Karen Bass Thinks Missing Teeth Are LA’s Biggest Problem

Last week, filmmaker Charles Curran posted a viral AI-generated video that now looks less like satire and more like prophecy. 

In the video—boosted by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt—Mayor Karen Bass is transformed into a full Joker—green hair, purple suit, permanent grin—presiding over a burning, chaotic Los Angeles. 

Pratt swoops in as Batman to save the city. Gov. Gavin Newsom appears as an out-of-touch French royal scarfing cake while the state collapses. Kamala Harris chugs vodka. The video, captioned “LA is worth saving—Vote Spencer Pratt,” exploded across X and went mega-viral within hours.

Exactly one week later, on May 12, Bass became the meme. Speaking about the city’s homeless crisis, she said: “How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all? They don’t have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can’t succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive healthcare provided to people.”

Translation: you can’t succeed without a smile. The same mayor whose AI version was already cackling as the Joker just told the world that the biggest obstacle facing 75,000 unhoused Angelenos is missing molars—not the meth, fentanyl, mental illness, or policy failures that put them there.

The Joker has always been obsessed with smiles. “Why so serious?” he asks. “Let’s put a smile on that face.” 

In some versions, he carves a Glasgow smile into victims’ cheeks—deep cuts from the corners of the mouth so they grin forever, even in death. The Joker doesn’t want happiness; he wants the grotesque, forced, permanent illusion of one while the world burns.

Bass, apparently, wants the same thing for LA’s streets. She doesn’t want actual success fixing the homelessness crisis but instead wants dentures—a taxpayer-funded grin so the zombies can “succeed” while the rest of us dodge needles and human waste on the sidewalks. It’s not policy; it’s performance art from the dumbest cohort in American politics.

This dental revelation dropped just days after Newsom unveiled his own masterpiece of superficial and unserious solutions: the “Golden State Start” program handing out up to 400 “free” government diapers per newborn as a serious solution to California’s poverty and cost-of-living crisis. 

Families hammered by the highest taxes, worst housing prices, and most suffocating regulations in America don’t need policy fixes—they just need $200 taxpayer funded diapers that only cost $100 at the local Costco. Diapers for babies and teeth for meth addicts—these are the flagship ideas from the people running California.

These people aren’t leaders; they’re clowns in expensive suits, convinced every symptom of their ideological failure is just another invoice for “comprehensive” services.

The Joker parallel is almost too perfect. The Clown Prince of Crime doesn’t fix Gotham; he accelerates the collapse while demanding everyone smile through it. Bass and Newsom don’t fix California; they enable addiction, dismantle consequences (hello, Prop 47), pour billions into a homelessness industrial complex that produces more tents, then lecture us about dental care and diapers. 

Bass, who constantly reminds voters of her physician assistant background, surely knows meth mouth is a symptom of heavy drug use. Yet she elevates rotten teeth to the central barrier preventing “success.” The meth itself, the decades of decriminalized drugs, Prop 47’s revolving-door justice, soft-on-crime experiments, and a housing-first dogma that treats addiction as an afterthought—those aren’t the problems, apparently. Missing incisors are.

Normal Americans understand something the Joker-Democrats never will: A person fried on supermeth needs detox, mandatory treatment, cleared streets, and basic law enforcement. You can’t “succeed” without teeth? Fine. But you really can’t succeed when politicians have spent years turning cities into open-air asylums and then act shocked when civilization erodes.

The AI video captured the truth before the quote even dropped: Bass isn’t a serious mayor, but instead she’s a grinning villain in the progressive clown show. Her constant rictus smile in real life only adds to the eerie resemblance to Jack Nicholson’s Joker character. She doesn’t see broken people; she sees clients for more bureaucracy, more nonprofits, more of your money, more excuses.

This isn’t compassion. It’s the creepy, detached stupidity of people who have never met a problem they couldn’t solve with another government program and a performative grin. They dismantle incentives, enable chaos, then demand we all smile about it. 

The AI video wasn’t satire. It was a warning. Karen Bass as the Joker isn’t a joke anymore. It’s the logical endpoint of a party so ideologically deranged it thinks free teeth and free diapers will fix the mess they created.