Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

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

On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:35:36 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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On Jun 12, 2025 at 5:25:25 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:47:48 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
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  On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:12:50 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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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.

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

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Well, here's something that might illustrate the extent of her stunning
incompetence for you:
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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.
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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.)
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Obviously this woman isn't intelligent enough to manage a Starbucks, let alone
the nation's second-largest city.
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 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?
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