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Subject: Re: Karen Bass Tweets That Did Not Age Well
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:32:55 -0500
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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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
> 
Republicans criticizing Trump are not nearly as rare as you want to 
believe. How about Nicky Haley? Ron DeSantis? Mike Pompeo? The 
NeverTrumpers?
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> 
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.

-- 
Rhino