Re: Karen Bass Tweets That Did Not Age Well

On 2025-01-28 12:38 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 1/27/2025 6:36 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-01-27 5:33 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 1/27/2025 4:55 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-01-27 4:37 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 1/27/2025 3:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

KAREN BASS in 2021:
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Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger
pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis.
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We need to build a movement to kick them all out.
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https://ibb.co/zQbsSJs
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KAREN BASS in 2025:
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People who are maligning me and demanding that I resign for leaving Los
Angeles for an African vacay in the middle of an extreme fire crisis are just
racist and misogynists. They just don't like seeing a black woman in charge.
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https://ibb.co/txpvDzt

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...when everyone knows their REAL reason is because she's a Democrat.
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So, by your theory, the only ones criticizing her are Republicans and they are only doing so for partisan reasons. All the Democrats in a strongly blue state are absolutely fine with her being out of town for the first part of the crisis and none of them are questioning her judgment.
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Challenge to BTR, who surely knows the political affiliations of her critics better than I do: can you kindly identify some Democrats who have criticized Bass?

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Are Democrats castigating her?

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Yes!!!
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  Would Republicans be doing so if she were Republican?

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Very likely. John Bolton is a Republican and criticizes Trump robustly and frequently.

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Along with the Cheney family, a (rare) good example of exceptions proving the rule.  By far, Democrats provide the majority of Trump's detractors, and would do so even if he were Abraham Lincoln reborn.  You may evaluate their argument, but you can ignore their conviction.
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Republicans criticizing Trump are not nearly as rare as you want to believe. How about Nicky Haley? Ron DeSantis? Mike Pompeo? The NeverTrumpers?

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The same principled Republicans currently applauding our insurrectionist pussygrabber-in-chief?  So, my "theory" is that her competence, OR her complete LACK of it, is irrelevant...
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So what is she being criticized for?

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She's being criticized by Republicans because she's a Democrat.  Her apparent incompetence just makes for better political theater.
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Hogwash. Sheer, utter hogwash. If she had done a stellar job of handling the fires, they'd have had to settle for a little of the standard kvetching about Democrats but her incompetence gave them so much ammunition, they couldn't ignore it.