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Subject: Re: Karen Bass Tweets That Did Not Age Well
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:38:45 -0500
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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:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of 
>>>>> a larger
>>>>> pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis.
>>>>>
>>>>> We need to build a movement to kick them all out.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://ibb.co/zQbsSJs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> KAREN BASS in 2025:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://ibb.co/txpvDzt
>>>>
>>>> ...when everyone knows their REAL reason is because she's a Democrat.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Are Democrats castigating her?
> 
> Yes!!!
> 
>>   Would Republicans be doing so if she were Republican? 
> 
> Very likely. John Bolton is a Republican and criticizes Trump robustly 
> and frequently.

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.


>> 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...
>>
> 
> So what is she being criticized for?

She's being criticized by Republicans because she's a Democrat.  Her 
apparent incompetence just makes for better political theater.