‘You’re a failure!’ Furious Calif man upends Mayor Karen Bass press event

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt shared a video of a man going off on Democratic incumbent Karen Bass over wasteful spending on a failed program to address homelessness while cutting costs on many basic services.

The man went off on Mayor Bass at a press event where she broke ground on a new tiny home village for the homeless, berating her for spending $400 million on her Inside Safe homelessness program to house roughly 1,500 people, which equates to over $250,000 per person, claiming that nearly half of the people end up back out on the streets.

“You are a failure! An absolute failure,” the man screams. “You have failed the city of LA, Karen!”

Wow. Karen Bass getting lit up in public for her failures. “Inside Safe” has only made us unsafe outside. pic.twitter.com/KzGRIOzLKA

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 14, 2026

Bass did not respond to the man’s questions and criticism. The new village comes on the heels of the city announcing plans to tear down a different 74-bed tiny home development, which they’ve already spent $16 million on.

“It’s very obvious that for Nithya Raman and Karen Bass, the homeless problem is just a grift machine for them to waste taxpayer dollars,” Pratt said, according to the New York Post.

”The mayor’s entire MO is chasing good money after bad. She keeps pouring resources into the same failed ideas that never work, so the only conclusion you can draw is that somebody is making money off of all this waste,” he added.

While Bass is favored to be reelected, Pratt, who lost his home in the 2025 Palisades fire, is seen as her main competitor. Running as an independent, Pratt was endorsed by popular podcaster Joe Rogan and is campaigning aggressively on homelessness, crime, public safety, and government dysfunction.

Actor James Woods shared his thoughts on Bass in a post on Thursday, as seen here:

It’s pretty simple. What has Karen Bass done for Los Angeles besides ramp up the potholes, needles and human waste, rampant crime, and a landscape of hobo encampments? Oh, and she pretty much single-handedly burned down the Palisades.

She’s a worthless two-faced commie chump.

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 15, 2026

Here’s a sampling of other responses to the story, as seen on X:

Evil people smile and act like nothing is wrong. If she was a good person she would engage

— Heather Hendrickson Golden (@codeezra) May 14, 2026

$300 million into Bass’s Inside Safe, over 40% of participants already back on the streets.

RAND studies show official counts undercount homelessness by 32%, hiding the true scale.

Audits expose billions in funds the city can’t track.

She directed watering down the…

— James Bradley (@JamesBradleyCA) May 14, 2026

She’s a communist.
She’s succeeded in destroying a capitalist city.
She’s allowed it to decay. She’s filled the streets with human beings. She’s allowed infrastructure that was once maintained to decay.
Cuba is where her heart is, not LA.
She has no remorse. If a new mayor…

— Energist (@iamlisakirk) May 14, 2026

OMG this is the best thing I have seen today. This is guy is 100% right. Vote for Spencer Pratt!

— True Patriot Girl (@Betrue_Patriot) May 14, 2026

This guy shouting legitimate questions to Commie Karen in front of her media lapdogs is GREAT.

Bravo to him!

— Anita Miller (@FoxNewsMom) May 14, 2026

Isn’t it funny how the Democrats never answer! Why is she not responding to his questions or saying things like that’s not true, because it is true and she knows it!

Good for him

— ɛʟʟɨɛ (@Phoenix444_66) May 14, 2026

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