laws didn't change, the
policies changed. The policies changed to follow the law. But
in the LA Times and I will waste my time
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reading the SOBS story about you know, the mother and
the father and the kids, and how long they've been
here and they've been working and they got three little
kids born in America. You read one of these stories
La Times prints several a day. But what I discovered
here is that since twenty eighteen, sixty thousand parents of
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the US citizen children have been deported. This is according
to ICE data. Now, twenty eighteen would would cover four No,
it would cover all four of Biden's years, right, twenty
eighteen to twenty twenty would be Trump, twenty one to
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twenty twenty four would be Biden. So Biden his administration
deported thousands and thousands of parents whose kids were US citizens.
And then elsewhere in the story it said from twenty
fourteen to twenty eighteen, there were eighty to one hundred
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thousand US citizen children in Mexico. They had to move
to Mexico with their deported parents. Well, that covers three
years of Obama. So it looks like during the Obama
and the Biden administration, tens of thousands of parents were
sent to Mexico and tens of thousands of children had
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to accompany their parents. So what Trump may be doing
it in bigger numbers, eventually bigger numbers. He's not doing
anything differently. It's just a matter of how much focus
the Trump administration puts on these deportations, a much much
bigger focus, obviously, But there's no ground being broken here.
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Obama and Biden kicked out tens of thousands of parents,
and tens of thousands of children who were US citizens
had to follow their parents back to the home country.
Of course, you know, that's many paragraphs down in the story,
and that's not the lead, and they don't have analysis
pieces written or columns to give you that particular perspective
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that this is a continuation of long standing policy of
both Democratic and Republican administrations. Talk more about this coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Talking about that La Times piece on the thousands of
parents who get deported and have been deported. As I said,
throughout the Obama administration, the Biden administration, and the two
Trump administrations. There may be more leaving now, but it's
always happened always. And if you come if you come
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here and you think, all right, I'm going to try
to see if I can make it. I know the
laws are all against me. I know if they want
they could do massive sweeps and I'm screwed. But if
I give birth to my kids here, they're citizens, so
we'll just leave them. And that's what's happen. But they
knew upfront and it was part of the plan. A
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lot of these parents will leave their kids with relatives
or friends. You have to work that out with the
Department of Homeland Security and they make sure the kids.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Are transferred safely.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
There's a five and a half million American children citizens
who have an illegal alien household member. Two million of
them are under the age of six. And what I find,
and this is true with a lot of issues going
on these days, people just don't want to accept what
the truth and what the law is. And they keep
thinking that if they express a lot of emotion or
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say but and then spew out more emotion than that
changes the facts, and it doesn't. And the person insisting
on the facts and insisting on the law, you always
end up sounding like an a hole.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You do because we have a.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Culture that runs on emotion now used to run on
facts in truth. Now it's on emotions. So if you're
one of these facts people, you're the problem. You're the
a whole, you're the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You tell people as a fact.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It's like, hey, if you look up, we've had hundreds
of years of immigration law on the books. We've had
court decisions going back hundreds of years as to who
in the federal government exercises the power. Everybody who pays
attention knows how it works. And sometimes you get presidents
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who have administrations that decide that, well, we're not going
to enforce these laws all that much. You know, we're
going to exercise your discretion. Well they do it, but
their terms end, and sometimes the public doesn't like the
looseness of their policy.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They didn't like it in twenty sixteen, they didn't like
it in twenty twenty four. You have a guy like
Trump who says I'm going to be tough, I'm deporting everybody.
We're sailing off the border, and vote for me or
don't vote for me, so he wins. Now, you can't
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expect a guy who for over ten years has been
running on a particular issue, and that issue happens to
be in the top two during this election cycle, and
his opponent was part of the administration that had the
complete opposite philosophy. It was a this is something A
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lot of people voted on this and inflation. So it
was clearcut Biden Harris had this philosophy. Trump had this philosophy.
Votes wins, most Electoral College votes wins.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So that happened.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now it's been six months. Every station in town is
running ads in English and Spanish. It's like, you got
to go, and if you go voluntarily, we'll give you
a thousand dollars and you'll be at the front of
the line to come back. You never should have done this.
To begin with, all our laws are public everybody. Everybody
could find a database online and read what immigration laws.
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Everybody can read the Supreme Court decisions. This is obviously
covered heavily in the news, although it's covered very sloppily
on purpose by let's say the La Times or Channel
five or Channel seven. Right, they focus on the emotions.
And if you focus on the emotions.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
WHOA, this is horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, yeah, this is horrible. But how many years were
you warned you knew coming? Why do you think you
had to pay a drug card tel smuggler? This is
what really like stuns me the people these people, Like
in the La Times, they have a story about a
family who they moved from Mexico because the drug cartels
controlled their region. So their response was to come here.
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Except to get here you have to pay the drug
cartels thousands of dollars and either you have the cash
up front or once you come here and you get
a job, you've got to pay the drug cartel part
of your salary until your debt is cleared. And if
the kids are coming alone, then they have to work
like at that glass house marijuana farm, those fourteen kids,
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whatever money they were quote earning had to be turned
over to the drug cartels. Now this is bad, isn't
it Having a system where an employer might be in
cahoots with a drug cartel to put teenagers in slave
labor until they pay off their debts to the cartel.
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That doesn't sound like a system we ought to be
uh embracing. Do you know anybody who thinks we should?
Because all the outrage over the marijuana farm getting busted,
I haven't heard anybody address that issue.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You don't really says.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Saying about the news coverage and also the most of
the politicians. I heard Gavin Newsom speaking out, are you
in favor of the slave trade for teenagers?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I heard on a news report this morning, a TV
news report, and I'm not sure who was attributing who
this was attributed to, but somebody said that these pot
farms are exempt and they're allowed to hire miners.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I I can't imagine that that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I was pretty surprised, but that was on ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Abyes, Well, there you go, ABC seven, higher miners.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, that they are exempt? Well is it is? I
they're exempt?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to do some digging.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
But that's well about this. We exactly story.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You could work as a minor, we all did, but
under those conditions without parents, and your money has to
pay off the cartels.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And talk about the money being off the cartel.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Of course they didn't. I mean, it's like getting a
job at Burger King when you were sixteen years old, right,
you could get your working papers?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But didn't you have to lie? In my state?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In New Jersey, you turned a certain age Let's say
it was sixteen, I don't remember exactly, and you apply
for working papers and you're allowed to work certain number
of hours, Let's say it's twenty hours, and you can
go flip burgers and shake the fried basket all summer.
They can't put you to work for eighty hours a week,
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and you're working for minimum wage.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But you had to be sixteen California, because I remember,
you had to be sixteen, right, Yeah, you cannot be
younger than sixteen.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
If you're harboring these kids and they don't have the
parents around, I'm assuming you're abusing the kids. I just
I can't see how you're not. And those salaries have
to pay off the drug cartels. I mean, that's how
the business works. So you start engaging in all kinds
of stuff that breaks the law that no normal person
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would do. And then that doesn't work out because the
Americans are not going to put up with unlimited illegal
immigration forever.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
They're just not.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And we've had the repeated instances, and most of the
time the Democratic Party agreed mostly with the Republican Party policies.
Clinton did, Obama? Did you know? This was a new
thing with Biden where it was total, wide open borders.
Bush was really bad too. He was the worst Republican
president with his policies. All right, when we come back,
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I'm going to explain about Karen Bass's background. You may
have heard stories over the years that she was very
much enamored with Cuba and Fidel Castro. Well, I spent
a little time this morning searching the internet, and I
put together a bit of a story about Karen Bass.
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If you wonder why Los Angeles has turned into an shole,
there's a reason. She thought Cuba was a great place,
and she thought Castro is a great leader. And she
thought that when she was very young, and she was
very involved in traveling and even working in Cuba and
admiring Castro. I'll tell you the whole story when we
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come back.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
After two o'clock. We're going to have a businessman, John
Ally on. He's got a group called Santa Monica Coalition
and they are put together a program offering homeless people
one way tickets out of town to be united with
their friends and family and get off the streets of
Santa Monica. John Alley after two o'clock. A few days ago.
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I don't go on social media much, but I was
glancing at Facebook and UH as part of.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now I just have my own odd obsessions. But I'm
on a feed that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I forgot even the name of it, but it's kind
of local activist groups involved in local issues, right. And
one of the guys had posted on Los Angeles Time
story from November twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So we're talking, you know, almost.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Thirty two years ago, and Karen Bass was featured in
the story thirty years old then, and here it is,
and this is what I've referenced occasionally about. Bass had
spent a lot of time admiring and immersing herself in
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Cuban politics and Fidel Castro's philosophies. And of course that
always sounds like a cheap shot from a radio host, right,
Except it's very real, and it explains why she's content
with the way Los Angeles has degraded so much. And
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it's why she was in MacArthur Park screaming at ice
agents instead of attending the media event marking the sixth
anniversary or the six month anniversary of the Palisades fires.
She's not interested in the Palisades people, Believe me. You'll
see as time goes on. She's zero interest in rebuilding
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the Palisades. She has great interest in keeping the illegal
aliens protected.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Here.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What does this go back to? Well, in nineteen eighty three,
La Times two writers Joel Sippel and Roxanne Arnold wrote
about how there was a legal showdown between the ACLU
and the LA Police Chief. At the time, the famous
Darrel Gates ACLU had filed lawsuit against the LAPD claiming
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that Gates had his people spying on certain Angelinos for
their political activities, and one of the plaintiffs in the
ACLU lawsuit was Karen Bass. I'll read you this verbatim.
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Plaintiff Karen Bass, according to a nineteen seventy three intelligence
document provided to the Times, this is from LABD traveled
to Cuba with the sixth contingent of the then Serramos Brigade.
That sounds like some kind of military organization right when
you use the word brigade, the sixth contingent of the
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Vance Serramos Brigade. The brigade trains revolutionary prone Americans in
terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugarcane.
So I looked up in Wikipedia the history of this organization.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And it's true. It's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And here it is VNCE Serramos Brigade formed in nineteen
sixty nine. Political organization. It's purpose solidarity with Cuba. They
traveled to Cuba and they provide volunteer labor. At the time,
Carl Oglesby was the creator. Bernardine Dorn was the director.
Nineteen sixty nine. They were founded by members of the
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Students for a democraticss Society SDS and officials of the
Republic of Cuba. So these the Cuban government reached out
to radical college students at the time other young people
to show solidarity with the Cuban revolution.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And the American.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Kids were supposed to work side by side in the
sugar cane fields and other jobs. Now Bass apparently was
working in construction, and while in the US, the the
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group met by regions to supervise, recruit and thunder raise
for the trips. Vince ramos means we shall triumph in Spanish,
and so this was promoted as an educational and inspiring experience,
and the brigade itself, according to Wikipedia, was designed to
encompass members from all radical movements in the United States,
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from black power radicals to anti war student activists, and
it goes on and on going through the history.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You could read this yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But going back to the lawsuit between the ACOU and
Daryl Gates, Bass was characterized in this investigation as a
brigade leader returning from Cuba to the USA bringing back
propaganda literature. So The Times called thirty year old Karen
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Bass described her as a surprised Bass a physician's assistant,
and she said her eight trips to Cuba were educational
and had nothing to do with terrorism. So Karen Pass
made eight trips to communist Cuba during the nineteen seventies
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and eighties, and she said in an interview, I'm angry
and shocked that they would use this allegation and to
try to attempt to smear me personally and the brigade.
The brigade she described thence Ramos Brigade as an educational project.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
See that was the cover story. By the way, this
group that made this.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Brigade, they eventually formed the Weather Underground, which was a
huge terrorist operation in New York City in the nineteen seventies.
They were exploding things that were bombing sites in New
York City. They were killing police officers. And that was
a sister organization of what BASS belonged to, and she
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said it provided members with an opportunity to gain closer
knowledge of the Cuban people by helping with construction projects.
No one ever came in contact with the Cuban military
or received any type of military training, and then claiming
that she learned to shoot a gun from an LAPD officer,
So she had immersed herself for many years. But she's thirty,
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But for many years she'd already been deeply involved in
Cuban politics. And she found cashed her to be quite charismatic.
Now I found another interview, I'll guide into this when
we come back. In twenty twenty, Karen Bass was near
the top of the list to be Joe Biden's vice
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president and all this Cuba activity came up, and that's
what kept her from being vice president.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I have a question, a real quick question for you.
Who would you have preferred as his vice president? Karen
Bass or Kamala Harris who he chose.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, Karen Bass would have done better because she's
able to speak out loud, coherently, and even though she's
got a toxic philosophy, she would have sold it better.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Karen.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And the biggest issue with Kamala is she just is
like her brain is defunct. It just doesn't work. Karen
Bass can sell her nonsense and she's found plenty of believers,
so she's actually more dangerous.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
John Ally the businessman in Santa Monica, coming up after
two o'clock. He and his allies have a program to
give homeless people one way tickets out of town. Let's
see if that business is drawing enough customers to change
things in Santa Monica, which is really disgusting. But if
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you wonder why Karen Bass has an affinity for a
disgusting environment. She was absolutely, as to this day, in
love with Cuba and in love with Fidel Castro's philosophies.
And as I mentioned in the last segment, somebody posted
a clip from the La Times from nineteen eighty three.
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She was being investigated by the police chief at the time,
Darryl Gates, and the ACLU was filing a lawsuit against
LAPD over the investigations that Gates was doing was conducting
against Karen Bass and others for other reasons. And so
I went trolling around the Internet and found out that
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this organization she belonged to was the Vinceeramos Brigade, and
Wikipridia describes him as a group of far left radical
students and young people at the time in the nineteen
seventies she joined, and she took eight trips to Cuba
back in the nineteen seventies and eighties. Now, because she
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ended up being at the near the top of Biden's
vice presidential list in twenty twenty, she had to explain
all this Cuba stuff in her background. So she talked
to a left wing writer, Edward Isaac de Voor for
left wing magazine The Atlantic dot Com to get I
guess kind of a gentle interrogation as to what this
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is about. And Isaac Devau rather Divore writes, she's the
only person on Biden's list who spent part of the
nineteen seventies working construction in Fidel Castro's Cuba with the
Vinceramus Brigade that organized trips to Cuba for young leftist
Americans for half a century. And the brigade was a
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joint venture of the Castro government and the Students for
a Democratic Society, which, as I said before, was a
leftist anti war organization that gave birth to the Weather
Underground terrorist group who in New York City blew tried
to blow up a lot of buildings and killed police.
So this was a cousin of that group, a sister organization.
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And again, and the story is from twenty twenty, and
DeVore writes, how they're worries that Bass is. If Bass
becomes the vice presidential pick, given her history in Havana,
that would really screw things up in Florida because there's
so many Cuban voters in Florida, all who fled Castro,
and they're not gonna want to deal with a woman
who is enamored with Castro. And she admits in this
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story that she found him extremely charismatic, extremely charismatic, even
though she didn't understand it word he.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Said because he was speaking Spanish. Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I wonder if she blacked out like that woman in
South Carolina did when she met Newsom. And there's a
Florida consultant named Fernando Amandi, and he referenced Bernie Sanders
saying at the time that it's unfair to simply say
everything is bad about Castro's government, And Amandi said, fairly
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or unfairly, Karen Bass's history on this subject makes Bertie
Sanders look like Ronald Reagan. And this is a Democratic consultant.
Karen Bass was so far left, so deep into the
socialism and communism of Fidel Castro, that this democratic consultant
thought Sanders looked like Ronald Reagan. In comparison, there were
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some Democrats at the time that were hoping that if
Biden picks Bass, they were hoping at least most people
in America just weren't going to care that Bass was
basically a radical socialist, communist Bassi's High school in Los Angeles,
according to DeVore, was the kind of place where students
were always striking or boycotting something.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
This is what she said.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Her Spanish teacher, like many of her teachers and other
leftist radicals of the sixties and seventies, talked warmly about Cuba,
where Castro's Revolution was less than two decades old. This
wasn't uncommon. Some Americans on the left, including some black activists,
celebrated the Cuban Revolution and the toppling of the old
government as the end of a racist system.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
According to.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
One person, to be a member of the brigade, you
had to be confirmed as a Marxist Leninist. It was
an undercover agent who took a trip to Cuba with
what was described in The Times as the Red Youth Unit,
which means it was a group of communist kids, the
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Vin Sarahmos Brigade. Her organization was the subject of a
nineteen seventy two House Subcommittee report titled the Theory and
Practice of Communism in nineteen seventy two Than Sarahmos Brigade,
and they wanted to learn whether these young members were idealistic,
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maybe misguided, young people who wanted to go down to
help with the crops in Cuba with a regime that
they're sympathetic for, or if they were down there to
sharpen their revolutionary talents and perhaps export revolution. Well, a
lot of those people did. They came back and joined
for him to join the weather Underground in New York
City and started killing police officers and bombing buildings. Bass
(34:30):
says she didn't join the Weathermen, they were a white group.
She went to Cuba eight times in the nineteen seventies,
has been back at least eight times since.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
And.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
She kept up her interest in Cuba after she joined
the California Assembly. She went to Cuba again in two
thousand and five. She's returned several times since the after
being elected to the House in twenty ten. In fact,
I won't be surprised during the next fire she might
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be in Cuba instead of Africa. After another section of
Los Angeles burns down, so the people of Los Angeles,
not knowing any better, a majority voted for somebody who
was who developed a strong affinity for communism and tries
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as best she can to institute as harsh a socialistic
government as she can here in America. That's what she
was attracted to, that's what she sought out, and after
spending so many years traveling to Cuba and back and
immersing herself among all these radical leftists, it's part of
her soul, it's part of her belief system.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And that's why.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
A few days ago, on the six month anniversary of
the fire, she didn't go and do the media press
conference with Newsom to explain to the Palace Ages people
what's going on. What she did as she ran to
scream at American law enforcement and try to protect illegal aliens.
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That's her loyalty, that's her primary interest.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
It's not us. You go look it up yourself, you
tell me where I'm wrong. We come back.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
John Alley from Santa Monica, businessman and he's got an
organization and he's got some money, some donors, and they
want to pay for one way tickets to get the
homeless out of Santa Monica and go back to their home.
Deborah Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome,
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Trust me. I know, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's very difficult finding correct information, truthful information, just to
be able to bring it to you in the proper perspective.
Coming up after two o'clock, you may have heard that
there's a businessman in Santa Monica who is offering he's
got an organization, Santa Monica Coalition, and he's offering free
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playing flights or bus tickets one way out of town
if you're homeless, go back and rejoin your family and friends.
And it looks like, uh, there's there's a lot of
interest among the vagrants too, even even they're sick of
the los Angeles area. They're fed up with Kevin Newseman
(01:14):
and Karen Bass. Although John Ally is based in Santa Monica.
We've had one on the show a number of times,
and he's like about the only person in Santa Monica
who's trying to fight the h the absolute rotten decay
that has taken over there. Every day, I just shake
my head. It's what happened to that, to that place
formerly a jewel which which reminds me I meant to
(01:37):
mention this yesterday. Over the weekend, we went to Pageant
of the Masters in Laguna Beach, which is a great
event for two months every summer in Laguna Beach at
the Irvine Ball They bring paintings and sculptures to life.
It's hard to explain. You have to see it really
to understand it. We've invited many friends over the years
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and they say, well, what is it. I go, you
just have to see it. But what they have is
actors who recreate paintings and sculptures. And I know that
sounds ridiculous, but really it's great. And they reek with
lighting and with makeup and costumes they recreated so it
looks like a real painting up there.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Are real sculptures. It's very cool.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And the theme this year was California, basically California Art,
and they took you on a tour to all the
great museums in Los Angeles and San Diego and Hearst Castle, Sacramento,
San Francisco and showed you some of the artworks recreated
by these live actors. And the thing was, it was
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such a happy show because it was about all the
beauty of California's history and it just reminded me of
me and my wife of when we moved here back
in the nineties and just how glorious this place was.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's like, oh yeah, I remember, I remember when California
was like that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It wasn't that long ago. I mean you go back
maybe ten years and it was like that. And it's
a tremendous show this year at the Pageant of the Masters.
But you know, driving home, I was like pissed off.
It's like, how dare these people do this? And I'm
talking about the progressives the bass knew some Garcetti, Jerry
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Brown crowd. How dare these progressives destroy so much beauty,
so much that we enjoy, And you know, I just
wanted to roll down the window on the four h
five midnight driving home, just scream my head off. But
it's a great show and you definitely should go this
year down to Irvine. Now, the El Segundo Times is
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suffering from a major relapse. There was a brief period
where the owner, Patrick sun Chian, got interested in the
content of The Times and he wanted to present a
more balanced news presentation, and he gave a round of
interviews and he just wanted them to present straight news
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and enough with the progressive left wing nonsense. And those
are the only opinion columns. And well, you know he's busy.
I mean, he's literally looking for cures for cancer, and
maybe he's got a hot lead on a cancer cure.
But once again the La Times has been left unattended
and they are putting out so many lies, so much bs,
(04:29):
so much garbage every day that I can't stomach it.
It's a terrible way to wake up in the morning
because I know this stuff isn't true. I know it's
not true, and if you go to other outlets, it's
proven that this is a back of lies. Well, one
of the things they're doing is they have constant sob
stories about the immigrants who are deported or fear they're
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going to get deported, And I always use the me test,
what would I do? Would I ever go to a
foreign country, take my family there, or start giving birth
to babies in the foreign country, knowing that it's illegal,
knowing that if I'm caught, it's going to be a disaster.
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They're going to deport me. I'm going to lose everything
I have. I'm going to lose my house, I'm going
to lose my kids, potentially going to lose my job,
and whatever small games I may have made in the
last few years coming to America illegally, everything's going to
go open smoke, you know, real fast, and it could
be very sudden and very traumatic. And I'm thinking, why
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would you do that? During the last hour listening to KFI.
I don't know how often these these ads run. Christy
nom is always on the station. I don't know if
they did some market research and they think there's a
certain percentage of the CAFI audience is here illegally.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know how that works.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I see it every single morning, numerous times. When I'm
watching TV news, I'm seeing.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The TV commercial.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yes, yeah, well, some of the some of the channels
in LA you could see.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Why they might have a large migrant viewership. KFI. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
They spent a lot of money, and I'm glad. How
often do those commercials run? Eric, I gave you twice
a show? Oh yeah, I mean if not more. Yeah,
it seemed it seems like they're un constantly. So they've
made a big investment. Nobody can say that. And I
imagine on the Spanish language stations in town, they and
the Spanish television stations they made even a bigger investment,
so nobody could say they don't know what the law is.
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I mean, I just imagine if I tried to escape
to Poland, right and I start having kids in Poland
and I'm working illegally and I'm living illegally, and I'm
turning on the TV, and you know, the Polish president
is on TV or the Polish border security heads on TV.
It's like I'd be coming home saying, you know, this
is probably a bad idea. It looks like we got
a new president, there's a new policy. We knew this
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could happen. You know, we have to we have to
make other plans. I don't understand it was an act
so shocked and amazed. Trump ran on this for what
ten years from his very first words as a candidate
in twenty fifteen, you realized it is over ten years.
We're in the eleventh year of the Trump era, and
he followed through. And so why in the world would
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you come here not knowing there was a great risk
that if he gets elected, all the laws were going
to change. No, well, actually the laws didn't change, the
policies changed. The policies changed to follow the law. But
in the LA Times and I will waste my time
(07:41):
reading the SOBS story about you know, the mother and
the father and the kids, and how long they've been
here and they've been working and they got three little
kids born in America. You read one of these stories
La Times prints several a day. But what I discovered
here is that since twenty eighteen, sixty thousand parents of
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the US citizen children have been deported. This is according
to ICE data. Now, twenty eighteen would would cover four No,
it would cover all four of Biden's years, right, twenty
eighteen to twenty twenty would be Trump, twenty one to
(08:27):
twenty twenty four would be Biden. So Biden his administration
deported thousands and thousands of parents whose kids were US citizens.
And then elsewhere in the story it said from twenty
fourteen to twenty eighteen, there were eighty to one hundred
(08:50):
thousand US citizen children in Mexico. They had to move
to Mexico with their deported parents. Well, that covers three
years of Obama. So it looks like during the Obama
and the Biden administration, tens of thousands of parents were
sent to Mexico and tens of thousands of children had
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to accompany their parents. So what Trump may be doing
it in bigger numbers, eventually bigger numbers. He's not doing
anything differently. It's just a matter of how much focus
the Trump administration puts on these deportations, a much much
bigger focus, obviously, But there's no ground being broken here.
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Obama and Biden kicked out tens of thousands of parents,
and tens of thousands of children who were US citizens
had to follow their parents back to the home country.
Of course, you know, that's many paragraphs down in the story,
and that's not the lead, and they don't have analysis
pieces written or columns to give you that particular perspective
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that this is a continuation of long standing policy of
both Democratic and Republican administrations. Talk more about this coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Talking about that La Times piece on the thousands of
parents who get deported and have been deported. As I said,
throughout the Obama administration, the Biden administration, and the two
Trump administrations. There may be more leaving now, but it's
always happened always. And if you come if you come
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here and you think, all right, I'm going to try
to see if I can make it. I know the
laws are all against me. I know if they want
they could do massive sweeps and I'm screwed. But if
I give birth to my kids here, they're citizens, so
we'll just leave them. And that's what's happen. But they
knew upfront and it was part of the plan. A
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lot of these parents will leave their kids with relatives
or friends. You have to work that out with the
Department of Homeland Security and they make sure the kids.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Are transferred safely.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
There's a five and a half million American children citizens
who have an illegal alien household member. Two million of
them are under the age of six. And what I find,
and this is true with a lot of issues going
on these days, people just don't want to accept what
the truth and what the law is. And they keep
thinking that if they express a lot of emotion or
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say but and then spew out more emotion than that
changes the facts, and it doesn't. And the person insisting
on the facts and insisting on the law, you always
end up sounding like an a hole.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You do because we have a.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Culture that runs on emotion now used to run on
facts in truth. Now it's on emotions. So if you're
one of these facts people, you're the problem. You're the
a whole, you're the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You tell people as a fact.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It's like, hey, if you look up, we've had hundreds
of years of immigration law on the books. We've had
court decisions going back hundreds of years as to who
in the federal government exercises the power. Everybody who pays
attention knows how it works. And sometimes you get presidents
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who have administrations that decide that, well, we're not going
to enforce these laws all that much. You know, we're
going to exercise your discretion. Well they do it, but
their terms end, and sometimes the public doesn't like the
looseness of their policy.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They didn't like it in twenty sixteen, they didn't like
it in twenty twenty four. You have a guy like
Trump who says I'm going to be tough, I'm deporting everybody.
We're sailing off the border, and vote for me or
don't vote for me, so he wins. Now, you can't
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expect a guy who for over ten years has been
running on a particular issue, and that issue happens to
be in the top two during this election cycle, and
his opponent was part of the administration that had the
complete opposite philosophy. It was a this is something A
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lot of people voted on this and inflation. So it
was clearcut Biden Harris had this philosophy. Trump had this philosophy.
Votes wins, most Electoral College votes wins.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So that happened.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now it's been six months. Every station in town is
running ads in English and Spanish. It's like, you got
to go, and if you go voluntarily, we'll give you
a thousand dollars and you'll be at the front of
the line to come back. You never should have done this.
To begin with, all our laws are public everybody. Everybody
could find a database online and read what immigration laws.
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Everybody can read the Supreme Court decisions. This is obviously
covered heavily in the news, although it's covered very sloppily
on purpose by let's say the La Times or Channel
five or Channel seven. Right, they focus on the emotions.
And if you focus on the emotions.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
WHOA, this is horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, yeah, this is horrible. But how many years were
you warned you knew coming? Why do you think you
had to pay a drug card tel smuggler? This is
what really like stuns me the people these people, Like
in the La Times, they have a story about a
family who they moved from Mexico because the drug cartels
controlled their region. So their response was to come here.
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Except to get here you have to pay the drug
cartels thousands of dollars and either you have the cash
up front or once you come here and you get
a job, you've got to pay the drug cartel part
of your salary until your debt is cleared. And if
the kids are coming alone, then they have to work
like at that glass house marijuana farm, those fourteen kids,
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whatever money they were quote earning had to be turned
over to the drug cartels. Now this is bad, isn't
it Having a system where an employer might be in
cahoots with a drug cartel to put teenagers in slave
labor until they pay off their debts to the cartel.
(15:57):
That doesn't sound like a system we ought to be
uh embracing. Do you know anybody who thinks we should?
Because all the outrage over the marijuana farm getting busted,
I haven't heard anybody address that issue.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You don't really says.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Saying about the news coverage and also the most of
the politicians. I heard Gavin Newsom speaking out, are you
in favor of the slave trade for teenagers?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I heard on a news report this morning, a TV
news report, and I'm not sure who was attributing who
this was attributed to, but somebody said that these pot
farms are exempt and they're allowed to hire miners.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I I can't imagine that that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I was pretty surprised, but that was on ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Abyes, Well, there you go, ABC seven, higher miners.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, that they are exempt? Well is it is? I
they're exempt?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to do some digging.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
But that's well about this. We exactly story.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You could work as a minor, we all did, but
under those conditions without parents, and your money has to
pay off the cartels.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And talk about the money being off the cartel.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Of course they didn't. I mean, it's like getting a
job at Burger King when you were sixteen years old, right,
you could get your working papers?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But didn't you have to lie? In my state?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In New Jersey, you turned a certain age Let's say
it was sixteen, I don't remember exactly, and you apply
for working papers and you're allowed to work certain number
of hours, Let's say it's twenty hours, and you can
go flip burgers and shake the fried basket all summer.
They can't put you to work for eighty hours a week,
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and you're working for minimum wage.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But you had to be sixteen California, because I remember,
you had to be sixteen, right, Yeah, you cannot be
younger than sixteen.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Right, So.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
If you're harboring these kids and they don't have the
parents around, I'm assuming you're abusing the kids. I just
I can't see how you're not. And those salaries have
to pay off the drug cartels. I mean, that's how
the business works. So you start engaging in all kinds
of stuff that breaks the law that no normal person
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would do. And then that doesn't work out because the
Americans are not going to put up with unlimited illegal
immigration forever.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
They're just not.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And we've had the repeated instances, and most of the
time the Democratic Party agreed mostly with the Republican Party policies.
Clinton did, Obama? Did you know? This was a new
thing with Biden where it was total, wide open borders.
Bush was really bad too. He was the worst Republican
president with his policies. All right, when we come back,
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I'm going to explain about Karen Bass's background. You may
have heard stories over the years that she was very
much enamored with Cuba and Fidel Castro. Well, I spent
a little time this morning searching the internet, and I
put together a bit of a story about Karen Bass.
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If you wonder why Los Angeles has turned into an shole,
there's a reason. She thought Cuba was a great place,
and she thought Castro is a great leader. And she
thought that when she was very young, and she was
very involved in traveling and even working in Cuba and
admiring Castro. I'll tell you the whole story when we
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come back.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
After two o'clock. We're going to have a businessman, John
Ally on. He's got a group called Santa Monica Coalition
and they are put together a program offering homeless people
one way tickets out of town to be united with
their friends and family and get off the streets of
Santa Monica. John Alley after two o'clock. A few days ago.
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I don't go on social media much, but I was
glancing at Facebook and UH as part of.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now I just have my own odd obsessions. But I'm
on a feed that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I forgot even the name of it, but it's kind
of local activist groups involved in local issues, right. And
one of the guys had posted on Los Angeles Time
story from November twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So we're talking, you know, almost.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Thirty two years ago, and Karen Bass was featured in
the story thirty years old then, and here it is,
and this is what I've referenced occasionally about. Bass had
spent a lot of time admiring and immersing herself in
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Cuban politics and Fidel Castro's philosophies. And of course that
always sounds like a cheap shot from a radio host, right,
Except it's very real, and it explains why she's content
with the way Los Angeles has degraded so much. And
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it's why she was in MacArthur Park screaming at ice
agents instead of attending the media event marking the sixth
anniversary or the six month anniversary of the Palisades fires.
She's not interested in the Palisades people, Believe me. You'll
see as time goes on. She's zero interest in rebuilding
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the Palisades. She has great interest in keeping the illegal
aliens protected.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Here.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What does this go back to? Well, in nineteen eighty three,
La Times two writers Joel Sippel and Roxanne Arnold wrote
about how there was a legal showdown between the ACLU
and the LA Police Chief. At the time, the famous
Darrel Gates ACLU had filed lawsuit against the LAPD claiming
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that Gates had his people spying on certain Angelinos for
their political activities, and one of the plaintiffs in the
ACLU lawsuit was Karen Bass. I'll read you this verbatim.
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Plaintiff Karen Bass, according to a nineteen seventy three intelligence
document provided to the Times, this is from LABD traveled
to Cuba with the sixth contingent of the then Serramos Brigade.
That sounds like some kind of military organization right when
you use the word brigade, the sixth contingent of the
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Vance Serramos Brigade. The brigade trains revolutionary prone Americans in
terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugarcane.
So I looked up in Wikipedia the history of this organization.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And it's true. It's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And here it is VNCE Serramos Brigade formed in nineteen
sixty nine. Political organization. It's purpose solidarity with Cuba. They
traveled to Cuba and they provide volunteer labor. At the time,
Carl Oglesby was the creator. Bernardine Dorn was the director.
Nineteen sixty nine. They were founded by members of the
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Students for a democraticss Society SDS and officials of the
Republic of Cuba. So these the Cuban government reached out
to radical college students at the time other young people
to show solidarity with the Cuban revolution.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And the American.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Kids were supposed to work side by side in the
sugar cane fields and other jobs. Now Bass apparently was
working in construction, and while in the US, the the
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group met by regions to supervise, recruit and thunder raise
for the trips. Vince ramos means we shall triumph in Spanish,
and so this was promoted as an educational and inspiring experience,
and the brigade itself, according to Wikipedia, was designed to
encompass members from all radical movements in the United States,
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from black power radicals to anti war student activists, and
it goes on and on going through the history.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You could read this yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But going back to the lawsuit between the ACOU and
Daryl Gates, Bass was characterized in this investigation as a
brigade leader returning from Cuba to the USA bringing back
propaganda literature. So The Times called thirty year old Karen
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Bass described her as a surprised Bass a physician's assistant,
and she said her eight trips to Cuba were educational
and had nothing to do with terrorism. So Karen Pass
made eight trips to communist Cuba during the nineteen seventies
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and eighties, and she said in an interview, I'm angry
and shocked that they would use this allegation and to
try to attempt to smear me personally and the brigade.
The brigade she described thence Ramos Brigade as an educational project.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
See that was the cover story. By the way, this
group that made this.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Brigade, they eventually formed the Weather Underground, which was a
huge terrorist operation in New York City in the nineteen seventies.
They were exploding things that were bombing sites in New
York City. They were killing police officers. And that was
a sister organization of what BASS belonged to, and she
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said it provided members with an opportunity to gain closer
knowledge of the Cuban people by helping with construction projects.
No one ever came in contact with the Cuban military
or received any type of military training, and then claiming
that she learned to shoot a gun from an LAPD officer,
So she had immersed herself for many years. But she's thirty,
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But for many years she'd already been deeply involved in
Cuban politics. And she found cashed her to be quite charismatic.
Now I found another interview, I'll guide into this when
we come back. In twenty twenty, Karen Bass was near
the top of the list to be Joe Biden's vice
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president and all this Cuba activity came up, and that's
what kept her from being vice president.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I have a question, a real quick question for you.
Who would you have preferred as his vice president? Karen
Bass or Kamala Harris who he chose.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, Karen Bass would have done better because she's
able to speak out loud, coherently, and even though she's
got a toxic philosophy, she would have sold it better.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Karen.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And the biggest issue with Kamala is she just is
like her brain is defunct. It just doesn't work. Karen
Bass can sell her nonsense and she's found plenty of believers,
so she's actually more dangerous.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
John Ally the businessman in Santa Monica, coming up after
two o'clock. He and his allies have a program to
give homeless people one way tickets out of town. Let's
see if that business is drawing enough customers to change
things in Santa Monica, which is really disgusting. But if
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you wonder why Karen Bass has an affinity for a
disgusting environment. She was absolutely, as to this day, in
love with Cuba and in love with Fidel Castro's philosophies.
And as I mentioned in the last segment, somebody posted
a clip from the La Times from nineteen eighty three.
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She was being investigated by the police chief at the time,
Darryl Gates, and the ACLU was filing a lawsuit against
LAPD over the investigations that Gates was doing was conducting
against Karen Bass and others for other reasons. And so
I went trolling around the Internet and found out that
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this organization she belonged to was the Vinceeramos Brigade, and
Wikipridia describes him as a group of far left radical
students and young people at the time in the nineteen
seventies she joined, and she took eight trips to Cuba
back in the nineteen seventies and eighties. Now, because she
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ended up being at the near the top of Biden's
vice presidential list in twenty twenty, she had to explain
all this Cuba stuff in her background. So she talked
to a left wing writer, Edward Isaac de Voor for
left wing magazine The Atlantic dot Com to get I
guess kind of a gentle interrogation as to what this
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is about. And Isaac Devau rather Divore writes, she's the
only person on Biden's list who spent part of the
nineteen seventies working construction in Fidel Castro's Cuba with the
Vinceramus Brigade that organized trips to Cuba for young leftist
Americans for half a century. And the brigade was a
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joint venture of the Castro government and the Students for
a Democratic Society, which, as I said before, was a
leftist anti war organization that gave birth to the Weather
Underground terrorist group who in New York City blew tried
to blow up a lot of buildings and killed police.
So this was a cousin of that group, a sister organization.
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And again, and the story is from twenty twenty, and
DeVore writes, how they're worries that Bass is. If Bass
becomes the vice presidential pick, given her history in Havana,
that would really screw things up in Florida because there's
so many Cuban voters in Florida, all who fled Castro,
and they're not gonna want to deal with a woman
who is enamored with Castro. And she admits in this
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story that she found him extremely charismatic, extremely charismatic, even
though she didn't understand it word he.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Said because he was speaking Spanish. Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I wonder if she blacked out like that woman in
South Carolina did when she met Newsom. And there's a
Florida consultant named Fernando Amandi, and he referenced Bernie Sanders
saying at the time that it's unfair to simply say
everything is bad about Castro's government, And Amandi said, fairly
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or unfairly, Karen Bass's history on this subject makes Bertie
Sanders look like Ronald Reagan. And this is a Democratic consultant.
Karen Bass was so far left, so deep into the
socialism and communism of Fidel Castro, that this democratic consultant
thought Sanders looked like Ronald Reagan. In comparison, there were
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some Democrats at the time that were hoping that if
Biden picks Bass, they were hoping at least most people
in America just weren't going to care that Bass was
basically a radical socialist, communist Bassi's High school in Los Angeles,
according to DeVore, was the kind of place where students
were always striking or boycotting something.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
This is what she said.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Her Spanish teacher, like many of her teachers and other
leftist radicals of the sixties and seventies, talked warmly about Cuba,
where Castro's Revolution was less than two decades old. This
wasn't uncommon. Some Americans on the left, including some black activists,
celebrated the Cuban Revolution and the toppling of the old
government as the end of a racist system.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
According to.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
One person, to be a member of the brigade, you
had to be confirmed as a Marxist Leninist. It was
an undercover agent who took a trip to Cuba with
what was described in The Times as the Red Youth Unit,
which means it was a group of communist kids, the
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Vin Sarahmos Brigade. Her organization was the subject of a
nineteen seventy two House Subcommittee report titled the Theory and
Practice of Communism in nineteen seventy two Than Sarahmos Brigade,
and they wanted to learn whether these young members were idealistic,
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maybe misguided, young people who wanted to go down to
help with the crops in Cuba with a regime that
they're sympathetic for, or if they were down there to
sharpen their revolutionary talents and perhaps export revolution. Well, a
lot of those people did. They came back and joined
for him to join the weather Underground in New York
City and started killing police officers and bombing buildings. Bass
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says she didn't join the Weathermen, they were a white group.
She went to Cuba eight times in the nineteen seventies,
has been back at least eight times since.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
And.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
She kept up her interest in Cuba after she joined
the California Assembly. She went to Cuba again in two
thousand and five. She's returned several times since the after
being elected to the House in twenty ten. In fact,
I won't be surprised during the next fire she might
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be in Cuba instead of Africa. After another section of
Los Angeles burns down, so the people of Los Angeles,
not knowing any better, a majority voted for somebody who
was who developed a strong affinity for communism and tries
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as best she can to institute as harsh a socialistic
government as she can here in America. That's what she
was attracted to, that's what she sought out, and after
spending so many years traveling to Cuba and back and
immersing herself among all these radical leftists, it's part of
her soul, it's part of her belief system.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And that's why.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
A few days ago, on the six month anniversary of
the fire, she didn't go and do the media press
conference with Newsom to explain to the Palace Ages people
what's going on. What she did as she ran to
scream at American law enforcement and try to protect illegal aliens.
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That's her loyalty, that's her primary interest.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
It's not us. You go look it up yourself, you
tell me where I'm wrong. We come back.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
John Alley from Santa Monica, businessman and he's got an
organization and he's got some money, some donors, and they
want to pay for one way tickets to get the
homeless out of Santa Monica and go back to their home.
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you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
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