Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

On Jun 18, 2025 at 6:36:45 AM PDT, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net>
wrote:

On 6/17/2025 11:21 PM, shawn wrote:

 On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:35:36 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
 wrote:
 

 On Jun 12, 2025 at 5:25:25 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
 wrote:
 

 On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:47:48 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
 wrote:
 

 shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
 

   On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:12:50 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
   wrote:
  

 I wouldn't trust Karen Bass to manage an emergency if she was last person
 on earth. Through a mixture of incompetence and gross negligence she stood
 by and let the city burn in January and she's standing by and allowing
 criminals to run free now. Of course she said the Guard wasn't necessary.

 
 I can't comment on that as I have zero idea of how capable she is.

 
 Well, here's something that might illustrate the extent of her stunning
 incompetence for you:
 
 As I'm sure you know, in January we had a disaster, where two entire cities
 burned to their foundations in a firestorm of historic proportions. It has
 since come to light that one of the most significant reasons it occurred was
 because Karen Bass had funded the fire department at literally half the
 required strength in terms of personnel and resources that a city this size
 needs.
 
 And now, here in June, when it's time for the mayor to send the city's
budget
 up, rather than learn anything from the godawful and stunningly negligent
 mistakes of the past, she's slashed the budget of the fire department EVEN
 FURTHER. And she cut 45% of the jobs in the city's Department of Emergency
 Management. And after two weeks of violent rioting, she decided to defund
the
 police even further, also. (A city the size of Los Angeles needs 10,000
 officers. We're currently at 8,500 and by the time the Olympics roll around,
 we'll be down to 7,900 under Karen's budget.)
 
 Obviously this woman isn't intelligent enough to manage a Starbucks, let
alone
 the nation's second-largest city.
 

 
 Though maybe the problem isn't her, but the voters that thought she
 was the best option.

 
Or the Federal government ending various funding programs that help pay
for things like police and fire service?

No, Dimensional, this funding catastrophe happened long before Trump took
office. Nice try, though.