Re: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass's Pro-Communist History

On 2025-01-16 4:41 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 1/16/2025 2:53 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

It certainly would have been nice to have heard about all this from the media
during the mayoral campaign. If we had anything resembling a functioning
media, we would have. But no, they were much more concerned that Bass's
opponent, Rick Caruso, was white and rich.
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https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1878367072138452992/pu/vid/ avc1/720x1280/_oLkAxJvVM4FxImw.mp4?tag=12

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That sinister video, if swallowed, should perhaps be chased with something like this Atlantic article:
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    "In 1973, Bass, [who in 2020 became] a potential Biden VP pick, traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. “I didn’t have any illusions that the people in Cuba had the same freedoms I did,” she said.
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(The article is partially paywalled, so I'm just guessing...)
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And yet she continued working with the Venceremos Brigade for many years. Clearly, she wasn't too miffed by the inequity of it all. In fact, she was probably looking forward to the day when Californians were just as unfree as her Cuban allies.